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So [livejournal.com profile] metalkatt, [livejournal.com profile] dahlianna, and I are watching CotBP (the first POTC movie) again. (Well, D is mostly watching "Supernatural" on her computer, but she's in the room.) And it started me remembering things in the very early fandom 8 years ago - things we now take for granted or are old hat, that were just getting started then.

For instance - does anyone else remember the little wordplays that resulted in phrases like "Dr. I Am Disinclined to Acquiesce to Your Request" (i.e., another name for the movie "Dr. No")? Or even where that list got off to? There were a bunch on it. What else do you extreme old-timers remember from the VERY early days of this fandom?

(Also, Jack looks much less stylized here; his outfit and look is more practical and "worn-in" and looks comfortable. In OST he's got more eyeliner and eyeshadow drawn on, his costume is more elaborate - it doesn't look like a costume here - and he looks more comfortable overall in this one. The costumes in this one seem more like clothes on everybody, too. Did Penny Rose just kind of give up?)

Date: 2011-06-06 12:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] veronica-rich.livejournal.com
Oh, I don't disagree about the deal with Elizabeth in the Chinese garb. I was thinking more of the men's outfits she wore to Tortuga and then on the Pearl, as well as the outfit she was wearing at the beginning of AWE - they were all practical, fairly plain materials, but she looked both cute (to me) and protected in them. (And I was thinking of her in the black Chinese garb as the appointed captain of the Chinese junk - which as you say may be racist, but it also looked like something a man would wear, and since she was the captain, at least it was also somewhat consistent with her role. Which, consistency is a little more than we got with Penelope's character and her outfits.)

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