I Can't Keep Up with Fandoms

[gothrockrulz]

I would very much like to just take a break from real life and devote myself exclusively to fandom. It's getting way too crazy here. Just to summarize:



-Thor 2 BLEW MY MIND. All the brotherly moments killed me. Tom Hiddleston and Chris Hemsworth have wonderful chemistry, on and off screen. It's breathtaking, really. And when I revived, I died all over again at the hysterical fight scenes. How do you make fighting that funny without killing the drama? Genius, pure genius.

-Catching Fire ALSO BLEW MY MIND. For the most part, it was true to the book, and any changes made were forgivable for the sake of movie formatting. BUT, I am NOT OKAY with showing Plutarch Heavensbee dancing with Katniss, and then omitting the mockingjay on the watch. THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE SCENE. Sure, they wanted to make you think Heavensbee was not favorable towards the rebellion, but the watch was IMPORTANT.

I'm almost willing to forgive that, though, just because the elevator scene with Johanna was PERFECTION. And that's not just because we get to see Jennifer make one of her iconic crazy faces while in character as Katniss. It's also because those of us with asexual/demisexual mentalities finally have a mockingjay of our own to help others understand us. I'm uncomfortable with sex/nudity in books and movies, because I'm demisexual (thanks to rhoda_rants for introducing me to the term), and so it just grosses me out. It's not my thing, and I can't relate, so I skip or fast-forward. And if I want to explain to people what that feels like, all I have to do now is refer to Katniss' face in the elevator scene, and tell them that's me. And now they might actually get it.

Also, I'm still mad Garrett Hedlund was not cast as Finnick. That was my dream casting, right there. To his credit, Sam Claflin was really good at showing Finnick as both devoted and deadly, much better than I'd expected, and I found myself liking him anyway. But still, he lacked the striking sex appeal that was, even for this demisexual, a very important aspect of his character. This guy is supposed to be a freaking sex god, the Poseidon of Panem, if you will. He's supposed to be obnoxiously provocative, and to my mind, he wasn't. They purposely toned him down, and I'm not cool with that.

My brother says he thinks it's because they didn't want him stealing all the thunder from Peeta and Gale. (As if a Hemsworth isn't perfectly capable of generating his own thunder, and keeping it. XD) And my best friend thinks it's because the film-makers wanted the audience to take Finnick seriously as a lethal killer. I think they're both right. But I'll still maintain a guy can be all the more lethal a killer BECAUSE he is provocative. Loki, anyone?

-Doctor Who 50th Anniversary was a great experience in a mixed bag. I still haven't seen enough Rose episodes to understand the Bad Wolf references in full, but I have an inkling, thanks to more invested fans. I didn't like the whole Elizabeth subplot at all, since this iconic queen was more like a impetuous fangirl in a fancy frock than the leader of the British Empire. But I loved watching the chemistry between Ten and Eleven--that made the show, for me. Still not cool that, even though All The Doctors teamed up to freeze Gallifrey instead of fully destroy it, the Doctor still had to live with the same guilt. There are good things and bad things about both scenarios. The idea of The Great Hunt for Gallifrey is appealing, but I'm holding judgment until I see how it pans out. There are ways to execute an idea right, and then there are ways to kill it. We'll see.

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What else to du with the Virgin Queen who overcame the boundaries of her sex at her time, by having her lose that Virginity to the Doctor. How tasteful!

Hear, hear!