There are some books which seem to me to be such logical choices for adapting that I’m a little baffled that no one has done so yet ( Read more... )

"I conduct myself as though I’m above matters of the heart, chiefly because I have seen them corrode people I respect. But in my candid moments, I sometimes wonder if I take the stance I do because love, for lack of a better word, is a game I fail to understand, and so I opt not to play."
-- from Elementary, 2x12 "The Diabolical Kind"
(I wrote this ( Read more... )

My TV shows are drawing to the end of their respective seasons. One episode left of Once Upon a Time. Two episodes of Doctor Who. Three of Elementary. And three of Scott and Bailey.

(Actually, that just means Scott and Bailey is just over halfway through the season... And I still have just under two seasons left of Castle, so I am unlikely to get ( Read more... )

Charles: If you get bored, where ever you are, phone. I'll come and rescue you in my plane.
Flora: Have you a plane, Charles?
Charles: Um. A Belisha Bat called Speed Cop II.
Flora: Are you sure an embryo parson have a plane?
Charles: Everyone should have a plane.
-- from Cold Comfort Farm (1995)

Finished season three of Castle. I enjoyed it. ( Read more... )

Neal: We - we got to get off the street [...] There's a bar down the street, we can talk there.
Emma: I am not drinking with you. Whatever you're going to tell me, tell me now.
Neal: No, a bar is better. Don't worry, you can keep yelling at me when we get there.
-- from Once Upon a Time episode 2x14, "Manhattan"
I wasn't desperate for a third series ( Read more... )

I guess I'd never stood up to Mother Gothel before, and I don't mind admitting I was scared spitless, but I knew I couldn't pretend anymore.
So I told her to go to... someplace less nice. In hindsight, that might've been a fairly stupid thing to do.
-- from Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale, and Nathan Hale
This is a fictionary update, in ( Read more... )

You think you might cross over / You're caught between the devil and the deep blue sea / You better look it over / Before you make that leap
-- from "Spaceman" by the Killers

This fictionary update concerns Castle, Dear Frankie, St Trinian's, Taylor Swift, The Demon's Covenant and A Conspiracy of Kings.

Castle, in which a writer of crime novels ( Read more... )