ready, set, mock!
Aug. 21st, 2005 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanhaving worked all day, I'm taking time off for some brain candy. Sci-Fi channel. 7pm Eastern. "Octopus." Terrorists and secret agents battle crazed octopi.
Going off to make the popcorn, now.
(if I can manage it, after is "Octopus 2: River of Fear" Radioactive octopi in NYC's harbor. Can you stand the anticipation?)
well, we're starting off right, during the Cuban Missle Crisis, with a Russian sub in US waters... and lo, they're sunk. Slow-mo of dying sailors and stirring martial music. Panning shot of tanks ooing a slow green fluid onto the ocean floor. Next up: inquiring octopus, I bet...
Nope, cut to CIA outpost, in a clearly far more innocent age, where little kids are allowed to hang out in the secretarial pool while mommy works. And nobody thinks anything of an old woman who walks in with an unsearched bag. Suspension of disbelief officially in overdrive...
Shmuck. Guy who blew up the building with your girlfriend in it is in your sights, and you don't pull the trigger? I know preschoolers who would do better than that.
All right, the rivalry between spook and terrorist has been set up now. We'd better see some mega-octopi, soon.
Hah. We have achieved octopi. Complete with musical cues and cheezy underwater screaming.
...bored now. Kill the terrorist before he giggles again, willya?
Okay, a mutant octopus with iron deficiency craving meat All to set up, as far as I can tell, to deliver the punchline "white meat, or dark meat?" I can respect that.
Going off to make the popcorn, now.
(if I can manage it, after is "Octopus 2: River of Fear" Radioactive octopi in NYC's harbor. Can you stand the anticipation?)
well, we're starting off right, during the Cuban Missle Crisis, with a Russian sub in US waters... and lo, they're sunk. Slow-mo of dying sailors and stirring martial music. Panning shot of tanks ooing a slow green fluid onto the ocean floor. Next up: inquiring octopus, I bet...
Nope, cut to CIA outpost, in a clearly far more innocent age, where little kids are allowed to hang out in the secretarial pool while mommy works. And nobody thinks anything of an old woman who walks in with an unsearched bag. Suspension of disbelief officially in overdrive...
Shmuck. Guy who blew up the building with your girlfriend in it is in your sights, and you don't pull the trigger? I know preschoolers who would do better than that.
All right, the rivalry between spook and terrorist has been set up now. We'd better see some mega-octopi, soon.
Hah. We have achieved octopi. Complete with musical cues and cheezy underwater screaming.
...bored now. Kill the terrorist before he giggles again, willya?
Okay, a mutant octopus with iron deficiency craving meat All to set up, as far as I can tell, to deliver the punchline "white meat, or dark meat?" I can respect that.
