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apocalypsosI 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.
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.
*
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.
