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Rate the last thing you read or watched, and give a little review if you want.

Last thing I watched? Tampax advert. 7 out of ten on product effectiveness, 1 out of ten for realistic lifestyle aspirations and outcomes.

I just finished watching 13 Reasons Why and I was actually impressed with how it handled the topics and characters. Most of them were sympathetic. They did petty, spiteful things out of hurt or selfishness but in a very human, understandable way and the main character herself was shown to sometimes have similar reactions.

Some of the discussions around the place made it seem far less nuanced than it actually is but I think a lot of people have trouble picking up nuances or interpreting things that aren't said outright. I think it might be a bit of a tough ride for the intended audience, though. When I was a teenager I would have thought of all the characters as terrible heartless evil bullies and wouldn't have picked up on a lot of that stuff.

I recently watch Ao no Exorcist, it was decent but could have been better. I fucking hated the fanservice character (her personality was not bad but I could not deal with her always wearing a bikini top that didn't fit.) I also found Shiemi annoying.

The best character in the series was the dead Dad. I think I would have rather watch a series about him.

I think Ao no Exorcist is a good example of a series that would be significantly better if it wasn't a shounen series and bucked some of the stupid conventions.

I agree, I think if it had broken a few more tropes and given me a few more twists in the plot then I would have absolutely loved the series. It started off well enough and you almost think it's going to be an intense series but then it turns into your typical shounen/school days action/comedy and it got pretty predictable after that.

Yeah... I still think the first two episodes of the anime were stunning, though. Wish it had managed to maintain that feel!

Firefox (the movie). It was boring and I hated it. :C

I just finished the new Thrawn novel. I would give it a 9 out of 10. I really enjoyed it, and I think there are some really interesting possibilities it opens up for Rebels and even TLJ.

The last movie I watched was your name. or Kimi no Na wa. It was really good, I highly recommend it. The animation was gorgeous and the voice acting was great.

Yes I just watched this too, it was incredible! I cried but in a good way.

I'm annoyed it's not out near me :/

I thought... the second half was really good! The first half relied a little bit too much on old anime cliches, honestly. It really was beautiful, though!

Modern Family episode where Luke, Manny, Phil and Gloria visit a college; Mitch and Claire go to a wedding reception with their dad and freak out over their mom being there and the potential for drama; and Cam, Haley and Alex concoct a ruse to see if they've found the woman who blocked Cam's view with her iPad during g Lily's dance solo.

It was one of the better episodes I've seen of late.

I watched the fourth eppie of the new MST3K. I thought it was very funny except for the NPH host sequence, which I didn't find funny at all.

I'm still reading this, but at the rate I'm going I won't finish for another 6 months....I'm reading Vasily Grossman's "Life and Fate". It is excellent and it is the single most harrowing book I've ever read, one continual, continuous devastation. Reading it in this political climate makes it even worse, because it is now a horrifying testimony of the evil of Totalitarianism in the past and a horrifying vision of what could easily happen again in our lifetimes. The fact that you can't read this and take comfort in the thought that all this happened long ago in a place far away to people in very different circumstances than ours is what makes this such a difficult but necessary book to read. I just can't read more than 20 pages at a time.

Watched - Last week's episode of Scorpion, where they have to sanitize this asteroid/meteorite thing that had some kind of alien DNA/virus in it, which would apparently wipe out humanity, in some made up Russia-esque country. And they had to do it behind this leader dude's back (who wasn't the president...the president was on their side, but apparently the other dude had more power?) because there was some kind of valuable mineral or something inside the meteorite/asteroid that would be destroyed when they sanitized it and he didn't want it destroyed. It was okay, but pretty ridiculous, even by Scorpion standards.

