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"Underworld" is kind of blah. Vampires fighting werewolves, that should be fun. But there werewolves had a whole claymation hyena thing going on, so blah. And it was so simplified. By the end of the film, she wasn't choosing between love and vengeance, which would have been cool. She was simply discovering that, wow, love and vengeance now point the same way! Been wrong for centuries! Oops.

If they'd have left it as Viktor saved her from werewolves, we would have some ambiguity, and actual choice. As it was, she got 100% pulled around by circumstance, and it was therefore very boring.

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Yeah, this one isn't so likely to get rewatched much.



I much prefer television. Time to get stuck in to setting up the whys and wherefors.

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In the mail today: PWFC sends new shiny pretty pictures
Peter Wingfield pretty :)
happy :-D

Tru Calling eps 1-8 +9 +11

Been watching Tru Calling all day
first two discs.
Turns out she annoys me in early eps just as much as she did first time through.
Also, the one with the fake domestic violence pisses me off still.
But once it gets to the one where she thinks she is the suspect, aside from it being blindingly obvious who the real one is, I somehow stopped being so annoyed at her.
And it just had an episode that made me cry. Again, it was obvious from the outset how it was going to end, because the shape of the story was about how saving a life for a few hours has just as much point as saving it for years, but it was still damn depressing.

They get a little preachy, all in a row. There's the one with the fireman, where he asked for help but not because he was dead just because he hadn't saved the girl on the way. And there's the one with the guy that just wanted to say goodbye. And its all about Tru's issues, which is how they get an emotional through line even with all the mysteries being seperate. But all in a row at once, it gets kind of... Like, I've had enough of Tru's issues, and the consequent her being the center of the world. Like, there should be a time when its just about saving some lives, and not her moral advancement. Or otherwise its like the universe is laying it all on for her benefit, you know? Which is among the meta reasons I find the character annoying.

I decided to buy them around the time she found out there was an evil leaper, because then it got cool. Chess match, conscious opposition, alternate point of view. Like the guy honestly believes that the dead go on to a better place, and having that belief it looks kind of selfish to go around keeping them alive. Interesting.

I'm not a big fan of fate though. No fate but what you make. So I like seeing how everything collides and butterflies and then there is an ending. I wouldn't like it if someone decided 'fate' for a reason. Like 'Dead Like Me' kind of said that everyone has a time to die and if they miss it they rot. Ick. But that way up is fate, and annoying. Even though I liked a lot of aspects of that show. This way around is all about choice, and therefore yaay. But I worry.



Basically, death sucks, so watching her beat death every week has consistent pleasures.

But... also the contrariwise thing, where she gets a do-over but RL never does. That part kind of sucks.




ETA: 9th episode
Starts off with just the kind of random save I was thinking needed to happen
good timing.

But the best part:

Davis: I can't work on live people, they freak me out.

Explains *so much*.

He's just so cuddly. Also, his date question is if she's a Lord of the Rings fan.
Cute!

But beardy.

Also, I bet he smells funny. I don't know why I think that, but I do.


ETA2: 'The Longest Day': *ouch*
I mean, I can see it, see those choices and that working. Though I hate the 'fate' word I guess I can work around it and assume that Tru isn't the only one gets foreknowledge and a choice.
But that ending? *ouch*