I have two schools of thought on this episode and basically my conclusion is that I’m really sad that they made it canon. I wish that they hadn’t done it as episode 20 because so much is happening, there wasn’t time for a diversion like this, they needed to concentrate on the plot. I wanted to enjoy it for what it was but I couldn’t because – canon.
I am such a hypocrite. I want to be able to buy cheap DVD’s but if I want to sell them then I want a reasonable price.
By reasonable I mean more than 1p or 5p for a season boxset. I mean I think at least £1 would be reasonable if it’s really old and nobody cares. £2.50 maybe even because 24 episodes, that’s still a lot of entertainment for the money, but offering me 1p? Yeah that’s not just worth me bothering. It’s not like I’m trying to sell a movie here. Shouldn’t TV seasons be worth slightly more?
Grumble, grumble…
Random but the Strip Club prompt this month for AMR is one I submitted months ago. I saw a gifset (which I now can’t find!) of Belle looking through the boarded up windows of the library, and seeing … well Gaz I guess, but it was supposed to be Gold I think, stripping. That inspired the prompt and now I’m thinking about it and I got nothing.
Well, no that’s not true I have ideas but I don’t feel any particular pull to write them. It’s more like I want someone else to write them because I would like to read them. So I don’t entirely know what I’m going to do with that. I did have an idea for the Movie Night prompt but I’m second-guessing it. I was going to set it in The War Within verse (alternate season six) but that’s kinda very AU now so probably better not.
I guess I need to keep thinking if I’m going to write anything for May.
A Tshirt Nicholas Rush would love to own.
Somebody fic it! *checks AMR prompts* yeah I’m sure that could be worked in somewhere 🙂 I definitely think it would be a shirt that he would protest against, claim he’d been forced to wear but secretly actually quite like. I mean perish the thought that anyone realizes he has a sense of humor heh.
(Warning this review might contain spoilers)
I got this for 30p off Amazon Marketplace (the postage was 4x as much) and in all honesty I’m glad I didn’t pay any more. You know it’s funny, when I read the synopsis I thought I knew what this movie was about, but clearly I’d misread it, or the synopsis was wrong because not at all what I was expecting.
First off Ray (RC’s character) doesn’t really have his accent. Which considering I couldn’t really make out anything they were saying half the time, made me wonder part way through if watching it with the sound off would improve things. It was over halfway through before I understood the plot.
This was rated an 18 and I’m thinking it’s due a re-rating. Perhaps back in 1997 it was an 18 but by today’s standards it was incredibly tame. There was a reasonable amount of swearing but I’ve seen more violence/blood on an episode of CSI. From the back of the DVD the warning was for “strong violence” so yeah that was the funniest thing about it.
I know I’m not usually this sarcastic about the movies. I strive to say something positive but I’m struggling a little bit. I suppose it did improve once the ‘action’ such as it was started in the second half. Basically, not recommended in any fashion whatsoever which is a shame because it had Ray Winstone in it as well. He looked incredibly young which I guess makes sense. Anyway, if you’ve seen gifs from it, then you’ve seen the best part.
You know I don’t think I would be this harsh if it was a different genre. This, with armed robbers and shooting, is my bread and butter. It’s my kind of movie so I guess I feel a bit more equipped to judge it, than I have about some of RC’s other credits. With those I said ‘not my cup of tea but your mileage may vary’ because I do try and be fair.
I’m going to rent Summer off Amazon Video next. That isn’t my genre so I’ll probably be more polite about it 🙂
@woodelf68 wrote:
I also need a fic where the blasted fairies didn’t show up and Rumpel got to be raised by two parents who loved him. And him being a Saviour didn’t become an issue until…I don’t know, when would it become an issue? Would magical powers show up? Without the Black Fairy as the Evil needing defeating…what if he went off to war and his powers first manifested against the ogres, and he was able to return a hero instead of the coward who lamed himself to avoid a battle and death?
It’s an origin story! Where do you think knight!Rumple got his magic from? The Light One is the Savior 🙂
If Rumple was raised by his parents then Belle wouldn’t be born for another couple of hundred years, but AU Light One!Rumple could work for that. I know it was just a made-up world in a book and the generations were all screwy for magical reasons, I’m being silly today.
