RotK: EE

Have watched few selected new scenes for the extended edition of RotK. "The Houses of Healing" and "The Captain and the Lady" in particular because I've never denied my Eowyn and Faramir love. And, dude, *massive* hearts. "The Captain and the Lady"? Sooooo pretty. Also watched most of the cast commentary on the second disc. Just because. I'd forgotten how much fun it is to listen to Billy. And Dom. <3 (Dom compared Valinor to Alcatraz. "There's no coming back from Valinor. It's like Alcatraz. You don't come back from Alcatraz.")

All I can say about the extended edition so far?

Squee!

Wow.

Hell yeah.

::tear::

Wow.

It's beautiful. Beautiful and over. Almost makes me feel like I did when I finished the book. And that will only be worse when the family actually sits down and watches the entire thing through.

And, y'know, for as much as I've said that I haven't felt the need to see the entire third film since the theatre, I can't deny that need now. Nor can I deny the way seeing five minutes of it affects me. Over Thanksgiving we watched the last half hour of it and I was bawling. And even now just watching parts, I'm teary. I don't think it will ever stop affecting me. And there's a part of me that doesn't want that to ever change. Just as I don't want my reaction to the book's end to change.

Could I be any more of a sap? Could I be any dorkier?

Don't answer.

There is, however, an easter egg on the second disc of Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn (I think - it's the other main guy from Dodgeball) trying to talk Peter Jackson into a sequel. It's high-larious.

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Grades for Fall Quarter are out.

Survey of American Literature: A-
Spanish Language 1: B+
Philosophy of the Human Person: A

Not too shabby for a crap quarter, huh? :) I'm particularly pleased with the philosophy grade because, yeah, it's *philosophy*. That crap's not easy.

Go me.

Anyway, I'm going to have to share this with Sara when I get back to school. I think she'll appreciate the ridiculousness of what they were trying to do to The Sandman and the genius of one Neil Gaiman. As much as I'd love to see a movie, I'd love even more to see a *great* movie that follows the story. I'm picky like that sometimes. I remember reading this a long time ago, and thankfully the date is 1998. Which indicates, lord do I hope it indicates, that it's been dropped.

Geez. If it's not broke, don't fix it.

Wonder if NG will get mentioned in Lit Pix? One would hope so.