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Thinking about the new Q, I just realized something. Sometime in the last decade 'artfully tousled hair' has become an instant marker of pretentious vacuousness to me.

I think I may have just put the finger on the true source of my antipathy for Whodom.

... on the other hand, I do enjoy Sherlock
Huh.

Well fuck it.
I am large. I contain multitudes (of mutually contradictory biases and prejudices)

I have been seeing this clip from Skywafall, where Bond is being all defensive against the filthy hipster Q that they apparently will have working with him now.

007 looks about 60 in that scene. I actually looked up Craig's age and was shocked to find out that he's only 44.

Now I wonder if they grizzled him up on purpose for that one confrontation.

The Clip

Because something is wring inside my brain I have actually checked out Seal Team 6: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden

Sweet mother of little baby Cthulhu....

I am going to have to put Black Hawk Down and Tears of the Sun on an 18-hour permanent rotation to get that experience out of my head.

Oh, wow. So much drek.
Despite a surprisingly good (albeit B-list) casting.

Well. Here's hoping that Zero Dark Thirty will make up for it.
Or, at the very least, will go a bit easier on the full court press attempting to convince me that whether to go after Osama was a gut-wrenching decision, requiring days of soul searching.

As I am playing around with various ideas vis-a-vis the Avengers movie and think about the upcoming SHIELD series, there have been two consequences

1. Assuming even the most basic competence on the part of SHIELD it is very hard to create a plausible theoretical framework for essentially a world-wide, very dense vigilante network in the Marvel universe. Whether X-Men or the freaking Gun Nuns - these various groups are filling in the vacuum left by the state-organized security agencies which are inadequate to the task either due to the lack of capabilities, or because they simply are not aware of/refuse to believe in the threat's existence.

The way SHIELD is set up in either the canon, or the movie verse it is pretty capable and... broad minded. And given the usual human reactions would be pretty intolerant of vigilantes trespassing on its jurisdictional turf.

Problematic.

2.Random plot thought popped into my head:

En Sabah Nur has declared himself to be the 12th Imam and revealed himself to Khomeini sometime in the 1970s. Iran's nuclear program is actually an elaborate hoax, to hide a comprehensive effort open the inter-dimensional gateway and let in his armies. Ahmadinejad gets to be one of the dark riders and nuke Jerusalem.

The whole New Canaanites thing from the Cable's future totally makes sense now...

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Yeah, to be honest I just don't care how stupid the premise is (very) - I am totally watching this movie when it (extremely quickly) makes its way to Netflix.

Since they don't really have a lot to lose in terms of respectability with this remake, I hope they also throw in at least a modicum of a happy ending. Just making the survival rate of the protagonists higher than 20% would be fantastic.