Just watched “A View To A Kill” on the telly. It was one of the first Bond movies I ever saw, and I remembered it as fairly good. I was wrong. Kinda.
Because the plot’s not all that bad. Christopher Walken is excellent as the villain, a former KGB agent named Zorin. He wants to flood [...]
Archive for March, 2007
A View To A Kill
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Watched “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery” last night (I write this around noon on March 31), and it was surprisingly fun.
I mean, it’s as silly as a goose, about as deep as a puddle, and less original than a regular family sit-com, but it’s meant to be silly, it’s meant to be shallow, and [...]
Astonishing X-men: Gifted (and Dangerous)
Wow. I just read Whedon’s first X-Men story again, and boy, is it great. (“Just read” of course meaning just before writing this, not just before posting it.)
Sure, it obviously builds on a lot of continuity of which I know approximately squat, but it still manages to pull me in and move me. Like the [...]
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It — AS5×22 Not Fade Away
That’s it. The end. And what an end it was.
By the time Angel said, “Well, personally, I’ve always wanted to slay a dragon,” I was sobbing — half laughing with joy, half crying from grief. Where the ending of “Chosen” just left me with a general feeling of relief and joy, where the only things [...]
The Plot Thickens — AS5×21 Power Play
If I’m not mistaken, ”power play” is a hockey term, and describes the situation when one team has one of its players in the penalty box, meaning that the other team has the benefit of having one player more on the field. Or ice. Or whatever it’s called. Thus, it is a fitting title for [...]
Some downtime…
… has prevented me from posting the last couple of days. So some of the next couple of posts are a day or two old…
2007-03-29 — Quote of the Day
“Honor is to be trusted. Fortune is to be shared. Else, what are we?”
- Keltil the Gaul,
“The Druid King” by Norman Spinrad.
Wee! “New” webcomic! =D
I’ve browsed it a few times earlier, and been sttruck by its simplistic beauty, but I’ve never sat down to read substantial quantities of it before. I should have. Because this is really incredible stuff.
a softer world. check it out.
Also, there’s a section there where the maker of “a softer world” writes these awesome work [...]
The Second Fake Buffy — AS5×20 The Girl In Question
I never quite know what to make of the main Angel and Spike plot of this episode. While being indubitably entertaining and nicely fan indulging, I feel like it would have fitted better earlier in the season, perhaps not too long after “Destiny”. Why? Because the previous episode ended on such a dark note, with [...]
Oooh, looksie! An Organic Time machine! — AS5×19 Time Bomb
Wow. These past two seasons have been a roller coaster. Not in the meaning of greatly varying quality, but more in the sense that they have been continuously entertaining and good — thrilling all the way, with lots of ups and downs, emotionally and atmospherically speaking.
As you’ve probably guessed, I think this applies to this [...]
“I learned that from my father” — AS5×18 Origin
Geez, this is an awesome continuity episode!
Not satisfied with just locking Sahjahn (who’s always cool by the way) in an urn, the Creators had to bring closure to his part of the story, as well as do the same for Connor. After all, they can’t have the poor boy out there all by himself, brainwashed [...]
Maybe Suburbia’s Hell After All — AS5×17 Underneath
Although not on par with the last couple of episodes, there’s no denying that this, too, is very good television. There’s a lot of dialogue, and not all that much action to speak of (with the notable exceptions of Uzi Insanity and the Chain Gang Demon), something which it seems like the writers and Joss [...]
Truly Fredless — AS5×16 Shells
Another great episode.
Illyria has awoken from her death-sleep, and upon learning that humans rule the Earth she sets out to revive her “army of doom” (a big yay for cheese! ). Lots of nice scenes related to this discovery of hers, as Wes is there and attempts to talk her into going back to [...]
2007-03-28 — Quote of the Day
“You want to take my power. To let me live. But I am my power. And I would rather be a titanic crater than to be like onto you.”
- Illyria,
“Angel”
There Really IS, You Know — AS5×15 A Hole In The World
First of all, I have to admit that I feel ashamed. This has the simple reason that I haven’t cried like this since the second time I watched Tara’s death, in spite of all the great emotional episodes I’ve watched since. But naturally, I have an excuse, and that is that barring perhaps NFA, there’s [...]
The Grumpiest Little Puppet In The Whole Wide World — AS5×14 Smile Time
Where to begin?
I think, that I might actually beging with the best part of the episode, which is spite of the hilarity of the Angel plot is the very last scene, and the preceeding scenes which lead up to this one. Because this, this is where what I have been waiting for since the end [...]
2007-03-27 — Quote of the Day
“You can learn a lot in a small dark room. Don’t let anyone tell you different.”
- Ulfnog,
“Neverwinter Nights”.
300
Just got back home from watching “300“, and even though I thought it was an extremely fun movie, there were times when the “over the top” parts went so far over the top that they fell down the otehr side.
This was most notably the case with all the speeches and dramatic declarations — all of [...]
2007-03-26 — Quote of the Day
“Feather Witch, the question of what is deserved should rarely, if ever, be asked. Asking it leads to deadly judgement, and acts of unmitigated evil. Atrocity revisited in the name of justice breeds its own atrocity.”
— Udinaas,
“Midnight Tides” by Steven Erikson.
The Submarine Analogy — AS5×13 Why We Fight
I’ve gotta catch a bus in a few minutes, so this’ll be a short one.
First of all, it was fun to see how almost all of Lawson’s lines could be read as comments on life at W&H: Lots of stuff about evil, fighting, and stuff like that. I’m a little too stressed now to remember [...]
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