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Interesting Things
Tuesday, 24 January 2006 09:07 am1. Absolutely my second favourite mental image of the year so far (still behind the Wallace & Gromit chest-beating bunnies) is James and the Blue Cat's beach-storming dolphins. (Scroll down to 17th January).
2. It's actually easier to type "science fiction tv series canada cape town jade" into Google than to get up and check the TV guide for the name of the truly weird sf series set in Cape Town that I watched on Sunday night. Charlie Jade, that's it. Has anyone else been watching it? (it's on only in the SA and Canada). Is it just me coming in several episodes in and being totally dislocated by the CT setting, or is the story complex and almost incomprehensible? I was actually pleasantly surprised by the series, Khoi_Boi tipped me off to the show but said it was pretty bad. I'm not sure whether I agree. The basic plot (three alternate realities each with a version of Cape Town; one present-day, one cyberpunky, and one I haven't seen yet) is interesting: the concept has been done before, but the way it's being fleshed out is fairly compelling. The visual feel is creative, if slightly pretentious, with reliance on visual devices like fade-to-white and colour tinting, slightly stuffed by our really poor SABC3 reception. The storytelling is fast, fragmented, dense. Must watch again next week. Promising.
2. It's actually easier to type "science fiction tv series canada cape town jade" into Google than to get up and check the TV guide for the name of the truly weird sf series set in Cape Town that I watched on Sunday night. Charlie Jade, that's it. Has anyone else been watching it? (it's on only in the SA and Canada). Is it just me coming in several episodes in and being totally dislocated by the CT setting, or is the story complex and almost incomprehensible? I was actually pleasantly surprised by the series, Khoi_Boi tipped me off to the show but said it was pretty bad. I'm not sure whether I agree. The basic plot (three alternate realities each with a version of Cape Town; one present-day, one cyberpunky, and one I haven't seen yet) is interesting: the concept has been done before, but the way it's being fleshed out is fairly compelling. The visual feel is creative, if slightly pretentious, with reliance on visual devices like fade-to-white and colour tinting, slightly stuffed by our really poor SABC3 reception. The storytelling is fast, fragmented, dense. Must watch again next week. Promising.
