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selenakJane Espenson talks about Torchwood season 4. Apparantly they write it British style - i.e. the entire season before shooting begins - not American style. You know, despite still thinking Children of Earth was the perfect Torchwood ending, I'm looking forward quite a lot to the next season. Can't wait to see Jane E. writing Gwen and Rhys! (Also, it makes me happy that she admires CoE so much in said interview. I had to abandon reading the comments, though, because if I read one more demand for Ianto's resurrection, I'll be tempted to write "five additional ways Ianto dies" or something like that. Note to self: it's not Ianto's fault. You actually came to like him in s2 and CoE, remember that.
rozk's great poem about Sylvia Plath further encourages my theory that the only successful takes on SP are via poetry. Kate Moses' novel Wintering is quite good, but not only does it demand you know your Plath (both life and poetry) before reading said novel, otherwise you're hopelessly lost, since it's not chronological; it also has the inevitable problem of language comparison with a mistress of the craft. Still, it's miles ahead in terms of insight and character depiction when compard to the filmSylvia, which only early on captures a bit of her vivacity and love of language, and then goes for non-stop depression, which by all accounts wasn't true. (Also, Daniel Craig is way too old for Ted Hughes in his 20s, but there you go.) But poetry? Poetry does her justice.
Fun things you can find on the internet #2443: the arms of Sir George Martin (that's the legendary and since the 90s knighted producer of the Beatles for layfolk). Both the beetles on the shield (but why only three, George? What's up with that?) and the zebra below, carrying an abbot's staff (visual puns, we love them) are incredibly cute. His motto: "Amore solum opus est." Of course it is.
(Quick reasons why George Martin, aka the coolest schoolmaster in the history of rock'n roll, is eminently loveable: check him out talking about A Day in the Life and conducting the final medley of Abbey Road. (A happy occasion for Sir George, but the elegic sorrow in the music hit me once again. Paul M. knew it was the end of the end when he wrote that, and you feel it.)
Not completely unrelated, I know I've been occasionally hard on Life on Mars in my Ashes to Ashes defenses, but this LoM sequence will always remain pure gold:
rozk's great poem about Sylvia Plath further encourages my theory that the only successful takes on SP are via poetry. Kate Moses' novel Wintering is quite good, but not only does it demand you know your Plath (both life and poetry) before reading said novel, otherwise you're hopelessly lost, since it's not chronological; it also has the inevitable problem of language comparison with a mistress of the craft. Still, it's miles ahead in terms of insight and character depiction when compard to the filmSylvia, which only early on captures a bit of her vivacity and love of language, and then goes for non-stop depression, which by all accounts wasn't true. (Also, Daniel Craig is way too old for Ted Hughes in his 20s, but there you go.) But poetry? Poetry does her justice. Fun things you can find on the internet #2443: the arms of Sir George Martin (that's the legendary and since the 90s knighted producer of the Beatles for layfolk). Both the beetles on the shield (but why only three, George? What's up with that?) and the zebra below, carrying an abbot's staff (visual puns, we love them) are incredibly cute. His motto: "Amore solum opus est." Of course it is.
(Quick reasons why George Martin, aka the coolest schoolmaster in the history of rock'n roll, is eminently loveable: check him out talking about A Day in the Life and conducting the final medley of Abbey Road. (A happy occasion for Sir George, but the elegic sorrow in the music hit me once again. Paul M. knew it was the end of the end when he wrote that, and you feel it.)
Not completely unrelated, I know I've been occasionally hard on Life on Mars in my Ashes to Ashes defenses, but this LoM sequence will always remain pure gold:
