today’s post brought to you by: fuck it’s hot

Yeah, welcome to the heat wave, I guess. I am sheltering in place in the basement, as I have no car today and we are a non-air-conditioning household.

I have two problems today.

1. I’m SOOOOOOO behind on writing! Ack! If I wanted to catch up to my half-nano goal by the end of the weekend, I would need to write 6,000 words. (Total, not daily, so I guess that’s something, right?)

2. I watched the first half of Children of Dune last night (because James McAvoy is really watchable, and because probably everyone should have some kind of working knowledge of Dune, right?). But it ends on a cliffhanger, and now I have NO IDEA what happens next but I am VERY TEMPTED to go wiki it, except then I know I will lose all motivation to watch the second disc when it comes.

(more thoughts on Children of Dune later, since I’m trying to catch up with posts today as well as writing)

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review-type thoughts: Children of Dune, disc one

I figured I should ‘review’ the first disc (parts one and two), so that I can come back and lol about it once I’ve watched the rest.

So. My thoughts so far.

1. It reminds me of Inception, actually, or maybe Inception: The Next Generation. Paul totally has that Dom Cobb ‘tragic absentee father’ thing down pat.

2. It’s a bit slow in places. I get that there’s a whole world-building, plot-developing thing going on. If I had *any* idea what was going on, I might be bored.

3. This is what I knew about Dune going into my viewing experience: there’s this series of books, Dune refers to a planet, something about worms, and spice, and politics. And a vague sense of epic plots and betrayal. It’s possible I started reading one of the books at some point, that seems like something I’d do. It’s also possible that what I watched last night would have made more sense to someone familiar with the universe.

4. I like the music a lot. I know that’s something you say when you can’t think of anything else nice to say, but it’s true.

5. James McAvoy and and Jessica Brooks (especially her!) should totally win a prize for pulling off their outfits with such panache. (Then again, so far they’ve wisely stayed away from hats, which appear to be a curious stumbling block in Dune fashion.)

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