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Friday, June 21, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013
The Hour Before Morning--Kickstarter
In a nutshell, The Hour Before Morning focuses on the struggles of three prisoners Elek, Jenchae, and Meravyn. "On board a spaceship taking them to their deaths, they have only the length of the flight to make sense of their lives, if they can. Their story takes place against a backdrop of struggle between the Ashtorian conquerors and the Sama people who resent being forcibly “civilized” and want their worlds back. There is a deep hatred between the two peoples and a long history of struggle in which the questions of right and wrong are not easy to answer."
The Hour Before Morning is on Kickstarter where, Arwen says, the movie
has raised $1278 on Kickstarter! Can you help us get all the way to $5000 by July 7th? We have a wide range of rewards for contributors, including a copy of the novel, the movie, and credit in the film, among others.
Contributing is easy. Just click "Back this project" and check out through Amazon.com We need to raise the full amount to get a penny of the funding, so please help us get there if you can.
Check out our Kickstart page here
Please spread the word! And thanks in advance for helping us out with this movie. It's been a labor of love for all of us!
Find out more about it and see images, trailers, and clips on the Hour Before Morning Facebook page.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Review of Eureka: Lost
Short version: No, the "twist" did not make up for the frustration of thinking they had hit the reset button again(1).
Longer version: Up on The Geek Girl Project.
(1) I actually like the Season 4 reset, since they had the guts to keep the changes, and the sense to make sure the core characters traveled together & kept their relationships, but things can be carried too far, and this would have been. "It was all a dream" is almost never a workable solution.
Longer version: Up on The Geek Girl Project.
(1) I actually like the Season 4 reset, since they had the guts to keep the changes, and the sense to make sure the core characters traveled together & kept their relationships, but things can be carried too far, and this would have been. "It was all a dream" is almost never a workable solution.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Review: Once Upon a Time, The Stable Boy
I have my review of Once Upon a Time: The Stable Boy written & posted. The full version is up on The Geek Girl Project. The short version: For the first time ever for an episode of Once Upon a Time: "Meh."
Friday, May 20, 2011
Doctor Who: The Doctor's Wife, a short review with spoilers
Now this is more like it! The Doctor's Wife has all the insanity, fun, adventure, and character moments one could possibly ask in an episode. And it's by Neil Gaiman, and it's a nicely balanced stand-alone that probably has bits of arc in it without interfering with the story.
Best bit: We get to meet the TARDIS! She's every bit as crazy, tense mixed, up, and opinionated as we always knew she was. The Doctor and the TARDIS get to talk, sort of, for a while, and that is both happy and sad, as it should be.
There are lots of good lines, by which I mean lines that are fun in themselves and lines that actually advance the plot, not something that always happens.
The setting, an alien junk yard, is effective and creepy. House is a great villain, and the jeopardy is nice and limitted: Amy, Rory, the Doctor, and the TARDIS are in danger--lots of danger--without any hyperbole about the whole universe being at stake or any such.
Specially liked: Rory as "The pretty one." And I loved the fact that Amy's mental image of "delight" is her wedding day.
Less effective: Amy and Rory's running around the interior of the blue box (not really the TARDIS at that point). True, we get to see more of the interior (mostly corridors), which is nice, but the silly pair kept separating from one another even when they knew that was a bad idea. And Rory died, again. Or maybe he didn't--maybe Amy only thought he did. It's a bit timey-wimey. Still, while this may all be adding up to something in the long term, it's getting a bit much in the short term.
And can people please stop kissing the Doctor? Idris had reason, more reason than anyone else, and it was both funny and, in retrospect, somewhat sad, but enough is enough.
Side note: Eleven certainly is more angry, pushy, and violent, than Ten, isn't he? "Go get her, Girl!" Not that he doesn't have cause, but it's certainly a change from Mr. "No Second Chances" Ten and his "Let me help you" offers to various and sundry villains.
*I was recently chastised for using the word "spoilers" about an episode that has already aired. It's not a habit I plan on stopping. Just so you know, my reasoning is that it is perfetctly acceptable to wait to watch an episode and to go looking for a non-spoilery review to help you out in deciding whether or not you want to view it.** This isn't that review.
