I didn’t mind because Third Earth was my favourite territory. A proper optimistic future is rare to see, and the fleshing out of it made it all the more impactful when it began to crumble. I liked the scariness of how failure on First Earth could ripple through time as well.

Well Goblet of Fire was out before the first movie (I think?) and had a scene specifically written for Hermione to explain how to pronounce her name. So that’s on you.

Oh it’s a hoot. Once you accept that Holden is a grump and you don’t have to be on his side, he’s very funny, and some of the things he’s grumpy about are true enough to be like, yeah man, I get it.

True true and I didn’t know that about his change. But it makes sense, Franny and Zooey builds out of disillusionment to a thesis statement of faith, where Catcher does the same thing but ends with growth as the thesis.

Obviously named him Rye

Oh hundo percent predatory. Everything about Holden makes a lot more sense if he’s been sexually abused.

Yeah I think Catcher, as well as Salinger’s other stories, benefits greatly from being slowly, because the richness of the books comes from unraveling its unreliable narrator. The truths he’s almost accidentally telling come out between the lines. It helps that the book is fairly short, because that eases the pressure to rush through it. I like short books for that reason, you innately savour them.

Speaking of other stories, if you liked the interplay of motivations and character and text in Catcher, I definitely recommend Franny and Zooey. It’s similar in style but more centred around the contradictions of young adult as opposed to adolescent disillusionment.

Domestic terrorism

It basically is a movie. 8 20 minute episodes comes to 160 minutes, or 2 hours 40. A long movie, but not an impossibly long movie. Maybe because I watched it all in one sitting it felt that way.

Short little one. A shot of the bookstore selling Gilderoy Lockhart’s latest title, “Who Am I?” as he mumbles in a straitjacket on the cover.

Chamber of Secrets had one in 2002 as well

The original story will always be there. I thought the BBC ATWI80D was great, and respected the spirit of the original story (which is mostly to do with Fogg’s fuddy-duddy Englishness and eccentricities thrown into picaresquities around the world and how his sheer stubbornness pushes his group through them) while looking at the world of the time with a more nuanced, modern lens that nonetheless isn’t anachronistic. Lest we forget that Fogg marries an Indian woman in the original book, anyway!

Also I just love David Tennant.

It’s always interesting seeing how adaptations especially of classic stories that have been adapted many times evolve, and how new adaptations choose to stand out. I say if good writers want to spin something in some direction, please do! Sometimes it’ll work and sometimes it won’t. But I believe in principle that we shouldn’t be discouraged from trying.

Canada’s G/PG/14A/18A rating system is a lot better than the mess that’s going on in the states I find. To give an idea of what falls where in that system, my local big theatre has its currently running movies categorized like this:

G - Strange World, Puss in Boots

PG – Avatar, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Black Panther, Black Adam, A Man Called Otto

14A – The Whale, Violent Night, M3gan

18A – Babylon

“Pointing solemnly to the plumbless mysteries of heaven” gives me an image of the towers accentuating the endless awe-inspiring capability of the night sky - but John’s the only one who can see that, as the “civilized” characters are too caught up in their hedonistic lives and soma trips to look up. I don’t think “fingers” needs to be read into too deeply, it’s just to go along with the pointing out metaphor.

Well, Phobos alone might not do the whole trick, but there’s lots of other asteroids near there. I’ve heard there’s this “belt” thing?

Got it. That got me wondering, do we know how long that’ll take for Earth? And what I read is that by the time it happens, the sun will mostly likely have expanded anyway, which would obviously have much bigger effects on the whole system.

Isn’t our moon already tidally locked?

It will give you three temperature points and four steel, and let you take eight plants from another player.

In actuality, yes, but to a fairly negligible degree. You’d be adding some energy and maybe a bit of greenhouse effect to the atmosphere, so it might get a degree or two warmer from the impact, but not permanently. And you’d be adding mass, but not nearly enough to have a noticeable increase in gravity.

Never really got over the whole devouring alive and then carving out of his stomach thing eh

No, it’s a little image, and it is known about

Well Mars is only a third the size so it would roughly track as a ratio, no?

I feel like I’ve seen those results from a study a half dozen times over the last ten years