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I ate food
and I watched Die Hard
a nice seasonal movie
though that 'wow, I can kill again!' moment at the end always winds me up
the expressions on the bad guys faces at the end - when he falls out the window and when the zombie guy tries to kill them - are absolutely hilarious

already today I watched 'Big trouble in little china'

is it me, or can American films only fit one ethnic minority in per movie? and then they have to have the exact same minority on both sides, so it isn't that they're *bad*, just *some* of them. And then the black guy beats up the black guy etc etc.
I guess its sort of progress, but...



One reason I want them to make a Ripper series over here is because I have in my head this idea for a show that contrasts the duality of Britain, the way it looks from inside and outside, the cliche vs the lived experience. Like, outside of England, the only accents people can have are public school or... whatever Spike talks like. Rough London sort of thing. Where are all the Norfolk lads?
The episode where the Watchers were testing Buffy, Checkpoint, did have one actual non-white person, the Asian guy. Which was cool. But it depresses me some days that I can sit in my library at college, in a town in the middle of Norfolk, which was not known for its ethnic diversity, and I can see more variety of people than I saw in one room on Buffy before season 7. And I have the vague impression that genre shows are more likely to go further for the ethnic mix thing. I mean Star Trek obviously deliberately designed the crew to be a bit of everyone, and so did SeaQuest, and most shows have at least the one black person. Sometimes at most the one, actually. And usually a black person. Hmmm.


okay, so that was me going off on one.
and not even a well informed one. I get into this stuff I should at least make a proper essay of it.

if I launch into the thing about 'and where's the equivalent of Die Hard only with his boyfriend being the hostage?' then I'll just run out of readers completely...

sorry

:)

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The Sentinel season 1 on DVD
yaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!

Ethan dream, kiss chase in space

Had a dream with Ethan in, which is always fun. Also it had a living ship, a singing ship, a bit like Moya from Farscape, but full of aristocrats and dancing and a military presence and a portable civilization. And while it did have a Pilot, I also had an empathic connection to it. And to Ethan. Who nicked a shuttle (which was like a mini Moya, too small to need a Pilot yet, but very elegant) and ran away, after getting me to jump us somewhere I think. And then he kept on jumping. He tried to lose us by jumping too close to a Sol type star, or at least too close for our vessel. He would have taken less damage. But my connection to him was such that it took me less than a second to feel where he'd jumped next, and we went as quick as could be. Once in the new place we had to dump some cargo, Left Luggage (all the left behind bits) and some of the less useful Luggage (belonging to all sorts of people). So I figured, with all that I could make a trap. So it got dropped and fell to a planet, in seed pod type things I think. And we followed in the other shuttle, me in charge, but with a bunch of military types there. I didnt have enough rank to be in charge in the normal way but everyone called me 'sir' and I was the boss of the plan. And sure enough once the big ship left Ethan came back to pick up the pretties.

He brought some Klingons as his crew.
To get away from them I had to spin a tale about the planet giving off a hallucinogenic gas. It showed everyone their own worst fear, or greatest humiliation (because using the f word to klingons, not so very much a good idea).
Someone pointed out I'd got no head bumpies.
Oh noes! Worst fear! They must have never grown! *gulp*
Why next thing they'd say I wasn't in uniform.
'Well, not the right uniform'
eeps! *hides, mortified*
(and doesn't get pulled apart by klingons that no longer know if they're hallucinating or not)
(that was funny)

So I get to Ethan again and its a grand and romantic reunion. He thought he was just conning me out of a shuttle, but I decided it was romantic, so he was stuck with me. Which had definite benefits.

Happy ending, ish.
When we got back to the living ship poor thing had blisters on its outsides. And then poor Ethan did too, since he'd put them there. Only it took Ethan longer to repair, and he was worse hurt.


There was also a whole sequence where the living ship became convinced that the whole kiss-and-run thing was an obscure part of the human mating ritual. Usually they just did it down the corridors, but being exceptional humans me and Ethan did things on a grand scale. This made the ship more forgiving than it otherwise might be, since mating was a complex and nigh uncontrollable situation for them.


Lots of fun that dream. I'm all smiles now.