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I just finished watching Batman Begins, pirated (arr!) from Limewire. Apparently there were some scenes missing near the beginning (mostly in the "catch the fly in your chopsticks, grasshopper" bit), but I got the gist of it nevertheless and Caleb kept me current on what I missed. I'll keep it spoilerless, except in a very general sense.

Is this story canon-faithful? I'm curious. I mean I know Batman's been retconned a thousand times, but considering the complexity of the Dark Knight to begin with, I expected more from the chronicle of his origins. And different things. Which is not exactly a criticism; for an action flick it was fine, I guess. I got bored about 2/3 of the way into it and wandered off to work on LC while it played in the background, but that's personal taste. The F/X were splendid and some of the pre-mugging backstory was pretty cool. There were some nice continuities of theme and about the usual mix of funny dialogue and cheese. It was neat to see some of the established later characters popping up as younger ones.

What I expected, and what I'm now half-tempted to write as a fic, was more in the line of character study (ironic given my demand for a plot in the earlier post, I know. I wanted plot too, just, character study within plot). The movie is too pat for my tastes in terms of the large overall major plot. Too many conveniences. I wanted...well, to be honest, I wanted something more like what I did for Lupin in Sweet Home. Varied experiences, varied ways of learning, varied things that contributed to make him what he is above and beyond the central trauma of his early life. I wanted to see him struggle with the decisions he was making.

I suppose it's natural for a young man to plunge headlong without thinking about it too much, but if you're going to make him all emo, you might as well make him interestingly emo. All the trauma in this movie is just revamped from scenes we've already had in the other Batman movies. I wanted something new.

Okay, I'm done now. Fling the batarangs.

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Literary analysis and fanfiction is all very well, but I don't want the Real World today, please.

I would rather not see my bank balance, what jobs I want and am not qualified for, one more of my own damn resumes, or the return of the digested remains of my breakfast. Go away, Real World. Go away.

Seriously, I don't think I've been this miserable in some time. I'd have to check my LJ to make sure (how handy this is for people with no memory, like myself) but I believe it involved being hit by a car.

On the other hand, I think I found a thickly disguised advert for a dramaturg-wanted at Disney Theatrical. Apparently finding the job listing is your first test. If you pass, you get to apply.

This also amused me. Apparently someone got their forms mixed up: Job Description: Find Solutions to Agricultural Problems that Affect Americans Every Day, From Field to Table Duties: You will support the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum as a technician performing work related to the collections management and education activities needed to manage to the collection of viewing stones, pots, suiban, stands, display tables, original drawings, scrolls and other artifacts associated with bonsai and penjing.

A car in every driveway and a bonsai in every pot, dammit!

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Sam Starbuck, bringing you permanent solutions to temporary problems since 2003...:D

While the Oojahs archive is down, and because it's inconvenient to wayback stuff or email me if you want a fic, I've created sam_storyteller. With the exceptions of Alternate (which I have to get a copy of, ironically) and the Stealing Harry/River House/Laocoon's Children SPRAWLING MONSTER epic, all my HP fic is now archived there, including some one-offs that are not linked to from the Oojahs archive. Everything has a rating and a ship or "gen" designation in the title, though they are not sorted in any particular order.

Most of the Good Omens fic is available as well; tomorrow I'm going to try to put up the remaining HP and GO fic, as well as at least a links list to the Discworld fic (which would take far too long to format for LJ, I'm afraid).

Stealing Harry/Laocoon's Children, being a WIP, will probably be the last thing to go up tomorrow. I'm hoping to have a new LC chapter out sometime around Saturday. We shall see.