Random movie stuff

Because of an unexpected shift of some football (=soccer for you American people) match, Sat1 unexpectedly showed the 2004 King Arthur movie the day before yesterday. Naturally, I watched it. Even recorded it, because, well, it was an Arthurian movie.

In short, it was fairly bad. Boring as Hell, with characters that did nothing that would make me identify with them, and for a supposedly historical movie amazingy inaccurate. One can argue about Arthur's histroic existence pro and contra, but there were definite historic events falsified or moved on the timeline back and forth for decades, so - sorry, no!

OTOH, I found, to my great delight and surprise, a DVD in our local supermarket featuring Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew, which was the single most important film of my youth. Granted, it was in my very religious phase, but I can't remember any other film, be it before or after, that would have touched me so deeply.

I can still remember how we'd stand in the queue before the cinema for hours, literally, as it was only being shown in one, and that only for a limited time, this being back in the 1970s. I hope I'l rediscover at least a small shard of that unparalleled sense of wonder, even on the small screen. I'll keep it as an Easter treat.

Lost in the Past update

Chapter 09 - Dining With Princes has just been posted to otherworlds_lib.

In an attack of unchanneled creativity, I decided to end this particular story with the next chapter, as it will become the first part of my "Torchwood Virtual Season 3"-trilogy. The second part will be an alternate version of CoE, in which Jack and his helpers will set things right, and the third one will tell how Jack travelled to the past to find Ianto and with what results.

Yes, I know it's mean of me to bring such a twist into the whole thing, but this is the only hope to keep things at a size that I can actually handle. So sorry, folks. *ducks*