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So, I FINALLY watched Inception. And I gotta say, that film's totally worth the hype. I'm used to getting disappointed after waiting too long for something (like with Deathly Hallows, or more recently the SPN premiere) but this time all I have to say is... awesome.
I kind of figured out halfway through that the man at the beginning was Saito, in a dream (curse you, maybe-a-bit-Russian-but-definitely-not-Japanese accent that he had), and also that Cobb might have been in a dream for the whole movie but it was still awesome. Like, in some parts I blacked out and missed some seconds of film because I was busy thinking "crap this is really awesome".
Also, Arthur's fight scene. Just Arthur's fight scene. Zero gravity. Badass. Enough said.
I don't think I ship anyone, not really, which is kind of surprising coming from me.Well I might be shipping the couple sitting beside me, they seemed nice and laughed at the right moments and went "oh crap" at the right moment at the end. But that's just me confusing porn with real life as usual. Anyway. Not really that much shipping material, we only really got Cobb's backstory and personality. Everyone else is just an accessory. On the other hand, this means any pairing is free go should anyone be so inclined.
And apparently the fandom did, which is great, but honestly I'd be more interested in the possibilities of mindscrew gen fic. Because, seriously, I haven't seen such potential for world-building since The Matrix. This is, basically, The Matrix on more levels. Awesome.I'm saying "awesome" a lot today, aren't I? I kind of wish, dunno, there should be a TV series exploring the personalities of the other team members (especially Arthur) and about other jobs and stuff. But that's just wishful thinking. I'm afraid what we will get is Inception 2, which will be crap like most sequels and force me to discontinue it.
Meanwhile I'm all hyped up and I'm going to download it in English while I wait for the DVD to come out (needs moar wintermas presents) because I want to listen to everyone's original voices. And watch it again. And then write some fic. Gah, the world-building possibilities! Just think of the possibilities!
Now for something freakish and loosely related
We (me and my brother and my sister) went to a late afternoon showing and it finished late so we went to the McDonald's next to the cinema. They were redecorating or something, half of the restaurant had been walled off and it seemed all crammed despite it being emptier than usual. There was nobody at the counter when we arrived while usually there's a long wait.
The bathrooms were in the walled-off section so my brother and sister went to investigate while I placed our orders (3 McChicken menus with fries and cola - we're boring, boring people). And while I was there a couple of guys got in line behind me and they actually tried to hit on me. It was kind of unreal, considering that they seemed straight out of a bad comedy movie, including elbowing each other conspiratorially and offering to carry my tray.Dude. Seriously? Seriously. To which, having watched Gintama, I said "No, thank you!" - except I'm not a character from Gintama so I couldn't punch him. Instead I gave him my trademark creepy grin and hope he'll be as creeped out as I was.
I'd have thought it was some kind of joke, only afterwards I saw one of the guys hitting on another two girls. So, freaky stuff. The subject of today's dinner was, strange stuff is happening so maybe we're actually in a dream. Also awesome film. Also the fries are cold and taste awful. Also awesome film.
Also, the popcorns and/or the fries were way too salty and I think I had a cut on my lip or something because it's still itching. Damn junk food. Damn delicious junk food.
SPN 6x02
❧ Bleurgh, shapeshifter. I always managed to figure out when shapeshifter!Dean was doing the creepy peeling-off-his-own-skin bit, but in the recaps it was so sudden I didn't have time to look away. Bleurgh. Also: meh, shapeshifters again. More mindscrew.
❧ I see no Misha in the credits. Where's Castiel?
❧ Dean didn't really change, but I always get surprised at how much Sam grew up in the last 6 years.Maybe Dean got prettier. Except he was already prettier. More prettier.
❧ Dean is also becoming very paranoid, very quickly. How long before he snaps? I kind of want to yell at him. Something liked, dunno, DON'T SCREW UP YOUR APPLE-PIE LIFE, YOU IDIOT! Except, whoops, that's the plot of S6 and also what I've been waiting for.
❧ Good job creeping me out. It's been a while since the show had me jumping at random creepy noises, I missed the parts where you're not sure of what's going to jump at them. Demons are boring. I'll take a shapeshifter over them any day.
❧ Dean has joined the party! Baby has joined the party! Oookay, someone enlighten me: who had the great idea of turning this into a baby comedy? It's giving the fangirls a field day.Another one. Better than dead baby comedy, but still.
