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Thing One: Trying to write my Irrelevant Gift Exchange story in a few days (with absolutely no guidelines, since I never heard from my giftee, so going with "what pleases me"). It will be fine, I'm sure, if I can just get myself to put down words.
Thing Two: Watched "The Time of the Doctor" the day after Christmas, and was distinctly underwhelmed. It all felt unoriginal and… I'm not sure "unrealistic" is the right adjective, considering the framework, but yes, that. Alas.
Thing Three: Went out with Younger Son to see The Hobbit Part the Second last night, and found it great fun, viewed as an action movie with occasional Brooding Dwarf. I reread the book quite recently, and noted how very uncinematic it is, at least by today's standards, so I have no objection to the changes made, though really it was pretty much all changes. I especially enjoyed the hilarious barrel chase, Legolas being ridiculously awesome, Tauriel ditto, the explicitly star-crossed Tauriel/Kili romance, Bilbo sliding around on absurd amounts of gold (which would be extremely painful, but whatever), and Smaug's self-satisfaction. Also Stephen Fry. It's also tremendous fun that they get to reference and foreshadow Lord of the Rings, adding both dramatic tension and little jokes (wee Gimli!).
Thing Four: Also, played some Vienna Teng in the car on the way to the theatre, and ha, how great is it that I can now be the Cool Mom sufficiently to introduce the nearly-20-year-old to music that is not really old and that he likes.
Thing Five: So thanks again for that to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
raven and also congrats on being Really Completely Married Now. :)
Thing Six: It is almost the end of the year and how did that happen? At least I got one big thing done that was on my list, heh.
Thing One: Trying to write my Irrelevant Gift Exchange story in a few days (with absolutely no guidelines, since I never heard from my giftee, so going with "what pleases me"). It will be fine, I'm sure, if I can just get myself to put down words.
Thing Two: Watched "The Time of the Doctor" the day after Christmas, and was distinctly underwhelmed. It all felt unoriginal and… I'm not sure "unrealistic" is the right adjective, considering the framework, but yes, that. Alas.
Thing Three: Went out with Younger Son to see The Hobbit Part the Second last night, and found it great fun, viewed as an action movie with occasional Brooding Dwarf. I reread the book quite recently, and noted how very uncinematic it is, at least by today's standards, so I have no objection to the changes made, though really it was pretty much all changes. I especially enjoyed the hilarious barrel chase, Legolas being ridiculously awesome, Tauriel ditto, the explicitly star-crossed Tauriel/Kili romance, Bilbo sliding around on absurd amounts of gold (which would be extremely painful, but whatever), and Smaug's self-satisfaction. Also Stephen Fry. It's also tremendous fun that they get to reference and foreshadow Lord of the Rings, adding both dramatic tension and little jokes (wee Gimli!).
Thing Four: Also, played some Vienna Teng in the car on the way to the theatre, and ha, how great is it that I can now be the Cool Mom sufficiently to introduce the nearly-20-year-old to music that is not really old and that he likes.
Thing Five: So thanks again for that to
raven and also congrats on being Really Completely Married Now. :)Thing Six: It is almost the end of the year and how did that happen? At least I got one big thing done that was on my list, heh.
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Date: 2013-12-30 08:41 pm (UTC)From:And yay for being a Cool Mom!
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Date: 2013-12-31 10:07 am (UTC)From:Seconded, if "utterly delightful" can be understood to fall within the larger umbrella term "fine".
I'm not absolutely sure yet what I'm doing for my contribution to the exchange. Which isn't to say I haven't started working; I have! Just, on several different projects at once. We shall see how this goes.
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