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I really love this: Computer Engineer Barbie. Will acquire asap for my desk.
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I watched Iron Man last night for the first time since the two or three times I saw it in theaters - my friend C had never seen it, so we got together with friends who have a great A/V setup and made an evening of it. I was surprised by the things I'd forgotten; and realized that a central element of my one Iron Man story isn't entirely movie-compliant, guh.
Iron Man 2 is coming out in a few months, and I suspect that it's going to be not-my-thing; the trailer does not fill me with glee. At the end if Iron Man, Tony is at a cross-road; he's realized his life should have meaning, but is that meaning confined to making a nifty suit and using it to kill a handful of bad guys? In an egomaniac-hey-this-is-cool type of way. In the next movie, he's dealing with his past some more AFAICT, but in a pretty conventional way.
Last night, it struck me how much he's grappling throughout the movie with trying to relate to Pepper (as a stand-in for all of humanity? Or just as Pepper?) in a new way. Somehow, the Tony/Pepper focus of the fanfic part of the fandom had baffled me (because I know it's non-comic-canon-compliant) but now I see the appeal. If 2 is just a quest for Pepper, though - yaaaawn.
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I watched Iron Man last night for the first time since the two or three times I saw it in theaters - my friend C had never seen it, so we got together with friends who have a great A/V setup and made an evening of it. I was surprised by the things I'd forgotten; and realized that a central element of my one Iron Man story isn't entirely movie-compliant, guh.
Iron Man 2 is coming out in a few months, and I suspect that it's going to be not-my-thing; the trailer does not fill me with glee. At the end if Iron Man, Tony is at a cross-road; he's realized his life should have meaning, but is that meaning confined to making a nifty suit and using it to kill a handful of bad guys? In an egomaniac-hey-this-is-cool type of way. In the next movie, he's dealing with his past some more AFAICT, but in a pretty conventional way.
Last night, it struck me how much he's grappling throughout the movie with trying to relate to Pepper (as a stand-in for all of humanity? Or just as Pepper?) in a new way. Somehow, the Tony/Pepper focus of the fanfic part of the fandom had baffled me (because I know it's non-comic-canon-compliant) but now I see the appeal. If 2 is just a quest for Pepper, though - yaaaawn.