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Hello. It's me again. It has occured to me that this is probably the first time since I've had a Livejournal or been in fandom that I've had a new Elder Scrolls game, so you probably wouldn't have known what it's like (if indeed you care). This is what it's like, basically. I play them and don't do much else, except truly necessary stuff (maybe).

Things I haven't been watching, especially, since I started playing Oblivion:

• Emmerdale or Coronation Street, except when they were on when I was downstairs eating my tea. Although this is also partly because I've not been terribly interested in much that they're doing lately.


• Spy, despite waiting for it to start since about three or four months ago.


• Misfits.

I have been watching some things though. And they are:

• Death Valley. I've really been enjoying Death Valley. It's not always perfect, and sometimes it's really weird, but mostly I think it's quite good. However, the last episode just had a series of terrible, weird things in a row. Firstly, they had their lesbian character desperately offer sex to her male partner if he would just turn around and sort out the siege that was happening on their police station for them all. The male, black partner, then did turn around and pretty much turn around and with his bare hands sort out the whole siege for them. He sat down, only to have to canonically slightly weird and inappropriate team captain say "Now that's what I call Black Power!". They followed this up a few minutes later with the team captain going over what he'd seen from each member of the team that night, and when it came to the black character saying he'd seen a show of "raw power". Then the black character rather nicely told his female, lesbian partner that she didn't have to keep her promise, obviously. She said she was going to a motel and would meet him at the bar. Then after she'd left, he stood up and kicked a zombie that had what they thought was a dud bomb strapped to it, only for the bomb to start beeping, and then for it to go black on the sound of an explosion. So, out of their six regular characters, they may just have killed their only black character first.
  
  It has occured to me since then that he might not actually have died. In the "Next week on Death Valley" bit, the other characters were going to a funeral, but looking back on it they never said it was his funeral, and they all seemed pretty light-hearted for if a member of their team had died, even for a comedy show. And the office didn't look that blown up. Also, killing the black character (John-John) seemed like a good way for them to get the lesbian character and the female rookie she clearly has a thing for on a team together, but if he's just in the hospital that would probably work out too. So I don't know until next week. But if they have indeed killed off their black character first (or only him, in all of the series). Dude.



• Once Upon A Time. I am quite enjoying this, but I really, really, really hate fairyland. I was thinking we'd only have to go there in episode 1, to set up the plot and explain the curse. But we keep going back there. And I hate it every time. This week's trip was a bit less fug than usual. But it was pretty much incessantly about Snow White and Prince Charming. WHO WERE NOT ACTUALLY SNOW WHITE AND PRINCE CHARMING. NOT EVEN THE WEIRD DISNEY VERSIONS THEY'D BEEN USING PREVIOUSLY. What is the point of making a show about well-known fairytale characters, and then just changing the stories and making them completely different characters? What? I sort of like Snow White, but I mostly like her being sad and having ridiculous hair. Not either of her fairyland selves.
  
  But mostly I just care about the actual, present-day plot, and the different, Storybrooke versions of the fairytale characters (WHO I ALREADY KNOW ABOUT), and the actual curse and how Emma is going to break it. And they keep dragging us back to fairyland. I want them to do less of that, but I get the feeling they aren't going to. Askdfjskf.
  
  Mostly though, I am just assuming that the Evil Queen's one true love was Snow White's mother, who died in childbirth with her. So Snow White's whole existence really is unbearable for her, and also because I can't think of any other way Snow White could have ruined the Queen's life when the Queen was Snow White's age. Although I'm probably just being rubbish with ages again. It's what I'm assuming though. And I will be AFFRONTED if it doesn't turn out to be true.



