Waaaah, Waaaah, Waqt

Watched Waqt yesterday.

It exemplifies the best and worst of Bollywood, even though it is not even the best BW movie of the year (so far, this honor goes to the elegant and passionate Parineeta).

The plot is ridiculous and over-melodramatic. The movie made me laugh in all the wrong places (really, they tie raw meat to Akshay and make starving wild dogs chase him as a stunt? O-kaaaay), and Akshay Kumar can't cry to save his life but is required to do so at distressingly regular intervals. However, there is plenty of angst in the second half to compensate for the goofiness of the first (oooh, Daddy kicked us out and my pregnant wife is starving, ooooh, I am on fire, ooooh, Daddy is dying), the fantasy songs are beautiful (the one where Priyanka can't put on the dress Akshay bought her because the henna on her hands is still wet, so he puts it on for her, blindfolded so as to protect her virtue? Hot), I have a girl-crush on Priyanka Chopra, Akshay is all manly and not bad looking either, and I did find myself sniffling at the end, ridiculous or not. So overall, worth the $4.

Waaaah, Waaaah, Waqt

Watched Waqt yesterday.

It exemplifies the best and worst of Bollywood, even though it is not even the best BW movie of the year (so far, this honor goes to the elegant and passionate Parineeta).

The plot is ridiculous and over-melodramatic. The movie made me laugh in all the wrong places (really, they tie raw meat to Akshay and make starving wild dogs chase him as a stunt? O-kaaaay), and Akshay Kumar can't cry to save his life but is required to do so at distressingly regular intervals. However, there is plenty of angst in the second half to compensate for the goofiness of the first (oooh, Daddy kicked us out and my pregnant wife is starving, ooooh, I am on fire, ooooh, Daddy is dying), the fantasy songs are beautiful (the one where Priyanka can't put on the dress Akshay bought her because the henna on her hands is still wet, so he puts it on for her, blindfolded so as to protect her virtue? Hot), I have a girl-crush on Priyanka Chopra, Akshay is all manly and not bad looking either, and I did find myself sniffling at the end, ridiculous or not. So overall, worth the $4.

Waaaah, Waaaah, Waqt

Watched Waqt yesterday.

It exemplifies the best and worst of Bollywood, even though it is not even the best BW movie of the year (so far, this honor goes to the elegant and passionate Parineeta).

The plot is ridiculous and over-melodramatic. The movie made me laugh in all the wrong places (really, they tie raw meat to Akshay and make starving wild dogs chase him as a stunt? O-kaaaay), and Akshay Kumar can't cry to save his life but is required to do so at distressingly regular intervals. However, there is plenty of angst in the second half to compensate for the goofiness of the first (oooh, Daddy kicked us out and my pregnant wife is starving, ooooh, I am on fire, ooooh, Daddy is dying), the fantasy songs are beautiful (the one where Priyanka can't put on the dress Akshay bought her because the henna on her hands is still wet, so he puts it on for her, blindfolded so as to protect her virtue? Hot), I have a girl-crush on Priyanka Chopra, Akshay is all manly and not bad looking either, and I did find myself sniffling at the end, ridiculous or not. So overall, worth the $4.

Firefly ponderings

I was wondering who the "Independents" were. Could they have been the Outer planets who wanted freedom from the rigid and uncaring main worlds? That would explain how they lost, as their resources would be much worse, and also yet another reason why Mal likes the periphery. Is there any explanation about it that's non-spoilery?

ETA: I took a Firefly quiz. Results behind the cut.

I am Inara with a somewhat appropriate 69% :D That would explain the insane Mal-love, then.

( Quiz here )

Firefly ponderings

I was wondering who the "Independents" were. Could they have been the Outer planets who wanted freedom from the rigid and uncaring main worlds? That would explain how they lost, as their resources would be much worse, and also yet another reason why Mal likes the periphery. Is there any explanation about it that's non-spoilery?

