what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} Star Trek: The Fall — The Poisoned Chalice by James Swallow, published in 2013 After “the shot heard round the galaxy” the Titan is recalled to Earth and Captain William Riker is promoted to Rear Admiral. He’s not sure the promotion is a good thing, especially when he begins to suspect that someone in […]
{4.5/5} Star Trek: The Fall — A Ceremony of Losses by David Mack, published in 2013 Andor has seceded from the Federation and is being courted by the Typhon Pact. But if the Andorians can’t solve their fertility crisis soon, they’ll face extinction. Against orders, Dr. Julian Bashir makes it his mission to help the […]
{5/5} “I’m not a hero, I’m a high-functioning sociopath.” Sherlock season 3, aired in 2014 Most of the world, including John Watson, thinks Sherlock Holmes is dead. But he’s not — he faked his own death and set about ridding the world of Moriarty’s network of evildoers. Now Sherlock is back in London and ready […]
{5/5} “‘Do you just carry on talking when I’m away?’ ‘I don’t know, how often are you away?’” Sherlock season 2, aired in 2012 After surviving their first encounter with Moriarty, Holmes and Watson are back solving crimes. They’ve become a bit more famous, because of the blog Watson writes about their cases. They have […]
This is another article that’s 3 years old but it’s still worth looking at. Some technologies seem to come out of nowhere but others are predicted by smart people, like that guy Jules Verne: 10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years
I’m going through some old bookmarks… Here’s a blog posting that I’m guessing I found on Boing Boing. Anyway, I thought its unique satire on World War II shows on the History Channel was very clever: Stuff
It’s a 3-year-old article, but it articulately argues that by only watching movies online we’re losing some things: The convenience trap: What the changes at Netflix reveal about an insidious trend
{4.5/5} Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 9 (5 volumes) by Joss Whedon, Andrew Chambliss & others, published in 2012-14 Spike: A Dark Place by Victor Gischler & Paul Lee, published in 2013 Now that magic is gone from the world vampires are different — they’re mindless feral beasts. Willow goes off to find a scythe, […]
{4.5/5} “I really don’t understand why anybody will work for you. When… when you’re so awful and stupid and not nice.” Love is All You Need, released in 2012 Ida is a hairdresser who’s had cancer but is free of it at the moment — she finds out her husband is having an affair. Philip […]
{5/5} “I know you’re an Army doctor, and you’ve been invalided home from Afghanistan. You’ve got a brother worried about you, but you won’t go to him for help, because you don’t approve of him, possibly because he’s an alcoholic, more likely because he recently walked out on his wife, and I know your therapist […]