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and sundry (aka, movies and dragons)
Aug. 5th, 2014 10:18 pm1. I finally got around to watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I'm probably more likely to rewatch it independently than other MCU movies. I mean, I've enjoyed them all well enough, some more than others, and am fine with rewatching them when someone else wants to, but don't feel a need to just rewatch them just to rewatch. This was probably worse than Iron Man 3 in the "But where is everyone?" department, but at least this seemed to take place over a shorter period of time and not be as...publicized. I alos can't help but note that, when it comes to Steve-shipping, fandom's interest levels are directly inverse to in-movie interaction levels and relationship developments.
2. Speaking of movies, I actually encountered a movie that I'm embarassed to admit i watched, Tales of an Ancient Empire. Admittedly, I was mostly interested because I'd heard Kevin Sorbo was playing a character that was pretty much the anti-Hercules, but this movie...
Ok, so it's a Swords and Sorcery movie. The basic setup is that ancient evil put down by a hero 20 years ago wakes up and invades the kingdom. The princess of the kingdom learns that her father was actually said hero, and sets off to find him and get his help. (I mean, heaven forbid she try to take care of things herself, despite being one of only 2 competent people in the entire movie. Moving on...) Instead she finds her half brother (Sorbo) who is a relatively useless conartist, and they go off to collect their OTHER half-sisters to get their help in finding their father. Up to this point, it's entertainingly bad despite the healthy doses of misogyny. But this is, really, a pretty straightforward, 3-part story.
Part 1: Find your siblings and go off to finding missing heroic father.
Part 2: Locate said father, yell at him for being a deadbeat manslut, have family bonding adventures, get back to kingdom.
Part 3: Defeat evil, win back kingdom.
Except Part one takes up 3/4s of the movie. After that, either the writers realized how incredibly awful the movie was, or they decided to make an odd stylistic choice, because the rest of the plot is mostly narrative voiceovers, with only a few scenes actually being filmed. IDK.
3. Flight Rising remains my happy internet place. The July festival was kind of frustrating because I only got about 1/3 the currency and 1/2 the chests I did in the June festival, but I did get enough currency to buy a bunch of golems, and went all in for building apparel for a few dragons around them. Most of said dragons are named for shounen heroines. Bonus fandom points if you recognize all of them.
( cut for dragons )
4. Still on the subject of Flight Rising, I've been donating a lot of dragons to Light's dominance raffle. I'm rather curious to see how the approach to the raffle works. Instead of lumping the dragon prizes and prizepacks together, they're listing the dragons separately, so that you can buy them with raffle tickets. On Sunday, I was vowing to NOT buy the dragons and to build up tickets for the prizepacks, intending to use the raffle to clear out my lair a bit, but by last night, i'd purchased a dragon and now have 3.
But, I mean, look at the cuties:
( cut for more dragons )
I do think that the guaranteed return (I mean, on top of getting paid for the exalt dragons, of course) makes me more inclined to just buy dragons off AH and train them, even though I only end up a few kT richer for it.
5. I haven't watched much of this season's anime yet because I haven't been in the mood for subtitles. I have, however, watched and liked the first few episodes of Ao Haru Ride, Barakamon, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, and Glasslip, as well as the first episodes of Sabagebu! and Sailor Moon Crystal. There are a couple others I still intend too check out. BTW, is there actually new material in the Psycho Pass: Extended Edition, or is it just the original series repackaged?
2. Speaking of movies, I actually encountered a movie that I'm embarassed to admit i watched, Tales of an Ancient Empire. Admittedly, I was mostly interested because I'd heard Kevin Sorbo was playing a character that was pretty much the anti-Hercules, but this movie...
Ok, so it's a Swords and Sorcery movie. The basic setup is that ancient evil put down by a hero 20 years ago wakes up and invades the kingdom. The princess of the kingdom learns that her father was actually said hero, and sets off to find him and get his help. (I mean, heaven forbid she try to take care of things herself, despite being one of only 2 competent people in the entire movie. Moving on...) Instead she finds her half brother (Sorbo) who is a relatively useless conartist, and they go off to collect their OTHER half-sisters to get their help in finding their father. Up to this point, it's entertainingly bad despite the healthy doses of misogyny. But this is, really, a pretty straightforward, 3-part story.
Part 1: Find your siblings and go off to finding missing heroic father.
Part 2: Locate said father, yell at him for being a deadbeat manslut, have family bonding adventures, get back to kingdom.
Part 3: Defeat evil, win back kingdom.
Except Part one takes up 3/4s of the movie. After that, either the writers realized how incredibly awful the movie was, or they decided to make an odd stylistic choice, because the rest of the plot is mostly narrative voiceovers, with only a few scenes actually being filmed. IDK.
3. Flight Rising remains my happy internet place. The July festival was kind of frustrating because I only got about 1/3 the currency and 1/2 the chests I did in the June festival, but I did get enough currency to buy a bunch of golems, and went all in for building apparel for a few dragons around them. Most of said dragons are named for shounen heroines. Bonus fandom points if you recognize all of them.
( cut for dragons )
4. Still on the subject of Flight Rising, I've been donating a lot of dragons to Light's dominance raffle. I'm rather curious to see how the approach to the raffle works. Instead of lumping the dragon prizes and prizepacks together, they're listing the dragons separately, so that you can buy them with raffle tickets. On Sunday, I was vowing to NOT buy the dragons and to build up tickets for the prizepacks, intending to use the raffle to clear out my lair a bit, but by last night, i'd purchased a dragon and now have 3.
But, I mean, look at the cuties:
( cut for more dragons )
I do think that the guaranteed return (I mean, on top of getting paid for the exalt dragons, of course) makes me more inclined to just buy dragons off AH and train them, even though I only end up a few kT richer for it.
5. I haven't watched much of this season's anime yet because I haven't been in the mood for subtitles. I have, however, watched and liked the first few episodes of Ao Haru Ride, Barakamon, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, and Glasslip, as well as the first episodes of Sabagebu! and Sailor Moon Crystal. There are a couple others I still intend too check out. BTW, is there actually new material in the Psycho Pass: Extended Edition, or is it just the original series repackaged?