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I feel like the reactions to racebending varies. Maybe it's just that there are so many people on the internet voicing opinions, there is never a real consensus on whether people like it or not. I've personally seen people kick up a fuss about Zendaya as Mary Jane, Scarlett Johansson as Mokoto Kusanagi, but I've also seen other people defend those casting choices. I never saw anyone make a fuss about Will Smith as Deadshot or Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury, but I'm sure some people, somewhere, did.
Ok it's so weird to me, I literally only heard of that Wild Wild West movie like a week ago, I've never heard of it before, and now I see people starting to bring it up.

Those gosh darn mean words. I sure can't handle those.

Mm, anything else? There's tons of vampire lore out there. Garlic and crucifixes?

Of course she's nice to him. She loves him to death. And that's what's going to make this hurt all the more for everyone involved. :)

Random fun fact- Jonathan's real last name is Donnett.

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I didn't like her headress, but I liked other aspects of her design. Cara Delevingne did a decent job. I think her moments as June Moon were some of the best acted of the movie, in terms of emotional resonance. I didn't particularly love Viola Davis's character, and I think she was the victim of a lot of that cliche dialogue, but she really did a great job with what she was given. Will Smith did a good job, I'm so happy he's in something again, it feels like he's been under the radar lately. Race bending characters is always an unpredictable move, I've seen instances where everyone's happy with the choice, and other instances where everyone goes batshit. I don't know how I feel about Jared Leto. I really have no basis on which to judge his interpretation, except against Heath Ledger, and it's not fair to compare them when they came from different interpretations and movies with massively different tones. He certainly made me uncomfortable, which I guess is good? Kinda liked how he and Harley interacted? But, based on my very limited understanding of the Joker, he came across more like a pimp and a mafia head than I thought he was supposed to be. And there was too much logic to him - like, he went about what he needed to get done in a chaotic fashion, but there was an organized overarching plan to the things he did. In my uneducated interpretation.

ooh what's he gonna do, type at me?

Hah, nice. I shall continue as scheduled, then. I do mean ever, because when they become vampires, they stop aging, most of their organs don't really work anymore, the cells are dead. If they were to get cut (and it'd likely be from another vampire or else some pretty powerful force), they're not going to bleed, but the cells aren't going to grow and heal the wounds. If the cells in their bodies are frozen to the point of not aging, they'll be frozen to not heal and regenerate as well.

We all knew this heartbreak was coming. And you got it right the first time.

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eeee I can't wait for the next installmeeeeeeent!
three guesses as to where this embrace is going.

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She had taken a stance in the doorway. Her wifely instincts told her to help him too a chair, but nooo, he didn't want her help, remember? But it wasn't long until he'd worked up the breath to apologize to her. Her expression softened. She was so frustrated with his pride, yes, but she was more frustrated with what this sickness had done to him, and in agony over watching him suffer and having nothing to help him, at least nothing he would allow, of course. He knew his anger at her earlier wasn't like him, and she knew it. They didn't have the time to be angry at each other now. She just wanted to take in all there was left of him, as much of the old him still remained.

Elizabeth was so taken with him, she didn't notice him knocking over the glass in time, even though she should have. He'd been in the middle of thanking her for something, she didn't know what, and she just didn't pay enough attention. She noticed it just barely too late. She had rushed forward five steps toward the glass in the fraction of a second it took to fall, but her fingertips only managed to graze it. It shattered to the floor anyway.

While she frowned, disappointed in herself that she didn't manage to catch it, she knelt to the floor right away, plucking a rag off the counter and pressing it to the water all over the dirt floor, trying to absorb it before it got muddy. Jaspin's movement attracted her attention yet again. She sat up, beginning to reach out a hand to him, to help him, but stopped herself. He wanted to continue to do as much as possible himself. But watching him struggle and hobble just to collapse in a chair made her feel like someone had put her unbeating heart in a vise. She bit her lip and returned to collecting the broken glass. She swept the pieces into her hand without a second thought. There was no chance of them cutting her skin.

Not leaving?

She sat right up again, depositing the glass on the counter and wiping her hands off on her skirt. He thought it deserved merit that she hadn't left him by now? Over this? Her eyes went wide and sad, dismayed that he'd even think such a thing. "Jaspin... how could I leave you now? How could I ever abandon you to suffer this alone?" She crawled over beside his chair and brushed his face with her hand tenderly. "I will be by your side, and I will never stop being by your side," she murmured, gently pulling him into her arms and burying her head in his chest.

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I know he did have some sort of a purpose, being killed off to set an example, but they didn't even try to incorporate him into the story or get you attached to him in any way or make you think he had any other purpose than to die. And while I can definitely see that Katana was more loyal/affiliated with the army guys than the others, she was advertised as being part of the team.

Other things, positive and negative... there were a good amount of chuckles. Some of the dialogue came across as very cliched or just written for the trailer. As far as I can tell, it was well cast, all the actors seemed good for the parts (even though I don't know squat about these characters in the comics so I can't really cast an accurate judgement). I thought the pacing was terrible. I liked most of the costumes, particularly Enchantress's first design (and I'm a costume design major so that's important to me). The cinematography was kind of dizzying sometimes. The backstories they actually went into were done pretty well. I didn't like the editing, characters would be in one place and then in another, without an explanation of how they actually got there. They didn't do a good job making me care about the whole taking over the world thing - considering every summer action movie ever is about taking over or destroying the world, you really gotta put some effort into making it stand out and feel like something's at stake. I hated, HATED Enchantress's last line so goddamn much, that was my biggest moment of irrational anger out of the whole thing.

pfft. ok Jaspin, ok.

Oh, that's a good one. Complicates my plan for how Elizabeth burns down Jaspin's house, but I'll figure it out. What kind of superhuman strength or speed are we talking? I'm thinking that they're definitely much more durable than a human. It takes a helluva lot to hurt or cut them, but once they're cut, they can't heal. Being burned can kill them. If they were to get decapitated or their head was crushed, that'd kill them. Thoughts?

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Because of how much I pay attention now, now I see additional problems with stuff like editing and cinematography, I dunno.

While I agree that the army guys could be pretty annoying, I thought it was very clear that Deadshot and Harley Quinn were the undisputed leads and everyone else in the squad was just filler. There was the guy who cane in at the last minute with barely a name, no backstory, and he was dead in two minutes just as an example. Katana did not do a single thing that impacted the plot.
you see how passionate I can get about the Discourse over things that aren't real.

lol for some reason it looked like he had a lot more. not sure why. My bad.

That's good to know. You mean someone asked you to tell me?

I don't want it to kill them either. I was playing with the idea that direct sunlight would give them severe burns? Maybe it could kill them if they were to be forced in the sunlight for like an hour or two...

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Ooh, something I was thinking about last night- with all the hundreds of variants on vampire characteristics, we should try to hash those out.

Now would be a really great time for me to remember what I read in Dracula in high school.

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Do you collect them?

Honestly, I've been studying various forms of entertainment for a pretty long time and I think at this point I'm nitpicky (compared to the average person) and I have high standards. I wish I could have just enjoyed it, but I couldn't turn my brain off.

I agree with that, about the other squad members. It bothered me that several of them contributed to the plot as much as a brick on the sidewalk.

Dang, he has a large clan. Did he sire each one himself?

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Sounds like you had a good day, I'm glad. Masquerade masks, I'm assuming it's sparkly, lacy, or feathery, or hopefully some combination thereof.

What did you think of Suicide Squad?
Personally, I didn't like it very much.

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Hey, you're a good writer, I'm sure it'll be fine.