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ivyficI finished watching Tin Man last night. Oh dear god the plot holes. Trying to make sense of the timeline hurt my brain. And this is totally a nitpick but what ended up bothering me the most, so there's an eclipse in a few days, right? Stop talking about the moon rising at night. An eclipse means it's the new moon, the moon rises during the day. The moon's not going to rise at midnight, you don't need to wait for moonrise. The moon's not rising till the day! Do you people know nothing about astronomy?
*hem*
Parts two and three redeemed themselves for me a lot. Glitch was a lot more whimsical in part two. Though they didn't develop it as much as I would have liked, yes to DG being responsible for her sister's possession and all the misery that has happened since. Yes to Dorothy Gale being a mythic figure—as I said, she's Oz's King Arthur.
I still have a problem with parents that name one daughter Azkadelia and the other DG, though. Other things I have problems with:
-DG learns the people she thinks of as parents are robots and she completely throws them over. No angst over them being her real parents and the others being bio parents. It's like the fifteen years with them didn't happen.
-So, Cain stops his son from killing Zero cause it's wrong, then locks him in the tin man. And his son agrees with him that it's the right thing to do, and Adora (Adora?? Like She-ra??) would be proud of them for their restraint and mercy. What???? You used the instrument of oppression—the one you kept around to remind yourself what you were fighting against—and think it's merciful? Not even a ping on your conscience that you might be becoming like Zero? And what was with that line about oh, we'll come back and get him unless we die tomorrow, in which case he'll just have to stay here forever. Oh, well. It was fitting, it was poetic justice, but it was revenge. Trying to sell it as morality was so not right.
-What was with the man-boobs on the head scientist? That skin-colored pleather shirt was such an unfortunate costuming choice.
-If DG could expel the witch from Azkadelia by holding her hand, why didn't they try that in the first place? Why all these machinations and plans?
-The timeline really doesn't work. DG was sent to Kansas fifteen years ago, she's twenty now, which would make her five or younger in all the flashbacks. They keep talking about the fifteen years of torment since Azkadelia's been in power, but fifteen years ago she was a girl, and they show the coup as occurring when she's an adult, making it no more than five or so years ago. And don't even get me started on the "since that was a sapling" thing with Cain and how he can't have flashbacks about his wife's death since he wasn't there and didn't know about it. It just makes no sense.
I quite liked some of Azkadelia's outfits. (Particularly that leather coat/dress with the train and the shoulders. Not many people can pull that off.) Not so much the outfit with the gold shoulders, though. If she raised her arms, she'd squish her head.
Mostly though, I entertained myself while watching with the Glitch/Cain. I mean, come on—Glitch was pinging of Cain like crazy. And they're perfect for each other! Both are broken men who've suffered terribly. They balance each other completely—Cain's too serious and Glitch too whimsical. Glitch clearly needs a protector and Cain clearly needs someone to protect. Classic odd couple romantic pairing.
Don't get me wrong—I'd never write this. I probably wouldn't read it either; the world's not interesting enough to want to explore. But if someone wants to write the great Glitch/Cain Glitch-gets-his-brain-back epic? I'd totally read it.
(Where Glitch and Cain get together, but then Glitch gets his brain back and becomes Ambrose again. And suddenly he's serious and full of himself and not the Glitch Cain fell in love with. And he's a genius, and advisor to the queen, and an incredible fighter and dancer, and he's so in love with his regained abilities he loses his humility entirely and leaves Cain to go be DG's advisor. And then he starts to miss his former whimsy and realizes he liked being Glitch and can't be serious all the time and is all angsty, and then he crawls back to Cain and they live happily ever after. Not that I've thought about this or anything.)
I'd read that. If, you know, anyone wants to write it.
*hem*
Parts two and three redeemed themselves for me a lot. Glitch was a lot more whimsical in part two. Though they didn't develop it as much as I would have liked, yes to DG being responsible for her sister's possession and all the misery that has happened since. Yes to Dorothy Gale being a mythic figure—as I said, she's Oz's King Arthur.
I still have a problem with parents that name one daughter Azkadelia and the other DG, though. Other things I have problems with:
-DG learns the people she thinks of as parents are robots and she completely throws them over. No angst over them being her real parents and the others being bio parents. It's like the fifteen years with them didn't happen.
-So, Cain stops his son from killing Zero cause it's wrong, then locks him in the tin man. And his son agrees with him that it's the right thing to do, and Adora (Adora?? Like She-ra??) would be proud of them for their restraint and mercy. What???? You used the instrument of oppression—the one you kept around to remind yourself what you were fighting against—and think it's merciful? Not even a ping on your conscience that you might be becoming like Zero? And what was with that line about oh, we'll come back and get him unless we die tomorrow, in which case he'll just have to stay here forever. Oh, well. It was fitting, it was poetic justice, but it was revenge. Trying to sell it as morality was so not right.
-What was with the man-boobs on the head scientist? That skin-colored pleather shirt was such an unfortunate costuming choice.
-If DG could expel the witch from Azkadelia by holding her hand, why didn't they try that in the first place? Why all these machinations and plans?
-The timeline really doesn't work. DG was sent to Kansas fifteen years ago, she's twenty now, which would make her five or younger in all the flashbacks. They keep talking about the fifteen years of torment since Azkadelia's been in power, but fifteen years ago she was a girl, and they show the coup as occurring when she's an adult, making it no more than five or so years ago. And don't even get me started on the "since that was a sapling" thing with Cain and how he can't have flashbacks about his wife's death since he wasn't there and didn't know about it. It just makes no sense.
I quite liked some of Azkadelia's outfits. (Particularly that leather coat/dress with the train and the shoulders. Not many people can pull that off.) Not so much the outfit with the gold shoulders, though. If she raised her arms, she'd squish her head.
Mostly though, I entertained myself while watching with the Glitch/Cain. I mean, come on—Glitch was pinging of Cain like crazy. And they're perfect for each other! Both are broken men who've suffered terribly. They balance each other completely—Cain's too serious and Glitch too whimsical. Glitch clearly needs a protector and Cain clearly needs someone to protect. Classic odd couple romantic pairing.
Don't get me wrong—I'd never write this. I probably wouldn't read it either; the world's not interesting enough to want to explore. But if someone wants to write the great Glitch/Cain Glitch-gets-his-brain-back epic? I'd totally read it.
(Where Glitch and Cain get together, but then Glitch gets his brain back and becomes Ambrose again. And suddenly he's serious and full of himself and not the Glitch Cain fell in love with. And he's a genius, and advisor to the queen, and an incredible fighter and dancer, and he's so in love with his regained abilities he loses his humility entirely and leaves Cain to go be DG's advisor. And then he starts to miss his former whimsy and realizes he liked being Glitch and can't be serious all the time and is all angsty, and then he crawls back to Cain and they live happily ever after. Not that I've thought about this or anything.)
I'd read that. If, you know, anyone wants to write it.
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Date: 2007-12-06 02:44 am (UTC)HAHAHA! Too right!
Knew there was a reason I loved him... *G*
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Date: 2007-12-06 09:42 pm (UTC)I guess if your last name is "Cummings" you just gotta go with it or be miserable your whole life.