Comments | shirozora: Well I *said* I was making a bunch of shit up as I go, right?

shirozora

Well I said I was making a bunch of shit up as I go, right?

Mar 24, 2011 16:43

First of all, how the hell is Mom going to live without me? Jeebus Fucking Christmas.

Mom: I need you to help me with my homework.
Mom: First I need a nap.
Mom: Also, call ADT - the motion sensor in the kitchen isn't working.
Me: STOP TALKING TO ME WHEN I'M ON THE PHONE WITH ADT.
ADT: Uh, sensor's fine. But the alarm system isn't connected to the ( Read more... )

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blowjobsalways March 25 2011, 00:34:40 UTC

If this makes you feel better, a lot of the Legacy canon is full of holes in continuity and stuff. Like supposedly Jordan died when Sam was two. But then there's an instance where Kevin says they'd been married for ten years, and then a picture of Jordan and Sam when he's like 6 or 7.

Here's just a suggestion- perhaps Kevin left it in his will that Sam couldn't touch the money until he was a certain age? (of course this was with the assumption that Flynn wouldn't disappear so early in Sam's life). I think both Flynn and Alan, as fathers to Sam knew the importance of working for what you wanted.

But I totally agree with you on Sam. It's why I found him hard to identify with in the movie because like- dude, you own this place but all you really do is fuck with them once a year, while Alan has been working his ass off the last 20 years. The Flynn Lives teaser made it a little better, because at least it puts reason to what he's doing, and why he feels the need to lash out.

shirozora March 25 2011, 01:08:04 UTC

Plot holes and continuity inconsistencies - the things that irritate me the most are my saving grace, lololol.

I think in a sense I got what Sam was doing before the Flynn Lives Movement came to my attention... except the movement still confuses the hell out of me. But then the Viral Wiki puts up this info about this fancy-ass boarding school he went to and the trouble he's gotten into and I'm just like, "Ugh. Spare me the details."

I also think I latched onto him because this all takes place in downtown LA. It's kind of the way I was all over movie!Tony Stark; I never expect these kinds of movies to take place in SoCal so when they do I stan hard. Like, this fancypants academy bullshit prevents me from lavishing upon the fic everything I know about my home city. This is personal to me, goddamn it, and you can't take this away!

/rage-y rage rage (sorry)

So yeah, whatever. I'm giving this shit the middle finger and going with whatever Rocketship tells me.

blowjobsalways March 25 2011, 01:29:24 UTC

You do that :)

I wasn't aware of the boarding school thing- and the only reason I could see Sam going to one of those would be for his own protection, as an heir to a very large company. But yeah, in my head, their house is still no bigger than three bedrooms and and Alan doesn't have an indoor pool or any of that shit.

I guess I can't really relate to the SoCal thing, having grown up in a small town outside of...er... Ottawa. But I'm guessing you mean there's less of a place for that Tony Stark "ridiculously rich" stuff SoCal than in L.A ( ... )

shirozora March 25 2011, 01:48:56 UTC

That was my first thought wrt the boarding school but, like, argh. And argh. And more argh.

Well Mr. Stark is still filthy rich but he gets to be filthy rich here in SoCal rather than over there in NYC. One of the things that really peeved me about Marvel and DC and a lot of movies in general was that everything happened in NYC. Like, everything. What are we, full of fakes and plastics and shallow shit? That's all I ever see - palm trees, sun, smug jerks, glitzy shallow women with massive boobs and nose jobs, and over the years all this rage started building over it. It's one thing to be unable to relate to movies because the stars are always heterosexual white men and women and it's another when the setting's never the California I know and love ( ... )

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