weekend, fun stuff, Carl Kasell

[zephre]

So yesterday I went to a luncheon for corporate and non-profit supporters of a local public radio station (the office lotto for tickets fell to me this time), and the result was that I got to hear a great speech, see a funny magic show, and meet Carl Kasell.  He is a lovely man. No, I didn't ask him to record a message for me on my phone.  Hahaha

Comments

[swashbucklr]

You should have gotten his voice on your home answering machine!

[zephre]

hahahaha, yeah he said in the beginning the only way to do that was to win the show. ;)

[kalanthe]

It's absolutely #2! (Grrr.) Haven't seen the movie yet. Forgot about it.

I'm enjoying the new series by Maria V. Snyder. :) It's nice to see someone else reading her books.

I haven't watched the weeping angels, as I'm going by what BBC America airs... that starts this Saturday. Looking forward to it, though!

[zephre]

I look forward to your reactions to the Weeping Angels, then! :)

And yay for Maria V Snyder - she does good stuff

[puckling]

Nice, and fun, and full of great music, but it seemed unbalanced to me and rereading the book showed why.

Hmmmm. See I had the opposite reaction. It's strange because I normally love books much more than movies, but I watched the movie then read the book and kept going, "Okay, we're reestablishing the Pensives, okay we're hanging out at the castle, okay, we're having an extremely extremely long narrative look Caspian's youth in which nothing much happened, okay, ONLY 50 PAGES TO CRAM THE REST OF THE PLOT IN? ARE YOU KIDDING? THAT IS HORRIBLE PACING C.S. LEWIS."

Although I do agree that the romantic shenanigans in the movie were bullshit.

[zephre]

I think my issue with the movie was the movement of MASSIVE BATTLE SCENES OF AWESOME to a central place, when in fact there's not much battle in the book. I felt like the book was not so much about the war brewing between Miraz and Caspian, or even the Telmarines and Old Narnia- obviously, though, a ton of wandering in the woods followed by maenad dancing wouldn't have gone over nearly as well with moviegoers.

My other beef with the film, although I did like it very much despite this, was the way they shifted Peter and created a false rivalry between him and Caspian. I had a lot of trouble getting past that, and since that characterization of Peter is what drives the BIG BATTLE SEQUENCE OF STUPID (aka the attack on the castle) it is frustrating. ;)

Edmund remains my favorite, though. I loved the moment when he stabs Jadis's image in the ice.
And that kid playing him is awesome.

[puckling]

So I was at home yesterday and my sister was rewatching Caspian, which reminded me that I owed you a comment!

I think my issue with the movie was the movement of MASSIVE BATTLE SCENES OF AWESOME to a central place, when in fact there's not much battle in the book.

Heh, see my issue was that there was no battle in the book! Pretty much the exact opposite of your issues actually. ;) I think the fact that the book was pretty much just wondering around made me go, yes, okay, lovely, WHERE IS YOUR PLOT C.S. LEWIS?

My other beef with the film, although I did like it very much despite this, was the way they shifted Peter and created a false rivalry between him and Caspian. I think it's Peter freaking the fuck out about the fact that he missed all this time in Narnia, and now he's been replaced by this upstart *Telmerain* and this isn't *his* Narnia, and now he needs to set everything to rights, but he has to do it perfectly, because, well, that's what High King Peter (the Magnificent) would do, isn't it? Yeah, I can fanwank it, but I

[zephre]

CHARLES DARWIN'S GREAT, GREAT, (GREAT?)GRANDSON. He comes by his awesomeness honestly.

THAT IS A FANDOM ALL ITS OWN, RIGHT THERE.
faaaaabulous.

Yeah, I agree with your insight into Peter's motivations. :) Could have been awesome, but it was just a little bit off.

I am just looking forward to Dawn Treader. I look forward to more Edmund, and discovering Eustace. :)