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[cleolinda]

Actually getting somewhere with "Attack of the Clones," thank God. Have been listening to Avril Lavigne all day while writing, which--look, shut up, okay? If it works for me, it works for me. And don't front, "My Happy Ending" is pretty catchy. Besides, I can't resist a song that starts out with the lines, "Let's talk this over. It's not like we're dead." Say what? Way to borrow trouble there, Av.

Points of interest:

The Directorium--a fannish Wiki "to provide a structured, searchable and easily updatable directory of fannish sites for nearly all fandoms and media (fanfic, fanart, vids, zines, archives, screencaps, scripts, etc.)." Not much there at the moment, so those of you with Wiki-editing experience may want to get over there and help out.

A guide on How to Write Good. I know it made me a better writer...

Neil Gaiman is gracious about The Other Beowulf, because he is Neil and that is what he does. *luff*

Question for those of you familiar with the Star Wars universe: Why does Obi-Wan hate flying? He spends most of AOTC being like, "I hate flying! I hate flying anyway, but [your driving] is suicide! ACK, meteors! I HATE FLYING!" The hell? You'd think a prequel would clear up something, not add a new mystery.

Sigh. Taking a dinner break now. Thank God all my Wide, Wide World reading is done for tomorrow. Now all I have to do is wash and dry some clothes while I hammer out some Anakin temper tantrums...


ETA: God, my jaw hurts. I think I've been sitting here too long.

Comments

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Exactly. As as far as I remember, he never mentions it in the original trilogy, either. That's what made me wonder if it came from the expanded universe. Like, a shoutout to the books and their fans, or something. That completely confused the hell out of everyone else.

[ricyos.livejournal.com]

The alternate reason, of course, is that Lucas threw it in just to confuse people. Maybe he was hoping to draw attention away from the *cough* romantic dialog between Ani and Padme.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh God. I replayed the whole "I wub you so desperately" scene by the fire and could. not. stop. laughing. It's so, so awful.

[ricyos.livejournal.com]

It is. I alternate between disbelief ("This is the best he could do?") and abject fear ("This is the best he could do.") when I hear it all.

If she didn't have to fall for him for the story to work, I'm sure she'd have been all over someone else.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

You know what's also terrifying? That meadow picnic where they roll around in the grass like fools. WHAT is that supposed to be about? WHO thought this was a good idea?

I don't know why, but... maybe it's because I'm coming off POTO and having written the "Here's my phone number" Christine stuff, but Padme keeps drifting towards being hot for Obi-Wan in the parody, and Anakin being sort of inconveniently whiny and in her face.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

but Padme keeps drifting towards being hot for Obi-Wan in the parody, and Anakin being sort of inconveniently whiny and in her face.

I could totally see that.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, I think I got that idea partly from just behind-the-scenes stuff I saw. And it wasn't even so much Natalie Portman digging on anyone so much as it was Ewan McGregor making dirty jokes all the time. Or maybe it's just the fact that NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD EVER FIND ANAKIN'S WHINING ATTRACTIVE.

Omigod, I thought I was the only one ...

[(Anonymous)]

I totally thought that Obi-Wan was hot (what IS it with Scottish men?) and Anakin was a whiny boy ...

I even created this whole fantasy in my head that Anakin's accident (and turn into Darth Vadar) somehow resulted from finding out that Amadala (sp?) had the red-hots for Obi-wan .....

Re: Omigod, I thought I was the only one ...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

The only one? Maybe I travel in strange circles, but I don't know a single person who saw AOTC who didn't say, "DITCH THE WHINER! HOT NON-WHINING GUY! RIGHT NEXT TO HIM!"

(Oh, Scottish men. Hurrrrrr.)

Re: Omigod, I thought I was the only one ...

[(Anonymous)]

"The only one? Maybe I travel in strange circles, but I don't know a single person who saw AOTC who didn't say, "DITCH THE WHINER! HOT NON-WHINING GUY! RIGHT NEXT TO HIM!" "

..... obviously, I need to upgrade the people I go see movies with ... :)

Ewan .... grrrr. The person I saw AOTC with commented that he "kinda talked funny". (Smacks head with both hands.)

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Anakin? = OMGSOANNOYING.
Seriously, I can't understand why they had to go and do that - I would much rather have gotten behind someone just totally evil than someone like him.

[ricyos.livejournal.com]

Really. I would have thought someone would have ix-nayed the picnic, what with the assassins and death threats and all.

And you know, I wouldn't be surprised if "anakin" was some ancient word for "whiny brat."

[jaseroque.livejournal.com]

Heheh, I stand by my theory that the costume department took one look at that scene and went "Oh. My. God. We're going to need to distract the audience big time. Quick! BOOBTOP!" I mean, even I couldn't stop staring at those things. They're mesmerising.