My Secret Cyborg Life

[osprey_archer]

I HAVE INTERNET AGAIN!!!! I did something to my walljack or possibly my ethernet cord or maybe just somehow angered the internet gods, but my internet wasn't working yesterday, and not to be dramatic about it, but it was like having a limb lobbed off.

Seriously. Apparently I am a cyborg.

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But I made good use of my internet-free evening - or, anyway, used it, though I'm not sure watching The Pirates!: Band of Misfits actually counts as good use. It's like a bunch of screen-writers got drunk and hilarious and cobbled together a farcical plot, and failed to people it with characters sufficiently likable or engaging to make up for the fact that the movie was nonsense.

I like nonsense, but it does need to be nonsense with a soul.

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Lizzie Bennet Diaries: WE'VE FINALLY MET DARCY!!! Or at least Darcy's suspenders. If they manage to film the entire next video without showing us his face, I may throw a temper tantrum.

I'm so curious how they're going to get these two crazy kids together, because Lizzie really, really hates Darcy, even more than Elizabeth hated him in the book, and with even better reason: is there any good reason for LBD Darcy to think that Jane's a gold digger? And Caroline knows about the videos, so couldn't she tell her brother that, no, Jane really is into you?

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I left off watching when Jane and Lizzy were staying at Bing's house, so I met Caroline, but didn't get much farther than that. (Also, somehow on Tumblr I saw Darcy? The reveal is . . . predictable in a sense--I'll be interested in your take [speaking of which, still haven't had a chance to read carefully your take on Code Name Verity! Later today . . . ])

Anyway, what I was going to say was, in the book, Caroline is opposed to Jane. In LBD it's hard to tell, but I got the feeling in the two episodes I saw that maybe she was just pretending to be Lizzy's friend? And if so, wouldn't that be motivation not telling Bing that Jane is for real?

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think we're supposed to take from it that she is just pretending to be Lizzie's friend (and by extension, also pretending to be Jane's). But in the book, there's a definite financial motive - it wouldn't be good for her if her brother married Little Miss Penniless - whereas I don't think that works so much in the LBD, so she would have to be motivated by personal animosity towards Jane and/or Lizzie.

And it's hard to imagine anyone being motivated by personal animosity toward Jane.

But maybe Caroline was more angry about Lizzie's videos than she let on...?

Someone requested Caroline Lee fic for Yuletide, and I hope someone takes that up and digs into her motives more.