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Dude. *yawn* There's no way I'm going to be able to keep up this pace for all of the August Ficathon; I think I'll stop with the fic-a-day bit after this first theme week is done. It's fun, and it's generated new chapters for some old series I'd let languish, but it's pretty much blocked me from doing anything else, and I have Big Bang fics I really should be working on instead.

I'll probably post early tomorrow, and late Saturday; there's going to be about 30 hours of travel time sandwiched there in the middle where I'll be unplugged. I'm taking the train down to California with my sister-in-law's sister, so we can ride with bro & sis in their separate cars on the drive back up. A round-trip adventure!

♥ to you all. Oh, and how many of you have watched Salt? Is there a fandom for it yet? 'Cause I can't find one.

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jedibuttercup

It was kind of exterior; I just filed that as being kind of an old-school spy vs. spy type of movie where you can't know what's going on in her head in detail because then you'd see the twists coming. It's my dad's fault I'm kind of a sucker for those, as long as they end decently.

Fic would be grand. But I need another fandom like I need a hole in my head, as my dad would also say. =)

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ninja-lurker.livejournal.com

I'm sort of hoping for a sequel. Salt's hardly a Bourne movie, but I enjoyed watching her in action, despite feeling detached. I don't feel the pull to write for that fandom, though; generally I stick with TV.

P.S. Your dad sounds awesome. :-D

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jedibuttercup

Part of my fascination with Salt, I suspect, was going in knowing the role had originally been written for Tom Cruise... and that they changed nothing but her name (well, and the gender of her spouse) when they cast Jolie instead. That feels more ground-breaking than it should, for some reason; I would have found that hypothetical male-lead version a lot less interesting.

P.S. He so is. =)

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ninja-lurker.livejournal.com

That's it exactly—that they didn't change the role to pander to male audiences. I read an io9 interview (http://io9.com/5589284/how-angelina-jolie-fought-to-keep-salt-from-becoming-pretty) about how Salt was a BAMF who happened to be a woman.

I think I remember seeing a sex scene in the trailer, and am glad they cut it; perhaps I'm old-fashioned, but I think including that scene would have made the character into more of an object than a ... well, a force of nature, I guess is how I would describe her?