**Though by now, this season of Doctor Who, watching should be a given.
Best bit: We get to meet the TARDIS! She's every bit as crazy, tense mixed, up, and opinionated as we always knew she was. The Doctor and the TARDIS get to talk, sort of, for a while, and that is both happy and sad, as it should be.
There are lots of good lines, by which I mean lines that are fun in themselves and lines that actually advance the plot, not something that always happens.
Rory: He’s a timelord. He’ll be fine!And so on...
Amy: Rory, that’s just what they’re called. It doesn’t mean he knows what he’s doing.
TARDIS: "I wanted to see the universe, so I stole a Time Lord and ran away."
TARDIS: Borrowing implies the eventual intention to return the thing that was taken.
The setting, an alien junk yard, is effective and creepy. House is a great villain, and the jeopardy is nice and limitted: Amy, Rory, the Doctor, and the TARDIS are in danger--lots of danger--without any hyperbole about the whole universe being at stake or any such.
Specially liked: Rory as "The pretty one." And I loved the fact that Amy's mental image of "delight" is her wedding day.
Less effective: Amy and Rory's running around the interior of the blue box (not really the TARDIS at that point). True, we get to see more of the interior (mostly corridors), which is nice, but the silly pair kept separating from one another even when they knew that was a bad idea. And Rory died, again. Or maybe he didn't--maybe Amy only thought he did. It's a bit timey-wimey. Still, while this may all be adding up to something in the long term, it's getting a bit much in the short term.
And can people please stop kissing the Doctor? Idris had reason, more reason than anyone else, and it was both funny and, in retrospect, somewhat sad, but enough is enough.
Side note: Eleven certainly is more angry, pushy, and violent, than Ten, isn't he? "Go get her, Girl!" Not that he doesn't have cause, but it's certainly a change from Mr. "No Second Chances" Ten and his "Let me help you" offers to various and sundry villains.
*I was recently chastised for using the word "spoilers" about an episode that has already aired. It's not a habit I plan on stopping. Just so you know, my reasoning is that it is perfetctly acceptable to wait to watch an episode and to go looking for a non-spoilery review to help you out in deciding whether or not you want to view it.** This isn't that review.
**Though by now, this season of Doctor Who, watching should be a given.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Does Doctor Who
Well, I was going to sit down and write reviews and things, but being rather tired, I ended up on YouTube watching the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre instead. I'd heard about them before, but people always posted links before I'd watched whatever Doctor Who episode they were doing, so I never ended up watching them.
Their take on The End of Time nails the difficulties far more clearly and hilariously than any other review I've seen. Here's Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
The sock puppets do Shakespeare as well. I'm very much looking forward to watching thier King Lear.
What are they? They're, um, well, they're sock puppets. Scottish sock puppets. They do amazingly comic, killer reviews and retakes on all sorts of shows and songs and, it looks like sometimes they comment on current events as well.
I watched several during my supposed blogging time, and enjoyed them thoroughly. Mild complaint: A couple of the shows veered into cruder territory than I am comfortable with, but that's why there's YouTube--I could happily switch to something else, and no one was bothered. So, with that mild caveat: Go forth and enjoy!
Their take on The End of Time nails the difficulties far more clearly and hilariously than any other review I've seen. Here's Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
The sock puppets do Shakespeare as well. I'm very much looking forward to watching thier King Lear.
What are they? They're, um, well, they're sock puppets. Scottish sock puppets. They do amazingly comic, killer reviews and retakes on all sorts of shows and songs and, it looks like sometimes they comment on current events as well.
I watched several during my supposed blogging time, and enjoyed them thoroughly. Mild complaint: A couple of the shows veered into cruder territory than I am comfortable with, but that's why there's YouTube--I could happily switch to something else, and no one was bothered. So, with that mild caveat: Go forth and enjoy!
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Doctor Who: The Curse of the Black Spot, Review with Spoilers
Ah yes, I almost forgot to review The Curse of the Black Spot, the episode in which we learn that wedding rings are universal and that Starfleet isn't the only organization to build Invader Friendly Operating Systems(1).
There really isn't a whole lot to say about The Curse of the Black Spot. I found it amusing enough, on the whole, but definitely could have done without Rory's prolonged and pointless "death" scene.
Mostly, it was a light and amusing show. The Doctor and the Captain played off each other well for the first half and a bit, sharing some sharp back and forth dialog as they out-captained one another. Amy's sword fight, while implausible, was fun, and I was ready to buy it.
