Keeping Up With The Joneses
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netgirl_y2kWent to see Star Trek: Into Darkness with Tequila Boy earlier, and suddenly remembered why it is that I don't go to the cinema more often. I remember when you could get into the pictures in town for under a fiver, of course back then we had to walk uphill through the snow to get there and back. And whoever was in charge of the sound could have stood to have turned it down a notch or two, whenever something exploded (which happened a lot) I was at risk of a perforated eardrum. Yeah, yeah, old age is coming for all of you too, you know.
My continued descent into doddering old age not withstanding, I really really enjoyed Into Darkness. With one exception, whoever decided to cast Benedict Cumberbatch must have been high. Even putting aside the race issue, he's not exactly the first actor I think of when I think genetically engineered ninja superhuman. It fucked with my suspension of disbelief too, instead of thinking "Oh, look, Khan" I was thinking, "Why's Benedict Cumberbatch accidentally wandered onto the set of this Star Trek film?"
The biggest shock of the afternoon was discovering that Tequila Boy doesn't know what a tribble is. I mean, even if you're not a trekkie, I thought tribbles were ubiquitous. So I have dispatched him off home with instructions to google The Trouble With Tribbles.
How did we ever become friends in the first place? I asked him.
You buy half the drinks and occasionally have interesting things to say about rugby. The rest of the time I just nod and smile.
The makings of a beautiful friendship, ladies and gentlemen.
Anyway, I have been catching up on the finales of Elementary which I haven't been talking about much, but I've been watching and squeeing and mentally drawing little hearts around Joan and Sherlock and their amazing slowly developing friendship.
I have such a crush on Natalie Dormer, I love her her brain, I love her her face, and to paraphrase Josh Lyman, I love her shoes! and I was so excited when she was announced as Irene Adler, and I secretly wanted her to be Moriarty too, but I didn't think they'd really do it, and they did! It more than makes up for Sherlock's failure to make Molly Moriarty (the only thing that could have kept me watching.)
But while I loved her, and am sure she's sauntered out of prison almost as soon as the credits rolled, I'm not sure I want her back. There's a law of diminishing returns with reoccurring villains, isn't there?
And Holmes naming a bee after Watson was the perfect grace note to end on. Ignore me, I'll just be over here praying for the network not to mess with perfection for S2.
The back half of this season of OUaT was pretty wobbly I thought, though a good part of that I suspect was that it went on hiatus every other bloody week, meaning it never really got up a sense of momentum, I imagine it would hold up better on marathoning. Anyway, I watched the final episode a while ago, and this is what I remembered thinking 1) Show, your gay is showing again, good for you, 2) Oh, Emma and Regina are going on a quest together to save their son, that's basically all I've wanted from this show, 2a) and Emma's parents are coming too, excellent it's romantic comedy hour, 3) When Belle got her memory back and immediately fell into Rumple's arms, there went my last shred of respect for that relationship or Belle as a character, 3a) Although if Belle is staying behind in Storybrooke, I could get behind librarian mayor queen!Belle, 3b) What was the point of the Lacey interlude, though? 4) Mulan & Aurora, yay! Until further notice I am going to assume you are now involved in some sort of cheerfully polyamorous threeway relationship with Prince Phillip.
I haven't talked much about this series of Doctor Who, or I think at all, but I have been watching and have found ever episode very watchable, if not holding up to vast amounts of plot scrutiny. But I was pretty disappointed in Clara, which was sad, because I find Jenna Louise Coleman adorable and had so enjoyed her turns in Asylum of the Daleks and The Snowman.
Partly, I think, it was that Clara over the course of, what, six? episodes felt more generic and less developed than either Oswin or Victorian!Clara had felt in a single outing. And partly it was the whole Impossible Girl schtick, if you're going to claim that your current plot macguffin stretches back through the whole history of Doctor Who then you have to do it better than that, with more lead up and possibly a bigger CGI budget. Not only do I think that the female character who exists only to save the Doctor/kill the Doctor/marry the Doctor (oh, River, I loved you so much once, and I blame Moffat mostly, but please never darken the doorstep of Doctor Who again) has been done to death. But it felt so unnecessary, like it had been tacked on as an afterthought, because there had to be a mystery to the companion, and as it was barely mentioned and hardly relevant (except as deus ex machina in the last episode) I would much rather the whole thing had been shelved and we'd gotten Victorian!Clara as companion.
