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So I went to a double bill showing (infinity war leading into the midnight showing of endgame). It was crazy busy, but I think that partly because they only did a 2d (the last two double bill/midnight showings I've done had choice of 2d or 3d, so screen wasn't so packed).

I have very mixed feelings about Endgame. And I am doing this post before going to see what other people thought. So it's entirely my feelings.

( massive spoilers behind here, and thinky thoughts )

Ok so - I have started watching The Orville and OMG *loves*

It's really strange, having The Orville and Discovery at the same time - like, the pilot for the Orville is a bit heavy and v sitcom-y and then literally the next episode they are into serious Star Trek like storylines, and like some heavy ones? The Orville is literally Star Trek: The Sitcom, or more accurately, Star Trek if it was real life. (Like TV military versus every story I have ever heard or experienced. (My great uncle is a now retired training officer in the RAF, Da was in the RAF, and I work in a museum that is part military. I have heard stories people)).

Discovery on the other hand, is Star Trek:Grey Area. On the subject of which, literally the next thing after my last Discovery post? That mid season finale....( spoilers for Discovery )

Non spoilery - I went to see Justice League - it's not bad. I still like Affleck's Batman. The others got a pretty good intro, but there was some weird bits (watch for Diana randomly changing from practical flat shoes to insane heels mid scene - and acquiring a sexy shawl, randomly) - but honestly? Not knowing what was changed by Whedon (though I would guess that extra sexy in scenes with Batman inconsistancies may be his addition) I don't know how much he changed the actual film.

It does work. It's an interesting story, it has pretty good pacing. It develops them all to an extent. It gives glimpses of things, and carries things to hint at links in and out (for solo films)

I could see bits that were v Joss and I could see gaps in the storytelling (I have seen enough Synder films to know his type of storytelling, and it had fragments of what he frames as key things, but others were left hanging a little).

The amazons costume change does not make sense at all (like one of the ladies who plays them was all 'you can see more of my muscles and it was more comfortable' and they argued some of it is ye olde amazons who didn't know how to make armour then, but seriously, I just went to a talk about the Scythians, and I studied Ancient Warfare, that be rubbish folks. Everyone has always been aware of what you need to protect. Plus the worst costumes were actually the modern ones (so 100 years AFTER we last saw them, they decided to reduce their armour, on the people who actually had the job that entails a threat *face palm*) To be honest, if the decent armour from WW was uncomfortable, they should have adjusted and padded to fit a little better. (Not that armour is always going to be comfortable *g*)

It's worth seeing if you want to see more of these characters. If you don't want to give Whedon any more money fair enough (I debated, but decided I wanted to see it, and it not completely Whedon and they have a good racial balance for a super hero team... and it gave me enough cinema points to get my ticket for double bill star wars free :D)

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IN other news it's distinctly soggy. I had to use the motorway to get home (and that was SO much fun - random cone in the middle of the middle lane, just as entering roadworks were it went down to middle lane and flooded fast lane o.O - but the a road I normally use was flooded....it was generally a very interesting drive home)

I shall have to see if I can actually get to work tomorrow morning.....

I hope you are all well - and to those of you in my neck of the north western english woods, I hope you are as dry as you can be!

So we watched this yday, but I was too busy crazy finishing my crossovering fill to type up a review then (this might be a thing? It might not stick, but eh two weeks in a row)

( Spoilers, as last week, for episode three of Discovery )

OKay - so film review time - me and ma went to see La La Land....two weeks ago.

Given all the hype and various comments about it - I wanted to put my thoughts down on here.

My opinion: It's not a good film. It's a badly paced, visually frustrating, oddly plotted film.

It will probably win all the things. If you go see it, expect to get bored/frustrated, especially if you have any investment in female characters. If you go expecting that then enjoy it, great ;)

( Spoilers behind here, just in case )

Ok so - saw Age of Ultron (in 2D because I do not 3D that way leads migraine and being unable to track the first 30 mins....)

Everything behind a cut - to save you all from spoilers and length - this my reaction as straight after as poss - and before reading anyone else's.

( SPOILERS BEHIND HERE FOR AGE OF ULTRON - and probably unpopular opinions? Oh and long... )

So work is still occurring (I have a contract, as a paid member of staff, till december at present, so you know, it'll still be occurring for a little while ;)) - getting used to what I'm doing now (I changed areas, and overseers). But it's nice, getting up and going somewhere every day, even if I get a little o.O from all the human contact.

Profiling class - week one was interesting. I'm kinda amused by the fact that the two main references, are two of the books I got out the library (Holmes and Holmes for american - David Canter for British). It's getting it in my head, because reading the books I was like 'am I understanding this right?' and I've not done so bad. Other people in the class aren't bad (two who may get on my nerves a little - one of whom, considering her reasons for doing it, makes me want to head desk a bit).

Stuff learned:

Profiling = semi educated guessing.

Top down - profiling as done by the FBI in real life - where they base it off what they've learned from real life caught criminals - we had a mini discussion of the pros and cons of it. (Personal bias is a big part of it - it's meant to be objective, but because the interviewer goes in with an opinion, and uses their opinion with what they learned from the interview, it's actually more subjective).

Bottom up - profiling as done by David Canter aka the british way. This is where you work from everyone up to your suspect - working through stuff i.e. who would have a tow rope in their car? - taking anything that's at the scene and working out what type of person would have or do those things.

We did more on the US top down, next week we'll be doing the uk version ;) - we spent most of the time coming up with our victim (murder - unsurprisingly - and teacher was gleeful because we came up with points that make sense, unlike the random stuff he's had before). We're profiling our killer as we go. (You need a LOT of information to get a profile working. Not DNA and such, but other things that seem small, but aren't. Our bullet points of the crime actually raised more 'questions we need to know the answer to' then it produced 'things we know from this'. It's interesting to me, after writing case fic, and still working on coming up with more, because it's pretty much what I've been doing. I don't go in with the unsub in my head, I go in with the victim and crime in my head. I'm discovering the unsub along with the CM team - yeah, it's a weird ass way to write ;))

It;s made me want to watch Cracker even more as well (British show, from the 1990s about a profiler) - but it's getting hold of it. I may end up buying it....

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Shows this week - still need to watch Lost Girl and Haven - have watched Castle and Criminal Minds, and half of Terra Nova.

Castle is still working better for me than Criminal Minds (it's interesting, cos they both started from a similar stand point, from the situations of the last season, but I think Castle is working it more fluidly, it still feels like Castle. Criminal Minds, I'm kinda, well, this is the cue for an lj cut ;))

( spoilers lie beneath for Criminal Minds, 7x02 )

IN other news - I shall be away from LJ for three days - as it is Vampire Ball 2 weekend. No Eliza, sadly though :/ - still it should be fun and it'll be nice to see the lovely badfalcon in person again after a good while ;)

Hope you all have a good weekend :)

OK, so I just finished watching the Castle season finale....

( HUGE EPIC MAJOR SPOILERS BEHIND HERE, COUNT YOURSELVES WARNED, yes that deserves capslock )

HUGE EPIC SPOILERS behind the cut - so if you haven't seen season six episode 18 of criminal minds, don't click.

( weasel's reaction to 6x18 Criminal Minds lies behind this cut )

This would be me posting in reaction to the season 2 finale of torchwood - behind a cut ( spoilers behind here - be warned )

Ok - so behind the cut lies my thoughts and feelings about the end of SGA season 3 and the last episodes of SG-1

( S10 and S3 spoilers )