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Right! So. One or two of you may remember the Owen in the recent past 'verse that I was happily drabbling away with before deciding to turn it into a real fic. Well, it is progressing. Slowly, but it's going. It keeps evolving in my head and is highly unlikely to be the three-part epic I envisioned in what was probably caffeine-fueled, heart-palpitation-ridden insanity. At this point it's looking more like a two-part - the recent past part and the aftermath of Owen's return to his own present, with the year that wasn't dealt with in flashbacks, mostly because I simply don't have enough material to make it an entire part on its own and I'm not convinced it would fit anyway.

But I did promise to post bits. So here is a bit, if only to assure people (including possibly myself) that it's not dead.

Spoilers through Torchwood 2x07.

( There's a wing full of furnished, if heavily dusty, bedrooms on the floor above Lisa; Ianto explains matter-of-factly that, once upon a time, Torchwood employees were 'encouraged' to live on the premises, but that stopped back in 1963 when an alien virus wiped out almost the entire staff. )

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GUYS. Many thanks to maggiesox and starlasoma for reccing Iron Man in their journals, because if you two hadn't put it on my radar as something that people enjoyed (people whose taste I can trust, I mean), I wouldn't have suggested it to my mom when we couldn't find ANYTHING worth seeing this afternoon, and that would have been very sad. (Also, thanks to Robert Downey, Jr for being the only reason Mom agreed to go in the first place.)

( Spoilers! )

Also, I have to be the only person on the planet who tends to mix up Jeff Bridges and Kurt Russell. I blame this on having seen, like, one of each of their movies. Well, technically I've seen part of The Big Lebowski, but I hated it (please, just let that pass, it bored and annoyed me and you cannot change that) and forgot as much of it as I could as quickly as possible, so it doesn't count. So I'm sitting there in the theater being totally distracted, thinking, "Who is that? I know that guy. WHO IS THAT? OH. OH. I KNOW. It's that guy, the one from Grindhouse that I always mix up with Jeff Bridges!" Well, I was halfway there. (The other movie I've seen Bridges in: Stick It. SILENCE. It's better than it looks. Just don't ask me how I mix up a gymnastics coach with a serial killing stuntman. I don't know the answer to that.)

And I kept thinking of the character as "Ozymandias." Apparently I'm even more excited for Watchmen than I thought I was. ( One more spoiler, with implied spoileriness for Watchmen as well. )

By the way, random question that came up in my mind during the trailers - what's the deal with the Hulk movie? Is it a sequel to the one from a few years ago? Or are we pretending that never happened?