Yeah, I don't know if I'm going to be able to keep watching The Walking Dead. It takes so much effort to yell at people for being stupid. This is ultimately my problem with zombie movies. Or really, any kind of horror.
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
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Dana - Nov 10, 2010 5:40:05 pm PST #14741 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Fiona - Nov 10, 2010 8:08:55 pm PST #14742 of 30001
The new series of Misfits starts tonight.
Jars - Nov 11, 2010 1:48:32 am PST #14743 of 30001
Yeah, I don't know if I'm going to be able to keep watching The Walking Dead. It takes so much effort to yell at people for being stupid.
That's why I stopped reading the comics. DH is still reading them and will give me the heads up when things start happening that don't make me want to punch all the characters, at which point I will start reading again.
JenP - Nov 11, 2010 7:57:43 am PST #14744 of 30001
Aw, that's love. I have no zombie opinions that I know of, though I'm sure I'd develop some if I watched/read more of the genre. I do love that Jonathan Coulton song, though.
Allyson - Nov 11, 2010 8:54:41 am PST #14745 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'm still annoyed by the lack of zombies-in-pop-culture. I thought it would go away, but it hasn't.
I need to write all this down.
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2010 8:56:19 am PST #14746 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Would you guys characterise Highlander as swords and sorcery? Given that it has a lot of the former and a bit of the latter? Is there present-day S&S?
beekaytee - Nov 11, 2010 9:07:26 am PST #14747 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Would you guys characterise Highlander as swords and sorcery?
I would. What Highlander lacks in creatures ala S&S, it makes up with multiple heroes' journeys.
Is there present-day S&S?
Lamentably no, in my experience. Though I feel compelled to give it a lot more thought.
I'm not sure why, but a scene from the last CSI:Miami episode I forced myself to watch comes forcefully to mind.
They used a 'sniffing' technology that helped them to recreate the design of a ring, including the 3 dimensional detail of a rose design...as I recall.
The sword they wielded is technology. The sorcery seems to be the spell they have cast to stay on the air by constantly insulting their viewers' intelligence.
Other than that, I've got nothing at the moment.
JenP - Nov 11, 2010 10:58:37 am PST #14748 of 30001
I haven't actually seen it, but what about Merlin? I'd figure that for both. If it's still on, that is.
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2010 11:07:27 am PST #14749 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Merlin's pretty historically inaccurate, but it's not set in the present day.
JenP - Nov 11, 2010 11:49:45 am PST #14750 of 30001
Heh. I parsed wrong. I thought you meant, present-day, is there an S & S show on. Not S & S set in present-day.