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selenakFirstly, regarding last night's linkage and the ensuing commentator, the only thing I have to say is a direct quote from Astonshing X-Men #13: "I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total."
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likeadeuce, resolute and yours truly were emailing each other like a bunch of squeeing banshees last night are utterly and completely untrue.
Next: re: Hero, the latest BSG episode: David Eick sucks as maths just as certain other creators. Aside from that, it was a good character piece for Adama and Tigh,Dixon Carl Lumley was fine, the father-son scene was the best in a long while and Laura Roslin showed yet again why she's the coolest. (Also why I want Zarek back, because Adama just isn't any challenge for her any more.) Beyond that, though, I don't find much to say about it. (Hm. Maybe Adama-centric episodes don't inspire my sense of meta so much?) (Though I like the Old Man, honest.)
Moving on to: my favourite film from last year, Das Leben der Anderen, about which I wrote an extensive review when it was in the cinemas, has come out on DVD. (shezan, before you ask, sadly without other languages.) Let me take the opportunity again to praise it and hope it gets released, by hook or crook, in countries other than Germany. Subtitled, dubbed, don't care, it's so worth watching. The (German) dvd has two audiocommentaries, one by the director and one by the leading actor, plus a Making Of and cut scenes. Characters, story, dialogue, it's all great, and it should be known internationally. Watching it again after recent BSG eps (from Occupation till Collaborators) was particularly interesting because of the way it tackles similar subjects - though quite differently. One bit about the director's commentary (which as this is this director's first feature-length film, for which he also wrote the script, is full of earnestness otherwise, and interesting background) which amused me: at one point, he says how much he loves a particular shot of Sebastian Koch (who plays what I guess Academy Awards would call the biggest supporting part, though co-lead would be better) and that S.K. is one of the most beautiful men he knows, then adds hastily "which I can say even as a heterosexual man". Florian, you're a director, we expect you to get the aesthetics, and who cares about your orientation anyway?
Also, rumours that
likeadeuce, resolute and yours truly were emailing each other like a bunch of squeeing banshees last night are utterly and completely untrue. Next: re: Hero, the latest BSG episode: David Eick sucks as maths just as certain other creators. Aside from that, it was a good character piece for Adama and Tigh,
Moving on to: my favourite film from last year, Das Leben der Anderen, about which I wrote an extensive review when it was in the cinemas, has come out on DVD. (
shezan, before you ask, sadly without other languages.) Let me take the opportunity again to praise it and hope it gets released, by hook or crook, in countries other than Germany. Subtitled, dubbed, don't care, it's so worth watching. The (German) dvd has two audiocommentaries, one by the director and one by the leading actor, plus a Making Of and cut scenes. Characters, story, dialogue, it's all great, and it should be known internationally. Watching it again after recent BSG eps (from Occupation till Collaborators) was particularly interesting because of the way it tackles similar subjects - though quite differently. One bit about the director's commentary (which as this is this director's first feature-length film, for which he also wrote the script, is full of earnestness otherwise, and interesting background) which amused me: at one point, he says how much he loves a particular shot of Sebastian Koch (who plays what I guess Academy Awards would call the biggest supporting part, though co-lead would be better) and that S.K. is one of the most beautiful men he knows, then adds hastily "which I can say even as a heterosexual man". Florian, you're a director, we expect you to get the aesthetics, and who cares about your orientation anyway?
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Date: 2006-11-19 11:49 am (UTC)DUDE. Y'all are the coolest things ever. And Joss is still my favorite geekboy writer/creator. ;)
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Date: 2006-11-19 12:39 pm (UTC)I believe you, thousands wouldn't *g*. Seriously, that was pretty amazing. Shame you didn't include a strong hint in your essays that Joss should stop faffing about with Wonderwoman and get his ass back to TV where he belongs though!
hope it gets released, by hook or crook, in countries other than Germany.
No sign of it here I'm afraid, and our indie cinema does show German films when they're available, but I'll keep looking out for it.
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Date: 2006-11-19 01:27 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-11-19 02:08 pm (UTC)*wanders off singing Sondheim songs*
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Date: 2006-11-19 02:46 pm (UTC)Just because we don't want to get too joyful here. (and now I :) )
About BSG, I felt about the same. I enjoyed it fine but was out of thoughts once it was over. And about this -- (Also why I want Zarek back, because Adama just isn't any challenge for her any more.) . . .I totally agree. Well, the Zarek part, obviously, but also that Roslin totally owned him. That worked fine for this episode, but I'm not sure where the internal conflict is coming from right now. I didn't see the preview, but I heard it suggests next week is mostly about the pilots (with some Anders. . .happy smile).
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Date: 2006-11-19 03:24 pm (UTC)Also, I ordered the Zarek comic mentioned in
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Date: 2006-11-19 03:31 pm (UTC)Somehow I missed that post. Will be on the lookout for that mini. There have been an old and new BSG series launched, but I glanced at them and decided they weren't anything I couldn't get in fic. But Zarek!!!
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Date: 2006-11-19 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-11-19 07:00 pm (UTC)Liar, liar, pants on fire!
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Date: 2006-11-19 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-20 01:39 pm (UTC)Certianly my agent must be wondering, "Why are you writing comic books all the time?" And I realise that I have a problem. He needs to make an intervention to get me back to writing TV. But the fact is that after Firefly - which did break my heart, just broke it, completely cracked it - I'm terrified. I'm like one of those people who's terrified to love again... which I always see in movies and go, "Get over your shit! Like, whatever! So somebody dumped you! Move on!" But the idea of falling love with another series is just too painful. Even after making Serenity.
Ahh...give the man a hug! Then kick him back to TV *g*.
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Date: 2006-11-20 04:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-20 04:49 pm (UTC)Nonetheless. . .I'm through with love. . .I'll never fall again. . .
Famous last words. And you already know about my thesis about people who have loved deeply in the past, etc.
I've said it before, I'll say it again . . . HBO claims to be looking for fresh blood and a younger demographic in the TV department; Joss claims to want a TV partner who doesn't jerk him around. Why has this marriage NOT happened??
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Date: 2006-11-20 06:32 pm (UTC)