life and TV and other important things

[zephre]

My mother regularly wakes me up on the weekends by shrieking.  I have 3.7 seconds of absolute panic and then I realize, "Oh, it's the baseball/football/soccer/fill-in-sport-here game."

Apparently, watching TV with Mom and me is very difficult.  We've been watching Tin Man on Sci-Fi for past two nights, and making snarky comments.  Mom and I

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Door Decoration Contest

[relentlesstoil]

For the door, skip Solstice and head straight to Saturnalia. SURE TO BE A WINNER.

Re: Door Decoration Contest

[zephre]

I don't actually have to do anything for that, really, because my door is still decorated from Mardi Gras. ;)

[samueljl]

Chappy Chanukah to you too. :)

It's funny - normally I can suspend my disbelief long enough to watch even the worst sci fi, but after watching the first two hours of Tin Man I just couldn't bear to watch any more. Even Keet was game to try the second part.

I think I'm getting crotchety in my old age.

[zephre]

Hee.
I ended up really enjoying Tin Man, although any movie with hot bad guys in leather coats has an automatic in with me, plus tattoos that come to life! Boy!
But, I was a bit let down that the writers had so many great set-ups to really go for the jugular, but they dropped the ball and went for the family-friendly easy fairy tale instead.

Also, dude, apocalypse engine run off a brain in a tank! Bonus!

[ajax]

I'm about 35% through with the six hours so far, and my biggest complaint to date is that Zooey Deschanel is having trouble seeming particularly interested in all the fantastic stuff happening around her.

(Which is odd, because generally my complaint with "real-world person gets dropped into fantasy world" stories is how they tend to TOTALLY FREAK OUT about stuff that any 8-year-old could explain.)

But c'mon, Zooey. You're supposed to be an actress. EMOTE a little, huh?

--- Ajax.