Thursday and a Fannish Dream
Nov. 18th, 2010 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nightdog_barks... except it wasn't any of my fandoms. Dreamed I was sitting at a picnic table in a bar with another woman and a man. "Methos," my brain said happily. "Methos, Methos, Methos." Except he didn't really look like Methos -- he looked something like a shaggier version of James May, and besides, I've never watched Highlander. Anyway, he was looking at me in that way people do sometimes when they're trying to figure out if they know you or not, and all the while my brain kept insisting "Methos!" So I'm wondering if some wires got crossed on some aethereal plane, and somewhere there's a Highlander fan who got stuck with a House dream, with James Wilson looking at them quizzically as if to say, "Well? Who are you?"
Bright sun and much cooler -- 55 degrees (12.8 Celsius) with a very light breeze out of the north. Juncos and chickadees in the backyard, scattered more corn and feed for them and the rabbits.
Watched Avatar last night and was very impressed by the special effects and worldbuilding. The story ... not so much. It really was Dances With Wolves in space and had a lot of the same problems that film had (in my opinion) -- ham-handed storytelling, with not much subtlety. One moment I did like very much was when the protagonist, Jake Sully, starts to lose his bearings as to which world is the real world -- Pandora, or his human life. I would have liked to have seen more of that -- the psychological dissonance of this double existence.
Mr. N was up at 4:15 this morning to catch the red-eye to Philadelphia. I did go back to sleep for awhile but am still a little bleh. Also read the first story in the new Stephen King, and YIKES. *g*
Bright sun and much cooler -- 55 degrees (12.8 Celsius) with a very light breeze out of the north. Juncos and chickadees in the backyard, scattered more corn and feed for them and the rabbits.
Watched Avatar last night and was very impressed by the special effects and worldbuilding. The story ... not so much. It really was Dances With Wolves in space and had a lot of the same problems that film had (in my opinion) -- ham-handed storytelling, with not much subtlety. One moment I did like very much was when the protagonist, Jake Sully, starts to lose his bearings as to which world is the real world -- Pandora, or his human life. I would have liked to have seen more of that -- the psychological dissonance of this double existence.
Mr. N was up at 4:15 this morning to catch the red-eye to Philadelphia. I did go back to sleep for awhile but am still a little bleh. Also read the first story in the new Stephen King, and YIKES. *g*
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Date: 2010-11-18 08:45 pm (UTC)Yeah, the story was kinda terrible. And it could have been amazing, in better hands.
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Date: 2010-11-18 09:31 pm (UTC)Heh, I actually meant to say that and forgot. Absolutely -- it would have been fascinating to see what someone like Guillermo del Toro could've done with this, or Frank Darabont. Or hell, even give it to Robert Zemeckis. Why not? *g*