Movie Sign Theatre 3000, Monday Evening

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

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It had taken Kerrigan all of one look at the movie poster to comment, "Well, I can already tell this is going to be factually inaccurate." She pointed at Roy with her drink. "That's going to be fun."

[ thread with Kerrigan locked to the Sheriff, but the theatre is open to all. meta of Aliens, of course ]

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[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

He nodded, his attention moving back to the screen and he just had to ask now.

"Is space like that?"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Emptier. Quieter." More popcorn. "I like it like that."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

Wait, she was getting all the popcorn. Roy grabbed a handful. "I think this is pretty empty too," he replied, but he could get the quiet part for her.

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"It's not the same," Kerrigan said, quietly, and took a gulp of her soda rather than steal more popcorn. "The stars, for one."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"Different constellations or do you mean something else?" he asked.

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Different angle." Another gulp of soda. "Koprulu is a lightyear or twenty thousand away from here. The view changes."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

He nodded slowly in understanding. "I've traveled more than most people in Amestris, but you're really making me feel like I've seen nothing," he told her.

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

She shrugged one shoulder. "After a while, it tends to blend together," Kerrigan said, "Wasteland, city, wasteland, farmlands, wasteland..."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

He remembered that feeling, but in a slightly different variation and there were ruins added in somewhere.

He pushed it away and glanced at the screen. "Why do I get the feeling that going onto that planet is a bad idea?"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

She glanced over at Roy-- those too, of course-- but didn't say anything.

"Because it usually is?" she ventured.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"Ah," he grinned. "Sorry, it's my first movie set in space." He paused. "Huh and am watching it with an alien too."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Depends on your definition of 'alien'," she snorted, sipping her drink. "But, yeah, there's no end to the kind of trouble you can get into doing..." she waved her hand at the screen, "That."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"Especially when there's... slime coming from a big hole?" he wrinkled his nose. "Always what I wanted to see in colour."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Zerg blood," Kerrigan decided, "They're so dead."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"Zerg's blood is yellow fluorescent?"

He didn't startle as something suddenly along the hall. Really.

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Depends on the type," she offered, and had absolutely no qualms about using Roy's momentary weakness to steal more popcorn. "Often red but I've seen yellow. I've also had the displeasure of dealing with marines stupid enough to walk into a room with Zerg blood dripping from the ceiling."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"It's acid too?" Roy wondered if maybe they'd picked the wrong movie.

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"No," she smirked faintly, with some level of amused resignation, "That would've just made the level of crap complete, but no."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"At least it's something," he tilted his head, frowning a little at the alien-things in jars. "So what does it too?"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Back home's not the same as the movie. Ish." Sure, those... alien things... looked a lot like Zerg, but they weren't. Quite.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"No. It probably would have been a bit too prophetic otherwise," he replied.

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"The basic principles are the same, though," she noted when the movie had reached an applicable moment (ouch). "Like 'don't walk into a room that may be full of creepy crawlies without heavy armament'." She rubbed her brow for a moment.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"I think I'm good with not having to fight these," Roy murmured. Though somewhere there would be a whole lot less guilt over blowing these things up.

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Wouldn't wish the Zerg on anyone," Kerrigan replied, her voice soft and quiet. She sank further back into her chair and took another sip of her drink.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"Every world's got his monsters," he murmured, settling back as well and grabbing some more popcorn to it.