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Update: Hit umpteen bazillion fanpages after posting last and have discovered that I'm not alone in my confusion- the Halloween mythology is convoluted and some movies seem to rewrite previously established canon while others simply ignore it altogether.
I think it's pretty interesting to see how the fans deal with the changes as each subsequent movie is released. And as for the 8th movie? There's pretty much angry consensus across the web that it and 3 are the weakest entries in the series. JLC's brief appearance in 8 serves as Charlton Heston's brief appearance in the Planet of The Apes sequel did- to eliminate all possibility of further resurrecting the character.
Go JLC.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2002
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Working on the little Sailor Mars costume- The Goddess of Procrastination smiles on me and I am attempting to handsew some finishing touches on it at work today. Nothing huge- just some bows and tack-stitching the velcro connectors down so that the four-year-old who will inhabit it tomorrow won't peel things off and get a lopsided kerchief...
Then I need to work on what *I'M* wearing to work tomorrow- it's that green dress that I never get to wear anywhere. Maybe I'll paint my face, too.
Going to visit the DarkAngel soon- I'm nervous and tense and all sorts of lovely shades of panic.
I'm worried that, without the safety of the whitenoise of television and other people about, I won't be able to hold an intelligent conversation with him. And I want to be intelligent around him. I want him to see that I'm a lot more than the sum of my fandoms.
Not that I'm not intelligent.
But I am scared that I will fall back into my old conversational patterns- You know, the ones where I say what people want to hear from me... where I tailor my likes/dislikes to pander to my audience. Where I dig into the mass quantities of information socked away in my brain and dig out what I think they want to hear me talk about at that moment.
And he'll see right through that, I think.
I don't want to start out with holding my usual bellicose shield up, either. I like a good debate, truly I do. But sometimes I can't be objective about my passions and I end up vengeful and bitter and the debate turns into a personal attack that never ends well.
Enough with the NAVEL GAZING!
So I finally watched most of the Halloween movies this past weekend.
I had seen Part 1 before- back when H20 was being released and I really wanted to see it... but I wanted to know the history before I watched (what was then going to be) the last chapter.
So we rented 1 and 2.
I guess I wasn't ready for it- mock away, I acknowledge my Fraidy-Cat standing.
Many years later, AMC Monsterfest is showing the BackStory of Halloween and I get into it. Immediately following was the Halloween Marathon. So I watched 2, 3, 4, and 5.
I enjoyed them and I can now check that off of my list of irrational fears to conquer.
It did help that they were interrupted by commercials, that they were edited for TV and that it was broad daylight outside.
Another contributing factor was that I was simultaneously working on the Sailor Mars costume, so the materials were laid out on the floor in front of the TV and I got to do hemming and bow work while I was watching characters get hacked and dismembered.
Reviews:
2: I liked the fact that it picked up RIGHT after number 1 ended. Good show by JLC, etc.
3: The less said, the better. I couldn't stay focused and ended up flipping channels through most of it. I just didn't understand it and how it fit into the MythArc. I have heard that this is one of the least liked of the series. Exploding masks. Whatever.
4: Back to basics. Stupid people who don't listen to the audience. I WAS a bit confused as to whose daughter the Dawn-A-Like was- maybe they edited that out or I missed it on a snack run.
5: Pushing my patience as I was getting tired of watching by that point. I was definitely confused by the ending- who broke Myers out of the hoosegow? I know it was the Person In Pointy Boots, but who were they and WHY?!?!?! Maybe 6 explains, but they didn't show that one. I'll have to hit some fansites and peruse the lore.
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Working on the little Sailor Mars costume- The Goddess of Procrastination smiles on me and I am attempting to handsew some finishing touches on it at work today. Nothing huge- just some bows and tack-stitching the velcro connectors down so that the four-year-old who will inhabit it tomorrow won't peel things off and get a lopsided kerchief...
Then I need to work on what *I'M* wearing to work tomorrow- it's that green dress that I never get to wear anywhere. Maybe I'll paint my face, too.
Going to visit the DarkAngel soon- I'm nervous and tense and all sorts of lovely shades of panic.
I'm worried that, without the safety of the whitenoise of television and other people about, I won't be able to hold an intelligent conversation with him. And I want to be intelligent around him. I want him to see that I'm a lot more than the sum of my fandoms.
Not that I'm not intelligent.
But I am scared that I will fall back into my old conversational patterns- You know, the ones where I say what people want to hear from me... where I tailor my likes/dislikes to pander to my audience. Where I dig into the mass quantities of information socked away in my brain and dig out what I think they want to hear me talk about at that moment.
And he'll see right through that, I think.
I don't want to start out with holding my usual bellicose shield up, either. I like a good debate, truly I do. But sometimes I can't be objective about my passions and I end up vengeful and bitter and the debate turns into a personal attack that never ends well.
Enough with the NAVEL GAZING!
So I finally watched most of the Halloween movies this past weekend.
I had seen Part 1 before- back when H20 was being released and I really wanted to see it... but I wanted to know the history before I watched (what was then going to be) the last chapter.
So we rented 1 and 2.
I guess I wasn't ready for it- mock away, I acknowledge my Fraidy-Cat standing.
Many years later, AMC Monsterfest is showing the BackStory of Halloween and I get into it. Immediately following was the Halloween Marathon. So I watched 2, 3, 4, and 5.
I enjoyed them and I can now check that off of my list of irrational fears to conquer.
It did help that they were interrupted by commercials, that they were edited for TV and that it was broad daylight outside.
Another contributing factor was that I was simultaneously working on the Sailor Mars costume, so the materials were laid out on the floor in front of the TV and I got to do hemming and bow work while I was watching characters get hacked and dismembered.
Reviews:
2: I liked the fact that it picked up RIGHT after number 1 ended. Good show by JLC, etc.
3: The less said, the better. I couldn't stay focused and ended up flipping channels through most of it. I just didn't understand it and how it fit into the MythArc. I have heard that this is one of the least liked of the series. Exploding masks. Whatever.
4: Back to basics. Stupid people who don't listen to the audience. I WAS a bit confused as to whose daughter the Dawn-A-Like was- maybe they edited that out or I missed it on a snack run.
5: Pushing my patience as I was getting tired of watching by that point. I was definitely confused by the ending- who broke Myers out of the hoosegow? I know it was the Person In Pointy Boots, but who were they and WHY?!?!?! Maybe 6 explains, but they didn't show that one. I'll have to hit some fansites and peruse the lore.
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