Torchwood (drabble): The Unquiet Dead

Title: The Unquiet Dead
Genre: Torchwood drabble
Author: fajrdrako
Characters: Jack, Suzie
Challenge: tw100 challenge: free for all, using #20: Doctor Who titles, #3 in a series of 13
Rating: PG
Words: 100
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Spoilers for "They Keep Killing Suzie". Cross-posted to my LJ and tw100.


( The Unquiet Dead )

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Children of Men...

Last night I watched Children of Men.

So intense.

An excellent movie, a gripping movie... I don't think I was even breathing through most of it. (Breathe. Breathe.) Amazing filming, amazing acting. It was an action movie with a great deal of intelligence, good characterization - no one was one-dimensional - and emotional impact.

Delightful to see Chiwetel Ejiofor and Charlie Hunnan, both of whom change a lot from role to role. Perhaps I saw enough of Julianne Moore to actually remember who she is; I find her looks so lacking in distinction that I can't remember her from role to role. (Sort of like Kevin Klein, whom I have learned to recognize because of his role in A Midsummer Night's Dream.)

One of the most interesting things about this movie is that it isn't about a world without children, it's a movie about about social oppression and fragmentation.

I had ( a few problems with... )

Michael Caine is magnificent in this, but I hate to single him out for good acting because all the acting was superb.

Unshelved: Stages of falling in love with an author...

This Unshelved is brilliant, and it's the story of my life. I've done this almost exactly over the past year or two with Megan Whalen Turner, Karen Lowachee, and Greg Rucka. And now I have a new Tolkien novel to read - an author's death is not the end of it! Far from it. It gets even better when they have posthumous works and biographies, even.

Synchronicity...

Two people close to me had a fall today. One was my father, far away in British Columbia, aged 88, and fragile. The other was my dear friend Sheila, only my age, but with health problems that make a fall both dangerous and painful. (She actually fell yesterday evening, but I just learned of it.) Neither was badly hurt, thank goodness. I hope they heal well and quickly.

Torchwood (drabble): Aliens of London

Title: Aliens of London
Genre: Torchwood drabble
Author: fajrdrako
Characters: Jack, other
Challenge: tw100 challenge: free for all, using #20: Doctor Who titles, #4 in a series of 13
Rating: G
Words: 100
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: No spoilers, unless you're under the impression Captain Jack Harkness is celibate. Cross-posted to my LJ and tw100.

( Aliens of London )

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