Stuff about TV or movies.
Over the last few days, we finally finished watching Scrapped Princess. Coincidentally, a Hugo plug for Spin over at Making Light, a site I always forget to read regularly, reminded me that I had picked it up in hardback when it first came out. So I read that today.
Oddly, they are both about the world being stuffed in a box.
Sure, I mean it semi-seriously. You have (until Thursday, anyway) 24 avatars, and you have millions of people performing their one move, trying to move their token past a particular hurdle; the tokens have a degree of free will — at least, as much as the producers will allow — but ultimately, I don’t think that they are the ones playing the game, I think the audience is. Over the next few weeks, we’ll see lobbying, we’ll see cheat codes posted on forums, we’ll see walkthroughs of performances, and we’ll see “guilds” forming…
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I just got done watching Disney’s TV movie of A Wrinkle in Time, a book I would have thought was basically unfilmable.
Over at f13 there’s a discussion going on regarding anime, and I wanted to talk a little bit about a title that I recommend even though several of the folks there don’t seem to be huge fans of it: Haibane Renmei.
So, I realize I am way way late to the party, but I am catching up on DVD. (And I haven’t finished yet, so avoid spoilers!)
Is it just me, or was this season full of way-over-the-top illegal ends-justify-the-means torture of American citizens who turned out to be innocent after all and then ended up with no recourse whatsoever?
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