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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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Hmm, what episodes do I like for respectable reasons? I remember really enjoying the vaguely post-apocalyptic tone of 'Modern Warfare', the paintball episode, so I'm looking forward to reaching that.
I'm sorry to hear that the fourth season isn't great, but it's certainly good news that the show managed to recover!