emma_in_dream

I watched the Netlix movie *Bright* last week and I feel it was underserved by its reviews. It is by no means perfect – the plot is just an endless repetition of the same string of violence – but it is an interesting attempt to bring the genre of urban fantasy to film.


The reviewers all seemed to fundamentally misunderstand what genre they were watching. I found reviews that were essentially: ‘Why is this not *The Lord of the Rings*? If there are elves, where are the mountains? Where are the stately palaces and forests? Why is there rap music? Why am I seeing graffiti?’ And there was another school of reviews that also wanted it to be something else: ‘Why is this fiction? Why are we using the thin veil of orcs being black Americans? I want a Black Lives Matter documentary!’

1, I am very much looking forward to the Gluten Free Expo. We will be attending with bags for the goodies and lots of cash to buy stuff.


2, Baby_Elvis is working on a *Sherlock* vid with me!


3, Someone had the brilliant idea to make ‘Gigolas’ week celebrating the love Gimli and Legolas and the amount of fic written has virtually doubled in a week! Yay! Perhaps I could get something similar going for *Crusoe*?

I had never before thought of the dwarves as ( Read more... ) I will have to reread the book and consider this interpretation.