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tempestuously) wrote2010-07-26 06:07 pm
tempestuously) wrote2010-07-26 06:07 pm
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I am full of good feelings and bad feelings. Among the bad feelings is me feeling like an absolute brain-dead moron for not realizing we had a storm yesterday. A storm strong enough to kill people and wipe out a large chunk of power. I think I reached the Seventh Level of Hell today when I had to drive through 10 non-functioning traffic lights on one of the busiest streets in the city just to learn my work had no power and I had to turn around and drive back through those 10 non-functioning lights to go to my other location. Yeah, not a great start for my day.
I'm also annoyed that The Avengers cast only includes that bimbo ScarJo as Black Widow and no other females. I have no other complaints with the cast, but that annoys me because I hated that character in Ironman 2. To add to my financial woes before Otakon, I think the undercarriage on my truck is falling off and I have no time to fix it before the con. I have no idea what I will do.
My major pet peeve of the day, though, is the stupid people who are blaming The Washington Post's expose on over-spending on the private industry side of National Security for The New York Times deciding to run with all of the classified war reports that talk smack about Pakistan and basically make us look like we've got real problems in the war, not that that wasn't already known. I don't understand why people can't tell the difference between archiving public information into a single database and leaking classified WAR PERTINENT information. I'm all for power of the press, but Wikileaks just makes me feel slimy.
Good news is I have been enjoying "The Way of Shadows" -- yes Graham, I like the boy-whore shut up -- which also was featured in the background of Lord Kat's (Until We Win) recent reviews. That amused me. I still have real problems relating to either Kylar or Durzo, but I am still loving Logan (yes, Graham, I am slashing them shut up) and am partially intrigued by the whole mystery of Kylar's power. Though, this book does have some creepy fascination with trying to be as disturbing as possible. Did we really need a guy who shoots peasants and feeds them to other people? I think my other favorite character is the queen of the brothels. She's awesome. I can tell I'm going to despise the insipid love story.
Legend of the Legendary Heroes of Legend made me sad by giving me hot long-haired Ryner since I know from the OP that he will cut his hair. I did enjoy that fight between him and the sword-fighter girl though. I think Ryner is growing on me. Sion is still the fave though.
Otakon has also reminded me that I miss fangirling something like crazy. The con just has less meaning for me if I don't have a series to spend ridiculous amounts of money on and run around from panel to panel or signing to signing (Wolf's Rain, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, Geass). I'm too old for it, but boy do I love it. Call my old anime obsessions whatever you'd like but they sure made me happy. I need something of equal awesome.
I'm also annoyed that The Avengers cast only includes that bimbo ScarJo as Black Widow and no other females. I have no other complaints with the cast, but that annoys me because I hated that character in Ironman 2. To add to my financial woes before Otakon, I think the undercarriage on my truck is falling off and I have no time to fix it before the con. I have no idea what I will do.
My major pet peeve of the day, though, is the stupid people who are blaming The Washington Post's expose on over-spending on the private industry side of National Security for The New York Times deciding to run with all of the classified war reports that talk smack about Pakistan and basically make us look like we've got real problems in the war, not that that wasn't already known. I don't understand why people can't tell the difference between archiving public information into a single database and leaking classified WAR PERTINENT information. I'm all for power of the press, but Wikileaks just makes me feel slimy.
Good news is I have been enjoying "The Way of Shadows" -- yes Graham, I like the boy-whore shut up -- which also was featured in the background of Lord Kat's (Until We Win) recent reviews. That amused me. I still have real problems relating to either Kylar or Durzo, but I am still loving Logan (yes, Graham, I am slashing them shut up) and am partially intrigued by the whole mystery of Kylar's power. Though, this book does have some creepy fascination with trying to be as disturbing as possible. Did we really need a guy who shoots peasants and feeds them to other people? I think my other favorite character is the queen of the brothels. She's awesome. I can tell I'm going to despise the insipid love story.
Legend of the Legendary Heroes of Legend made me sad by giving me hot long-haired Ryner since I know from the OP that he will cut his hair. I did enjoy that fight between him and the sword-fighter girl though. I think Ryner is growing on me. Sion is still the fave though.
Otakon has also reminded me that I miss fangirling something like crazy. The con just has less meaning for me if I don't have a series to spend ridiculous amounts of money on and run around from panel to panel or signing to signing (Wolf's Rain, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, Geass). I'm too old for it, but boy do I love it. Call my old anime obsessions whatever you'd like but they sure made me happy. I need something of equal awesome.
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Also, when did you start watching Lord Kat? I tried to sell you on his stuff months ago, but you just shrugged me off. :P
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Also, I think I'm switching my ship to Logan and Aleine.
In which I ramble on about one sentence since its the only thing I have an opinion on...
In Marvel's defense, this Avengers team is clearly designed to be the original Avengers team...which was started back in the 60's...so, yeah.
Not to mention that of the main Marvel women, they're pretty limited. They can't use Storm or any of the other X-men, since they don't have access to them. Likewise they can't use the Invisible Woman, or Spider Woman, who is tied up in the Spiderman franchise. That leaves She-Hulk, who is one of my favorite Marvel heroines...but would probably not be taken seriously enough for a movie - Ms. Marvel, who would actually be a neat addition to the series, but would probably require a movie of her own to be explained, and I don't think that'll happen until DC gets off their asses and puts out a Wonder Woman movie - and The Wasp, who is really nothing more than a female version of Ant-Man and whose big claim to fame is getting hit by her husband.
Ant-man is still being rumored but not confirmed though. Joss Whedon heavily implied at Comicon that Nathan Fillion (did I spell that right?) would take the role if it was added. And if Ant-man joins, we'll probably get The Wasp too, since they're a matched set.
...not saying it's okay persay, merely that it's exactly what I expected given the set-up and the fact that they don't have the broadcast rights to most of the female heavy hitters.
Honestly, I'm more upset by how damn white the cast is, though I knew that would happen too. I'm still holding out hope that they'll throw War Machine in there.
...but I'm still geeking out that we'll get Hawkeye. SQUEE!
OH MAN! I'm sorry, I got nerd all over your journal! Let me wipe that up for you!
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I'm also not too crazy about the whiteness of the cast. And actually, I would have preferred the Wasp. I just find Black Widow utterly unappealing.
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Can I just say, OMG YES! (http://www.comicvine.com/news/could-the-old-spice-guy-become-luke-cage/141614/)
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by the gods I wish I could go to Otakon again! *sigh*. Oh, and one is never too old to fangirl crazily. ^__^ You might be interested in Spice and Wolf: it's a slow, gentle, old-fashioned tale focussing mostly on just the male & female leads. BTW, the female lead is a near-immortal wolf spirit goddess thingee...and very wolfish in her characterisation.no subject