If we're going to do Fantasy Authors Of That Era, can we talk Peake?

I was reminded of him by this:

[CLS spent] several years at a boarding school run by a clinically insane sadist - a place so horrible he called it "Belsen" in his autobiography

Mervyn Peake spent time in both a British Public School and a Nazi Concentration Camp, but he always said the former had the greater influence on him...

Ooh, love Peake. Love Peake, and am totally out of time and must pound out a truckload of work before five, thus leaving me time to say nothing more than "Love Peake."

Possibly more articulate gushing tomorrow.

So, what's the verdict on Firefly?

It didn't rock like a rocking thing, but it didn't suck like a sucking thing either. The Buffistas who were over my house had no trouble sitting through a second viewing immediately after the first (Ed finally arrived a half-hour after we'd started watching, and we'd delayed a good 20 minutes before starting, so when it finished we went back to show him the scenes he'd missed, and just watched it all the way through again, without fidgeting).

There seems to be agreement that while this premiere episode wasn't anything special, it looks good in comparison to any of the Star Trek pilots or B5.

It was also much more "Western" -- including a train heist -- than most people including me expected.

Fi, I was disappointed. Low on the snark, high on the faux-Western dialogue. Hoping for better things.

But an amazing kickass black female second lead.

Well, sounds like I didn't miss much. Better luck next week.

I would just like to reiterate that I loved it.

That is the whiny teenage lizard vote.

You call that a whine? That's not a whine! You young people nowadays.

Betsy is me.

Though, I'm thinking we've been wandering into the wrong thread, because I'm almost certain that was in regards to Firefly.

Thanks for the feedback. I guess I'll look forward to it cautiously.