I've been struggling with a cold all week, which, on the negative side, means I can't work, and on the positive side means I get to loll about reading, playing games and watching television ( Read more... )

Watched the first two parts of Michael Wood's In Search of William Shakespeare this evening. What a great show.

Last night I watched the pilot episode of the Chris Carter show, The AfterWhat an ill-conceived show ( Read more... )

My computer is dismantled and sitting on the floor of my bedroom, not because it is malfunctioning (which it is), but because I got new furniture: a lovely new desk, which calls itself a Maplewood Writing Table. And my wonderful friends helped me set it up yesterday ( Read more... )

Watched this week's episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. at Pim's place tonight

Love that show more all the time. Skye's story is getting more interesting.

Also: reading "Freedom and Necessity" by Emma Bull and Stephen Brust. Amazing story.

I'm enjoying this show more with each episode. It reminds me of favourite shows of my past: The Man From U.N.C.L.E., the Avengers - I mean Steed and Mrs. Peel, not the Marvel version; X-Files and Fringe. I love the international settings - how many shows these days bring us Stockholm and Malta in two consecutive episodes ( Read more... )

I watched Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. again tonight, this time with Pim and . And I think I may have fallen in love with it this time. Okay, I still don't like Maria Hill's hair.

Because I am pretty much madly in love with her anyway, it's hard to adjust.

Now that that is off my chest...

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I've been a fan of S.H.I.E.L.D. since the Steranko days - and a fan of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. before that. So the announcement of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series filled me with joy and trepidation. I knew it wouldn't be the S.H.I.E.L.D. of my dreams. The tidbits of information Whedon leaked about the story sounded terribly trite... but that man has been ( Read more... )

One of the things I most love about Lewis is the titles. (Well, besides obvious things like character, plot, setting and stories.) This one sounds to me like a phrase Lois McMaster Bujold might use, but no, it's quoted in the episode as being from Gerald Manly Hopkins:

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall ( Read more... )

Watched the Doctor Who season-ending episode "The Name of the Doctor" this evening ( Read more... )