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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 14, 2006 10:13:45 GMT 9.5
Ahahaha I just got 'Rita on the outside, tasty on the inside' again *grin* I'm glad you like. I have such a thing for projecting animal traits onto characters who have animagus forms, and Rita would SO be distracted by shiny things
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 13, 2006 22:37:06 GMT 9.5
They're much fun! Endless amusement.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 13, 2006 9:59:07 GMT 9.5
Ah, okay. The one about my slogan.
*pets slogan maker*
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 12, 2006 1:24:55 GMT 9.5
Heh, it's probably the play on slang English words. Don't worry. What part didn't you get?
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 11, 2006 3:19:53 GMT 9.5
*peers at last post* Hmm, yes, I can see where that might seem a bit insane. That's not really a good incentive to stop smoking with Rita at all, is it?
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 10, 2006 11:53:41 GMT 9.5
I'm not entirely sure how it did here insofar as reviews - I have no TV, <Baldrick> "Oh, WOE IS ME!" </Baldrick>, and I don't buy the paper/magazines very often (I generally spend my money on food, getting into clubs and alcohol), but any critic who gave it a bad review deserves to beaten about the face with a wet fish.
So there. ;D
Edit: And right now, my sloganizer says "I quit smoking with Rita", to which I would like to add "because damn, we had way too much sex when we were both stoned".
*whistles and wanders off innocently and pretends her mind is NOT in the gutter*
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 8, 2006 5:24:46 GMT 9.5
S'ok, I'll do the PMing instead
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 7, 2006 1:01:52 GMT 9.5
PM me, girls.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 5, 2006 13:53:15 GMT 9.5
Not no politics, I wouldn't say. It's set against the backdrop of the lead-up to 2000, against the death of Diana. It lends an atmosphere to the personal story - the sense of things ending and beginning again, or the bleakness of the world environment. Personal tradgedies alongside national ones, that sort of thing.
Poliakoff is very interested in politics, he says so in his interview, so I think it plays a part, but I don't think he has a political agenda with it. I don't think he's trying to say anything about the state of world politics, I think he's just using the tensions and atmosphere of the time to set the tone of the personal stories.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 3, 2006 10:39:31 GMT 9.5
I don't think it was really political. I think the point was to paint the human story against the backdrop of a world story, to capture the essence of that surreal summer. Not that I was in Britain that summer, but I do remember it from being a Sydney schoolgirl, even if the context was different. I think it;s interesting that they set it against something everyone who was alive then would remember - the death of Diana, the lead up to the new millenium, but it was so personal and real and powerful. I really identified with them. I really identified with the upheaval, and the need to find some sort of equilibrium and restraint in such a crazy time. I think we are all living in a time now where world events seem incredibly relevant to our everyday lives, and I think perhaps that was the beginning of that feeling - the feeling of existence being all caught up in everything, in being in a whirlwind. I love that the characters managed to fins stillness and movement at their own pace in each other. Or, you know, perhaps I'm rambling rather incoerently. I'll need to watch it at least 20 more times yet, I think .
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