Epic, I'm glad you liked it. The lady in the row in front of me and I both agreed that we liked the other cast better, so I was worried that people who saw my less-preferred iteration would be underwhelmed (even though I'd totally say that it was "really very good." It's just the comparison. The two actors are a bit apples and oranges.), but that seems to not be the case based on your response and those of my family and other people.

The soundtrack is on iTunes. I need to get a copy of it for the sunrise music, if nothing else.

I've done a couple of things I needed to do, but one of them was updating my budget and now I want to curl in a ball and take a nap. It's looking more and more like when my lease is up in November I'm going to have to move to a cheaper place.

I'm the only one of my siblings who really knew all my grandparents.

I was surprised by how many people apparently weren't familiar with the book. There was an audible gasp when he killed Elizabeth , which surprised me (other peoples' surprise, that is). I was...sickened, almost, by the rape. That either wasn't in the book or was couched in such euphemistic terms that I missed it in the book...anyway, like I said, less compassion.

I found some of the music a bit intrusive, but you're right about the sunrise, that was lovely.

I really would have loved to see the other version too. I'd love to compare and contrast the Creatures. Well, maybe they'll do a DVD...which I will think about acquiring after I remember to get a copy of Tennant's Hamlet...

I'm the only one of my siblings who really knew all my grandparents.

I'm one of the youngest in my generation - both of my mom's parents were gone before I was born, my dad's both passed before I was 20, and the two Steps are both gone now (the last was in 2000) so almost all of my cousins and my brother knew them better than me. I am amazed by people my age who are only starting to lose grandparents - when I'm worried about my mother. Lifespans is weird, yo.

smonster, good luck with figuring out the $ (cue Winona Ryder as Jo in Little Women... "I hate money!")

Epic, do you think he'll do well as Sherlock Holmes? And how weird is it that both of them are contemporary TV Sherlocks?

smonster, good luck with figuring out the $

Thanks. I will figure this all out, and I will increase my income, and I will pay off my debt, and I will save for retirement. It's just exhausting at times.

Epic, do you think he'll do well as Sherlock Holmes? And how weird is it that both of them are contemporary TV Sherlocks?

I just had that epiphany about both of them being Sherlock last night too!

Honestly, I would say I'm much more concerned about the material than him. He had amazing physicality that I never would have expected from him and really inhabited the creature. So, I'd say it's the writing that I'm worried will suck, not him.

But if I have kids, no great-grandparents for them, and given that my dad turns 72 today (and is not in great shape) who knows if they'd even know their grandfather? Sad.

I barely knew 3 of my 4 grandparents and my dad died before Kristin and I even got engaged. I am glad that he did meet her many times and she met him. I know they honestly liked each other and that he would have been thrilled we ended up getting married.

hah! when I was in San Francisco I kept seeing these beautiful flowers - I'd never seen them before. I'd asked David what they were, but he didn't have an answer. Turns out they're brugmansia.