Yeah, like remember when rabbits were introduced to Australia and the native ecosystem was so unfamiliar with them that the rabbits were all instantly killed by wallabies? Like that!

Which makes me wonder, are rabbits immune to poison or something? Australian fauna seems to have adapted quite nicely to killing human beings over the past 50,000 years...

Which makes me wonder, are rabbits immune to poison or something? Australian fauna seems to have adapted quite nicely to killing human beings over the past 50,000 years...

I am at this moment watching the series Planet Dinosaur. There was a small gliding dinosaur in China named Sinornithosaurus that has been hypothesised to have had a venomous bite.

Meanwhile, Australia has a longer life expectancy than the US, and indeed most countries on Earth. I blame bears.

I assume there are cardiovascular benefits to fleeing from all the poisonous animals and deadly birds.

It came to mind today, and I tried another search. All I remembered was an animated joey and a girl and such supreme loss. I think I finally found it, and it might be Dot and the Kangaroo. I'd thought for the longest time that it's been an animated TV show. But this makes more sense.

YES! I had the same experience: the vaguely remembered but deeply moving scene that lingered in my mind for years and years, the searches that never found what I was looking for. I finally found out that it was Dot and the Kangaroo a couple of years back, and it was oddly satisfying just to know that the movie actually exists. I don't know if I would want to rewatch it, but it made a huge impression on me as a kid.

so this flowchart of what to watch on Netflix is just stupid, yes?

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DH's Trek review is up:

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Warning - SPOILERS. Lots and lots of them.

I enjoyed Star Trek into Darkness, but I was curiously unengaged at times because while there is a decent Kirk-centric story and Benedict Cumberbatch was born to play a villain, the movie essentially moves from cool set piece to cool set piece, with the occasional nod to the original series. Luckily, these cool set pieces are pretty exciting and things blow up a lot. It's a solid sci-fi action flick, but it's no Iron Man 3.

The movie feels kind of hollow in the end, but it's a good time.

I...am going to see STID Saturday afternoon with DH and friends. I plan on having a couple of drinks beforehand and watching Evil!Cheekboneslock and Eyebrows and spaceplosions. And Irate!KarkUrban. And Pegglicious. All else is superfluous.

And I am not ashamed.

I enjoyed STID, and disagree with Jessica's DH in almost every respect, but I also was curiously disengaged at several points in the movie. Mainly the points where the "Will Kirk DIE FOR REAL? Will the Enterprise BLOW UP?" tension went on too long, because obviously the answer is NO. Anyone who didn't know how they were gonna bring Kirk back wasn't paying attention to McCoy's dead tribble. Also, and this may be only me, but I found that I can only believe the deep friendship between Kirk and Spock because I ALREADY believe it going in -- there's not much in these two movies that would make me feel that was true.

Also, the fact that they have already discovered tribbles means in this new universe, Kirk will never open a hatch and be buried in a fluffy hill of trilling tribbles, and that makes me sad.