I seem to have this thing going on where I can’t write my original novel and write fanfiction at the same time. Am up to chapter six on the Novel, and am enjoying myself immensely. But feel awful about the fanfiction. :(
On a more upbeat note, sugarquill.net is back up, and there was much rejoicing. :D
I’m not sure why, but I think I’m in love with the Collectormania forums. Alright, so there’s the odd bit of bickering, but it’s just so much fun. Despite the fact I lurk. :)
Not long till CM6, yay! I would like to thank the powers of fate for having Milton Keynes be (almost) just down the road from me.
(D’ya know, it’s suddenly struck me how few non-angsty icons I have…)
-Saw Remus and Sirius in London. I’m not kidding. They looked exactly like them. I was like ‘OMG they escaped from Grimmauld Place, took Remus’s Muggle camera and went to the park in the rain! Eee!’ Except, obviously, not out loud.
-In case you were wondering what I was doing in London, my family were going to the National Maritime Museum. Which is quite a cool place, really.
-I got poisoned by eating some sausages at a service station on the way back. I felt sick for three days, and am never going to eat at a service station again. Well, maybe if they have a Burger King. I am well aware that that sentence sounds thoroughly wrong, especially coming from someone who really shouldn’t eat junk food because it does all sorts of awful things to her.
-Have spent far, far too much time making icons and need to finish fanfiction. Am slowly becoming resigned to the fact that I will be an old, old woman before the GST is finished.
-Read the first six or so pages of the Thunderbirds catergory at ff.net. It is probably a sign of how much I’ve been corrupted by fandom that I’m suprised no-one has slashed the Tracy brothers yet.
-Speaking of fandom, Sugarquill is down. I am Good-fic-less.
-Have done my homework for sixth form, proving I am not a lazy git after all. (Just mostly). Have just remembered that for my Personal Introduction, under ‘marital status’ I put ‘Very, very, very single’. Must go back and change it. Preferbly before I print it out.
-I have no willpower. I’m going to make more icons. I wanted to enter hp_chorus this week, anyway.
-Oh, and because it doesn’t have many people entering, I’m going to plug sm_chorus. Go. Now.
-And fandom_goodness. I’m hoping all this contact plugging isn’t actually defeating the original point of it.
So…anyway. Went to see Thunderbirds today. Yeah, bit late, I know…
-Y’know, just once, I want to see a geeky girl be a) a good guy and b) win.
-The kids were seriously sterotypical…y’know, hero/smart girl/nerd. (Incidently, this reminds me an awful lot of what Steve Kloves is attempting to do with HP, if you subsitute ‘nerd’ with ‘comic relief’) It’s a bit annoying, but eh.
-I can’t help but wish we got more backstory. I like backstory. And we didn’t really get very much…
-Heh, Lady Penelope ownz this movie. (although why did her and the smart girl keep holding hands and grinning at each other? o.O?)
-On the ending…I was sort of hoping that the ending would be Alan’s dad telling him he has to go back to school, but when he comes back he can be a Thunderbird, and this time he agrees…but that didn’t happen. Eh. I know he learns a lesson in the movie (namely saving Ben Kingsley from a grinding metal something despite not wanting to) but I’m not sure if it was the same lesson he was supposed to be setting out to learn. Especially since, as far as I remember, in the end scene he’s still not listening to his father, so I guess that hasn’t really changed much. Oh well. Will probably rent it on DVD or something when it’s out, so I can see if there’s anything I missed.
(thoughts edited in next day, because I do that all the time too)
-Thiinking about it a little more, maybe what the filmmakers were trying to go for was that Alan really just wanted the excitement of being a Thunderbird, and didn’t really think about the whole saving-people thing, but by the end he’s figured that it’s about the people (even if you’d rather not save them) and not about the nifty flying things. I think. Like I said, I’ll have to watch it again really.
-Speaking of the nifty flying things, aka the Thunderbirds themselves, I want one. We used to have a bunch of little metal Thunderbird toys. *sniffle* I think it’s possible that the little Thunderbird 4 met an early end in the goldfish pond.
-I wish they’d actually developed the other Tracy brothers. They didn’t really do much, and you can hardly tell them apart. It could’ve been really interesting…they could’ve taken out the whole Alan/smart girl suplot, since it really didn’t go anywhere, and made some room for the others…what I’d’ve have done was maybe have one of the boys (Okay, yeah, I’ll admit I know very few of the names) think that maybe the Thunderbirds should be seeking more glory since from what I remember no-one actually knows who’s flying those things, and then you could have whoever’s the second-youngest sympathise more with Alan while everyone else reckons he’s just a whiny teen, and…so on. It could’ve been interesting, and besides, just following the kids got annoying after a while.
-Although I did like that Alan and Brains’s kid actually started off as friends, because usually in those movies it’s all ‘hero doesn’t appreciate nerdy kid, hero picks on nerdy kid, hero and nerdy kid slowly become friends over course of the movie’ What was his name, anyway? Fermat? I’m going to have to watch the TV show eventually and see who was in the movie that wasn’t in that, and vice versa. I’m fairly sure the other kids weren’t, but I could be wrong.
-I really think too much about kid’s movies. I’m fairly sure this one no-one planned for anyone to think too much about. Heh.
Probably won’t buy it on DVD (dude, I won’t be able to afford it…current DVD want-list is POA, Spiderman2, and ROTK special edition) but I’ll probably rent it. And see if I can find the old videos of the TV show, since I know they’re around here somewhere…
So, in conclusion: it had a bunch of flaws but I liked it.
Random thingy: We used to go to Cleethorpes for our holiday every year. At the beach there, they had some blue amphibian trucks that would ride people out to the sea. They were called the Funderbirds. :) There were two. They were nifty.
I swear, I’m going to go back and redo all my movie reviews one day. This bullet-point format thing bugs me.
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