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Well, since it is Panda day.



The second that shadow puppet style opening started I was really regretting not seeing this in 3D at the cinema. Or at the cinema period. Good thing for dvds!

( This way for awesome! )

Dreamworks can be forgiven for a cynical Holiday cash grab when it's OMGSOOOCUUUTE! So Much Cuteness! Must Cap Cuteness!

( Cut for spoilers and cuteness )

Part 2

It has Johnny Depp as a lizard.

What, you need more than that?

( See you on the other side. )

The Secret of NIMH contains one of my favorite animated heroines, Mrs Brisby. Even though it was made in the early 80s, it is still remains very unusual. Single parent households are not unique in animated films, it is pretty much a requirement, but what marks this one out is it is not the child who is the hero, dreaming of better things, but the recently widowed Mrs Brisby, a mature woman who's drive throughout the film is to simply keep her family alive. Her youngest son is deathly ill and cannot be moved, but with her home due to be ploughed up she must seek help, first from the terrifying Great Owl, eater of mice, and then the enigmatic Rats of NIMH.

This one is real nightmare fodder, with its impressively intense imagery of danger and death. This is driven home by how terrified Mrs Brisby is throughout, she is no brash, over confidant hero, but in spite of her obvious fear she does it all anyway. And that makes her all the more impressive in my eyes. She is also not an extrovert, large than life character, but quiet and unassuming, with a gentle voice and subtle character animation, who ends up saving the day for her family and for the intelligent and impressive Rats of NIMH.

( Courage of the heart is very rare. )

Blame obsessive_a101. And this conversation over at rememberlaura.



( A totally not reaching comparison. )

A tribute to the true hero of Ashes to Ashes. Spoilers for all 3 series.

( One Car, One Legend! )

The wisdom tooth is on the move again, bastard thing, so I took painkillers and conked out on the couch and watched Up. Big mistake. That movie makes me bawl more than any movie with fun birds and talking dogs really has any right to.



( Anyway, here are some more fun bird and talking dog pics. )

Previously, the Doctor almost scored but then some stuff happened. I guess the world is in peril, I don't know, I can't follow this stuff. It's all very pretty, at least.

( And you thought there was no plot before? )

Ah, the mid 90's. The X Files was in fine swing and we thought that the Mytharc would make sense, a grey man was Prime Minister and Tony Blair was going to save us all and the BBC had a big science fiction/fantasy hole in their schedules. A generation of school children were facing growing up without playing Daleks in the playground.

But who was that coming over the horizon? The Americans were here, specifically the Fox network, with a shiny big budget to fix everything!

That went...well. And to be fair, it was a huge ratings success in the UK, and showed that absence had made the heart grow fonder for the non-Whovian masses. Sadly, it was the US ratings that mattered, as that was were the money was. And it tanked. Boo.

But all this was of no concern for the 13 year old girl turning in that night, obsessed with the X Files and who only had the vaguest knowledge by cultural osmosis of what Doctor Who was all about and fuzzy memories of a monster made out of sweeties and one truly awesome home made Dalek costume that stood in her school's tv room.

She watched a confusing, back story laden, exciting, shiny thing...and fell in love.

( Look! Look at the budget! And many many caps! )

Stealing pictures and making sarcastic comments, the lazy girls meta. Almost as lazy as doing a round up post.


Laura Roslin/Gaius Baltar, (or why Laura Roslin is totally hot, by Gaius Baltar) Battlestar Galactica.

Fannish Five: Top Five Sci Fi Outfits Misc.

Ruth Evershed- Superspy Spooks.

Redheads Do It Best: A Roslin and Scully Picspam. Battlestar Galactica/X Files

A Shaz Love Picspam. Ashes to Ashes

Alex Drake has a very bad day. Ashes to Ashes

Fashion for the Respectable FBI Agent, a Picspam. X Files

A 100 per cent scientific theory in pictures (or delelopements in Laura Roslin's hair). Battlestar Galactica.


This reminds me that I've got that Season 2 X Files Scully fashion picspam to do sometime (big coat of pregnancy hiding, big coat of pregnancy hiding, big coat of pregnancy hiding, Mulder in a Speedo, night gown of failing to hide postpartum major boobage).