Doctor Who - "Robot of Sherwood" - Review

Intro/Spoiler Warning

Yeah so I completely forgot I hadn't done this review until I started listening to The Doctor Who Podcast's review. Whoops. Ah well. It's not going to be a proper review anyway... for reasons that will become apparent.

The following review is for Doctor Who, Series/Season 8, Episode 3: "Robot of Sherwood." If you have not seen it, don't read this review because there are spoilers.

Doctor Who - "Robot of Sherwood" - Review

I am normally one of those people who absolutely loves and adores the comedic episodes of Doctor Who. Normally. With "Robot of Sherwood" this was not the case. I did not enjoy the episode so much as I loved the one-liners and random lines that the episode seemed to be comprised of at times. But the episode didn't make much sense to me as a whole.

I think I've discovered another Doctor-like character in Robin Hood. He's been played by multiple actors over the years. He's largely mythologized. Pretty much everyone knows the story of Robin Hood. The last two points even made it into the episode there at the end. However, in my case, I discovered that I've chosen "my" Robin Hood and all others just make me cringe... sort of, anyway. In the same way that Sherlock from "Elementary" rubs me completely the wrong way, this Robin made me want to smack him. So that had some bearing on me not liking "Robot of Sherwood."

Clara was amazing. I loved the fangirling. I loved how she manipulated the Sheriff. I loved how she dealt with Robin and The Doctor. It was awesome. Also, I love that outfit. I do slightly wonder where she found those hair extensions, but I think that speaks more to how much I wasn't paying attention to much of anything else...

Miscellaneous Thoughts

• About the robots: If you need the gold to supposedly shield/power your ship, why are you letting the Sheriff use some of it to create a golden arrow for a petty trap? Also, what does the gold to anyway? Shield the engines or power the ship? That was contradictory. And why are we using peasants for labor when you have robots?
• The Doctor's stubbornness about Robin and the Merry Men was off-putting and rather annoying, actually. I don't get it. The arguing/banter between them was even more annoying, to be honest, even if it was amusing at points.
• Slightly refreshing to not have a ship from the 51st century.
• What is The Promised Land?

Plot Conveniences

• Tons of flat, shiny plate lying around where they're supposedly getting melted down in order to defeat the robots.
• Castle chooses to wait until a) the Robin/Sheriff duel is over and b) everyone is clear of it to fall down.
• Golden arrow shot randomly at the ship manages to boost the power even though it bounces off and is not shot at the engines at all.
• Peasant labor for defeating robots.

Quotes

"And do people ever punch you in the face when you do that?" - Doctor

"I have no sword. I don't need a sword because I am The Doctor and this is my spoon." - Doctor

"A Miniscope. Yes. Why not?" - Doctor

"I am totally against bantering!" - Doctor

"Guard, he's laughing again! You can't keep me locked up with a laughing person!" - Doctor

"Quickest way to find your enemy's plans: Get yourself captured." - Doctor

"Shut it, Hoodie." - Doctor

"It's not a competition about who can die slower." - Clara

"Thank you, Prince of Thieves. Last of the Time Lords?" - Clara

"Be safe, if you can be, but always be amazing." - Clara

"History is a burden. Stories can make us fly." - Robin

What's Up With Jessie

Uhm... so instead of a usual conclusion, I've decided to do a bit of updating.

I've been watching Xena: Warrior Princess lately. It's fun, though I check out during the fight scenes. They're kind of boring after a while.

I've been repainting some ponies, pictures of which I'll be posting over on my DeviantART... which you can find up there where it says "My Art" or just click the link I made just now. Feel free to look around at all my other stuff, while you're there.

Other than that, I've been working my butt off at this full-time job that's supposed to be part-time. I know I shouldn't complain because at least I have a job, but I'd like to go back to working part-time at my part-time job.

Love ya, Jessie

Doctor Who - "Robot of Sherwood" - Initial Reactions

Intro

There will be spoilers. That is all.

