There went Sunday

[desperance]

Well, I suppose you could call it a Sunday. I was up late, despite having gone to bed early; and I have written, oh, a paragraph. If you want to call it that. And work aside, I managed a whole shopping expedition, and, um, one load of laundry. And, ooh, I watched a movie. That's about it, I think. Oh, and I was sat on. A lot. That Barry is becoming such a lap-cat. And now I'm going to have a hot bath and go back to bed again. If I lie very still, I might even be lain on...

Oh, and it only struck me after dinner that I haven't had a drink today. I wonder if I'm ill?

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But was it a good film? We've just finished watched BSG Razor which was.... interesting? Not sure.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

The Magnificent Seven - a classic, of course, but it does rather confirm my suspicion that the attempt to ramp up tension by intercutting action with talky-stuff is a failure from the get-go. I just get bored and frustrated. I like words and I like deeds, but not so much intermixed.

I have conspicuously failed to get into BSG. Didn't see it when originally broadcast, on account of lack-of-Sky, so I had a year or more of propaganda about how this was the Best Thing Ever - and then I saw the pilot on DVD and fell asleep (which I am occasionally prone to, if a man can be occasionally prone - or, in this case, supine), much to his disgust, and never really picked up on it after.

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Clearly you had been writing too hard and were much too tired. BSG isn't quite the best thing ever, but it's pretty close. Politics (really messy realpolitik), space battles, good scripts...
I like the M7, but the more I see it, the more it evaporates on me. There is something there in the subtext about race or class or something that is slightly off -- not the case with the 7 Samurai, which makes its various agenda quite clear and up front and glosses over nothing.