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Mar. 25th, 2009 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsSo Bruce Willis married some hot model over the weekend. Now she and Ashton are the same age, so given Bruce is seven years older than Demi, the age difference is bigger. But for some reason it doesn't seem that the media is making it out to be as scandalous. Is it because he married her when she was in her 30s, whereas Demi started going out with Ashton when he was in his 20s and still a teen star? Or is it that double standard?
Actually its weird, because it kinda flips once depending on which side of the legal age limit you're on. Like the whole teacher messing with a student thing- when its a chick teacher involved with a male student people aren't as vehement at the teacher as they would be if it were a male teacher taking advantage of a female student. And I just caught myself doing the double standard- even though both cases an older person is taking advantage of a younger one, I only referred to it as "taking advantage" with the guy being the older one and said the older gal and boy were "messing around". And even though the two teachers did the same thing, the male one is way more vilified. But once everyone's all legal, the whole cougar thing is a phase, just some lady getting her rocks off, its usually not a relationship of substance or consequence. But its socially accepted for an old man to marry a chick 50 years his junior. But even then, the young man is prolly congratulated as a stud, he's just having fun, while the chick would prolly be called a gold digger, and the only reason she could be doing a guy that many years older than her is because she wants something.
Cool, IGN has a preview up of the new GIJoe game. The graphics don't look phenomenal, but they're not too bad. So it looks like the playable characters they have so far are Duke (the movie one, in the "accelerator" suit", which makes him look out of place compared to the rest of them), Snake-Eyes (because you can't have a Joe game without their resident bad-ass commando/ninja), Gung-Ho (the ragin' Cajun marine), and Heavy Duty. Those who grew up with the Joes in the 80s and 90s would know him as Roadblock. Actually, its confusing, because there is a character from back then also called Heavy Duty, and they made them cousins. But Roadblock is of course the huge black guy/heavy machine gunner who spoke in rhyme in the cartoon, who's whole schtick was he was a good cook, but couldn't afford to go to a fancy cooking school, so he was working as a bouncer to get the money when an army recruiter was all, "The army can teach you to cook as well as any fancy French cooking school!" And for some reason, he believed them. Heavy Duty on the other hand, while also a huge black guy, was an anti-armor specialist as well was a guitarist and classical pianist. He was extremely well coordinated, and his weapon was this ridiculous double cannon/missile launcher set up which with his coordination and rhythm, allowed him to conduct a symphony of explosive death. (Why do I know so much about inconsequential fictional characters?!) Now, apparently "Roadblock" is trademarked now, so they can no longer use the name, but they can use Heavy Duty. And Roadblock is the one more fans like, so they just shunted the codename to him. The new IDW reboot series seems to be doing that as well, or so I hear.
Anyways, onto the game. I like the new updated S.N.A.K.E, but the new B.A.T. looks kinda generic. As I mentioned before, they chose the movie look for Duke, and Roadblock/Heavy Duty seems to be a hybrid of traditional and movie, given he has the "Jax" looking arms. He's also wielding a gatling gun instead of his traditional M2 .50 cal, but gatlings do look cooler. Snake-Eyes looks mostly like his 2nd figure look, with the knight visor. I actually think Gung Ho looks the closest to his original look, except he's not running around bare chested with the open vest to show off the giant Marine Corps tattoo on his chest, he's got a shirt on with the vest closed so its actually providing protection, But his traditional weapon was also updated. He's a grenadier, so back in the 80s, he carried around the old M-79. But now that its the oughts, he's updated to the M-32 MGL. Which makes sense, because why carry around a break open single shot grenade launcher, when you can use a 6 shot revolver type weapon and really send a world of hurt down range in a matter of seconds. Plus, the MGL can utilize special heavier rounds.
