Shirts on Fire and Too Many Beards. Oh, and One Annoying Blonde Chick and a Pretty Good CGI Dragon.
Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion. Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty? Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
'Heart Of Gold'
What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Beverly - May 20, 2005 8:32:13 am PDT #5808 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Frankenbuddha - May 20, 2005 8:34:40 am PDT #5809 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So, wait, are y'all saying there was shirtlessness involved?
In my plan, we are shirtless.
Kathy A - May 20, 2005 8:52:31 am PDT #5810 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yeah, Bale could definitely have lost that beard and I would have been happier. IMO, Siddig looked hotter with one, though.
Nutty - May 20, 2005 9:19:35 am PDT #5811 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
That movie was basically a bizarro Ralph Lauren campaign, with some random plot elements interspersed. You know, the my-peeps-were-savaged-by-a-dragon look, the beautiful trauma, the char effects on artfully-distressed sweaters, the washboard abs, the tattoos. There were even children, although they were not posed in vaguely pornographic style in their underwear.
I'm only sorry that they had to kill the dragons, and did not get to have telepathic friendships with them (perchance to go riding).
However, there was a pony. Or, more like a Clydesdale. It even survived to the end!
§ ita § - May 20, 2005 9:24:03 am PDT #5812 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, no, no.
Reign Of Fire was a presentation of post-colonial dynamics, sans shirts, plus beasties. Really, I might have gone into the social sciences if there were more well-considered lacks of shirts.
Betsy HP - May 20, 2005 9:32:37 am PDT #5813 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Have you ever SEEN an economist naked? Not a pretty sight.
§ ita § - May 20, 2005 9:33:28 am PDT #5814 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You did catch the "well-considered," right?
Nutty - May 20, 2005 9:34:47 am PDT #5815 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
How do ponies fit into post-colonial dynamics, pray? Trains and the insistent push of technology, blah blah progress is hoodoo, yes; but I am blanking on the ponies.
(Can you tell I have just been reading -- and laughing at -- Kipling?)
Betsy HP - May 20, 2005 9:35:03 am PDT #5816 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I interpreted it to mean "the social scientist thought about it first".
§ ita § - May 20, 2005 9:36:54 am PDT #5817 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How do ponies fit into post-colonial dynamics, pray?
Actually, if we're thinking of the same equine, I thought it was fascinating that as our hero rounded the corner into the scene, that he was a knight and not a cowboy. I'm biased, of course, by not being American, but knights and cowboys are about equally irrelevant to my life and history. I just loved the Mother England slant to the heroics, and found them delightfully consistent.