#lovecanbesostrange

Let's make August already running a bit late for the wedding for some innocuous reason. Marco and Archie have left nice and early (since Archie is officiating the wedding after all) and August has to go and pick up his suit jacket from the dry cleaners/some other small but vital reason, and so he won't be arriving with his father. He's not late late, but he is slightly off track now. And he's gonna ride his motorbike back home, get changed, and walk to the venue after he's sorted things.

This is where things start to go wrong.

Since the town is singing and dancing (I know that the town weren't actually cursed to sing in the present day content like they were during the flashbacks, but since we get them all singing at the wedding, I'm still gonna headcanon that the rest of the town were also singing completely unprompted around that time) I'm picturing half of Storybrooke like that one specific song from Buffy, and August arriving on the scene like Robert from Enchanted because he's too late to the song to join in and is just generally confused as to why everyone is singing and dancing. And because everyone is too busy singing and dancing he can't even get done what he needs to get done.

Eventually he gets his suit jacket or whatever he went there for but he's already had to walk through three different musical numbers in order to do so. This is possibly also where the mention of him being covered in glitter comes from.

He hops back onto his bike and is still kind-of-mostly-on-time for the wedding when all of a sudden a vehicle pulls out in front of him and he swerves and (very gently) crashes his bike.

As it transpires, the vehicle was actually the travelling circus of human!bugs-life bugs. Flik has been realm jumping in order to find 'warriors' to help fight Hopper and co. back in his own realm. (Don't ask me how he travelled to Storybrooke, I don't know, but) they've only just arrived and now they'll need a magic bean or something in order to get back home.

Flik rushes out of the truck to apologise and check up on August. August is surprisingly okay. His bike isn't looking too good though.

Also, speaking of warriors, me and a couple of friends were trying to come up with characters that August could interact with during his little B plot adventure, and two of the suggestions were Mulan and Ruby (because, hey! why not bring them back to Storybrooke?) So I'm here to suggest the possibility of Ruby, Dorothy and Mulan (who has stuck around as a kind of third-wheeling bodyguard during their time in Oz) all running into Flik and the gang during their own adventure. None of them knew that they would end up in Storybrooke, but, when Ruby steps out and away from the travelling circus, she's obviously elated to see that 1) they're back in Storybrooke and 2) that August is right there.

August spots her and walks across to her. He's puzzled but there's a growing smile on his face. "Ruby?" They talk a bit. Ruby can introduce Dorothy as well as Mulan. He then explains that he'd love to stick around but that he has a wedding to get to (he's not even sure he'll have time to get changed at this point or else he'll miss it completely) and, after confessing that it is in fact Emma's wedding, Ruby obviously wants to go too and they all arrive with Flik and the other 'bugs' at the circus.

(side note: I'm living in an AU where the Black Fairy's curse didn't arrive the SECOND the song on the roof had finished, which allows them time to arrive at the wedding late and actually interact with Emma and the others. Emma is mostly just relieved to see August show up in one piece, even if he is still covered in glitter and a couple of scrapes from the bike crash) and Snow is overjoyed to see Ruby show up out of the blue (even if the curse is still about to hit the town)).

See, I agree about the whole unlikeable people thing. As well as... As the movie got started and went on (I’m pretty sure over half of the movie), NO human survives an encounter. ALL of them die. That makes me so uninterested in getting attached to anyone because they’re going to die. The movie doesn’t show you otherwise.

Also, the movie is supposed to be about Aliens vs Predators. NOT the stupid humans who don’t NEED the pointless scenes that have no use except make you hate them more because they make all the stupid decisions (WHY would you agree to “hang out” with someone you’re attracted to/in love with, if the viewer’s supposed to believe that, if they JUST broke up with their boyfriend either THAT DAY or the day before and they tell you OUTRIGHT - like, rebound and it really doesn’t mean ANYTHING UGH UGH UGH) and don’t show you why you should care about the characters except they talk to each other and look vaguely worried. Also - that scene in the graveyard where the guy with the gun waves the mother and daughter over like, “Hey, hey, come over here! Be safe!” and like a second later he’s threatening to shoot them and completely lost his cool. What?

And nothing happened in the beginning of the movie for a good thirty minutes. Nothing that made any kind of impact or impression. Oh look, people in the forest. The movie goes on. Next scene they are attacked by Face Huggers. The movie goes on. Boy wakes up in the forest and screams and his chest erupts with Alien. Showing. Everything. Like EVERYTHING needs to be shown and told, no inferring here! ALL of the chest eruptions were shown. And the “reveals”.

And, just, ugh. To reiterate, the way it was filmed, the Aliens and the Predator were definitely the second billed characters. Not so with the first one. I LOVED that team up with Lex and the Predator as well. Also. WHY did only one Predator answer the call? First, going by Predator 2 and AVP, they always travel in packs. And it’s just SO illogical that only one, for a highly multiplying species, would be enough. Especially with the humans they’ve known for millennia make good carriers and incubators.

And the setting for the first movie, just like you said. It had a POINT. This one seemed like a hopeful bridge to a third movie, which, honestly, makes movies so boring.

I did like the Alien/Predator hybrid, except... There was no explanation of how it could suddenly give several Aliens into one host, and that, ugh, disgusting way it did, except finally just assume that’s how Predators procreate and move on. I don’t know if it was the way it was filmed or edited, but I was very lost on why the sudden pack of Aliens in one host - though honestly, didn’t really care, either, so whatever.

I also couldn’t see a lot of what was going on except big black thing fighting another big black thing in blankets of little or no lighting. I’m supposed to keep track of who is who, how...?