Cowboy Bebop fic

I just read the final chapter of Bob5's epic "You Can't Take It With You" and horror of horrors it's making me want to go back and start up my unwritten Cowboy Bebop megafic. The 20 chapter post-series fanfic that I outlined to the smallest detail and wrote an intro for and even picked chapters names for (snagged from Shel Silverstein and E.E.Cummings), but never actually sat down to write. And it is SO wrong to be thinking of that now because I'm absolutely totally committed to my current fics and I'm behind on all of them too. Damn my inability to follow through!

I was especially pleased with that outline, too... it was all about mythological symbolism and names. God, who DOESN'T love mythological symbolism and names with hidden meanings? It was going to be about a child slavery ring and about Spike finally acting like an adult and facing life again and about family (the kind you make and the kind you're born with) and about love and loyalty and I had a villain named Hector the Collector. Which was just neat. I had plans for a smutty flashback and this was going to be my friggin' stab at babyfics, but only not a babyfic at all, if that makes any kind of twisted sense. I even made up a real birth name for Spike. Like every fangirl who writes a multichapter fic does.

Realistically, it's been so long since I've seen Bebop that I couldn't write it now if I tried. Spike would be so OOC he'd be an alien.

If anyone is curious, I might post the outline.

movie rec: The Wedding Date

I watched The Wedding Date tonight. How come no one told me this was a likeable movie? They marketed it all wrong in the trailers-- it's not a romantic comedy, just a romance. And yeah, it's got a lot of conventional tropes, but I liked it. It had its unbelievable parts, but I found it to be pleasant to watch, and Durmot Mulroney was just friggin interesting. He really worked the character way beyond what the story asked of him, and the end result was quite nice.

Out of curiosity I went to the Rotten Tomatoes website and found out only 10% of the people liked it. Apparently the whole world of movie critics hated it. Anhd i could understand their complaints, but I thought they were way too harsh on the overall entertainment value of the movie. I'd rather watch this than see Notting Hill another time, to be perfectly honest, and everyone seemed to adore that movie. But I'm the only one who liked this one.

But then I browsed more, and you know what I discovered? I'm not alone! ROGER EBERT LIKED IT. So there! Take that world! Me and Roger Ebert both liked it despite its flaws! The rest of you can go suck dead eggs!

Here's my recommendation: watch The Wedding Date. You won't be blown away by anything new or amazing, and you might roll your eyes, but you'll come out thinking it was kind of nice to watch. I've spent an hour and a half watching a lot WORSE things before.


Also, it has Commodore Norrington from POTC. Just because.