A Wide-Ranging Miscellany
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1 - Christian has changed his look. Now, while there is nothing particularly wrong with Edge that a long soak wouldn't fix, he hasn't actually changed what he looks like since the E&C breakup which was, what, early 2000s.
2 - Christian can play both heel and face. Edge just doesn't work as a face. Not his fault, I can think of plenty of people who can't (for example, Sting doesn't work as a heel) but Christian can do both, I'm using his TNA stuff as the example of face-ness because it's been yonks since I've seen him as a face in WWE.
3 - Christian has a better finisher. I love a good spear, I blame it on being a rugby fan, but the Unprettier is such a gloriously vicious manouvre. It's not in my top 5, but it floats around the top 20, while Edge's spear doesn't.
4 - Christian can get his own heel heat. Edge seems to require someone else to work off, normally a female uber-heel. Oh Vicky and Lita, how I love thee.
5 - Christian does the little things right. Much though I love some of the Edge and Vickie stuff, there's no moment like Tomko's no, or 'these are my peeps'. It's tiny little things in his face and how he acts. And he does this despite mostly being on the B and C shows.
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I'll go over why in the post comparing and contrasting the comic to the move, but I've always seen movieverse Veidt as an entirely different character to the one in the comics.
But in both universes, he's supposed to be the cleverest man alive. So why does he do the incredibly stupid thing of leaving a file of putative pornography on his desktop without a password, or without much of one, given how quickly Dan breaks into it.
Which led to two possible conclusions:
1) Adrian Veidt doesn't care who knows about his habits. Given this is a world where the 50s lasted for 4 decades, I find this unlikely.
or
2) there's nothing in that folder that's that incriminating.
I took 2 as my starting point.
The other strand was based on something that happened half-way up the Eiffel tower.
I was sitting waiting for my companion's height related panics to pass and there was this beautiful girl. She had long curly corn-blonde hair, legs that finished halfway to heaven and looked liked she'd caught the sun rather than had been sunbathing. She was wearing a matching green checked shirt and short shorts with turned up hems. We are talking stunning.
She can't have been more than 15.
My brain was having trouble reconciling the first paragraph with the second, and this whammed straight back at me when I saw Watchmen at the cinema.
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Questions that need answers for future fic
1) US university years are divided up into semesters, yes?
and
2) Could anyone suggest a book likely to have been banned from school libraries for sexual content? I'd go with Lady Chatterly but I've been told it has all the eroticism of a dead fish and I need something that packs a punch.
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Doctor Who - Cold Blood
I prefer the use of actors in latex to CGI (let's be honest, I prefer most things to bad CGI, and that's the only kind of CGI that the BBC can afford) but it also has it's own drawbacks, mostly that it will occasionally throw up crazy-making moments of 'I know that actor, just not when he's green', and my brain spends half its time trying to ID the actor instead of watching what's on TV. It was Richard Hope who caused that effect this time, Stephen Moore at least has a distinctive voice (he'll always be the Dad in 'The Queen's Nose' to me.)
On to the actual episode.
I mean, at least Robert Pugh didn't cause me to weep, which is good, because as he's so good at tragic characters, it's nice seeing him get a semi-happy ending.
I did like the hopefulness, with Eldane, Tony and Nasreen, and I think if anyone can spread the word, then it's Elliot and his Dad.
I can kind of understand why people are like 'Why on Earth is Nasreen staying down below?', but can you imagine it, a long sleep and then all kinds of technology you'd only ever dreamed of. I also like that we had two non-scary scientists.
I am deeply amused by the whole 'no child would ever turn away from their mother' thing I've seen in some reviews. These people have obvs. never met my family.
There was something lacking, possibly in the plot. Whatever it was, the second part didn't feel solid enough.
Rory getting killed and vanished made me eep! They're not allowed to kill him off, damn it. Any bets on whether or not the Doctor remembers him?
What if the Doctor suspected that the crack followed Amy around (from the bit in the first ep with the scanner), eating things up around her, and that was why he brought Rory along. It would explain why Amy kissing him was the spur and why he let Rory stay.
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After that, thanks to N and S, I got to watch some old school Who.
That was effective.
I think I liked Vira best, she was just so not quite normal. And Rogin, but you all know of my fondness for his type of character, and for grand, unheroic heroic sacrifices.
The actor playing Noah really was acting out of his skin trying to make green-painted bubble wrap look scary. I think it speaks volumes that he almost succeeded.
I am alone in liking Harry, but I do love that he manages to offend women from such different time zones.
I can see why this has gone down as a Who classic.
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RL and
biorhythm was right. Relaxing does help. I must also say thank goodness for masturbation or that would have been painful. Does the speculum actually need to be that large? I'm aware it isn't but it felt like it.
Also, dear NHS, the time to warn me 'there may be some spotty bleeding afterwards' is before the appointment so I can do something about it.
opera142 wanted 1 - Christian has changed his look. Now, while there is nothing particularly wrong with Edge that a long soak wouldn't fix, he hasn't actually changed what he looks like since the E&C breakup which was, what, early 2000s.
2 - Christian can play both heel and face. Edge just doesn't work as a face. Not his fault, I can think of plenty of people who can't (for example, Sting doesn't work as a heel) but Christian can do both, I'm using his TNA stuff as the example of face-ness because it's been yonks since I've seen him as a face in WWE.
