It's that final countdown....

[selenak]

En route back to Munich, I stopped for a day in my hometown Bamberg. It's finally snowing outside, and I so hope that means a white Christmas. My parents have a fireplace, and in some years we just couldn't use it - it wasn't cold enough.

Tomorrow at midnight, in Munich, Return of the King! I'm a gibbering wreck already, I fear.

Other fans, being more sensible, write interesting and insightful posts. In honor of the Firefly DVDs which you lucky Americans can watch and I can't, gwyn_r wrote a great review, here. Meanwhile, londonkds analyses Jayne here and makes me wish he'd write something like this for each of the Firefly regulars.

Something I've been waiting for ever since I finally saw Destiny: fanfiction inspired by it. cbrownjc put my out of my fannish misery and wrote some fabulous drabbles. The other thing I've been waiting for was Lineage-inspired Wesley fanfic. cadesama takes a look at Wesley's childhood here.

Comments

[kathyh]

I love the idea of a white Christmas, but this year it would be so amazingly inconvenient that I'm actively hoping we don't have one, which means that we will *g*.

Gibbering right along with you about ROTK. The suspense and the anticipation is all part of the fun though.

[artaxastra.livejournal.com]

Return of the King! You lucky ducky! I won't get to see it until the day after Christmas, assuming my mother-in-law will babysit! I think my daughter is too young for Return of the King, though she does cheer Wolverine whenever she catches a few minutes of X Men here and there. She throws her arms over her head and yells "Yay!" whenever she sees Wolverine. So maybe she'd like Aragorn?

*Oh please have done my favorite scene right!*

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course it is. And once we're through the experience, we'll all gibber for the Extended Version.*g*

Aragorn is more the Cyclops type, if you ask me

[selenak.livejournal.com]

He's responsible, after all. And into long-term engagements.*g* And faithful. Plus good with looking after hobbits and Old Wizards.

If I had to I'd equate Wolverine with either Gimli or Boromir, only neither really fits...

How old is your daughter?

Re: Aragorn is more the Cyclops type, if you ask me

[artaxastra.livejournal.com]

True. Aragorn is A Good Guy, which Wolverine isn't.

She's 19 months old. A little squiggle, but very certain of what she likes and doesn't.

Good Things:
chocolate
snakes
riding in a taxi
Wolverine
clean laundry
fuzzy acrylic blankets
tacos
shoes
the firestation across the road
other babies

Bad Things:
naps
grapefruit
socks
big birds
forks
grass

[kathyh]

And then there will be the Special Box Set with Extra Features and then the Extra-Special Extended Version and then the holographically-remastered version and then... Sadly, I shall be gibbering for the lot of them.

If you need some distraction from the gibbering go and read firesignwriter's latest Jack/Norrington in jail WIP. It's a cracker.

There will be more when I have time

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

This evening was icon creation.

[searose.livejournal.com]

I'm curious, therefore I inquire.

Are region-free DVD players not available in Germany? I don't have the techno-geek babble to clearly state exactly what I'm talking about, but I know that I could buy here in America a DVD player that doesn't 'care' what region the DVD is coded for, or I could have my DVD player on my computer altered to bypass this restriction.

(I've had to think about this in case the BBC releases B7 on DVD only in England.)

[cbrownjc]

Tomorrow at midnight, in Munich, Return of the King! I'm a gibbering wreck already, I fear.

You're going at midnight? Wow. I probably could here in L. A., (Mann's Chinese is going to do a midnight showing tommrow, I know), but I just know it's going to be hellishly crazy, with wall to wall fans.

I am going Wednesday morning though. I'm so pathetic about ROTK that I've already started getting teary over it. :)

P.S. Thanks for the fic shout out. *blush.* :)

Huzzah!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to the results. Neat icon!

oh, they are there...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

...they're also incredibly expensive. Hence my unwillingness to buy one when I have a perfectly functioning one for my region already and usually it's just a few months difference between the DVD releases.

Now if they reduce the price somewhat, I'll probably reconsider...

well, I've never been...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

...to a midnight premiere before. And I thought: what better film to try?

And you're welcome.