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[dira]

MY LITTLE INCEPTION PONIES.

The best part is that I looked at the Mal one for several seconds thinking "Why is she playing with a ... oh."


Has everyone seen this but me? Eleven at the Proms! Oh my God, you think you know how adorable it is and then it GETS MORE ADORABLE. ♥♥♥


And, oh man, a blast from the past: I happened across the delicious links for two archived posts to the Lois McMaster Bujold Mailing List. The posts, from 2002, are themselves reposts of earlier list posts, in which a Listie described from memory the epic, Eye of Argon-like horror that was the screenplay that resulted when The Warrior's Apprentice was optioned for film. (I was a Listie myself back then, and I fondly recall the horror, but never expected to see those posts again.)

How bad, you ask? How bad? So bad that one of the early scenes of the adaptation of THE WARRIOR'S APPRENTICE includes a cape-wearing Count Serg Vorbarra murdering first the Bayaarn [sic] boy-emperor and then Aral Vorkosigan.

THAT BAD. ACTUALLY, WORSE.

So, you know you want to read it, right? You are dying to know what the one good line of dialogue was, aren't you?

The Script from Hell I & II
The Script from Hell III

Comments

[nestra]

Matt Smith has killed me. From the cute.

[scrollgirl]

God, the My Little Ponies!

And Matt Smith needs to be cloned asap, so every small child can have one of their very own. *adores*

[reginagiraffe]

That Miles script is... remarkably bad.

[twistedchick]

They really didn't read the Vorkosigan books, did they; they just skimmed the cover images and text.

[giglet]

Oh, Eleventy!

[kuwdora]

omg Matt Smith is precious

[grey_bard]

Oh, those script descriptions are entirely too hilarious. I linked them to a friend who avoided The Warrior's Apprentice and had only the vaguest knowledge of the series. She already thought it was funny, but then I had to explain how much it differed from the source.

The best explanation I could come up with was that it was like changing Clark Kent's career from reporter to aspiring Broadway tap dancer understudy, with Lex as the jealous older star, and making the whole secret identity plot into a dance cliche movie keeping only the super heroics intact or, alternately, putting a big black cape on King George III because he didn't look evil enough.

[dira]

He's dangerous that way!

[dira]

The world would be a much better place if every child had their own Matt Smith. True fact. ♥

[dira]

We did call it The Script from Hell for a reason. :)

[dira]

At this point you kind of have to hope that's what happened.

[dira]

♥Eleventy♥

[dira]

Soooo precious! ♥

[dira]

I feel like there is some sort of Darth Vader analogy I should be able to make here, all things considered, but my brain keeps spluttering to a halt when I try to formulate it. *g*