ETA: I took a Firefly quiz. Results behind the cut.

I am Inara with a somewhat appropriate 69% :D That would explain the insane Mal-love, then.

( Quiz here )

Firefly ponderings

I was wondering who the "Independents" were. Could they have been the Outer planets who wanted freedom from the rigid and uncaring main worlds? That would explain how they lost, as their resources would be much worse, and also yet another reason why Mal likes the periphery. Is there any explanation about it that's non-spoilery?

ETA: I took a Firefly quiz. Results behind the cut.

I am Inara with a somewhat appropriate 69% :D That would explain the insane Mal-love, then.

( Quiz here )

Lawks, Capt'n...

Am reading "Forget the Glory" by Emma Drummond. It's an OK book set right before the Crimean War and involves a fictional British regiment that shipped all the way from India to Crimea to fight in one of the stupidest wars of all time. Apparently it's based on the journey some real regiments did.

We also have the heroine, who is resourceful, a trooper's widow and became a wife at the age of 12, because it was either that, starving, or whoring. At 16-17, when the book starts, she is a widow twice over, and pretty pragmatic at that. The hero is the regimental daredevil Captain, who is some kind of offspring of aristocracy and has some kind of unsavory past-trauma that I as yet have not discovered, but I am sure involves blighted love of some kind. It's that type of book.

In a beloved cliche, he has just returned from passing as a native and getting spy info. This is my kind of author because even though we are only on page 49, the hero is already in a fever and delirium and has been whipped and tortured within an inch of his life.

I see they will have a happy relationship (as of now they haven't spoken to each other yet) because she will give him Meaning In Life (or something) and he will give her Status and Material Goods. Sounds good to me, match made in heaven.

Personally, I think the guy needs to get over his issues (and his apparent S&M fetish), but that's just me.

Fun and forgetful and full of the angst.

Also, meyerlemon's raving about her new TV boyfriend makes me want to check out Atlantis for the beefcake plot.

Lawks, Capt'n...

Am reading "Forget the Glory" by Emma Drummond. It's an OK book set right before the Crimean War and involves a fictional British regiment that shipped all the way from India to Crimea to fight in one of the stupidest wars of all time. Apparently it's based on the journey some real regiments did.

We also have the heroine, who is resourceful, a trooper's widow and became a wife at the age of 12, because it was either that, starving, or whoring. At 16-17, when the book starts, she is a widow twice over, and pretty pragmatic at that. The hero is the regimental daredevil Captain, who is some kind of offspring of aristocracy and has some kind of unsavory past-trauma that I as yet have not discovered, but I am sure involves blighted love of some kind. It's that type of book.

In a beloved cliche, he has just returned from passing as a native and getting spy info. This is my kind of author because even though we are only on page 49, the hero is already in a fever and delirium and has been whipped and tortured within an inch of his life.

I see they will have a happy relationship (as of now they haven't spoken to each other yet) because she will give him Meaning In Life (or something) and he will give her Status and Material Goods. Sounds good to me, match made in heaven.

Personally, I think the guy needs to get over his issues (and his apparent S&M fetish), but that's just me.

Fun and forgetful and full of the angst.

Also, meyerlemon's raving about her new TV boyfriend makes me want to check out Atlantis for the beefcake plot.

Lawks, Capt'n...

Am reading "Forget the Glory" by Emma Drummond. It's an OK book set right before the Crimean War and involves a fictional British regiment that shipped all the way from India to Crimea to fight in one of the stupidest wars of all time. Apparently it's based on the journey some real regiments did.

We also have the heroine, who is resourceful, a trooper's widow and became a wife at the age of 12, because it was either that, starving, or whoring. At 16-17, when the book starts, she is a widow twice over, and pretty pragmatic at that. The hero is the regimental daredevil Captain, who is some kind of offspring of aristocracy and has some kind of unsavory past-trauma that I as yet have not discovered, but I am sure involves blighted love of some kind. It's that type of book.

