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‎1. I'm pissed so I go for a walk during dinner.
2. Decide to go get my phone fixed at a specific shop.
3. Run into Rhoda on the way back.
4. Decide to go to a specific cash point.
5. random encounter with someone who wants to use my coat for a photo shoot.
6. Lend them coat.
7. Allow them to lend coat for bit longer.
8. Yesterday: go get phone repaired again and arrive to late to pick it up.
9. Wake up late, Grrrrrr.
10. Have to go to launderette.
11. Go to town to get my phone back.
12. Text to arrange to pickup coat outside essentials.
13. See someone I think I recognize.
14. Decide to ask their name.
15. Because of these seemingly random events that culminated n me being in a specific place at a specific time I bump in to an old friend I haven't seen in what must be four years, and subsequently one of the greatest human beings I have ever had the fortune to meet.

Outcome: I swagger through Preston singing out loude to the finel fight song from 'Birds of Pray'.

I have no idea why but this series of random slow boil events makes me incredibly happy, and anyone who knows me knows that's bloody unprecedented.

So, planet that I hate, and humans that I despise, I'll give you a second chance.
Don't fuck it up.
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HOLLY HELL! THIS FILM IS AMAZING! WATCH THIS FILM NOW!

But before you go out and spend hard earned cash or alt+tab to whatever site has replaced mega upload let me qualify that statement.

Now I know a lot of people didn't like the Clash of the Titans remake, and I know a lot of them can't hear me all the way from those pits in the woods, but I really did, and not just because it gave me lines like "DAMN THE GODS" and "RELESE THE KRAKEN" to use in normal conversation. I genuinely (and rather arrogantly I guess) think it's because people didn't watch it properly, and since Wrath of the Titans is very similar to its predecessor (the clue is in the name) I want to help people not make that mistake again. If you want a rich intriguing plot, complex characters and a stark portrayal of modern consumerist society, what the Tartarus are you doing here, if on the better hand you want to see Titans clash in epic battle then this film is for you.

Now I was one of those geeky kids that would rather read up on ancient myth than burn in the sun, so I already had a rich idea of these characters and creatures in my head going in, and I must say the film surpasses it, it is visually stunning, not AS colourful and vibrant as clash but still, it's done a pretty amazing job of giving life to these awe inspiring creatures of myth. I was disappointed that the film is allot more visual grim, gone are the bright armours of the gods, now everything is covered in dust and grit (although not Andromeda for the completely arbitrary reason that she is the female character) and all the gods weapons spark in the same fiery way when touched, this was all to make it seem 'realistic' I assume, This I remind you is a film about mythic super beings, if I wanted realism I'd clamp a screen to the front of my head, hold down a mediocre office job for forty years and die. Although take that with a pinch of salt as I don't know whether that was to do with the film or the cinema itself, apparently the film was blurry or out of focus, I didn't really notice but they gave me a free ticket, they must have been afraid that one of the ten people in the cinema would successfully sue them, they must have thought we were in America.

Anyway on to the plot, set something like 12-13 years after the first judging from Perseus's son (oh spoiler Perseus has a son) the story kicks off with the gods power having diminishing further as almost all mortals have stopped worshiping them (for those who don't know prayer and love being what powers them and their immortality). Zeus explains to Perseus that once all the gods die what they build will crumble as well, This conveniently side steps the fact that humans where made by the gods which could have led to an interesting story of mortals saving the gods, being forced into a state of co-dependency, but then Zeus says that Kronos is braking out of Tartarus and I stop giving a shit about highbrow story lines. After Perseus heroically refuses the call to intervene in godly matters (you know him being half god and everything) and an awesome attack on his home by a chimera, Perseus gets sent by Poseidon with help from Poseidon's son Agenor to find and combine what I humbly call three of the coolest weapons in myth, Zeus's thunder bolt, Poseidon's trident and hades trident, (can't help but feel that last one was a mistake) from here the film becomes something of a scavenger hunt with epic battles at pretty much every turn. It's true that hades once again takes the most short sited villain award, but this time round there is an actual understandable reason for his actions besides "GRRRRRRRRRR REVENGE!" which isn't a bad motivation in an of its self but it is a bit over used.

