Stars...

I enjoyed this essay about Kate Middleton and stardom; loved the comment that she was "Elizabeth Bennet writ large".

Though I laughed when the writer accused John Barrowman of leering at the alluring female contestants on I'd Do Anything. "Narcissistic" might be a fair accusation (and I mean that in the nicest possible way), but it seems he knows very little about Barrowman.

FF #2

Fantastic Four was once my favourite comic. Mind you, I was ten years old at the time. It's the comic that hooked me on Marvel.

As decades went by, I lost interest. I've always loved the characters. But the stories were lacklustre, unoriginal, puerile.

My interest revived because of the crossover stories that featured Daken with the Fantastic Four, and then the much-publicized death of Johnny Storm. So I picked up the first issue of the successor comic, FF, and while I didn't exactly love it, I liked it enough to buy the next issue - mostly because of the inclusion of Spider-Man. Even though he has a strange white costume (was that necessary?) his dialogue is good.

I really, really hoped this comic was going to turn into something good. I hoped I'd be wanting to read it again.

Then I read issue #2.

Stupid.

So much for getting my hopes up.

Fringe 3x22: "The Day We Died"

...So how long do we have to wait till the next episode?

Really?

As season-enders go, I thought this was fabulous. Just this morning I was wondering what they'd do ( to top last season, when... )