Reading, Listening, Watching

[purplecat]

Reading: Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon which went on my "to buy" list a long time ago when Pon was vaguely active in some LJ groups I frequented, I then dropped it from my list following a hugely negative review by Winterfox and put it back on when the general pattern of Winterfox's reviews was made public. It is, so far, so YA fiction (not my favourite genre). I'm not very far in however and it may pick up as events unfold.

Listening: Well today it was In our time on Lorca, Lazy Doctor Who on the Abominable Snowman part 1, and Sticky Notes on a Bruckner symphony (number 9? maybe?).

Watching: In the absence of Tame Layman, the teenager and I watched several episodes of Blake's 7. She is much enamoured of the costumes (and Servalan has yet to put in an appearance). The last episode we watched was The Web which is the first B7 episode I haven't watched multiple times and so was new to me (I mean, I probably saw the last half* of it when it was first transmitted but I have no memory of that).

* I missed the first half of all Blake's 7 season 1 episodes as a child because they clashed with a ballet lesson.

Comments

[daniel-saunders.livejournal.com]

I just completed a Blake's 7 re-watch. I found the quality good for the first two seasons, a slight dip in parts of season three and catastrophic crash through the floor for most of the last season. The costumes get more elaborate from season two.

[purplecat]

My memories of it get more detailed as the seasons progress (understandably, I must have been about 6 when the first episode went out and was about 11 at the end). I've seen odd episodes since, and the first four a lot since having had first the edited VHS and then I think something with each episode separately (not a DVD, I think, since I don't have it now).

[liadt]

I hope the book improves. I don't understand some people some times. I was feeling a bit angry today and now I don't feel like a rage filled person at all!

I hope you and the teenager are enjoying B7. I keep meaning to re-watch it.

[purplecat]

Winterfox was obviously quite something! I think I only encountered one of her reviews that once, but I remembered it clearly once that report came out.

I'm surprised how much she's liking B7 - since she mostly just tolerates 1970s Doctor Who.

[liadt]

There are somewhat different despite the 1970s BBC sci-fi trappings I guess!

[purplecat]

Yes, and different format-wise as well. I think the (at least pretence of) single self-contained episodes work better for her and make a lot of the padding seem less obvious.