Just watched first episode of Legend of the Seeker.
...it's not supposed to be a comedy, right? I mean, it seems to be a compilation of every book I read in my teens. I'm sort of mesmerised.
And we live to fight another day.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Fay - Jul 25, 2009 4:34:07 am PDT #17680 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
StuntHusband - Jul 25, 2009 5:41:16 am PDT #17681 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Oh, Fay. Don't waste any more of your lovely life on that twaddle. The books are *awful*, and repetitive (and this from the guy who worships the Man Who Invented Fantasy Tropes), and *boring*. One interesting concept in each book, hammered at repeatedly until it's useless.
And the TV show is just a pale, pale reflection of THAT mediocrity.
Why no, I don't have an opinion on the subject - why do you ask?
ETfurtherself-referentiallyA: this also from the guy who is playing "Lord of the Rings Online" while watching "Krull".
Again.
YMMV
Fay - Jul 25, 2009 6:45:14 am PDT #17682 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
It's sort of been on as background noise, and from time to time I go over and stare at the screen incredulously. It's like Xena, without the charm or self-awareness.
shakes head
You're absolutely right. But I like the girl's wardrobe (of, er, two outfits) and I have this faint hope that the hero's going to take his shirt off again. Although so far, there has just been the one scene of gratuitous shirtlessness, in the pilot ep.
But it was VERY GOOD shirtlessness. Really. Very good.
The rest of the show, however, seems mostly to be fodder for a drinking game. And I have chimed in with the lines several times now. ("You must accept your destiny!" "This is The Sword Of Truth!" "Luke, I am your father!") And of course the plot points are VERY heavily telegraphed. By wizards throwing anvils made of cheese at the viewer. Still, there have been several laugh-out-loud moments of badness.
...but not, I think, enough to tempt me to put the next DVD in the machine, now that the first one has wended to a close.
New Zealand is very pretty. And I'm astonished that they got funding to make 22 episodes of this craziness. 22. And Firefly and the Tick both got cancelled. And Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles didn't make it to a third season.
Oh, world.
-t - Jul 25, 2009 7:50:41 am PDT #17683 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
it's not supposed to be a comedy, right?
I have been proceeding on the assumption that it sort of is, a little bit. It wants to be Xena or Hercules. It hasn't quite embraced the silliness to the extent it needs to. Yet.
If it makes you feel better, it's shown in syndication only, not as a prime time network show, so the standards for success are quite different than they would have been for Firefly, etc.
Laga - Jul 25, 2009 8:33:29 am PDT #17684 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
In the shower this morning I was wishing I didn't like girls because then D would want to be my partner and I could get his health benefits.
omnis_audis - Jul 25, 2009 10:42:05 am PDT #17685 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
In the shower this morning I was wishing I didn't like girls because then D would want to be my partner and I could get his health benefits.But you like boys too??? Um. :: bites tongue::
Um, ION. If my records are correct. I do believe we need to be wishing ms VW a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
FTR, it is HOTTER in Houston than it is in Dallas. Nice here. But HOTTER. Yes, it warrants capital letters. The seatbelt burned me when reaching for it.
Laga - Jul 25, 2009 10:48:17 am PDT #17686 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
It's hot here too but I'm sure not as bad as Texas. I'm having a choclte eclair Good Humor bar.
And yeah you don't have to bite your tongue, omins. I know I have a bizarre relationship with my roommate. D just happens to be fiercely monogamous. And I have come to accept that I can't change that. I love him and we have sexual chemistry like wheelah! But I'd rather just be friends than agree to never ever fuck another girl.
Laga - Jul 25, 2009 10:48:49 am PDT #17687 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Birthday Happies, vw!
Barb - Jul 25, 2009 10:54:33 am PDT #17688 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Happy Birthday, vw!!
beth b - Jul 25, 2009 11:08:53 am PDT #17689 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
happy birthday VW!