I've tried to put both Movie!Arwen and Movie!Eowyn out of my head. (I love how Miranda Otto played her, hated PJ's direction. At least, based on the commentaries, which have taught me that Miranda hated the soup scene and wanted to do more fighting.)
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Jessica - Mar 31, 2005 12:42:41 pm PST #596 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Aims - Mar 31, 2005 12:42:51 pm PST #597 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
you need to supply your own ammo.
Hmph.
Connie Neil - Mar 31, 2005 12:43:37 pm PST #598 of 10001
brillig
She's all hot and sultry, not all pouty!!
woof
StuntHusband - Mar 31, 2005 12:45:39 pm PST #599 of 10001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
la la la la
Not hearing criticism of the One True Movie(set). * I despise Liv Tyler, but thought she did well as Arwen (who is an absolute non-entity in the book), and Eowyn was...Eowyn.
shrugs
I'm unreasonable in All Things Tolkien. I make no apologies, I usually just retire, muttering, while everyone else looks at me with the fond "he's a daft one, he is" smiles.
(*unless it's my criticism, of course. My egotism is consistent at least.)
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2005 12:45:39 pm PST #600 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I liked movie Eowyn better than book Eowyn. At least, I do now. If I'd seen the movie at the same headstate as when I first read the books, I'm sure it'd have been the other way round.
This Eowyn, barring strange soup scenes, seemed healthier and stronger, but still broken enough to need healing. Book Eowyn now looks brittle and offputtingly death-seeking to me now.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 31, 2005 12:45:57 pm PST #601 of 10001
What is even happening?
Oh, god. I could barely have hated movie!Arwen more. She's supposed to be an immortal, not a petulant teen trying to convince her dad to change curfew.
And yet? Still better than movie Eowyn for me. She made me cringe. Arwen won me over riding hellbound for leather with Frodo, and then when she called the river-o-horsies down on the wraiths, and got Frodo to Rivendell.
Some people might say, "She had me at hello," but why use so few words?
Aims - Mar 31, 2005 12:46:55 pm PST #602 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I know not of Book Anyone (Except Firefly, and that's altogether different). I only know Movie Eowyn and Sean-Mooning-Over-Her Eowyn.
Atropa - Mar 31, 2005 12:46:56 pm PST #603 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm unreasonable in All Things Tolkien. I make no apologies, I usually just retire, muttering, while everyone else looks at me with the fond "he's a daft one, he is" smiles.
Some of you may remember me mentioning my friend who can swear in Elvish, and has the inscription from The Ring as a tattoo? Why yes, I was referring to the StuntHusband.
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2005 12:47:45 pm PST #604 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When Eowyn felled the Oliphaunt, or grabbed up Merry, or snapped at Eomer for mocking him, I got all nice and shivery inside. When she pined at Aragorn I yelled at him to stop being such a fucking clit-tease.
Arwen made me cry and yell too, but in very different ways. I don't blame Aragorn for kissing Brego.
Aims - Mar 31, 2005 12:48:10 pm PST #605 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Some of you may remember me mentioning my friend who can swear in Elvish, and has the inscription from The Ring as a tattoo? Why yes, I was referring to the StuntHusband.
Too bad Sean's not gay.