Tassie Dave’s Comments (group member since Mar 27, 2011)

Tassie Dave’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

AndrewP wrote: "Is this book 1 or book 2 of a series? Goodreads says it's #2, but Amazon says it's #1."

It's No.2

Amazon, for some strange reason, has The Fold as Book 1 of 1 in the Threshold series and doesn't include the other 3 books as part of the series.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...

it is Book 2 of the series, but from what I've read, the books in the series are only loosely connected and don't require reading the previous books.

I guess the guest hosts like Sci-Fi. 3 Laser picks in a row.

It wasn't me. I thought the random character title was amusing 😊

As well as the comedies already mentioned, the title sequence also had a "That Girl" and "Mary Tyler Moore Show" vibe with Wanda's girl around town scenes

Whether intentional or not.

The first 2 episodes came out last Friday the rest are out weekly (on Friday) until March 5th.

9 episodes in total.

Dick Van Dyke was a consultant on WandaVision, to help them get the look and feel right.

They pulled it off perfectly.

terpkristin wrote: "The Golem and the Jinni, which I think we read in S&L some years back, is on sale for $2.99 today. amazon link"

Yes we read it in October, 2016

https://swordandlaser.fandom.com/wiki...

John (Taloni) wrote: "Has no one in the media audience seen Pleasantville? That's the first thing I thought of with the color breakthrough. Haven't seen any reference to that in the media or Twitter frothing."

It wasn't my first thought. It reminded me of when Oz got colour TV back in 1975. It happened in the middle of a comedy show "The Aunty Jack Show" and was a major part of the storyline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunty_J...

I am 99.999999999% sure that WandaVision isn't referencing Aunty Jack 😉

The Pleasantville reference sounds reasonable. I also got a Stepford Wives vibe off the scene with all the women.

I have had a reminder set for that for a few weeks. It looks cool.

Tom may be interested in that. He and his wife are fans of Korean TV and movies. Plus it's Laser.

POC - 18.75%
White - 81.25%

Male - 34.37%
Female - 62.5%
Non-Binary - 3.12%
Transgender - 6.25%

I enjoyed it for what it was (Parody of 50s & 60s sitcoms) and for the glimpses into the greater & darker mystery that lies behind it.

If we hadn't seen those few menacing scenes and "glitches in the matrix" I'd have enjoyed it less.

Am I missing something with the thread title

or did your cat walk across the keyboard 😉

I hadn't watched any of the recent trailers for WV. The early one I saw was much more enigmatic.

But after seeing a TV ad for the show with some non-TV land scenes, I am much more excited for what we are going to get.

I'm on the fence about WandaVision. There's a good story waiting to bust out.

So hopefully they don't drag out the faux-Bewitched shtick out for too long.

In honour of Trike's "Quick Burns" story:

Trike's new avatar 😉

Mark wrote: "I sneak in after Dave creates the pages and translate them from the original Australian."

We prefer our lingo to be called Strine 😉

Trike wrote: "dinkum, cobber!"

2 words I've never used, or crikey 😉

Mark wrote: "truth, dude"

struth, maaaaate 😉


We'd better quit before a moderator tells us off 😜

Mark wrote: "The Sword & Laser Wiki has 200 pages!

https://swordandlaser.fandom.com/wiki..."

I guess I'm responsible for the majority of those. 😉

At an educated guess I'd say I've made over 150 pages 😮 and contributed to at least another 10+ pages

and I'd say Mark has contributed to more pages than me 180+

Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman replaces the British colonisers of Australia with aliens invaders.

Claire has also written a space opera war story The Old Lie

Her novels are sci-fi, but they are political commentaries on the lives of indigenous Australians and their treatment under colonialism.

https://nit.com.au/noongar-author-tru...

Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction

Edvardas wrote: "Thanks. Started reading it. From the about 15-ish percent that I read, I'm interested what exactly is happening in that house.."

I thought you wanted happier/lighter? This is not happy or light. 😉 I did enjoy it though. A nice gothic horror,

Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "I know the answer to this but it's a spoiler!"

I can understand why Trike categorised it his way, and I do think it straddles both Sword and Laser. I leant more to the Sword side for the purposes of the Book challenges.

I just started The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl and finishing up Mexican Gothic