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Game of Thrones crossovers

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:03:03 GMT

OMG, awesomeness.

This artist is celebrating the return of Community by artwork depicting each of the characters as a Game of Thrones character! Two of my favorite fandoms colliding!

( Greendale is coming! )

And the fun doesn't stop there. There's also the return of Arrested Development. And this blog brings you... Arrested Westeros!

( I've made a huuuuge mistake. )

March Madness update: OMFG MISSOURI WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. That's my first Elite 8 team to be out. DAMN IT. At least others had them going to the Final Four, but STILL. &$@#&$#@* I am BOTTOM DEAD LAST in my office pool. FML.

This is funny... but also how I feel about spoilers. :))

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It's back!!

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:06:41 GMT

OMG. Arrested Development fans -- it's back! They're not only doing a movie, they're also doing 10 more episodes! Unclear to me whether this is definitely just a one-time thing to wrap things up, or if there's a chance it could get picked up again for more.

I finally saw the BBC version of Sense & Sensibility. I was underwhelmed. It wasn't much different from the 1995 Ang Lee/Emma Thompson movie, which was excellent. I'm not sure why anyone felt this 3-hour version had to be made. There was about an hour too much of Willoughby, who wasn't even attractive. There was also less humor, and I generally preferred the actors from the movie, most notably: Kate Winslet as Marianne (I did not like the BBC's choice for Marianne), Hugh Laurie as Mr. Palmer, Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon. I like the new Elinor and Edward (I love Emma, but she was probably too old for that role, and Hugh Grant was fine, but the new Edward is very attractive). Anyway. If I'd never seen the movie I probably would have enjoyed it more, but basically I felt like this was an inferior remake.

Britta on Community said: "I still think that man is going to evolve into woman, not a dragon monster with three legs." Apparently, she's right.

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say it ain't so, I will not go...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:51:08 GMT

You know when you type a super long thing and then click on something and it goes away, but then you weren't logged in and so the auto recover doesn't work? You know that feeling of rage like you want to toss your computer across the room from the frustration of it? And the thought of retyping everything you just wrote makes you want to /wrists? Yeah. Technology can SUCK IT.

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I finished Dr. Who S1! (Or S27, depending on your preference.) ( Spoilers! )

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On the book front, I'm still slowly working my way through Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Still don't know what the plot is and I'm like 400 pages in.

Finished Ursula K. LeGuin's The Beginning Place. I was not a fan. I don't know if it was this particular book or her writing, but if the former is a good example of the latter, then it may just be that I don't enjoy her style. I found it to be annoyingly vague, a bit overwrought, the characters unlikeable, and the ultimate 'message' fell flat.

I recently read a romance novel Jade found on Amazon called Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, by Sarah MacLean. I normally would have stayed away from the title alone, which implies a gimmicky plot and too modern a mindset for my preferences in historical romance, but it had hundreds of reviews and an average rating of 4 1/2 stars, so I gave it a shot. ( Spoilery review. )

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TV Show Meme, Day 27 - Best pilot episode

This one was a no brainer. Pilot episode of Arrested Development, hands down. I was raving about it to Jade back when I first saw it, calling it pretty much a perfect pilot episode. Usually, pilot episodes of TV shows are just... there. They establish the characters, are a bit awkward and clunky, and looking back on them brings enjoyment from nostalgia, but little else.

AD was not like that. From this very first episode the show was already completely in its element, knew what it wanted to be, and executed on that with serious skill. It not only did all the things that pilot episodes should do in establishing backstory, characters, etc., but managed to be hysterically funny almost the whole time, and did it in under 30 minutes. Most shows' characters take time to fully establish themselves and come into their own and develop character-specific personalities; not so with AD. From the outset the characters were completely fleshed out and wonderful.

It won a couple of Emmys for writing and directing, which is frankly amazing for a pilot episode. And so well deserved. I can't gush enough about how great a pilot it is. (And of course, a great show.)

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