Spent much of the weekend reading over the manuscript for my next book before it goes off to the copy editor. I found a bunch of typos and slip-ups. Not a ton, but enough. I still have a fair amount of the book to go through, but I will be finished with this step by Friday at the latest.
I’m doing a decent job of paring down my TBR pile of ARCs, too. In the past few days I’ve finished Kill You Twice by Chelsea Cain, The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen and Stay Awake by Dan Chaon. Unless something tempting shows up in today’s mail, I’ll be reading Fallen by Karin Slaughter next.
We embarked on the second half of Season 6 of The Sopranos last night. I can’t help but thinking that Christopher isn’t long for the world. If Tony doesn’t off him for making fun of him in that movie, Cleaver, then I think Leotardo will kill him as long-delayed payback for the death of his brother. It’s been a long road, but we’re finally down to the last seven episodes.
Season finale of Mad Men was interesting. I liked the way Don walked away from the set where they were filming the TV commercial. How many times did Pete Campbell get punched in the nose this season? Interesting outcome for Alexis Bledel’s character. I didn’t know shock treatment could do that. “Are you alone?” the woman at the bar asks Don before the fade-to-black. Of course he is…but will he do anything about it?
Burn Notice is back this week. I wonder what trouble Michael & Co. will get into this season.
I went to see Prometheus on Saturday afternoon. I had been studiously ignoring most of the hype surrounding it and most of the trailers, which was a good way to go about it. I thought it would be more intense, which is why I chose to go at a time when my wife was busy doing other things, though in retrospect I think she would have liked it. I wasn’t gung-ho about another 3D movie, but this one handled it well. Very few pop-out-at-you effects, but the film had good depth. I find Noomi Rapace fascinating to watch and Charlize Theron is easy on the eyes, too. I wonder if they just happened to have a rocket ship named Prometheus kicking around or if they rebranded it for the journey. It reminded me of a souped up version of Serenity.
Much has been made of the fact that the film poses some big questions without answering any of them. I didn’t mind that. It was a little hard to figure out what exactly was going on at times. Or who was falling victim to the aliens at any given moment. For me, there were two huge unanswered questions. 1) What did David know and when did he know it? and 2) Why couldn’t Vickers run sideways? The David question is the most problematic. He seemed to have multiple agendas and far more insight into what was going on on that moon than he had any right to know. He knew exactly what to do with the alien goop he took from the statue chamber, but to what end? What did he hope to accomplish? I being a little vague here for people who stumble across this post who haven’t seen the film, but I’ll be more expansive in the comments if anyone wants to discuss further.
I thought the landscapes were fascinating. Some of them looked so Earthlike but seemed just enough off to be alien at the same time. I came away from the film feeling like I’d been on a roller coaster, and intrigued by some of what the movie set out to do. I’d like to see it again, I think.