Doctor Who - "Robot of Sherwood" - Initial Reactions

• What's he licking off that spoon?
• Time to stop stalling, Doctor.
• Lights and spinning and that awesome, awesome sound of brakes being left on. :)
• Well you did land in the middle of a forest... you were expecting castles in the forest?
• God, these opening credits are awesome. I'm all mesmerized by them.
• The TARDIS is self-healing. Nice.
• Yeah... good luck with that, Robin.
• "And do people ever punch you in the face when you do that?" - Doctor
• Clara looks gorgeous in that outfit.
• Aw, but sword fighting Doctors are fun!
• Spoon!
• "I am The Doctor and this is my spoon." - Doctor
• Oh, now you've done it...
• Lol. Served you right, Doctor.
• And now you've done is, shout-y man. Shout-y Dead Man.
• The Doctor being wrong is hilarious.
• And we get to add something to the legend...
• "We might be inside a miniscope. Yes. A miniscope, why not?" - Doctor
• So... is Marion dead?
• "I am totally against bantering?" - Doctor
• He didn't even try to disguise himself...
• Did that arrow split?
• Ouch, Doctor.
• Well then. Let's keep having this ridiculous arrow fight...
• Well that was unexpected... Nice design, though.
• "Quickest way to find out the villain's plans. Get Captured." - Doctor (possibly misquoted)
• Yeah, why not just use the robots as labor?
• "Shut it, Hoodie." - Doctor
• "Guards, he's laughing again! I cannot stay locked up with a laughing person!" - Doctor
• Go Clara.
• "It's not a competition about who can die slower." - Clara
• "Thank you, Prince of Thieves. Last of the Time Lords?" - Clara
• Clara is going to get taken. Because Clara totally schooled you guys.
• Fighting Cybermen? Probably not.
• Building golden circuits? For what?
• "It's you plan. You moan." - Doctor
• Oh geez, Doctor.
• You have both managed to fail. And without a mangy dog...
• Way to fish, Clara.
• So slowly taking over the world, then. Joy. Why is it always the world?
• So yay, not 51st Century in origin.
• The Promised Land. W00T.
• The ship made up Robin Hood? That's just weird.
• Uhmmm... why knock in the door like that?
• Yay reflective surfaces.
• Arm everyone with reflective surfaces!
• That's a lot of collateral damage...
• Still with the pudding heads...
• No, really, it doesn't make sense. Why can't he be real? Why are you so dogged about that?
• Not a lovely epic sword fight without some high-up, low footing fighting...
• Goodbye, Sheriff.
• He's not still alive, is he?
• Goodbye, castle.
• Why is that one arrow the thing?
• Of course he cheated...
• That was some unconventional shooting... and what? How is that enough? What? I mean, yay for it blowing up out of the way and all but... what? Why?
• Marion's totally dead, isn't she?
• "Be safe, if you can be, but always be amazing." - Clara
• "Stories can make us fly." - Robin
• Go Clara.
• Well that's a nice sentiment.
• Well go figure that was the girl.

Doctor Who - "Into the Dalek" - Review

Intro

A little bit later than usual this week due to working for most of the day and then being up all night reading Paper Towns by John Green. But here it is, my review for Doctor Who: "Into the Dalek."

SPOILER WARNING

The following review contains spoilers for Doctor Who, Series/Season 8, Episode 2, "Into the Dalek." If you have not seen it, go away. Come back after you've seen the episode. It will do you some good.

Doctor Who - "Into the Dalek" - Review

I will be the first to outright say that I really don't like Daleks. After Series/Season 2 of the new series, Daleks just got annoying and boring. That said, it's probably no surprise I wasn't looking forward to "Into the Dalek." I was sort of wrong in my assumption that it wouldn't be a good episode. In fact, I mostly enjoyed it.

I'll just throw out the bad stuff first. The space battle at the beginning. Yeah, I have a thing about space battles. Don't like them. Get bored during them. The Dalek invasion party bit was definitely a thing that happened. Much exploding and exterminating and unnecessary slow-mo dying. While it was kind of realistic from a battle standpoint, it was where I disengaged from the episode. On second watch, I think I even paused it to go get snacks at the point...

Now on to the better and good stuff of the episode. Let's start with Mr. Danny Pink. At first I thought Danny was a PE teacher. I clearly got the wrong. Not quite sure where they're going to take his character beyond being adorkable with Clara. He reminded me of Mickey Smith a few times there.

