I'd Tap That As Fast As A Rock Dropping Off A Cliff

[redbrunja]

Sci-Fi Class was canceled, which gives me the chance to catch up on Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich (which sucks, fyi) and write my make up essay for Graphic Novels.

Eyes are about to bleed and I'm bored.

So....


A game of cliff, shag, or marry!

(Where you give me three people and I pick who I'd shag, who I'd marry, and who I'd push off a cliff.)

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Zuko, Simon Tam, Weevil.

It comes down to who's prettiest.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's hard.

Cliff: Weevil. I'm sorry, but you're short, and have too many tats.

Shag: Zuko. Preferably with season 2, pre-Ba Sing Se hair.

Marry: Simon.

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Just to put a little crimp in that: Consider the fact that with his powers and the fact that his sheer angst is a survival skill, Zuko would probably find a way to be OK if he were the one to get pushed off a cliff, leaving him free for future shagging and marrying.

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

This is true. However, considering Zuko, do you think I'd get a shot at marrying/shagging him? ...oh, wait, I'm confusing him with Katara.

Oh, and for you: Harry Dresden, Will Turner and Prince Zuko.

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Well, as discussed, I figure Zuko would be ok if we tossed him off a cliff. Plus, it would add to the angst. He's too young for me, anyway.

Harry Dresden is yummy, but has unhealthy levels of angst. plus, his last girlfriend was turned into a vampire. Therefore, a fling.

Will Turner is 100% the marrying kind, and would be a great husband/father if it weren't for that silly curse. And I am sticking with the original canon (before they decided they might want a 4th movie, and needed a plot for it) that says the curse is broken because Elizabeth was waiting for him.

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Wise choices.

...wait, they're thinking of making a fourth movie?

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

That's the rumor. I don't think it's confirmed yet. I figure if it doesn't happen, we'll have an extended edition changing the curse back to the way it originally was. (It would make sense, though, we had a "save "Elizabeth" and a "save Jack" movie, as well as an "everyone runs around the Caribbean looking for each other" movie...why not add a "save Will" movie to the mix? I wish they'd just left it as "Elizabeth was waiting for Will and the curse was broken and Jack and Barbossa spent the next 40 years stealing The Black Pearl from each other.)

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Well, since I think the series took a nose dive post CoTB and only returned to good with AWE, I'm not totally thrilled about that news.

Although you calling the first movie the "Save Elizabeth" movie reminded me of how much I liked Elizabeth seemed to rescue herself a bit, and then went back to rescue Will. No wilting flower she.

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

See, the thing people miss is that there is nothing inherently WRONG with a Damsel in Distress. DiDs are perfectly decent characters and plot elements. The problem is that both audiences and creators assume that DiDs will never do anything but sit around and wait to be rescued. (Ever watch Gundam Wing? In the post-series movie, the heroine literally sits there and lets a kid half her size rants at her and never even thinks about saving herself, she just waits for the hero to save her.) There are many, many perfectly decent DiDs who, even if they can't quite save themselves, at least make things difficult for their kidnappers, and sometimes even turn things around. Look at Princess Bride. That thing is the ultimate "hero saves damsel in distress...a lot" movie, yet Buttercup, though no fighter, makes things utterly miserable for her various kidnappers, including pushing one down a mountain(only to then realize he was the supposedly-dead true love and send herself tumbling after, but that's not the point.) It's not the character type(even if, like Elizabeth, they move far beyond that) it's what you do with it.

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

That is a good point.

(Ever watch Gundam Wing? In the post-series movie, the heroine literally sits there and lets a kid half her size rants at her and never even thinks about saving herself, she just waits for the hero to save her.)

*winces*

And I have to say, while Buttercup does do her best, she also really annoys me - the heroine DiD should be really effective at fighting back - and it's not that what Elizabeth did was so different, but that after she was rescued she didn't really do anything, while Elizabeth continued running around doing things.

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I've always though Buttercup was supposed to annoy us somewhat. The whole thing is a rip into the traditional fairy tale. The handsome prince is the villain, the castle guards are weenies, the prince's right-hand-man is essentially a sadist. Flipside: the hero is a pirate, his sidekicks are loer criminals, and the princess is a commoner and, instead of being purely pleasant and angelic(and totally lacking in all signs of personality), is a bit of a cold bi***(but at least she has a personality). It also follows the format very, very strictly, which means the DiD must wait to be rescued yet again...but she can still make the evil prince's life a pain just by being her demanding self.

[renegadekitsune.livejournal.com]

Haru, Dokugakuji, Thomas Raith.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Cliff: Thomas (He really never did much for me.)
Shag: Doku - bet he'd be good, and I... I'm feeling lazy right now - I just want sex without having to deal with all this issues.
Marry: Haru - he's issue-free, and hot, and would be a good husband and father, if genetics is anything to go by. By the 'stache would have to go.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

"Cliff: Thomas (He really never did much for me.)"

The funny thing is that he's one of the extremely, extremely rare "I am a tragic vampire with a doomed love" characters who I don't want to drown. or stake. Or otherwise put out of my misery.

(But Harry's way better.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

You know, I really didn't have much respect for either Thomas or Justine with how that whole arc played out, which I think is a lot of the reason that Thomas leaves me cold.

And yeah, when your big brother is way, way more awesome than you are...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Actually, there are really significant developments as far as Thomas and Justine go in the latest book. I went from not caring about her one way or the other to actually kind of liking and respecting her.

Isn't Thomas the older of the two? By a lot?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Um, probably. It's been a while, my grasp on canon is quite shaky.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

You did an admirable job.

Cliff: Pakku. He's old, plus I don't think he'd gotten over his chauvanist opinions.
Shag: Mai. I bet she'd had a lot of practice with Azula.
Marry: Jet. Give him something productive and violent to do, and he'd a.) be decent b.) give himself killed

As for you... Azula, Zhao, and Gyatsu.

(And thank you - I find this icon hilarious too.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Nice choices!

As Megatron once said, I can respect treachery as long as it's competent.

*snicker* Yes.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, so easy.

Cliff: Chan. (I've know guys like that, and for as petty and juvanille as Azula & co were being, I am sure he's done more than enough to deserve it.)

Shag: Jin. (Is this the girl with the whip, or one of the girls Zuko 'dated'?)

Marry: Sokka. Smart, funny, protective yet has grown out of his chuvanism at sixteen?

Hells, yes.

Hmmm, Sokka, Zuko, and Jet.