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Alice x 23
BOSS x 16
Chuno x 48
Mei-chan no Shitsuji x 28
Meitantei no Okite x 14
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency x 19
Rose of Versailles x 32
Spartacus: Blood and Sand x 18
icons @ my lj
Alice x 23
BOSS x 16
Chuno x 48
Mei-chan no Shitsuji x 28
Meitantei no Okite x 14
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency x 19
Rose of Versailles x 32
Spartacus: Blood and Sand x 18
icons @ my lj
20 x Agora
20 x Alice
20 x Chuno
20 x Mei-chan no Shitsuji
20 x Meitantei no Okite
20 x Miss Austen Regrets
20 x No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
20 x Princess Returning Pearl
icons @ my lj
20 x Alice
20 x Chuno
20 x Mei-chan no Shitsuji
20 x Meitantei no Okite
20 x Miss Austen Regrets
20 x No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
20 x Princess Returning Pearl
icons @ my lj
Abduction Club x 29
Alice x 47
Chuno x 38
Mei-chan no Shitsuji x 54
Men and Legends x 20
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency x 23
Princess Returning Pearl x 30
Wide Sargasso Sea (2006) x 13
the rest are at my LJ
movie trailers
Dec. 17th, 2009 12:04 amSo, a bit of boredom and some poking around youtube informs me that the Alice fandom has dubbed Alice/Hatter…Halice.
Better than Chair or Bluck, I suppose.
Speaking of Alice, the official trailer for Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is out. Johnny Depp has very scary makeup.
It looks a lot like Looking Glass Wars to me, though I don’t think I’m the first to make that comparison.
Speaking of movie trailers, the trailer to Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood is also out.
It looks like Gladiator in medieval England. Now, Gladiator is one of my favorite movies and I’m also extremely fond of Scott’s Legend and the extended version of Kingdom of Heaven, and I’m almost always up for a new Robin Hood, but I really hope we don’t get Maximus running around Sherwood Forest. It’s been interesting following this through all the conceptual versions, though.
(Hmm...my DW paid account status expired. This is an...interesting...selection of icons they left me with.)
Better than Chair or Bluck, I suppose.
Speaking of Alice, the official trailer for Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is out. Johnny Depp has very scary makeup.
It looks a lot like Looking Glass Wars to me, though I don’t think I’m the first to make that comparison.
Speaking of movie trailers, the trailer to Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood is also out.
It looks like Gladiator in medieval England. Now, Gladiator is one of my favorite movies and I’m also extremely fond of Scott’s Legend and the extended version of Kingdom of Heaven, and I’m almost always up for a new Robin Hood, but I really hope we don’t get Maximus running around Sherwood Forest. It’s been interesting following this through all the conceptual versions, though.
(Hmm...my DW paid account status expired. This is an...interesting...selection of icons they left me with.)
Alice: complete miniseries
Dec. 13th, 2009 12:54 amShort version: Totally in love with the first half, one problem with the mythology aside. Then the second half had this totally boring 45~ minutes in which I was forced to endure a painful love triangle and wallowing in Daddy Issues (Because no one can save the world without first being at peace with their fathers and their father’s presence/absence in their lives. Mothers? What mothers?)
Aaaaanyway. Alice doesn’t trust men ever since her father disappeared when she was 10, but now she has a boyfriend named Jack. When Jack gets kidnapped and dragged into and alley after giving her a ring, Alice goes after him and gets sucked into a mirror, and finds herself in Wonderland, where humans are enslaved to have their emotions sucked out of them. Alice escapes and eventually meets Hatter, who is secretly a member of the resistance against the evil Queen of Hearts.
The first half is awesomely entertaining and the show approaches Wonderland as if it were some huge gothic mansion Alice found herself in, which was totally awesome. Alice was fun and, if sometimes lacking in common sense, pretty good at getting herself out of scrapes and gave good “uhm, no” and “WTH?” faces. And Hatter rather resembled a human puppy and sometimes seemed to be trying to channel a more sanitary Captain Jack Sparrow, and looking very confused when he kept accidentally being chivalrous. Jack wasn’t particularly interesting, but better than he initially seemed. And there was also the hilarious Charlie, the sole surviving Knight (and Hatter and Jack so wanted to be knights when they grew up) the evil seductress Duchess (who I, uhm, may have actually liked more than Alice) and the assassin March Hare, who may have been the best thing in the whole show. And March Hare and his goons spent a long time chasing Hatter and Alice through the gothic Wonderland and I was having so much fun.
Despite the annoying “Wonderland used to be awesome when there was a kind in charge, and then there was a queen and it started sucking” theme. As we all know, only evil queens are allowed in 99.99% of SFF. And...the tail end seriously reinforces that theme.