Jumping over to Ms. Journey Blue and the disposable babysitters now. Journey was interesting, I suppose. She managed to cover being both sensitive and soldier-y. I'm glad she didn't die or get to go with the Doctor. Of course, due to no casting information about adding her as a companion, we all knew that was going to happen. Also, she just didn't strike me as companion material. Disposable babysitter dude was disposable. I liked the last bit with slightly less disposable Gretchen Allison Carlyle. Not sure what her significance is to Missy, but then we know nothing about either of them so... there's that.

Rusty was alright for a Dalek. He reminded me both of Dalek Caan and the Dalek from "Dalek." Somewhat crazy but able to see the beauty in the universe. I was not at all surprised when Rusty called up The Doctor's hatred for the Daleks. Saw it coming from the moment The Doctor revealed his plan. Of course the creature who hates is going to zero in on the hatred. Not only that, but he's going to find the stuff about his race. Also, Rusty is at least the second Dalek to tell The Doctor he's be a good Dalek.

So while The Doctor is good at hating, I completely agree with Clara's assessment. The Doctor tries as hard as he can to be a good man. Whether or not he succeeds is another matter entirely and sometimes not his fault. No one is perfect.

Overall, I quite enjoyed "Into the Dalek." I've watched it twice before writing this and I have to reiterate that the commercials added in by BBC America throw off the flow of the episodes. Doctor Who wasn't built for commercial breaks. They work much better when not being constantly interrupted.

Favorite Moments

• Clara slapping The Doctor and the entire lead-up to the plan.
• Danny's recollection of his conversation with Clara. Gotta enjoy a good head-desk.
• The Doctor saving Journey in the beginning.
• The fake-out with Missy saving Gretchen.

Quotes!

"An anticlimax once in a while is good for my hearts." - The Doctor

"You asked me if you were a good man and the answer is: 'I don't know.' I think you try to be and I think that's probably the point." - Clara

"Do I pay you? I should give you a raise." - The Doctor

"I am a school teacher." - Clara

"I don't need armed babysitters." - The Doctor

"Don't be lasagna." - The Doctor

Love ya, Jessie

Doctor Who - "Into the Dalek" - Initial Reactions

Intro

First "proper" Peter Capaldi adventure. Annoying as all get-out Daleks to help welcome our new Doctor.  Not entirely looking forward to it.

SPOILER WARNING: Don't read if you haven't seen the episodes. Also don't expect to follow along... my thoughts are random.

Doctor Who - "Into the Dalek" - Initial Reactions

• Oh joy, crashing space ship...
• Hello Dalek mothership.
• Bye bye little ship.
• Oh look, you got rescued by the best ship in the universe.
• Gotta love being held at gun-point.
• Lol. Doctor gets to remind soldier of her manners.
• How nice of you, soldiers.
• And of course we gotta deal with a Dalek... So far, though, not bad.
• Hello PE teacher.
• You're creepy and annoying, Ms. Secretary person...
• Kids are dumb. That's clearly a "yes."
• Wow, Clara. Nice.
• Awkward...
• Also, Danny's not a PE teacher.
• And now Danny's reminding me of Mickey...
• Lol, Clara.
• Lol, I thought they were going out for coffee...
• Doctor, that's so weird... and there's the explanation.
• Of course that's unhelpful.
• A Dalek who wants to destroy the other Daleks. Sounds like Dalek Khan...
• "Do I pay you? I should give you a raise." - Doctor
• "I am a school teacher." - Clara
• "I don't need armed babysitters." - Doctor
• "Don't be lasagna." - Doctor
• Honey I Shrunk The Doctor
• So trippy.
• So nice of the Daleks to build their armor with corridors.
• So now we're naming it? Okay then... Rusty.
• Yeah, don't shoot the living thing. Bad plan.
• That was pragmatic of you, Doctor. I like that, actually.
• Down the LED slide.
• EWWWW
• Daleks eat people? Well then. That's kind of cool.
• So we get some quoting from the Dalek that's been re-purposed from Trek. Well then.
• Rusty is watching you and you have no idea...
• I think you've been played there, Doctor.
• You fixed the Dalek too much.
• Slow mo was not necessary there...
• I love it when things don't go right and people freak out when they were perfectly aware they might have gone wrong.
• So now what are we doing?
• Memory banks. W00T.
• You've gone and made me tear up, Gretchen Allison Carlyle.
• Oh look, TARDIS save once again... or else Missy the insane woman. Damn.
• I am generally unaffected by the Daleks massacring people... seen it fifteen jillion times too many.
• Science!
• Yup. Of course the Dalek would focus on that.
• Goodbye, Daleks...
• You turned the Dalek into a kind of Hitler...
• And that's at least the second time a Dalek has said that to him...
• She's going to try to go with them?
• And that's where he's saying "no."
• I'm slightly disappointed for her.
• "I think you try to be and I think that's kind of the point." - Clara
• Oh geez. That dress on Clara in the preview is awesome.

