Saturday

[ellarien]

So I watched the first episode of the new batch of Voyage DVDs tonight -- Terror on Dinosaur Island. I'd forgotten, or never noticed before, that Harry starts a fire with what looks suspiciously like a pair of reading glasses! If those are his, which seems perfectly reasonable, he never, ever wears them on camera, not even when reading aloud to Lee or doing paperwork in the privacy of his cabin.

I also finally got around to watching last Sunday's Dresden Files -- only to discover that the last several minutes were mysteriously missing. (Anyone care to spoil me for the ending?)


It's been cotton-skirt weather again, and the forecast suggests that this will continue all week. In honour of the oncoming summer, I propose to go back to cold cereal instead of toasted waffles for breakfast, starting tomorrow.

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I never noticed that one either - though there is so much else! - and is, presumably, yet another example of the bad writing syndrome. They needed something at that point to start a fire (otherwise they couldn't get in the rather nice black book sequence) so just happened to have Nelson find a pair of glasses in his pocket.

[ellarien]

Whereas Crane, who doesn't smoke, always seems to have a lighter handy when the plot requires one!

It does occur to me that when these shows were made, people are unlikely to have considered the nitpicking possibilities afforded by the technology of forty years in the future. Those glasses are on screen for about ten seconds, and I had to freeze and zoom the picture to be sure of them.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I never smoked, but have sometimes carried a lighter. They can be very useful.