random thoughts

a bit ginger, very film-obsessed

[gahdamnpunk]

ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

[knitmeapony]

This post goes harder than any post has ever gone before.

[fairyfoxprincess]

Women are beautiful. 

[eighthth]

- Do you want the good tea or the bad tea? - What's the difference? - I call one good, one bad. - I'll take the good one. - Excellent! Positive attitude. Will help with the horror to come. - What horror? - Mainly the tea. - Drink while it is very hot. The pain will disguise the taste. And. Oh god, oh god! Missy has become an interesting character! And. God! How wonderful John Simm is! And. I will miss Capaldi :(

[eighthth]

Doctor Who 10×08

I wanted to finish the episode first, but I already have some angry remarks. This was a pretty weak exposition. Imaginary mother, really? And wtf is this plan? Why would he transmit all those videos? It would be much easier just to hide, no? If you say "they almost trust me", you need to use this trust at some point. And gosh, the explanations! Why, why does it have to be so explicit? Ok. I'll try to be comprehensive now. - What are the Monks gonna do? - What the oppressors always do, when they realise who's really in power. They run. So, this episode is, clearly, a political statement. And it's quite good for one. Not so much for a DW episode. First, a beautiful girl who does all sorts of things including self-sacrifice for her love of humanity and the Doctor. The Master, mind waves and changing history are involved. Doesn't it remind you of something? It seems to me sometimes that they are just rewriting old RTD's scripts instead of making up new ideas​. Second, there are so many wholes in the script (and we don't have a red blanket to cover them, if you know what I mean). Third, the golden rule of cinematography (don't tell it, show it) is broken so many times. Fourth, it's not enough to say Monks are bad because they kill people. When you build a dystopian world, you need to actually show how bad it is to live in it. Still, for some reason, I liked the episode. Maybe for Missy, who wasn't irritating just this once. Maybe for Bill, who is always incredible. Maybe for the bloody political message that is so timely. But please, please, can they make the last Capaldi's episodes better than this?

[eighthth]

Doctor Who 10×07

Have you seen this? Have you bloody seen this? Difficult choices! Present world anxieties! Individual being more important than the world. The only thing I didn't like is this "power" idea. Bill's consent should've been the most important, because she represents the humanity in so many more ways than military generals, but not because she's the Doctor's companion. And have you seen the trailer for the next episode? Yep, at times, it painfully resembles of Harold Saxon (it happened 6 months ago, but it feels like they've been here forever), and Martha Jones (Bill's voiceover), and all these popular dystopian teenage novels, but let's see what they can make of it (what if this is exactly the moment, where John Simm comes back) :)

[eighthth]

Doctor Who 10×07

- Oh my god! - No, I'm the Doctor. But it's an easy mistake to make - the eyebrows. Stupid, stupid, stupid Doctor! ... Handsome Doctor! Adorable, hugely intelligent, but still approachable Doctor! PS: the best showing off since the Silence in the Library.

[eighthth]

American Gods 1×03

If you want a character to doubt, make the viewer doubt together with this character. But 1) I am already absolutely sure that all these magical things​are real in the fictional world of the series, 2) I have seen no emotions on the face of the main character, so I can't really empathise.

[eighthth]

10×05

Killing a character twice in one episode is too much. If this happens now, what kind of intense emotions do they have for the finale?

[eighthth]

Handmaid's Tale

I’m on the third episode now and… Em… I’m not sure the society they show would function the way it does in the series. First, if this is theocracy, why do they destroy cathedrals? Now, to the whole issue of fertility. As for the newly established regime they have too many weird rituals, like all the giving birth process, for example. Such things do not appear in the course of ~5 years. And then again. If you take a baby away from its mother immediately after birth, you don’t give it back to her three times a day for breastfeeding. This, such a psychological pressure, is too big a reason for protest. To my mind, in this kind of situation, it would be much more logical to get rid of the family as an institution. It hurts much more, when something yours ends​ up in the hands of a particular person, then when it becomes collective (this makes sense, because when something is collective, it still belongs​ to you a little bit). What I liked (not for use, of course, just as a part of the fictional world) is an expression “gender traitor”. What I liked even more is the story told by flashbacks. Instead of a typical dystopia, I would rather watch a story about how the world comes to it. And how someone tries to understand what’s happening and how to stop it.

How do things work in the novel, by the way?

[eighthth]

10×04

Weeeeell... I liked the beginning and the ending of the episode. It's strange, how thoroughly the first act is made, and what a mess happens next. The dialogues in the beginning are beautiful - all those clashing remarks and the Doctor being socially awkward... You can even see some features the new characters have - mind you, the characters we'll probably never see again. So it started as an amazing story, with Bill being put in an uncomfortable situation, with the Doctor having something on his mind, with a guy being into Bill, and with a house full of mystery. And then it all went down the drain. First, the story does not have too much of internal logic. Ok, I get the psychoanalytic part, but then... How did the boy find out he should kill people? Why exactly six, and how did he understand there should be six of them? Why 20 years? How is it possible that the woman gave these eaten people back? Why only them? (Would be cool to have people from 1957 adapt to the contemporary world. Although, it's already been in Torchwood) There are a lot of set ups in this story that haven't received their pay offs, and this is sad. Second, insects, really? The only interesting thing about them was what they looked like in the past - these round stones in the box. The story about insects eating people, insects being inside buildings, and all derivatives are just boring. Third, what the hell is happening with special effects? Why does Moffat get so much money, and then has a wooden woman who looks pretty plastic? Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of SE, I remember RTD's Doctor and those terrible effects from 2000s. I also remember the classical Doctor and awful monster-costumes. I'm fine with not​ having special effects at all. But then again - it was all right to have shitty effects 10 years ago, when RTD has just rebuilt the show from ashes. Now, when it's - again - one of the most popular series in the UK and abroad, and has all money required to make look good, it's just a shame. But God! Bill is amazing! And Peter Capaldi is too!