Doctor Who - "Deep Breath" - Review

Intro

I don't want to do any beating around the bush this morning so I'm just going to jump into doing spoiler warnings and my review. I didn't get much sleep last night, so please excuse any mistakes or whatever.

SPOILER WARNING

If you have not seen Doctor Who, Series 8, Episode 1: "Deep Breath", please do not spoil yourself by reading this review. It contains at least cursory discussion of plot elements and characters. If you have not seen the episode, go watch it and then come back. You'll be glad you did.

Doctor Who - "Deep Breath" - Review

My Viewing Experience

While I don't usually discuss such things, I think at least some of my thought processes and whatnot should be explained before I jump into actually reviewing the episode itself.

I spent most of yesterday immersed in Doctor Who. My best friend and I spent a good chunk of the day rewatching episodes on BBC America, starting with "Hide." She left around 4 to go to work and I watched "The Day of The Doctor" and "The Time of The Doctor" by myself. I still shed many a tear during these episodes even though I've seen both at least twice already.

Then came that blasted "pre-show" nonsense. I will commend BBC America for giving Doctor Who prime billing. However, there was next to no point in delaying the episode for 15 minutes just to have Chris Hardwick and Wil Wheaton chat a bit and feature random interviews with Jenna Coleman and Peter Capaldi. My Initial Reactions last night spent the first two entries being incredibly irate about the pre-show.

Finally "Deep Breath" was permitted to air. My cable had started to do that digital buffering issue thing it does probably during "Nightmare In Silver" and it did not let up during "Deep Breath." So, in addition to various commercial breaks that pretty much killed all the tension, I had to deal with choppy ridiculousness during the episode itself. I was fairly irate to say the least.

I did rewatch "Deep Breath" later in the night on my computer where I had none of these issues. My review was mostly written during and after watching it the second time.

Oh Hey, Here's The Actual Review

Alright, first and foremost, I have a gigantic problem with the way the post-regeneration was handled. But my problem does not rest with The Doctor. No, my problem is with Clara's reaction. Clara should not have had the reaction she did given her history with The Doctor. This is the Clara who knows The Doctor best. This is the Clara who jumped into The Doctor's time stream and met, or at least saw, all The Doctor's faces. This is the Clara who met two younger Doctors independent of her time stream journey. This is the Clara who, despite the repeated line "I don't know who The Doctor is anymore," should not have had such an extreme reaction to the older regeneration.

This is not to say that I don't understand the script/real life reasons for Clara's reaction. I completely understand that there are viewers new to Doctor Who who needed the hand-holding through the regeneration. I completely understand the confusion of The Doctor being "renewed" and yet having an older face. However, given Clara's recent history with The Doctor, she should not have completely rejected this new regeneration as she did before that phone call at the end. It just doesn't make sense from a character stand point.

On an almost complete side note, that phone call and subsequent aftermath was heart-wrenching. I loved it, despite how superfluous it felt. It made my all-day watching of Doctor Who worth the viewing issues. It also came as a surprise. That's never happened before and initially made me suspect shenanigans of some sort.

As for the rest of the plot, I was thrown by the droids. Thrown in the way The Doctor was thrown, except it didn't for a moment click on first watch until the S.S. Madame du Pompadour was mentioned. I'll admit some of that had to do with a rumor of something from "The Talons of Weng-Chaing" coming back this Season. That Chinese droid sent me down that path, to be honest. I was kicking myself on second watch for not realizing these droids were very similar to the ones in "The Girl in the Fireplace." I'm really pleased with this re-imagining of them.

