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Mar. 7th, 2010 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreYou know, sometimes, following authors online can be a bad idea. Like, Rob Thurman's recent Fandom Wank adventure* made me remember that i stopped following her LJ when she talked about being surprised Starbuck peed sitting down (And I didn't even like the bit of BSG I saw, and disliked most of the characters, including Starbuck! I suspect that would have changed given the one later episode I was talked into watching for Snarky Evil Robot Xena, but this was before that.) and realize that's subconsciously probably why I haven't read her last few books yet, despite having had the fourth Leandros book for months.
But then there are the good ones, like Marie Brennan posting the first Alice in Wonderland review (spoilers) to make me want to see it again after the trailers started being more about Johnny Depp's creepy-looking Mad Hatter combined with Depp saying he didn't see what the big deal was about Polanski raping a 13-year-old since it was a while back and the guy's older and arried and not prowling the streets.**
Most positive reviews of the movie seem to barely mention Alice herself, and talk more about the actresses playing the queens than the characters in the movie (not that I'm not also fond of the actresses) and less-thrilled reviews have boiled down to "less weird Hatter, more battle armor Alice please." Based on what I've seen/heard and what Brennan did and didn't say, I suspect I'll still be annoyed by parts of it, but am more hopeful about seeing it now.
*And you know, I'm pretty sure most people want to support authors they like as much as possible (and I've followed enough authors online to know how important that first week after the release date is), but sometimes people just don't have the time/money to fit a new grabbed-right-at-the-bookstore-shelf book purchase within that preferred timeframe. Or it could be like here, where unless it's a big name or highly pushed author, you might see 5 copies at Wal-Mart the weekend before, and then wait 2-3 weeks for 70% of the new books you'd buy to show up at the one non-specialized bookstore in town.
**I guess rapists are only a problem if they're young, single, and grabbing little girls off the street that very second?
But then there are the good ones, like Marie Brennan posting the first Alice in Wonderland review (spoilers) to make me want to see it again after the trailers started being more about Johnny Depp's creepy-looking Mad Hatter combined with Depp saying he didn't see what the big deal was about Polanski raping a 13-year-old since it was a while back and the guy's older and arried and not prowling the streets.**
Most positive reviews of the movie seem to barely mention Alice herself, and talk more about the actresses playing the queens than the characters in the movie (not that I'm not also fond of the actresses) and less-thrilled reviews have boiled down to "less weird Hatter, more battle armor Alice please." Based on what I've seen/heard and what Brennan did and didn't say, I suspect I'll still be annoyed by parts of it, but am more hopeful about seeing it now.
*And you know, I'm pretty sure most people want to support authors they like as much as possible (and I've followed enough authors online to know how important that first week after the release date is), but sometimes people just don't have the time/money to fit a new grabbed-right-at-the-bookstore-shelf book purchase within that preferred timeframe. Or it could be like here, where unless it's a big name or highly pushed author, you might see 5 copies at Wal-Mart the weekend before, and then wait 2-3 weeks for 70% of the new books you'd buy to show up at the one non-specialized bookstore in town.
**I guess rapists are only a problem if they're young, single, and grabbing little girls off the street that very second?
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Date: 2010-03-08 01:57 am (UTC)I'm curious about the Starbuck thing, though. What was the context for that? Just that Starbuck was very masculine or something?
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Date: 2010-03-08 02:05 am (UTC)It definitely wasn't complimentary, though.
spoilers ahead? not more than the review itself
Date: 2010-03-08 08:18 am (UTC)The end of that review kind of bothered me a little, actually. Alice is essentially kidnapped to Wonderland, leaving behind a mother who loves her and a life she hasn't had a chance to begin to explore. I would have been left with a severely bad taste in my mouth if they had just left her happy in Wonderland. I don't consider 'she liked it in the end!' to be proper explanation for being ripped away from her family and life being presented as a happy ending. And, of course, Alice states that she'll return when she so desires -- on her terms -- satisfying the Wonderland-lover in me.