So, yes, I was reasonably entertained.
Even though...
It never quite pulled through. The evil pirate captain suddenly developed a son and with him a conscience (sort of), and Rory was "killed." Again. He got to lie there unconscious to the strains of heart-rending music while Amy tried some of the least-convincing CPR ever. And, really, if the problem was water in his lungs, shouldn't he have done some gagging and throwing up on reaching consciousness?
The minor silver lining here was the Doctor's distress. He really does seem to care for Rory, which puts the ex-Roman in better shape than poor Mickey-the-idiot (Whom I liked but who never really got to belong on the TARDIS).
The siren was a reasonably creepy villain who turned out to be a holographic doctor, just doing her best for the new crew she'd found. On the one hand: I didn't see that coming, so it was a surprise twist (for me. I think everyone else had it figured out). On the other... Please explain to me just how she realized Amy was allowed to take Rory out of her medical care? Are wedding rings the new mauve? Universal symbols? And, if so, what did the pirate captain (whose name I'm afraid I never caught) show to get all of his men and his son out of sick bay? And was she really bored, grabbing everyone who had even a minor scratch? Or was the crew of the original ship a bunch of hypochondriacs who programmed her to treat the slightest sniffle?
Then again, the Doctor did say they died of a cold, so maybe they needd to be.
And then the ending. Are we supposed to believe that the pirates are reformed? Because I don't. This captain was willing to hold onto a shiny crown, just in case, after he'd been told to get rid of all shiny objects (though to be fair, muffling it in something dark was really quite sensible; it was forgetting where he'd put it that was stupid) lest they bring the siren in. Why would he have changed his ways simply because he'd had a bit of a scare? And even if he had become a reformed character, what about all the others? So: Now we have pirates in space.
On the other hand: The eleventh doctor, the one who just casually condemned the Silence to death, is the Doctor I'd vote most likely to hand a bunch of pirates a spaceship(2) without really thinking about it.
So, in summary, a slight show, not one of New Who's best, though far from its worst(3).
Signing off...and eagerly awaiting my chance to see The Doctor's Wife(4)
(1)Also known as IFOS. Thank you Nitcentral!
(2)The ship running the aforementioned IFOS, since it took the Captain no time at all to figure it out.
(3)That would be The Lazarus Experiment, in case you were wondering.
(4)Which is by Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman and Doctor Who. Enough said.
There really isn't a whole lot to say about The Curse of the Black Spot. I found it amusing enough, on the whole, but definitely could have done without Rory's prolonged and pointless "death" scene.
Mostly, it was a light and amusing show. The Doctor and the Captain played off each other well for the first half and a bit, sharing some sharp back and forth dialog as they out-captained one another. Amy's sword fight, while implausible, was fun, and I was ready to buy it.
So, yes, I was reasonably entertained.
Even though...
It never quite pulled through. The evil pirate captain suddenly developed a son and with him a conscience (sort of), and Rory was "killed." Again. He got to lie there unconscious to the strains of heart-rending music while Amy tried some of the least-convincing CPR ever. And, really, if the problem was water in his lungs, shouldn't he have done some gagging and throwing up on reaching consciousness?
The minor silver lining here was the Doctor's distress. He really does seem to care for Rory, which puts the ex-Roman in better shape than poor Mickey-the-idiot (Whom I liked but who never really got to belong on the TARDIS).
The siren was a reasonably creepy villain who turned out to be a holographic doctor, just doing her best for the new crew she'd found. On the one hand: I didn't see that coming, so it was a surprise twist (for me. I think everyone else had it figured out). On the other... Please explain to me just how she realized Amy was allowed to take Rory out of her medical care? Are wedding rings the new mauve? Universal symbols? And, if so, what did the pirate captain (whose name I'm afraid I never caught) show to get all of his men and his son out of sick bay? And was she really bored, grabbing everyone who had even a minor scratch? Or was the crew of the original ship a bunch of hypochondriacs who programmed her to treat the slightest sniffle?
Then again, the Doctor did say they died of a cold, so maybe they needd to be.
