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[girlofprey]

Some things:

• I accidentally finished Batman: Arkham Asylum, once again while the game was telling me I still had about 20% to complete. I assume it means challenges and stuff? Except that I've done quite a few of those. But anyway. At least the city is safe. Now I have moved on more fully to Kane and Lynch. You may not remember me talking about it before, but rest assured, starting to use the 'Aim' button when firing at people really did help. I was still rubbish at it. But it did help. Especially when I put it on Easy mode. I am enjoying it though. Ironically, I managed to get through a bit of the story, got to one really hard bit and had to go look it up on the internet and how to solve it. It turned out I was doing the right thing, I just had to do it more. But a comment on the cheat forum thing said that after that, though, the game got much harder. And then I went on to complete about three more chapters, last night.
  
  I still hope, someday, to learn the difference between crouching and throwing a grenade though.



• I still can't really stand Leanne in the Carla storyline in Coronation Street at the moment. And once again, like the editing on Monday, I'm guessing that mixing in other storylines and having some people sort of not take much notice of what's happened is part of the plot, part of their handling of the domestic rape issue. I don't know, like the way life sort of goes on even though something terrible has happened, and some people don't take it very seriously. But - was last night really the time? Especially after, as she said, her sister had gone through the same thing herself?
  
  Mostly I think I'm just finding Leanne annoying, because I know Peter's a cheat, and cheated on her a lot at the beginning of their relationship. But she was sleeping with Nick, and nothing actually happened between him and Carla. I mean, we the viewers know there's something possibly going on there, but she doesn't actually know any of that stuff we know. And given that, obviously lying to Leanne about going round to Carla's isn't great, but surely just being worried and upset about a female friend of his being raped isn't like, proof that he's in love with her or anything?
  
  I don't know, I do find the whole triangle thing really odd, but it might because of some spoilers I know that are coming up that I find really weird. Mostly, like I've probably said, I just find it really weird that they would be combining the seriousness of a domestic rape storyline in with the slight sensationalism of an affair storyline. But again - maybe that's their point, to have all the storylines interweave and be domestic and bogged down with each other, all while highlighting just how horrific and unforgivable domestic rape is. I don't know. I'm just finding it slightly annoying at the moment to watch, that's all.



• And at the moment I'm mostly interested in Emmerdale, partly for Amy even though she's being a cow, but partly for the Nikhil/Gennie storyline, mostly because people have suggested it might turn into an eating disorder storyline. Which might be a bit overdramatic, but I think could also be really interesting. And explain a bit of Nikhil's behaviour. I first saw it as a thread on the Digital Spy forums and ignored it thinking it was a spoiler. Then I saw the episode this week where Nikhil ended up going to Gennie's house for dinner. He's always been really into fitness, and running all the time, and being concerned about looking good. But she served up a plate of cheese pasta, and he seemed really wary of trying it, and she assumed he was calling her fat, but he just kept talking about how being firm was "good", and if you workout you don't have to feel "guilty" about eating. Not in a nasty way, just in a sort of quietly convinced way.
  
  I went back to the thread on Digital Spy and it turned out it wasn't spoilers, just some people speculating, but they were saying that they thought some of his behaviour was a bit odd. They pointed out he'd stormed away from a business lunch before they actually started eating, and that he wouldn't eat anything at his brother's engagement party, saying he thought the chicken was off. And Gennie spent a little while worrying about whether he had low self-esteem a few weeks ago. And there were some people on the thread who said they'd had eating disorders before, and had noticed some of the signs in Nikhil's behaviour.
  
  It might not be, of course. It might be Nikhil just being up himself, as he often is, and him being awful to Gennie so she can give up and go off with someone else, just as he realises he likes her, so there's a love triangle thing happening. But it might be interesting if it is. Especially since he's probably closest to Charity at the moment, so if something was wrong she'd probably be the one who noticed it, and he could just claim that she was trying to stir up trouble for him again. And Gennie going off with someone else will probably give his confidence another knock. And his family are coming into it soon. It sounds kind of awful, but I kind of hope it is. Emmerdale's a bit depressing at the moment, but they haven't done an eating disorder storyline for a bit, and it would be more interesting than him just being awful to Gennie and then pining over her. We'll see how the storyline plays out.



• Priti is incredible



• Which reminds me of another thing I kind of wanted to talk about, a sort of race issue in - well visual media mostly I guess - which I have been thinking of as Inexplicably White People. I've talked before about the sheer oddness of Snowflakes (the above webcomic) being set in the Andes, mostly it seems so that the kids' parents can be explorers and they can discover weird ruins and stuff...and yet all of the kids are white, and so are the nuns, and as far as I recall, so is everyone they ever meet outside of the orphanage. In the past week or so, it's been happening in Kane and Lynch as well. One of the characters needs to get something, so he decides to kidnap a Japanese crime boss' daughter to do it. Well, I assume he's Japanese - his daughter's called Yoko, and Kane and Lynch go to her club in Tokyo to find her, and the crime boss is called Remamoto. However, Yoko is clearly a white lady, with blonde hair. So I figure, maybe her mother's white, and she just looks more white than Japanese. But later on you go back to kill the crime boss, and get a close up of his face when he's dead, and he looks pretty much like a white guy as well. It's not a problem with making characters look Japanese, they have no problem with making the henchmen you have to shoot look Asian. Just the characters important to the story, apparently.
  
  Which is just plain weird, frankly.



• And back to the soaps, Hollyoaks remains probably the best one to be watching at the moment, which is saying something. To recap, Brendan Brady, the local closeted, psychotic and much-loved gay gangster, has been set up and jailed thanks to the local serial killer. The fans are up in arms about it - prompting the serial killer (aka George from Drop The Dead Donkey) to send them a message.
  
  Eeeeee.