Thursday and a Fannish Dream

[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*

Comments

[fierynotes]

Thundersmurfs!

Yeah, the story was kinda terrible. And it could have been amazing, in better hands.

[l_eremita]

At last! Someone who feels the same way I do about Dances With Wolves! *hugs you*

But I do love Methos. He was my favourite thing about Highlander. In fact, I only watched the episodes with him in them <3

Stephen King is definitely "yikes". I don't read his books anymore because they really get under my skin -- it's the way he describes the horrors of "real life" that get to me, not even the scary stuff...

[hannah]

I left the theater disappointed I didn't get a movie where the human got a ten-foot-tall blue alien girlfriend without having to be a ten-foot-tall blue alien himself. She could've given him piggy-back rides. That, or a movie about a paraplegic living in space where all four limbs aren't needed to move around in a three-dimensional environment who would have trouble adjusting to a two-dimensional planet-based navigation system.

[pwcorgigirl]

My guys saw Avatar in the the theatre, and they were rather unimpressed because there's really nothing new about the plot.

That is funny about you getting the wrong dream. And we were awake at the same time! Even though he was not on call, the Big Giant Corporation's support unit in India decided to call Corgiguy to fix their code. Of course, when the phone rings at 3:15 a.m., I'm instantly heart-pounding awake because I'm certain someone's calling to tell me bad news about Mom. It was not a fun way to start the day.

[taiga13]

I once had a vivid dream about The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a show I've never watched one minute of.
I haven't seen Avatar. I figured I've already watched Dances With Wolves and that covered the subject.

[silverjackal]

Heh. I know you're not familiar with the canon, but appearing in your dream inexplicably as someone else would be right up Methos' alley. He's one devious, tricky, subtle old man. :)

[bethctg]

Hee! I love that you dreamed about something you've never seen. And could you please send James May to MY DREAMS??

Stephen King! About time for a good new anthology. *weighs methods of acquisition ... library? purchase? ...*