Apr. 20th, 2014

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...this movie continues to find new ways to horrify and charm me in equal measure. For one thing, I will never get over just how cute Anthony Mackie/Sam looks when he's threatening Sitwell. No reason, he's just adorable when he calls himself the good looking guy in the sunglasses.

On the other hand, the scene with Bucky and Pierce finds new ways to nauseate me and send me into creeped-out rage with each rewatch. Pierce's bullshit speech about helping HYDRA shape the world disturbs me more and more each time, mostly because he knows it doesn't mean anything to the (un)person he's saying it to, and the, I don't know, call it arrogance? with which he says it disturbs me.

My parents both liked it, which was a pleasant surprise. I figured my mother would, but my dad did as well, and given his propensity to hate anything remotely speculative in his fiction, it was great that he didn't this time.

Not much to say, really. Happy Easter, to anyone reading this who celebrates it, and Happy 420 to anybody who celebrates that.

In other news, Dreamwidth doesn't have a mood setting for over-caffeinated, and I still don't know how to put entries under a cut tag. Bother.
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So apparently Lawrence Miles actually consulted Alan Moore in his writing of The Adventuress of Henrietta Street. Moore was apparently offended.

The essay's quite interesting though, in examining Miles's attempts to rewrite the Doctor Who mythos in the wake of The Ancestor Cell. And while I'd had no idea that he that got that angry over Moffatt's not-so-subtle cribbing of plot material, it fits with his history of histrionics when comes to other people Writing Doctor Who Wrong.

Ye gods, the nineties were a weird time to be a fan.

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