This appears with many thanks to dossier. My quiz response, which I'm quite happy with, is partly thanks to declineandfall, without whom I'd never have attended a hockey game, nor understood just how sexy hockey players can be. :-)

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Wow. Not perfect, but still, a definite wow for doing terrific extrapolation of current technology and making this not just a lawyer show but good science fiction too. Okay, lots of Ioan didn't hurt, and he seems to be settling into the character nicely.

Much better than the first episode that aired, and I was busy playing with LJ formatting and forgot about the second one. I will now state that while ratings for the first night totally sucked, I kind of hope this show keeps going, if they continue to do real s.f. plot lines.

This is the first quiz I've gakked from kristine_smith. I might even go so far as to say it's pretty accurate. I like it.

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This is courtesy of declineandfall. I suspect part of my feelings are the casting. How could I not like Alan Rickman as Snape?

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I watched the premiere of "Wonderfalls" tonight, and it coalesced an idea I've had about the series dealing with being given assignments.

It probably wasn't the first, but "Early Edition" comes to mind as one of the earlier ones. And now we have "Tru Calling," "Joan of Arcadia," and "Wonderfalls." In each case, an outside entity(s) takes control of a person's life either through offering the opportunity to change things or from threats if the instructions aren't followed.

To me it's damn annoying because it's reflective of what I perceive as our current abandonment of the idea of personal responsibility. Your life sucks? Well, something/someone will come along and give you a purpose. You have no control over your own life; you have to obey orders from outside yourself. The essential implication is that there is some outside power that can at its whim interfere with your life. Shades of the Old Testament deity.

Yes, it's likely comforting to believe it's not our own fault, and there are those who will always find someone else to blame for every little thing, but whatever happened to taking responsibility for one's own life and actions? Seems like along with everything else in the overarching societal culture, we're heading even further down the Roman decadence path -- it's the gods' fault! I'm only a little guy! Not my fault!

Balderdash.

First, a moment of silence, please, for one of the two men who inspired me to take the surname I did when I changed my name back in July 1990. The first inspiration is obviously T.E. Lawrence. The other is Jerome Lawrence: writer and director. Over the course of his career, starting with helping found the Armed Forces Radio Service during WWII, he and his writing partner, Robert E. Lee, wrote 39 stage plays including Auntie Mame, Inherit the Wind, and one of my personal favorites, having co-starred in a stage production, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. He died in Malibu recently, at age 88.

Second. I couldn't help myself. I snickered my way through the teaser on tonight's "Without a Trace" episode. It was Martin's firearm and hearing protection choices, or to be more precise, wardrobe's choices. A firearms instructor I spoke with recently described the Glock as so simple even a cop can use it, and later described those ear plugs with the strings as "blonde ear protection." They have the strings so blondes can remove them after pushing them in too far. I know it's tacky of me, but I snickered anyway.

Having changed my own name, I found Danny Taylor's backstory fascinating. They're doing well by that character, imho. And I'm looking forward to the three-episode arc with Martin Landau as Jack's dad. I'm guessing it'll be May Sweeps. And for those of us who like the LaPaglia, he ought to be part of the "Frasier" finale, since allegedly all three of Daphne's brothers are going to show up, and he was one of them. (One night I was channel surfing during commercials and bounced back and forth between him as Daphne's drunken brother, and as Jack. Damn, he's a good actor.)

This was thanks to either windrose or declineandfall. I have no memory.


You are a complete literary geek, from knowing the classics (even the not-so-well-known classics and tidbits about them) to knowing devices used in writing, when someone has a question about literature, they can bring it to you and rest assured; you know the answers.

How much of a literary geek are you?
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With many, vociferous thanks to suricattus, the news is now official -- we'll see more of Serenity!

Check out: http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=3750 for the full story.

Script got turned in 3pm my time (30 minutes ago, since LJ seems to be playing with time stamps). It's pretty solid, amusing in parts, kickass in other parts, and totally not brilliant.

This isn't undue modesty, either. I've been doing this for nearly twenty years now, and I have enough talent to recognize brilliance -- writers like some on "Batman Beyond" and "Animaniacs." Me, I'm merely good. This isn't a bad thing -- good is certainly better than bad. But compared to what I wish I could do, it's mediocre. All Hail Salieri!

Anyway, now I have to focus on my prep work for the 4-day FRP game that starts at *groan* 9am Saturday. Have I mentioned I hate mornings and multiple days of it leave me sick and exhausted?

Doesn't help that today we're getting some much-needed rain. I'm grateful for it, but it definitely affects my mood.