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annundrielLast night the second, and final, part of Alice aired on SyFy (uuuugh channel). I really enjoyed it. Way more than Tin Man, which I also enjoyed but found overall fairly dull. And confusing. Alan Cumming was the best part of that thing.
Anyway. Alice was pretty solid. I never wanted to smack Alice around, not really, and Hatter was basically amazing. (And then I had to look him up and go, duh, that dude from Primeval.) But it's still leaving me all think-y with it's similarities to Tin Man.
Like I said in my last post, both minis have similar heroines (though Alice is much more interesting than DG), mysterious pasts, mysterious families (missing parents, absent father issues), the not-quite-our-world setting. During part one, I ended up chalking this up to the similarities in the source material: young female protagonists, a journey to a strange land, a journey to return home, allies and enemies met along the way.
But both these adaptations take that a step farther and make these protagonists "special." (And not just in a...children's literature, special protagonist kind of way, if that makes sense.) Or at least give them the appearance of being special in some way. Alice just happened to be the Carpenter's daughter, not the Alice from legend. Though with the time-change (One hour in our world equaling, what, roughly 48 hours in Wonderland?), they may have been able to play that card believably.
I wouldn't have been happy if they had. Because that would have been one more thing in common with Tin Man and it would have made it weird. (By "it" I mean the similarities.) Because then both protagonists would have forgotten who they really were or what they'd really done in their youth.
Anyway. There were similarities that very slightly made me scratch my head and wonder. Uh, but we could say the same thing about procedural cop shows so... ::shrug::
I will say that I LOVED that Hatter never double-crossed Alice. He was always trying to help her and he liked her and there was never a moment of betrayal where you found out he was actually in it for himself or helping the bad guys. That made me REALLY HAPPY.
Also the end. The end made me REALLY HAPPY.
Sorry, Tim Burton, but there is NO WAY I'm going to love your Mad Hatter as much as I love this one. (D'aww. HIS FACE.)
In Things That Don't Make Me Really Happy news, Mom tells me that her boss finally came back from her vacation. She and her husband went on a cruise. When Mom asked her how it was, she said it was fine but she wouldn't have gone if she'd known there were going to be so many gays and lesbians there.
::facepalm::
So I am going to go write gay porn to counterbalance the stupid.
Anyway. Alice was pretty solid. I never wanted to smack Alice around, not really, and Hatter was basically amazing. (And then I had to look him up and go, duh, that dude from Primeval.) But it's still leaving me all think-y with it's similarities to Tin Man.
Like I said in my last post, both minis have similar heroines (though Alice is much more interesting than DG), mysterious pasts, mysterious families (missing parents, absent father issues), the not-quite-our-world setting. During part one, I ended up chalking this up to the similarities in the source material: young female protagonists, a journey to a strange land, a journey to return home, allies and enemies met along the way.
But both these adaptations take that a step farther and make these protagonists "special." (And not just in a...children's literature, special protagonist kind of way, if that makes sense.) Or at least give them the appearance of being special in some way. Alice just happened to be the Carpenter's daughter, not the Alice from legend. Though with the time-change (One hour in our world equaling, what, roughly 48 hours in Wonderland?), they may have been able to play that card believably.
I wouldn't have been happy if they had. Because that would have been one more thing in common with Tin Man and it would have made it weird. (By "it" I mean the similarities.) Because then both protagonists would have forgotten who they really were or what they'd really done in their youth.
Anyway. There were similarities that very slightly made me scratch my head and wonder. Uh, but we could say the same thing about procedural cop shows so... ::shrug::
I will say that I LOVED that Hatter never double-crossed Alice. He was always trying to help her and he liked her and there was never a moment of betrayal where you found out he was actually in it for himself or helping the bad guys. That made me REALLY HAPPY.
Also the end. The end made me REALLY HAPPY.
Sorry, Tim Burton, but there is NO WAY I'm going to love your Mad Hatter as much as I love this one. (D'aww. HIS FACE.)
In Things That Don't Make Me Really Happy news, Mom tells me that her boss finally came back from her vacation. She and her husband went on a cruise. When Mom asked her how it was, she said it was fine but she wouldn't have gone if she'd known there were going to be so many gays and lesbians there.
::facepalm::
So I am going to go write gay porn to counterbalance the stupid.
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Date: 2009-12-09 02:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-12-09 04:58 am (UTC)Plus, a couple of weeks before she was going on about a city official who said some racist things and then claimed not to be racist. "He shouldn't say that. Everyone knows he is." Well, hi lady, don't you realize what you're doing is wrong, too?
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Date: 2009-12-09 10:24 pm (UTC)