I found them both adorable. It's hard to make a character who is at heart just a good, decent person work onscreen, but I thought Jacob worked wonderfully well. His hopeful wave at the pastries when asked if he had collateral made my heart turnover with love.
Xander: How? What? How? Giles: Three excellent questions.
Xander/Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
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Scrappy - Nov 28, 2016 8:25:53 pm PST #396 of 3455
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
JZ - Nov 29, 2016 3:38:24 pm PST #397 of 3455
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I looked Jacob up in IMDB afterward because he was so earnestly, doofily endearing and because he looked so familiar but unplaceable -- turns out I had indeed seen him before, heavily bearded, in Hannibal of all things!
Volans - Nov 30, 2016 7:07:00 am PST #398 of 3455
move out and draw fire
clearly musical intervals and beats that LMM really likes because they show up everywhere. (The karaoke version of You're Welcome makes it really obvious, because you can sing the lyrics to Washington On Your Side
In all fairness, you can sing "Somewhere That's Green" from Little Shop of Horrors to "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid.
Jessica - Nov 30, 2016 8:09:39 am PST #399 of 3455
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In all fairness, you can sing "Somewhere That's Green" from Little Shop of Horrors to "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid.
making notes for next karaoke outing
msbelle - Dec 02, 2016 7:00:32 pm PST #400 of 3455
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Went and saw Allied tonight. I really was not interested in seeing it, but the person who invited me wanted to see it.
it was whatever. exactly what you think it will be.
I liked the clothes though, like a lot.
Calli - Dec 03, 2016 2:18:10 pm PST #401 of 3455
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I saw Moana today. It was gorgeous, and the plot was very satisfying. And now I want to go sailing.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 03, 2016 5:56:06 pm PST #402 of 3455
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I saw Moonlight this afternoon. Very moving, excellent film.
Fiona - Dec 04, 2016 3:04:39 am PST #403 of 3455
Saw Arrival last night and loved it. It really lives up to its "intelligent science-fiction" billing.
David Bordwell has written a good piece about the depiction of time in the film. It also includes some information on the differences between the story and the movie, and why those choices were made. Of course, it's spoilerific.
I'm working on some stuff about film adaptations as the moment, and one of the ideas I've found most helpful is actually not to think of it as adpatation from one medium to another. Instead, if you think of them as different artistic languages, adaptation becomes translation, which works much better, and is also rather appropriate for Arrival .
Jesse - Dec 05, 2016 4:53:09 am PST #404 of 3455
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not sure why this just popped into my head, but in Arrival, why didn't the aliens learn English? Or at least a human writing system?
Fiona - Dec 05, 2016 4:56:04 am PST #405 of 3455
Because the point was to get humans to understand Heptopod and so be able to access the new way of thinking it involved, not the other way around. Actually, their learning a human language would probably even have slowed things down .
Edited for spelling....