Cooler air, if not drier

[matrixrefugee]

Which means I can at last wear the Fangtasia tee-shirt I got just before this maddening heat wave we've been having. I'm trying not to grumble about the weather, or grumble about people grumbling about the weather. Or about people whining in general ( :: Glares at people commenting on the LJ News comm:: ). There seems to have been a rash of it lately and it's wearing on my nerves as much as the weather is. I don't know what the cause behind it is, but it's caused me to be a bit more hermetic than usual.

Did a little retail therapy to ease my frazzled nerves: went to the Burlington Barnes & Noble for the first time in a month and picked up a couple of odd volumes of Naomi Novik's Temeraire series (aka "Iskierka's canon" to the carpe_ho_ras crowd).

Still watching "Dexter" and I'm on the third season already. For a series that has plenty of Nightmare Fuel, it's got it's share of Crowning Moments of Heartwarming, particularly this season. Gotta love how Dexter proposed to Rita. He's not just asking her to marry him, he's asking to be a dad to her kids. Awwwww!!!

I'm also taking tentative pokes at another Showtime series, namely, "The Tudors". I blame the red-hot shortfic that one of the Carpe folks wrote for it, as well as a certain headspace-dweller's fondness for Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. :: Glares at Muraki:: I'm well aware that it's a highly romanticized view of history, but I'm a little leery of it: my biggest concern is how Sir Thomas More gets portrayed. He's one of my heroes and I'd hate to see him get warped into a sanctimonious jerk or something just as tedious.

Comments

[ladyneferankh.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're feeling better--and I love Barnes & Noble's, whenever I go into one I can just get lost for hours, browsing in the blisfulness of books!

Hmm....I've heard of Dexter, and been curious, but am wary because of the subject matter.

Oh, as for The Tudors, a Christian friend of mine saw it, and while she objected to some inaccuracies, and overly suggestive content, she said the portrayal of Sir Thomas More was quite touching.

PS
Btw, have you ever seen A Man for All Seasons?

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

My only carps with Dexter are the sensual content (though the scenes with Dexter and Rita have this tender, oddly innocent quality about them) and the frequent strong language, but aside from that, it's actually not as violent as it's premise would suggest. There's quite a bit of creepiness and gory crime scenes, but it's handled pretty well. For a serial killer who specializes in killing worse criminals than himself, Dexter is actually a very good man who lives by a code of conduct that keeps his inner demons from dragging him off the rails. He might describe himself as a monster, but he's a monster with a conscience, and while he claims not to have emotions, there's a real chemistry between him and his stepkids that just makes me go "awwww..." every time he's horsing around with them.

Re: "A Man For All Seasons" -- This is one of my family's favorite plays/movies. We've seen both the 1960s version and the 1989 made-for-TV version featuring Charlton Heston as Sir Thomas (the best one we've seen: he has this wonderful dry wit that's just right; also the soundtrack for this version features music composed by Henry VIII. Really!). Wonderfully written play, and in the hands of a good producer and good actors, it's utterly riveting.