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setsuled

Muffin Evolution

Aug 10, 2014 16:30

I love when an author so successfully creates a feeling of a time past through the lives of people. The new story in Sirenia Digest, "THE CATS OF RIVER STREET (1925)" accomplishes this very well--the year in the title is really not necessary. Just the mention of The Scopes Trial in the headline of a newspaper would have been enough but Caitlin ( Read more... )

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bri_himself August 11 2014, 01:29:35 UTC

Totally jealous you've managed to see this before me. I don't even know anyone who owns a BluRay player.

it's only this one moment that we have any indication Sarah has had problems with her memory, or has maybe had a stroke at some point in the past

A totally necessary scene if you're going to imply that Sarah knows about and is in denial about the abuse, which the finished film - and, possibly unintentionally, bits of S1 - end up doing. It's a lot more sympathetic if she's doubting her perceptions of reality.

Kiefer Sutherland's hilariously slightly incompetent Agent Stanley.

I always think he's meant to be, as they say, Somewhere On The Spectrum™ - and, as such, fits beautifully in with all the other adorable oddballs in Gordon Cole's Fed army. I'd love a 'Blue Rose cases' spin-off.

The whole business about Laura being a muffin, for example, takes on a lot more meaning when we see it's Donna who's originally the muffin in the Hayward household.That's one of the scenes I most wanted back in the movie when I read the script. ( ... )

setsuled August 11 2014, 04:54:18 UTC

Totally jealous you've managed to see this before me. I don't even know anyone who owns a BluRay player.

It's weird how they didn't do a DVD version. It was very clear on the Comic Con panel the makers of this thing were anti-streaming so it could be a while before it turns up on NetFlix or iTunes. But maybe it'll be different in Britain.

Of course, I could point out the pilot was available on DVD in Britain for almost a decade before it was in the U.S. . . .

I'd love a 'Blue Rose cases' spin-off.

Oh, that would be amazing. And especially if they got Kiefer Sutherland now, what a great direction to go in after 24. "You've seen him kick ass for 24 hours straight. Now see him . . . preferring to get to bed by nine."

And the one - does this exist as a Missing Piece? - where Laura has to mime finding a lost necklace when a passing neighbour sees her crying in the shrubbery;

Ah, no, that's not in it. That would have been great.

and the line 'what is the world coming to when you kill a guy for baby laxative?'That is in it, it's ( ... )