On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I think this was about as bleak an episode as it ever got after "Victoria's Secret"...and while it got weirder after that, it never got as bleak again.

Also...they never did follow up with the Vecchio/Zuko feud after that, did they? I expect there's fan fiction aplenty amongs the Duesers, but no follow-up episode was ever made.

When you’re doing a review for a book that’s mainly about the artwork of a movie, things become a bit difficult. Not impossible, mind you. Just difficult. The reason for this is partly because you may not know how much of your audience has seen the movie in question at the point your review is expected to see print or “go live”. It’s an unavoidable issue.

So before I continue, good manners require this question: is there anyone in this audience who (a) hasn’t seen Star Wars VII yet, and (b) cares to see it without being spoiled about plot details?

(((waits for audience to respond to these questions)))
( Possibly Spoilers After the Cut )

This may ramble a bit.

( Spoilers as appropriate )

That was interesting. The pace isn't letting up and that's good.

( Discovery Doesn't Always Require Experimentation... )

Seemed like a lot of people were doing exactly what the title said...

( Specifics and other thoughts after the cut )

I saw that particular documentary at the Bytowne today after attending to research and job-hunt chores earlier in the day. If you're at all familiar with the history of the hunt for the Higgs particle, you'll already know what the movie is partly about. The rest of it is about a half-dozen members of the research community that gathered around the project at CERN from 2007 to 2012.

I know this was a Big Damn Deal. It was big enough for Anna Maria Tremonti to devote air time on The Current to it on a couple of occasions, in addition to whatever Bob McDonald was doing for Quirks and Quarks.

So the movie gave me a bit of additional context and human dimension to the whole thing, which I deeply appreciate. It does leave me with a bit of a quandary, and it may take some of you with more physics knowledge than I've got on me at the moment to work through: the discovery of the Higgs seems to have left a couple of the researchers with a bit of a quandary as to what the fact of its existence and the details of it further add up to. Mainly, this "supersymmetry vs. multiverse" argument.

I'm unsure as to why it's necessary for one of these concepts to win out over the other.

Possibly, it's because I've read too many comic books where multiverses were part of the standing menu of the super-hero genre. In fact, you could call that diagnosis of my thinking a certainty. Add in the influence of Mark Gruenwald's work on the Marvel Universe Handbook, particularly his devotion to making the pseudo-science of Marvel fit - however roughly - with the known science of the day, and you can guess the rest of it.

But if anyone is willing to try to answer that "why does one concept have to win" thing...?

One quick comment: This time, Jasper Sitwell got to make a joke.

It was good.

For altariel, some quick notes excerpted from postings on TrekBBS...

Was almost in tears by the end of it...and this is not a complaint.

Let me put it this way for spoiler-avoidance purposes keeping in mind those people reading this LJ who haven't read the book itself yet: one of the leads of this book has been on a journey for a good long while, and this is a big milestone in their life. Knowing something of where they've been along the way to this point, and the work they've put into self-improvement, there's a lot emotionally invested.

It's a triumph of sorts, for all that it could still go horrifically awry...or straight to further glory.

Call them celebratory tears. At least for now.

Saw the advance screening at the Coliseum here in Ottawa tonight.

I'm going to keep it brief.

Performances from the actors were solid. Good choices by the casting people.

Combat scenes were Intense. Between that and the dialogue, which - sad to say - was entirely realistic where kids and teenagers talking to one another was concerned, I'd be inclined to make very certain that parents or other trusted adults see this one either before or with the kids they plan to take. Saying more than that goes into spoiler turf.

The foreshadows of future instalments are quiet, not drawing too much attention unless you're actively looking for them.

I like this version of Lois Lane as scripted and performed. Very much.

Oh, and one other thing: don't watch the 3D edition if you can avoid it. Your eyesight will thank you for it.

Opinions?