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Dec. 26th, 2010 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsSince coming up here, I managed to surprise my godson with my gun knowledge. Like when we were playing Left 4 Dead 2, I was referring to the weapons by their real names like the SCAR-L instead of the combat rifle, or the MSG-90 instead of the sniper rifle. Since it seems like all his gun knowledge comes from playing Modern Warfare, I was surprised he didn't know what a SCAR was. He did at least know the difference between an M-16 and and AK-47 and knew what a SPAS was.
I did have to correct him when we were watching District 9 though. He thought the MNU guys in the beginning were carrying TAR-21s, but I told him they were actually using CR-21s. He was all, how do you know? Well, besides the movie taking place in South Africa and the CR-21 being a South African weapon, it was just obvious from what it looked like. I mean, this is the TAR-21:
and this is the CR-21:
They look nothing like each other! The TAR is very angular, all straight lines and wot-not, whereas the CR-21 is curvy!
TV Commentary:
Doctor Who- I've said this before, but Amy Pond is easily the wicked mad cutest of the Doc's companions (at least in the new series). Especially in that police costume! Anyways, last night was the Christmas episode. Even though the time stuff in this made less sense than it usually does, I thought this was a perfectly nice Christmas episode. A variation of the Christmas Carol, the Doctor has to convince this Scrooge-like guy (played by Dumbledore) to stop being all Scrooge-ish in order to save Rory and Amy, who were on their Honeymoon cruise and whose ship is about to crash into Scrooge guy's planet. But, since Scrooge (not the actual character's name, but since I can't remember it, I'll refer to the guy as Scrooge) refuses to help, and the Doctor sees the parallels to A Christmas Carol, he decides to play the part of the Ghost of Christmas past.
Only, rather than showing Scrooge his past, he travels to when Scrooge was a boy and ends up having an adventure with him. And this is where things get screwy and convoluted, because as the Doctor changes the kid's past, the future him seems to realize his memories are being changed as the episode progresses. Anyways, there's a thing with a flying shark and the boy wanting to save it even though it tried to eat him, so in order to do that, they end up reviving a frozen chick to use her hibernation chamber to safely bring the flying shark back up to the clouds.
And again, as the story progresses, the picture in Scrooge's study or sitting room or whatever changes from his father to the frozen chick back to his father, as younger him has more adventures with the doctor. Which doesn't really make sense, as all that stuff has happened in the guy's past, its like why would it change in real time as different things happen to young him that change his life.
Also, I was a little confused if the chick was the same frozen chick in the beginning. Because old him was arguing with the frozen chick's sister's family. But as young him and the Doc come and wake up frozen chick every Christmas eve for the next few years of the younger version's life, one of the times they visit the girl's sister and her family. But how is the sister and her family still young when scrooge is old?
And I know to Scrooge, it was years, but since the Doctor was just jumping in the Tardis and frozen chick was in hibernation, it was much shorter to them. But still, I would've thought the Doctor's curiosity would've caused him to figure out what the numbers on the hibernation chamber meant, or at the very least that he would notice it was counting down. I was amused as Scrooge got older, it was actually the chick who was, "well, well!" as opposed to Scrooge having hit puberty and being all "Woah, she's a babe!" I mean, he prolly did find her attractive, but she a little more overt with her like of him.
But it did annoy me when she revealed that she was dying, like the Doctor is called the Doctor, people often think he's a medical doctor, why didn't they mention the fact she was dying to him. Given he has a machine that can travel across time and space, maybe he could've found her a cure. Of course, it was hilarious that the Doctor was thinking having all these adventures with Scrooge and frozen chick hoping he'd unfreeze Scrooge's heart and prevent him from growing up to be the miserable old jerk he was, but he still did, because this time he was bitter about not being able to live his life with the woman he loved.
I would've thought the Doctor would realized he couldn't really change the guy anyways, because wouldn't that have caused a paradox? I mean, if the guy was nice and would help the ship Amy and Rory were on, then the Doctor wouldn't have gone back in time to change his attitude. And then they have the double paradox, when the Doctor took young him to the future to show him what a miserable old a-hole he became. Like if the kid knows his future, wouldn't he not become the prick he eventually became. I mean, it seems like seeing that as a kid did change the future (or is it present?) him, but its not like it would just make that version of him less of a dick, wouldn't the course of his whole life have changed?
