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digitaldisciplineIt's getting harder and harder for me to find anything new good or interesting.
"Sin City" cleared the bar last night. Going to add it to the collection.
My out-and-out refusal to succumb to Harry Potter took K by surprise the other night. HP is one of those things that, no matter how many of my friends throw in with or endorse, I simply will not devote any time to. I don't cotton to the hyper-popular saturation in much the same way that I'm not interested in young adult fiction. I see it as a marketing juggernaut first, and that's indelibly colored my preconceptions about the whole affair, unfairly or not.
I feel similarly about Joss Whedon's body of work, and it even has the dubious inducement of cute females who are above the age of consent. I've seen a couple episodes of Buffy, but it didn't grab me the way a half-episode of the X-Files did once upon a time. Stargate, ditto. Babylon 5 was interesting enough to not change the channel, but not compelling enough to make me look for back episodes or pay attention to when it was on.
On a slightly-related note, Gardner Dozois has decidedly grimmer taste in SF than David Hartwell for their respective "Best of" yearly anthologies.
"Sin City" cleared the bar last night. Going to add it to the collection.
My out-and-out refusal to succumb to Harry Potter took K by surprise the other night. HP is one of those things that, no matter how many of my friends throw in with or endorse, I simply will not devote any time to. I don't cotton to the hyper-popular saturation in much the same way that I'm not interested in young adult fiction. I see it as a marketing juggernaut first, and that's indelibly colored my preconceptions about the whole affair, unfairly or not.
I feel similarly about Joss Whedon's body of work, and it even has the dubious inducement of cute females who are above the age of consent. I've seen a couple episodes of Buffy, but it didn't grab me the way a half-episode of the X-Files did once upon a time. Stargate, ditto. Babylon 5 was interesting enough to not change the channel, but not compelling enough to make me look for back episodes or pay attention to when it was on.
On a slightly-related note, Gardner Dozois has decidedly grimmer taste in SF than David Hartwell for their respective "Best of" yearly anthologies.
