Pirates and links

Hm, I originally didn't intend to watch a fourth Pirates of the Caribean movie because to me, the driving force of those films was Elizabeth Swann's story, and Elizabeth has never been mentioned as being in it. (I'm seriously not that interested in Jack Sparrow. He's a good supporting character - with someone else as the lead.) Which actually works for me - I'm content with where the third film ended re: Elizabeth. Otoh, now I hear Ian MacShane is in negotiations for playing Blackbeard, which admittedly is an incentive. Still. I liked a lot of elements in the Pirates movies, but what made me love them was Elizabeth, and I'm not sure the forces behind a fourth movie are interested in coming up with another layered female character...


A busy real life makes for limited internet reading. However:

Somehow I missed that John Cassady, aka the artist responsible for the drop-dead gorgeous art of Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run, also directed the Dollhouse episode The Attic. (No wonder that episode, one of the most memorable of s2, was full of great imagery.) Here's an interview where he talks about this.


Merlin fanfiction:

Rooted fast to the earth is a great post- s3 Gwen pov. Am I mistaken or does more and more Gwen fanfiction get written in the last weeks? *is very happy about this*