177: Joy to the Worlds

[thefourthvine]

Thank you for the joy! Both the specific joy - the virtual gifts and compliments and wonderful things from today - and the general joy, because all of you are wonderful all year round.

This is my (other - first one here) attempt to spread joy, and I'm doing it by recommending things that make me happy. (AUs that make me happy, actually. Because

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[laughingacademy]

This is one of the stories that has been recommended everywhere, and deservedly so.

And yet I had never heard of it. So, there you go.

[laughingacademy]

(My guess: he's a robot! And a cop! Am I close? Also, I bet he doesn't spend a lot of time filling out reports or giving speeding tickets.)

Strictly speaking he’s a cyborg - specifically, a policeman (played by Peter “Buckaroo Banzai” Weller) who, after dying in the line of duty, is turned into a prototype law enforcement unit by a weapons manufacturer. Plenty o’ carnage, very little paperwork.

And because I cannot pass up an opportunity to proselytize, have you see Hot Fuzz? There are a couple of scenes that will probably require a squeezable dog to sit through but it is funny as hell. And lots of stuff blows up real good.

[thefourthvine]

I have indeed seen Hot Fuzz! I even thought I would end up writing it for Yuletide this year - it fit perfectly with my Yuletide pattern so far - but, alas, it was not to be. (I wrote Top Gun instead, so I think it worked out well.)

Also, I'm relieved to hear that he's a cyborg, because I realized as I was typing this post up that if you had a robot cop, you should use him for paperwork and speeding tickets, and yet that would make a lousy movie. (Okay, it'd make a good comedy. But I was fairly sure Robo-Cop wasn't one.)

[laughingacademy]

Actually, RoboCop is frequently very funny, sometimes in a satirical way (Hostage taker: "[I want a luxury car] with reclining leather seats, that goes really fast, and gets really shitty gas mileage!" Cop: "How about a 6000 SUX?" [a car featured in fake ads earlier in the film]), sometimes in a slapstick (if splatter-heavy) way.

[thefourthvine]

That is a sad, sad thing. I'm now very happy I rec'd the story, because all people everywhere should hear about it. (...Okay, the ones who don't read English are exempted.)