Thanks to Netflix, I've recently watched all three available episodes of the BBC's new Sherlock, written by Doctor Who writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gattis. If you haven't heard yet, it's Sherlock Holmes stories set in the modern day, meaning that Holmes uses the Internet a lot to find out information -- for example, when doing the traditional ( Read more... )

Went to see Captain America last night, a somewhat late showing, and in a small- to mid-sized theater, since we opted for the 2D showing. Still, we got there nearly 45 minutes early, and the best seats were already taken, and the theater was completely full by the time the movie started, so I guess that's good news for Marvel ( Read more... )

Over the past couple of weeks, while most people who enjoy fantasy novels have been either re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows or diving head-first into A Dance with Dragons, I've been...finishing my Wheel of Time re-read. I never said I had a good sense of timing ( Read more... )

Been thinking about TV and film adaptations of sci-fi and fantasy novels lately, after a couple of events. The first was being part of a conversation about Game of Thrones, where most of the participants had seen the TV series, but never read the books. The other was seeing complaints about "spoilers" in reviews of Harry Potter and the Deathly ( Read more... )

Yeah, the post quality just keeps dropping around here. Well, it's summer ( Read more... )

Enough of the travelogue; it was nearly a month ago now anyway. I have a question: If you're bringing out a big-budget movie called Captain America, a movie about the most patriotic superhero there is, and you're bringing it out as a summer tentpole movie, what date do you pick? I mean, seriously, how do you not go for July 4? Yeah, OK, I know. ( Read more... )

Not a whole lot to say about the final day in Orlando. Our flight wasn't until the afternoon, so we did a bit of shopping, and some silliness. We went back over to Downtown Disney to get some souvenirs for family members, which was reasonably successful. In addition to the gigantic Disney Store, there's also a "Team Mickey" store with sports- ( Read more... )

Whew, that was a long post yesterday, wasn't it? Well, I said I wouldn't be sorry about it, so I'm not. But we're not done in Orlando yet. In fact, when we got up on Thursday, we had a bit of trouble deciding what to do. We had a two-day pass to Universal, but we'd already done Islands of Adventure, and there didn't seem to be anything at Universal ( Read more... )

Yep, I still won't shut up about Orlando. There's only a bit more, and this is mostly for me, so I can remember later on. Anyway, after the major shift in gears of the Space Center visit, Wednesday was back to Orlando, and Universal Studios. We switched hotels on Tuesday night, which was planned...we had a special rate at one of the Disney-area ( Read more... )

Time for something completely different! We'd spent three and a half days absorbing all the Disney parks, and although we hadn't seen everything, or even hit every park (there were a couple of water parks we skipped), that experience was sufficient, or that was the way we'd planned it beforehand. Normally, when I do amusement parks, I do them for ( Read more... )