first youtube. now attention-whore memes!

[quigonejinn]

But what can I say? I found this after looking at a related thing from ataniell93, and not only is it a Golden Compass tie-in -- AND A WEBSITE WITH DANIEL CRAIG, OKAY, EXPLAINING THINGS -- but my favorite part of the Golden Compass aside from the gay angels.

OMG, GUYZ, WHAT FORM DOES MY TOTEM ANIMAL HAVE???

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On a only slightly less plebey note,

John Barrowman's new and improved American accent is Torchwood's #1 present to me this season. I swear. It's pretty fucking good, man. He doesn't have all of the enunciation -- you know, the way his voice goes up and down within a sentence? -- completely right, but it's pretty darn close. It's the best American accent I've heard on British TV in a long time.

Present #2 has to be the new and improved plots that don't become immediately clear within about 35 seconds. Alas, though, after the total awesomepants fanservice of the first episode, I suspect that I'm going to spend most of every episode from now on being like I CAN HAZ IANTO NOW? HOW ABOUT NOW? HOW ABOUT NOW? I mean, I'm a little disappointed at how everything he's done so far has tended toward either the gay or the humor, but at this point, I don't even mind this whole Regis Philbin Casual Coordinates shit he's got going on.

Also: could that intro scene have been more profoundly YOU ARE NOT WATCHING AMERICAN TV? Interracial couple in bed! Cricket bat under bed! Burglars without guns! And then the endless Abu Ghirab/torture airline reference with the non-white prisoner sitting in the interrogation with indefinite detention and Gappy's references to "We're just doing our jobs!" The torture chairs! The determined American interrogator!

And then they wussed out and made the girl all heroic and self-sacrificing and believing them. Excuse me while I roll around on the floor in laughter.

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bed, schmed...

[artyartie.livejournal.com]

I think I could literally talk with you about Roman daemons for waaaaaaay too long, but I have a morning class to TA! So I will post once I'm coherent and out of class in the a.m. :)

I like your thoughts on the snakes, especially Servilia! And how disappointed would she be in Brutus' daemon? Descendant of two illustrious families and he gets an overgrown weasel. Oh, and the legions *would* snatch up children young (I'm thinking Spartans training up babies young) to train them just the right way - loyal but bloodthirsty. Hounds of war indeed!

Re: bed, schmed...

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

This is a belated reply, but I've been trying to flesh out the idea of Antony as an animal besides a big cat -- I mean, it's the obvious one for how Antony is a very, very, very dangerous man underneath the pretense of being vulgar and fucking everything female in sight, but I've been trying to figure out an alternate just as an intellctual exercise. I've rewatching Rome, and it's striking how socially-oriented Antony is. He's intensely loyal, but to people, not to ideas or causes. Remember his little shitfit when Atia suggests that he betray Caesar? And how Antony finds strength at the end by hanging with Vorenus?

Antony, I think, is fundamentally a guy who needs to follow a leader. you know? Which makes me think maybe you could make an argument for him being a wolf, albeit one that acts like a dog most of the time, but it'd draw a fascinating line underneath his proper Roman suicide. And ahaha, if we go with Plutarch's version of Antony's youth, it just adds to the scandal, doesn't it? Young man of distinguished family spending his days cavorting with actors and prostitutes! AND HE HAS A WOLF FOR A DAEMON, TOO. :O :O :O