orangerful: (abby cadabby // orangerful)


I really want someone to write a paper on what it means that we are so in love with taking our classic fairy tales and applying the "real world" to them. I've seen it in children's fiction, young adult series, and even some adult books, plus tv shows and movies. It's everywhere - taking fairy tales and making them dark (as dark as they originally were? Maybe?).

I don't think it's just run-off from Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. Something is drawing us to the fairy tales again. And the REAL fairy tales. As a society, we don't want the perfect princess stories, we want them messy. We want to know about the dark and scary things that lurk out there...thoughts???
orangerful: (white and nerdy // orangerful)


Haven't posted an Idea Channel in awhile but I felt this was a perfect one for all of us to discuss!

I am the kind of person who avoids spoilers at all costs if it's a show/movie I really love. I tend to judge stories by how much they can pull me in and surprise me and a lot of that comes from not knowing where it will all end up. It's the reason I haven't read the any of Song of Ice and Fire, I am enjoying the tv series so much that I don't want any clues or hints at what is to come (though I admit I did read the articles about who Lady Stoneheart is...so far, I regret nothing because I feel like the showrunners are probably not going to go that route, but if they do, I will still be surprised LOL).

I tend to watch more story and character driven shows and, for me, part of the enjoyment is seeing it all unfold for the first time, being just as shocked as the characters on screen. And then discussing with all of you afterwards.

But I have friends who love spoilers. They read the Wikipedia pages for every show out there, with either no intention of watching or planning to watch "some day".

What about you? What are your "spoiler rules"?
orangerful: (one girl // orangerful)
SPOILERS FOR SEASON 1!!!!!



I should not watch these things so late at night, my head is spinning LOL.
orangerful: (one girl // orangerful)


I know some of you are/were HIMYM fans and I thought you might enjoy this examination of the ending. Mike does a very good job of being objective and raises some good points!
orangerful: (mal action figure // fanaticlook)


Wanted to share this because [livejournal.com profile] rogueslayer452 and I were talking about Legend of the Seeker and Firefly and the "what if it was on TV today" scenarios and I felt this was relevant to that discussion.
orangerful: (leia // orangerful)


Ooooh this question gets my librarian sense tingling! Should we and can we archive The Internet? And (for me) the next question is how to we organize it so that people can FIND things within that archive.

My mind boggles just thinking about it! Hope I can fall asleep without visions of dead geocities page haunting me the rest of the night.

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