English Major-y, Fan girl Rubbish

So today I finally watched the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet (with David Tennant as Hamlet and Patrick Stewart as Claudius) after getting it from Netflix about a week ago. When I say finally I kind of feel like I've been waiting to see it since it was in production in London two years ago (wait, two years ago? Is that right?). I'm not sure why I waited so long to get it from Netflix, but it was nice to finally see it.

As for my thoughts on it, I liked it. MILES better than the Mel Gibson version. Then again, that isn't too hard to do. Honestly, the Mel Gibson version is ridiculous and he sounded weird when trying to do Shakespeare. I know I would also sound weird (pretty sure I would completely botch the iambic pentameter) but I'm not trying to get paid for it, now am I?

David Tennant, on the other hand, sounded a lot better to me. Although, I wish someone would do a slightly more controlled Hamlet. Sometimes I feel that actors just kind of go as crazy and rip through the scene as much as possible. Although, I feel that everyone criticizes everyone's version of Hamlet by saying the actor went a little overboard. So, I liked Tennant's portrayal of Hamlet. Except I kept thinking like "OH GAH please fix his air already!", "Wait, why is he not wearing shoes?", and "What's with the jeans? The other guy is in all-white fencing gear". Plus, the back of my mind kept migrating to the fact that it was the Doctor (David Tennant) versus a hybrid of Captain Picard and Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart). So, you know, my appraisal of it isn't entirely English major rubbish. Some of it is fan girl rubbish.

Other than spending some time with Hamlet, I attempted to play Halo 3:ODST since I finally finished my playthrough of Star Ocean at 2:30AM this morning. (Side Note: I forget how ridiculous and how long the end of Japanese games are. The ending battle and subsequent cut scenes shouldn't take two and a half hours). Now, while I enjoy games like Halo I absolutely suck at them. It seems like I die every five minutes and I get annoyingly lost (despite the overall map, map markers, and the giant compass at the top of the screen). Still, I enjoy the story and the fact that Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, and Alan Tudyk do voices for three of the characters. It's like a Firefly reunion, except Wash shoots things and is really good at blowing things up, and Jayne gets bigger guns and fights aliens. And there's no great crime capers or train heists, which in my opinion, is in itself a crime.