That said, what is interesting is that the version of Clara who talked to One, was she a Time Lord, then?
And the Paternoster Gang is the best thing to have come out of the last couple of series by a country mile, there should be a spin off, or at the very least more fic than I have been able to turn up thus far!
My continued descent into doddering old age not withstanding, I really really enjoyed Into Darkness. With one exception, whoever decided to cast Benedict Cumberbatch must have been high. Even putting aside the race issue, he's not exactly the first actor I think of when I think genetically engineered ninja superhuman. It fucked with my suspension of disbelief too, instead of thinking "Oh, look, Khan" I was thinking, "Why's Benedict Cumberbatch accidentally wandered onto the set of this Star Trek film?"
The biggest shock of the afternoon was discovering that Tequila Boy doesn't know what a tribble is. I mean, even if you're not a trekkie, I thought tribbles were ubiquitous. So I have dispatched him off home with instructions to google The Trouble With Tribbles.
How did we ever become friends in the first place? I asked him.
You buy half the drinks and occasionally have interesting things to say about rugby. The rest of the time I just nod and smile.
The makings of a beautiful friendship, ladies and gentlemen.
Anyway, I have been catching up on the finales of Elementary which I haven't been talking about much, but I've been watching and squeeing and mentally drawing little hearts around Joan and Sherlock and their amazing slowly developing friendship.
I have such a crush on Natalie Dormer, I love her her brain, I love her her face, and to paraphrase Josh Lyman, I love her shoes! and I was so excited when she was announced as Irene Adler, and I secretly wanted her to be Moriarty too, but I didn't think they'd really do it, and they did! It more than makes up for Sherlock's failure to make Molly Moriarty (the only thing that could have kept me watching.)
But while I loved her, and am sure she's sauntered out of prison almost as soon as the credits rolled, I'm not sure I want her back. There's a law of diminishing returns with reoccurring villains, isn't there?
And Holmes naming a bee after Watson was the perfect grace note to end on. Ignore me, I'll just be over here praying for the network not to mess with perfection for S2.
The back half of this season of OUaT was pretty wobbly I thought, though a good part of that I suspect was that it went on hiatus every other bloody week, meaning it never really got up a sense of momentum, I imagine it would hold up better on marathoning. Anyway, I watched the final episode a while ago, and this is what I remembered thinking 1) Show, your gay is showing again, good for you, 2) Oh, Emma and Regina are going on a quest together to save their son, that's basically all I've wanted from this show, 2a) and Emma's parents are coming too, excellent it's romantic comedy hour, 3) When Belle got her memory back and immediately fell into Rumple's arms, there went my last shred of respect for that relationship or Belle as a character, 3a) Although if Belle is staying behind in Storybrooke, I could get behind librarian mayor queen!Belle, 3b) What was the point of the Lacey interlude, though? 4) Mulan & Aurora, yay! Until further notice I am going to assume you are now involved in some sort of cheerfully polyamorous threeway relationship with Prince Phillip.
I haven't talked much about this series of Doctor Who, or I think at all, but I have been watching and have found ever episode very watchable, if not holding up to vast amounts of plot scrutiny. But I was pretty disappointed in Clara, which was sad, because I find Jenna Louise Coleman adorable and had so enjoyed her turns in Asylum of the Daleks and The Snowman.
Partly, I think, it was that Clara over the course of, what, six? episodes felt more generic and less developed than either Oswin or Victorian!Clara had felt in a single outing. And partly it was the whole Impossible Girl schtick, if you're going to claim that your current plot macguffin stretches back through the whole history of Doctor Who then you have to do it better than that, with more lead up and possibly a bigger CGI budget. Not only do I think that the female character who exists only to save the Doctor/kill the Doctor/marry the Doctor (oh, River, I loved you so much once, and I blame Moffat mostly, but please never darken the doorstep of Doctor Who again) has been done to death. But it felt so unnecessary, like it had been tacked on as an afterthought, because there had to be a mystery to the companion, and as it was barely mentioned and hardly relevant (except as deus ex machina in the last episode) I would much rather the whole thing had been shelved and we'd gotten Victorian!Clara as companion.
That said, what is interesting is that the version of Clara who talked to One, was she a Time Lord, then?
And the Paternoster Gang is the best thing to have come out of the last couple of series by a country mile, there should be a spin off, or at the very least more fic than I have been able to turn up thus far!