craigoxbrow: (TWH)
An example of an idea that ended up growing in the telling... and a look at an episode of Season 8, were there such a thing.

We open on Milli running full-tilt down a dark alley, sword drawn, out into a square - looking up just as a vampire drops out of a tree and steps back to stop it landing on her. It leaps to its feet and aims a kick at her head, she ducks, grabs its ankle and spins it around, swings her sword as it tries to get back up. BOOM.

Then a light comes on behind her.

Voice: Miss Blackhurst?
Milli: Uh...?

She turns and sees a reporter and cameraman looking at her.

Reporter: Is this latest vampire attack part of a pattern?
Milli: Er...?

--

Cut to a shot from the camera POV, with a BBC News caption underneath:
Millicent Blackhurst, Watcher’s Council

Reporter: What can you tell our viewers about this particular cult?
Milli: Um...?

--

Is this a natural event caused by Harmony outing vampires (and Clem) nudging the setting in a True Blood kinda direction? Or is this some mystical denial-filter-remover?

And either way, who made those Keep Calm And Carry On style posters?

(thanks to Keep Calm And Carry On.)

--

Escher: Well. It would appear that the hidden occult world of the supernatural, er... isn’t.

--

David Dimbleby: Tonight, Question Time comes from Cambridge, centre of the Watcher controversy. The Watchers’ Council has been the self-appointed defender of humanity for centuries. But has their policy of secrecy and denial done more harm than good? With me tonight to discuss this are Sir James Morton from the Ministry of Defence, lecturer on medieval history and senior Watcher Michael Henry Escher, vampire rights activist Victoria Valdermar, Witch Alliance representative Janet Shadowborn, and the Guardian science journalist Alok Jha.

--

(Isn’t she dead? Shhh.)

--

Happy Holidays, all.
craigoxbrow: (TWH)
LEGO Monster Fighters

Playing the classic horror crossover for laughs, as well as for toys.

I particularly like that the villainous plot was actually attempted in Vampire: The Masquerade back in the day. And Lord Vampyre's clearly annoyed bride.

(And just did the math on the parts I'd need to make TWH characters... about ten to twelve quid each.)
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Al-Hazred, Sultan Of Sorcery!

And perhaps commenting on his racial hangups a little. Perhaps.
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Right then. Five points (out of fifty or sixty or so) at the Conpulsion pub quiz will be determined by Indiana Jones And The Title Round in which contestants have to work out the original character name in a movie title which has been replaced by Indiana Jones.

So, easy example, Indiana Jones And The Philosopher's Stone. If you can't get that one, I believe you have to be thrown out of Edinburgh.

Of course these will all be answers where replacing the titular character with Indiana Jones would make a cool movie. But then this is the case with most movies.

It could also be applied to books, as it is in that example - Chris oft joked/threatened running Indiana Jones And The Mountains Of Madness - but let's keep it simple.

And yes, this is also how I write Buffy convention adventures.

(What would Indy hunting for the Philosopher's Stone be like? Obviously there are rivals looking for it as well, a mysterious figure who may be immortal, and probably a clue in a castle in Scotland which is now a boarding school.

And that's not the weirdest put-Indy-in-a-movie idea I ever had. That would be Indiana Jones And The Last Of England. Indy travels to London during the Blitz to help the removal of key works from the British Museum, and discovers a mysterious map on the back of a Durer painting of the Virgin Mary. Teaming up with a brilliant art historian (Tilda Swinton) he travels first to Switzerland, a hotbed of intrigue, and then to partially occupied Norway in search of a prophecy that might mean the Allies cannot win the War!)
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The only candidate who makes sense. Also a swearing Henson puppet.
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The main problems being (1) it's be less than three months after Conpulsion and (2) the end of the academic year varies from person to person. But y'know, a last-weekend-on-average Saturday twelve-hour thingy would seem doable.

We even have a title.

Repulsion.

... I'm still quite tired.
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The Red Bee!

Trust me, he could have been a lot stranger.

Right, time to finish packing.
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I figured it'd be fun (just about up there with The Rocketeer) but it's the funnest of the summer. Standup two-fisted heroics, hyper-Nazis, great effects, heartfelt emotion and a catchy song.

Lots of little geek callouts, from the Synthetic Man to Zola's first appearance to the Wilhelm Scream to Rosie The Riveter.

Also, Hayley Atwell and Dominic Cooper together again for I believe the first time since The Watch House.

Trailers: Tom Hardy as a UFC fighter, Dominic Cooper as Uday Hussein and his double, Rosamund Pike as the Bond girl in Johnny English 2. And Troll Hunter, which doesn't feature anyone who was ever in The Watch House.

Oh, and The Avengers! It ain't even done filming yet. It's a long way till May.
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The Next People

Your yeahbuhwha? news of the day, 21 minutes in.
craigoxbrow: (Buffy)
This time I'm sure people had fun. Or were so sugared up and caffeinated we couldn't tell.

Despite me and another GM in my category putting the representative from Stirling at the top (which was totally not motivated by location, for reals!) they were beaten to second due to a third place in the final category, by Cardiff.

"Cardiff, huh? You could totally do a Torchwood tour while you're down there..."
"AAAAAAAAAAAGHH"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"... Win."
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Via HeroPress, the baffling video of the day/week/year:

3 Minutes - a gritty thriller with a surprising genre development starring Harry Shum Jr., glee's Mike Chang.

It's... interesting.
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I already covered the journey out in undue detail here so anyway...

Sydney And Melbourne )
craigoxbrow: (life)
Right then. Just booked tickets for London, Sydney, Brisbane, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, London, Edinburgh.

Itinerary )

Wish me luck. Also kiss me and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me, etc.
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Joss Whedon declared that yes he is doing The Avengers (the Marvel ones, not the ITV ones) and when it came up he had to put off a web series with Warren Ellis. Ellis added "I'll wait then."

He's generally happy with Red. Which is nice. And Helen Mirren's Harvey Pekar longsleeve.

Karl Urban offered Judge Dredd which could be cool as, unlike the last guy, he can act. He's a bit pretty, though.

Guillermo Del Toro moves on from The Hobbit to... Disney's The Haunted Mansion. Uh... yeah...?

and outside...

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