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Home for the weekend. My mom and I watched Bride and Prejudice, which rocked in almost every way that a movie can rock. There were pretty costumes. There were pretty people. There were extended musical numbers where back-up dancers emerged from the woodwork like something out of a 1940s musical. There was Sayid from Lost dancing and singing. (and shirtless!)
And the DVD had a feature that allowed you to watch extended versions of the music/dance numbers as out-takes.
When it comes to film interpretations of a Jane Austin book, this one blows last year's Pride and Prejudice adaptation (you know, the Keira Knightly one) out of the water.
And race wank has returned to metafandom (or possibly just never left). As always, I am leery of getting involved because a) it's not my soapbox and b) I'm sure to say the wrong thing.
You know, it strikes me that Mag7 fandom seems to have had relatively little race wank, especially for a fandom where one of the major stars is black. Nobody seemed to have any problems writing Nathan because of his race. He got slashed with people, he got to save the rest of the Seven's live repeatedly via medical skills and agressively cool knife-throwing, he got to have arguments with Ezra wherein he acted judgemental and Ezra acted bitchy... Actually, the Nathan-Ezra thing is the only place where writers seemed to do him a dis-service, of the "let's make Nathan OOC-ly mean to Ezra so Ezra can be all woobie" variety. If anybody got neglected by fans, it was probably Josiah, because he was the least pretty and not particularly slashable.
Also, SGA fandom needs to produce more Teyla/Ronon fic. Like, the kind of long, drama-and-h/c-filled epics that get written for McShep. They can kill Wraith and get injured and save each other's lives and have sex in caves while hiding from evil aliens while Shepard and McKay snark in the background. Maybe the lack of Teyla/Ronon can be ascribed to the aforementioned race wank ("No white person can ever write a non-white character because it's too hard/they'll never get it right! Woe!!1!1"), or maybe it's because SGA fandom on livejournal is so slash-centric. Or maybe there's tons of awesome Teyla/Ronon lurking somewhere out there and I just haven't been looking hard enough.
In conclusion, Dancing!Sayid is made of awesome.
And the DVD had a feature that allowed you to watch extended versions of the music/dance numbers as out-takes.
When it comes to film interpretations of a Jane Austin book, this one blows last year's Pride and Prejudice adaptation (you know, the Keira Knightly one) out of the water.
And race wank has returned to metafandom (or possibly just never left). As always, I am leery of getting involved because a) it's not my soapbox and b) I'm sure to say the wrong thing.
You know, it strikes me that Mag7 fandom seems to have had relatively little race wank, especially for a fandom where one of the major stars is black. Nobody seemed to have any problems writing Nathan because of his race. He got slashed with people, he got to save the rest of the Seven's live repeatedly via medical skills and agressively cool knife-throwing, he got to have arguments with Ezra wherein he acted judgemental and Ezra acted bitchy... Actually, the Nathan-Ezra thing is the only place where writers seemed to do him a dis-service, of the "let's make Nathan OOC-ly mean to Ezra so Ezra can be all woobie" variety. If anybody got neglected by fans, it was probably Josiah, because he was the least pretty and not particularly slashable.
Also, SGA fandom needs to produce more Teyla/Ronon fic. Like, the kind of long, drama-and-h/c-filled epics that get written for McShep. They can kill Wraith and get injured and save each other's lives and have sex in caves while hiding from evil aliens while Shepard and McKay snark in the background. Maybe the lack of Teyla/Ronon can be ascribed to the aforementioned race wank ("No white person can ever write a non-white character because it's too hard/they'll never get it right! Woe!!1!1"), or maybe it's because SGA fandom on livejournal is so slash-centric. Or maybe there's tons of awesome Teyla/Ronon lurking somewhere out there and I just haven't been looking hard enough.
In conclusion, Dancing!Sayid is made of awesome.