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rionaleonhart) wrote2014-04-13 05:58 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2014-04-13 05:58 pm
This Is The Least Tight Thing That's Ever Happened To Me.
My favourite moments in BioShock Infinite so far:
- I leapt aboard a zeppelin and sabotaged its engines, then couldn't find any skylines on which to make my escape. My big heroic taking-down-a-zeppelin moment ended with Booker just standing there on the crashing zeppelin, looking confused (or so I imagine), until it hit the ground and he passed out. 'Booker, that was amazing!' exclaimed Elizabeth, rather generously, having just brought me back from the brink of death because I'm incompetent.
- 'Look at this one,' Elizabeth said, crouching by a dead man. 'Do you think he wanted any part of this?' She folded his hands over his chest, very gently, and then pranced over the corpse in her high heels.
- The game gave me the option 'Search Box of Almonds'. I did so. It contained a pineapple.
- Elizabeth and Booker had the following emotional conversation when Booker killed someone:
'Sometimes you have to do what's necessary to survive.'
'There's survival, and then there's finding pleasure in the act.'
'Booker...'
'Look, you seem like a decent enough sort. That said, the less you know about me, the better.'
'Found some money! Catch!'
On a sudden, strange whim, I bought the first four seasons of Community on DVD, having seen up to about halfway through the second season a couple of years ago. I'm rewatching the first season at the moment, and I can categorically state that this purchase was a great decision. Community is fun and silly and oddly charming, and I have to employ all my willpower to keep myself from watching twenty episodes a day. I could do without Pierce (there are very few characters I actively dislike in an 'I think I'd actually prefer this work of fiction without you in it' way; Pierce Hawthorne is, unfortunately, one of them), but otherwise I like just about everything about it.
To my delight and slight embarrassment, I love Jeff/Annie just as much as I did two years ago. I have a terrible tendency to rewind and replay scenes in which they interact so I can overanalyse all their facial expressions. I probably shouldn't be this emotionally invested in a ridiculous sitcom.
(Incidentally, my weird levels of emotional investment mean I am bizarrely concerned about being spoiled for this particular ridiculous sitcom! I've seen up to 2.11, 'Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas'; please don't hint at anything that happens beyond that.)
- I leapt aboard a zeppelin and sabotaged its engines, then couldn't find any skylines on which to make my escape. My big heroic taking-down-a-zeppelin moment ended with Booker just standing there on the crashing zeppelin, looking confused (or so I imagine), until it hit the ground and he passed out. 'Booker, that was amazing!' exclaimed Elizabeth, rather generously, having just brought me back from the brink of death because I'm incompetent.
- 'Look at this one,' Elizabeth said, crouching by a dead man. 'Do you think he wanted any part of this?' She folded his hands over his chest, very gently, and then pranced over the corpse in her high heels.
- The game gave me the option 'Search Box of Almonds'. I did so. It contained a pineapple.
- Elizabeth and Booker had the following emotional conversation when Booker killed someone:
'Sometimes you have to do what's necessary to survive.'
'There's survival, and then there's finding pleasure in the act.'
'Booker...'
'Look, you seem like a decent enough sort. That said, the less you know about me, the better.'
'Found some money! Catch!'
On a sudden, strange whim, I bought the first four seasons of Community on DVD, having seen up to about halfway through the second season a couple of years ago. I'm rewatching the first season at the moment, and I can categorically state that this purchase was a great decision. Community is fun and silly and oddly charming, and I have to employ all my willpower to keep myself from watching twenty episodes a day. I could do without Pierce (there are very few characters I actively dislike in an 'I think I'd actually prefer this work of fiction without you in it' way; Pierce Hawthorne is, unfortunately, one of them), but otherwise I like just about everything about it.
To my delight and slight embarrassment, I love Jeff/Annie just as much as I did two years ago. I have a terrible tendency to rewind and replay scenes in which they interact so I can overanalyse all their facial expressions. I probably shouldn't be this emotionally invested in a ridiculous sitcom.
(Incidentally, my weird levels of emotional investment mean I am bizarrely concerned about being spoiled for this particular ridiculous sitcom! I've seen up to 2.11, 'Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas'; please don't hint at anything that happens beyond that.)
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Pineapple in a
can of lightbulbsbox of almonds. What could be weirder than that?I've also seen zero Community, so nothing to fear from me! I think the most I know about it, other than photosets and reaction gifs on Tumblr, is the snippet of conversation at the end of the Spy Party HAWP, which I can't imagine is spoilery.
But I relate to your feelings about this Pierce Hawthorne fellow. Mostly because I'm still angry at Chuck for including two characters which make the show viscerally unpleasant to watch, even while I really love most of the rest of the show.
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Two characters? That's unfortunate. I can love Community happily enough when Pierce is only one-seventh of the central cast, but two Pierces would probably make things quite a bit trickier.
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And yeah, re: horrible awful characters. Like, Chuck has a genuinely adorable central sibling relationship, and is often really funny, and has some really cool evolving character dynamics, and... then it has these two Socially Awkward Creepster Computer Nerd Dude characters who exist to be excruciating stereotypes for subplots where sexual harassment = hilarity. ~_~ It's unnecessary and awful and I would be recommending the show widely if it weren't for the fact that I find it only barely tolerable, and I imagine that a viewer who had experience of, say, workplace harassment would find it entirely intolerable.
And these characters have nothing to do with most of the plots, they don't contribute credibly to character development, they're just someone's idea of humorous backup. And it's just, ARGH, WHY