pick-n-mix post

[philomytha]

- I now believe that in that phrase 'barefoot and pregnant', the woman is barefoot because it's a complete pain trying to get your socks and shoes on when you're heavily pregnant. Especially if the range of contortions possible to touch your feet is strictly limited by the fact that your pelvis tries to fall apart when you move in asymmetric ways.

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[rhuia]

SHE NEVER. Who says that, omg.

You're now the third person to say that about the Hobbit and I can feel my inclination to watch it slowly ebbing away (it was a very small and easily persuaded inclination anyway. LoTR middle-earthed me out).

Oh and re the shoes thing, that was the beauty of both my kids who were summer babies. It meant easier clothes and easier shoes towards the end, for which I am eternally grateful. Not long now?

[philomytha]

I think tbh I would have preferred watching it as a DVD and stretching it out over a couple of evenings, though admittedly some of that was the annoying cinema. I'm not sorry I saw it and it had some lovely moments, but it was a bit longer than it needed to be.

And yeah, none of my winter coats do up in the middle any more either, and it seems so pointless to fork out for a giant coat I'm going to get a couple of weeks of use out of and that's it, so I'm resorting to endless layers of woolly jumpers when I have to go out. I never showed much with Philomythulus even at 8-9 months, so I don't have anything useful left over from then either.

[teldreaming]

I actually had a lot of fun with the Hobbit, though yes, there were some obvious Peter Jackson...isms involved and a really quite excessive number of precipices. But hey, Legolas's dad on an elk. Can't beat that (and Martin Freeman was perfect). Thorin seemed scaled wrong to me... not quite dwarf and not quite human. Everyone else was fine, it just seemed to me that he was often a bit off in proportion.

[philomytha]

Thranduil on an elk was excellent and I did like that. It was good all over for that sort of fun background visual detail (though rabbits? what was going on with the rabbits?).

[nenya_kanadka]

Just thought of you and your baby and remembered I ought to come leave you Christmas/Hanukkah/Solstice/New Year's greetings! So, greetings to you and yours! May 2013 be delightful.

More or less agreed on The Hobbit--quite enjoyable, a little long, too many precipices and too much enthusiasm for orcs, but a great amount of fun overall. Middle Earth still looks pretty, Galadriel is stunning (and her inclusion made sense), and I lurve the Eagles. <3

And that snippet of Cordelia/Aral/Simon is just adorable.

[philomytha]

Happy holidays to you too! No baby yet, but any day now, certainly :-). And I'm glad you liked the snippet!

I think that the random sequence with the mountains throwing rocks at each other was particularly gratuitous, but oh yes, it was very pretty and I loved getting to see more Galadriel.

[nenya_kanadka]

The mountains throwing rocks at each other was at least canonical, though it seemed a little gratuitous even in Tolkien's version. :P

Good luck with babythings and new year things! Yay!