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I want to find some Garrus/Shepard fics and read them. This has never happened before! Shepard is by definition a self-insert, and Garrus is a vaguely avian alien with a naturally-occuring tribal warrior facemask! It does not make sense! The turian has a nice voice, okay? That's all!
Turians are cool. Okay? Yeah, there's some antagonism with humans, but they're cool.
Damn it, I want a Garrus fic featuring Female Paragon Shepard, Original Flavor(As close as humanly possible!), talking or working together with a bit of Smarm and a hint of Garrus/Shepard if I squint, written well with an eye to detail and internal consistency. I'm not going to be able to find it, though, assuming it even exists. There is obviously only one solution.
Eh. The desire will fade. I'm not going to put yet another impulse story on the heap. It's too crowded already.
So, I saw The Incredible Hulk a few days back. It wasn't bad. It wasn't Iron Man, but worth the cost of admission. I'm not really a fan of the character, though.
I mean, it's probably old-fashioned of me. Antiheroes are popular. I get that. But I just can't think of a murderer as a hero. Isn't one definition of non-premediated murder "that guy, in a fight, who kills the other guy instead of backing off"?
Wait, wait. You could argue that, for instance, Tony Stark(Movieverse. I am not going to get into the 616 version) is a murderer. And I have no problem with him. It's different, though. You know? Yes, he kills people. But - well, it's war. Is it? I'm not good at explaining this.
Somehow, Iron Man shooting a rocket at a tank and walking slowly away while it explodes is fundamentally different from the Hulk smashing a Humvee. The people inside are dead either way. Hell, the people in the tank are probably more dead - now and again during the movie, soldiers were seen frantically diving out of their vehicles. But it's different.
Mmm. Well, the easily-killed men in Iron Man were, well, terrorists. Out to conquer, and what they wanted from Iron Man, if anything, was better weaponry. The easily-killed men in the Incredible Hulk were US soldiers. Who wanted - what? They wanted the Hulk subdued, tranquilizers didn't work, and live fire was the only thing that so much as slowed him down. And they were under orders. That shouldn't mean much, but it does.
Yeah, I get it, if Banner wasn't pursued he wouldn't Hulk out so much. But if that happens every time he's really stirred up, it would happen anyway, and he'd still kill a lot of people. So wanting him stopped makes sense. Yeah, General Ross wants to use him to make super-soldiers, and that's bad. But the guys on the ground getting ruthlessly killed - do they know that?
And at the end of the fight scene - how would killing the Abomination have meant so much? How many soldiers would the Hulk have killed by then with no hesitation whatsoever? And they mean nothing! So becoming a gamma-irradiated psychotic creature means that much. Gee.
Did not like the love interest. Banner/Hulk can do no wrong, her father the General is the cause of all their problems, her stable boyfriend is dropped like wet tissue. I don't like her. She annoys me. One good thing about Iron Man was that despite the UST with Pepper and the affair with that reporter woman, he didn't have a mostly-useless One True Love draped over him. As much as I'm looking forwards to the Avengers movie, if they're going with the original lineup then the only woman on it, the only female superhero, is the Wasp. Who comes with Ant-Man. And is his oh-so-devoted One True Love.
If they do put another woman on the team, someone who, if the Marvel Movies wiki is any indicator, doesn't have her own movie... who would that be? She-Hulk? Doubtful, same with Spider-Woman. Tigra? Probably not. Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers? Closer, but still, probably not. Damn. There just aren't enough strong female superheroes! Those that are, are mostly female counterparts to male heroes, and none of them have the same instant recognition. That sucks.
Feh. I enjoyed the movie, but thinking about it later - I just don't like the Hulk character. 'Nuff said.
Well, I can say one thing. I also bought the novelization(Mediocre author. Urgh. Yeah, I've read worse. Even so), and I do actually know what they did with the (left alive, naturally)Abomination. Why the hell not, I'll type it up.
The arrival of Tony Stark in the aftermath of the fight- which the press had dubbed "The Battlin' in Manhattan" - could not have been more timely. He had shown up in a high-powered chopper, equipped with containment shackles the likes of which Ross had never seen. Stark had coolly claimed to have thrown them together after the news reports of the debacle at Culver, "just in case". His foresight had been fortuitous, and thanks to Stark, the Abomination was now safely ensconced in a high-tech holding facility that Stark had nicknames "The Vault". Stark had said grimly, "Trust me... the way things have been going lately, you're going to have more use for this facility than you could possibly believe."
Ross had the uncomfortable feeling that Stark was absolutely correct.
I don't believe that was addressed in the movie. Though Stark did make an appearance, it was greatly akin to Nick Fury's dropping in at the very end of Iron Man. And he was talking to Ross. Mmm.
