Daibhid's Journal

(Blows metaphorical dust off the journal)

Hello? Is this thing still working? Goodness it's been a while. Didn't even do a Fringe post (which would have been about 30% "the shows I saw were great" to 70% complaining about the booking site). So, what's been happening more recently?

1. I enjoyed the first two episodes of The War Between Land and Sea, but I don't have the energy to actually review them. Maybe an overview of the whole thing in two weeks.

2. I also enjoyed Zootopia 2, which, after some agonising, I actually went to see at the cinema despite a lack of small children I could take as cover. (I took my nephew to the first one but, of course, that was a decade ago.) Despite my anxiety, this did not seem to attract any attention.

I don't know why my brain turned this into A Thing: no problem with Spider-Verse, possibly because that's superheroes not talking animals; but also no problem with the Muppets, possibly because that's live action not a cartoon. But for some reason, the combo triggered something in my head. But I got past it, and now that I've broken that barrier, I notice there's a Looney Tunes movie out in February...

3. It's December already, and I've just remembered Yuletide is a thing that exists. Ah, well, next year, hopefully. (As I say every year.)

4. Talking of fanfic, I've just realised I don't know how different pseuds work on AO3, but it's possible people following me as Daibhid might not know I've taken to writing Wold-Newton nonsense (or rather, cleaning up and publishing the Wold-Newton nonsense I've already written, although the most recent article is actually new) under the name DM Kennedy WNS. If you're interested in someone taking questions like "What if literally every fictional character named Tyler was actually related?" way too seriously, well, that's what I'm doing.

5. For some reason I was looking at my old posts, going back to the LJ days, and I found a questionaire meme where I was asked "Do you like drama?" and replied "Sometimes". And I stared at it in disbelief wondering what I was thinking, because I hate drama. 

And then I realised that, in 2009, I didn't really know what "drama" meant on the internet. I thought I liked drama sometimes, but mostly I preferred comedy...

So,apparently, this is what happens if I work on the TV Tropes page You Mean Xmas and listen to Mitch Benn's Christmas album within close succession...

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I've been debating whether or not this is worth doing, but I've got some time on my hands[1], so why not? (I may even write up last year's Fringe at some point.) So, yeah, here are the bulletpoint synopses of all the movie posts I never made. I have more to say about some of them than others.

Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2
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Wonder Woman
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Spider-Man: Homecoming
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Thor: Ragnarok
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Justice League
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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[1]After nearly a year of taking the minimum amount of leave necessary for my trips to Edinburgh and so on, I was suddenly told on Monday that I needed to use it all up before my apprenticeship ended. So I'm off Wed-Fri this week, then back next week because it's our last tutor visit, then two weeks off, then back for the last week. And after that, who knows?

Epic.
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I saw two films in the last week, and enjoyed one of them a lot more than the other. MASSIVE SPOILERS for both.

( Batman vs Superman Dawn of Justice )

( Zootropolis )

Yeah, okay, so it's just all going in one big post. As ever, spoilers ahead. Lets do this.

( Husbands of River Song )

( Star Wars: The Force Awakens )

( Dickensian )

( The Abominable Bride )

That was really good!
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(Contains very mild spoilers for Muppets Most Wanted; nothing you wouldn't pick up from the basics of the pre-publicity so far.)

So I've just learnt that back when The Muppets was still a vague idea Jason Segel had for a film called The Greatest Muppet Movie Of All Time!, Ain't It Cool got hold of a script. And one of the concepts that didn't make it into the film we eventually saw was "Ms. Piggy ends up in jail. In the cell next to her is Charles Grodin, still incarcerated after The Great Muppet Caper."

Now I can think of two reasons that scene didn't make it in. 1) The whole "Piggy in jail" storyline, whatever it involved, was apparently abandoned and 2) Nicky Holiday was arrested in London, so why would he be in jail in Hollywood? (Or Paris, if this scene was before they got the gang back together.)

Muppets Most Wanted is going to be set in London. And it involves Kermit being mistaken for a criminal.

Hmmm...

Or, as it's apparently known in this country, Avengers Assemble (although they apparently didn't make that decision early enough to make an actual Avengers Assemble logo, or even borrow Marvel UK's one, so they just bashed it out in a metal-effect font and called it a title screen.)

Apart from that niggle (and a couple of other niggles), awesome!
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