I read a review by Tom Preston last night that sited a lack of horror reaction to the human-skin balloon. I only mention this because it got me thinking about my own reaction to the general gross-ness of what went on in the rest of the episode. I was honestly more grossed out and horrified by The Doctor wearing another person's face during Clara's interrogation scene than I was by the balloon. Honestly, after that, the balloon didn't come as a surprise. No one in the episode was focused on it. No one by the Paternoster Gang, Clara, or The Doctor knew what it was even made of. It was hard to tell from the ground anyway. Yes, it was gross. Yes, it was horrifying. But really, the zombie-droids were a lot worse.

On the subject of The Paternoster Gang, let's go ahead and switch gears to them for a bit. I really enjoyed seeing more of Vastra and Jenny's relationship. The way they work as a couple is so amusing and sweet. I'm not entirely sure why Vastra felt the need to test Clara... again, technically... but then I had a problem with that bit of storyline so... Strax. Strax was essentially relegated to comic relief. That's pretty much where he fits best so I don't have a problem with it. Just mentioning it for the sake of completion. I also enjoyed the brief bits we got the the inspector. He's both clueless and amusing, if superfluous.

Lastly, on the subject of Missy. I'm not entirely sure what to make of her except to say that she's clearly insane. The way she talks about The Doctor reminds me of the way some stalkers talk about their stalk-ees. I in no way think she actually has a relationship with The Doctor. She's there to shed more ambiguity on the "death" of the lead droid. Did he jump or was it The Doctor? I'm sure that will stay ambiguous for a very long time. Personally, I don't think The Doctor pushed the droid, but that's just me.

Also, just to get this out of the way: I don't believe for a second that Missy is either River or The Rani. She can't be River because A) we've said goodbye to River and B) River gave all her regenerations/regeneration energy to The Doctor in order to save him. Not to mention she never called The Doctor her boyfriend. I don't think Missy is The Rani because The Rani just doesn't strike me as the type to ever get herself involved with The Doctor unless she's using him for something. She'd also never refer to The Doctor as her boyfriend. So there's that done and dusted.

Overall, I thought "Deep Breath" did better on second watch without commercials and technical problems. The story hung together and flowed much better instead of coming across as incredibly choppy. I can't wait to see what we've go in store for the rest of the Season.

Independent Thoughts

• The Doctor wondering where he'd seen his face before was kind of cool. Acknowledging the past in at least two different ways with that. Caecilius from "Fires of Pompeii" and Commander Maxil from "Arc of Infinity" essentially referenced there.
• I'm sure The Doctor essentially forgetting "The Girl in the Fireplace" will throw many David Tennant fangirls into a tizzy. Though he never did know the name of the ship so... *shrug*

Favorite Lines

• "No dear, people are apes. Men are monkeys." - Vastra
• "I'm not sure you get a vote." - Clara
• "Still not sure you get a vote." - Clara

Love ya, Jessie

Doctor Who - "Deep Breath" - Initial Reactions

Intro

So... I seriously suck at keeping my blogging promises. Work and non-thinking online activities and chores and shopping keep doing that thing where I end up not wanting to, forgetting, or just not blogging.

However, today marks the return of Doctor Who to our television screens. So I'm doing an Initial Reactions post... which may or may not be the first of the season... meaning I want to do one every week, but I might have to work or something. So there's that...

Watching the final moments of "The Time of The Doctor" while I'm typing this. Probably gonna cry a little bit losing Matt again... because I've been watching BBC America all day. Really looking forward to Capaldi's take. From the small amount I've seen, he's awesome, which I never doubted for a moment. So on to the Initial Reactions! (There are spoilers)