3 - Christian has a better finisher. I love a good spear, I blame it on being a rugby fan, but the Unprettier is such a gloriously vicious manouvre. It's not in my top 5, but it floats around the top 20, while Edge's spear doesn't.
4 - Christian can get his own heel heat. Edge seems to require someone else to work off, normally a female uber-heel. Oh Vicky and Lita, how I love thee.
5 - Christian does the little things right. Much though I love some of the Edge and Vickie stuff, there's no moment like Tomko's no, or 'these are my peeps'. It's tiny little things in his face and how he acts. And he does this despite mostly being on the B and C shows.
~~~~
I'll go over why in the post comparing and contrasting the comic to the move, but I've always seen movieverse Veidt as an entirely different character to the one in the comics.
But in both universes, he's supposed to be the cleverest man alive. So why does he do the incredibly stupid thing of leaving a file of putative pornography on his desktop without a password, or without much of one, given how quickly Dan breaks into it.
Which led to two possible conclusions:
1) Adrian Veidt doesn't care who knows about his habits. Given this is a world where the 50s lasted for 4 decades, I find this unlikely.
or
2) there's nothing in that folder that's that incriminating.
I took 2 as my starting point.
The other strand was based on something that happened half-way up the Eiffel tower.
I was sitting waiting for my companion's height related panics to pass and there was this beautiful girl. She had long curly corn-blonde hair, legs that finished halfway to heaven and looked liked she'd caught the sun rather than had been sunbathing. She was wearing a matching green checked shirt and short shorts with turned up hems. We are talking stunning.
She can't have been more than 15.
My brain was having trouble reconciling the first paragraph with the second, and this whammed straight back at me when I saw Watchmen at the cinema.
~~~~
Questions that need answers for future fic
1) US university years are divided up into semesters, yes?
and
2) Could anyone suggest a book likely to have been banned from school libraries for sexual content? I'd go with Lady Chatterly but I've been told it has all the eroticism of a dead fish and I need something that packs a punch.
~~~~
Doctor Who - Cold Blood
I prefer the use of actors in latex to CGI (let's be honest, I prefer most things to bad CGI, and that's the only kind of CGI that the BBC can afford) but it also has it's own drawbacks, mostly that it will occasionally throw up crazy-making moments of 'I know that actor, just not when he's green', and my brain spends half its time trying to ID the actor instead of watching what's on TV. It was Richard Hope who caused that effect this time, Stephen Moore at least has a distinctive voice (he'll always be the Dad in 'The Queen's Nose' to me.)
On to the actual episode.
I mean, at least Robert Pugh didn't cause me to weep, which is good, because as he's so good at tragic characters, it's nice seeing him get a semi-happy ending.
I did like the hopefulness, with Eldane, Tony and Nasreen, and I think if anyone can spread the word, then it's Elliot and his Dad.
I can kind of understand why people are like 'Why on Earth is Nasreen staying down below?', but can you imagine it, a long sleep and then all kinds of technology you'd only ever dreamed of. I also like that we had two non-scary scientists.
I am deeply amused by the whole 'no child would ever turn away from their mother' thing I've seen in some reviews. These people have obvs. never met my family.
There was something lacking, possibly in the plot. Whatever it was, the second part didn't feel solid enough.
Rory getting killed and vanished made me eep! They're not allowed to kill him off, damn it. Any bets on whether or not the Doctor remembers him?
What if the Doctor suspected that the crack followed Amy around (from the bit in the first ep with the scanner), eating things up around her, and that was why he brought Rory along. It would explain why Amy kissing him was the spur and why he let Rory stay.
~~~~
After that, thanks to N and S, I got to watch some old school Who.
That was effective.
I think I liked Vira best, she was just so not quite normal. And Rogin, but you all know of my fondness for his type of character, and for grand, unheroic heroic sacrifices.
The actor playing Noah really was acting out of his skin trying to make green-painted bubble wrap look scary. I think it speaks volumes that he almost succeeded.
I am alone in liking Harry, but I do love that he manages to offend women from such different time zones.
I can see why this has gone down as a Who classic.
~~~~
RL and
biorhythm was right. Relaxing does help. I must also say thank goodness for masturbation or that would have been painful. Does the speculum actually need to be that large? I'm aware it isn't but it felt like it.Also, dear NHS, the time to warn me 'there may be some spotty bleeding afterwards' is before the appointment so I can do something about it.
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Date: 2010-06-03 05:50 pm (UTC)2) Brave New World. Lolita. Or do you want a book that has a lot of objectionable sexual content? There's always American Psycho.
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Date: 2010-06-03 07:18 pm (UTC)Re - 2: Something renowned for being smutty, which is the problem.
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Date: 2010-06-03 07:30 pm (UTC)Hmmmmm... so it's salacious sexual content then. I can't really think of anything that counts as literary porn. Leaves of Grass by Whitman is what pops into my mind, and it was considered obscene and banned at one point, but it's now, like, a staple of American literature, though I'm sure somebody will raise a fuss about it somewhere.
Wiki tells me that Fanny Hill could be an alternative to "Lady Chatterly's Lover," except I've never read it, so I can't account for how erotic its prose actually is.