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I should be in bed, but I stayed up watching a Boy Meets World marathon :S I love that show!!!
Today was actually really good. Disney Channel had this weekend where yesterday they had a "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" day--props on the very cool Cyndi Lauper-style title, but it involved Sabrina, That's So Raven, and the Cinderella sequel--only good parts were Lizzie marathon and Kim Possible. Today, on the other hand, was "Boys Will Be Boys"--and I loved everything on it except Atlantis. Fillmore marathon (I watched for a couple hours this morning), Even Stevens marathon, Mighty Ducks, Emperor's New Groove and Boy Meets World marathon. Booyah! I'm such a boy. The lunchbox I take to uni is one I bought in Boy's Gap in Tokyo.
I *jawdrops* had coffee with Tim!! It was awesome, we got to hang out for about an hour. Then Justin called tonight and was like "My friend ditched me and I'm dressed up, come have dinner with me" so he bought me dinner for my birthday, and then we played video games. Both boys freaked me out something rotten with their driving, and I did no study of any kind all day. Lots of Toblerone-eating too.
Fannish 5
1. What is your favorite death scene (movies and/or tv)? Why?
Doyle. Because it's about the only time a death in television has made me want to cry. It was brutal but brave and I absolutely and completely adore it.
2. Name the top three filmed death scenes of all time, in order. (The list doesn't necessarily have to include your favorite.)
Boromir in Lord of the Rings, because I loved that part in the book and it's just so cool in the movie--to me, Boromir was a very likeable character.
Tara, because it was short, there was no time for goodbyes--much like real life. It was sudden, and so completely shocking. And the mayhem caused by it is so amazing.
I'm putting Joyce in here as an honourable mention--not for her death itself, but because of its effects (so not so much the death scene as the episode The Body.)
And Jean-Paul Belmondo at the end of Breathless, because that's just damn cool.
Finally, I've always felt that watching the reactions of those left behind is much more moving than watching the actual death, I don't know whether or not that makes me insensitive. Like Joyce and Tara, or how Brian reacted after his father died. Things like that.
3. How many times has your favorite character died? Dream sequences can count. Who is it, and how did they die each time?
Snape hasn't, so screw that fandom...Spike's died once (and beensired, does that make twice?), Doyle's died once--both heroic, saving others, melting away to nothing. Quite similar, actually.. My other fandoms tend not to be big on bringing back the dead.
4. How do you, as a viewer, feel if a show kills, then resurrects a character?
I never think death is the end anymore because of Buffy. On television, anyone can come back, which makes it that much more potent to me when they stay dead *cough*806*cough*. Tara and Doyle's deaths still really affect me and are deeply moving and beautiful, whereas Spike and Buffy's are less so. They affected me at the time, though.
5. Death stories - love 'em or hate 'em? Can you give a two sentence reason?
I've written very well-written death fics--though I prefer it when someone outside the written pairing dies (hell, I've written a couple of them). I'd never say I hated an entire genre of fiction, but I don't like the melodramatic ones--if they get the right poignancy, they can be very good.
ETA: Somehow, my Nationstate,Slytherin Green, has ranked 2nd in my region and 12,333rd in the world for nudism. My friends will understand how strange that truly is.
Link of the day--Dude! It's Michael Rosenbuam.com!! So very cool.
Pics of the day, those new Resevoir Dogs hobbit pictures that have been making the rounds of the fandom, and a pressie from the aforementioned site.
This one kills me so dead. Billy and Dom, and Elijah dorking out at the front, and Sean's *foot*! He's surprisingly limber. Mmm, limber hobbits....Plus, Dom's gorgeous.
This is one I call Spot the Body Part, because between Dom and Elijah there seems to be some Billy parts and not all the parts seem to quite fit together, and it's all a bit weird. Still, quite a Domlijah type picture.
*reads the boys' comments on Lijah* I'm saying nothing. Nothing.
The dogs. It's funny how unconvincing they are, especially since they're actors, but they definitely looke terribly sexy. They keep shoving Sean off to the side at the back :( he looks really good, too, so it's kind of a shame. Beautiful boys, aren't they??
