Nah | haven’t seen yet | didn’t like/gave up | like it | love it | highly recommend.
Why?: This is on Prime so it’s free for me to watch. A lot of people I follow love it and so I decided to give it a try. I watched the first few episodes and it was ok. I didn’t love it but I didn’t hate it. I might watch more in future if I feel like it, I might not. I really didn’t have any kind of strong feelings one way or another. It was very so-so for me. I guess nothing about it particularly grabbed me.
Nah | haven’t seen yet | didn’t like/gave up | like it | love it | highly recommend.
Why?: I’m very sorry anon but I tend to use this movie as an example where I’ve watched something and it’s “two hours of my life I’m not getting back.” Personally I thought it was a terrible movie. The way Jonathon Kent died was enough on it’s own but I also didn’t think the plot made sense, and it was unevenly paced. Basically not my cup of tea I suppose. Sorry!
Thank you! 🙂
13) Unpopular opinion about XXX character?
I’m trying to think. This question is quite difficult really because I’m used to swallowing my unpopular opinions as I’m too scared to express them. Plus I try very hard to see both sides and that usually winds up moderating my ‘unpopular opinions’ into something more mainstream. For instance there’s something that keeps coming to mind but I’m slapping my brain right now, and saying that’s not the characters fault, that’s the writers.
I wish Cora hadn’t been killed off. Is that an unpopular opinion? I liked her, I thought her potential was cut seriously short. I also liked the Black Fairy and as much as I love the finale for all the gifts it gave us, I don’t like how it turned her into a 2D one-note villain, and then just killed her off. How about I still wish Gideon hadn’t been de-aged into a baby? I mean please don’t get me wrong, how they did it with it just happening was the best way they could have done it, and Rumple and Belle being all sweet with the baby is just adorable. I love all of the baby scenes! I just liked adult Gideon, and I liked his potential but I guess there’s always fanfic to explore that, and the cuteness of the Gold Family can’t be denied 🙂
14) Unpopular opinion about your fandom?
This is similar to question 19 so I don’t really know what I can add. I’ve rewritten this answer several times. I think basically anything I say wouldn’t be this fandom, it would just be applicable for any community really. What it boils down to is “I wish we could live and let live a little more” which I know is hopelessly naive. I mean it’s this wish which is why I’m trying so hard to temper all my statements because just because I feel that way about something, doesn’t mean that if someone feels differently they are wrong.
I do generally operate under the rule that “if I don’t have anything nice to say, then I don’t say anything” but that’s me being me. If others just want to say anti stuff all the time, then that’s cool because everyone can do what they want to do. I do kinda wish sometimes people would tag a little better. As I said before I really don’t like the jumping to conclusions, and then that becoming fact and it all being doom and gloom with no proof. Also, I think that sometimes there’s a time and a place for people to make anti comments and that where people put them isn’t always ideal.
However, that being said I’m not someone that thinks people should just “stay in their lane” but then I’m passive and not likely to argue. I’ve had comments on posts of mine that I’ve blinked at, and thought that wasn’t really called for, but I’ve never said a word about it. I don’t like drama. I love this fandom but it can be a scary place sometimes with all the drama.
20) What is the purest ship in the fandom?
Already answered – here 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
1) What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?
Erm *hides* SwanQueen. I know, I know, it’s incredible popular but I’ve just never been able to see it. I’ve tried to see it, I’ve read lots of metas and looked at the gifsets, and sweet merlin have you seen the fanart? It’s just gorgeous! Some seriously talented people there. I just don’t ship it and I’m sorry for that. I also don’t get OutlawQueen either.
I don’t actually ship Regina with anyone, I wish I did because she’s my second favorite character and I love her. I want her to be happy but nothing has clicked in my mind as being right for her. With Emma I ship Swanfire, and if Neal isn’t around then I’d probably go with MadSwan. I’m very ship and let ship, I think people should ship what makes them happy, but I do feel bad about SwanQueen. I know so many awesome people that ship them and I wish I did, I really do, but I just don’t.
Sometimes I’m like that. I mean I don’t ship Jack and Sam off Stargate SG1 either. I follow some very talented people that ship them hard but I just can’t see it. I love them individually as characters, I love them as friends and teammates but I just can’t see them working romantically and Jack and Sam were pretty much canon in the end. So the show itself shipped them. I don’t know, I just don’t get it.
6) Has fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated?
Already answered – here 🙂
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What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?
Already answered – here 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
5)
Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?
I don’t think so? I’m trying to think. If anything it’s usually the other way round. I’ll see so many sweet gifsets that I’ll start shipping something that I didn’t really think all that much about before. In fact thanks to gifsets I even took a second look at an entire TV show – Farscape. I’d tried one episode of that, decided I didn’t like it – 100 awesome gifsets later – I had the collectors edition complete boxset (I’ve just started watching season four).
