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| Saturday, July 23, 2005 05:48 PM |
| Knock on wood |
 by Fëanor |
- Hey! This V for Vendetta trailer looks pretty good! Here's hoping they don't screw up the movie. I loved the book, but I thought it was a little too obvious about some of its ideas and a little too clearly an early work of Mr. Moore's. So I could actually see how a movie version might even improve on the original. But that's probably just crazy talk.
- Our dishwasher totally blows now. It actually seems to be using its heat and water to paste food particles more firmly onto our dishes, rather than to clean them off. Poppy postulates that perhaps the spoons we found jammed in there were the things that were making it work. Sigh.
- Ever since finishing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (minor spoilers follow, but I wouldn't say you have to worry too much), I've been thinking about the next and last Harry Potter book. I really wonder what it will be like. Up until now, every book has fit into a certain rather rigid framework with multiple recurring story events--it always opens with Harry at home with the Dursleys, then he goes to school, there's the train ride, the sorting, classes, Quidditch games, exams, etc., and all through it, various mysterious events occur and Harry and his friends work to figure out what's going on and triumph over evil. And all of this occurs and is (for the most part) resolved within the set time frame of one year at Hogwarts. How will Rowling handle a story set in this world that isn't framed by all of these familiar events that gave such a firm and comforting structure to the other books?
I don't know. I think she'll be able to pull it off. She's clearly quite talented. She'd just better not get writer's block is all I've got to say. She needs to get that puppy out on the shelves so I can read it, and right quick!
- Last night's "Battlestar Galactica" was pretty good, but I wouldn't call it one of my favorite episodes. Not a lot really happened, all things considered. We did see a little more into Starbuck's soul, though. When she returned to her place on Caprica, she revealed that there was nothing there she missed or was sorry to have left behind. I really liked her line, "Everybody's fighting to get back something they had. I'm just fighting because it's the only thing I know how to do."
Dr. Baltar's dream and subsequent conversation with Number Six leads me to believe the Cylons are grooming him to be their secondary assassin, now that their primary assassin seems to have failed to eliminate the target (Commander Adama).
Looks like Colonel Tigh is going to declare martial law next week. Um, bad move much? That's playing right into the hands of our resident terrorist, who's returning to the show next week, predictably. D'oh.
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