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Miscellaneous Ramblings...
I seem to be in an advanced stage of "Oh My God This Huge Project That I've Been Working On For Over a Year is Due in About a Week" burnout. Please excuse any lack of coherence.
I've been pondering whether I should get a Dreamwidth account, but have yet to come to any conclusions.
I finished watching the Red Dwarf "Back to Earth" special, and decided that it was pretty darn good. Nobody can break a fourth wall like the boys from the Dwarf. I suppose the small part of me that was hoping for some kind of plot resolution to really tie off the series was disappointed. But realistically speaking, I'm not sure it's possible to tie off these sorts of series in a satisfying way - what we fans really want, in some sense, is to see these characters go on doing their thing forever. So an ending that leaves them to keep on doing their thing is probably best, even if it's less dramatic. (If I actually had a functioning brain, there'd probably be an essay here on "things that make for satisfying drama" and "things that you want to see happen to characters that you're attached to" and the way that a long running series has to manage the tensions between those.)
My local Borders was having a sale on DVDs yesterday - selected titles half off. So I grabbed "Black Orchid" and "Arc of Infinity" for cheap. There's a lovely extra on the "Black Orchid" DVD from the BBC show "Points of View" where they read out correspondence from BBC viewers about other BBC shows. It featured this lovely letter about Doctor Who from a 12-year old boy:
I think I saw the same guy posting over on The Doctor Who Forums the other day.
If, like me, you're someone who tries to read a reasonable percentage of Hugo award nominees (sometimes even in the year they're nominated), Paul Cornell has posted about something nifty. Purchase a supporting or attending membership to Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon, and you'll be able to download a package containing four of the novel nominees, most of the novella/novelette/short story nominees, three of the related book nominees, the dramatic presentation (long form) nominee METAtropolis, and a bunch of other stuff.
A supporting membership is$40 $50, and entitles you to vote for the Hugos as well. I'm tempted. At any rate, my list of available excuses for not being an informed Hugo voter has gotten much shorter. (Thanks to Kevin Standlee for the correction.)
I should note that a smaller, but still fairly generous selection of the Hugo nominees is available entirely for free, no membership purchase required. Links are available on the Anticipation website.
I've been pondering whether I should get a Dreamwidth account, but have yet to come to any conclusions.
I finished watching the Red Dwarf "Back to Earth" special, and decided that it was pretty darn good. Nobody can break a fourth wall like the boys from the Dwarf. I suppose the small part of me that was hoping for some kind of plot resolution to really tie off the series was disappointed. But realistically speaking, I'm not sure it's possible to tie off these sorts of series in a satisfying way - what we fans really want, in some sense, is to see these characters go on doing their thing forever. So an ending that leaves them to keep on doing their thing is probably best, even if it's less dramatic. (If I actually had a functioning brain, there'd probably be an essay here on "things that make for satisfying drama" and "things that you want to see happen to characters that you're attached to" and the way that a long running series has to manage the tensions between those.)
My local Borders was having a sale on DVDs yesterday - selected titles half off. So I grabbed "Black Orchid" and "Arc of Infinity" for cheap. There's a lovely extra on the "Black Orchid" DVD from the BBC show "Points of View" where they read out correspondence from BBC viewers about other BBC shows. It featured this lovely letter about Doctor Who from a 12-year old boy:
Please can we have more monsters and fewer girls. They do nothing but talk and screech and are not remotely interesting. Even malignant vegetables are more interesting.
I think I saw the same guy posting over on The Doctor Who Forums the other day.
If, like me, you're someone who tries to read a reasonable percentage of Hugo award nominees (sometimes even in the year they're nominated), Paul Cornell has posted about something nifty. Purchase a supporting or attending membership to Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon, and you'll be able to download a package containing four of the novel nominees, most of the novella/novelette/short story nominees, three of the related book nominees, the dramatic presentation (long form) nominee METAtropolis, and a bunch of other stuff.
A supporting membership is
I should note that a smaller, but still fairly generous selection of the Hugo nominees is available entirely for free, no membership purchase required. Links are available on the Anticipation website.
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I think I saw the same guy posting over on The Doctor Who Forums the other day.
*snort*
Worldcon has a good idea there. It's certainly plenty of value for your $40!
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Most of the credit for getting the material available goes to John Scalzi. Anticipation is doing a good turn by providing distribution through the official web site.
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