Frozen 2 was better than the first movie, but given that I was not impressed with the first one, that wasn't a high standard to meet. I saw one review that said, "It was good, but not as good as the trailer made me think it would be." That's a fair evaluation ( Read more... )

I'm glad that I tried more than just the pilot episode of Raising Dion (Netflix, season one came out October 2019). So far (just over halfway through s1) it's better than the pilot would indicate. One thing that has improved: the child actors. They're very young, which makes a difference in the type of story that's being told. How do you control ( Read more... )

Colin Trevorrow is the film director who was originally hired to script and direct episode IX of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. He was fired before episode VIII got to movie theaters, and ultimately JJ Abrams was hired to do IX. Trevorrow is getting a story credit for IX, however--some remnant of his script must have been snagged for the film. This ( Read more... )

( spoilers for The Good Place 4.09 )

Less than a month until season four of The Expanse drops on Amazon, so I'm pushing myself to finish my second watch. Today I finished season one, so I should be able to pick up the pace as I move ahead, given that I really like season two and the first half of season three.

(Things that got in the way: watching season one of Unforgotten, reading a ( Read more... )

So if you're reading fanfic, do you have any preference: past tense or present tense? I've been writing in present tense for a while now, but I'm wondering what y'all prefer to read.

Posted at Dreamwidth: https://rose-griffes.dreamwidth.org/338812.html. Comment where ( Read more... )

I think I posted about this on friendslock earlier this year: there's a second cat in my home now. He's young--about a year old, the vet said. And he is not at all like my other cat, who is now seventeen ( Read more... )

Stumptown 1.06 didn't hold together well in the A story or B story. Frustrating, but that happens.

I keep feeling like I'm missing an episode somewhere in this season's The Good Place. I can't decide if it's a fault in the storytelling or if I'm just distracted by all the other things. (Unforgotten's first season, a second read-through on the ( Read more... )

I've already read all three books in Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone trilogy. Books 2 and 3 are Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising. And now I've started a re-read. Hello, temporary hyperfixation. Either that or it's me being contrary to the fans who think that the well-telegraphed happy ending for the heroine should have been with a different ( Read more... )

Leigh Bardugo's Grisha trilogy: the first two books are a successful version of the kind of story Rian Johnson was attempting to tell in The Last Jedi. Discuss.

( spoilers be here )