Read - Angels Burning by Tawni O'Dell. It's about a female police chief in a fictionalized version of Centralia, PA, who has to solve the murder of a teenage girl, while also dealing with family drama and her mom's murder decades before. It was...not good. The "mystery" was really anti-climactic and uninteresting, the family drama was boring/weird (I don't know of any real people who'd act the way these characters did), and the main character was super unlikable. In one scene she's at the hospital after a teenage boy was shot (which was her fault, because she wasn't doing her job properly) and all she can think about is how horny she is and her coworker (who she's sleeping with)'s big dick and how bad she wants to fuck him. There's also this half-feral young boy who everyone likes to joke is part monkey/squirrel who's always climbing on top of cars and climbing up the sides of houses and jumping on shit, that's clearly supposed to be comic relief, but it's just bizarre and stupid. I've read another of the author's books (Back Roads) and liked it (although I was a teenager at the time so I'm not sure if I'd like it now) but I was not a fan of this one at all. There are two more of her books that sound interesting so I might give those a shot but I'm not sure.

I just finished The Glass Demon by Helen Grant. It's a YA novel but I found it in the general fiction collection at the library, which, eh--it doesn't have a very YA-looking cover so I guess it can be forgiven. The conceit is okay (English girl's vain professor dad moves the family to Germany in search of a legendary set of stained glass windows; murders ensue) and the resolution has some damn fine imagery, but the prose plods pretentiously at points, the plot is stretched kinda thin, and I found most of the characters annoying. I gave it three out of five stars on Goodreads: a tick above mediocre, and I've read worse.

I watched Central Intelligence and The Magnificent Seven this weekend.

Central Intelligence: exactly what I thought it would be. Some jokes I liked, some I didn't but ultimately I enjoyed it's silly self while it was on.

The Magnificent Seven: absolutely nothing like the trailers I saw, which made it look a lot more comedic than it is, but that's not a bad thing and as a western it was fine. Not my favourite genre though so I didn't love it and was okay with missing bits of it when I wanted to go to the kitchen because I didn't care enough.

I think I'd give both a solid C+, nothing amazing but enjoyable in their own right.

Mostly been watching Youtube videos lately. I did watch Reign of Fire, though. I'd give it an 7/10. Not an amazing movie, but a lot of fun. Dragons! Also, decent acting.

Still not done the show overall, but I DID just finish season 6 of the West Wing. Not my favourite but a solid season, bold choices, changed a lot of things up and made me feel some feels! 8 out of 10

Last watched: 1x08 of Bojack Horseman. I still don't really know how I feel about this series. I like the weird-ass world building, and I do enjoy the commentary on fame and celebrity culture and first-world existential crisis, and think it's all fairly well done.

But on the other hand, it more crass than I generally enjoy, and Bojack isn't sympathetic enough for me to really get emotionally engaged with the story. I'm someone who likes characters that are extremely flawed and struggling not to be awful people, but Bojack takes that too far for me. There's no real balance between good and bad with him; he's struggling, yes, but at the end of the day he really is a piece of shit.

Currently reading: If on a winter's night a traveler. The most gimmicky book I've ever read. If it weren't short, I'd have quit fifty pages in.

I watched Ang Lee's Lust, Caution last night. I never wanted to watch Tony Leung fuck that much. So much fucking. I think I know what they were going for but... maybe fanfic has changed my perspective on sex as a plot device, or it was too male gazey. I don't know.
The lead actress (Tang Wei) was fantastic, but I don't really recommend it. Too long, and the plot was a little thin.

SA

oops, forgot to Rate the Thing. Lets say 7/10.

I watched "Listening 2014" last night with the guest. It was recommended to me because I watched Outbreak.

I gave it a thumbs down rating about 15 minutes in. But as we had committed, we watched the whole thing.

It was slow, it was dull, the colouring of various scenes was confusing as hell. There was no passion, the characters were so rigid and flat. It was hard to pay attention, we were not invested in anything but the movie ending. We were going to google what the hell this movie was meant to be and if it was about poor broke grad students because it was MADE by poor broke grad students because it really seemed like some over-artsy-final-video-project except boring as fuck.

I wish netflix still had star ratings. It was beyond thumbsdown, it's a 0.5 star rating.

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