Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

1) Nice extended Batman trailer there! Heart-stopping action, incomprehensible plot due to my utter inability to understand a single word out of Tom Hardy's mouth (at least, where I kind of assume his mouth is). This may be a problem in the long run. Also, I guess at some point I should probably watch The Dark Knight, huh.

2) Is it just me, or is this a VERY SHORT special secret ops team? Like, as far as I could tell, Cruise and Pegg and Renner are all genuinely about the same size, which size is VERY SHORT.

3) Relatedly, this is a v. good action movie (we just rewatched Die Hard, it being recently Christmas, hence I'm inclined fondly toward setpieces revolving around the structural components of skyscrapers). So don't take it as a slight on its action-movie calibre when I say that sometimes when I was meant to be thinking "OMG heart-stopping action!" I was thinking more along the lines of, "Does Jeremy Renner do kettlebell exercises or was he born with that posterior view?"

4) In your opinion, Jeremy Renner:

a) does kettlebell exercises
b) was born with that posterior view
c) say what you like about Tom Cruise but dude is no slouch in that dept as well

( spoilers for this movie, and the third in the series )

And now for an episode of Sherlock

.........Guys, is it just me, or was that insanely good?

Additional thoughts on Sherlock S2E1

1) That was also fanfiction but not Katie Forsythe (the motto of the BBC Sherlock comm). I hope the Whedon Avengers movie is also like this, i.e. a Billy-Crystal-Oscar-skit-esque summation of the entire preceding year in fanfictional thinking.

2) Moffat and Gatiss would like you to know that if you insist on writing ridiculous D/s-verse AU scenarios, you should at least get some Word Of God on who is what.

3) The "canon references" in this one are basically the diggerdydum subject header approach, and I mean this in the nicest way (i.e. I LOLed). I hear you can already get a "geek interpreter" t-shirt.

(...I think I forgot to mention that that Gabaldon book contained toward the end the WORST groaner music pun of all time? Of all time!)

( Cut for more specific HIGHLY SPOILERY meta thoughts on the ending )