Totally Random

And on my TV tonight....
After the ongoing disappointment of A Discovery Of Witches (haven't given up on it just yet but please hurry up!) I shall now watch The Fifth Element.
I've only seen it once (maybe twice?) before and absolutely hated it.
Numerous years later, I may change my mind.
May....

Yes, it was the mention of Valerian that made me want to go back and watch The Fifth Element again. And I didn't hate it this time. It was still an interesting mess in places but the years since the last viewing have made me appreciate the designs a bit more. Chris Tucker is still completely intolerable though.


I haven't read A Discovery Of Witches but the TV show seems to be turning into a very slow Twilight. (And I haven't seen or read that either. )
But I do quite like first-person novels, when they're done right- if the author can't write in different styles/voices then it does expose that inadequacy. I think they work best when the narrator is a bit unreliable in some way, like in The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, or Engleby. Also I remember a book by David Lodge called Thinks... which alternated between two characters' first-person views (Edit: although now I'm wondering if they were just biased third-person POVs? My memory isn't what it used to be. ) and then the same events were recounted from a neutral third-person chapter. It managed to be clever, insightful and, most of all, funny even if the ending was a bit of a fudged cop-out.