I'm feeling a bit more optimistic about TV this week than last, in general.

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This latest Doctor Who ep was pretty nice, though it was marred for me by( spoiler! )

I have mentioned before on Tumblr and Facebook how Sanzoku no musume Ronja AKA the anime version of Ronia the Robber's Daughter is the bright spot on my current TV schedule. But, well, it's worth mentioning again. It's beautifully faithful to the book and its characters, while addings its own little touches, and the robbers cooing over baby Ronia ( Read more... )

An interesting side effect of reading Doctor Who reviews parallell with a poem by Tage Danielsson to Lena Nyman (I still find it quite melancholy that she's dead. Actually, I still find it quite melancholy that he's dead): Suddenly I stopped and went, Huh. Tage could totally play the Doctor ( Read more... )

It took me forever (thanks to some difficult chars), but I finally finished writing three things from my personal canon for every character someone asked of me. Here they are!

jadelennox wished for:

( Undis (Ronja Rövardotter/Ronia the Robber's Daughter) )

verstehen has a good rant about good 40+ female characters on TV. With a list. And it just so happens that last week when I was having a long boring train ride to an interview in Bålsta, I started making a list much like that one. That is to say, it started as a list of TV mothers I liked, but soon morphed into 40+ women in general. After that rant, I ( Read more... )

"On the night that Ronia was born a thunderstorm was raging over the mountains, such a storm that all the goblinfolk in Matt's Forest crept back in terror to their holes and hiding places. Only the fierce harpies preferred stormy weather to any other and flew, shrieking and hooting, around the robbers' stronghold on Matt's mountain. Their noise ( Read more... )