« TV victories | Main | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion »

Media updates

Battlestar Galactica: small dip, but still the right direction. Keep on space truckin'!

Bradamant: I just finished this audiobook, which was a small ensemble reading of a book that was, in turn, a modern adaptation of a part of the whole medieval Roland cycle. It was very strange. It fairly accurately nails what we probably all -- if we stop to think of it -- have as a picture of "the age of chivalry." And reveals just how completely nonsensical our picture of it is -- kings constantly wandering off to do single battle, multi-year quests that take the lone hero off from all human contact, etc etc. It was very strange. The voice acting was eh. The audio mixing was lousy -- background noises frequently overwhelmed the dialogue. And yet, as it proceeded, I got sucked in enough to finish it. Probably just OCD on my part.

Star Wars: Dark Lord: Yes, my Star Wars hooring proceeds apace. Only twenty minutes in, but it turns out that if you add the John Williams score and a cooler hand on the mixing panel, the high space opera adventure of Star Wars shines in the audiobook form. Fingers crossed that Anakin's grimness will shine in the absence of George Lucas's direction.

Oscars: John Stewart is at his best when he introduces video clips of Steven Colbert. Dumbest thing they ever did was splitting those two up. Why can't I quit you, Oscars?

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.ology.org/cgi/mt/mt-tb.cgi/30

Comments

Use of the "why can't I quit you" reference earns you at least thirty minutes in the penalty box. That's so late January.

Why can't I quit you, "why can't I quit you" references?

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)