6) Has fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated?
Nope, I hate very few pairings to begin with, so there’s not much chance for fandom to change my mind that much. Fandom did make me really ship Swanfire when I’d been ‘I like it but I don’t care’ beforehand. I did curse fandom a little bit for that, making me love a doomed ship heh 🙂 That’s all that really comes to mind. The thing is I did like Swanfire before, so it was like into love. Mostly with ships I either see it or I don’t.
7) Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?
Yes and no. For instance Hook, I didn’t like him back in season two but I liked his character. I thought he had a good arc, in terms of how he connected to Rumple and Bae/Neal. He had the whole revenge thing going on which played off well against Regina, showcasing character development. He was a villain, unapologetic about doing whatever it took in pursuit of his aims. I understood why he wanted revenge, I was never going to side with him because I’m 100% TeamRumple but Hook was a good character.
Now? Hook is out of his element. He hasn’t changed but how people react to him has. I never minded being an arsehole in season two because there’s nothing wrong with a good villain. As another example I hated Zelena’s actions in 3b (I will never forgive her for Neal or for what she did to Rumple) but Zelena was a villain. She had some awesome sarcastic lines, I loved to hate her. Then just like with Hook, it’s a bit like slipping into an alternate reality, they haven’t changed as characters but everyone is saying they are heroes. It’s like what people say, and what they do, are completely different, there’s this disconnect going on.
So I can’t stand either Hook or Zelena now most of the time, because it ruins suspension of disbelief. They are changing the other characters around them, making the characters I love act out of character, and do stupid things, and so I don’t like it. Now, I have no problem with either Hook or Zelena staying around on the show. I just wish it had been done in a way that rang true and made sense. There has to be justification, I loathe forced march plotting. Where the writers/creators have obviously decided something has to happen, and so it’s very much “because I said so.” I really can’t stand that.
Thank you anon! 🙂
19) What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?
Urk erm *cringes* I don’t know if should say. I really hate conflict, I’m super scared of upsetting people. Ok *deep breath* alright if I’m honest it’s the doom and gloom brigade. I don’t follow them and I try to keep my dash clear of it because tumblr is like my escape, I like it to be full of happy things, not misery but it’s really difficult to avoid sometimes. I’ve blacklisted everything I can possibly think of to keep it at a minimum.
When the show was airing I was more afraid of the fandoms reaction to what happened, than I was afraid of what happened on the show. Now please don’t misunderstand me. I’m not complaining that people are being negative, people can be whatever they want. It’s just sometimes it got a bit scary. Occasionally it felt like people were jumping to conclusions and it was the end of the world and there was no evidence. I love this fandom, and I love being a part of it, and it’s probably my fear of conflict that made it worse. So it’s on me really, not the fandom. I just wish we could all be nicer to one another I guess.
20) What is the purest ship in the fandom?
Depends how you define pure. I think probably the least controversial ship would have to be Snowing. I mean they are the original ship, they’ve been true love since day one, there’s no arguments that they belong together.
21) What are your thoughts on crack ships?
Already answered – here 🙂
11) Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?
I only know my corner of the fandom so I could be way off base with what’s popular or not. That being said I think I’d have to say Anna from the Frozen arc. Every other character that springs to mind I’ve seen just as many positive comments, as I have anti ones, but the Frozen arc doesn’t get much love. I really liked Anna probably because she babbles a lot, that’s something I do when I’m nervous and so I related.
21) What are your thoughts on crack ships?
Define crack ship? I mean my understanding of crack fic is like pink elephants flying in the sky, it’s something totally ridiculous and more than likely breaking the fourth wall. Labeling a ship as a ‘crack ship’ seems quite disrespectful because I’m very much ship and let ship. Just because I don’t agree, doesn’t mean that someone is wrong for shipping it. They obviously ship it for a reason and well I like people to be happy. So long as nobody is getting hurt then it’s all good. So I think my thoughts on crack ships, are basically that there isn’t really any such thing. Let people go crazy with pairings if they want.
who? | only know their name | loathe | ugh | overrated | indifferent | dead | alive | just okay | cute | badass | my baby | hot | want to marry | favorite
I laughed when I saw this because I have the Farscape theme playing right now! I just watched an episode and the DVD is idling while I was fiddling on tumblr before watching the next one. Aeryn is great. For a while I just saw Vala (as I watched Stargate SG1 first) but now I see her as her own character.
I’m on season three right now and no spoilers but it kinda broke my heart how she got softer, and started to trust, and then there was that death, and she closed herself off again. It could be seen in how she was wearing her hair. Poor Aeryn 🙁
(Warning this review contains spoilers)
Years ago, probably eight years ago, I found 24 for sale on eBay really cheap. I was quite enamored with getting TV boxsets for under £1 so I bought the first six seasons before I ever watched the show. I mean 24 was such a huge thing and it was definitely my genre, I was mystified back then as to why I had never seen it. I figured I would love it!
