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(incidentally yes this Australian ad was filmed in NZ/Middle-earth, because reasons obvs)

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Does "things" have a collective noun? Shouldn't "things" have a collective noun? Can I put up "a scattershot" for consideration? A murder of crows, a parliament of owls, a flamboyance of flamingos, a crash of rhinos, a scattershot of things. I mean, I'm open to other options, but I think that's a pretty solid starter. Enough to be getting on with, ( Read more... )

It was that or throttle someone. It's been one of those days. On balance, I think channelling/distracting/amusing myself by scribbling Cap and sundry as characters in Magic Mike was the healthy call....

... Why am I even doing words? You're not listening.

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So, I was recently reminded that Jupiter Ascending was a thing, and I tried watching it. Well, I did, I watched the whole thing. And I was going to call it a big bucket of nonsense, and leave it at that, but ...

( ... that didn't really do it justice. )

Just when I thought I was out had forgotten all about it, they suck me back in bring out the HEAVY HITTERS. Damn, TGW. If you wanted me back that bad, you only had to say. (This is better though.) I just wish I could work up the enthusiasm to actually care, for you. Never mind, we'll all just get through this last season (...? I'm assuming) ( Read more... )

Sooooooo I've been zipping through The Good Wife (and failing to realise or deal at all with the fact that The Walking Dead is back; I am a Multitasker or at the very least a Multifailer), despite not being at all invested in the story. Or any of the characters, really, I mean, I don't wish them ill, but I can't find it in me to really care what ( Read more... )

Well that was some swift aequitas, Murph- wait, wrong twins. Eh, you know what, if they're going to follow right the way through on the Children of Dune reference (fucking twins - in case it seems like that literary influence is a stretch, there's plenty more where that came from) and Romulus and Remus, I can make one too, even if mine is somewhat ( Read more... )

Mmmmmmm, I do love luxuriating in a solid arranging-the-pieces-on-the-board episode, ooh yes. And cackling wildly over delicious character work via themes, motifs, and symbolism, ooooh yes. (As a sidenote, I hope they never go down the chess-motif route; everyone does chess motifs.... Ah, who am I kidding, if they ever do, I'll love it and be front ( Read more... )

Okay, so, two problems with this whole week-by-week thing: one, life is periodically A Right Bastard, and two, I barely even know what to say about the last two episodes. Like I said for 5.03, after the 5.04 uptick, these here episodes are the lean pickin's for theme-tracking, since a huge amount has already been established and now it's mostly ( Read more... )

WHAT UP, ATLANTA!Well, I hope everyone out there in tv land likes Beth! They all really do, I bet. And maintaining that illusion, as well as my bloodpressure, is one of the reasons I continue to avoid any and all TWD chatter whatsoever out there on the internet. (Ahhh, sweet tranquility.) My own insta-reaction to this episode was to send the ( Read more... )