BeautifulSinner.Net » Sci-Fi http://www.beautifulsinner.net fannish love from a flower of sin Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:49:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The More You Know… http://www.beautifulsinner.net/470/post-name/ http://www.beautifulsinner.net/470/post-name/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:45:17 +0000 Eumenides http://www.beautifulsinner.net/?p=470 We were so close to having an Eleven that looked like some sort of swashbuckler nightmare. Who thought it would be a good idea to have the Doctor look like a Capt. Jack Sparrow clone? (Have I told anyone how much I hate pirates? No? I effing hate them.) Thank goodness Smith had a love for Tomb of the Cybermen & the second Doctor and made them change to his current outfit. Ah, Tomb of the Cybermen. A good story with lulzy but cringe-worthy moments. Like some of the the bad accents, the asshole American, and personal fave, the tall black manservant of the creepy evil woman who wore pants tight enough to show off his ass and package (Yes, evil lady with a German-esque accent, we know what he’s really for). Who hardly had any lines and walked around looking big and imposing for the most part. (‘I think here’s a gentleman who could open these doors for us.’ Yes, Doctor, ask the big, strong black man to pry the doors open for you. Oh, the ’60s.) But hey, Toby Toberman saved the day by the end of the serial, so that’s something. And it was also the ep that gave us this, so I can’t hate on it too much:

]]> http://www.beautifulsinner.net/470/post-name/feed/ 0 So Long and (No) Thanks For All the Angst http://www.beautifulsinner.net/335/post-name/ http://www.beautifulsinner.net/335/post-name/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:14:57 +0000 Eumenides http://www.beautifulsinner.net/?p=335 I finally saw Doctor Who: The End of Time 1 & 2. Overall, I was less than impressed despite the number of people who raved about how awesome and poignant it was. I had hope for it based on the reactions of others who saw it before I did, but those crumbled as fast as the interior of the TARDIS did at the end of the second episode. It was overblown melodrama even by RTD standards. There was OOC behavior, plot points that didn’t make sense and pairings out of nowhere. And how long did it take Ten to regenerate anyway? It also felt at some points that the writer was channeling some of his own feelings through the characters. Not like that’s ever happened in Nu!Who before. How this two-parter turned out makes me glad it’s all over, which is the sad thing. There were things that I enjoyed about Ten’s run as Doctor, but the last of the specials kind of ruined a lot of Nu!Who for me. I always was a Classic Who sort of gal anyway, but it’s still disappointing. And I’m not so sure about how Eleven is going to be. Let’s hope his behavior was just a bout of post-regeneration psychosis and that the guy mellows out a bit.

]]> http://www.beautifulsinner.net/335/post-name/feed/ 0 Should I laugh or cry? http://www.beautifulsinner.net/69/post-name/ http://www.beautifulsinner.net/69/post-name/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:41:35 +0000 Eumenides http://www.log.beautifulsinner.net/?p=69 They are making one of the worst sci-fi films I’ve ever seen into an anime. Really guys, if you wanted to make an anime, couldn’t you have chosen a movie better than Ultraviolet as a basis? That film was ridiculously bad and should have been on your bottom rung of choices. Well, on the upside, the movie was so awful that the anime has to be better by default. I don’t see how they could do any worse.

View the trailer that tells you nothing of import in all its glory.

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