Fast forward to present day and I have just about managed to force myself to watch most of the first two seasons. I can’t quite bring myself to watch the rest of season two. I think I have 4 episodes left but I just really don’t care. It is unbelievably boring and ridiculous and I seriously hate Bauer’s daughter, but I digress I’m talking about the movie. I’m only saying about the TV show because when I put this movie on tonight, I was anticipating it being awful. I literally groaned out loud when it did the “the following takes place between … events occur in real time.”
Oh boy was I wrong. Oh was I wrong.
There was shouting at the TV. I have been known to do that before *cough* but it’s not something I do all the time – I have to be driven to it. I knew before I watched that Carl Benton (Robert Carlyle’s character) was going to die but I didn’t know how or when. So I was constantly jumping every time he was in danger, and I was practically chewing on my fingers because I was scared for those kids.
The anxiety was real. I think 24 would be much improved if they condensed each season into a movie. Although I don’t know if I would survive watching it. Anyway, leaving aside the incredible suspense how was it? Well there was obviously some setup being done for season seven, and as I don’t watch 24 I really didn’t care about anything except for the kids. So all the stuff in Washington was lost on me. I also found the ending kinda bittersweet because the kids made it – phew – but all those other desperate people were left behind, and all the kids already brainwashed into the army were suffering. So it didn’t exactly feel like much of a victory, especially because Carl was dead.
I hoped to see Carl being a badass because he was ex-special forces. However, his first encounter with bad guys was just the sound of gunshots – we didn’t see anything. The next ‘action’ scene for him, was him shooting rather uselessly at a helicopter. After that was his death scene. So unfortunately no cool scenes with him taking out bad guys, that honor was of course left for the hero – Jack Bauer. Couldn’t you have shared the limelight just once Jack? I wanted to see Carl being a hero.
So yeah the lack of Carl being a badass was disappointing. His screentime also wasn’t fantastic but then it wasn’t that bad either, and it was only an 80 minute movie. I think for Robert Carlyle fans I would recommend it (see opening gif for exhibit A) and yeah it’s a good suspense movie, so recommended on that basis as well. It was definitely a million times better than I thought it was going to be, it had to overcome a fair bit of negative expectations, so yeah not bad at all.
(Warning this review contains spoilers)
I made sure I watched this movie when I was home alone as I wasn’t sure how I’d react. I knew that the plot had Shaun as a carer for his friend and I’ve had some personal experience with that. Thankfully though it didn’t really dwell much on that aspect, and there were constant flashbacks which provided welcome relief. Daz saying he’d “had enough” and witnessing Shaun’s compulsive cleaning because he didn’t know what to do with himself, that was difficult viewing. The hospital appointment, not wanting help, that was familiar. I’d say they did their research.
Anyway, Robert Carlyle must be very strong. The actor that played Daz looked to be about the same size as him and RC held him one handed over his shoulder, then he picked up Daniel later (Will Scarlet actor). With the first scene, I would have brought the wheelchair over so there was no carrying required, but perhaps Shaun didn’t think of that.
Ratings are very strange. I mentioned in my review of Face that I was surprised it was an 18. Well this had some full frontal nudity, and the language was loads worse, but it was only a 15. How does that work?
This movie was basically just heartbreaking. The flashbacks to Shaun as a young child, and as a teenager, were bad enough on their own because I wanted somebody to help him. Unfortunately I know our education system and especially all those years ago, there just wasn’t the support. There’s not really the support now. They don’t like anyone that doesn’t fit in their boxes.
I was so scared and sad for Shaun when he was looking at the pills. Shaun lost everything really didn’t he? He always had a good heart, giving Daz his dinner without a word when they were kids, but he had a bad reputation because of his frustration and anger issues because of it. The hate he had from Katy’s parents was so sad. At least for a while he had Katy but then I’m guessing he went to jail for the arson and then he never saw her again.
When he got out he had to live with the fact that Daz was paralyzed, because he left him to run from the cops (from a crime he’d committed). Thankfully Daniel arrived and made him think twice about the pills, but Daz was Shaun’s purpose. I suppose now looking after Daniel is his purpose but still it’s not good. What happens when Daniel moves out and hopefully makes something of his life? The ending was quite unsatisfying in terms of hope, there really wasn’t any.
This movie was just miserable really. I’m not sure whether to recommend it or not because Robert Carlyle does give a fantastic performance, but it’s miserable viewing. I know not all movies are meant to entertain, some are meant to provoke thought etc. but there wasn’t much of a light side to this. It was just sad.