Books and Elementary

1) While reading, or rather slowly meandering my way through Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, I decided to buy another cheap crappy novel on Amazon Kindle. ( Read more... )

At any rate - story kinks?
* memory loss (hard to do well...but I'm a sucker for it anyhow) and then return of memory
* psychological/mental illness or shift in personality
* return from the dead (no not as a zombie, I'm possibly the only person I know who is NOT entertained by rotting corpses wandering about eating people and/or crazy people doing it. The whole cannibalism thing is a big turn off.)
* ghosts

And am suddenly drawing a blank, don't you hate it when that happens...you had a thought...it was there...then suddenly gone. Maybe my fascination with memory is I appear to be having issues with mine?

2. Elementary...hmmm, just saw last week's episode. Have decided by the way that Sherlock Holmes is possibly the inspiration behind character's like Spock and Mr. Data.
Could be wrong. At the very least the precursor to those characters.

Can't talk about the episode without spoilers.

( spoilers )

Disney's Cinderella...

Is a very oddly told tale. And an incredibly beautiful piece of animation - considering no computers and all the cells were individually drawn, a feat.

But it is told mainly through the points of view of mice, birds, and the Prince's father. Cinderella and her Prince are sort of on the periphery. In fact 60% of the film is the mice trying to avoid the evil Stepmother's nasty fat cat Lucifer. The animals don't really talk though, well except for the mice.

The romance is dreamlike...told through lullaby like songs. But the main focus is on the comedic characters of the Prince's father, the King who wants grandchildren and his aide de camp, and the
Cinderella's pet mice who will do anything to help her.

It's so odd.

A clip:

An aside on Aladdin...Jonathan Freeman's voice is bit similar to Jeremy Irons in the Lion King...and Irons apparently has made a career of playing slinky voiced villains.