Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-31330278-20180211164358/@comment-31330278-20180521002549

1. Thanks a million :-). Elementary was the modern version of Sherlock Holmes with Jamie Moriarty, Watson as Lucy Liu and New York setting rather than the 19th century London. I can understand why you forgot it. Without Moriarty, the show isn't the same anymore. I used to like it, until I dropped moments before the ending of season 2. Having a show without Moriarty could work, except Sherlock is obnoxious with a capital "Oh my goodness. what's wrong with that guy?". Even Watson couldn't carry the whole series alone. You just know something is broken in a series when Watson, the person who caught Moriarty and widely know as the only thing keeping Sherlock sharp and effective, can't carry the weight. Maybe Moriarty is the evil blonde equivalent to Ziva from NCIS. When I come to think of it, Moriarty is the sole reason for Sherlock to be Sherlock. She ruined him and made him do drugs. When she was around, at least Sherlock had an understandable reason to be a wreck of a person and being a loser without Watson. Now, the person who built him by ruin him is gone. And he have no excuse to be the way he is. These days the good people doing another season. 6th or something. Not sure. They should stop this series while they still have dignity and release Johnny Lee Miller and Luci Liu to do better things.

2. Today I happened to see "Keeping Up with the Joneses". It's one of those movies you can see at ease when you want to burn some time, as long as you don't raise your expectations over the roof. The movie begins when Karen and Jeff, a mundane suburb couple (what people might call "soccer mom" and "soccer dad"), move in to a new neighborhood. Thanks to Karen's paranoia and sniffing, they find out that the Joneses, who happen to be their overachieving neighbors, are actually secret agents. Gal Gadot ("Wonder Woman") and John Ham ("Madman") did a good job as the badass power couple Natalie and Tim. Since it's Gal Gadot we're talking about, you can expect she would have badass moments. In a barbeque party, when a cocky guy tried to teach her how to throw darts while teasing her about "throwing like a girl", she threw the dart like a knife (from the blade) and replied "maybe I can teach you how to throw like a girl". Lol very much. Another lol moment was where the Jonses abducted someone who secretly work for a weapon dealer, along with his wife meg, and Karen shouted at her "shut up, meg!". You know what that means. Thanks to Family guy, you can call your daughter Meg and no one will ever tell her to shut up. Karen started up as the typical annoying noisy neighbor, but became badass by the end of the movie. There was a part when Karen snuck up a knife, pretended she's kissing Gal and gave Gal the knife so she could throw it to one of the bad guys' neck. Just one scene after, Karen came to understand the ancient rule of thumb about taking guns from dead enemies and shooting a three-layered glass window for last minute getaway. Same cannot be said about Jeff. I mean, this guy insisted to use his so called communications skills even at the face of the weapons dealer. I know situations like that only from my stories, but even I know criminals are rarely people who're open to talk. Worse than that, Jeff believed the distraction was a sign for Karen being a lesbian. And Tim also had his moment of idiocy when his superiors refused to help him and his wife at rescuing Karen and Jeff. Natalie pretended they obey the order to retreat, but Tim was afraid she was serious. A little dull for a secret agent... This is a cheesy movie with its good aspects, but it have some flaws. Karen found out about the Joneses not because she's bright. She just sniffed like crazy. Turned out she was right, but it wasn't for being smart. Jeff is kinda dumb. He see a microphone in a decoration he got from the neighbors and refuse to suspect. Natalie was portrayed as short-tempered with a husband who try to restrain her and stay in one piece, just like in too many media representation recently. What is that good for? It just portray women as hotheaded and men as wusses (Natalie herself called Tim a wuss. In Hebrew no less. They did a negative stereotype for Mossad agents. And the real Gal is adorable, to a degree she cant play a nasty/short-tempered character even it either that or being devoured by pigmen). And weirdest of all? The weapons dealer was played by Patton Oswalt. Like I gonna believe this guy can play high-scale dangerous people (sarcasm mode). Overall, as long as you remember to take this movie as it is and not searching for higher meanings, you might enjoy it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_Up_with_the_Joneses_(film)

3. In case of putting him there, Gaston will be serious enough to be scary. In my stories, even the jokes are played for serious. It's similar to Dark Seraph, when the jokes just show to the audience how dire the situation is. Still working on the rest of the film. Until I decide about Gaston, I got a new idea from a friend. I wished her a happy birthday and she offered me to use Snow White's stepmother as the third killer in part 1. In her idea, the stepmother will sale poisons and will be hired by Cindi for a matricide. Technically it's still count like Cindi killed her own mother, because Cindi personally gave her mother the poison. In her last moments, Cindi's mother referred to the death of her other 2 daughters by saying "this coward son of a bitch used my own flesh and blood to kill me. If you want someone to be killed, kill them yourself". Later on, after killing Tweedle Dee (it's either that or getting Dee killed by Cat) and Puss in boots, Cindi use similar words to express her decision to take care of Molly's death with her bare hands. "My mother was right. If you want someone to be killed, kill them yourself". After killing her mother, Cindi summons her accomplice to her house under to promise of giving her what she deserve. The stepmother comes and Cindi stab her with a kitchen knife. "That's what you deserve".

4. I have no doubt Salem is not someone you want to piss off. Is she based on Red Queen? Because she sound to me like someone who might kill her husband so he won't leave her. I don't know what's scarier about her: The fact you can throw a stone from the window and hit at least 4 RWBY character who are worse, or the fact Cinder took pages from her book. And after all the bloodbath she did, Salem is still affable? I would never root for Cinder, but I can understand why she wasn't very loyal to Salem. Being overly loyal to a dictator doesn't seems to me like a good idea. Playing the game to an extent for survival is one thing, but loyalty is something I wont give to Salem, because people like aren't deserve to be trusted. Know what I mean? With that said, I do anticipate to see season 3 (is volume considered as a season) and see Salem with all her Bathory (pun intended. Bathory instead of glory). Weiss will of course stop to communicate with her Oldman eventually, right? He was worth only for getting her through character development, so I don't see a reason for her to stay in touch.

5. Joan of Ark becomes one of those characters who inspire many fictional characters in multiple settings and mechanics. In your opinion, is it also true for King Richard? Also, don't worry about "slow" writing times. You're talking to someone who might take some days before writing, so i'm the last one to judge. If anything, your writing times are quick :-). I hear you about premature refreshment of pages. It happen to me more times than I could count on both hands.