The Rabbit Hole

trinityvixen: I have had a random thought brought on by watching too much sci-fi/fantasy at your place. I think being in the same place has scrambled my brain for ideas and the weirdest things occur to me as a result.
trinityvixen: This morning I was thinking about Star Trek III for whatever reason, and it occurred to me to ask myself, "Hey, does McCoy get to have his soul saved by the Vulcans because he held onto Spock's? Is it like being a ring-bearer and you get to go to the Grey Havens?"
trinityvixen: I then realized how INCREDIBLY NERDY that was to think.
moonlightalice: Don't think so
trinityvixen: But I am still really curious.
moonlightalice: Nah, they save the collective memories of the Vulcan people.
moonlightalice: McCoy was more like FedEx--you throw out the box when you're done.

Amidst my shame for having had ivy03's DVDs forever, I started to watch the second season of Supernatural, so far to greater success than my trip through the first one. I maintain that the ending of the first season was damn funny, yet I was still pulled into the drama of the season opener that built on it. Well done, show. It helps to conference with viridian about these things, too.

( Ah, girls. )

Through completely legal means (I swear I live in Canada), I have seen BSG 4.08 "Sina Qua Non," which will air in this country on Friday. My reactions are basically "Um?" Most of the episodes this season have had a profound "WTF!?!" level to them, usually because they startle me with the awesome or at least the harshness. I have disliked a lot of developments--( (spoilers) )--but on the whole, I've swallowed my objections in the name of the great things that would happen immediately after. Yay show!

But this? This is not happening. I'm fairly sure that everything that happens in this episode is going to be revealed as an alternate universe episode or something. Every bad fanfic decision that could be made about any character, any development is made. And, godsdamnit, ( ARGH, SPOILER ) Worse, ( The spoiler that makes TV want to die. )

What puzzles me is that awards for which BSG wanted to be nominated all picked performances out of this one. I didn't see too many overtly fabulous performances other than the one put in by Lee Adama's hair. Dude looks like he walked off the set of a Pantene commercial where his fluffy, shiny, sleek hair got expertly blown around. What the F? Remember your stupid faux-hawk in the miniseries, Lee? I won't forget that now that you seem to have discovered conditioner. I WON'T.

Some history: viridian used to work at a movie theater. She got free tickets once a week, and I was all over that like soda on a theater floor. (Sticky, I guess.) Anywho, The Hulk came out, and I talked her into going with me. It was a perfect set up: no one invested anything in the film besides a couple of hours and it was summer, so we got to invest those hours in being indoors in the air conditioning.

We didn't quite reconcile with our master plan just how awful The Hulk ended up being. In the recent history of catastrophic failures of superhero/comic book movies, I put The Hulk as being more painful than Spider-Man 3 if only because there was absolutely nothing about it that was redemptive (whereas Spider-Man 3 had Bruce Campbell). If we'd paid more than time off our lives, I might have rioted. The time off my life should matter, but the competing interest--finishing the film so I'd never have to see it again (an annoying OCD of mine is that I always have to finish movies I start)--won out. I promised viridian I'd never make her sit through something so awful again.

But it would be damned funny to use these free passes I have to any Regal Cinema to go and see The Incredible Hulk. This time, we're both legal, so we will, beyond all probability, be roaring drunk.

viridian: Can I be drunk this time?
me: You can be as drunk as you like.
viridian: I WILL NEED IT
me: Yes, I'm pretty sure that much is true.
viridian: Ugh, why, WHY would they remake it again so soon?
me: BECAUSE IT IS A TIMELESS STORY. About a man. And his inner, greener bad self. Classic, really.
me: I think The Hulk is what Shakespeare WANTED to write. He settled for Macbeth instead. And we all know how much better The Hulk is.
viridian: Oh God. Now I am thinking of Patrick Stewart as the Hulk. HULK SAY...MAKE IT SO

1. Did I mention that Iron Man was gonna be the May Movie? I believe I did. Yet I had not watched the trailer until today. Lo, it awesome, and I want to see this more than ever. Two really notable things? Tony Stark? TOTAL ASSHOLE. Well done, you've got the character right. Two? I'm pretty sure Iron Man has the honor of being the only hero to be shown getting laid in the trailer. So, uh, well done for him, I'm sure.

