Another bad idea

Hey,

So, the early scripts were real kids' fare and it's hard to know how many scripts still exist but most early Dr. Who episodes were destroyed. I understand the BBC is trying to recover those lost episodes with extant material, but I think it'd be fun to just re-shoot them.

later
Tom

Another bad idea

Hey,

So, the early scripts were real kids' fare and it's hard to know how many scripts still exist but most early Dr. Who episodes were destroyed. I understand the BBC is trying to recover those lost episodes with extant material, but I think it'd be fun to just re-shoot them.

later
Tom

A Sandy Review

Hey,

So this past weekend I finished up Dune by Frank Herbert. I'd actually tried reading this during High School, but for some reason I never got very far into it and just gave up. I've watched bits and pieces of the movie but not all of it all the way through.

In the last couple of weeks though, Dune references were everywhere so I decided I had to pick it up and try again. I'm glad I did, but I think that the book has so permeated geek culture that it's difficult to get an honest impression of the work. I feel like it had a bunch of big ideas for the time in which it came out, but subsequent authors have built off of those ideas and internalized them to such a degree that it's hard to compare it to what's on the stands now. A bit like how a Model-T looks crude and primitive compared to a modern car. Sure, but if you'd never seen a car before, the Model-T was something magical and profound.

( Why do I hide spoilers for a book that's 40 years old? Because I care. )

So...I have problems with this book. But I also think that there is a great deal of inventiveness and creativity and good writing here as well. I can see the amazing Model-T people saw when this first came out, but I also think that the pioneering it did now sits comfortably in sci-fi suburbia.

later
Tom

A Sandy Review

Hey,

So this past weekend I finished up Dune by Frank Herbert. I'd actually tried reading this during High School, but for some reason I never got very far into it and just gave up. I've watched bits and pieces of the movie but not all of it all the way through.

In the last couple of weeks though, Dune references were everywhere so I decided I had to pick it up and try again. I'm glad I did, but I think that the book has so permeated geek culture that it's difficult to get an honest impression of the work. I feel like it had a bunch of big ideas for the time in which it came out, but subsequent authors have built off of those ideas and internalized them to such a degree that it's hard to compare it to what's on the stands now. A bit like how a Model-T looks crude and primitive compared to a modern car. Sure, but if you'd never seen a car before, the Model-T was something magical and profound.

( Why do I hide spoilers for a book that's 40 years old? Because I care. )

So...I have problems with this book. But I also think that there is a great deal of inventiveness and creativity and good writing here as well. I can see the amazing Model-T people saw when this first came out, but I also think that the pioneering it did now sits comfortably in sci-fi suburbia.

later
Tom

Not really a review...

...but I've also re-read Swallows and Amazons before bedtime over the past week. Stories of plucky British children having wide-ranging adventures on an island is just the right pre-bedtime kind of thing.

later
Tom

Not really a review...

...but I've also re-read Swallows and Amazons before bedtime over the past week. Stories of plucky British children having wide-ranging adventures on an island is just the right pre-bedtime kind of thing.

later
Tom