That’s true. Star Wars is built on other stories already, and I don’t hate the prequels (I really just don’t care) and they did have highlights with the lowlights. I just mean Lucas set out to copy large story structures to make a kid-friendlier version of the OT.
I was 11 when I first saw it and last I saw it was 2004… so yeah I am not the best source for a blow by blow.
Star Wars the film series is ‘OK’ while the franchise (we’re now including books and spin-offs) strikes me as a cultural, me-too free-for-all MMPORPG that’s all heat and no light.
The Hitchhikers universe is more insightful and thought-provoking and much more fun.
Who? All I remember was break dancing Yoda.
William Gillette, who originated the role on stage and screen, is a more convincing Sherlock Holmes than is Benedict Cumberbatch. Cumberbatch is compelling to watch, and a good actor, but when I read a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle, it’s Gillette whose image comes to mind, as does Martin Freeman as Dr. John H. Watson. And I write this as a Basil Rathbone fan.
Billy the pageboy didn’t get translated into the modern-day Gatiss & Moffat miniseries, but indisputably this actor was the greatest to play him on stage:
I’m nearly finished trudging through Gaiman’s celebrated American Gods at the moment and finding it dull and joyless. There is a haunting, harrowing chapter about slavery at approx the halfway point which is quite brilliant, but otherwise it’s extremely tedious IMUO (in my unpopular opinion).
Note, I have previously enjoyed Anansi Boys and am a proud owner of a first edition of Preludes and Nocturnes which I purchased in 1990.
A rotten head of cabbage would be a more convincing Holmes than Cummerbach
Sandman was the last good thing Gaiman wrote.
I have generally enjoyed the series, but that last episode was pretty disappointingly preposterous. I felt like the writers had been playing too much Portal, and forgot to include a cake reference. Was it loosely based on an original Conan Doyle storyline, or did they come up with that beast all on their own?
“Loosely”
I really don’t see what’s so bad about the taste of decaf coffee. If it’s a decent quality, I can hardly taste any difference.
I’m with you. There is crap decaf, just like there is crap caffeinated, but sometimes a person just wants to drink a tasty coffee without being up all night.
Have you read The Graveyard Book? I thought it was really lovely.
Catering coffee (no matter what you ask for, it’s decaf).
The full cast audiobook is also wonderful.
Cant say that I have. My last few ventures into his work just left my wallet being angry at me so its hard to ask it to open up again for Gaiman.
While the argument that punching Nazis makes you a Nazi is a totally pathetic argument… I also think it might not be an argument that people actually make, and is actually cherry-picking the weakest argument of a set. AKA: a straw-man.
Tuna is simply not the same since it is guaranteed free of dolphin.
Economic liberty is a good thing and at the scale of modern societies necessitates adopting policies and principles that are frequently described as ‘capitalist’.
Whether at the tribal scale or that of an industrialized nation-state, resource pooling to provide economic security to those less fortunate (temporarily or long-term) is a good thing and necessitates adopting policies and principles that are frequently described as ‘socialist’.
Economic ideology is a road to perdition and why so many view the above two statements as somehow in conflict.
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