another kitty falls off the edge

[pennie_dreadful]

Yes, Olive (bless her) fell off my balcony yesterday.  But she had the sense to cry and howl and carry on so I knew she had fallen (unlike Toby, who just sat under my neighbor's patio table and waited for me to notice he was missing).

It is a wonder I have not found more gray hairs with all the crap and drama those cats put me through.  And the only reason I even open the door anymore is to air out the apartment.  It gets very stale and musty smelling in there sometimes.  And that's the only access to natural light I have.  The balcony door and my bedroom window. 

And now I bring you a scathing review of The Legend of the Seeker, the tv show based on Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series.  (Cross posted to epicfantasy )

I happened to stumble across it last night and decided to give it a go.  Let me first say that while I find the books boring and full of tired tropes, I actually wanted to see the show and was hoping it would be good, because sci fi tv shows are a-dime-a-dozen, but fantasy tv shows?  I can't think of any others, baring tv movies or miniseries.

It was worse even than the books, because at least with books you don't have to deal with bad acting.

First of all, Darken Rahl is laughable.  They tried, oh they tried.  Having him kill one of his subordinates, using his blood for ink...but it just was not menacing in the least.  He tries to do that "quiet menace" thing, where he's very calm and controlled and you know he's about to mess up the guy that just royally screwed up.  But it fails.

Kahlan, poor dear, is suffering from the classic DID symptom of excessive cleavage.  Everything she wears has a plunging neckline...why?  If I was going to be wandering in the wilderness and then into unknown territory I would wear sensible clothing.  No flowing sleeves (all an enemy has to do is grab her sleeve and he could cut off her arm) no boobs busting out.  Duh.

And Richard.  Richard, Richard, Richard.  Who drops such articulate pearls of wisdom, "It's hard to lose those you love."  You speak wisely, young grasshopper.  If anything, tv Richard is a bigger Sue than book Richard.  Somehow just seeing it on screen makes it worse. 

I do give the guys props for casting an African American as Chase.  He still sucks at acting, but that was cool.  Not something you would expect.  At least none of them tried to do some psuedo-Brit accent.  Thank god. 

And the whole "lob fireballs at the boundary until it comes down"--come on, if it was that easy...the logic gaps are countless.  Such as Chase being able to find them at just right the moment before they leave Westland.  All he know is they are at the boundary.  Not where exactly.  But he manages it.  Because he is good like that.

See, crap like this is what gives fantasy it's low brow image.  It wasn't bad enough it was confined to books; it is now being beaming into households across America.  Yeah, thanks for that.  Although I do hope the show stays in production long enough for Richard to be captured by the Mord Sith.  I am curious as to how exactly his being tortured with a dildo of doom agiel will be visualized.