Little purple Smurfs!
on October 30, 2013 at 12:01 amChapter: The Aliens Return
Location: University Hospital
As far as Joyce is concerned, these creatures from outer space who abducted her and strapped her to a cold metal table to poke and prod at are no more disconcerting than a caterpillar you find crawling on your knee. BE FREE, ALIEN, BE FREE.
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I’d smack the shit out of a caterpillar on my knee, tho D=
What about a john deere on your knee??
…Well they did let her watch Sound of Music.
And just curious, what are your true feelings about the film nowadays?
(I actually could care less about the film itself, but, yanno.)
Exactly! What was torture for Joe was a pleasure for her! She has no reason yet to fear them.
I have not seen it since high school, when I lived in my parents’ house with my sister.
I plan to keep it that way.
And this next scene is where you truly begin to understand how sheltered Joyce was.
Indeed. I was going to talk about it, but… spoilers.
shelteredcrazy brainwashed.What’s the difference?
The difference between Dumbiverse Joyce and Walkyverse Joyce, really. That one has some strange and naïve ideas about how the world works. This one doesn’t remember significant events in her childhood and is psychologically incapable of pulling off duct tape.
You’d think she’d have a bit more subconscious fear of them what with the torture and all.
She likes The Sound of Music too much to worry ‘bot some li’l ol’ torture!
Ha, I love that the visor or whatever it is looks like a giant mouth when wearing the obfuscating baseball cap
Free Heady.
The alien has an odd view of the hostage/raptor dynamic.
I’m sure you meant “hostage/captor,” but your typo has created a far more interesting scenario in my mind now.
…basically, what Randall Munroe dreams of when he wakes up screaming.
Agreed. I’m now disappointed that hostage/raptor situations aren’t the norm.
And Dex is just standing there all “…wut?”
I hate the Sound of Music. I like musicals in general, but not that one.
Joyce is not sheltered, or whatever, she is just plain weird.
My husband likes that movie. I have no idea why.
Of course, I generally *don’t* like musicals (Phantom and Fiddler being two exceptions–I love those two!) so I can’t really say much about Sound of Music, I suppose.
You know, I don’t even think I’ve ever seen The Sound of Music at all beyond a few clips.
Whenever I try to think about Sound of Music (really, not that often), it devolves into the scene from National Lampoon’s European Vacation, where the hills are alive with the sound of Griswolds.
My goodness she sure is cheerful considering someone she knew just died!
Yeah Joe it’s just an Alien. It’s not like it’s something spectacular or a key to the secrets of the universe or something.
There are far worse musicals than The Sound of Music (Xanadu, anyone?). There are, to be sure, far better ones. But I think the main problem with TSoM is that it’s way too long and tries to pack too much in. It should’ve been about either the Maria/Georg romance or the von Trapps’ escape from the Nazis, but not both. (Hands up: how many of you, watching the film for the first time, thought it was over when Georg first joined the family in song, showing he’d changed, and then the wedding happend?)
Also, although I like several of the songs, there were others that could’ve–in some cases, should’ve–been cut. Especially “The Lonely Goatherd,” which I hated even before Gwen Stefani based one of her own “songs” on it. But “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “My Favourite Things,” “Edelweiss?” Classics.
Hey. I like Xanadu.
Originally posted:
March 31, 1999