Doctor Who - "Deep Breath" - Initial Reactions

• Ick, pre-show... which I was randomly hoping they'd decided to skip that... Let's just pretend we didn't watch that... because I don't wanna...
• I cannot express how much I am irritated by this pre-show. Good God, just give me my Doctor Who. >:(
• Dinosaur in London. Probably not a good thing.
• Oh hey, Paternosters!
• A choking dinosaur? Oh hey, TARDIS. Poor girl.
• Well who else would it be, Vastra?
• And of course The Doctor is really confused.
• Something always goes wrong with regeneration.
• Awwwwwwwww.... Handles... T_T
• The Paternosters don't know about regeneration? Or at least Jenny doesn't?
• Oooohhh!!! Shiny new titles! That's awesomesauce! New music, too. Awesome!
• Vastra is awesome in this scene. It's cute.
• "No dear, people are apes. Men are monkeys." - Vastra
• Poor Clara.
• And I just have the "Aw cute"s for Jenny and Vastra. ^_^
• Sleep translations. That's cool... unless it's not translations...
• Aw, Strax. Funny as ever misunderstanding humans.
• Well who's cyborg guy? Bad guy, obviously.
• Well go school Clara why don't you, Vastra?
• Now what are you smelling for, Doctor?
• I'm with Clara on this one. Shush, Vastra.
• Lol, Jenny. Good going with that. Vastra has horribly wicked tests for Clara.
• Why is the dinosaur on fire? Why? Poor thing!
• Ouch. Poor Doctor.
• Well okay then... that's one way to use a sonic.
• The carriage bleeps? Don't know how to feel about that.
• Ooh! Poor Clara.
• I imagine a Victorian household would be rather boring...
• What is his gadget?
• Well geez, Strax. Way to suck at pep talks.
• Interesting wandering down regeneration lane...
• Yay for the Scottish Doctor.
• I think Jenny looks rather amazing in that outfit.
• Ya know, for someone who's seen all the Doctor's faces, she's really judgmental of his behavior.
• Fancy schmancy restaurant. Hello Doctor.
• Oh well then. Neither of them placed the ad. How confusing... without time travel.
• Automatons!
• Evil automatons are incredibly creepy. Listen to them tick...
• Oh that's gross and creepy.
• You're in the only colored booth in the entire place, of course it's an elevator.
• He misses Amy. Lol.
• Hello creepy Asian Automaton...
• Oh crap, Clara's stuck... and The Doctor's just leaving her there. That's no good.
• And now she's got to hold her breath. This is a difficult one...
• Much tension on the getting out part... Poor, poor Clara...
• Shit that's a lot of robots.
• Still alive is a good sign.
• Clever Clara.
• Oh, that's disturbing...
• Still not the right person.
• Lovely Victorian Ninjas... with Strax... because the Paternosters are awesome.
• Commercials really kill the tension...
• Those poor policemen...
• Oh joy, a ship inside a building...
• Sounds very much like the clock-work droids...
• Well that's because you parked the TARDIS in front of the portrait and then failed to look at the outside of the S.S. Madame du Pompadour. That's a clever re-imagining.
• That's a clever way to get out of it, Clara.
• So... who was lying then? That's the question...
• No TARDIS. That's not good.
• I love Vastra's dress.
• Hooray, he's back. Which wasn't ever in question.
• Let's reference "Day of The Doctor."
• I LOVE IT!
• Wha?! Oh. Yay time travel...
• Oh geez. Much crying. And now Matt's making me miss him...
• That's a new one.
• Oh Doctor...
• Hug time!
• Well hello, Mr. Automaton. The frick is this nonsense?
• Okay... insane woman much? Missy?
• No really, WTF?

Uhm... Yeah... That Was A Thing... - A Guardians of the Galaxy Movie Review

Intro

Alrighty... so... I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy last night. I'm gonna say right off the bat that my opinion of it is probably controversial in that I wasn't all that impressed. I don't know what it was, but Guardians of the Galaxy just didn't hit me the way any of the other Marvel movies had. I've been attempting to piece together why this is but... yeah... I haven't figured it out yet.

So there's my non-spoiler-y review. The rest of the review is a little oddly structured but it's what I started coming up with at 1 AM this morning so... deal with it.

SPOILER WARNING

The following content is filled with spoilers for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. If you haven't seen it and are spoiler-phobic, you should stop reading right now and go watch it. If anything, you'll be giving Marvel some more money... and also Disney... but whatever. At least go watch it.

Almost Instant Thoughts - 1 AMish

• Uhm... yeah... that was definitely a thing.
• It was a great ride, but forgive me if I'm not singing the usual post-Marvel-movie praises.
• Lord knows I'm all for the lived-in, grungy feeling of my sci-fi stuff, but would a couple of light bulbs have killed them?
• This is probably the Marvel movie I'll go back and watch only once, if only to try and figure out what I'm not getting about the apparent brilliance.
• I laughed at the funny lines, I teared up at one point, I found the post-credits scene funny. But other than that... I'm clearly underwhelmed. My memory of Guardians of the Galaxy at this point is of space ships and shrapnel... okay, and baby Groot dancing. That was adorable.

