I keep myself from doing some things for a reason.

[apocalypsos]

I refrained from watching the trailers for Red because I knew it'd do things to my brain. Happy, wonderful things, of course, but dwelling on plotbunnies when I couldn't do anything with them was sort of depressing.

So today I watched them.

1. I'm not sure I can buy this movie as a comic book adaptation if only because I firmly believe getting together and beating/shooting/bombing the shit out of people is what Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, and John Malkovich genuinely do on the weekends. Therefore, that is clearly documentary footage.

2. Watching Helen Mirren shoot people has made a plotbunny for a new novel magically appear in my living room. NOBODY TOUCH IT, YOU GUYS, YOU'LL SCARE IT OFF.

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The good:

-- In general, I loved it by the time the season ended. The problems that I had with the show were relatively small compared to the things I really liked about it.

-- Caroline is probably my favorite female character on the show, other than Katherine (who I cannot WAIT to see in action in season two). She's everything I dislike in teenage-girl characters -- dim, boy-crazy, jealous and self-centered -- but she's working on it, and it's admirable.

-- DAMON. This needs no elaboration.

-- I love how this "wild animal" continues to keep killing people at night and nobody says, "Hey, maybe I should stop jogging at night!" or "Oh, hey, let's have a town curfew!" Aw, vampire shows.

The bad:

-- Dude, in either loose or strict definitions of the term, which female characters DIDN'T get fridged in season one? Elena, Bonnie ... er, that's about it. Isobel fridged (sort of) for Alaric, Katherine fridged (or should I say mini-fridged?) for Damon and Stefan, Vicki and Anna fridged for Jeremy (don't sleep with Jeremy or you'll end up staked to fuel his angst, ladies), Lexi for Big Wolf On Campus, Caroline possibly fridged for Matt and Tyler ... I know it's a vampire show, but sheesh. They sort of make up for it because the female characters don't spend all of their time talking about boys, but at the same time, ick. (Granted, I imagine a lot of the blame falls on the books, but I still have to read them so I can't guarantee that.)

-- I don't like Bonnie. There, I said it. She bores me. Granted, she didn't have a good year, but at the same time, there's no humor there. I'm not asking for her to juggle or tell jokes or something, but everything is so very heavy when it comes to Bonnie, and it turns her into the sort of character I'm not a big fan of.

-- In my dream world, Damon will end up with Elena, who will make him a somewhat better (meaning still incredibly flawed) man, and Stefan will end up with Katherine, who will rip the stick out of his ass if she has to reach in there herself and pull it out. And it depresses me more than it should that that probably won't happen in canon.

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YOU GUYS, NPH AND DAVID BURTKA ARE HAVING TWINS.

The mental image of those two holding babies, OMFG.

Comments

[marag.livejournal.com]

Squee for NPH!!!! I'm a gonna die of cute, I know it :)

[thelana.livejournal.com]

I actually don't think that any of these are unpopular :)

As for Bonnie, I guess I'm often a very quiet person myself, so I guess I sympathize with characters who aren't as open with her feelings. Plus, if you compare the early episodes, Bonnie used to be more open and fun before I think.

I guess I just think she's fun because she often strikes me as the only one who has a halfway realistic reaction to all the mayhem that is going on. (though of course maybe that's just the wrong way to approach it, but I have always found it mighty distracting on those type of supernatural shows that they always seemed terribly inconsistent with what is supposed to be important and what is supposed to be inconsequential, what makes one character evil and another totally alright [aka the law of Sonny Corinthos])

I definitely want her to stay on, since so far she's the only powerful non-evil character who has been allowed to survive. I just really hate that as soon as anybody arrives who might be able to challenge the mightly Salvatores (like Pearl or Lexi) they are either won over immediately or fridged. I guess I just want the show to have some more variety there. I think it would be a huge loss for the show if she was gone. Last POC. Only non-evil female with power. Only female main character whose main storyline is not about her boyfriend (heck based on previews it seems that even Katherine might fall into that trap). Even Anna who started out as so awesomely atypical because she was motivated by her mom ended up not only fridged but all about the boyfriend too.

Of course having the black woman being the only one who doesn't get a boyfriend and who apparently is considered completely undesirable (wtf, sitting alone at the parties? the only guy who shows interest in her is a vampire faking it so he can abduct her?) is a clichee on its own. I still miss the early Bonnie a lot the one who was at least given a lot more vulnerability to shine through. But overall, to me the good still far outweighs the bad.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Helen Mirren + BFG = AWESOME.

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

NPH is trying to kill us with the adorableness of the next generation.

[risha]

When I saw that last night, I commented that NPH appears to be having a wonderful entire life.

[jenni-the-odd.livejournal.com]

NPH and his boyfriend having twins pleases me almost entirely because it means Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will no longer be the prettiest Hollywood family. :D

[caprine.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I can buy this movie as a comic book adaptation if only because I firmly believe getting together and beating/shooting/bombing the shit out of people is what Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, and John Malkovich genuinely do on the weekends. Therefore, that is clearly documentary footage.

Made of hammered win. Permission to post to metaquotes?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

*snickers* Sure, go right ahead. :)

[caprine.livejournal.com]

Done.