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[apocalypsos]

ACK! Bright light, bright light!

*crawls away from window squealing, hides in the closet*

EDIT: Quick question for the VM fans ... does anybody know of a site that has the exact timeline of the day of Lilly's murder? I mean, I can research it myself, but it'd take some time, obviously.

OTHER EDIT: In case you hadn't already heard, Matthew Vaughn walked off the set of X3. At this point in the production, I'm leaning more towards worrying than flailing. But there's also rumors that Joss Whedon is coming back to take over, and ... well ... I won't complain about the whole thing as long as his solution to jumping into a series in the third movie is not to start killing everyone. If there's one thing that pisses me off about Joss, it's that so far he's shown that anything remotely resembling an ending of a series or the approaching ending of a series (and we're on our third movie here, people) makes him kill people off left and right. In Buffy, he killed off Anya, Spike and a bunch of Slayers. In Angel, he killed off Wes and Gunn was damn near close to death. (And forgive me if I'm forgetting anyone, but I've avoided both finales for this exact reason.) And okay, in Firefly, he didn't get much of a chance, but then in Serenity, he supposedly kills Wash and Book.

You know, on one hand, I get what he's getting at when he does it. The heroes can't just ride off into the sunset as one big happy family. Plus, the X-Men pretty much drop dead at the drop of a hat, like those goats that pass out when you make a loud noise. But ... but he keeps killing characters I like, goddamn it. And if I go in to see X3 and he bumps off Bobby, Logan, John, Kitty, Kurt, Magneto, Mystique and/or Scott, we're going to have words. GRRRRR.

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[musesfool.livejournal.com]

mimesere has one but only for half the season (I think) here, and there's this: timeline, as well...

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love you. *hugs* :)

[penknife.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy with Joss Whedon as the director, if only because I trust him to tell a story about people rather than just randomly having things blow up.

But, yarrgh. I wish they'd settle on a director, a cast, and a script, or this movie isn't going to make a bit of sense.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Urgh. Definitely. They're supposed to announce who's playing Angel later this week, so hopefully we'll luck out on that count and get somebody good.

I've been watching Down Periscope and I've decided that I'll go along with Kelsey Grammer as Beast if he'll just do that again. I'll buy him if he's smarter than everybody else, but he's got to have a really good sense of humor about it. Plus, I'd like to think that if Hank and Bobby were hanging out and goofing off and cracking jokes about pirates, inevitably one or both of them would make it into a pirate costume and my Hank would actually fight to wear the eyepatch. ;)

[stevie-jane.livejournal.com]

Joss Whedon, urgh.

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

asjefuginelshjekfuckfuckfuck! I didn't mean to click, I really didn't! I've been so good about Serenity spoilers! And also, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Nononononononono. Not Wash! Bad Joss! No biscuit!

[psubrat.livejournal.com]

Have you seen what I've said about Serenity and Joss? He's on my shit list big time right now. BIG TIME. ::sigh:: He's gotta stop with the killing of characters that are my favs. He really does.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know! *sobs on your shoulder* I was so pissed when I read that!

See? This is what I'm talking about. ARGH.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY. I just want him to stop killing characters, period. He keeps killing people not because it works with the plot or it's appropriate to the situation, but because it's the end so we have to kill someone.

NO. No, you don't, you pompous ass. There are things I love about you, Joss, but I can safely say that I have never ... NEVER liked a single one of the times he's killed off a character. The closest I've come was with Joyce, but considering the kind of affect it had on Buffy's life after that ... ACK, ACK, ACK. Working in fast food? Bitch, please.

To this day, I still can't understand why the Watchers never provided an income for the Slayer. They would stand around and bitch that she was devoting far too much time to things other than her Slaying, but God forbid they eliminate one thing that was taking up her time by issuing her a fucking paycheck. You have one sole trained warrior against the forces of darkness and you're not paying her?! (On the same note, when Buffy ordered Quentin to give Giles his back pay, I kept waiting for her to say, "And I want a salary. Hell, I deserve a salary!" That was one of my biggest pet peeves about the show. Sheesh.)

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

I've been told he kills characters because it pleases him to see the fans go "NOOOOOOOO!!!!" The reason it pleases him is that it means if the fans go "NOOOOOOOO!!!!" like newborn Vaders it means that they loved and cared about the character, and he is thus validated as a writer.

...idiot.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

... okay, reading that -- as someone who's currently trying desperately not to kill anyone just yet in my novel series -- just makes me want to smack him.

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

:heart: Glad I'm not the only one.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

*Non-spoilery (or at least not for anything you don't already know about now) commentary ahead*

If it's any consolation, it works well within the movie... though it left me more than a bit numb at the end. For some reason, though, it actually worked for me as a plot point when I saw it the second time (yeah, don't kill me, I managed to make it to both screenings, though I had to do a lot of driving to do it), although I still wasn't happy about it.

Also, it doesn't rule out ever seeing the characters again. Chris Buchanan was at the last screening I attended and said that if they're able to do more movies, they're not necessarily going to take place after this one. They're considering bouncing around in the timeline for more Firefly tales... which I definitely wouldn't mind. I suspect it will depend a great deal on who is available for filming.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Would Christian Bale with big fluffy wings not be the prettiest thing on the face of the planet? I could forgive the change in hair color for that, I think. Mmmhm.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

Or there's the possibility of flashbacky goodness. And Wash will always be there in spirit, because the dinosaurs are still on the console.

*is a tad teary-eyed, but swears that it's allergies*

[budclare.livejournal.com]

...you don't know a lot of people who've died, do you?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do. It's not that I don't know how something like that would affect the family. I did. It was just ... it's one thing to experience it in reality and another thing to watch it on a show like that. That way, it bored the hell out of me. (I've worked in fast food. I don't need to watch someone else do it on my favorite TV show.)