TV commentary:
One Tree Hill: Ha, so Dan is in the hospital, getting ready for a heart transplant, and the guy carrying the heart trips over a dog leash, spilling the heart onto the floor, and the dog eats it?! That is just so ridiculous that it actually is funny. But it looks like the movie got canceled, and though Dawson is a prick for most of the ep, it turns out he filmed a quick shot the night before, so Julian and Lucas do end up getting the production bonuses they thought they weren't getting. Well, now that he has 300k, there's proof that one of them is rich. Because they all act like they're infinitely rich. Like Brooke, didn't she lose her company to her mom, but now she's raising not one but two teenagers? And Hayley got fired, and she's not worried, like they can live on Nathan's salary, even though he only just started playing b-ball again, and its not even for an NBA team! And Peyton runs this music studio even though it seems she only has the one client, Mia. I guess its just a show, but still.
NCIS: I had a feeling the daughter was involved with the shooting. Its like they show her for a bit in the beginning, and she's totally not seen for the next half hour, its like gee, could she have something to do with the big denouement? I thought at first it was gonna be something like the dead guy did something to her and the brother killed him to protect her. But I guess its the dead body guy was bullying her best friend, so he killed himself, and she tried to show the bully guy the gun he used, but just to threaten him, and the gun accidentally went off? I guess I'm confused if it was all a weird coincidence that the brother found the gun and the body, or if he was covering up for her all along, because his friends seem totally clueless about it even though they found the body together. Like why would he show them the body and take the gun and then move the body later unless he knew his sister had something to do with it?
Reaper: Interesting, they've mentioned before about the demons being fallen angels with the two gay dudes, but I guess they're bringing it up again with Nina. Like Ben thinks she's disgusted with his human form and that's why she's distant, but its because she loved a human once when she was an angel, but then after she was caught she was cast out and her husband killed, and she doesn't want to get close to him and then lose him?
And I'm trying to figure out if the Devil has outright said Sam is his son, or just acts like he is. Because I can see him playing Sam to use him for some end. But then he says stuff like taking the best qualities of Sam and putting it in his other son to make the perfect son, so its like he really does think of Sammy as a son. And then he also talks about having Sam succeed him instead. Wait, he does refer to them as half brothers when he's first introducing them. So is that the first time he's outright said it as opposed to inferring it. I mean, Sam thinking he might be the devil's son and the devil not saying anything to dissuade him is one thing, but calling his actual son Sam's half brother is a pretty big admittance.
Ah, and Sam bumps into his human father at the end, I wonder if we'll get more illumination on the subject next week?
Actually its weird, because it kinda flips once depending on which side of the legal age limit you're on. Like the whole teacher messing with a student thing- when its a chick teacher involved with a male student people aren't as vehement at the teacher as they would be if it were a male teacher taking advantage of a female student. And I just caught myself doing the double standard- even though both cases an older person is taking advantage of a younger one, I only referred to it as "taking advantage" with the guy being the older one and said the older gal and boy were "messing around". And even though the two teachers did the same thing, the male one is way more vilified. But once everyone's all legal, the whole cougar thing is a phase, just some lady getting her rocks off, its usually not a relationship of substance or consequence. But its socially accepted for an old man to marry a chick 50 years his junior. But even then, the young man is prolly congratulated as a stud, he's just having fun, while the chick would prolly be called a gold digger, and the only reason she could be doing a guy that many years older than her is because she wants something.
Cool, IGN has a preview up of the new GIJoe game. The graphics don't look phenomenal, but they're not too bad. So it looks like the playable characters they have so far are Duke (the movie one, in the "accelerator" suit", which makes him look out of place compared to the rest of them), Snake-Eyes (because you can't have a Joe game without their resident bad-ass commando/ninja), Gung-Ho (the ragin' Cajun marine), and Heavy Duty. Those who grew up with the Joes in the 80s and 90s would know him as Roadblock. Actually, its confusing, because there is a character from back then also called Heavy Duty, and they made them cousins. But Roadblock is of course the huge black guy/heavy machine gunner who spoke in rhyme in the cartoon, who's whole schtick was he was a good cook, but couldn't afford to go to a fancy cooking school, so he was working as a bouncer to get the money when an army recruiter was all, "The army can teach you to cook as well as any fancy French cooking school!" And for some reason, he believed them. Heavy Duty on the other hand, while also a huge black guy, was an anti-armor specialist as well was a guitarist and classical pianist. He was extremely well coordinated, and his weapon was this ridiculous double cannon/missile launcher set up which with his coordination and rhythm, allowed him to conduct a symphony of explosive death. (Why do I know so much about inconsequential fictional characters?!) Now, apparently "Roadblock" is trademarked now, so they can no longer use the name, but they can use Heavy Duty. And Roadblock is the one more fans like, so they just shunted the codename to him. The new IDW reboot series seems to be doing that as well, or so I hear.
