Weekend Stuff

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- Watched "This Is Forty" Eh. Just... eh. And not particularly funny.


- Watched that recent Oz movie (as in Wizard of...) and *snooze*


- The news remains too infuriating to watch.


- The news on Buffyforums (AND the discussion there) is just -- grr. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.


- Watched next to last episode of "The White Queen". Yep, still woobifying King Richard, making everything all of the women's fault, and now Princess Elizabeth is a pouty, contradictory teen who blames her mother for everything. Swell.


- Watched Once Upon A Time. Enjoyed it.

* Liked the intro of Tinkerbell.
* Am intrigued by what they're doing with Robin Hood (and his three-year-old, Roland, was adorbs. Poor Maid Marion seems to have bought the farm somewhere though. Guess he lost his "true love" too.)
* I don't believe for a moment that they'll end up killing Prince Charming.
* Liked Mulan needing to talk to someone she loved... and it be Sleeping Beauty. (Though I think that's intended to play ambiguously. Still, they clearly know there are Mulan/Sleeping Beauty slashers around. And Mulan/Sleeping Beauty's relationship with one another has been more important to the show than either of their relationship with Prince Phillip. So I liked the way that was handled.)
* Main plot made progress too. Smart thinking, Neal (though I'm not exactly comfortable with using an adorable three-year-old as shadow-bait.)

All in all, liked this episode.

- A neighbor was fostering a mother-rejected baby goat this weekend. It was absolutely adorable. SO CUTE! My little Zoe would walk up smelling it constantly, like her little brain was going -- it's hanging out with puppies, it looks kinda like a puppy... but it does NOT smell like a puppy. Mom, what IS this?

Heh. Cute little baby goat Gus.


- Alabama fumbled one hell of a lot in the first quarter against Kentucky. That sucked. Though pretty much as expected it was a romp of 47-7 (or something like that) so the fumbles don't really matter (though they still rather sucked).

Also watched part of the Ole Miss/Texas A&M game -- can they PLEASE change that targeting penalty now? Seriously, how many examples do they need that the way that the penalty is written SUCKS? Look if upon review there is no penalty, why in the hell does the team still get a 15 yard penalty? Does this make sense? No. It doesn't. Targeting should be a penalty, but when it's reviewed and THERE IS NO PENALTY they should stop rewarding the other team with 15 yards and a free first down. This has happened to Bama twice this year. It hasn't actually mattered because we went on to win the game in spite of the free first down and the spotted 15 yards, but the Ole Miss/Texas A&M game was won by a field goal in the last three seconds, so if I were Ole Miss, I'd be PISSED that A&M was spotted a free first down and fifteen yards IN SPITE of it having been ruled as there HAVING BEEN NO PENALTY!

And on a lighter note...

From TVGuide.com:

The premise of Sleepy Hollow is absurd, but thanks to its cheeky sense of humor and some genuinely creepy monsters, the freshmen drama has become the breakout hit of the season.

"The key to this world is, if you keep it grounded in this emotional reality it'll feel authentic, but it has to be funny," executive producer Alex Kurtzman said at New York Comic-Con on Sunday. "We know how crazy our show is going to be. We know we are one molecule away from insane every second and that's the balance that were constantly holding."

To combat any potential schtick-iness in Ichabod's (Tom Mison) fish-out-of-water befuddlement, producers explained they avoid playing his confusion as a joke, a practice best exemplified when Ichabod has a sincerely heartfelt conversation with {spoiler} "When you get really, really nice moments like that, the flouncing tart in me just wants to ham it up," Mison said. "That's the biggest challenge. Not indulging myself too much in the very, very funny scripts that we're given."

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Re: Shipping:

Ichabod has his hands full juggling two women: his witch wife Katrina (Katia Winter) and his modern day partner Abbie (Nicole Beharie). "There is undoubtedly a connection with Lt. Abbie Mills," Mison teased of the fan-favorite pairing. "But then there's always in the back of his head, 'Oh my god. I have a wife and she's a witch and I'm going to be in so much trouble."

Huh...

Anyone know what that might be? I don't remember anything particularly explicit in Neverwhere. Some scary bits, but there are scary bits in a LOT of YA fiction. I certainly don't remember anything as scary in Neverwhere as having MAIN CHARACTERS' heads cut off and carried around on other characters belts as happened in the sequel to the Mutiny on the Bounty, as I was required to read (and was traumatized by) in school. And could anything be more depressing than the ending of 1984 (which was also required reading)?

From EW.com:

A New Mexico school district temporarily removed Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere from library shelves after a local mother complained the book — which is required reading at the high school — had mature content. [KASA Fox]