A visit from the Doctor?

[kelliem]

I stopped at Panera this morning for coffee and some kind of nummy breakfasty thing, and this was in the parking lot:

Looks like The Doctor finally fixed that Chameleon Circuit. ;D Good job choosing a Prius. In this area they're as ubiquitous as a Police Box was in England 40 years ago.

I'm finally on the mend after two weeks of bronchitis. Not the way I really wanted to spend the holidays! I've spent the last two weeks basically hibernating, feeling sorry for myself, and watching a lot of No Reservations on the Travel Channel, lots of true crime shows, and various other stuff like that History Channel "Nostradamus 2012" program Sunday night which should have been titled "Prophecy for the Gullible." Geez. It was really annoying. Kidunit and I rented a few DVDs over the weekend and watched Wall-E, The Golden Compass, and Wanted. Wanted was pretty much an exercise in pretty, stylized violence-- I didn't like it much. I was also very disappointed in The Golden Compass -- granted it would have been very hard to really do justice to the novel, but I found it choppy and overly expository, and also everything after they got to the North was really dark and hard to see. I think they were trying too hard to keep the Catholic Church from boycotting them. I doubt they'll do another in the series. Wall-E, however, was a delight. We both loved it. I also have to say I am loving Leverage. If you haven't watched it yet, I highly recommend it. I don't find it slashy (darn it) but it's a fun show.

Comments

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

I think it's been announced that they won't be doing the sequels to the Golden Compass. It was kind of choppy and had an info-dump movie, but gloriously costumed, just a pretty, pretty movie.

Leverage is a lot of fun.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard that it was official, thanks for the confirmation. Yes, the costuming was great and the cast was good, and the FX were good, too. But it just didn't work all together.

RE: Golden Compass

[raine-wynd.livejournal.com]

Word has it that since The Golden Compass didn't do so well at the box office, any chance of a sequel is gone -- and worst part about it is that they did film more of the North stuff but scrapped it for the release (if you look at the trailer for the movie, there's a scene that never made the film release version.) Also, Nicole Kidman's Catholic; she said in interviews something to the effect of she would never do act in anything that was against the Church.

Re: Golden Compass

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Maybe they'll put out a 'directors cut' of the first movie and include the missing scenes.

(I guess NK isn't a Scientologist any more...)

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're feeling better at last!

Would you like the first season of Chuck to help cheer you up? :)

Oh, God, at first glance I misread your post -- Nostradamus 90210.

Great license plate. :)

My car is so covered with salt, I don't think the plates are readable.