Anyways, onto the game. I like the new updated S.N.A.K.E, but the new B.A.T. looks kinda generic. As I mentioned before, they chose the movie look for Duke, and Roadblock/Heavy Duty seems to be a hybrid of traditional and movie, given he has the "Jax" looking arms. He's also wielding a gatling gun instead of his traditional M2 .50 cal, but gatlings do look cooler. Snake-Eyes looks mostly like his 2nd figure look, with the knight visor. I actually think Gung Ho looks the closest to his original look, except he's not running around bare chested with the open vest to show off the giant Marine Corps tattoo on his chest, he's got a shirt on with the vest closed so its actually providing protection, But his traditional weapon was also updated. He's a grenadier, so back in the 80s, he carried around the old M-79. But now that its the oughts, he's updated to the M-32 MGL. Which makes sense, because why carry around a break open single shot grenade launcher, when you can use a 6 shot revolver type weapon and really send a world of hurt down range in a matter of seconds. Plus, the MGL can utilize special heavier rounds.
TV commentary:
One Tree Hill: Ha, so Dan is in the hospital, getting ready for a heart transplant, and the guy carrying the heart trips over a dog leash, spilling the heart onto the floor, and the dog eats it?! That is just so ridiculous that it actually is funny. But it looks like the movie got canceled, and though Dawson is a prick for most of the ep, it turns out he filmed a quick shot the night before, so Julian and Lucas do end up getting the production bonuses they thought they weren't getting. Well, now that he has 300k, there's proof that one of them is rich. Because they all act like they're infinitely rich. Like Brooke, didn't she lose her company to her mom, but now she's raising not one but two teenagers? And Hayley got fired, and she's not worried, like they can live on Nathan's salary, even though he only just started playing b-ball again, and its not even for an NBA team! And Peyton runs this music studio even though it seems she only has the one client, Mia. I guess its just a show, but still.
NCIS: I had a feeling the daughter was involved with the shooting. Its like they show her for a bit in the beginning, and she's totally not seen for the next half hour, its like gee, could she have something to do with the big denouement? I thought at first it was gonna be something like the dead guy did something to her and the brother killed him to protect her. But I guess its the dead body guy was bullying her best friend, so he killed himself, and she tried to show the bully guy the gun he used, but just to threaten him, and the gun accidentally went off? I guess I'm confused if it was all a weird coincidence that the brother found the gun and the body, or if he was covering up for her all along, because his friends seem totally clueless about it even though they found the body together. Like why would he show them the body and take the gun and then move the body later unless he knew his sister had something to do with it?
Reaper: Interesting, they've mentioned before about the demons being fallen angels with the two gay dudes, but I guess they're bringing it up again with Nina. Like Ben thinks she's disgusted with his human form and that's why she's distant, but its because she loved a human once when she was an angel, but then after she was caught she was cast out and her husband killed, and she doesn't want to get close to him and then lose him?
And I'm trying to figure out if the Devil has outright said Sam is his son, or just acts like he is. Because I can see him playing Sam to use him for some end. But then he says stuff like taking the best qualities of Sam and putting it in his other son to make the perfect son, so its like he really does think of Sammy as a son. And then he also talks about having Sam succeed him instead. Wait, he does refer to them as half brothers when he's first introducing them. So is that the first time he's outright said it as opposed to inferring it. I mean, Sam thinking he might be the devil's son and the devil not saying anything to dissuade him is one thing, but calling his actual son Sam's half brother is a pretty big admittance.
Ah, and Sam bumps into his human father at the end, I wonder if we'll get more illumination on the subject next week?
