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The half-life on an in-joke
Feb. 17th, 2007 09:08 amCame online with every intention of musing on the joy of having friends where, even when you've not seen them for a couple of years, you can pick up from where you left off as though it had been, at most, a week. Time slips away, and I like that. But I was greeted by the news that the inventor of the remote control and Sheridan Morley have both gone and died, and now I don't feel quite so heartwarmed.
Joss Whedon on the imminent Buffy Season 8 comic; no major spoilers, but anyone getting too excited should bear in mind that whereas he's a master when it comes to TV, in comics he alternates moments of brilliance with severe defects in his storytelling craftsmanship.
There seems to be general delight that the best film ever is to be adapted for the London stage, but I find myself unable to share it. The trend for stage versions of screen hits has always seemed fairly pointless to me; as with the band-based musicals, it's more about bums on seats than art. And even beyond that, while some films can easily be imagined as plays, from its colour/monochrome switches to the immensity of its Heaven, A Matter of Life and Death is not one of them. Add to this that the CV of this 'Tristan Sturrock' hardly reads like that of a man who can fill David Niven's shoes, and I shan't be rushing for tickets.
Possibly the best summary I have ever seen of the classic fantasy races:
Orcs: "English football fans; blokes who come out a football match and like to fight people"
Dwarves: "The northern working class... very proud of their holes in the ground. A proud people whose power has passed and faded"
Elves: "English posh people... lots of times to practise lah-de-dah magic and fighting... think they owe a debt to the great unclean"
Dark Elves: "English posh people who have taken drugs. Lord Byron. English posh people who realise they're above the law and cannot be stopped"
Yes, I've always been rather a fan of dark elves, why do you ask?
Joss Whedon on the imminent Buffy Season 8 comic; no major spoilers, but anyone getting too excited should bear in mind that whereas he's a master when it comes to TV, in comics he alternates moments of brilliance with severe defects in his storytelling craftsmanship.
There seems to be general delight that the best film ever is to be adapted for the London stage, but I find myself unable to share it. The trend for stage versions of screen hits has always seemed fairly pointless to me; as with the band-based musicals, it's more about bums on seats than art. And even beyond that, while some films can easily be imagined as plays, from its colour/monochrome switches to the immensity of its Heaven, A Matter of Life and Death is not one of them. Add to this that the CV of this 'Tristan Sturrock' hardly reads like that of a man who can fill David Niven's shoes, and I shan't be rushing for tickets.
Possibly the best summary I have ever seen of the classic fantasy races:
Orcs: "English football fans; blokes who come out a football match and like to fight people"
Dwarves: "The northern working class... very proud of their holes in the ground. A proud people whose power has passed and faded"
Elves: "English posh people... lots of times to practise lah-de-dah magic and fighting... think they owe a debt to the great unclean"
Dark Elves: "English posh people who have taken drugs. Lord Byron. English posh people who realise they're above the law and cannot be stopped"
Yes, I've always been rather a fan of dark elves, why do you ask?
