slemslempike | The downside of the unlimited card is that I see stuff like this.

On Saturday I went to see The Mist. All the black characters with speaking parts were killed, mostly when they failed to listen to Whitey and, rather than believe in a tentacled beast rising out of the mist, thought it might be more sensible to go in search of help themselves. Later a black MP (as in military police) was found dead as well, but that's okay because it turned out that it was at least partly his fault that there was a tentacled mist-beastie. (The army had a secret weapon thing that involved opening a window to another realm, but "I guess they found a door instead".) Working class people also died when they took offence at being called dumb by a patronising middle class asshole, rather than knuckling their foreheads and saying that of course maister knows best. Later a woman kissed her childhood love, and I think we all know what happens to sluts like that. They get stung in the throat by a giant mist-insect so that their throat and face swell up and suffocate them to dead. NOT SO PRETTY NOW, WHORE. It was also a bit odd, because the Main Guy had a nice wife at the start of the movie, but then he and his son left her to go to the supermarket, and before they'd established that she was dead, they'd given him a love interest. Anyway, blah blah blah he was right and no-one would listen to him, heroic attempt with love interest, son and two old people who were sensible enough to hang on his every word, drive as far south as the gas would take them (except actually including a stop to find his wife was in fact dead so the love interest relationship was legitimised, and also driving STRAIGHT PAST abandoned cars that could have had the petrol siphoned from them) . The gas ran out and they get the gun out, but there are only four bullets. Then love interest said "but there are five of us" and I wondered how stupid they thought the audience was that the needed the problem stated, but then the woman in front of me whispered to her friend "are they going to kill themselves", so I guess they knew better than me. Anyway, Main Guy heroically kills everyone else and then gets out of the car to have a strop. But the mist clears, and the army drives through with the survivors, so the joke's on him.

I also watched Would I Lie To You, which was the episode I saw being filmed last year, and it was perfectly fine. Considering how disappointing television is at the moment, this is a great accolade.

On Sunday I met up with another placement student and we went round the Museum of Scotland and discovered our ignorance. I did enjoy seeing the modern Scotland exhibit, and the view from the roof garden was simply wonderful. It was, for once, a nice day, warm and far visibility. There were too many people around to test our reaction times, but I bet they would have been GREAT.