media overdose!
Nov. 24th, 2003 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daemonlunaWe've had a very sociable weekend.
Friday, we met friends for Vietnamese for supper and came back to our place for dessert. Friends from Edmonton came down for con meetings and crashed at our place, and then Saturday, we did a potluck thing with assorted writerly types to watch the Neverwhere BBC miniseries. (Mine, all mine, bwaha!) Then today, got together with the anime bunch to watch both LOTR extended version DVDs.
Ergh. Much sitting and watching. Slashy little hobbits and elveses and kingses. And I'm going to have the music stuck in my head for the next several days. We did come up with a new five-second rule. About kissing dead guys. ("Ewww! He's dead!" "But he just died! Five-second rule!") It was that kind of evening.
Neverwhere was much better than I thought it would be. Sure, the effects weren't high-gloss Hollywood (BBC, hello people?) and yes, it was fairly obvious that the Great Beast of London was in fact a cow, but the story was remarkably true. Maybe that was because Neil Gaiman was heavily involved with it and wrote the screen play and all. (Oh, and a nifty opening sequence by Dave McKean!) I think it did lose a lot of the more subtle depths, but you wouldn't know if you hadn't read the book. And I had specific examples in mind but they've all escaped at the moment. I except the fact that I'm dead tired and OD'd on LOTR, etc, is a big contributing factor. Beddddd...
Friday, we met friends for Vietnamese for supper and came back to our place for dessert. Friends from Edmonton came down for con meetings and crashed at our place, and then Saturday, we did a potluck thing with assorted writerly types to watch the Neverwhere BBC miniseries. (Mine, all mine, bwaha!) Then today, got together with the anime bunch to watch both LOTR extended version DVDs.
Ergh. Much sitting and watching. Slashy little hobbits and elveses and kingses. And I'm going to have the music stuck in my head for the next several days. We did come up with a new five-second rule. About kissing dead guys. ("Ewww! He's dead!" "But he just died! Five-second rule!") It was that kind of evening.
Neverwhere was much better than I thought it would be. Sure, the effects weren't high-gloss Hollywood (BBC, hello people?) and yes, it was fairly obvious that the Great Beast of London was in fact a cow, but the story was remarkably true. Maybe that was because Neil Gaiman was heavily involved with it and wrote the screen play and all. (Oh, and a nifty opening sequence by Dave McKean!) I think it did lose a lot of the more subtle depths, but you wouldn't know if you hadn't read the book. And I had specific examples in mind but they've all escaped at the moment. I except the fact that I'm dead tired and OD'd on LOTR, etc, is a big contributing factor. Beddddd...
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Date: 2003-11-24 08:48 pm (UTC)Five second rule...
Too bad I missed all the fun.