In a beloved cliche, he has just returned from passing as a native and getting spy info. This is my kind of author because even though we are only on page 49, the hero is already in a fever and delirium and has been whipped and tortured within an inch of his life.

I see they will have a happy relationship (as of now they haven't spoken to each other yet) because she will give him Meaning In Life (or something) and he will give her Status and Material Goods. Sounds good to me, match made in heaven.

Personally, I think the guy needs to get over his issues (and his apparent S&M fetish), but that's just me.

Fun and forgetful and full of the angst.

Also, meyerlemon's raving about her new TV boyfriend makes me want to check out Atlantis for the beefcake plot.

Mal and Zoe, or how much do I love you, Firefly.

I think the Mal and Zoe relationship has to be one of my favorite things about Firefly. I have never seen before, in a show, a situation where you have an attractive and straight man and an attractive and straight woman who are great friends, and have quite a shared past, yet there is no hint, no indication of any UST there, no past romance, no hidden regrets, nothing except friendship. I love it. They are friends and comrades in arms, and he is her Captain, and that is all there is. Which is so freakingly awesomely rare!

When Mal taunts Wash during torture that he never thought Wash was good enough for Zoe, whether there is any truth in that statement or not, you know he would not be thinking it because of repressed jealousy. When he tells him that he and Zoe are going at it like bunnies, you never think even for a second that there is either truth, or suppressed wishful thinking in that statement. No, it’s just Mal being Mal and trying to keep Wash alive for a bit longer (and making me fall for him just a bit more). There is no hidden grand passion, no secret tormented past. Zoe is happily married to a man who might get jealous of her loyalty to Mal and her obedience to his orders, but who never seriously thinks that Mal and Zoe are OTP.

And of course, at the end of that ep, when Mal and Zoe offer to go and boink because Wash demanded it during the torture, this is done as a complete jest (and the fact that Mal would joke that way also says volumes about the UST-free relationship. I would like to see him joke that way about Inara. Yeah, right.) and the lack of chemistry is remarkable, and any sexing, potential, past, or present, is explicitly dismissed.

Even in Buffy, this wasn’t the case. Xander had a thing for Buffy for years, and Willow for Xander (until her orientation change). But to have two best friends be just that, and no other feelings going one-way, both-ways, or any other combination is lovely. Woo-Hoo for Joss!

Mal and Zoe, or how much do I love you, Firefly.

I think the Mal and Zoe relationship has to be one of my favorite things about Firefly. I have never seen before, in a show, a situation where you have an attractive and straight man and an attractive and straight woman who are great friends, and have quite a shared past, yet there is no hint, no indication of any UST there, no past romance, no hidden regrets, nothing except friendship. I love it. They are friends and comrades in arms, and he is her Captain, and that is all there is. Which is so freakingly awesomely rare!

When Mal taunts Wash during torture that he never thought Wash was good enough for Zoe, whether there is any truth in that statement or not, you know he would not be thinking it because of repressed jealousy. When he tells him that he and Zoe are going at it like bunnies, you never think even for a second that there is either truth, or suppressed wishful thinking in that statement. No, it’s just Mal being Mal and trying to keep Wash alive for a bit longer (and making me fall for him just a bit more). There is no hidden grand passion, no secret tormented past. Zoe is happily married to a man who might get jealous of her loyalty to Mal and her obedience to his orders, but who never seriously thinks that Mal and Zoe are OTP.

And of course, at the end of that ep, when Mal and Zoe offer to go and boink because Wash demanded it during the torture, this is done as a complete jest (and the fact that Mal would joke that way also says volumes about the UST-free relationship. I would like to see him joke that way about Inara. Yeah, right.) and the lack of chemistry is remarkable, and any sexing, potential, past, or present, is explicitly dismissed.

