the slow knife / frantic and snowblind

I went dressed as the Handmaid; by far the best cosplayer was a guy crossplaying as Catwoman, in an v-cut leather jacket and high-heeled boots.

I spent the first half of The Dark Knight Rises fully prepared to come home and say that it wasn't that good. I was wrong. It did the slow knife amazingly well, although it probably was slower than was remotely necessary (the entire Foley subplot could have been removed without doing any harm to the story at ALL). It wasn't immersing me at all for the longest time, which felt like a let-down after the constant and beautiful stress of TDK, but when it pulled the threads together it did it right.

It left me a lot to think about. This, Avengers fandom, is why I am not into you; having witty characters to bounce off each other is not what makes me care. Give me something to relate to and spend days thinking about and I'll be a lot more interested.

( not very spoilery )

( more spoilerific, i think? )