Another week spot I found to exploit was some of the dialog and voices, I really didn't mind the use of modern phrases, it helped the film cement its self as an action film, but some of them just rubbed me the wrong way, for instance one character tells Perseus to "Go to hell" to which Perseus replies "That's exactly where I'm going" instead of 'what's that?', and when Bill Nighy's character turns up I suddenly got flash backs to V for Vendetta.

To be honest, these are minor gripes with another wise good film; the biggest one I have is with the title. Get rid of one letter and it suddenly describes the film a whole lot better.  There is only one Titan, that's 1/12th of the potential awesomeness of the final battle, fair enough it would have been hard to characterise that many antago- oh wait they don't do that with the one they have.

While it might sound like I've gone back on my initial statement, these are the biggest problems I had and none of them are deal breakers, the film is grand and epic, has a slew of interesting new characters, monsters and places to visit, and an absolutely amazing scene at the end where Zeus and Hades telekinetically back hand pre-humans across a battle field, and for you mythology buffs if you ever wanted to see Zeus and Hades take out their daddy issues on, well, their daddy, you're in luck. And if that wasn't enough the clocks work bird makes another cameo.

If you want to see a good action adventure film where Titans Clash then defiantly give it a shot, in closing folks always remember to dam the gods! Unless of course they're Liam Neeson.
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So I wanted to do this earlyer but been a pretty busy day, this morning I (as usewal) ignored my alarm clock, but was imediatly awakened by the sound of the postman craming my Collectors edition of Mass Effect 3 through my letter box, and by god I ran down stairs likle a kid on christmas morning ripped of the envelope and their it was the game I have been waiting five years for, the epic copnclusion to MY story, where I raise armies to fight gods, and hopefuly win. I have not followed eany of the hype for this game, I went into the first mass effect completly blined and it was incredible, the second (while still incredible) I already knew alot of the big reveals (Archangel, Jack, ect..) so this one I will be completly blind, and so it only dawned on me this morning that this was the last one,...... thats it, there isn't going to be any more, this is the end of MY story, I have fought alongside gods and demons against gods and demons, I've been a smuggler, I head butted a krogan, inialated things others thought where only myth, I united diffrent races to work together, I gave death the finger and came back to life, and now it is over. I deon't realy know how to comunicate this in words, so insted, INTERPRATIVE DANCE................. oh right, its got to be words, ok, I gues I hope that Bioware keeps their artistic integraty, and yet, I want more, I want to fly around the galexy, righting wrong and saving lives. But no it is over, I would love for their to be more I would love to play these in years to come, and yet I know I will any way I will replay these games till the day I die, and I will love them even more because they would have ended and I whould have been their at the ground floor, front and center, while at some distent point in the futer forums light up once again when some one redescovers these modern classics.

To be honest you probably understud all that better than me, the sort version is, I love Mass Effect, all of it it was THE game that got me into gameing and inspired me to becom a concept artist, this game is an intrical part of me, with it I have laghed, cried, rejoysed, enraged, humbled and empowered. If I one day go mad and deside to spawn entitaled, finanshly dependant craeturs (I think you know them as kids) this will be one of the games I want to shair with them.

Mass Effect, Bioware, Shepard, thank you.

Now enough of this gush rubish I have a galexy to save, Tali Take out their shields!, Vergar Consentrait on the heavy!, Ash Down those husks, Liara, Lift!, give me a clear shot at those guys!, Garus, Take out those snipers!,
Come on guys, lets finish this!
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Sherlock S2 EP3

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(Warning may contain spoilers)

That was one of the greatest pieces of T.V. I have seen in a long time, I am still litraly shaking from watching it, the anger, dispaire, shock, awe, and gut renching.... well everything, This episode was a true masterpiece, and Iplayer can expect me to be re watching this one a good few times this week, and while I may not have totally agreed with all of Moffat's decisions for doctor who he is an utter genius when it comes to Homes (to clarifie I don't specifically know if he was the one to writ this one and if not will correct this at latter date).

