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A “Tigana” related “whoa!”

Perhaps it is because I am mentally exhausted after two very long, very straining tours earlier today, but I just had a whole new experience:
I’ve never before — never ever — been touched to tears by exposition just 116 pages into a book. Never. Not until Baerd told Devin of the fate of Tigana and [...]

… and “Reaper’s Gale”.

”Reaper’s Gale”
by Steven Erikson.
Bantham TPB, 2007. 910 s.
It’s been three years since the Edur conquest of the Letherii Empire, and one year since the outlawing of Adjunct Tavore, the Bonehunters, and the rest of her army.
“Reaper’s Gale” has the same basic structure as all the other “Malazan” books. It starts out kinda slow, with a [...]

Seeing Red: A Case in the Study of Joss Whedon, Sadistic Genious

This has got to be one of the best worst minutes of television I have ever seen. Observe, if you will, these four moments:
1. Bliss, as Buffy and Xander make up and embrace.
2. Dread, as Warren appears, toting a gun.
3. Grief, and/or anguish, as a stray bullet from Warren’s gun penetrates Tara’s chest, and her [...]

The Lords of Television Be Praised!

“Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip” — the show with TV’s third cheesiest title, after “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “The Bold and the Beautiful” — will return to American screens with episode 17 on Thursday, May 24, 2007!
And there was much rejoycing!

Good Times…

Ah, ’tis been a crappy day, in some ways.
Omniously enough, it started out alright, with me and my flatmate Håvard watching “Hush” while eating dinner. And that episode is still one of the show’s (or at least the season’s) best ones; it’s funny, it’s scary, it has major turning points in the lives of both [...]

Happy Europe Day!

To each and every one of you!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home, part III

Whoa.
And when I was done, Queen’s “You Take My Breath Away” was next in line in my WMP playlist. How’s that for a coincidence?
Half-way evil Willow.
A Angel-Buffy(in-nurse-costume)-Spike dream landscape with barbed wire.
Fi fa fucking fum.
“Ladies and other ladies… the indescribable Rosenberg.” - Xander.
“Well, this is really unimpressive. One attack by the undead and Renee has [...]

BSG season 2

It’s taken me a while to get back on track with this show, but now I’m finally ready for season 3. And boy, I really am ready. For this was one hell of a season finale.
Can’t wait till I’ve got my hands on season 3.
“Prepare to jump. But we will be back.”

Babylon 5, season 2

Season two of “Babylon 5” opened with something of an outrage, as they replaced one of the main characters. At first this annoyed me, even though I didn’t think I liked the replaced character much, and the replacement seemed even duller than the original one. However, as time progressed, I realised that both replaced and [...]

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