Making good headway on the work in progress. I see I have roughly 80 days before my deadline. That’s ok. I wrote all of The Stephen King Illustrated Companion in half that time so I should be in good shape.
Back up to nearly 70° today, but down to below freezing tomorrow night, perhaps even into the low twenties. Water restrictions are starting to be lifted in some quarters.
Oh, AbFab. All these years later and your still just as silly and nonsensical as ever. The characters have hardly changed one iota. The best bit in “The Identity,” in my opinion, was the crossover with the Danish version of The Killing. Sofie Gråbøl makes an appearance in character as Sarah Lund, wearing trademark banded sweater. Eddie talks to her in mock-Danish, which leads to an Abbott & Costello exchange between them.
The second episode of the new series of Sherlock (a riff on The Hound of the Baskervilles) didn’t quite live up to the promise of the first. I found the same to be true of the first series: the middle episode was weak there, too. This one was more like a rejected script from Fringe. There’s a difference between modernizing something and going that one step farther and turning it into complete rubbish. There were some nice bits, and it was mostly entertaining, but not as good as last week.
I watched a section of the original Andromeda Strain the other night, too. Talk about a slow burner. It did an excellent job of depicting how science is really done (as opposed to what happens on modern forensics shows), but it also showed just how tedious doing science can be, too. And I say that as a scientist.
