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Come Close and Talk Fannish To Me
The way my schedule worked out this week (part chance, part because I worked on Saturday and had a family outing at too-fucking-early-o'clock on Sunday), I have today off, sans a few appointments.
So anybody in the mood to gab about fandom?
Things I have been into recently:
•Community (besides the ubiquitous Jeff/Annie, my interest is piqued in Abed/Annie, Abed/Britta, and Britta/Annie).
•The Vampire Diaries. I just rewatched the pilot last night and was filled with happiness and joy. And I remembered why I had the foolish belief back then when this show started that I could ship Good Girl/Good Vampire. Oh, to be so young and foolish.
•Harry Potter. I'm currently on the downhill slope of Goblet of Fire and Hermione is maintaining a high standard of awesome. (Also, I like Krum/Hermione more and more as time goes on. He was a famous Quiddich star! Who went for the brainy girl! Who tragically paid more attention to the Boy Who Lived and had a crush on her oblivious best friend! SPEND THE SUMMER IN BULGARIA, HERMIONE!)
•Anastasia! I rewatched that movie with my mom a couple of nights ago and it was a really good childhood flashback. (Mom: "Did they just blame the Russian revolution on magic? Did Dimitri and Anya just elope with no money?" Me: "I'm so glad you waited until I was older to nitpick like this. (But you're right, of course.)"
•*points to tag list* While some things I later end up disliking end up in my tag-system, that and my icons are a good way to see what things I at one point liked enough to believe I'd be talking about them more than once.
So anybody in the mood to gab about fandom?
Things I have been into recently:
•Community (besides the ubiquitous Jeff/Annie, my interest is piqued in Abed/Annie, Abed/Britta, and Britta/Annie).
•The Vampire Diaries. I just rewatched the pilot last night and was filled with happiness and joy. And I remembered why I had the foolish belief back then when this show started that I could ship Good Girl/Good Vampire. Oh, to be so young and foolish.
•Harry Potter. I'm currently on the downhill slope of Goblet of Fire and Hermione is maintaining a high standard of awesome. (Also, I like Krum/Hermione more and more as time goes on. He was a famous Quiddich star! Who went for the brainy girl! Who tragically paid more attention to the Boy Who Lived and had a crush on her oblivious best friend! SPEND THE SUMMER IN BULGARIA, HERMIONE!)
•Anastasia! I rewatched that movie with my mom a couple of nights ago and it was a really good childhood flashback. (Mom: "Did they just blame the Russian revolution on magic? Did Dimitri and Anya just elope with no money?" Me: "I'm so glad you waited until I was older to nitpick like this. (But you're right, of course.)"
•*points to tag list* While some things I later end up disliking end up in my tag-system, that and my icons are a good way to see what things I at one point liked enough to believe I'd be talking about them more than once.
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the vampire diaries pilot! but.. but.. it was so awful
It kind of is. I think I have a lot of affection for it because of Vicki (god I miss her) and the fact that I know how good it gets later.
i wanted her to seriously be with him for a while before she hooked up with ron.
Agreed so hard. One of the most unbelievable things in the books is how many people got married to their childhood sweethearts. It was ridiculous.
As for Anastasia... I think it would hold up to an older watcher. You have to ignore a lot of real history, but if you can do that and just look at it like a fun, action-y, banter filled rom-com, I bet you'd really enjoy it.
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vicki was fab. i gotta admit, i liked anna more, i loved the whole unrequited thing. :3 in general, the pilot gave me entirely the wrong impression of so many characters i grew to love though, like caroline. i loved that caroline was actually their friend, though, and not just some vapid bimbo device.
i could kinda fanwank that away, i mean i get why jkr did it, and book 6 and ron's and ginny's flings and that stuff was her way of getting any other potential romances they could have had out of the way so it wasn't just one person for them, but.. i guess that was one of the reasons i couldn't really get behind harry/ginny, it was too nice neat package.
i don't know much russian history, so it'd probably be fine for me. i have seen bits, but it's kinda like mulan for me where it's always on tv and i always catch certain bits. i've seen the last 10 minutes of mulan countless times, and yet the beginning not even once. i should probably remedy that.
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Reading comprehension fail!
loved that caroline was actually their friend, though, and not just some vapid bimbo device.
Agreed! I'm rewatching the series, and that's one thing I really love - how clearly they are all best friends, with all that entails.
And Mulan is also worth watching in its entirety.
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ohhh that's a really good idea to do that just before s2 starts! i mean caroline pointed out to elena and bonnie that they didn't tell her everything, and bonnie agreed, and told her and i didn't expect that at all, so hurray! i wonder if it's like that in the books... it was pretty much the only lj smith series i couldn't get into at all, i don't remember anything. in any case, LOVE. i hope caroline gets some self-esteem and gets to do a little kick-ass shit in s2, i adore her and matt, but it enrages me a little how much she has to do for the relationship and how he takes issue with stuff she does and says, when he's the one still majorly hung up on elena, and you know if elena was willing he'd go back to her in a heartbeat. eh. go caroline!
i watched anastasia with my friend a few days ago! i really gotta do mulan soon, too.
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As for Caroline and Matt - honestly, I'm not a fan of either of them, and I hate how the boys (Tyler, Matt, Jeremy) and freaking indestructible but the writers keep killing off characters that I love - Vicki, Lexie, Anna, Pearl.
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