Owel, despite my complaints about how screwy the time stuff worked, I thought it was a sweet episode. And I don't know why I find the whole concept of a sleigh being pulled by a giant flying shark kinda amusing.
I did have to correct him when we were watching District 9 though. He thought the MNU guys in the beginning were carrying TAR-21s, but I told him they were actually using CR-21s. He was all, how do you know? Well, besides the movie taking place in South Africa and the CR-21 being a South African weapon, it was just obvious from what it looked like. I mean, this is the TAR-21:
and this is the CR-21:
They look nothing like each other! The TAR is very angular, all straight lines and wot-not, whereas the CR-21 is curvy!
TV Commentary:
Doctor Who- I've said this before, but Amy Pond is easily the wicked mad cutest of the Doc's companions (at least in the new series). Especially in that police costume! Anyways, last night was the Christmas episode. Even though the time stuff in this made less sense than it usually does, I thought this was a perfectly nice Christmas episode. A variation of the Christmas Carol, the Doctor has to convince this Scrooge-like guy (played by Dumbledore) to stop being all Scrooge-ish in order to save Rory and Amy, who were on their Honeymoon cruise and whose ship is about to crash into Scrooge guy's planet. But, since Scrooge (not the actual character's name, but since I can't remember it, I'll refer to the guy as Scrooge) refuses to help, and the Doctor sees the parallels to A Christmas Carol, he decides to play the part of the Ghost of Christmas past.
Only, rather than showing Scrooge his past, he travels to when Scrooge was a boy and ends up having an adventure with him. And this is where things get screwy and convoluted, because as the Doctor changes the kid's past, the future him seems to realize his memories are being changed as the episode progresses. Anyways, there's a thing with a flying shark and the boy wanting to save it even though it tried to eat him, so in order to do that, they end up reviving a frozen chick to use her hibernation chamber to safely bring the flying shark back up to the clouds.
And again, as the story progresses, the picture in Scrooge's study or sitting room or whatever changes from his father to the frozen chick back to his father, as younger him has more adventures with the doctor. Which doesn't really make sense, as all that stuff has happened in the guy's past, its like why would it change in real time as different things happen to young him that change his life.
Also, I was a little confused if the chick was the same frozen chick in the beginning. Because old him was arguing with the frozen chick's sister's family. But as young him and the Doc come and wake up frozen chick every Christmas eve for the next few years of the younger version's life, one of the times they visit the girl's sister and her family. But how is the sister and her family still young when scrooge is old?
And I know to Scrooge, it was years, but since the Doctor was just jumping in the Tardis and frozen chick was in hibernation, it was much shorter to them. But still, I would've thought the Doctor's curiosity would've caused him to figure out what the numbers on the hibernation chamber meant, or at the very least that he would notice it was counting down. I was amused as Scrooge got older, it was actually the chick who was, "well, well!" as opposed to Scrooge having hit puberty and being all "Woah, she's a babe!" I mean, he prolly did find her attractive, but she a little more overt with her like of him.
But it did annoy me when she revealed that she was dying, like the Doctor is called the Doctor, people often think he's a medical doctor, why didn't they mention the fact she was dying to him. Given he has a machine that can travel across time and space, maybe he could've found her a cure. Of course, it was hilarious that the Doctor was thinking having all these adventures with Scrooge and frozen chick hoping he'd unfreeze Scrooge's heart and prevent him from growing up to be the miserable old jerk he was, but he still did, because this time he was bitter about not being able to live his life with the woman he loved.
I would've thought the Doctor would realized he couldn't really change the guy anyways, because wouldn't that have caused a paradox? I mean, if the guy was nice and would help the ship Amy and Rory were on, then the Doctor wouldn't have gone back in time to change his attitude. And then they have the double paradox, when the Doctor took young him to the future to show him what a miserable old a-hole he became. Like if the kid knows his future, wouldn't he not become the prick he eventually became. I mean, it seems like seeing that as a kid did change the future (or is it present?) him, but its not like it would just make that version of him less of a dick, wouldn't the course of his whole life have changed?
Owel, despite my complaints about how screwy the time stuff worked, I thought it was a sweet episode. And I don't know why I find the whole concept of a sleigh being pulled by a giant flying shark kinda amusing.