And then the ending. Are we supposed to believe that the pirates are reformed? Because I don't. This captain was willing to hold onto a shiny crown, just in case, after he'd been told to get rid of all shiny objects (though to be fair, muffling it in something dark was really quite sensible; it was forgetting where he'd put it that was stupid) lest they bring the siren in. Why would he have changed his ways simply because he'd had a bit of a scare? And even if he had become a reformed character, what about all the others? So: Now we have pirates in space.
On the other hand: The eleventh doctor, the one who just casually condemned the Silence to death, is the Doctor I'd vote most likely to hand a bunch of pirates a spaceship(2) without really thinking about it.
So, in summary, a slight show, not one of New Who's best, though far from its worst(3).
Signing off...and eagerly awaiting my chance to see The Doctor's Wife(4)
(1)Also known as IFOS. Thank you Nitcentral!
(2)The ship running the aforementioned IFOS, since it took the Captain no time at all to figure it out.
(3)That would be The Lazarus Experiment, in case you were wondering.
(4)Which is by Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman and Doctor Who. Enough said.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Happiness (3): Gelato! Also, Good Company
Is
Gelato!
There's a new(ish) gelato place in town, Mangiamo Gelato Caffe. I've been meaning to go for a while, and finally my brother and I walked down yesterday.
Mmmm.
They were nice & cheerful & let us try different flavors, and, even better, all the different sizes allow for different flavors--even the small (which is plenty large!) allows for three flavors. This is great for someone like me who always has to have pistachio(1), but still wants to try something else.
My brother had mango & nutella, both of which were delicious (I tasted some, of course). I had rum raisin, pistachio, and raspberry, all yummy, though I think the rum raisin was better as a taste than as a third-of-a-bowl-full, where it got too sweet.
The food was good, the place was nice, and the company was good as well. Lots of philosophy talk, given that Ethawyn is a philosophy major and all.
(1) With gelato, that is. Ice cream has to be chocolate, unless I'm somewhere where I can have black walnut ice cream. There's a lovely place in Florence, Oregon that serves homemade black walnut ice cream. I've never had any anywhere else. Mmmm.... *Starts dreaming happily & then realizes it's time to write.
Gelato!
There's a new(ish) gelato place in town, Mangiamo Gelato Caffe. I've been meaning to go for a while, and finally my brother and I walked down yesterday.
Mmmm.
They were nice & cheerful & let us try different flavors, and, even better, all the different sizes allow for different flavors--even the small (which is plenty large!) allows for three flavors. This is great for someone like me who always has to have pistachio(1), but still wants to try something else.
My brother had mango & nutella, both of which were delicious (I tasted some, of course). I had rum raisin, pistachio, and raspberry, all yummy, though I think the rum raisin was better as a taste than as a third-of-a-bowl-full, where it got too sweet.
The food was good, the place was nice, and the company was good as well. Lots of philosophy talk, given that Ethawyn is a philosophy major and all.
(1) With gelato, that is. Ice cream has to be chocolate, unless I'm somewhere where I can have black walnut ice cream. There's a lovely place in Florence, Oregon that serves homemade black walnut ice cream. I've never had any anywhere else. Mmmm.... *Starts dreaming happily & then realizes it's time to write.
Happiness (2) Also The Broken Hourglass
Is
Writing.
I just sent in 2 completed atmosphere documents and a small quest (which got a bit more complicated than I meant, but I hope not too much so) for The Broken Hourglass.
I've started the layout for another one, and in a few minutes, I will go back out and sit under one of my favorite trees to start the actual writing for it.
Writing.
I just sent in 2 completed atmosphere documents and a small quest (which got a bit more complicated than I meant, but I hope not too much so) for The Broken Hourglass.
I've started the layout for another one, and in a few minutes, I will go back out and sit under one of my favorite trees to start the actual writing for it.
Happiness (1)
Is
A soft pretzel covered in salt, eaten with a cold Diet Coke while sitting on a low wall and watching the waves come in.
The company was good too. Pity it was my friend's first soft pretzel. It was happy-making, but it was also frozen and then thawed out in the microwave, not really the best way to first encounter a food.
I'll have to make some pretzels soon.
A soft pretzel covered in salt, eaten with a cold Diet Coke while sitting on a low wall and watching the waves come in.
The company was good too. Pity it was my friend's first soft pretzel. It was happy-making, but it was also frozen and then thawed out in the microwave, not really the best way to first encounter a food.
I'll have to make some pretzels soon.
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