Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: Just a few personal impressions

[bimo]

So I went to see AWE yesterday, together with Cavendish at the Lichtburg Essen.

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[cavendish]

>Sorry about disappearing in the middle of a conversation, but yes, we were moving house.

No problem, really :-)

>and would be delighted if you friended me

done. Thanks :-)

>though I don't know how much longer I will be involved in fandom as an active writer. I'm trying to break into original fic these days.

Why should that be an argument for *not* friending you? ;-)

What do you write, if I may ask? (Not meaning to ask about a work in progress, knowing that some authors are superstitious about that, but generally speaking)

>Patrick O'Brian's books are absolutely marvellous.

I'll take that as a recommendation for the summer break then. I am in a maritime mood at the moment anyhow, re-watching, as it is, "The Onedin Line" (BBC 1972-1980) Do you happen to know it?

>*So much* like something Tolkien's Teleri elves might have written :)

I have never thought of the poem in this light, bu yes, it is quite true. (*must ponder about this a little*)

>Good luck with the marking! Hope it's over soon :)

It will be in some 25 years time ;-). But for now, it will be over in a fortnight ;-). But up till then ... ;-)

Good luck with you housemoving. Hope you'll find everything in the box in which it is supposed to be ;-)

Frank

[ex_galadhir]

Why should that be an argument for *not* friending you? ;-)

*G* Well, it must surely ensure that instead of posting stories which appeal to a number of people, I stop posting any kind of interesting content at all and confine myself to talking about my cats or children - making the blog much less interesting than it was.

What do I write? It's a good question :) I suppose I like other worlds, whether that is the past or the future. I have an 18th Century haunted house/murder mystery, an Age of Sail Romance, and a Space Opera in various stages of planning and first draft at the moment - and I'm getting to the stage where I have to choose one of them and buckle down to actually finishing it.

I also have a different, completed AoS romance in the finals of a competition being run by Linden Bay Romance - which will be published if it wins, and a darkish Fantasy novel (also completed) which I'm self-publishing through LuLu :)

Heh, the Onedin Line takes me back. We never watched it, but I remember my father always changed the channel when it was on, when I was growing up. Is it good then?

Thank you! I still haven't found the toaster, but otherwise things seem to be slowly going back to normal. I hope your fortnight of exams passes quickly!

Marnie :-)

[cavendish]

Hi there :-)

*squee* a kosh icon. *waves* from a fellow b5 fan :-)

now it was me droppong out of a conversation, but ther is really a lot of work to do for me at the moment.

>I have an 18th Century haunted house/murder mystery, an Age of Sail Romance, and a Space Opera in various stages of planning and first draft at the moment - and I'm getting to the stage where I have to choose one of them and buckle down to actually finishing it.

sound interesting. But buckling down and finishing things really is the hard part of it ;-)

>Heh, the Onedin Line takes me back. We never watched it, but I remember my father always changed the channel when it was on, when I was growing up. Is it good then?

Hmm, it is hard to say if the series is really good. I watched it as a child, so there is a lot nostalgia involved in my re-wathing it. Some parts are really nicely done, and some othere: saop opera at its worst, really. All Creatures Great and Small , which was only about, I think, 4 years later, is much better as far as storytelling is concered. But then again, with All Creatures they had the Herriot books to rely on .. .
To cut a long story short: I enjoy watching it immensely.

Has the toaster turned up by now?

Frank

oh, and ps.:

>talking about my cats

I like cats ;-)

[ex_galadhir]

Heh, for some reason, now that my interest in PotC is waning I'm remembering how much I loved B5, and how much better it was than PotC. (Well, maybe not than the first film.) It had some of the same problems though - a tendancy to get bloated and pretentious at the end, and to make most of its protagonists 'darker' in the belief that that would make them more interesting. It reminded me that I stop enjoying stories when the moral makeup of their universe's change. (Which is not to say that I have to have heroes and villains - I enjoy Torchwood, where all the protagonists are somewhat dodgy. I just don't like the rules to change half way through.)

My main problem is that I can't choose which of the books to work on next. I know I *can* finish, once I've started, as I've finished three novels so far in my writing life, but getting properly started is my problem :)

I will try and check out the Onedin line as soon as I find out where the library is, if only for the ships :) And yes, I found the toaster, in the bottom of the last box, along with the plates :)

Alas, but my cats were metaphorical! I'm a dog person really, but we don't have any pets at present, other than two baby stick insects.

[cavendish]

Do these comments start to get wider again some time soon?

>how much I loved B5,

The only TV series I watched 3 times in its entirety. :-) (having been being introduced to the show by bimo, spending very enjoyable evenings together watching it on VHS tapes that came form the states, were copied about (judging from the picture quality) 3 mio times. We used to joke to be "wrapped in 5 kilometers of spinning video tape"

But I am getting sentimental. Furthermore, I don't have that much time at the moment (meaning none at all). This will change next Friday, by then everything that is on my mind right now will be resolved one way or the other ;-).

So if my reply is shorter than it should be (I would dearly have reflected in greater depth on both "Onedin Line" and Metaphorical Cats" but all this will have to wait, I am afraid, until next week ;-).

As for the books (and as far as good advices go): Which speaks to you the loudest at present? ;-)

Frank