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28 Years Later

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I first got into 28 Days Later as a wee teenager. I wasn’t 18 yet when I watched it, and yet it was an 18-rated movie, so that was a bit naughty of me. (My parents had very strict rules about movie ratings.) I watched it at a friend’s house who was much more relaxed about that sort of thing.

I loved it so much, and really appreciated its feminist themes. It was THE zombie movie for me.

However, I didn’t think there ever needed to be a sequel, so when I got around to watching 28 Weeks Later I hated it. But YEARS later! The new sequel pulled me in with its amazing trailer:


And I was dying to see it since the moment they started reciting “Boots” like it was a manic war cry. So did it live up to the hype, and I was very hyped? YES IT DID!

Okay, I know this film is divisive. I get it. It’s not for everyone. But I LOVED it. It was completely balls-to-the-wall insane, just how I like my movies. Here are some thoughts in bullet-point form, with SPOILERS:

-kudos to the marketing for making it seem like Ralph Fiennes’ character was a bad guy, only to have him turn out to be an unambiguous (if a little kooky) good guy. He was my favourite character.

-“Boots” made it to the movie as well! The trailer made me obsessed with that poem.

-Alfie Williams is amazing! Between him and Owen Cooper in Adolescence it’s really been a good year for young male British actors coming out of nowhere and blowing everyone away.

-The Alpha chase under the starry sky is an AMAZING sequence.

-I was told Erin Kellyman was in this movie… she is not in this movie. Maybe the sequel? (Which is coming in January!)

Lastly: Absolutely NOTHING can prepare you for the ending of this movie. It had me staring in slack-jawed “did they really go there?!” amusement-horror. I don’t think non-Brits will get the same effect but for Brits of a certain age there’s not enough WTF in the world for that scene.

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lizardsfromspace:

When Gatwa Who started, it was pitched as such a fresh start, such a good jumping-on point that it wasn’t series 14 of New Who, it was series 1 of a brand new third incarnation of Doctor Who

Quickly it became, in an arc sense, by far the most continuity-obsessed incarnation of modern Who. And there’s a superfan tendency to laugh and celebrate this but no, it really is a bad decision to make so much of the emotional resonance of a show whose ratings are lower than ever, and at a point being pitched to casual fans as a *soft reboot*, depend on characters and story arcs from decades ago. It’s an self-destructive decision. At the end of the day, did RTD have any ideas for what he wanted to do with Doctor Who, or did he just have a checklist of fanboy elements he wished he could’ve included the first time around

the most recent doctor who

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Oh Who, you make it so hard to love you sometimes. WTF was that episode? WTF was that regeneration? Bringing back an old actor to play the Doctor works once and only once. Why waste the Rani like that? What happened to Susan??? She was right there???

SUCH A MESS. Ncuti Gatwa was great, what drove him away? I’m sure there’s a story there and I’m wondering how long it will be before we know it.

It was good to see Thirteen again but that was the sole redeeming feature of the episode. Everything else was awful. Did they really make another female character a mother without her consent? (See also: Amy Pond.) Why does Conrad get a happy ending when being kicked to death would’ve been too good for him. What have you done. What have you DONE, RUSSELL

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glittergoon:

ciannaaaaa:

ciannaaaaa:

Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

She’s so one dimensionally evil you guys 😭😭 how is she real

We cannot let this wretched, wicked billionaire prevail. Here are a few UK-based organizations I found online that work to support our transgender brothers and sisters.

Galop

  • Charity supporting “LGBT+ people who have experienced abuse and violence.” Also offers support to friends, family, and professionals.
  • Support services include emotional and medical support, help navigating the criminal justice system, and information on emergency housing

Gender Identity Research & Education Society (GIRES)

  • “UK-wide organisation whose purpose is to improve the lives of trans and gender diverse people of all ages, including those who are non-binary and non-gender.”
  • Maintains a directory of regional groups.

Mermaids

  • Charity that “supports transgender, non-binary and gender-diverse children and young people, as well as their families and professionals involved in their care.”
  • Runs regional support groups.

TransActual UK,

  • A “national, trans led and run organisation focused specifically on working for trans adults in the UK” with a focus on advocating for and empowering trans people in the areas of healthcare and legal protections.

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eye-may:

master and padawan antics between qui-gon jinn and his dutiful pupil obi-wan kenobi. raising a padawan hand selected by the cosmos to suffer inordinately aint much but it’s honest work

this is a (kind of) redraw of something I did years ago. a collage of qui-gon showing how much he cares for obi-wan for my own catharsis. Im not linking or showing the old one because I genuinely need people to stop perceiving it <3

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