Still sick, but....

[selenak]

Briefly, re: multifandom news:

1) New Twin Peaks: Do not want. Leave well enough alone, I say. The second season has been pretty shaky already, and although the ending was great (in a completely mean way, of course), I can't see what a follow up would achieve that would improve on it. I'd rather not know for sure one way or the ther whether

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[vitruvian23]

MCU Civil War will have to depend more on whether the various heroes are allowed to operate on their own, or only under some kind of government direction, rather than the question of secret identities. Which was a huge part of the premise of the comics Civil War as well, they just messed up by never being at all clear about what the registration law actually required, did it have a draft component or not, etc.

Although it would still be funny to see movie Tony make a 180 from telling off Senators in hearings to be the guy to fight Steve over this issue on behalf of the government. And they'd need to keep (the real) Thor out of it as much as in the original, it's not like he'd ever consider himself bound to human law, at least not in these matters.

[trobadora]

MCU Civil War will have to depend more on whether the various heroes are allowed to operate on their own, or only under some kind of government direction, rather than the question of secret identities.

I came here to say this, and then I didn't have to because you already did! :D

But yes, that's been my thinking for a while, too.

[gaspode]

The whole reason why TP season 2 was weak was that it wasn't written by Frost/Lynch and that the network insisted on wrapping up the Laura Plot.

This has been confirmed to be 100% Frost/Lynch and with that fact and the book I am extreamly excited by it.

Basically as long as Lynch can be Lynch I have high hopes for the 9 eps I believe it is going to be....

[gehayi]

I don't think that I would have liked Doctor SleepThe Shining. Dan Torrance did not fit what I remembered of Danny Torrance. His personality was gone. He was apathetic and depressed and a total loser. I could have dealt with an apathetic, depressed loser protagonist who was a stranger to me--but not Danny. Not Danny, who, despite getting overwhelmed at times, had been pretty proactive and who had had enormous courage and heart. The Dan Torrance of Doctor Sleep was dead inside. He was not the kid I had loved. He was a fake. And, as time went on, he became a murderer.

That last bit bothered me the most, probably because I've spent so long in hospitals and convalescent homes and I KNOW how desperately vulnerable the old and the sick are. Nine years ago, I was in an eight-day coma in part because I'm an epileptic and the go-to drug for epilepsy, the one that everyone is put on as a matter of course if they don't know what meds you're on, is Dilantin. And I'm allergic to Dilantin. I've had a surgeon tell me to my face that he regretted

[selenak]

I disagree completely about Dan being dead inside. My extensive review of the novel is here; what impressed me most about it, to quote from said review, because I can't put it better now than I could then: "the idea of community as ensuring redemption and ruin both. What saves Dan, as opposed to his father, is that he asks for and receives help. Indeed that's what later saves Abra, too; not just reaching out to Dan but the fact she and Dan in turn are able to draw on her family and his supportive AA friends to team up with. (...) But on the other end of the scale, the TrueKnot have to count among Stephen King's most remarkably fleshed out villains, and they, too, are a loving and supportive community. Your avarage King villain comes in two basic varieties; there are demonic entities who simply are evil because they're evil (It, the Overlook); the human non-demonic variation of these are hardcore crazy conservative fundamentalists. Or they start out as good and/or ambiguous and are either seduced or broken into villainy by the novel's