doing the 'Peter Jackson is God' dance

Have seen Two Towers Trailer. Officially want Peter Jackson's babies, just for the way he puts together trailers... :sigh:

And Eowyn. Oh my. Eowyn. I heart Eowyn. So very much. Eowyn is not Arwen, not a Mary Sue, and kicks booty. Also does the pining thing, the 'get off me, slime' thing, and eventually marries Faramir. I'm seeing a new role model for little girls. :counts off: So that's Miss Piggy, Sigourney Weaver, Wednesday Addams and Eowyn.

Faramir/Eowyn is a wondrous, beautiful thing among het/canon couples. Meeting of minds, equals, etc, etc, plus it's got that thing of him adoring her for ages and she finally comes to her senses and realises Aragorn is only ever going to have eyes for Arwen. Heather proceeds to stick fingers down throat after mentioning Arwen Sometimes I wish Aragorn had gone for Eowyn rather than Arwen but then Eowyn wouldn't go for Faramir.... and Faramir/Eowyn is a lovely, wonderful thing. I think the E/A thing was mostly the general 'dammit, I want the hero projection' thing, and since I adored Eowyn and thought Arwen was a nancy... you can see where I'm going.

Will someone tell me what the single-photo shots of the Mary-Sue like one were for during the trailer? They seemed to serve no purpose whatsoever, unlike Legolas, which was purely to satisfy the female viewing audience :g: (PJ knows his audience, all right...) Battle scenes! :bounce: Battle scenes!

Wormtongue... eyergh. Perfect. Unbelievably creepsome, just like he should be. Meg and I have agreed that Wormtongue also has that anti-hero worshipping/slimey adoration of Saruman going on, part of why he snaps at the end. Ickety but true to Tolkien.

But last and definitely not least : "It's ours and we wants it back! Nasssty thieving hobbitses." :does the dance of the Gollum fan, which I believe everyone is. Damn near everyone does 'My Precious' imitations in the cinema:

My own. My love. My own. My love. My Preciousssssssss....

I heart this test.

Which annoying B-list celebrity are you?

hmm. and I made Megs hurt her ribs again. mwhahaha

was reading witchqueen's essay on race and slash - here - read all the comments as well.

Aside from the whole ping factor, which is a major part of it, was thinking about the UK version of this. there is bugger all slash where one of the characters is black/asian/arab. Partly ping, partly bloody lazy. Vaughan Rice in Ultraviolet is just not slashable in any way, shape or form. Marquis de Carabas in Neverwhere is eminently slashable, but we never do it. The only characters I can think of slashed in the UK are Nasir (Robin of Sherwood) and Jax (The Professionals). That's... short.

Talked to Meg about this, then Goodness Gracious Me, (where they slash themselves and have that wondrous 'Couldn't you find yourself a nice Indian boy?' sketch) and then Grandma came into my head. Witness the horror.

SaltwaterVice: oh, god, now I've got images of the grandma going "Slash? Ha! I could make it at home for nothing! All I need is two lovely boys, a pinch of chemistry, some lube and a smallllllll aubergine."
SaltwaterVice: small aubergine. oh dear god.
KakkoiiDustergrl: my. ribs. still. hurt. you *bitch*.

:whistles innocently: done this to Meg and her ribs several times today. First there was the rant about the line on this months Boromir pic being utterly unsuitable -
"Let's hunt Some Orc?" feh. should be
SaltwaterVice: "Sooooo, who wants to blow this next?'
KakkoiiDustergrl: ....
KakkoiiDustergrl: my ribs! you *bastard*
SaltwaterVice: :g: It's what I specialise in.
SaltwaterVice: Only those able to handle big weapons need apply.
KakkoiiDustergrl: owwwwww.

Then the realisticness of mpreg in the LOTR verse with deference to species...
SaltwaterVice: then someone spoiled it by pointing out that hobbits are mammals, which since the general record for mpreg is pretty much seahorses and the like only, they'd come down on the side of 'not possible, matey'.
KakkoiiDustergrl: *snerk*
SaltwaterVice: though the pratchett fans pointed out the whole Pratchett thing re: dwarves was the most likely - who can tell what sex they are beneath the beards, helmets and chainmail? Gimli may be female.
SaltwaterVice: terrible shock for Legolas, that.
KakkoiiDustergrl: oww. ribs..can't laugh..

I rule.