I liked this week's Fear Itself, except that I found the end predictable. Colin gives good creepy.
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon
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sj - Jun 20, 2008 3:45:49 pm PDT #3083 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Juliebird - Jun 20, 2008 3:48:24 pm PDT #3084 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Speaking of Colin, I tried to watch Rowing Through and gave up after about 15 minutes, even though I did last through the horrid mullet/fro thing he had going on.
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2008 4:07:32 pm PDT #3085 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The end of Fear Itself went a 1/2 turn further than I did. I was going for happier, what with the Godliness.
Julie, thank god you did. There were a couple notably horrible moments in it--well, the sex scenes with his (RL) GF was probably only trauma for me. But there was one moment towards the end...well, when I talked to him about the movie I had only to say "What was the director thinking when..." for him to know. Oddity. Not interesting flick.
sj - Jun 20, 2008 4:16:36 pm PDT #3086 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I saw the last 1/2 turn coming when they said there was a survivor.
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2008 4:19:56 pm PDT #3087 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was slow. Of course, I went to sleep wondering if he could get away anyway--but that's just because it was Colin in the role. The previous evidence against the bad guy had been "just" the testimony of a kid, but this time, despite the horrendous coincidence of the baddie being in the house, all the physical evidence should point to Colin's body.
sumi - Jun 20, 2008 4:28:53 pm PDT #3088 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
DW: How cool - she's a companion from the Doctor's future! (Right???)
I suggest that she is a companion from the Doctor's future.
Juliebird - Jun 20, 2008 4:31:12 pm PDT #3089 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
thank god you did.
I think it was the sex scene that did it for me. It was completely gratutitous and I was thinking "this is the main character that I'm rooting for?!" as he practically raped her.
Also, I had just watched Caroline Dhavernas in Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story and I think I've had my fill of the-little-amateur-that-could sports movies for the moment.
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2008 4:39:54 pm PDT #3090 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think it was rape, Julie--I think it was just really bad sex. And I didn't need to see my best friend have bad sex with his actual GF. The meta, it burnt.
Took me years to watch it--little amateur that could aversion was very hard to get past.
Juliebird - Jun 20, 2008 4:47:37 pm PDT #3091 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Not technically, but the Stop! Stop! STOP! in the middle of it was a bit hard to watch, in terms of simply watching it, and "this is the horse I bet on", and the conversation that followed, that Yes, Everything is a Race, was ridonkulous (pardon me for fucking you too fast).
And I hope that my imagining how traumatic watching a friend, let alone a best friend, fake-get-it-on with a real live girlfriend, remains in the imagination. Not that I'm imagining that scenario, like, ever.
Finished the first ep of Fear Itself and it wasn't all that fearful. I didn't feel my primal fears tapped into, and was rather disappointed to find out it was vampires. I mean, not that bad an ep, but not scary in the least. Still not clear why they staked the first guy, though. He wasn't bitten. Red-herring plothole?
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2008 4:58:43 pm PDT #3092 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
watching a friend, let alone a best friend, fake-get-it-on with a real live girlfriend
That's a price I paid for waiting so long to see it. If I'd seen it right away, it'd just have been foreshadowing.