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[kellifer]

-> Hello new peeps! There's been a spate of you recently. Welcome!

-> I'm taking my birthday off work on Thursday. It means my week will be a 3 day week because yesterday was a public holiday. I wasn't going to but I've had a bit of a trying year thus far so I think I deserve it. Am going to try and book a massage and to get my hair cut off (because ugh, too thick to be this long, argh!)

-> AO3 continues to be more than a little pants but I'm trying to be patient because they are working their little hearts out. I just hadn't realised how reliant I'd become on it how quickly - like 85% of my to read bookmarks were AO3 ones so it kind of put a dent in my do-nothing-but-lie-on-couch-and-read-fic plans yesterday. I'm also nearly done two stories and don't know whether I'll be able to post them there. Might give it another few days because I think they're still doing the upgrades.

-> Saw Prometheus. I really... didn't enjoy it. My flatmates that I saw it with LOVED it so it might just be that it didn't give me what I wanted out of this movie, or what I was expecting from the previews wasn't what ended up being on the screen for me. Michael Fassbender really did steal it though, he was wonderful. Unfortunately for me, the best thing about the movie was the new Bourne movie trailer they showed before.

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[zortified.livejournal.com]

If you browse AO3 while logged out it works much better. :-)

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

I was reading that - and direct links are better too... I was able to load some stuff... took a while but came up so I'd kick off the loading of the next one while I was still reading the first... heh.

[shineyma.livejournal.com]

Hello! I'm one of your new followers, pulled in by your amazing Avengers fics.

Just dropping in to bring you this link: http://transformativeworks.org/update-ao3-performance-issues

That's a status update from AO3 explaining the updates and changes and the continuing issues. It looks like it's going to be a while before everything's back to normal.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Aww... thank you and hello!

Yes, I found the update page this morning - it was funny that even the status twitter wouldn't load for me last night. Heh.

They're talking about two weeks to get the new servers etc... I can endure till then. Apparently they also prioritise posting so hopefully I can get stuff up but I will continue to cross-post here. :)

[tabaqui]

Yes, i've been frustrated with AO3, too, mostly because i've got multiple tabs open on stuff i've tried to leave comments and kudos on and i *can't*.

I'm with you on Prometheus. Alien was one of my very favorite movies and it just did not measure up, at all. Not as a good sci-fi movie, not as a good sorta-prequel, just...not at all. I came out really disappointed and peeved, as did my SO and our geek friend who we saw the movie with.
*sigh*

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

The status says about two weeks for them to get the major upgrades in and a new server so fingers crossed. I can't believe how attached to it I've become how quickly. I think possibly because Avengers fandom seems to be centred around AO3 moreso than any other fandoms I've been in, possibly because of the timing.

I said to oxoniensis - It just felt kind of odd and unfulfilling and... flat. I have such a huge amount of affection for the first movies. I think maybe my issue is that they went in more of an odd, Alien4 direction than the pure adventure/suspense scifi Alien or Aliens.

[tabaqui]

Yes, i saw that they're getting more servers - yay!

To me, it was much too much like Alien without any of the *good* parts of Alien. I didn't feel the group of explorers knew or cared about each other at all. I didn't feel like they even shared the same goal. They were unprofessional and cliche and too *scripted*, if that makes sense.

The story didn't tell me anything new, either. The whole 'we came from aliens/godly beings' bit was dull and uninteresting. Really, you are going to meet one of the aliens that apparently 'made us' and you're going to ask 'what did we do wrong'? Like a guilty five year old? Bleh.

Philosophical 'what does it all mean' stuff does not interest me, and to wed it to a lackluster sci-fi story just didn't work. The only *creepy* part of the whole movie was David, and none of it was scary.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

didn't feel the group of explorers knew or cared about each other at all. I didn't feel like they even shared the same goal. They were unprofessional and cliche and too *scripted*, if that makes sense.

I think that was my biggest problem too... I didn't care about any of the characters. If I can't grab onto a character, even an evil one, then I find the rest of the story slip through me with a good measure of meh.

I mean, c'mon. We had a botanist who was too dumb to live. Would you really be cooing at an alien slug creature that just emerged from a black goo? He was all like, "Hi cutie, want to play, look, here's my face, I'm not using it, play with that." Argh. The guy with the mapping devices gets lost on the way out??

The exposition was really clunky to me as well. It just seemed like maybe there were whole swathes of stuff cut out of this edit, maybe so there could be a director's cut later that would make more sense.

Also, why do all these movies have the first time these people meet each other *after* getting out of stasis? Aliens did it too and I know it's so the audience can "meet" the characters as well but surely you would go through a briefing BEFORE you agreed to be asleep for two years, not after.

[tabaqui]

Man, yeah. I didn't care one bit. They just weren't *there*. They were totally cliche in the most transparent way possible. And YES - dear gods - talking to some weird alien thingy like it's a puppy? Taking off your helmet and not worrying for a second about contagion, mold, spores....?

If i'd been the captain, i wouldn't have even let them back on my ship.

Apparently, there *are* scenes missing - i suppose if i ever see them i might feel different, but...meh.

Yes! I would not want to go on some long-ass voyage to the ass-end of space and not meet anyone until i was *already there*.

This review is very spot on and pretty much sums up how i felt about the movie. http://alienatedinvancouver.blogspot.ca/2012/06/prometheus-wholly-engaging-and-utterly.html