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Reading, Listening, Watching
Oct. 31st, 2019 08:44 pmA day late, but I'm not feeling very Throwback Thursday
Reading: The Locksley Exploit by Philip Purser-Hallard. It's the second in The Devices Trilogy of which I quite enjoyed the first - certainly enough to buy the sequel - but there's something about the central conceit (that people become connected to mythic tropes and thus steered into replaying the myths) that I find vaguely... discomfiting? I'm not sure, I have a vague sensation of "it shouldn't happen that way" without being able to articulate what I mean by that.
Listening: I don't listen to Stuff you Missed in History Class all that often, feeling it tends to be a bit light on actual analysis. But they had a fun episode on the history of the colour blue - both in terms of linguistics and in terms of paints and dyes.
Watching: We just finished watching Dark which is a German sci-fi show on Netflix. It takes itself rather more seriously than our normal watching fare, but the Teenager is keen on it (because German) and its certainly stylish with plenty of twists. In fact, at the end of season 2, which is where we are, I was beginning to wish I'd been paying a bit more attention to precisely who was related to who and how (which, given it is a time travel show, is more complex than it might otherwise be). It has a clever central idea that one can only easily time travel a fixed distance (33 years) and so events mostly follow each other in lock-step in the various time zones of the story (1920/21, 1953/54, 1986/87, 2019/20 and 2052/53 so far).
Reading: The Locksley Exploit by Philip Purser-Hallard. It's the second in The Devices Trilogy of which I quite enjoyed the first - certainly enough to buy the sequel - but there's something about the central conceit (that people become connected to mythic tropes and thus steered into replaying the myths) that I find vaguely... discomfiting? I'm not sure, I have a vague sensation of "it shouldn't happen that way" without being able to articulate what I mean by that.
Listening: I don't listen to Stuff you Missed in History Class all that often, feeling it tends to be a bit light on actual analysis. But they had a fun episode on the history of the colour blue - both in terms of linguistics and in terms of paints and dyes.
Watching: We just finished watching Dark which is a German sci-fi show on Netflix. It takes itself rather more seriously than our normal watching fare, but the Teenager is keen on it (because German) and its certainly stylish with plenty of twists. In fact, at the end of season 2, which is where we are, I was beginning to wish I'd been paying a bit more attention to precisely who was related to who and how (which, given it is a time travel show, is more complex than it might otherwise be). It has a clever central idea that one can only easily time travel a fixed distance (33 years) and so events mostly follow each other in lock-step in the various time zones of the story (1920/21, 1953/54, 1986/87, 2019/20 and 2052/53 so far).