When I first started working for Cal I wasn’t impressed. He had a terrible reputation and he was so rude! I resolved not to let him get the better of me but it was looking quite antagonistic. Then, just a few days after I started working for him, my perspective changed. We were on our way to a business meeting when he suddenly barked an order to stop the car and jumped out. There was a child sitting at the bus stop. He was grubby and crying. I hadn’t even noticed them but a moment later Gold’s thousand dollar jacket was around them.
His reputation was that of a cold, heartless monster but he sat there for over an hour talking with him, completely missing the meeting. He then took the boy to the hospital where he was treated for a broken arm. Gold stayed with him, paid all the bills, and then took him home. It turned out the child was being badly bullied, and another child had pushed them over which is how they were hurt. Gold set up a trust for him, paid for him to go to a different school, and not one word of it was leaked to the press. It wasn’t done for good publicity, it was just done because he could and because it was a nice thing to do.
I knew then that he wasn’t the man I thought he was, that there was more to him – a man behind the ruthless businessman. Nobody could be that nice to a complete stranger, for no personal gain, if they were actually a monster. By the time he was taken a couple of years later, yes I was completely in love with him. I’d got to know him by then, unraveled some of his many layers, and I really liked the man I’d found.
He was still my boss so I never said anything, if it hadn’t been for the Iron Man suit I don’t know if either of us ever would have. There was an incident at Gold’s factory, which is what led to him announcing he was Iron Man, and it was an adrenaline-fueled time. I saved Cal’s life and then soon after he saved mine and we kissed. He confessed he was terrified he could have lost me and I confessed the same. It’s a tale as old as time really…
I’ve already answered that here 🙂
Basically I am a sucker for established relationship. I tell whatever the story is which is often how they fell in love but I like it when they are passed the awkward stage, and there’s all the mutual support and working together as a team.
Thank you for the question!
What is you greatest strength as a writer?
This is one of the hardest questions ever as it’s so much easier to be self-deprecating. I suppose though if I had to name something it would be my imagination. I’ve never been lost for an idea and I can come up with ideas on demand. I never have a lack of anything to write. If I’m prompted, it might take me a day, but I’ll have an idea. Whether I then have the discipline to write all these ideas though is another matter…
What do you struggle the most with in your writing?
Everything. Ok no in all seriousness, while I do feel like I struggle with pretty much every aspect of the process it does all come back to the same thing – confidence. First drafts quite often suck which makes it a draining process because it feels like I’m writing rubbish. I need the confidence in myself to know I can fix it, I need faith so that I keep going and I finish the story.
This doesn’t just go for the first draft stage but for every stage because there’s a risk in every part of the process. Plus the closer the story gets to completion, it’s then ‘finishing’ things and I need the confidence to let it go, to think that I’ve done enough, that I’ve done my best. It’s confidence that is needed to put it out there in the world, but to be honest posting is easy, it’s dealing with what happens next that’s hard.
It’s posting something and then screaming into the void, getting no traction with it and resisting the temptation to take it down and pretend like it never happened. It’s posting something and getting negative reviews, and being able to move on from that and keep writing. That requires a level of confidence I’m not sure I have because yeah it’s just one persons opinion but I’m wired to believe the worst. The comments echo round in my mind and it makes me wonder who I’m kidding, and that I’m a terrible writer and I should just stop because I’m embarrassing myself.
Confidence. It all comes down to confidence. Self-faith really. That is by far the hardest thing of all.
Stunned. Shocked. Overawed. Amazed. Incredibly grateful.
The night didn’t go at all how I thought it would. Belle was … there are no words for how she made me feel.
Accepted. I felt accepted and unbelievably loved.
Me! Accepted and loved? I know, it’s unbelievable. What is even more unbelievable is that Belle has hinted that she wouldn’t be adverse to another night together. The words want to burst out, I long to just beg her to stay forever but one good night, and a few declarations of love, doesn’t mean she’d want to be chained to me permanently.
Perhaps when Neal next has a sleepover with the Nolan’s, Belle could visit again. If she still wants to of course…