Jul. 12th, 2008

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For some reason, when I write Spider-Man/Daredevil fic in my head, old Hornhead sounds like Matthew Fox in Speed Racer.

Look, no, look, I don't know, alright? But I think we can all agree it's an improvement over Speed Racer?

Spider-Man? He'll always be Rino Romano, although I don't know how much of that is Christopher Daniel Barnes, who apparently actually played the part. Look, my head's a funny place, alright?
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Watching Hellboy 2 – fantastic, by the way, four stars, although the villain gets tiresome at the halfway point and if you’re like me you’ll spend a goodly percentage of the supposed “oh, what a tragedy, alas Babylon!” time thinking “Don’t be so stupid, stupidhead!” Or words to that effect – it struck me that you never really outgrow your storytelling kinks. One of the triangles from Blade 2 make a reappearance in Hellboy 2, right down to Luke Goss playing the same archetype (it’s a good thing they gave him long white hair in this and shaved him bald in that, otherwise you’d think the only difference was that he watched An Inconvenient Truth in the interval between movies).

If you’re me, this is one of the thousand and one things you can worry about as a writer, as I seem to have a fetish for the “hero worrying about what he’ll have to become to resolve the conflict” conflict. I like it, of course, since it’s almost a satire of the usual heroic arc… a hero that starts off light will “mature” into a more serious hero, a hero who starts off dark will lighten into a more at-peace hero (and thus find the “light” preferable). Plus, it makes for an easy contrast. If you take the villain and make him someone the hero doesn’t want to become, then he serves as a cautionary tale. It raises the stakes – if the hero doesn’t do so and so, he’s going to end up like that.

That’s all well and good, you might say, but before you know it, you’re Steven Spielberg and you’ve made a thousand films about your daddy issues. Now, you may not see a problem with being Steven Spielberg, but if George Lucas comes up to you and says he wants the next Indiana Jones movie to have aliens in it, then it’s good to not be Steven Spielberg because Steven Spielberg doesn’t have a good right hook.
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Title: Infamous Last Words
Fandom: JLA
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Bruce/Clark, Diana
Word Count: 861
Summary: The world’s greatest heroes are moments from death. Now is the time for… embarrassing personal revelations?

“We’re seconds from death. Clark, anything you’d like to say?” “At least we had a few laughs.” )
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Because it sounded like a Doctor/Sarah-Jane Smith porn bunny.

Oh, that's right, it was.

DAMN YOU, [livejournal.com profile] box_in_the_box! DAMN YOU TO HELL!

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