[eighthth]

American Gods

I _did not_ like the American Gods (sorry not sorry). It tries to be stylish, but what exactly is its style? It's brutal, and sexual, and too graphic at times. And boring. And the special effects... Are they supposed to look as if we travelled in time (and not to the future)? And are we supposed to understand completely ​nothing about the plot? Told this already about some other Netflix thing (or wait, this one is amazon, but no difference actually): mystery is a good thing, when you have a couple of questions that make you curious, not when the whole bloody plot is a big secret. And this side-story about the year 813, which is never mentioned once the teaser is over. Yep, tell me it's a series and I'll see it again in the next episode, but I'm talking about exactly this one. The pilot is more important than any other part of the show, so one should try and make it plausible, and only then think about connectivity and season arches. I would also appreciate some emotions. When your beloved wife is dead, do you travel half a country with a poker face and scream at a mountain once? When you find out she cheated on you with your best friend, what do you do? Not reciting books in front of her grave, I suppose. I liked the original soundtrack, though.

[eighthth]

4×19

Whedons keep following each other. You may remember there was this... You know... Dollhouse. Where rich people created a way to storage their consciousness and invaded other people's bodies to live forever. I mean, I don't mind, this is still a great idea and a huge area to explore, and they play with it masterfully. And one more thing. Iain De Caestecker is a bloody awesome actor!

[eighthth]

DW 10×03

Something doesn't add up in the new episode of DW. Like, Bill's reaction to the death of the child and the whole episode after that. She is clearly angry with the Doctor for ignoring the importance of the incident, so it would be more logical if she, even having "moved on", stayed sullen and suspicious of the Doctor's decisions. Or - if she had to keep making her witty remarks - why did they include the incident in the first place? Saving children again? Well, they did, but it could've been done even without the boy with his hand stuck in the ice and Doctor not even trying to help. I mean, come on! And then again: a huge creature captured in order to provide some kind of profit... The screenwriters should rewatch older episodes (and partly Torchwood) to try and avoid repeating themselves. On the other hand, the Doctor was lovely: trying to trick someone and getting tricked himself is adorable. And then... - How is it a screwdriver? - In a very broad sense. - Sonic? - It makes sound!

[eighthth]

4×19

"To save ourselves we need to save the world" One more episode I love wholeheartedly. It's logical, consistent and beautiful. And the soap opera part (the dialogue between Daisy and Ward) was finally in its place and not exasperating. And the final message is - again - a thing that talks to the present reality even more that to the fictional world of the show. Why did they have to put the whole show upside down to start making good episodes?

[teandcrackers-deactivated202112]

When I grow up I want to be Ming-Na Wen.

[housetohalf]

She’s the voice of Mulan, as if she wasn’t amazing enough.

[palindrome-mystery]

She broke it with her fingers. Not a fist, her fingers.

[spiffypop]

Girl is 50 years old.

FIFTY. YEARS. OLD.

[firebreathingeli]

fun fact: When you break things with your hands like that you have t break your fingers on purpose before so that they heal stronger. So basically this woman is so badass she broke her hands just to do this. 

[fuckingconversations]

You asshat, you’re making it sound like she snaps her fingers in half. 

Martial artists like Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee (and yes, fucking Ming-Na Wen, that beautiful badass) will build up their bone strength by repeatedly (and fairly gently) striking sand, gravel, wood and steel - this creates tons of microfractures in their bones (smaller than even a hairline fracture) so the bones will heal over again and make the bones stronger and denser with increased deposits of calcium. 

This has to be done over long-ass periods of time, so the bones have time to heal, and none of the fractures expand into actual breaks. 

Oh, and she’s doing precise-ass kicks in HIGH HEELS. 

[snickersandjackdaniels-deactiva]

she kicks ass like a coursing river

[tacorub]

Saw this post so many months ago and I still think about it from time to time lol so badass

[thatsthat24]

Had the absolute pleasure of meeting her. She’s indeed a kind-hearted and gorgeous badass.

[eighthth]

Scary Handsome Genius From Space (Doctor 10×02)

This is the Doctor I've been waiting for! Gosh, the dialogues! The setup! The references! Bill! (Tomorrow I will be able to construct full sentences)

[eighthth]

4×18

For all the stupidities there are in the episode (like, tapes on the eyes, really?), there is finally what I have been waiting for - DOUBT! "He loves his daughter. Doesn't that make it real?" The best line of the whole AOH branch.

[eighthth]

Somewhere in the world, people have already watched the 18th episode of the Agents of SHIELD, but I keep thinking about the most beautiful moments of the 4×17. The reference to the previous season, made subtle but powerful, when Fitz promises to cross the universe for Aida (subtle exactly because the line​ is directed at an unusual person), triggers the viewer - it's quite hard not to notice it, the whole scene is constructed in a way that emphasises it. So here's your​ setup. And then, in the end, the resolution comes that destroys all expectations. What do we think? The whole 'crossing the universe' thing is clearly hidden somewhere inside Fitz's mind, so, when he's reminded of the real story, he'll surely come to the truth. But you know, what happens. A small detail, but it's hard to disregard its impact.