Movie night, Friday

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Had Jon been sleeping well this week? Of course not. But Jon never slept well, so he didn't look rougher than he ever did. Which at the moment was "moderately".

He still gave his best smile as he stood at the front of the room, because at least this wasn't any form of tea again.

"Um. Welcome to class. I'm Jonathan Sims. I think the idea behind this class is to catch up on modern pop culture, and so those of us - or maybe you - who know it can help the ones who don't. The, um. The moose had a suggestion for the first week's movie, so we're going to go with that this week." In the hopes that it would save him more tea later.

"Also we should probably still do introductions, I suppose. Um. Again, I'm Jonathan Sims. I'm from London in...well more or less modern times; I lost a couple years, but not much. And I'm here because the moose assigned me to it."

He nodded at the first person to start.

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[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Movie night! Every night!

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[begmetwice]

Irene Adler

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[special_rabbit]

Amaya Blackstone

Listen to the lecture

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Ogle Jon if you haven't seen him before and are wondering what all the scars are from.

Introductions!

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

We haven't done them in a hot minute.

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[begmetwice]

"Irene Adler," she offered, fluttering out a little wave. "Also from London originally, though 'bout a decade back, now. I'm here mostly because it sounded like fun." She shrugged. "And I'm fairly well-versed in modern culture, so I don't need the catch-up bit so much."

That's what she thought; lofty talk from someone who had skipped the vast majority of the superhero genre boom of the 2010s.

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[intheeyeofthebeholding]

"Hello." Jon nodded to her. "To be fair, I'm not from London originally, just recently. You'll probably be able to help quite a bit with the pop culture, though."

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[anomaly_research_nerd]

"Connor Temple, another London native it seems," he said when it was his turn. "I decided to take this class because it sounded like fun and because well, outside the sci-fi geek-themed movies and such I am afraid I am not well versed. Figure this would be a good way to expand that a bit and get out a little more."

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[intheeyeofthebeholding]

"Hello." Jon nodded. "Maybe we should all take a crash course in those obnoxious American movies, then. Or subject everyone to odd British drama." Though he would probably bitch at the screen during those.

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[special_rabbit]

"Amaya Blackstone," Amaya offered, with a stout nod. "Not from London." HA! Combo breaker! She should not be as proud of that as she was. "Not even of this world, really, and from a place that doesn't even have electricity," until she got back there, anyway, and then boy howdy!, "much less movies, so I've always been a bit interested in them as a whole. Used to teach a class like this myself, actually, for a bit, so it's just good to see it back, really."

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[intheeyeofthebeholding]

"I'd be more than happy to take any suggestions you might have for films," Jon said. "Honestly, the moose just dropped this in my lap, and at least it wasn't tea."

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[died8yearsago]

Rosa briefly considered using one of her aliases for her introduction, especially since so many people in the class knew it was an obvious lie, but ultimately she just shrugged and admitted "Rosa Diaz. I'm from Brooklyn, not even all that time displaced, I just love going to these classes because what goes on during them is sometimes even more entertaining than the movies themselves."

Oh, the stories she could tell you all. And, really, the existence of Movie Class had been the catalyst for her whole current relationship, so...she wasn't missing this one for anything.

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[intheeyeofthebeholding]

"Well, I, um. I hope this lives up to your expectations, I suppose," Jon offered. "Without being terrible." Because in his experience, interesting things weren't often good.

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[mylandmyrules]

"Nell Ingram, from just outside Knoxville, Tennessee. Haven't every seen many movies in my life, so I thought this might be fun," she said with a smile.

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[wildgalegirl]

"Charlie Gale," she said, "from a lovely town in Canada. Movies are great, so I thought this would be a fun Friday activity."

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[sake_shinigami]

"Shunsui Kyōraku ♥," Shunsui offered, with a duck of his head, a tilt of his hat, and a wholly unnecessary flourish of his robes.

"And what can I say?" he added, tilting his hat up again and not so subtly sending a grin in the direction of certain blacksmiths who suddenly seemed to be incredibly interested in literally anything else right now. "I do love a good movie night ♥."

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[itsananomaly]

"Nick Cutter, I grew up in Scotland but I lived in London until I moved here and I don't watch many movies," he admitted, "usually been too busy with work for that but I thought this could be a good chance to catch up on some films?" he winced a little at how much of a question that sounded.

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[no_missing_piece]

"Beta," she offered timidly, "from... um, it's complicated. Really complicated, but I'm pretty familiar with a lot of the popular holos from about the 2040s on?"

Sure, human civilization had ended in about 2066, but no need to mention that part.

Movie!

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Watch, discuss, ask questions. There's popcorn.

Tonight's offering is Specter.

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[special_rabbit]

And cue the groan and subsequent roll of Amaya's eyes once she realized that, yup, sure enough, right out the gate, they were getting into the mushy stuff.

But at least it wasn't a musical!

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[mylandmyrules]

Nell would be a quietly sniffly mess by the end of the movie.

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[anomaly_research_nerd]

It was ok as far as chick flick type of movies went- not really Connor's preference but he had definitely had to sit through worse with Abby a time or two back when they were roomies.

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[no_missing_piece]

You know what, don't mind Beta being a sniffly wreck by the end of this.

Talk to Jon!

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

He's here!

OOC!

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Is it naptime yet?