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SW EU RANT

Jan. 4th, 2006 07:51 pm
I've always been into fanfiction, I just didn't know it.

Star Wars Expanded Universe = Legal Fanfiction.

There are two things about the EU that irritate me (not a whole lot, and not enough to make me stop reading it, but still) and they are the words and the continuity.

Words: Authors make up words in the Star Wars universe, and I understand that that's necessary, because it's a whole other universe with new objects and creatures and species and such, but you could at least make them pronouncable. I mean "wookie" is pretty straightforward. But (Hey Matt I started reading your books) how the fuck do you say "ysalamiri"? And that's a tame example. If you're going to make up words, which lets face it you're going to have to, for the love of God and George Lucas make them pronouncable! Oh and the names! We have Luke, Leia, Han, Lando, Chewbacca. Then we have C'baoth. WTF? ARGH!

Continuity: There isn't always continuity in the books, and it's irritating and confusing. Like, will these events ever be brought up again? And sometimes things contradict each other, and characters don't seem to remember doing things they did in other books, and it's just a mess. And the timline skips around so much it's almost impossible to keep it all straight. I can't remember what happened before the book I'm reading, or what happens later, or how they all fit together. RAWR!

At least with Harry Potter fic they don't make up words, and seldom create new characters with unpronouncable names, and the timeline is fairly easy to keep straight. So that God and JKR for that.

Ok I feel so much better now. Of course none of you (except Matt) will really know/care about this, but I just had to rant. Now I'm going to look up what a Noghri looks like.
So I watched Kingdom of Heaven tonight, simply because my mom wanted me to watch it with her and Orland Bloom is hot.

And the whole time I'm watching it, I'm staring at this one guy going "I know him. Why do I know him? Mom, he looks so familiar... Who is he? Why the Hell do I know him?" Then like after an hour and a half of that, he rides up to Orlando Bloom and smiles, (it wasn't really a happy movie so nobody smiled very much and this was his first time) and this huge ton of bricks hits me on the head, and on the bricks in big shiny gold letters it says "IT'S DAVID THEWALIS YOU MORON!"

And then I felt stupid. It took me almost two hours of staring at the man to realize that it was Remus J. Lupin. (Although to be fair he had white hair and a beard and looked about 50... But I recognized his smile!)

Then, like five minutes after I realized who it was, he died. Dead. I think all that was left was his head.

Yeah. So I didn't really care very much about the movie, but Orlando looked very very nice all dirty and dischevled, so it was worth the two and a half hours of my night. And he was a blacksmith. Hmm... Where have I seen that before?


P.S. Whoever told me that Kingdom of Heaven glorified the Crusades... It wasn't even really about the Crusades, and it totally pointed the clergy in a terrible light and showed how awesome Saladin was and how the Crusades were all about land and not God and how the battle was dumb and pointless and it didn't glorify anything. And it was fucking confusing and pretty dull most of the time. And bloody.

But Orlando was hot.

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