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Subj: Perhaps listed somewhere under the "wash and care" instructions on the tag. Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 at 01:13:48 pm EST (Viewed 475 times) | Reply Subj: I'm not sure where those are on the stuffed bear. Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 at 05:58:22 am EST (Viewed 5 times) | ||||||
Quote: Rhiannon alone immediately caught the key line in Valeria's prophesy, even if Queen Mab didn't: "There is no real chance of stopping him." Sorry.Yes, I saw that. I also saw that Al is predicting my demise. So something to look forward to! Quote: Noted. But can you really say "No" when Yo is that entusiastic?I can and do... it just doesn't get much traction with anybody. Quote: A couple of years back I was commissioned to write a novalla that was eventually published as The New Adventures of Richard Knight: Race With Hell. The title character was created by aviator Donald Keyhoe (the man whose UFO sighting started off the 50s saucer scares), whom often called him by his codename, "the man called Q". Since I was trying to pastiche Keyhoe's style I did the same - except that for some reason throghout the 45,000 word manuscript I referred to him as "the man called X". This error made it through beta-readers, proofreader, and two editors. It was only when I got a print galley for final approval that I happened to spot the mistake! We all felt a bit sheepish after that.It's amazing what your brain does with expectations, isn't it? Every now and then I get in an argument online with someone still in school (or outside of the creative fields altogether) about how some mistake could have happened in a professional work. It's inconceivable to many that such a thing could be anything but intentional, or nefarious, or a sign of great neglect. And I just think back to all I have seen in my professional life and all of years of creating things personally, and I shake my head at the rude awakening that they're in for once they reach the real world. Quote: I've seen it now (but not the "improved" extended edition). Going in with such low expectations I was mildly entertained by it - a "watch once" movie. The ruins of a good film are somewhere in there. I'd rank it as more watchable than Batman v Superman, but leave both your brain and your sense of outrage at misuse of characters at home.The only thing I particularly objected to was the presentation of Joker's relationship with Harley Quinn as being a great romance, not as the mental, physical, and sexual abuse we actually saw on screen. Jared Leto did come close to a competent the Joker for me, but the script and direction didn't help. As I understand it, the extended edition of SS doesn't help much because they can't revert the film back to what it was before it was heavily edited anyway... they apparently tried to overlay a different spin on the Harley/Joker narrative after test audiences found it disturbing, which of course it was supposed to be. She was supposed to shift her loyalty to her new team away from her abusive Ex. An extended edition with that subplot restored would create a totally different end point than the theatrical edition. Word is that they're going to try to paper over it with a Gotham Sirens film, starring Harley, Ivy and likely Catwoman, and 'fix' the character there. A promising idea, but then it's from the same people that did SS, so who can say. Really, they have to stop trying to turn bugs into features with the follow-ups to all of their botched first tries by nailing the introductions instead. I did finally see BvS and... not a good film. I had heard good things about Affleck's Batman at least, and then I got to the scene where he was rampaging "Mad Max" style through Gotham, apparently blowing up innocent truckers and security forces alike, not to stop a crime or an eminent tragedy, but to steal kryptonite from Luthor to use it for the same purpose Luthor was going to use it for. I have no idea what kind of Batman they were aiming for, but he was a horrible detective and a horrible ninja. | |||||||