And then, suddenly it all went away and Alice was spending all her time angsting over various men and all the action slowed to a crawl because it had to be all about the triangle (which made the rather endearing romantic plotline less endearing, and I mostly ended up feeling annoyed on Duchess’s behalf) and Alice’s abandonment issues regarding her father and how her life was apparently incomplete without paternal influence (though, unlike many others in fiction with absentee fathers, she never took it out on her mother). I, uhm, may have spent a lot of that mentally shipping Alice and Duchess off to The O.Z. to have adventures with D.G. and Az*. Hatter went too, and I allowed Jack along to make Duchess happy. The fun did come back, but the dull kept invading the fun parts.
So, half of it lived up to my expectations, and the other half…well, it didn’t totally fail in my requirements, but it didn’t live up to my expectations, either. But! Italian mobster March Hare chasing Alice and Hatter through Gothic Wonderland!
*Uhm…Tin Man was way better. And 10th Kingdom. And not scared of female authority figures, both good and evil. And Frank Beddor made Wonderland a Queendom so there.
Aaaaanyway. Alice doesn’t trust men ever since her father disappeared when she was 10, but now she has a boyfriend named Jack. When Jack gets kidnapped and dragged into and alley after giving her a ring, Alice goes after him and gets sucked into a mirror, and finds herself in Wonderland, where humans are enslaved to have their emotions sucked out of them. Alice escapes and eventually meets Hatter, who is secretly a member of the resistance against the evil Queen of Hearts.
The first half is awesomely entertaining and the show approaches Wonderland as if it were some huge gothic mansion Alice found herself in, which was totally awesome. Alice was fun and, if sometimes lacking in common sense, pretty good at getting herself out of scrapes and gave good “uhm, no” and “WTH?” faces. And Hatter rather resembled a human puppy and sometimes seemed to be trying to channel a more sanitary Captain Jack Sparrow, and looking very confused when he kept accidentally being chivalrous. Jack wasn’t particularly interesting, but better than he initially seemed. And there was also the hilarious Charlie, the sole surviving Knight (and Hatter and Jack so wanted to be knights when they grew up) the evil seductress Duchess (who I, uhm, may have actually liked more than Alice) and the assassin March Hare, who may have been the best thing in the whole show. And March Hare and his goons spent a long time chasing Hatter and Alice through the gothic Wonderland and I was having so much fun.
Despite the annoying “Wonderland used to be awesome when there was a kind in charge, and then there was a queen and it started sucking” theme. As we all know, only evil queens are allowed in 99.99% of SFF. And...the tail end seriously reinforces that theme.
And then, suddenly it all went away and Alice was spending all her time angsting over various men and all the action slowed to a crawl because it had to be all about the triangle (which made the rather endearing romantic plotline less endearing, and I mostly ended up feeling annoyed on Duchess’s behalf) and Alice’s abandonment issues regarding her father and how her life was apparently incomplete without paternal influence (though, unlike many others in fiction with absentee fathers, she never took it out on her mother). I, uhm, may have spent a lot of that mentally shipping Alice and Duchess off to The O.Z. to have adventures with D.G. and Az*. Hatter went too, and I allowed Jack along to make Duchess happy. The fun did come back, but the dull kept invading the fun parts.
So, half of it lived up to my expectations, and the other half…well, it didn’t totally fail in my requirements, but it didn’t live up to my expectations, either. But! Italian mobster March Hare chasing Alice and Hatter through Gothic Wonderland!
*Uhm…Tin Man was way better. And 10th Kingdom. And not scared of female authority figures, both good and evil. And Frank Beddor made Wonderland a Queendom so there.
Christmas Regencies and current SciFi TV
Dec. 6th, 2009 04:47 pmDoes anyone else read Christmas regencies? Because I went through my backlog yesterday and pulled all of mine out. Most tend to be terribly formulaic and feature cranky, scrooge-ish men having their hearts melted by Pure Women (of a lower class, of course) children and puppies and in short have plots I typically shun but devour when in the form of a Christmas Regency.
Though, in a story I was reading last night, I suddenly started picturing the guy as G’Kar and got terribly confused. Then I realized that he was describing his thoughts about someone similarly to how G’Kar does, and it made sense, but it provided a very interesting visual for the rest of the story.
Also, I am…irrationally annoyed by the fact that V is on hiatus until March, even though I'm not hugely into V yet as much as really hoping to be soon. I mean, I think the hiatus is a bad idea anyway (and at least I have 2 episodes to watch between now and then) but it’s made worse, I think, because I learned that about an hour after learning 2 episodes of Dollhouse aired in one night. Different stations, but I can’t quite suppress my initial reaction of “wow, I guess they were worried about showing too many episodes of a current genre show where women aren’t constantly getting raped and are able to act and/or defend themselves without men first beating them up, bashing their heads into desks or throwing them against cabinets*.”
