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Miscellaneous Reviews and Thoughts
Jan. 13th, 2008 09:54 pmFinished Spellbinder: Very meh. Everything wrapped up excessively neatly and nearly inexplicably. I am also unclear as to the logic of witchcraft=paganism, only you're born a witch rather than raised one, and thus there's a Roman Catholic Pagan Witch? So there's a nature vs. nurture bit to think on, I suppose.
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The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Well I'm glad Summer Glau has work again, but she keeps flipping her hair too much. It's seriously distracting. Also when the series opens in 1999 and then we have a shooting in school (when a terminator goes after teenage John Connor) all I could think is, "Huh. So they went there??" (To those who may not remember high school back in '99, like me...yeah that was when Columbine happened. And then TV channels pulled a few eps of Buffy and maybe an episode or two of other shows because they were scared to show violence in high schools, or thinking about violence in high schools, or really anything involving high school that wasn't sweetness, light, and pretty people.
Then there's a time machine that takes them to 2007. I am curious if they will show the folks from far away '99 the ubiquity of newfangled things like, y'know, cell phones, and wireless internet, and, uh, Homeland Security. That'll be fun exposition!
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Okay, who else is watching Masterpiece Theater doing "The Jane Austen Collection"? I know you all are out there.
First off, they have a rather inane intro by Scully, I mean Gillian Anderson, addressing the mysteries of Jane Austen. Like, how a woman with little "formal education" could write six novels, and the mystery of how those novels touch our hearts (or something), and...well, it went on for a while but it really gave me a headache honestly so I blocked it out.
Tonight's presentation was Persuasion. You may recognize the plot as it was cannibalized for Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (well at least the book) (no, I'm not making that up): boy meets girl, boy and girl break up, boy and girl get back together despite crazy families. The highlights were that the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) played Anne Eliot's aunt and Giles (Tony Head) played her dad. Well it made my nerdy lil inner geek happy.
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Had friends over last night and was telling them about all the cool stuff in the archives at work. Was astonished that people with degrees higher than mine and whose careers necessitated research were flumoxed that if you wanted to go see, oh, say, a book that actually belonged to Tolkien, or anything else similarly cool, all you basically had to do was ask us. How does this happen??
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Note to local peeps:
Don't forget: Cafe Scientifique! This Tuesday, at Revolution. This month's topic is on chemical engineering and extracting fuel from biomass! Because, really, what says "fun" more than "biomass"?!
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The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Well I'm glad Summer Glau has work again, but she keeps flipping her hair too much. It's seriously distracting. Also when the series opens in 1999 and then we have a shooting in school (when a terminator goes after teenage John Connor) all I could think is, "Huh. So they went there??" (To those who may not remember high school back in '99, like me...yeah that was when Columbine happened. And then TV channels pulled a few eps of Buffy and maybe an episode or two of other shows because they were scared to show violence in high schools, or thinking about violence in high schools, or really anything involving high school that wasn't sweetness, light, and pretty people.
Then there's a time machine that takes them to 2007. I am curious if they will show the folks from far away '99 the ubiquity of newfangled things like, y'know, cell phones, and wireless internet, and, uh, Homeland Security. That'll be fun exposition!
~
Okay, who else is watching Masterpiece Theater doing "The Jane Austen Collection"? I know you all are out there.
First off, they have a rather inane intro by Scully, I mean Gillian Anderson, addressing the mysteries of Jane Austen. Like, how a woman with little "formal education" could write six novels, and the mystery of how those novels touch our hearts (or something), and...well, it went on for a while but it really gave me a headache honestly so I blocked it out.
Tonight's presentation was Persuasion. You may recognize the plot as it was cannibalized for Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (well at least the book) (no, I'm not making that up): boy meets girl, boy and girl break up, boy and girl get back together despite crazy families. The highlights were that the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) played Anne Eliot's aunt and Giles (Tony Head) played her dad. Well it made my nerdy lil inner geek happy.
~
Had friends over last night and was telling them about all the cool stuff in the archives at work. Was astonished that people with degrees higher than mine and whose careers necessitated research were flumoxed that if you wanted to go see, oh, say, a book that actually belonged to Tolkien, or anything else similarly cool, all you basically had to do was ask us. How does this happen??
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Note to local peeps:
Don't forget: Cafe Scientifique! This Tuesday, at Revolution. This month's topic is on chemical engineering and extracting fuel from biomass! Because, really, what says "fun" more than "biomass"?!