Check out the TV spot and the full trailer. They both are snark-tastic and comic-book bad-ass. Could they have cast this better? I think not.

2. First picture from the Wolverine spin-off movie. You ask me, this is easily ten years too late. The Jackman was showing his years in X-Men 2. Still, I'm sure most hormonal women are still attracted to him. Not me. Too hairy.

3. All these conversations are made of win, but cut for length.

First up, exchanges with viridian. ( Click if you love Jack Harkness and Alan Cumming! )

And feiran. ( Click if you like Indiana Jones but HATE Sailor moon )

Last but not least, moonlightalice gets her funny on.( Click for fucking monkeys (and that's not a euphemism). )

me: Dude, seriously? I BELIEVE IN SEQUELS NOW
feiran: Alas, you have always believed in sequels. Except for that Matrix movie.
me: I mean I believe they can be GOOD--as good as the first!
feiran: Empire Strikes Back, anyone? :)
me: True...Spider-Man 2...X-Men 2
feiran: I wish I had an emoticon for the Marge Simpson doubting noise. X-Men 2 would've provoked it. :P
me: You don't like X-Men 2?
feiran: Meh, it was all right. But I would say the first was markedly better. Whereas I wholeheartedly agree that Spider-Man 2 was as good as Spider-Man.
me: REALLY?
feiran: Yes? Your emphatic reaction is making me a little doubtful, though, 'cause in spite of seeing it with you like five times at the drive-in, I don't remember it all that well.
me: ah, okay. we'll have to do a comparison some day
feiran: They find nightcrawler...they um...Jean gets washed away by a lake? Aaaaand the children are all running around screaming and I thought Colossus was kinda cute. Hm. I just can't remember the *plot*. Mansion gets attacked, kids get knocked out. Is it the hunting down mutants thing with Trask?
me: No, it's Stryker
feiran: Then they go to Weapon X and kick some ass and Jean gets wet.
me: THAT IS THE BEST SYNOPSIS EVER

And this....

me: I have to admit X-Men 2 carried me away on the strenght of Nightcrawler and Mystique. Mystique was just a sort of booty-call for the first one; in the second she was orgasmically awesome. And Alan Cumming IS ALWAYS orgasmically awesome.

me: but as Nightcrawler...jesus..he made me swallow Nightcrawler's sanctimonious religious bullshit. I've ALWAYS hated that about the character. It seems so angsty. But he played it through with such a good sense of humor

me: I was like, "If all religion were taught by Alan Cumming, more people would be sincerely religious." Of course, if Alan Cumming were in charge of religion, it would be more fun period, regardless of HOW it was sold to you

me: I'm betting Alan Cumming would make an awesome Pope.

with the lovely earthrise:

earthrise: is there anything Google can't do?
8-)
trinityvixen:me: I would have said 'rule the world' a day ago
earthrise: it can't do glasses, there we go
me: but now....
...yet
it can't do glasses yet
earthrise: just you wait
trinityvixen: they got this far this fast, so, yeah. TOday Google Chat, tomorrow the World.
If they can get past this China snafu
earthrise: teehee
"China snafu"
that makes it sound so cute and surmountable
trinityvixen: Isn't it? I mean, just because they've kept Communism alive way past it's expiration date doesn't mean they're holding fast to things or anything. No sir.

earthrise: China shmina
trinityvixen: !
<3<3<3!!!
That's awesome.
So awesome, it requires notation somewhere
earthrise: "China shima" goes along with "that China snafu" in the category of ridiculously diminutive dismissals of really effin' strong forces
trinityvixen: Except yours rhymed, therefore making it that much more awesome
earthrise: and that much more inappropriately diminutive. ;)


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