(Ok real spoiler warning)
Moriarty being Holmes equal was brilliantly shown in this episode, distracting him, miss leading him, and very nearly beating him, even going as far as to take his own life to beat Holmes (and in my opinion to solve the final problem, hint, hint), this followed by his phone conversation with John, telling him he was a fake, I haven't seen anything so tear jerking in years. The final scene where John makes his one and only request of him, which he will  hopefully answer next year, because by god I've read my fair share of Sherlock, I've heard all the crazy deductions and solutions, but I have no idea how the hell you pulled that one off.

Can't wait till next year *starts twiddling thumbs*

"I may be on the side of angels but I'm not one of them", I've got to use this line.

(Major spoiler warning)
Now I just want to go on record hear (not that I'm paranoid but I'm pretty sure that people are already accusing me of hipocrasy), I am a person who thinks that using up and killing off your major/best villains in descending order is a pretty stupid move, something I think killed the Spider-man and (to a far lesser extent) the Bat-man films, like in chess moving out your most powerful pieces only meant that you lose them quicker and that a seemingly indestructible, continual threat or an ominous, looming threat are far better than ones that are dispatched and dealt with in quick succession.
In this series Moriarty was both seemingly indestructible, continual and an ominous, looming threat. While I love Andrew Scott's portrail, the character of Moriarty (love me a intelligent villain), and the epic scope that Andrew brings with him,.......  I really don't think that Moriarty should come back. now lets be honest if Sherlock can fake his own death on such a grand scale then I'm sure Moriarty could do it on a really compact scale, and while the I wouldn't put it past these magnificent writers to come up with a brilliant reason behind a 'resurrection' it would completely diminish the events of this episode, a genius killing him self out of boredom, spite, madness, The Game, This would be a far fitting end to the Moriarty legacy than it would to be to continually bring him back like a comic book villan (or like the bloody Daleks) losing effectiveness each time he dose.

So long Moriarty, you where truly unsettling and mad and evil, but I hope to god you stay dead.
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I know only one person reads this but fuck I'm annoyed and need to vent.

To put what I'm about to say into context, I'm a misanthrope, I fucking hate humans, no offence to any humans reading, I've met quite a thew and some (very small number mind) don't make me want to pick up the reapers slack of the past thew thousand years and become the chainsaw-shotgun wealding personification of project natural selection. Humans are arrogant, brutal, entitled, and seem to be preprogrammed with a mandatory god complex. But you know what I hate most, stupidity, and after 65 billion years of evolution we have finally reached a level of collective depravity where we actually consider the opinions of idiots in so called 'grate' country's like the UK where we still entertain the idea of democracy.

So I was just doing some sketching waiting for Bones to come on and subsequently waiting for newsnight to finish, a woman from some party or other (I wasn't paying the up most attention) said two of what I wish where the two stupidest things I've ever heard.

First she said that the Treasury chief (I know that is wrong but see the previous brackets) was making excuses because he had the audacity (sarcasm) to suggest that throwing a royal wedding during a recession at the expense of the tax payer mite be a dick move.
Second she said that neither her or the labour party support the strikes tomorrow because they are a sign of failure, true, they are a sign of failure the same way a house fire is a sign of failure, but I have never seen a fire-man refuse to put one out because he didn't want to be involved with dodgy wiring.

Now why the fuck do I have to listen to these idiots, in fact why do we give idiots the ability to put pretentiousness opinionated idiots in positions of power, and who the hell thought that a system where everyone gets a say is a good idea considering the majority of people are idiots,
For god sake humanity pull yourself together.
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