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[erastes]

Mostly, I don't subscribe to the Cult of Nice - I believe in being generally polite but I do tend to say what I want - and in the main I do prefer honest critique than mindless squee (specially when something doesn't deserve it) but sometime the Cult of Mean is just as bad when people attack for very little reason. When one is heading into dotage-dom, one finds some histrionics to be very fanbratty. I just thought that original fiction land was going to be full of pipe-smoking, tweed wearing intellectuals, discussing Proust and making me feel like an airhead. Instead sometimes I just feel old.

Meh.

Watched Cape Wrath last night (called Meadowlands in the USA, possibly because the schedulers thought that Americans would think it was a sequel to Cape Fear or something.. *headdesk *) and although I wasn't terribly impressed (I didn't bother to switch to digital to catch the second episode a week early, for example) I did give it a go and was at least intrigued that there was a MC death straight away. However, I was expecting - when he died and said "I'm getting out" that someone would have panned to a clock or something because he HAD been told he'd be "getting out" at midnight.

So, I am intrigued, for now, but if it starts doing a "Lost" and never answers any questions I won't be hanging around. Not really seeing the point of it, as yet, there doens't actually seem to be any coherent plot. But - well, I'll hang around for now. What did you lot think?