❧ ...Wait, the dream team isn't complete yet!No I'm not talking about Castiel even though where the fuck is Castiel? Why isn't Dean taking the Impala?
❧ And here's Dean changing nappies. He's adorable, obviously. The amount of mpreg potentially brought about by this episode is scary, but guh. This is the guy they like to torture on a weekly basis. And then they make him all cuddly-like. Why. Mean writers. Why can't Sam and Dean just adopt Bobby John and drive away into the sunset with Castiel.
❧ ...Adopt the freaky shapeshifter baby. So, wait, shapeshifter daddy got around the block quite a bit, had half a dozen kids and now he's kidnapping them all, starting a sort of shapeshifter kindergarten? This can't end well.
❧ Bullet-proof, knife-proof, everything-proof shifter. Guess they got an upgrade during the time skip.Yeah, didn't Sam mention something weird was going on? Any rate... Well, fuck.
❧ Dean's being mommy-ified. This so doesn't help my case on how Dean shouldn't bottom all of the time.
❧ That thing also has super-strength! And changes clothes along with its skin. Except that it stole that police officer's clothes. So is there two shifters or a plot hole or woah are we dealing with some kind of uber-shifter I think the Holy Shit Quotient went up another bit.
❧ And now there's that part we always get in these episodes. Is Sam the shifter? When did they switch? Why isn't Dean suspicious of him? Looks like the episode is ending so he wasn't. But he totally could have. Why isn't anyone more paranoid than they are?
❧ I think it's Dean's hair. That's what got prettier. And sparkly.
...I mean, yay for Lisa kicking out of the house but not really, just conveniently give him an excuse to start hunting again. And we can has the Impala, finally! I missed that car. I didn't even realize until we went for two episodes without.
❧ Okay, better than last episode but wtf hanging plot and wtf is Sam plotting with Samuel.
❧ Now we just need Castiel for the next episode and everything will be peachy. Aaand, going from next episode's trailer, WE ARE SO GETTING CAS BACK NEXT WEEK! \o/
Merlin Gwaine
Just as planned, today's newsletter is full ofshirtless gratuitous fanservice Gwaine. He's in about a dozen fics with different pairings. I've seen Merlin and Gwen (which kind of make sense), Morgana and Lancelot (which don't really make sense but should have been expected), Leon (which makes no sense at all and wtf fandom I know you love him and I do too but do you have any justification apart that Leon's pretty?)... but no Arthur.
Nobody has written Arthur/Gwaine yet, and somebody needs to rectify this mistake. Needs more pretty shirtless boys. Needs new OT3, maybe, since the old one kind of shriveled up and died when Morgana went dark side.
Speaking of Arthur. I feel oh so tempted to add Gwaine to my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
merlin_muses fic, and the only thing stopping me is that I set it before S3 because otherwise I'd have to remove Morgana. Sad, sad thing.
So, I FINALLY watched Inception. And I gotta say, that film's totally worth the hype. I'm used to getting disappointed after waiting too long for something (like with Deathly Hallows, or more recently the SPN premiere) but this time all I have to say is... awesome.
I kind of figured out halfway through that the man at the beginning was Saito, in a dream (curse you, maybe-a-bit-Russian-but-definitely-not-Japanese accent that he had), and also that Cobb might have been in a dream for the whole movie but it was still awesome. Like, in some parts I blacked out and missed some seconds of film because I was busy thinking "crap this is really awesome".
Also, Arthur's fight scene. Just Arthur's fight scene. Zero gravity. Badass. Enough said.
I don't think I ship anyone, not really, which is kind of surprising coming from me.
And apparently the fandom did, which is great, but honestly I'd be more interested in the possibilities of mindscrew gen fic. Because, seriously, I haven't seen such potential for world-building since The Matrix. This is, basically, The Matrix on more levels. Awesome.
Meanwhile I'm all hyped up and I'm going to download it in English while I wait for the DVD to come out (needs moar wintermas presents) because I want to listen to everyone's original voices. And watch it again. And then write some fic. Gah, the world-building possibilities! Just think of the possibilities!
Now for something freakish and loosely related
We (me and my brother and my sister) went to a late afternoon showing and it finished late so we went to the McDonald's next to the cinema. They were redecorating or something, half of the restaurant had been walled off and it seemed all crammed despite it being emptier than usual. There was nobody at the counter when we arrived while usually there's a long wait.
