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Movie Appreciation: Week 9, Period 3 (Fri. 3/13)

There'd been a marathon of disaster movies on late Thursday night. It was as if cable television thought the world was going to end and the audiences needed to be prepared. Which led to Ronon's selection of film clips for this week's class. He was mostly amused because it was so rare in Pegasus for a world to be destroyed by something other than Wraith invasion. Or McKay.

Once students had assembled in the Danger Shop-turned movie auditorium, he began his 'lecture.' "A decade ago, movie makers seemed pretty sure Earth was gettin' destroyed by a giant meteor or comet." He played the infamous scene of destruction to prove his point. "That was ~~meta for~~ Deep Impact. Today, we're gonna watch ~~meta for~~ Armageddon and talk about suspension of disbelief." Wikipedia was becoming Ronon's friend for this movie analysis stuff. "So, do you accept the premise and science of the movie and enjoy it without delving deep or do you rip it up by thinkin' too much and ruin the ~~unrealistic~~ special effects for everyone else? Let's watch."

[OOC: My head hurts so I give you links for Armageddon here! The Launch. The part where I prove I have no soul. More proof.]

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Do what you do while Armageddon plays. We'll call it conveniently edited for time.

Fiery bits of rock falling from the sky and destroying a city? Consider John pleased to be in class today.

Angela wouldn't have said she was a particular disaster movie fan, but that wasn't going to stop her from slouching back comfortably in a seat as usual to enjoy the fact she got to watch movies for class. That was never going to stop being amazing.

Peyton made herself comfortable and settled in to watch the disaster movie.

Romeo could always watch things blowing up and cities being laid to waste. He was deeply absorbed in the movie.

Gwynn was staring in rapt fascination at the movie as it played.

She was a fan of disaster movies, who knew?

Firekeeper wasn't paying much attention. Instead, she was ~~brooding~~ thinking hard about her previous class. Magic, why did it always have to be magic? Too much trouble.

[ooc: omg can't stop editing.]

Edited 2009-03-13 14:46 (UTC)

Dinah kinda loved this movie. It was so dumb in some places. Plus great one-liners.

Popcorn migh be TK'd at the screen at various points.

"Showing your appreciation of the cinematic with popcorn?" Angela teased from nearby.

"In fact, yes. That's the point of art, right?" More popcorn sailed at the screen. "This is so cheesy. It deserves some popcorn to go with it. Or to celebrate the huge explosions."

"You've got to love being able to make it a little more interactive," Angela pointed out with a grin.

"See, yes!" More popcorn. "Meteor particles!" She grinned at Angela. "How was your week? Are you divorced yet? Or annulled, or whatever. I don't think I've talked to you since your not-really-a-honeymoon."

"Annulled," Angela confirmed with a little breath of laughter. "Yes, I am. It didn't take long."

"And my week has actually been great... crazy attacking birds aside," she said with a nod. "Yours?"

"Congratulations, or, um. Sorry? Heh. Either one," Dinah said. "And it's been good, aside from the harpies. I ended on top of Groovy Tunes with a million people all fighting them, and when I wasn't completely grossed out and scared out of my mind, there were some fun bits." She popped a bite of popcorn in her mouth. "Chad threw me!"

"And hopefully caught you again?" she joked. Chad had done it enough times in cheerleading, that she was sure of that.

"I stayed well out the way." Flying attacking things? Were not for Angela.

"Yup! Three or four times, so I could kick them in the head. We were running out of ammo and they weren't coming any closer, so, we made them mad enough to do that." It probably hadn't been the smartest thing she'd ever done, but at least it had been effective. "Thank God Tony had a magic cleaning spell to get the ick off me afterwards."

Angela pulled a face at the image alone. "Gross," she declared. "That's really gross." She was never going to be one with an especially high tolerance for that sort of thing.

"It really, really was. Are they always like that? The invasions?" Dinah asked, shuddering in remembrance. "I thought they'd be more... fun."

"I don't know," Angela admitted. "I haven't really been around for any. It's usually all turning into stuff, and little cute things."

Claudia was totally distracted by the hot guys. This...was not hugely shocking, no.

Peter watched, trying to imagine what he'd do if it was the end of the world.

Marco was in a very, very happy movie place.

Robin had to cover his eyes during the more intense parts, but he enjoyed the adventure aspects.

Sam had loved this kind of movie way more before he had to stop an alien robot from destroying the Earth.

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