*Stick head out from pile of textbooks briefly*

[meddow]

I’ve been keeping up what’s been happening on Heroes lately, because I do love that show, in particularly Mr. Bennet. My love of that character knows no bounds. The Heroes writers better not kill off my favourite character, or I’ll…I’ll…whinge about it (and quite possibly get bored with the show and stop watching). I’m not having a very good favourite character year, they all tend to be killed off, and not in particularly brilliant manners either (what is worse – death by stick or death by randomly inserted sentence?). On the other hand, placing HRG in jeopardy is a bloody good way to keep me tuning in every week, and they would have to be idiots to kill him off and I think the writers realise that. After all, there is one general rule to Heroes and that is the further a character is removed from the Bennets, the more boring that character is (there are notable exceptions to this rule, but it holds for the most part). So killing off Mr. Bennet, resident bad ass and father of the year, would be a bad move.

Meanwhile, SJA is having something of a negative effect on me. It’s actually making me consider watching Casino Royale. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned this before, but I hate James Bond movies. This is completely at odds with my entire family and my best friend who happen to all love Bond films, which is probably why I’ve stuck my heels in and have been so adamant that I will not watch them for so long. Basically, when I was about twelve I decided I despised the treatment of women in the films and haven’t really watched one since. But anyway, I found out Joseph Millson, a.k.a Maria’s lovely too-hot-to-have-a-teenage-daughter father is in it. And now I want to watch. Damn it.

Though my desire to watch Casino Royale is pretty much nothing to the fact that having seen the trailer and something about it on TV, I really really want to see Atonement. This is also somewhat artic_fox's fault, since she put it on my radar in the first place. Something to look forward too when I emerge fully of my current assessment hell, I suppose.

Comments

[jadeddiva.livejournal.com]

Casino Royale is not your standard-issue Bond movie. Much more action, less flash, and Daniel Craig is perfect.

[meddow.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I might give it a try.

[artic-fox.livejournal.com]

I agree with jadeddiva - the new Bond is far less of your standard-issue. Less objectifying of women than normal, and Bond is less smooth. I think the term I've used before is "feral", and tends to make a hash on things that previous Bonds would have glided through. Heh. And I think Joseph Millson is only in that film for like... ten seconds. LOL.

Yay, Atonement! I believe it is out soon if my news is correct, and I do recommend the book as well. James McAvoy is amazing.

[meddow.livejournal.com]

It opens Thursday, I think. I'll probably pop along to the movies next weekend to see it.

And I think I'm going to watch Casino Royale when I get a chance, I'm just going to have to find some way of doing it and at the same time save face.