I'd like to hear that, too, if it wouldn't be too much trouble?
Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
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Ok, here goes ... http://www.isnanchordesk.com/whoavs/JimButcher.wma
Haven't seen it yet, but you gotta love the fact that the lead character's name is "dork" spelled backward.
--Ted
--Ted
This week's episode didn't do much for me. I didn't laugh at anything. And really, the best they could do for Dongalor's press conference was have him mimic George W. Bush, even to the point of a nearly verbatim paraphrase of a Bushism from all the way back in 2002? Bush is gone, folks! It's not relevant anymore!
India de Beaufort is still stunning, though...
India de Beaufort is still stunning, though...
Thanks very much!
That's was the first confirmation I'd heard about the Short-Story Collection Anthology plus some info one new Short-Stories.
Great News.
Yeah, I'm kinda annoyed, I've bought all the anthologies with Dresden shorts in, just for the Dresden stories, now I'm gonna buy this just for the 1 story I won't have.
I bought most of those anthologies myself, but now I'm regifting those to a friend who likes some of the other authors.
Maybe if I'd gotten into Charlaine Harris or Kim Harrison, or Laurell K. Hamilton, I'd hold onto them for their respective short stories, but alas, I don't care about those authors, or in fact, their characters as much.
I'm still surprised they actually came through on the anthology though (especially after having to reaquire the rights to the stories he'd technically sold off), as far as I know, none of the other urban fantasy writers have put anything like that together thus far. (Apparently enough people asked for it that they got the go ahead.)
I wonder if Back up will be getting a polished & cleaned up reissue now that Subterranean has sold out their second run?
Maybe if I'd gotten into Charlaine Harris or Kim Harrison, or Laurell K. Hamilton, I'd hold onto them for their respective short stories, but alas, I don't care about those authors, or in fact, their characters as much.
I'm still surprised they actually came through on the anthology though (especially after having to reaquire the rights to the stories he'd technically sold off), as far as I know, none of the other urban fantasy writers have put anything like that together thus far. (Apparently enough people asked for it that they got the go ahead.)
I wonder if Back up will be getting a polished & cleaned up reissue now that Subterranean has sold out their second run?
I'll probably do that myself, to a friend who I got in to The Dresden Files, he hasn't got up to reading any of the short stories yet, so it would be a good gift for him.
The only anthology I actually read the whole way through was Mean Streets. I enjoyed 3 out of 4 of the stories. The third one (The Third Dreath of a Little Clay Dog?) took me a long while to get through, it just wasn't clicking, but I already liked Dresden and Nightside. The Remy Chandler one interested me enough to go and pick up the two previous stories. But the others I tried to read, then ended up skipping to the Dresden one and leaving the rest.
Unlike the past couple of episodes, this one actually evoked some laughs from me, but only from Dongalor's attempts to make the Pagan women cry. The rest was boring. I am totally sick of Krod's stereotype sidekicks. And a lot of the jokes were thoroughly predictable -- "Under no circumstances talk about Aneka" leading into a jump cut to Krod talking incessantly about Aneka being the most obvious by far. (Though oddly, I liked the onion-chopping bit because it was the obvious thing to do there.)
But since this is a British show, its season is only 6 episodes long, so next week is the finale. I was giving some thought to giving up on this show, but since I got a genuine laugh or two this time and since there's only one episode left, I might as well stick with it.
But since this is a British show, its season is only 6 episodes long, so next week is the finale. I was giving some thought to giving up on this show, but since I got a genuine laugh or two this time and since there's only one episode left, I might as well stick with it.
Yeah, I really wanted to like it, because the production values are pretty nice, but it just didn't work for me.
Looks like the Beeb might have made a mistake waiting to air this until after the US aired it, because now we know that it doesn't get any better and are likely to just give up sooner, or not watch at all.
Optimism, schmoptimism. I wouldn't have bothered to watch it in the first place if India de Beaufort weren't magnificently gorgeous.
I'm just watching the first 2 episodes, they premiered over here on Thursday.
There are some funnies, but not a lot. I am finding it very watchable though.
There are some funnies, but not a lot. I am finding it very watchable though.
I found the first two episodes watchable too, but it went downhill from there. Fair warning.
I saw about half of one of the episodes aired recently, more by accident than design (I think it must have been the premiere, I tuned in just as their were cremating the General dude).
I gotta say, big chunks are deeply unfunny, but there are a couple of potentially funny characters that kept me chuckling - Matt Lucas' chief flunky being the most promising, along with the villager chick Lucas kidnaps near the end of the episode who despite hardly having any lines has an amusingly expressive face.
As for Sean Maguire; the dude got seriously ripped since EastEnders.
The amazon/pagan ethnic girl is very very very tasty, by the way.
Bad stuff - the cookie cutter sidekicks and Lucas himself goes beyond regular ham and way into the entire pig and its extended family.
I gotta say, big chunks are deeply unfunny, but there are a couple of potentially funny characters that kept me chuckling - Matt Lucas' chief flunky being the most promising, along with the villager chick Lucas kidnaps near the end of the episode who despite hardly having any lines has an amusingly expressive face.
As for Sean Maguire; the dude got seriously ripped since EastEnders.
The amazon/pagan ethnic girl is very very very tasty, by the way.
Bad stuff - the cookie cutter sidekicks and Lucas himself goes beyond regular ham and way into the entire pig and its extended family.
I saw about half of one of the episodes aired recently, more by accident than design (I think it must have been the premiere, I tuned in just as their were cremating the General dude).
I gotta say, big chunks are deeply unfunny, but there are a couple of potentially funny characters that kept me chuckling - Matt Lucas' chief flunky being the most promising, along with the villager chick Lucas kidnaps near the end of the episode who despite hardly having any lines has an amusingly expressive face.
As for Sean Maguire; the dude got seriously ripped since EastEnders.
The amazon/pagan ethnic girl is very very very tasty, by the way.
Bad stuff - the cookie cutter sidekicks and Lucas himself goes beyond regular ham and way into the entire pig and its extended family.
Apparently he worked out for 3 months before filming to bulk up for the part.
I'm thinking the Pagan girl is probably the reason I found it watchable.