"So, in conclusion: watch, chocolate...cheese."
the wise words of Eric Matthews
Green Queen
Today was actually really good. Disney Channel had this weekend where yesterday they had a "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" day--props on the very cool Cyndi Lauper-style title, but it involved Sabrina, That's So Raven, and the Cinderella sequel--only good parts were Lizzie marathon and Kim Possible. Today, on the other hand, was "Boys Will Be Boys"--and I loved everything on it except Atlantis. Fillmore marathon (I watched for a couple hours this morning), Even Stevens marathon, Mighty Ducks, Emperor's New Groove and Boy Meets World marathon. Booyah! I'm such a boy. The lunchbox I take to uni is one I bought in Boy's Gap in Tokyo.
I *jawdrops* had coffee with Tim!! It was awesome, we got to hang out for about an hour. Then Justin called tonight and was like "My friend ditched me and I'm dressed up, come have dinner with me" so he bought me dinner for my birthday, and then we played video games. Both boys freaked me out something rotten with their driving, and I did no study of any kind all day. Lots of Toblerone-eating too.
Fannish 5
1. What is your favorite death scene (movies and/or tv)? Why?
Doyle. Because it's about the only time a death in television has made me want to cry. It was brutal but brave and I absolutely and completely adore it.
2. Name the top three filmed death scenes of all time, in order. (The list doesn't necessarily have to include your favorite.)
Boromir in Lord of the Rings, because I loved that part in the book and it's just so cool in the movie--to me, Boromir was a very likeable character.
Tara, because it was short, there was no time for goodbyes--much like real life. It was sudden, and so completely shocking. And the mayhem caused by it is so amazing.
I'm putting Joyce in here as an honourable mention--not for her death itself, but because of its effects (so not so much the death scene as the episode The Body.)
And Jean-Paul Belmondo at the end of Breathless, because that's just damn cool.
Finally, I've always felt that watching the reactions of those left behind is much more moving than watching the actual death, I don't know whether or not that makes me insensitive. Like Joyce and Tara, or how Brian reacted after his father died. Things like that.
3. How many times has your favorite character died? Dream sequences can count. Who is it, and how did they die each time?
Snape hasn't, so screw that fandom...Spike's died once (and beensired, does that make twice?), Doyle's died once--both heroic, saving others, melting away to nothing. Quite similar, actually.. My other fandoms tend not to be big on bringing back the dead.
4. How do you, as a viewer, feel if a show kills, then resurrects a character?
I never think death is the end anymore because of Buffy. On television, anyone can come back, which makes it that much more potent to me when they stay dead *cough*806*cough*. Tara and Doyle's deaths still really affect me and are deeply moving and beautiful, whereas Spike and Buffy's are less so. They affected me at the time, though.
5. Death stories - love 'em or hate 'em? Can you give a two sentence reason?
I've written very well-written death fics--though I prefer it when someone outside the written pairing dies (hell, I've written a couple of them). I'd never say I hated an entire genre of fiction, but I don't like the melodramatic ones--if they get the right poignancy, they can be very good.
ETA: Somehow, my Nationstate,Slytherin Green, has ranked 2nd in my region and 12,333rd in the world for nudism. My friends will understand how strange that truly is.
Link of the day--Dude! It's Michael Rosenbuam.com!! So very cool.
Pics of the day, those new Resevoir Dogs hobbit pictures that have been making the rounds of the fandom, and a pressie from the aforementioned site.
This one kills me so dead. Billy and Dom, and Elijah dorking out at the front, and Sean's *foot*! He's surprisingly limber. Mmm, limber hobbits....Plus, Dom's gorgeous.
This is one I call Spot the Body Part, because between Dom and Elijah there seems to be some Billy parts and not all the parts seem to quite fit together, and it's all a bit weird. Still, quite a Domlijah type picture.
*reads the boys' comments on Lijah* I'm saying nothing. Nothing.
The dogs. It's funny how unconvincing they are, especially since they're actors, but they definitely looke terribly sexy. They keep shoving Sean off to the side at the back :( he looks really good, too, so it's kind of a shame. Beautiful boys, aren't they??
"So, in conclusion: watch, chocolate...cheese."
the wise words of Eric Matthews
Green Queen
