I'm still awake, so it's still my birthday
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brennaI got a lifetime supply* of popcorn and some money for being 24! Hooray!
EDIT GOES HERE: Aaaaa I can't believe I forgot! I got a Bronwen Weber cake by surprise, because my mommy loves me. <3 It doesn't have, like, lifelike flowers or astronauts or whatever on it, but geeeeeez is it tasty.
And before and after birthday dinner, I rewatched some Earth: Final Conflict with the family! It was one of the few shows we would make a point of watching when it was actually on TV. It seemed a little stupid now overall (which I expected, since I was twelve at the time), but to my surprise, Lili and Augur held up beautifully. Also the CGI didn't look half bad even now, so I can only assume it was amazing in 1997. I feel like I should remember being impressed by it, but I don't think I really noticed as a kid-- maybe I still expected to be perfectly fooled by everything and didn't really think about judging it one way or the other? But no, I've always loved behind-the-scenes stuff on special effects and whatnot, ever since that one featurette on the Wizard of Oz where you learn that that something like half the main actors nearly died from them, so I guess I have no innocence after all and I don't know why I seem not to have dedicated any brainpower solely to drooling over the glowy purple alien technology. I did love the ships and the buildings and things, but as objects, not as effects. -- So anyway, there was that, and even the less-impressive parts still provided hours of Mystery Science Theater fun ("So is Boone the protagonist here? I'm not sure"), and we all had some great nostalgia time.
...Lili and Augur. Man. I remember discovering the in-character website they'd set up for Augur. I showed my mom. And then at some point they started selling merchandise in the Sto'or. Great stuff. And yes, Lili was kind of a glorified chauffeur of the obnoxious LOL WATCH OUT THIS GIRL WILL KICK YOUR ASS** variety, but at least they surrounded her with characters who already respected her instead of wasting everyone's time making her prove herself to people.
...Hm. Now that I think about it, E:FC is the only thing I can think of right now that I've been into without imagining some elaborate self-insert version on the side. I guess the Complicated Intrigue and Danger:Cool Magic and Toys ratio was unfavorable.
Unrelated but I just thought of them for some reason:
Lightning!!! and
Coming in Like El Niño!, two real essays by Jeremy Lavine.
* Seriously though, several months' worth
** - WHICH WE BET YOU DIDN'T EXPECT BECAUSE SHE'S A GIRL - C'MON ADMIT IT YOU HAD EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A WOMAN AND WE DEFIED THEM
EDIT GOES HERE: Aaaaa I can't believe I forgot! I got a Bronwen Weber cake by surprise, because my mommy loves me. <3 It doesn't have, like, lifelike flowers or astronauts or whatever on it, but geeeeeez is it tasty.
And before and after birthday dinner, I rewatched some Earth: Final Conflict with the family! It was one of the few shows we would make a point of watching when it was actually on TV. It seemed a little stupid now overall (which I expected, since I was twelve at the time), but to my surprise, Lili and Augur held up beautifully. Also the CGI didn't look half bad even now, so I can only assume it was amazing in 1997. I feel like I should remember being impressed by it, but I don't think I really noticed as a kid-- maybe I still expected to be perfectly fooled by everything and didn't really think about judging it one way or the other? But no, I've always loved behind-the-scenes stuff on special effects and whatnot, ever since that one featurette on the Wizard of Oz where you learn that that something like half the main actors nearly died from them, so I guess I have no innocence after all and I don't know why I seem not to have dedicated any brainpower solely to drooling over the glowy purple alien technology. I did love the ships and the buildings and things, but as objects, not as effects. -- So anyway, there was that, and even the less-impressive parts still provided hours of Mystery Science Theater fun ("So is Boone the protagonist here? I'm not sure"), and we all had some great nostalgia time.
...Lili and Augur. Man. I remember discovering the in-character website they'd set up for Augur. I showed my mom. And then at some point they started selling merchandise in the Sto'or. Great stuff. And yes, Lili was kind of a glorified chauffeur of the obnoxious LOL WATCH OUT THIS GIRL WILL KICK YOUR ASS** variety, but at least they surrounded her with characters who already respected her instead of wasting everyone's time making her prove herself to people.
...Hm. Now that I think about it, E:FC is the only thing I can think of right now that I've been into without imagining some elaborate self-insert version on the side. I guess the Complicated Intrigue and Danger:Cool Magic and Toys ratio was unfavorable.
Unrelated but I just thought of them for some reason:
Lightning!!! and
Coming in Like El Niño!, two real essays by Jeremy Lavine.
* Seriously though, several months' worth
** - WHICH WE BET YOU DIDN'T EXPECT BECAUSE SHE'S A GIRL - C'MON ADMIT IT YOU HAD EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A WOMAN AND WE DEFIED THEM
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Date: 2009-07-04 04:51 pm (UTC)