So, it is party time again, folks!

[wiseheart]

Each year this time, we launch my virtual birthday party, which starts on October 1 and ends on October 9 at midnight, sharp. The goals of the party are to post as many comments and collapse as many threads as possible, on as many new pages as we can. It is always great fun, as you can see if you check out the similar entries of the last few years.

This year, I'll also throw the real party at mid-time - and post the recipes of all the food that will be there for you, so that you can all participate if you want to. Virtual food has no calories.

Fandom-related discussions are as welcome as the ones about coffee or chocolate (just to name a few favourites from previous years), and, of course, pictures and recipes of birthday cakes. ;)

So, drop by, tell your story, post your pics or silly poems, ask questions you always wanted to ask and have a good time!

Soledad, in excited expectation




Oh, and by the way, to provide birthday gifts hobbit-style, I've got a revived story and a Kansas 2 update for you.

Enjoy!

Comments

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I have never watched either. When the BBC did their new version of Robin Hood I was quite excited, but I found the first episode so stupid and boring it put me off not only it, but Merlin as well since people kept comparing the two and saying they were similar. That is perhaps a bit hasty of me... So, tell me do you think I should give any of those a try?

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Robin Hood is laughably terrible. I bought the DVDs for the first two seasons (in the throes of an extreme Richard Armitage lust that the first The Hobbit film cured) but have never finished watching them they are so bad. The young actors who play Marion & Robin are abysmal and have no sexual tension at all, and I'm only a fan of deliberate anachronism when done consciously and sparingly.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You think Armitage was bad in the first Hobbit film? I find that the first film was the peak of cinematic artistry and canon compliance compared with the second one.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Given that I loathed and detested the first film, and had suspicions about the canon compliance of the second, I decided to give it a miss. My blood pressure is high enough as it is...

It wasn't so much that Armitage was bad as that film-Thorin is a travesty, and the whole thing left a sour taste in my mouth.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I liked the first film more than I expected I would, but that was mostly due to Martin Freeman's Bilbo. Thorin I found not so bad, but the other Dwarves were sad caricatures.

The canon rape was harder to stomach, and it only gets worse in the second film. It isn't even about Bilbo anymore.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Freeman was quite good, I grant you. He was the only thing in that entire film I could stomach.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The first season of Merlin is lovely - more a fairy tale for young adults than anything else. It treats the source material very loosely, and some aspects simply don't make sense, but it has a unique charm, and the young actors are very likeable. And, of course, they have Stewart Head as Uther Pendragon, which is great. After I stopped looking for Buffy, I enjoyed his performance very much.

Season 2 is still quite lovely, but later on the show loses its footing, IMO, and the main turning point, Morgana turning evil, is totally unconvincing. I couldn't buy that, and as a result I couldn't really buy anything that came afterwards, but the whole thing is still enjoyable. And Colin Morgan is simply amazing.

Camelot is closer to the original legends, save for the fact that there's no Lancelot, or rather that the love triangle is turned upside down. There is a lot of gratutious sex and nudity (it is a SyFy show, after all), and none of the main characters are even remotely likeable. Sir Kay is cute, but everyone else is a jerk. Still, it is an interesting approach, even for women. I'm told that the guys mainly watched it for Eva Green's boobs that are revealed while practicing evil magic.

No wonder the show only lasted one season. It ended with a semi-cliffhanger, too, annoyingly enough.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Tony Head is wonderful. He'll never convince me to drink Nescafe, but otherwise the guy can do no wrong.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Did he do an ad for Nescafé?

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

He came to prominence in the UK (way before Buffy) for a series of Nescafe Gold Blend adverts, which remain among the best-loved UK adverts of all time.