Accentuating the positive

OK, life has been no bed of roses recently. But it hasn't all been bad. Really.

There has been, for one thing, the confirmation that Ken MacLeod will be GoH at satellite_1. Yes!  What more can I say?

Life On Mars continues to delight. Although, frankly, they could have sat around reading the phone book after the Keep out of bloody Camberwick Green! line and I would still have been happy. I haven't caught up with my flist yet, not by any means, but I have seen an interesting post by blue_condition (I think it was) drawing parallels with LOM and The Prisoner. Hmm. He has a point. Let's hope the series ends in a suitably satisfactory manner.

I finally (finally!) saw Casino Royale. Ah.

My expectations of Bond films have been low in recent years decades. OK, Dalton and Brosnan gave decent performances, but sometimes they were fighting against the material. Still, an improvement over the Moore offerings (filed under lame and geriatric). The last utterly good Bond film was probably the best of them all, On Her Majesty's Secret Service. So, despite all the word-of-mouth, even from people like wibbble and banhe whose opinions are not worthless, I settled down to watch Casino Royale with the hope that it would be OK. Nothing more. ( Been disappointed too often in the past... )