• Grimm. Well. This is a weird one. The pilot really was very odd - they seemed to have a lot of moments where they thought something dramatic was happening, but it really wasn't that dramatic. It seemed more like an editing or a pacing issue, or a 'trying to fit everything into a one-hour pilot' issue, because it wasn't bad really. I think they're doing a decent job of trying to work fairytale themes into a real-world, crime/horror setting, making them quite scary and gritty and everything. But could do better, obviously. The main guy's pretty weird and blank too though. He really reminds me of Simon from Firefly, and I know lots of people love Simon, but I always found him quite dull, so having that reminder whenever I look at the main guy isn't really helping. But he wasn't great all by himself, obviously. Mostly in the pilot I liked the reformed Blutbad (?) guy. But I knew that from the trailer, and also partly from the fact that I tend to like the big bad wolf and big bad wolf-type characters (although I didn't like the one who was a child murderer). So it's not like it was a huge suprise.
  
  I really enjoyed the second episode more though. It seemed a bit more settled down, we weren't constantly having to look at the main guy's face while he found out new and amazing things about his life/the world were true. The Blutbad guy came back. The father of the Jagerbear family's main reaction to Nick was "Ugh, a Grimm. We aren't doing anything illegal. JUST GO AWAY". It wasn't a woman in peril for the majority of the episode. I enjoyed it a lot more, and way more than I did this week's episode of Once Upon A Time. Which, considering that show is all about women, and Grimm barely has any in it, is kind of a shame. But this show doesn't have hideous fairyland. So in another way it's probably fair enough. Anyway. So I enjoyed the second episode of Grimm much more than the first, hope it stays this good or gets better, and I sort of hope that Once Upon A Time improves and gets less boring. Yay.



• I have caught up on all of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic that has been aired so far. I quite like it. I like Rainbow Dash the best. Twilight Sparkle kind of freaks me out with her slave-having, mind-controlling ways sometimes. But mostly I like it. But I don't really have anything to say about it. But it is lovely.

I also haven't been to see many films lately, and now a bunch of the ones I did sort of want to see have gone out of the cinema. But the ones I have seen in the past few weeks are:

• The Adventures Of Tin-Tin. Gay. Is all I can really say. INCREDIBLY GAY. In terms of the animation, I spent most of my time being really impressed with the bodies and the movement, and then completely horrified by the faces. But apart from that, it was just the gayest thing I have ever seen. I mostly like enemy pairings, and my brain really did try it's hardest to slash Tin-Tin with the villain (and not just because I was pretty sure he was voiced by Daniel Craig), but it was obvious even to me that the real pairing was Tin-Tin/Haddock. I don't know which bit was slashiest. The bit where Tin-Tin assumes Haddock has been drinking and sounds all betrayed, or the bit where they're kneeling down together, staring into each other's eyes, and rapturously repeating the line "When you come to a wall..." "...just push through it!". So yes. I quite enjoyed it. There's a mysteriously small amount of slash around the place for it, though.



• Tower Heist. I actually quite enjoyed this. I'm not going to pretend I didn't mostly go to see it because Casey Affleck was in it, and there was a point near the beginning where I noticed that it was written by Brett Ratner, and I worried that I'd accidentally made a huge mistake. But I quite liked it. There were a bunch of plot holes, like a magical disappearing FBI Agent. But the acting was good, the story was properly funny and tense, and it was nice and ensembley. Odessa was wicked. And Casey Affleck was good. So I really enjoyed it. Also, A GOLD CAR. Win.

In real life, some other things have happened. There was Halloween, and then my dad's birthday and Bonfire Night. We went out for a meal at a restaurant/pub and then went out to the bonfire they were having. I had to spend time with my sister, but I mostly ignored her and it was pretty okay. I filled in an application for a job with the help of my employment coach, and sent it off. I haven't heard back from them, but apparently it had a really late ending date, so I might still hear back from them, who knows. I started counselling, and it went fine, but it got cancelled this week, so I've only had one session so far. And this weekend I'm planning on going to an art market to pick up a necklace that's been made for me.

And Halloween and Bonfire Night are over, and it is currently the period I count as "Christmas". And my mum dropped the bombshell about a week ago that my sister, who's due to give birth in a few weeks, will probably have to stay with the baby in the hospital for five days after it's born, and with Christmas coming her partner can't afford to take time off work, so we will probably be having both my nephews living with us for those five days. Which I'm not exactly looking forward to. But I'm sure it will all be fine. Probably. And that is basically everything that's happened in my life lately.