carmen_lj | (no subject)

The good thing about the Wii is that even if you do accidently spend half the day sitting in front of the telly, you are at least waving your arms about wildly, which is a fair bit more active than most computer gaming. Which is how I'm totally justifiying spending the weekend playing Lego Star Wars. It is a bit brilliant. Not only is it perfectly pitched at my puzzle-solving level (where I flail around for a while insisting to the screen that this time it is clearly impossible and have characters jump off cliffs in annoyance before the metaphorical lightbulb goes on and I get to feel ridiculously smug at my cleverness) with shiny platform action but bestest of all I get to have ~~Grand Moff Tarkin and Count Dooku~~ Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee running around saving the galaxy. Lego Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Winningness.

And I read Wizard's First Rule (shusht, omg, I know.) Most disturbing thing was it was not actually the worst thing I've read this year. It was awful though. And really bizarre - the reading level seems pitched at young adults then every so often something happens that is really...not young adult.

I don't think there's any way I could have got through it without having watched Legend of the Seeker, since it's a bit like reading a parody novel of the show. And it's pretty impressive how decent the series turned out to be based on what is derivative tripe. That repeats itself over and over and over again. Then a couple more times incase you forgot already. And once more for luck. I'd love to know how many of the eight hundred ages would be left if you were only allowed to make the same point three times or less. And no conversations where someone gets ridiculously angry and then apologises five seconds later were allowed.

Eastenders had unexpected!MaryTamm last night. She had exactly no lines. Which I accidently saw cause Eve Myles' latest telly thing was on afterwards: Framed. Which everyone should watch, cause it was rocking.