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Belated Very Happy Birthdays to germaine_pet, lordshiva, diachrony, ladyk8, fenchurche, eurydice72, and Happy Birthday in Advance to flake_sake!We had a locksmith come in to fix our laundry room door, which had mysteriously decided to lock itself yesterday, trapping a load of wet clothes in the dryer and us out in the hall yanking at the frozen doorknob for, I kid you not, hours on end. The landlord's whole
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I actually didn't pick that up - I almost would've given a couple of more points for that. As is, I don't feel that guy had a motivation at all, beyond "grr, I'm a badass!" And I forgot to mention the other plotline about the BPRD coming out in the public eye, which turned into a confusing sludge of dynamics from X-Men and throw-away-your-badge cop movies, let those two things naturally go together or something. HUH?
Having overcome her "I'm a horrible murdering freak" complex, Liz has just turned into a generic Shrewish Nagging Girlfriend who gives Hellboy a hard time for not picking up his socks.
But babies will make everything better.
Now that it's too late to prevent the dark infotainment-saturated future that '70s and '80s sci-fi warned us about, I guess we're just supposed to concern ourselves with how the hunky-yet-sensitive protagonist feels about it inside. >:-(
Yeah, weird, but I'm more disturbed by the fact that we're living inside Max Headroom rather than interested in some beefcake's personal issues. The self-involvement in these stories is really getting obnoxious.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that plotline too. But it's okay, so did the writers. (Didn't that happen with Blade 3 as well?)
But babies will make everything better.
You know, a woman who randomly bursts into flames and has just learned that she's been knocked up by a seven-foot demon with horns and a big stone hand might have more urgent concerns on her mind than who's gonna do the dishes. I know that playing Hellboy as a totally regular dude is kind of the basic character concept as far as the movies are concerned, but those two are going to have child-rearing concerns that make The Incredibles pale by comparison.
Yeah, weird, but I'm more disturbed by the fact that we're living inside Max Headroom rather than interested in some beefcake's personal issues. The self-involvement in these stories is really getting obnoxious.
Sssh! We're not supposed to talk about society! Concentrate on the man-pain!
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