Pitchfork Case

Seen chez kightp

01. Post a list of 10 TV shows you watch(current or cancelled!)
02. Have your friends list guess your favourite CHARACTER from each show.
03. When guessed, tell us why you like that character.

1. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
2. The West Wing
3. Friends
4. Babylon 5
5. Twin Peaks
6. Samurai Pizza Cats
7. Lost
8. South Park
9. Star Trek: The Next Generation
10. Scrubs

I haven't actually made my final decisions for all of these. It's tough. I discarded "Star Trek: Voyager" and "24" because I actually couldn't think of a favourite character at all.

Angel Voyeur

We took the kids to see "Pooh's Heffalump Movie" on Sunday. It's at a cheap theatres, and according to the mytelus.com website, which is where we normally check the movie times, it was on at 2:15 and 4:10. I wanted to get the dishes done, so we elected to try for the 4:10.

We get there a little before 4:00, get some popcorn and iced tea, and take our tickets to the minimum-wage-earners who rip them. One of them says, "We're not seating that movie yet." What? Apparently it actually doesn't start until 5:00. We check our tickets. 5:00. Dammit. So we have to kill time in the foyer, where we do manage to snag one of the two available benches, and eat all our popcorn, because now we're not just snacking, we're tiding ourselves over until supper. 4:30, we go back to the ticket-takers, they let us in, and we sit in the theatre for half an hour until they start the movie. Simon and I amuse each other with Neopets-related memory games, Luke falls asleeps, and Nicole is mostly bored. They have one of those pre-movie trivia slide shows, but half of them are in backwards, and repeated yellings of "Focus!" on my part don't produce any improvement. There probably wasn't anyone up there anyway. (I remember a brief period where they actually had real trivia questions on those slide shows, but now they're all thinly-veiled promotions for upcoming movies, if not outright advertisements.)

Luckily the movie was good. We've got "Pooh's Grand Adventure" at home on video, so I've seen that, or bits of it, a number of times. This movie might well have been called "Roo's Grand Adventure", because Roo(who didn't even appear in the Pooh movie)is the main character. The message of the movie is anti-xenophobia and pro-tolerance for those who are different, which isn't a bad thing to make a movie about. By the end of the movie Simon had figured out that Rabbit, Tigger, and the others who were still afraid of the Heffalumps were wrong about them. The Heffalumps all have British accents, too, unlike all of the denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood...except, of course, Christopher Robin. Why is that? These are supposed to be Christopher Robin's toys, aren't they? Why do they all have basically American accents? Well, Pooh's is hard to make out; I suppose it could be British. But Tigger and Rabbit and Kanga and Roo and Piglet all seem to be American. Anyway. It was pretty good, for a kids' movie.

Oh, and the marquee outside the movie theatre said 5:00. The mytelus.com website said 4:10, but the actual movie theatre's website, when we double-checked, said 5:00. Of course, mytelus has a big "change without notice" disclaimer. Grumble.