Basically, as the title oh-so-subtly suggests, I have recently re-watched Merlin, and the SUMMER HOLIDAYS HAVE OFFICIALLY BEGUN PEOPLE!!!!
Now, the Merlin that I love is NOT the BBC crapfest, okay? That show sucked OUT LOUD, with emo!kid from Midnight as young Merlin with teenage angst and rivalry/friendship with equally kiddfied Arthur. Now, Arthur was a kid, I get that, but Merlin was OLD by the time they met.
Guenevere was also never the ethnic chick. She was a blonde with no braincells, not the demographic box-ticker. But whatever, the point is that Merlin I like is (yet another) eighties/nineties movie which I am totally obsessed with, and have been since I was ten. That was... wow, pre S1 Doctor Who, that seems so long ago!
The strange bit is that the same bits that got me then still get me now. I am not talking about the bit that's MEANT to make you cry, the 'tragic' love between Merlin and Nimue. Because Nimue is a selfish, stupid little chit who really, really deserves no pity. Well, I feel for her cause her face got all burnt off, but she makes up for it by being so, so stupid and niave and generally *face palm* inducing.
It's Frik. It's ALWAYS Frik that makes me cry. Frik is the comic relief character, Queen Mab's wise-cracking, overworked, loyal servant who has such a tragic and touching subplot. He falls in love with Morgan Le Fey, uses his Mab-given powers to turn them both from ugly misfits into gorgeous, powerful, accepted people, and ends up having his heart broken, and every fact he's based his life upon proven false.
His last line "I just... love happy endings" always makes me tear up. I can't help it.
Harry Potter the Musical is seriously awesome. The girl playing Malfoy is amazing, as is the guy playing Voldemort.
Also, if you're in the mood for totally mindless fluff, there's the anime that Bubblemoon showed me over the weekend: Ouran High School Host Club Funny, confusing, unnaturally bright and often disturbing girly anime. It's fun though!
I'm now going to skip off and continue watching the aforementioned anime.
Sunday, 26 July 2009
Monday, 20 July 2009
Matt Smith = EPIC FAIL
Alright, I know that I will be biased against anyone who takes over from Ten on Doctor Who. I know this, and The Walking Forehead is hardly someone I was gonna support.
However, I resolved to give him a chance. Maybe he'd wear an awesome outfit that would downsize The Forehead, or be a really good actor or something.
However, my approval went down after I saw this:
*Shudder* What the HELL were the wardrobe department THINKING?! I mean, Blue Suit is bad enough, at least DT is hot enough to kinda pass it off. But seriously... WHY THE BOW-TIE? HE LOOKS LIKE MY EVIL CHEM TEACHER!
I have serious, serious doubts about the wisdom of this, that's all I have to say.
However, I resolved to give him a chance. Maybe he'd wear an awesome outfit that would downsize The Forehead, or be a really good actor or something.
However, my approval went down after I saw this:
*Shudder* What the HELL were the wardrobe department THINKING?! I mean, Blue Suit is bad enough, at least DT is hot enough to kinda pass it off. But seriously... WHY THE BOW-TIE? HE LOOKS LIKE MY EVIL CHEM TEACHER!
I have serious, serious doubts about the wisdom of this, that's all I have to say.
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Philosophy Games
Yeah, Philosophy today is in my IT room, and we're on TPM (the philosphy magazine). com. We're playing games that really seem more like Freudian tests, and are all designed to make you feel thick and bored at the same time.
So, yeah, right now I'm getting a scene-by-scene account of the Matrix, and then being told that all my views are WRONG! Isn't philosophy about debate? My opinion differs from the computer programmer's... doesn't make me wrong and him right!
Meh, I've seen the movie, analyzed it half to death, and discussed it with just about EVERYONE. Is it any wonder that I'm retreating to the world of the commonplace internet?
By 'Matrix Game' shouldn't you expect guns, violence and kick-ass martial arts? Apparently not, instead I get text that resembles an uncool, boring, preachy version of Zork. Zork, on the otherhand, has a storyline, grues, an Elivish Sword of Great Antiquety, and good descriptions which allow you to imagine the graphics. The Matrix Game has a load of badly-phrased, confusing, already cliched and outdated philosophical questions about Reason and Experience. Just because I disagree in places with Descartes does NOT make me a retard or naive or stupid. Okay? So why does this Matrix guy keep lording his 'higher knowledge' over me? Huh?
Doesn't help that I'm shattered and already annoyed right now. I don't feel like being all pretentious and sitting and going "hmmmm" and acting all involved and deep and interested. I want to go on ff.net or lj or something, and I'm sure GND will be up sometime today. I could even continue with my English coursework (oh the joys of GCSE huh), lessening tonight's workload.
*Sigh* At least I can get my biology done in IT this afternoon, since I'll already have blogged once today.
It would appear that NO-ONE is working. Ha! AND, Mrs G (again no relation to Mr. or Miss G from Paris) doesn't give a damn! I guess hippies can embrace the internet (even 'hippies' who print rainforests of paper every sodding lesson for useless 'handouts' that are hardly even gonna make it home, let alone survive to be revision material.)
