Grr.

[lesmisloony]

I still have a thousand more words to do tonight but I DON'T WANT TO.

I saw Madagascar 2 today.  It was adorable.  Almost as wonderful as the first one.

The Merlin CIN thing was REALLY AMAZING.  The dl description was "Camelot is attacked by a one-eyed bear; Merlin gets pelted by vegetables and felt up by Arthur... again."  Hilarious.  I think I'm going to need a Merlin tag before too long. 

(No progress bar because I'll presumably type another 1000 words before I go to sleep.  I've done nearly eight hundred thus far.  Yeesh.)

ETA: Screw it.  I still need about eight hundred more, but I'm just burnt out.  I have work tomorrow.  As long as there's not a massive matinee crowd for James Bond I should be able to get plenty done.  And anyway, I want to watch Firefly.  Because the characters are all cliche thus I'm only really interested in the shepherd, but somehow I can't stop watching.  Is it brilliant or is it terrible?  I just don't know.  And anyway, if I thought "I think you may have a problem with your brain being missing" was funny, that was before I saw "Dear Diary... today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.  Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."  Also, unexpected!Zac Efron for the WTF!

ETA again: Jaynestown!  Shepherd!  Hair!  Kaylee!  Simon!  Yay.

Comments

[evewithanapple.livejournal.com]

(UST you say? Hmm. And it's totally different! Because Robin Hood has . . . Anjali Jay, and . . . Harry Lloyd, and . . . I'm sure there's an argument for quality somewhere)

No, it makes sense. I like some characters more than others (Inara bores me, Jayne . . . meh, Kaylee gets progressively more annoying, and Mal's fairly stereotypical) but I guess what drew me in is the sense of family they have, and how you can tell they all care for each other in different ways. Although I never cared for Mal/Inara; between being mutually indifferent to the characters and not seeing any chemistry, I just never got invested in them. Some of the actors are better than others, too.

What about River? She's a fairly polarizing character in fandom, but you haven't mentioned what you think of her.

[lesmisloony.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I haven't really formed an opinion on River. I definitely don't dislike her. In fact, I worried about her during that one episode... where they almost set fire to her... and her rearranging the Bible and fearing the shepherd's hair was very endearing. I don't know how I feel about the psychic thing and the random Cockney moment, but I'm assuming we'll learn more as we progress?

I'm really fond of most of the characters despite their being flat/cliche/uninteresting/weird at delivering lines. The captain is probably my least favourite, but I'm still a bit worried whenever he's in peril. You're definitely right about the feeling of family; I think that's probably the main reason I'm still watching. That and it's COWBOYS in SPACE.