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☆ I finished my Kittens Game fanfic. (Here). Well, that was fun! I don't think I'll write anything else like that for a while, but it was nice to just slap down words without worrying too much about it. Surprising how it developed a plot along the way... That isn't what I originally expected, but then I had fun working out why the Zebras hate you.
☆ Speaking of Kittens Game, my kittens are almost ready to invent biology. Yay! ... I'm still trying to figure out the optimum way to juggle resources/tools in order to produce titanium and coal, but errr, I'll figure that out soon. I think I'm going to need more kittens; I've been keeping my numbers low but after a while, it gets hard to do anything without more cats.
☆ It's been super cold the last couple of days. Damn it, it's April; I shouldn't have to put up with -11C and such. I've packed my winter clothes away for good. ... Except for my earmuffs. I will, apparently, be needing to keep my earmuffs out for a while longer.
☆ Watched Sinister (2012) last night with the Horror Group. This is a film that started off strong, but started to unravel toward the end. I'll put my thoughts behind the cut so as not to spoil anything.
I think this film would have been more interesting without the supernatural element. Usually I actually prefer supernatural storylines, because regular humans doing horrible things freaks me out too much. But with this film, I think it would have been more compelling if the actions of the demon (?) had instead been the actions of a human being. Due to the span of the dates in the film, it would probably need to be a cult rather than an individual person, but that works just as well, due to the references to the cult worship of the child-eating god in the film.
For me, the film started to become less interesting once we saw the ghosts. That's how it tends to be - if you see too much of the monster, it generally begins to be less frightening. The idea that children were the murderers in those particular scenarios was also a little difficult to accept. I could buy children being accomplices, but there didn't seem to be a suggestion that the demon possessed them or that he aided them in pulling off the murders, and it's difficult to believe that children would be physically capable of doing some of the things that were required to enact those particular scenarios.
I really liked the concept of the moving curse - that if someone moved into the house of the murder victims, and then moved away, the demon would follow them to the new location and then follow them there. And then when someone moved in that house, and moved away, the same thing would happen to them in the new location. It was interesting. And, if the murderer were human (or a group of humans, as in the cult scenario), then it would be very interesting, because the dedication that it would have required at the time period that the murders were to take place would have been truly impressive. The murders took place from the 60s to the present, and for much of that span of time, finding out where a new family had moved to wouldn't have been easy. So, succeeding in that task would have been the sign of some truly deranged minds. Probably very well-connected deranged minds.
And that's why I found the demon scenario a little bit disappointing. Had it been a completely human operation, then the effort of finding new victims, combined with the er... "creativity" put into the murder scenarios, would have been very complicated and very terrifying.
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☆ Speaking of Kittens Game, my kittens are almost ready to invent biology. Yay! ... I'm still trying to figure out the optimum way to juggle resources/tools in order to produce titanium and coal, but errr, I'll figure that out soon. I think I'm going to need more kittens; I've been keeping my numbers low but after a while, it gets hard to do anything without more cats.
☆ It's been super cold the last couple of days. Damn it, it's April; I shouldn't have to put up with -11C and such. I've packed my winter clothes away for good. ... Except for my earmuffs. I will, apparently, be needing to keep my earmuffs out for a while longer.
☆ Watched Sinister (2012) last night with the Horror Group. This is a film that started off strong, but started to unravel toward the end. I'll put my thoughts behind the cut so as not to spoil anything.
I think this film would have been more interesting without the supernatural element. Usually I actually prefer supernatural storylines, because regular humans doing horrible things freaks me out too much. But with this film, I think it would have been more compelling if the actions of the demon (?) had instead been the actions of a human being. Due to the span of the dates in the film, it would probably need to be a cult rather than an individual person, but that works just as well, due to the references to the cult worship of the child-eating god in the film.
For me, the film started to become less interesting once we saw the ghosts. That's how it tends to be - if you see too much of the monster, it generally begins to be less frightening. The idea that children were the murderers in those particular scenarios was also a little difficult to accept. I could buy children being accomplices, but there didn't seem to be a suggestion that the demon possessed them or that he aided them in pulling off the murders, and it's difficult to believe that children would be physically capable of doing some of the things that were required to enact those particular scenarios.
I really liked the concept of the moving curse - that if someone moved into the house of the murder victims, and then moved away, the demon would follow them to the new location and then follow them there. And then when someone moved in that house, and moved away, the same thing would happen to them in the new location. It was interesting. And, if the murderer were human (or a group of humans, as in the cult scenario), then it would be very interesting, because the dedication that it would have required at the time period that the murders were to take place would have been truly impressive. The murders took place from the 60s to the present, and for much of that span of time, finding out where a new family had moved to wouldn't have been easy. So, succeeding in that task would have been the sign of some truly deranged minds. Probably very well-connected deranged minds.
And that's why I found the demon scenario a little bit disappointing. Had it been a completely human operation, then the effort of finding new victims, combined with the er... "creativity" put into the murder scenarios, would have been very complicated and very terrifying.
This entry was originally posted at http://yuuago.dreamwidth.org/3381861.html. You can comment here or at the original entry.