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We've been Ponyed
Well, sort of. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
timjr made us watch Ponies when we were too tired to object.
My only thoughts are:
a. Applejack is Paige Guthrie, and all her family are Guthries (for serious, she even has an older brother she looks up to. She's a perfectionist and over-achiever who refuses to ask for help. Paige to a T)
b. Rainbow Dash is Kara Thrace. No words or pictures will sway me from this decision.
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I watched four episodes of 'Wish Me Luck', a British show about female spies during WW2. It's tense and dramatic, and v v serious, so four episodes was as much as I could manage at a stretch. It's not bad, though, and I'm saddened that I hadn't ever heard of it beforemeganbmoore asked me if I'd seen it.
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Finally saw Captain America. It was all right. Not the best movie (Thor was still more entertaining). However, one of the things I saw complaints of from people was how it wasn't all "RAH RAH AMERICA" patriotic, and I want to know wtf those people were smoking. The movie couldn't have been MORE "RAH RAH AMERICA FUCK YEAH" if it made every watcher wear an American flag.
The complete disconnect between the British view of WW2 and the American is just... It is so different. I mean, I know that comparing CA to Foyle's War and Wish Me Luck is like comparing Stargate to Ghost in the Shell, but there's still a huge huge sense of "wow, America didn't really get how crap WW2 was for everyone else, did it" compared to how the British (and it has to be different for other countries, too) seemed to have this ingrained "things suck" about it all. The British must have had their own propaganda machines, but somehow, I don't see them having dance revues with a muscled airman punching Hitler.
timjr made us watch Ponies when we were too tired to object.My only thoughts are:
a. Applejack is Paige Guthrie, and all her family are Guthries (for serious, she even has an older brother she looks up to. She's a perfectionist and over-achiever who refuses to ask for help. Paige to a T)
b. Rainbow Dash is Kara Thrace. No words or pictures will sway me from this decision.
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I watched four episodes of 'Wish Me Luck', a British show about female spies during WW2. It's tense and dramatic, and v v serious, so four episodes was as much as I could manage at a stretch. It's not bad, though, and I'm saddened that I hadn't ever heard of it before
meganbmoore asked me if I'd seen it. -
Finally saw Captain America. It was all right. Not the best movie (Thor was still more entertaining). However, one of the things I saw complaints of from people was how it wasn't all "RAH RAH AMERICA" patriotic, and I want to know wtf those people were smoking. The movie couldn't have been MORE "RAH RAH AMERICA FUCK YEAH" if it made every watcher wear an American flag.
The complete disconnect between the British view of WW2 and the American is just... It is so different. I mean, I know that comparing CA to Foyle's War and Wish Me Luck is like comparing Stargate to Ghost in the Shell, but there's still a huge huge sense of "wow, America didn't really get how crap WW2 was for everyone else, did it" compared to how the British (and it has to be different for other countries, too) seemed to have this ingrained "things suck" about it all. The British must have had their own propaganda machines, but somehow, I don't see them having dance revues with a muscled airman punching Hitler.
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Can't argue with that. Her episodes are the best.
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Is Wish Me Luck online somewhere? It sounds interesting.
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