Community Center Class: Modern Earth Entertainment

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"Hi." Peter waved a little from where he stood near the front of the room by the large-screen TV. The rest of the room was set up with comfy chairs and a few beanbags. "This is Modern Earth Entertainment, which is less a class than a chance for some of us to catch up on movies and things we might have missed, and maybe get some of the cultural references people are using."

He held up a piece of paper and set it down on a nearby table. "If you have any suggestions for things you've heard about and want to see, or things you have seen and think we all should, please let me know.

"Today, we'll start with one I have seen, though it's been...a while." You forgot a few things after a millennium. "I picked it because it's got a little romance, a little drama, a little politics…" He shrugged. "It's also got a lot of music that's gotten pretty well known over the years."

He waved at the table. "I've made some popcorn, which is traditional while you're watching movies, and there's some carbonated soda and beers too. Enjoy."

He settled back in one of the chairs and picked up the remote, starting up The Sound of Music.

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Sign in!

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Show up!

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Kanan Jarrus

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Amaya Blackstone

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Seivarden Vendaai

Introduce and mingle

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Talk amongst yourselves before the movie starts!

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See Kanan. See Kanan grab himself some popcorn and a can of Coke. See Kanan give the beer a kind of longing look for a moment before really committing himself to that Coke, cracking it open and taking a swig.

See? Satisfying, right there.

"It's been too kriffing long since we've done one of these."

It was weird not doing it in Peter's living room, but at least this was neutral territory while potentially dealing with The Enemy.

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"Yeah," Peter agreed. He was drinking a Coke himself, since it made no difference to him whether he had alcohol or not. "Hopefully less trauma this time?"

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"Hopefully less trauma," Kanan agreed. He was also leaving out the 'less temptation to murder' bit. There was no point stirring up drama here. "Wouldn't mind doing another small one sometime, though. Maybe in my apartment. You, me, Hera, the dog. Possibly Chopper. Chopper can be a pain in the ass, but at least Hera can get him to behave himself."

You know. Unlike some people. Kanan really had wished Seivarden wouldn't be here. Half the reason he'd come was because he missed hanging out with his friend, after all.

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Seivarden picked up a whole bowl of popcorn and a bottle of soda. She took a seat as far away from Kanan as possible, not wanting to repeat Monday's class, and instead greeted Amaya with a smile and a nod.

She was going to do her best to enjoy the movie.

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Luckily Peter had brought plenty, but he was still sighing a little bit. It was probably good that Seivarden and Kanan sat separately, but he'd been hoping to avoid drama here.

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And Amaya returned the nod and smiled back, lifting her beverage almost in salute.

"Well," she offered, "this should be interesting, at least."

She was honestly still trying to wrap her brain around just sitting in the dark not really doing anything for an hour and a half and trying to justify it. There were so many things that could be done in the time it took to watch a movie!

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Yeah, those beanbags weren't coming anywhere near Amaya's bottom; she was eyeing them with a particular brand of contempt that anyone could be comfortable in something that smushy before she turned her focus on grabbing some popcorn, grabbing a beer, and giving nods around the room to the other movie-watching culture-seekers.

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Oh, hey! Just the blacksmith Kanan had been hoping to see.

"Amaya," he said, giving her a polite nod. "I've heard through the squirrel information network that you're looking to start doing your smithing here on the island at some point?"

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"Hi." Peter waved at her again. "Thanks for coming." Had he met this woman before? I He couldn't quite remember, but they were all here to have fun anyway, right?

Watch the movie!

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Enjoy it, wonder about it, sing along if you know it!

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It wasn't bad, Seivarden had to admit. The story made some sense, the setting was beautiful and the songs would have been easy to sing along, had she wanted to do that.

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Oh, no. It turned out that Amaya was apparently one of...those movie watchers.

A confused-sounding "What?" seemed to escape her more often than not, occasionally a snort of a laugh at the ridiculousness of what she was watching, at least one "Why are they singing now?" and one "Oh, zards, more singing?". She'd at least managed to keep her responses to any mushy stuff constrained to her face, save for one "Blech" that managed to escape, and, yup, a disgruntled sound any time a song started up.

Sorry, everyone else.

It wasn't that bad toward the end, when they were escaping from the bad guys. That should have been the whole movie, just scrap the singing, and the mushy stuff, and the precocious kids, and it wouldn't be half bad. Maybe instead of ending with the main character in a field in the mountains somewhere, she picked up a nice weapon and went after the bad guys instead...yeah, that'd be much better.

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"Not into musicals?" Peter muttered to her after several times.

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"Well," Kanan said, somewhere near the end, "... That could've gone worse."

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"It wasn't traumatic," Peter pointed out.

Talk to Peter

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Please suggest things to him. Hell isn't big on movies.

OOC!

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Doe - a deer, a female deer!

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Rey, a Jedi on the run!
Meep, bleep beep, meep meep beep beep!
Fa-theirs are bred to ruuuuun!
So, is followed by a loooo!
La, is followed by a naaaa!
Ti, is followed by a coooo!
And that ship was from Lan-DO.

help

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I can't explain to my coworkers why I just LOLed.

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XD No help for you!