The bathrooms were in the walled-off section so my brother and sister went to investigate while I placed our orders (3 McChicken menus with fries and cola - we're boring, boring people). And while I was there a couple of guys got in line behind me and they actually tried to hit on me. It was kind of unreal, considering that they seemed straight out of a bad comedy movie, including elbowing each other conspiratorially and offering to carry my tray.
I'd have thought it was some kind of joke, only afterwards I saw one of the guys hitting on another two girls. So, freaky stuff. The subject of today's dinner was, strange stuff is happening so maybe we're actually in a dream. Also awesome film. Also the fries are cold and taste awful. Also awesome film.
Also, the popcorns and/or the fries were way too salty and I think I had a cut on my lip or something because it's still itching. Damn junk food. Damn delicious junk food.
SPN 6x02
❧ Bleurgh, shapeshifter. I always managed to figure out when shapeshifter!Dean was doing the creepy peeling-off-his-own-skin bit, but in the recaps it was so sudden I didn't have time to look away. Bleurgh. Also: meh, shapeshifters again. More mindscrew.
❧ I see no Misha in the credits. Where's Castiel?
❧ Dean didn't really change, but I always get surprised at how much Sam grew up in the last 6 years.
❧ Dean is also becoming very paranoid, very quickly. How long before he snaps? I kind of want to yell at him. Something liked, dunno, DON'T SCREW UP YOUR APPLE-PIE LIFE, YOU IDIOT! Except, whoops, that's the plot of S6 and also what I've been waiting for.
❧ Good job creeping me out. It's been a while since the show had me jumping at random creepy noises, I missed the parts where you're not sure of what's going to jump at them. Demons are boring. I'll take a shapeshifter over them any day.
❧ Dean has joined the party! Baby has joined the party! Oookay, someone enlighten me: who had the great idea of turning this into a baby comedy? It's giving the fangirls a field day.
❧ ...Wait, the dream team isn't complete yet!
❧ And here's Dean changing nappies. He's adorable, obviously. The amount of mpreg potentially brought about by this episode is scary, but guh. This is the guy they like to torture on a weekly basis. And then they make him all cuddly-like. Why. Mean writers. Why can't Sam and Dean just adopt Bobby John and drive away into the sunset with Castiel.
❧ ...Adopt the freaky shapeshifter baby. So, wait, shapeshifter daddy got around the block quite a bit, had half a dozen kids and now he's kidnapping them all, starting a sort of shapeshifter kindergarten? This can't end well.
❧ Bullet-proof, knife-proof, everything-proof shifter. Guess they got an upgrade during the time skip.
❧ Dean's being mommy-ified. This so doesn't help my case on how Dean shouldn't bottom all of the time.
❧ That thing also has super-strength! And changes clothes along with its skin. Except that it stole that police officer's clothes. So is there two shifters or a plot hole or woah are we dealing with some kind of uber-shifter I think the Holy Shit Quotient went up another bit.
❧ And now there's that part we always get in these episodes. Is Sam the shifter? When did they switch? Why isn't Dean suspicious of him? Looks like the episode is ending so he wasn't. But he totally could have. Why isn't anyone more paranoid than they are?
❧ I think it's Dean's hair. That's what got prettier. And sparkly.
...I mean, yay for Lisa kicking out of the house but not really, just conveniently give him an excuse to start hunting again. And we can has the Impala, finally! I missed that car. I didn't even realize until we went for two episodes without.
❧ Okay, better than last episode but wtf hanging plot and wtf is Sam plotting with Samuel.
❧ Now we just need Castiel for the next episode and everything will be peachy. Aaand, going from next episode's trailer, WE ARE SO GETTING CAS BACK NEXT WEEK! \o/
Just as planned, today's newsletter is full of
Nobody has written Arthur/Gwaine yet, and somebody needs to rectify this mistake. Needs more pretty shirtless boys. Needs new OT3, maybe, since the old one kind of shriveled up and died when Morgana went dark side.
Speaking of Arthur. I feel oh so tempted to add Gwaine to my
merlin_muses fic, and the only thing stopping me is that I set it before S3 because otherwise I'd have to remove Morgana. Sad, sad thing.
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Date: 2010-10-04 06:38 pm (UTC)That's surprisingly always like this, they shipped Lancelot with half of Camelot, too. But not Arthur. Although he obviously had a major crush on him. XD
(But then again they ship all minor characters that are remotely good looking with half of Camelot but not Arthur. Poor Arthur, gets no love. D: XD)