I didn't do this. Showed up in my Facebook feed.

Even Later Thoughts - Somewhere between 1 and 3 AMish

• Gamora's speech patterns are now reminding me of Kida from Atlantis.
• I think I would have been happier with more Star Lord dancing around being a dork than the space battles.
• Ronan... yeah... I'd rather have had a villain I actually cared about than one who was essentially a big block of nothing. It wasn't even interesting watching him fight... like watching Superman... which I don't because it's boring. (Yes, I know, hate on me for hating on Supes. Go ahead. I don't care.)

Over 12 Hours Later Thoughts

This is where the review gets to be less random... or at least out of bullet points.

I went and read someone else's review of Guardians. It was actually more of a discussion about Guardians vs Avengers... or something. Anyway, you can look at it HERE. Anyway, there's a lot of gushing in it about the quote-ability of Guardians. I gotta say, I didn't find this to be the case. I can barely remember any lines from the movie proper. Seriously, the only line that comes to mind at the moment is Rocket saying "Oh Yeah." when getting his gun in the prison... which was in the trailers so... I don't count it.

Yondu and his crew were pretty forgettable as far as I'm concerned. I thought Yondu's whistle arrow thing was cool but that was pretty much the extent of my interest. I'm honestly more interested in the throw-away line at the end about having been hired to deliver Quill to his father. When was that? Why didn't it happen? Who the hell is actually Quill's father? I'd pick up a comic book or Wiki that to find out but at the same time, I honestly don't care that much.

Maybe that's what it comes down to with me. I just don't care enough about the Guardians of the Galaxy characters to have enjoyed the movie so much. Well... that and the shit ton of space battles. I don't really like those. I'm more invested in the other Marvel movies because I'm more familiar with the characters outside the movies... even if it's pretty much hating them for one reason or another... *cough*Spiderman*cough*

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Guardians of the Galaxy was a great ride. It's a ride I won't rewatch a hundred and five times, but it was fun. I don't regret watching it. I don't regret actually paying for it (I have some free movie tickets coming in the mail and I was gonna wait for those but didn't). I will cherish my memories of watching Star Lord dance around like a dork using a weird critter for a microphone and of baby Groot dancing adorably. But overall, Guardians of the Galaxy fell sort of flat for me.

Love ya, Jessie

On Maybe Starting Up Again

Introduction

Alrighty, it's been a really long time since I last blogged. I'd actually thought I'd gone on Hiatus in December, rather than November. Time flies when work is dragging you through the muck, I suppose.

But anyway, I'm not dead. Still alive, still kicking, still Netflixing the heck out of my evenings. Also reading a lot.

The Sort-Of-Plan

So, as I said in the intro, work has been kicking my butt. However, I'm now going to commit to blogging at least once a week from now on. The day in question won't be a regular day every week, but I'll fit it in where I can. Me not blogging has led to me annoying people at home and at work with incessant babbling about my shows and whatnot.

I will not be going back to reviewing every episode of every show I'm planning to watch, though. That just drained all the fun out of watching the shows when I had the time and then I didn't have time to review them so... yeah... not happening this season.

I might be reviewing some of shows in episode blocks or something. I might be going through the half a season I missed reviewing in half-season blocks. Maybe. I'm not entirely sure.

I might be posting some book reviews. I have been reading, after all. If you want to know what I have been reading, head over to Goodreads and find Jessica Patzer. That's me. Feel free to friend me or whatever.

Where I'm Active

When I'm not blogging, I'm usually much more active elsewhere. Twitter, Facebook, Gaiaonline, Goodreads, Neopets, DeviantART, heck, I'll even check up on Pottermore every once in a while. Find links to my social media stuff over in the "Miscellaneous"  section of the Lists page. I'll actually change that so it has links to my profiles...

The End

Yeah... that's pretty much all I've got for now. Gonna be working on some actual stuff for those of you who've followed along with my blog and have been waiting for an update... Sorry it's taken me so long to get off my butt and do this again.

Love ya, Jessie