What would the Beat Generation think of us? Aside from the general consensus that the "'Youth of Today' are so rude and are all hooligans!"
Lol, this is getting stupid. Lalalalalala...
So, yeah, right now I'm getting a scene-by-scene account of the Matrix, and then being told that all my views are WRONG! Isn't philosophy about debate? My opinion differs from the computer programmer's... doesn't make me wrong and him right!
Meh, I've seen the movie, analyzed it half to death, and discussed it with just about EVERYONE. Is it any wonder that I'm retreating to the world of the commonplace internet?
By 'Matrix Game' shouldn't you expect guns, violence and kick-ass martial arts? Apparently not, instead I get text that resembles an uncool, boring, preachy version of Zork. Zork, on the otherhand, has a storyline, grues, an Elivish Sword of Great Antiquety, and good descriptions which allow you to imagine the graphics. The Matrix Game has a load of badly-phrased, confusing, already cliched and outdated philosophical questions about Reason and Experience. Just because I disagree in places with Descartes does NOT make me a retard or naive or stupid. Okay? So why does this Matrix guy keep lording his 'higher knowledge' over me? Huh?
Doesn't help that I'm shattered and already annoyed right now. I don't feel like being all pretentious and sitting and going "hmmmm" and acting all involved and deep and interested. I want to go on ff.net or lj or something, and I'm sure GND will be up sometime today. I could even continue with my English coursework (oh the joys of GCSE huh), lessening tonight's workload.
*Sigh* At least I can get my biology done in IT this afternoon, since I'll already have blogged once today.
It would appear that NO-ONE is working. Ha! AND, Mrs G (again no relation to Mr. or Miss G from Paris) doesn't give a damn! I guess hippies can embrace the internet (even 'hippies' who print rainforests of paper every sodding lesson for useless 'handouts' that are hardly even gonna make it home, let alone survive to be revision material.)
What would the Beat Generation think of us? Aside from the general consensus that the "'Youth of Today' are so rude and are all hooligans!"
Lol, this is getting stupid. Lalalalalala...
Sunday, 12 July 2009
*OMG*
Right now, I am probably not in the best mood for blogging, but here I go anyway:
Three things, firstly the general *omg*-ishness of this:
Yes, that is who you think it is. Credit to this post on LJ. Apparently he's the evil dude in St. Trinians 2. They've had Colin Firth, is this supposed to be some kind of logical progression? Are they working through every good British actor with their bad-movie-ness? He's not even playing a HOT evil guy. I mean, was it too much to ask for a hot teacher? Really? I think it would have been only fair after the Epic Death Of Ten.
Also, grey hair+grey suit = EPIC FAIL! Of course, I'll still go watch it, and I could probably at least drag Megan along with me.
Okay, second thing, tomorrow is the grand rehearsal for me and Wikkid.X. We're running through our peice with a load of the great and the good of our year's performers. Considering the extreme nerves I suffered at the Solo concert 2 weeks ago, where the audience was a few uninterested parents who were checking their watches the whole time so they could go home, imagine how badly I'm gonna be shaking when the whole of Year 10 is staring at us!
So yeah, with that resting heavily on my brain, is it any wonder that, in town with the (posse? Gang? Marauding Horde?) I bought three very good books and a Mika CD? I got another Eva Ibbotson romance (which are always beautiful and nice) a Faerie Romance (which seems to follow the general Laby-fic S/J template) and the single, most awesome book ever beheld by the eyes of man (or woman):
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!
*hold for awestruck silence*
Imagine it. Then add Lady Catherine de Burgh's ninjas. You get close to the general awesomeness. I am looking forward to taking it to school on Monday and making Miss English Teacher's head explode.
Three things, firstly the general *omg*-ishness of this:
Yes, that is who you think it is. Credit to this post on LJ. Apparently he's the evil dude in St. Trinians 2. They've had Colin Firth, is this supposed to be some kind of logical progression? Are they working through every good British actor with their bad-movie-ness? He's not even playing a HOT evil guy. I mean, was it too much to ask for a hot teacher? Really? I think it would have been only fair after the Epic Death Of Ten.
Also, grey hair+grey suit = EPIC FAIL! Of course, I'll still go watch it, and I could probably at least drag Megan along with me.
Okay, second thing, tomorrow is the grand rehearsal for me and Wikkid.X. We're running through our peice with a load of the great and the good of our year's performers. Considering the extreme nerves I suffered at the Solo concert 2 weeks ago, where the audience was a few uninterested parents who were checking their watches the whole time so they could go home, imagine how badly I'm gonna be shaking when the whole of Year 10 is staring at us!
So yeah, with that resting heavily on my brain, is it any wonder that, in town with the (posse? Gang? Marauding Horde?) I bought three very good books and a Mika CD? I got another Eva Ibbotson romance (which are always beautiful and nice) a Faerie Romance (which seems to follow the general Laby-fic S/J template) and the single, most awesome book ever beheld by the eyes of man (or woman):
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!
*hold for awestruck silence*
Imagine it. Then add Lady Catherine de Burgh's ninjas. You get close to the general awesomeness. I am looking forward to taking it to school on Monday and making Miss English Teacher's head explode.
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