I suspect it's also a bit of an homage to this famous pin-up:
I suspect it's also a bit of an homage to this famous pin-up:
Even as I could see the story beats coming, and could easily predict characters' actions - I was still moved to tears by the end. Which hasn't happened in quite some time. And it is precisely that predictability that made the Root/Finch storyline so effective - we know so well the forces inside them, conflicts and…
I'd agree, and to add - I will miss the Platonic dynamic between the two of them. It was one of my favorite continuing interactions on the show, Iris trying to figure him out and John being John. (Wrenn Schmidt is very charming, I find, at birdlike inquisitiveness.) I would have much preferred her as confidante…
I saw an interview with her that had her talking about different ways to fuck people up using random items nearby (she was a career martial artist before turning to acting). It was very endearing.
This show is my first regular exposure to Ms. Palicki, and I've gotta say: that woman is the most superhero-y looking person I may have ever seen. I don't think she could pick a piece of paper off the ground without it looking dramatic and badass, and she has this easy aura of presence and strength that projects…
Really, this show is just reviving a bit from classic allegorical science-fiction, the neutron bomb: a weapon that wipes away people but leaves the material world intact. It was tacit in stories from the likes of Bradbury and Vonnegut that the neutron bomb was just a setting convenience, so implausible it pushed the…
What I'm really disappointed about? That the show decided it needed to fill a straightman role. I like the concept of using the apocalypse to put sitcom tropes under duress - but I had hoped that it was going to do so on the fringe of sanity. It's the end of the world, there's three people left, and anything they…
Perhaps the virus is a scheme of the dastardly David Lo Pan?
"So Long" is often dismissed because much of a generation read the series as kids, and were left scratching our heads at the jarringly different fourth book. Well, guess what - it contains probably Adams' most well-crafted prose, and it's his most firmly adult novel in tone and theme. This is rather clearly a…
More than perhaps any other Discworld book, Monstrous Regiment hangs on a central "twist" - and one that keeps happening throughout the book. It's disconcerting, easily sliding towards annoyance, to have an author keep pulling out the same trick on you over and over again. We can't help but feel a little hoodwinked,…
And on the other side of that coin, we have Vetinari, the perfect person to actually run A-M - a creature of pure pragmatism, and one who is rather far from the benevolent dictator one would expect of a "good king".
As ever, I recommend any (or all!) of the first three books of the main branches of the Discworld: Guards, Guards! for the Watch, Mort for the Death books, and Wyrd Sisters (I know, I'm fudging) for the Witches.
Sigh. Sad but true.
The first Discworld game is a real treat. It nails the tone and texture of Ankh-Morpork, and the voice casting is unbelievably perfect (with the possible exception of Tony Robinson inexplicably not voicing Nobby). It's also a damn fine old-school point-n'-clicker.
Yup, exactly me.
So many favorites, but I'll single out Feet of Clay as an underappreciated gem.
Detritus!
No lie: I started reading Jingo just days before Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Going to disagree with Horsery and say that Code Unknown and Time of the Wolf are two of his greatest films, and The Castle is fascinating in its own right.
1. Time of the Wolf
2. Seventh Continent
3. Code Unknown
4. Amour
5. The White Ribbon
6. Cache
7. The Piano Teacher
8. The Castle
9. Benny's Video
…and in a distant tenth, the Funny Gameses. The top five are all very close; the next three are as well.