Just watched the first episode of The Great Queen Seondeok. I can see why haute likes it so much. It is a lovely historical drama with just at touch of mysticism, and plenty of lethal courtly intrigue. It is almost worth watching simply for the eye candy of costumes. From the lush gowns to the lamellar armor, it is all wonderful to look at.



Opening presents for someone's birthday?

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Just finished watching To End All Wars. A very powerful, moving film about the horror of war, and the struggle to maintain one's humanity through it all.

Just saw The Monuments Men in the theater. Great, great buddy action comedy, and Matt Damon's French is hilarious. I really think anyone with some spare time should go see this, especially since it really stayed true to the real-life events.

I'm watching the Winter Olympics.

Slopestyle, it's good stuff

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Feb 9 2014, 10:47 AM

Extreme Cheapskates.

This is amazing.

Will this inspire you to make some more cool mods?
I adore the armor in this series, too.

I'm watching family guy episodes!!!

If I was a modeler/texturer I would. But alas I just do not have the artistic talent. I am a coder.

I just finished the third episode. It was nice to finally meet the future Queen Seondeok/Deokman. I decided to buy the series on dvd. If for no other reason than to make it easier to read the dialogue. Netflix shows it in the original Korean, but they show the English and Chinese subtitles right on top of one another, which can make them really hard to read. But I can tell already that it is a series worth owning.

BTW, what does MiShil's title of saeju mean? I tried googling it, but could not find anything useful. Nevermind, it looks like it means: "Keeper of the Royal Seal". Whatever that means. My guess would be something like a chancellor.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Feb 10 2014, 04:22 AM

If I'm not mistaken, Keeper of the Royal Seal denotes something like a chancellor or marshal? I think?

I was thinking that the Royal Seal is probably what would be affixed to decrees and other documents. So it would probably be the person doing the day to day paperwork of running the government. Like a Prime Minister or Chancellor type position. That leaves the king free to do appropriately Royal things like go hunting, play tennis, or bang servants... Oops, I just described King Henry VIII didn't I!

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TBBT clips on youtube again...


And mr Moochi!

The Great Queen Seondeok got me on a Korean streak. I just finished watching The Good, The Bad, The Weird again. That was such a fun movie!

The Good, the Bad and the Weird is one of the craziest Korean movies ever! Stunning cinematography, over-the-top characters and wild, rollicking action -- what more could one ask for?

Definitely not a chick flick!

On the subject of foreign films with great cinematography, House of Flying Dagges has some amazing shots of snow, and sequences in a bamboo forest that fill the entire frame with green. It's based on an old Chinese poem, and to a bad love story/tragedy.

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I just loved The Weird guy. His scenes were all just a little tongue-in-cheek. Like with the diving bell helmet. If he had a superpower, it would be something like having strange luck.




I loved House of Flying Daggers! You are right, it is gorgeous just to look at, and has a wonderfully twisted story of plots and counter-plots.

Battlestar Galactica. Never knew I could enjoy sci-fi this much aside from Stargate SG1.

The majority of the space themed science fiction series' are, for lack of a better descriptive, terrible.

I liked both SG-1 and Atlantis

Agreed. They tend to emphasize special effects rather than characters themselves. I love series that address how the characters deal with their environment and with each other. The setting really doesn't matter - historical, sci-fi, fantasy (I have the same opinion of most fantasy series as you do about sci-fi), or contemporary.

I've been watching (and greatly charmed by) Sleepy Hollow here in the US. I didn't think I would like it so much, but the characters keep me coming back, even when the story line lacks historical veracity or even logic. I'm not overwhelmed by the presence of vampires, werewolves, zombies, etc, and tend to avoid such stories because I feel they've been done to death, but I keep coming back to this one. Go figure.

I think Farscape and Babylon 5 are probably my two favoritest sci-fi shows. Farscape has excellent character development, and really delivers a good story about a small group of people unwillingly thrown together on a spaceship. It's funny, it's serious, and it has a great love story. Babylon 5 OTOH, is a space opera on the grand scale, and it does not disappoint when it comes to delivering pure epicness. With prophets, war heroes, plotting politicians, an eldritch race, and an ancient evil. And also with excellent characterizations and a darn good love story.

I am now watching Captain America: First Avenger for the thousandth time. I just noticed something. One of the girls Bucky got for the double date at the World's Fair is Jenna Louise Coleman. Yes the Impossible Girl from Doctor Who herself. I guess she saved the Doctor from some terrible peril after going dancing with Bucky...

Have to agree with you on those two, though I wasn't so much a fan of the fifth series of Babylon 5. Love Farscape though, that was fantastic from start to finish.

Been watching some Clint Eastwood films. Hang 'Em High was great, Pale Rider was terrible.