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pontisbright ([personal profile] pontisbright) wrote2008-07-27 10:25 pm
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A genius thing of great...oh.

Now I know how all those people who didn't like Act III of Dr Horrible felt.

FONT CONFERENCE! Completely hilarious viral-type thingy about fonts, which managed to be a joke designed especially for [livejournal.com profile] pontisbright until...oh, I cannot even speak of it. But I suspect I shan't be alone in being utterly horrified by the ending? Please? Tis a bit like fandom, where you spend a little while going 'eee, other people who like what I like instead of finding it esoteric to the point of alarm!' and then you discover that otherwisecharming!Bob hates on Troughton. Does this mean there is font fandom? Helvetica/Felix Titling OTP 4EVA.

In other news, I apologise for my inexplicable downer on Blake's 7 S2. Have now resumed Space Panto = Glee mode, thanks to Shadow (little blobs of glass that walk! Cally inna box! Avon and Blake and Jenna in white looking so much like the Bee Gees it made me start singing at the telly!) and Weapon, which (despite the rubbishness of Trav 2: boo, I say, boo!) is bloody magnificent. The Lobster Suit was all I had heard and more. And Carnell...oh heavens...

[identity profile] vandonovan.livejournal.com 2008-07-27 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Will watch the font thing later, but oh, yay Shadow. Vila's character is a bit rubbishi n that one, but I love all the same. The white shirts! The moondiscs! Bek and Hanna! Gan in his Renaissance tunic! Cally getting to do decent stuff for once! Jenna's silver boots! Avon's sentimental about money! Gan calling Orac's name! Vila hiding Orac so well that Avon doesn't even bother looking for it! Horribly dodging looking twin suns and illogical "There IS no night side" lines! etc. Yay!

And, oh Weapon. People bitch about it, but I adore it. I think it's an excellent episode despite Fail!Travis. Carnell is AMAZING and the lines are marvelous and BLAKE HAS A CLONE WHO WEARS THE SAME OUTFIT HE DOES and Rashel is entirely too posh for a bond slave and the Clone Makers have ridiculous costumes even for B7 and the Lobster Suit debuts and HE HAS MATCHING RED HEELS and Vila wears a very very sexy black shirt yay. I am so easy.

[identity profile] pontisbright.livejournal.com 2008-07-27 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I really loved them both, and both in the 'wtf is this deranged plot doing now' cracktastic lols way and the 'genuine enjoyment' manner. Vila's random hangover thing was a bit bizarre (mostly because you never got to see any of the thrills of Space City - though given the name possibly that's a good thing), but I loved the Mafiaguys as a concept - and yay Jacko from Brush Strokes! Those two were so fabulously deadpan.

People bitch about Weapon? Why?? Yes, crap!Travis is really awful, and the double act of the bond slave and the nutter is a bit dull, but oh gods, was up there with Seek Locate Destroy and the like for me. Servalan is awesome, naturally. I did enjoy Blake's clone acting (and indeed coincidental outift). And CARNELL YAY. He made me cry with gleeful laughter every time he was on screen. Possibly my favourite guest star in anything ever, honestly. He even made me not notice Vila in a sexy black shirt, evidently.

I have no idea what are considered 'good' episodes in this fandom. It's quite weird.

[identity profile] vandonovan.livejournal.com 2008-07-28 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, have watched the video. ComicSans could have been played for laughs, but. Yeah. Um. What? I bet whoever did that used ComicSans for something, someone made fun of him for it and then he was like I AM GOING TO MAKE COMICSANS COOL!!!!!111 JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE. Sigh. Fail. Fail.

Still, a very funny video.

and yay for Shadow and the mafia guys and I wish they'd come back and poor budget not showing us how awesome Space City was, but I forgive it because of Freedom City and the Vila/Avon exchanges in Gambit.

I'm not sure why people bitch about Weapon. Maybe it's Fail!Travis or the clone. I dunno. I love it a lot though. Like, embarrassingly a lot. I recently posted about how much I very much love Weapon and some people were like, "..." BUT I DONT CARE I LOVE WEAPON AND CARNELL. WHY DIDN'T YOU STAY FOREVER INSTEAD OF FAIL!TRAVIS. You should totally read this Travis 1/Carnell pre-series fic. It is very awesome yay.

There aren't a lot of shots of Vila in his sexy black shirt but it is both black and sexy.

[identity profile] pontisbright.livejournal.com 2008-07-29 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Your 'but I like Comic Sans so you must all too' is the only possible explanation.

I am baffled by people not liking Weapon. Even if I am presently being distracted by all the nekkid Blake flesh currently on display in Horizon. He's so...muddy. Rawr!

Vila's black shirt > Vila's yellow shirt. Though that's not exactly a challenge.