I...forgot what I was going to say here.

[trinityvixen]

No, really. I had something...something!!!

Gah.

Oh! I remember! I was going to tell the world at large this thing I related to some folks over the weekend. I think glvalentine will get an especial kick out of this:

So there's a clip from the movie Soapdish on Scene It wherein Whoopi Goldberg's character tries in vain to make Robert Downey Jr.'s character understand that while just about anything goes in a soap opera, there are a few things that push even a soap audience's tolerance of the absurd. To whit:

I have just found out that this exact plot line is going to be used in a certain ridiculous show I am still working on finishing. No, for real. I've seen pictures of the previously beheaded character...with his/her head firmly on and interacting with the other characters. I'm now entirely sure that this show is completely redonkulous, but, bizarrely, more interested in watching now. I better add it to the list of seasons to catch up on.

Because, seriously: HOW DO YOU WRITE A CHARACTER WHO'S BEEN DECAPITATED? This is made of awesome. In that this particular show is already so over-the-top with the incredible things it has gotten away with that I'd like to see if they can throw in a newly re-headed character and have it not even disturb the waters a little bitty bit. Because everything else is already SO RE-COCK-U-LOUS, I'm pretty sure no one is even going to blink an eye at this. I'm also positive this is a ratings stunt, but that goes without saying even without a decapitation involved.

Comments

[glvalentine.livejournal.com]

Honor swear, I didn't click the clip:

"The man was decapitated! I looked it up. He was on his way to the Yukon in a pink convertible to see his cousin who's an ex-con named Francis, WHEN, a truck came along and decapitated him!"

"So, they put the head back on in a precedent-setting two-day operation. Would you use your imagination?"

"He doesn't have a head! He doesn't have a head! He's got no lips, no vocal cords, what do you want me to do?"

How'd I do?

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Because, seriously: HOW DO YOU WRITE A CHARACTER WHO'S BEEN DECAPITATED?

Hey, the X-Men pulled it off.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Skipped a bit here or there, but not so's anyone would notice. I bow in awe of your skill because a scene where one person is shouting and repeating herself ad nauseum and the other is muttering darkly to himself is not easy to remember.

[glvalentine.livejournal.com]

I am ashamed. In my heyday, I could not only recite the entire movie, but I could recite the entire movie in English OR FRENCH.

THIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE. I AM NOT JOKING AROUND.

[glvalentine.livejournal.com]

Man, I BLEW it. *cries*

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Hee! That's amazing! Where did this come from?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You got me beat. I used to be able to recite The Matrix backwards or forwards or from any single line someone gave me while imitating most of the voices. But not in other languages because THAT IS CRAZY.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You switched "guy" and "man" and "brother" and "cousin" and "truck" for "tractor trailer." That's about it. I'm a little afraid of you right now, not gonna lie.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

I thought I first saw this on someone's LJ. Possibly yours!