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I've rented Tales of the Black Freighter/Under the Hood, for completion's sake :-D To be honest, Tales of the Black Freighter is probably a little more disturbing than I would like, but I decided I wanted to see the cartoon anyway.
It seems to be a pretty basic frame-for-frame replication, except ( spoiler! ) Other than that, it's basically what it says on the tin.
Under the Hood looks really corny, in that they went to some trouble to make the footage fit the period. The ageing looks pretty fake in a few cases, but maybe in an amusing way? It doesn't bother me.
Since, in the comic, Under the Hood is an autobiography, it doesn't obviously translate into a short film. Instead, they presented it as an interview sort of show - like you might see on A&E. We get to see interviews with Hollis, Sally, Schexnayder, and even Bernard the newspaper guy! Lots of characters who don't get a lot of screentime in the film show up in this show. And there's newsreel footage of the Minutemen.
Hilariously, there are 'commercials' at regular intervals, as if it were an actual TV show. One of them was even ( spoiler! )
DUDE. I saw Watchmen four times, and Moloch always left me scratching my head. I knew I recognized him, but damned if I could remember. Talking with my dad just now I finally remembered that he was on PSI Factor. It was definitely a D'oh! moment.
(And, while looking through his IMDB page, I noticed that he did the voice for Jackal on Gargoyles. That a) is pretty damn cool, and b) should have been obvious. I watched lots of PSI Factor and lots of Gargoyles ... and his voice is kind of distinctive.)
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1. It has been quite cold the last few days. Luckily (luckily!) it's supposed to snow tomorrow. That means it's going to warm up; it's too cold to snow right now :-(
2. Have a song about pirates.
3. I have my fingers crossed for an end to the writer's strike - it's pretty much official at this point, finally. Meanwhile, I have been watching the writerless TADS and TCR, and there was a funny exchange at the end of Monday's TCR interview:
Zimbardo: Obviously, you learned well in Sunday School.
Stephen: I teach Sunday School, motherf*#er!
My mother did a spittake at that, I swear to god :-D
4. Speaking if Stephen --> behind the scenes at the pundit brawl.
5. I like it when my fandoms collide.
6. And, um, Torchwood's cool. I just felt like mentioning it. sam_storyteller recently wrote some nice Torchwood fic. Ianto-centric :-)
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