I want to find some Garrus/Shepard fics and read them. This has never happened before! Shepard is by definition a self-insert, and Garrus is a vaguely avian alien with a naturally-occuring tribal warrior facemask! It does not make sense! The turian has a nice voice, okay? That's all!
Turians are cool. Okay? Yeah, there's some antagonism with humans, but they're cool.
Damn it, I want a Garrus fic featuring Female Paragon Shepard, Original Flavor(As close as humanly possible!), talking or working together with a bit of Smarm and a hint of Garrus/Shepard if I squint, written well with an eye to detail and internal consistency. I'm not going to be able to find it, though, assuming it even exists. There is obviously only one solution.
Eh. The desire will fade. I'm not going to put yet another impulse story on the heap. It's too crowded already.
So, I saw The Incredible Hulk a few days back. It wasn't bad. It wasn't Iron Man, but worth the cost of admission. I'm not really a fan of the character, though.
I mean, it's probably old-fashioned of me. Antiheroes are popular. I get that. But I just can't think of a murderer as a hero. Isn't one definition of non-premediated murder "that guy, in a fight, who kills the other guy instead of backing off"?
Wait, wait. You could argue that, for instance, Tony Stark(Movieverse. I am not going to get into the 616 version) is a murderer. And I have no problem with him. It's different, though. You know? Yes, he kills people. But - well, it's war. Is it? I'm not good at explaining this.
Somehow, Iron Man shooting a rocket at a tank and walking slowly away while it explodes is fundamentally different from the Hulk smashing a Humvee. The people inside are dead either way. Hell, the people in the tank are probably more dead - now and again during the movie, soldiers were seen frantically diving out of their vehicles. But it's different.
Mmm. Well, the easily-killed men in Iron Man were, well, terrorists. Out to conquer, and what they wanted from Iron Man, if anything, was better weaponry. The easily-killed men in the Incredible Hulk were US soldiers. Who wanted - what? They wanted the Hulk subdued, tranquilizers didn't work, and live fire was the only thing that so much as slowed him down. And they were under orders. That shouldn't mean much, but it does.
Yeah, I get it, if Banner wasn't pursued he wouldn't Hulk out so much. But if that happens every time he's really stirred up, it would happen anyway, and he'd still kill a lot of people. So wanting him stopped makes sense. Yeah, General Ross wants to use him to make super-soldiers, and that's bad. But the guys on the ground getting ruthlessly killed - do they know that?
And at the end of the fight scene - how would killing the Abomination have meant so much? How many soldiers would the Hulk have killed by then with no hesitation whatsoever? And they mean nothing! So becoming a gamma-irradiated psychotic creature means that much. Gee.
Did not like the love interest. Banner/Hulk can do no wrong, her father the General is the cause of all their problems, her stable boyfriend is dropped like wet tissue. I don't like her. She annoys me. One good thing about Iron Man was that despite the UST with Pepper and the affair with that reporter woman, he didn't have a mostly-useless One True Love draped over him. As much as I'm looking forwards to the Avengers movie, if they're going with the original lineup then the only woman on it, the only female superhero, is the Wasp. Who comes with Ant-Man. And is his oh-so-devoted One True Love.
If they do put another woman on the team, someone who, if the Marvel Movies wiki is any indicator, doesn't have her own movie... who would that be? She-Hulk? Doubtful, same with Spider-Woman. Tigra? Probably not. Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers? Closer, but still, probably not. Damn. There just aren't enough strong female superheroes! Those that are, are mostly female counterparts to male heroes, and none of them have the same instant recognition. That sucks.
Feh. I enjoyed the movie, but thinking about it later - I just don't like the Hulk character. 'Nuff said.
Well, I can say one thing. I also bought the novelization(Mediocre author. Urgh. Yeah, I've read worse. Even so), and I do actually know what they did with the (left alive, naturally)Abomination. Why the hell not, I'll type it up.
The arrival of Tony Stark in the aftermath of the fight- which the press had dubbed "The Battlin' in Manhattan" - could not have been more timely. He had shown up in a high-powered chopper, equipped with containment shackles the likes of which Ross had never seen. Stark had coolly claimed to have thrown them together after the news reports of the debacle at Culver, "just in case". His foresight had been fortuitous, and thanks to Stark, the Abomination was now safely ensconced in a high-tech holding facility that Stark had nicknames "The Vault". Stark had said grimly, "Trust me... the way things have been going lately, you're going to have more use for this facility than you could possibly believe."
Ross had the uncomfortable feeling that Stark was absolutely correct.
I don't believe that was addressed in the movie. Though Stark did make an appearance, it was greatly akin to Nick Fury's dropping in at the very end of Iron Man. And he was talking to Ross. Mmm.
