romance, excitement

[extemporanea]

What's with the New Year? Two separate members of my Flist (no-one I know in person, she says, hastening to check the gossip-hounds) have reported the end of long-term romantic relationships in the last few weeks. Clearly the turn of the year is accompanied in many cases by the nervous twitch of new brooms. I retreat, as usual, into Dorothy Parker

Comments

[strawberryfrog]

Eeep! What's the budget on that Diamond age? Do you think it's hard to film, or will a dash of CGI sort it out?

[extemporanea]

I'm not sure what the budget is going to be: it's a series commissioned by the SciFi Channel, so I suspect not huge. On the other hand, George Clooney is producing, so it should at least be respectable.

I'm actually not sure how well it'll film. Some of its elements are sheer spectacle, particularly the Victorian enclave and the frenetic post-punk urban bits, but the nanotech is going to be hellish. Although I suppose entire fantasy islands sprouting instantly from the ocean are the kind of thing CGI was made for.

I am a tad worried as to whether the channel is going to allow the Drummers, actually. Not sure how much American TV can handle ecstatic spontaneous-combustive group sex.

[pinkthulhu]

On an unrelated note, medieval card games:

http://www2.nau.edu/~wew/Tattershall-tb/cards.html

[anonymous]

Eeep 2! Mahvellous news. Mahvellous.

scroob

[wolverine_nun]

This is one of my favourite sf books EVAH, plugging straight into my Victorianist fixations, and I rather respect Clooney's artistic wossnames, so there is The Happy chez Extemporanea, I can tell you.

That sentence could keep a team of linguistic analysts happy for a week.

[extemporanea]

Eep! you're right, I do rather seem to be mixing and matching my linguistic influences. But can you honestly say you didn't understand it? Contemporary communication is a mad, mongrel thing.