Even in Buffy, this wasn’t the case. Xander had a thing for Buffy for years, and Willow for Xander (until her orientation change). But to have two best friends be just that, and no other feelings going one-way, both-ways, or any other combination is lovely. Woo-Hoo for Joss!

Mal and Zoe, or how much do I love you, Firefly.

I think the Mal and Zoe relationship has to be one of my favorite things about Firefly. I have never seen before, in a show, a situation where you have an attractive and straight man and an attractive and straight woman who are great friends, and have quite a shared past, yet there is no hint, no indication of any UST there, no past romance, no hidden regrets, nothing except friendship. I love it. They are friends and comrades in arms, and he is her Captain, and that is all there is. Which is so freakingly awesomely rare!

When Mal taunts Wash during torture that he never thought Wash was good enough for Zoe, whether there is any truth in that statement or not, you know he would not be thinking it because of repressed jealousy. When he tells him that he and Zoe are going at it like bunnies, you never think even for a second that there is either truth, or suppressed wishful thinking in that statement. No, it’s just Mal being Mal and trying to keep Wash alive for a bit longer (and making me fall for him just a bit more). There is no hidden grand passion, no secret tormented past. Zoe is happily married to a man who might get jealous of her loyalty to Mal and her obedience to his orders, but who never seriously thinks that Mal and Zoe are OTP.

And of course, at the end of that ep, when Mal and Zoe offer to go and boink because Wash demanded it during the torture, this is done as a complete jest (and the fact that Mal would joke that way also says volumes about the UST-free relationship. I would like to see him joke that way about Inara. Yeah, right.) and the lack of chemistry is remarkable, and any sexing, potential, past, or present, is explicitly dismissed.

Even in Buffy, this wasn’t the case. Xander had a thing for Buffy for years, and Willow for Xander (until her orientation change). But to have two best friends be just that, and no other feelings going one-way, both-ways, or any other combination is lovely. Woo-Hoo for Joss!

Memes

According to meme no 1, I am Crichton. I guess I better stock up on psychotherapeutic drugs and hide the sharp objects in my place. Maybe I should just kill myself now and save myself the agony of future mental, emotional, and physical violations. In RL, I think I am a Jool-Chiana mix, with a dash of Crichton (his obsessive nature, highly personalized view of the world, and wackiness).

( Which Farscape Character are you )

And according to a different Firefly test, I am still Inara. Hmmmm. In RL, I am definitely a Kaylee, more than anyone else. In fact, one thing she says to Simon in "The Message" had my husband laughing hard enough to stop the tape because that's what I say very often, word for word...

( Diffent version of Firefly one )

Memes

According to meme no 1, I am Crichton. I guess I better stock up on psychotherapeutic drugs and hide the sharp objects in my place. Maybe I should just kill myself now and save myself the agony of future mental, emotional, and physical violations. In RL, I think I am a Jool-Chiana mix, with a dash of Crichton (his obsessive nature, highly personalized view of the world, and wackiness).

( Which Farscape Character are you )

And according to a different Firefly test, I am still Inara. Hmmmm. In RL, I am definitely a Kaylee, more than anyone else. In fact, one thing she says to Simon in "The Message" had my husband laughing hard enough to stop the tape because that's what I say very often, word for word...

( Diffent version of Firefly one )

Memes

According to meme no 1, I am Crichton. I guess I better stock up on psychotherapeutic drugs and hide the sharp objects in my place. Maybe I should just kill myself now and save myself the agony of future mental, emotional, and physical violations. In RL, I think I am a Jool-Chiana mix, with a dash of Crichton (his obsessive nature, highly personalized view of the world, and wackiness).

( Which Farscape Character are you )

And according to a different Firefly test, I am still Inara. Hmmmm. In RL, I am definitely a Kaylee, more than anyone else. In fact, one thing she says to Simon in "The Message" had my husband laughing hard enough to stop the tape because that's what I say very often, word for word...

( Diffent version of Firefly one )