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Meme hosted by Anna from The Weekly Enthusiast.

1. The Princess Bride
I remember the first time I watched this movie: I was sick with a fever and lying in bed, flipping through the channels and I randomly stopped on this movie. I had no idea what it was called or what it was about but I was HOOKED. (Which is why this movie is my go-to comfort movie.)

2. Star Wars (all six)

My twin brother and I are HUGE SW freaks (I say that lovingly). It's pretty much the only franchise beside Harry Potter that we bond over and I have precious memories of marathoning these movies during the summer with him (and whenever SpikeTV has its marathons and he's home).

3. UP

I have this thing where...in my RL I try to hide the fact that I am such a Disney girl (because with only two brothers for sibling companionship...let's just say I've endured a lot of teasing for my Sailor Moon and chick-flick love. Not horrible teasing but just silly teasing that brothers love to heap on their sisters. And I preceded to retaliate by hitting my brother. xD;) But this is one of those movies where they tug at your heartstrings and you'd just feel like a dead person if you didn't try to make the people in your life watch it.

4. The Mummy

I have only watched the second sequel (The Mummy Returns? I think?) but the first one will always remain one of my favorite movies and a movie I would be proud to foist on other people.

5. WALL-E

Pretty much why I have UP on this list too - because these two Disney/Pixar movies make you a *better* person by mere contact with them.

I also would've included Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Aladdin but I didn't want just Disney movies to overtake the list too much. And I have insane love for Young Frankenstein.

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( comics haul for 18 April )

Oh, god, CSI has officially eaten my brain.

WHY AM I ONLY NOW GETTING INTO THE SHOW?!

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That Star Wars fic I've been talking about? Yeah, it's kicking my butt. Only in a good way- still the ending is nowhere in sight, and I just want it to conclude all ready.

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A poem:

That distance was between us
That is not of mile or main;
The will it is that situates,
Equator never can.

Emily Dickinson

From: Poems of Emily Dickinson selected by Helen Plotz
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What are the five most depressing episodes/chapters/scenes?

(They are in descending order of most depressing to least.)

1. The ending of Star Wars: Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith- it always manages to make me cry like a baby. (The whole ten minutes right up to the ending credits, yep.)

2. The Doomsday episode of Doctor Who. 'Nuff said.

3. The amnesia arc in Hana Yori Dango- I know it's not real sad, and everything ends happily ever after, but it was depressing for me to read, and I was counting the chapters, and looking ahead for when Tsukasa would finally remember Tsukushi.

4. The ending of The Kouga Ninja Scrolls- basically everyone dies; no one of twenty people lives. And the chapter is, appropriately, entitled The Last Battle.

5. The most depressing episode of Kyle XY for me, so far, was The List is Life episode (?)- the one where Lori & Declan break up.

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As a side note this is the best thing I've read so far:

It's not easy confronting these things and sometimes I think fen want easy answers. Not a lot of extrapolation is given to Padmé's psyche but I think that with what's there, you can pick up the clues. In TPM, Padmé the person had to be subsumed under the strong leader Amidala. She might have been good at statecraft but outside of her cadre of handmaidens, did she really have any friends? Nope, not until she met lil' Ani. While I'm sure she loved her family and they loved her, she had been separated from them pretty much since childhood. She's the boarding school girl who didn't get to go home at the end of the year. As soon as she steps off the throne, she's a Senator. No time for dating or anything resembling a normal life for a girl her age. Again, aside from her handmaidens, she probably didn't have any real friends her age. Then hot grown-up Anakin reappears in her life and he's interested in Padmé the woman, not the Senator. For the first time in her life, she learns what it is like to be wanted, to be desired by someone. Especially a someone who's willing to sacrifice his own career, heck his life, for her. Throw in some dangerous situations, emotional drama, and some time alone on the most romantic planet in the galaxy, Padmé is as good as gone. She'd have to be more pious than Joan of Arc to turn down Anakin after all of that. He gives her something missing from her emotional life and once she has it, it's not easy for her to give it up. Both she and Anakin craved intimacy on an emotional and psychological level as well as a physical one, and for a while they were able to give that to each other.

The link to the rest of the article. (Although I pretty much copied the whole article on here.)

It defends Padmé, although I don't know why some people are...critical of her, I guess (haven't come across anything bad about Padmé, but I suppose it's out there). I know she has some faults, but as the article talks about, she's human; of course she's gonna have faults. Most of the characters in SW have faults. But do we all love them regardless? YES.