Warning! - Slight spoilers for Avatar and Doctor Who below. Proceed with caution!







I am again catching up with weeks of posts. I’ve either had nothing to say or too much to fit into the time I could spare to write it – the end result being, I’ve posted nothing in months. My thanks to those of you who have so diligently posted to keep the rest of us up to date.

Life continues, much as it has been with little changing except that my children are becoming young adults and I am getting old. I stopped feeling like I was getting older when I turned 21, but I guess my body didn’t get the message. It sucks.

Christmas (or as my daughter calls it, Hogswatch) was pretty good. I made sure I got myself a present (just in case) and all my gifts went over well. My daughter even liked the gifts we gave her – astonishing!

Watched the first half of the last episode of the Tennant Doctor Who episodes. It was… interesting. The Master was a lot more compelling than the Doctor in it. Hmmm… I’m hoping they can hit the note they did with last year’s finale – when the Time Lord / human metacrisis stayed with Rose – but I’m not holding my breath.

Finally, I’m sort of surprised no one in my flist mentioned Avatar. I had determined not to spoil myself too much and was pleased to see it for the first time as a relatively blank slate. Sort of what I couldn’t do with LOTR – LOL! And it worked – I loved the film! I even saw it twice (the second time is the best!) which is something I haven’t done since LOTR. It’s a simple story, but very empathetically done. And the tree huggers beat the crap out of the corporate shills! Epic!

( And here begins the political rant...Collapse )