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So, at 9 o'clock last night, my neighbor texts me to say she's going to see "Much Ado" and do I want to go? Which I did, so there I was, going out at 9:30. In the *night*. Without kids.
Very exciting.
We both enjoyed the movie immensely, which is probably not a surprise for me, but my friend is a lit teacher and only a peripheral Whedon fan, so she had no idea who most of the actors were. We both adored Amy Acker--she packed so much into the arch of an eyebrow that we decided we needed to see it again just to watch her exclusively. Her "were I a man" monologue was everything I could have wished for. I wavered on Alexis, thinking that he was playing Benedick a little too broadly, and thus wasn't quite up to what should have been Beatrice's standards, but when the chips were down, he came through with enough intensity to merit her heart. My biggest nitpick was that the modern-day setting made it that much harder to let go of the inevitable oh, please that it was so easy to pass off Hero as collapsing and dying from shame and mortification. In period settings, it's a bit easier to go with it. And there *totally* needed to be more groveling when the truth came out, again with the period. Then again, circling back to "were I a man," dude wrote that centuries ago for a female character, which makes it even better. It was totally worth only getting half my normal sleep, though my Diet Coke consumption is through the roof today.
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rogoblue -- Reed was awesome, as were his suits. :D
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polybigbang. I'm thinking about H5-0, Kono/Danny/Steve. (Or possibly Leverage and Parker/Hardison/Eliot. Or maybe more in the only Trek thing I've ever written, and adding Gaila to my Kirk/Pike. But probably Kono/Danny/Steve.) My Marvel Bang is at that point where I've stopped trying to write what I thought I was going to write and started writing what the story wants/needs to be, which is progress, at least. There's still a lot of pouting at the screen, though. And only about 4000 words. But progress.
Very exciting.
We both enjoyed the movie immensely, which is probably not a surprise for me, but my friend is a lit teacher and only a peripheral Whedon fan, so she had no idea who most of the actors were. We both adored Amy Acker--she packed so much into the arch of an eyebrow that we decided we needed to see it again just to watch her exclusively. Her "were I a man" monologue was everything I could have wished for. I wavered on Alexis, thinking that he was playing Benedick a little too broadly, and thus wasn't quite up to what should have been Beatrice's standards, but when the chips were down, he came through with enough intensity to merit her heart. My biggest nitpick was that the modern-day setting made it that much harder to let go of the inevitable oh, please that it was so easy to pass off Hero as collapsing and dying from shame and mortification. In period settings, it's a bit easier to go with it. And there *totally* needed to be more groveling when the truth came out, again with the period. Then again, circling back to "were I a man," dude wrote that centuries ago for a female character, which makes it even better. It was totally worth only getting half my normal sleep, though my Diet Coke consumption is through the roof today.
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rogoblue -- Reed was awesome, as were his suits. :DOh, and I signed up for
polybigbang. I'm thinking about H5-0, Kono/Danny/Steve. (Or possibly Leverage and Parker/Hardison/Eliot. Or maybe more in the only Trek thing I've ever written, and adding Gaila to my Kirk/Pike. But probably Kono/Danny/Steve.) My Marvel Bang is at that point where I've stopped trying to write what I thought I was going to write and started writing what the story wants/needs to be, which is progress, at least. There's still a lot of pouting at the screen, though. And only about 4000 words. But progress.
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He was my second favorite after Amy Acker. I actually had a moment or two of shipping Beatrice/Don Pedro because of how good he was in the scene where he asks her to marry him.
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How does it stack up against the Kenneth Branagh/Emma Thompson version? (The sole weak spot of which was Keanu Reeves, who despite his very earnest endeavour at doing Hamlet on stage should never, ever be let near a word of Shakespearean dialogue.)
Oh, and you are abut 4,000 words ahead of me on Marvel_Bang, but I just posted the last chapter of "Highway of Diamonds" and AM STARTING TONIGHT. :-)
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I love Branagh's version, too, but this is lovely and effervescent and just generally charming. And goodness knows we're not drowning in decent Shakespeare adaptations these days...
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS PLEASE!
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