OTOH, Alice comes out either tonight or tomorrow, and I am SO EXCITED for that. A reminder why:
It looks so fun! And I thought Tin Man was a blast. Though the trailer makes me worry a bit about a love triangle. But i will be so sad if I don't like it!
Dang. Even mentioning Dollhouse makes me want my Farscape DVDs and/or more Babylon 5. Even at their worst, they couldn't dream of being as bad as Dollhouse at it's best. (Buffy, Angel and Firefly are currently somewhat ruined for me, though at least I no longer want to remove anything with the taint of Whedon from my apartment like I did after 2.4.)
*No, not “women getting hurt in a fight,” which is another thing entirely and not a bad thing, as long as they’re hurt because they’re fighting and not because they’re women, but women literally being passive until physically assaulted or “fixed” by the assault. Like Ballard repeatedly punching Echo until she switches to the personality he wants to “fix” her.
Though, in a story I was reading last night, I suddenly started picturing the guy as G’Kar and got terribly confused. Then I realized that he was describing his thoughts about someone similarly to how G’Kar does, and it made sense, but it provided a very interesting visual for the rest of the story.
Also, I am…irrationally annoyed by the fact that V is on hiatus until March, even though I'm not hugely into V yet as much as really hoping to be soon. I mean, I think the hiatus is a bad idea anyway (and at least I have 2 episodes to watch between now and then) but it’s made worse, I think, because I learned that about an hour after learning 2 episodes of Dollhouse aired in one night. Different stations, but I can’t quite suppress my initial reaction of “wow, I guess they were worried about showing too many episodes of a current genre show where women aren’t constantly getting raped and are able to act and/or defend themselves without men first beating them up, bashing their heads into desks or throwing them against cabinets*.”
OTOH, Alice comes out either tonight or tomorrow, and I am SO EXCITED for that. A reminder why:
It looks so fun! And I thought Tin Man was a blast. Though the trailer makes me worry a bit about a love triangle. But i will be so sad if I don't like it!
Dang. Even mentioning Dollhouse makes me want my Farscape DVDs and/or more Babylon 5. Even at their worst, they couldn't dream of being as bad as Dollhouse at it's best. (Buffy, Angel and Firefly are currently somewhat ruined for me, though at least I no longer want to remove anything with the taint of Whedon from my apartment like I did after 2.4.)
*No, not “women getting hurt in a fight,” which is another thing entirely and not a bad thing, as long as they’re hurt because they’re fighting and not because they’re women, but women literally being passive until physically assaulted or “fixed” by the assault. Like Ballard repeatedly punching Echo until she switches to the personality he wants to “fix” her.
Somewhat on a whim, I picked up a cheap Signet edition of Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass the other day. It was only "somewhat" on a whim because I've recently felt the need to reread things I read when I was younger (whether or not I'll actually get around to it is another thing), and I don't think I've read that in its entirety since I was roughly to target age. But more than that, I thought I should reread it before watching the loose adaptation airing in December.
"But Megan!" you say, "Burton's Alice in Wonderland doesn't come out until next March! Look, the trailer even says so!"
Well, yes. That's Tim Burton's movie and it looks quite spiffy and I'm looking forward to it. What I'm almost dying to see, though, is the SyFy mini-series, Alice, that's coming out in December:
I also noticed that the last book in Frank Beddor's Looking Glass Wars trilogy is out. I should get it. And, uhm, read the second book. (3 1/2 boxes of booksale books that I haven't added to the backlog yet? Whatever are you referring to?)
Hmm...I wonder if there's a particular reason for the recent surge in Alice in Wonderland inspired fiction. It seems there are a few other things I've seen recently that are also clearly inspired by it.
"But Megan!" you say, "Burton's Alice in Wonderland doesn't come out until next March! Look, the trailer even says so!"
Well, yes. That's Tim Burton's movie and it looks quite spiffy and I'm looking forward to it. What I'm almost dying to see, though, is the SyFy mini-series, Alice, that's coming out in December:
I also noticed that the last book in Frank Beddor's Looking Glass Wars trilogy is out. I should get it. And, uhm, read the second book. (3 1/2 boxes of booksale books that I haven't added to the backlog yet? Whatever are you referring to?)
Hmm...I wonder if there's a particular reason for the recent surge in Alice in Wonderland inspired fiction. It seems there are a few other things I've seen recently that are also clearly inspired by it.
