meanwhile, regarding Gaiman and Moore...
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selenakSo after indulging my bilingual inner child (thanks, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kitsune76) yesterday, I shall be utterly respectable and mature today and not mention the-episode-I-didn't-see once.
Conveniently, my local comic store finally got the following items from the States - No.6 of the second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore, No.2 of 1602 by Neil Gaiman, and Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman. Consider me one happy fangirl. I shan't attempt a review of Endless Nights becausemelymbrosia wrote a stunningly poetic reaction here, which one can't hope to compete with. I'll have to go with a poor prosaic "me, too". The end of the League's second adventure contained a great twist on a very Victorian literary convention - (which Bernard Shaw already tweaked in The Devil's Disciple), and made me irreverently wonder whether we'll see Mina/Hyde 'shippers and Hyde Redemptionistas. Of course Moore wouldn't be Moore if there wasn't also a nasty twist on the H.G. Wells War of the Worlds novel the basic plot for this adventure is settled around. One thing to rely on in works by Alan Moore: the government will always screw you, and if you think aliens are ruthless, well... Bless his anarchistic soul.
Meanwhile, today's paper (in my part of the world) carries a withering review of the League movie, which makes me even less inclined to see it. Considering how Hollywood mutilated Moore, I wonder what they'd do to Gaiman? Wasn't there once a ghastly script making the rounds with a Dream/Lucifer showdown in New York City? And can't you see American Gods with an unelected Arnold Schwarzenegger as Shadow? (Presuming he doesn't get elected. Californians, I ask you - is this real?) The possibilities for perversion are, forgive the pun, endless. Somebody should tell Peter Jackson that once he finished the RotK Extended Version on DVD next year and did his King Kong, it's his sacred duty to rescue the works of Neil Gaiman whose rights Mr. Gaiman does not have from bad film versions. Also, he might want to do something about Watchmen. Surely there can be at least one decent version of an Alan Moore opus on the big screen?
P.S. Today's icon courtesy ofoyceter, I believe. Or was it saava?
kitsune76) yesterday, I shall be utterly respectable and mature today and not mention the-episode-I-didn't-see once. Conveniently, my local comic store finally got the following items from the States - No.6 of the second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore, No.2 of 1602 by Neil Gaiman, and Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman. Consider me one happy fangirl. I shan't attempt a review of Endless Nights because
melymbrosia wrote a stunningly poetic reaction here, which one can't hope to compete with. I'll have to go with a poor prosaic "me, too". The end of the League's second adventure contained a great twist on a very Victorian literary convention - (which Bernard Shaw already tweaked in The Devil's Disciple), and made me irreverently wonder whether we'll see Mina/Hyde 'shippers and Hyde Redemptionistas. Of course Moore wouldn't be Moore if there wasn't also a nasty twist on the H.G. Wells War of the Worlds novel the basic plot for this adventure is settled around. One thing to rely on in works by Alan Moore: the government will always screw you, and if you think aliens are ruthless, well... Bless his anarchistic soul. Meanwhile, today's paper (in my part of the world) carries a withering review of the League movie, which makes me even less inclined to see it. Considering how Hollywood mutilated Moore, I wonder what they'd do to Gaiman? Wasn't there once a ghastly script making the rounds with a Dream/Lucifer showdown in New York City? And can't you see American Gods with an unelected Arnold Schwarzenegger as Shadow? (Presuming he doesn't get elected. Californians, I ask you - is this real?) The possibilities for perversion are, forgive the pun, endless. Somebody should tell Peter Jackson that once he finished the RotK Extended Version on DVD next year and did his King Kong, it's his sacred duty to rescue the works of Neil Gaiman whose rights Mr. Gaiman does not have from bad film versions. Also, he might want to do something about Watchmen. Surely there can be at least one decent version of an Alan Moore opus on the big screen?
P.S. Today's icon courtesy of
oyceter, I believe. Or was it saava? 
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Always Look On the Bright Side...
Date: 2003-10-02 03:21 am (UTC)by getting a shiny new outfit for your LJ and loads of great new icons :-)
Lots of thanks for pointig out Melymbrosia's Endless Nights review. It's clearly the best and most interesting one I've read so far.
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Date: 2003-10-02 04:21 am (UTC)No, I haven't
Date: 2003-10-02 06:00 am (UTC)- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Watchmen
- V for Vendetta
- The Killing Joke
- From Hell.
whistling Monty Python songs here...
Date: 2003-10-02 06:09 am (UTC)Glad you loved the review. Again, I didn't feel able to come up with something nearly as interesting. Just with "go, buy it, people"!*g*
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Date: 2003-10-02 07:43 am (UTC)To use a Wesley quote (from season 1 AtS)...
Date: 2003-10-02 10:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-02 01:38 pm (UTC)And ooo, people using my Eowyn icons! How nice ^_^.
Your Eowyn icon is wonderful
Date: 2003-10-02 11:16 pm (UTC)Re: Your Eowyn icon is wonderful
Date: 2003-10-02 11:19 pm (UTC)