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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Writer/director here. Thx for Heyer & Crusie. Thx for Siliang Island. Amazing what a few artsy geeks can do in an office in Beijing. The young Keanu avatar was a fun touch. The millennial-authored "Red White & Royal Blue" has abundant high spirits, romance, comedy, heart & old fashioned big stakes: when worlds collide. You might like it? As usual, the book's more fun than the movie, but one actor delights. Ciao.
Lois McMaster Bujold
You're welcome! I haven't found anything lately to top Siliang Island, (found on the streaming site Rakuten Viki) though I keep scrounging. Although there was a recent manga-faithful remake of the story-essential Hazel arc of Saiyuki Reload, now dubbed Saiyuki Reload Zeroin, that was a wonderful correction to the incoherent mess the earlier anime makers made of it, now with Ukoku done right, and a DVD release I just found of Saiyuki Reload Burial, mine now. Though Saiyuki is perhaps an acquired taste. (And the static 90s-crude polar opposite in animation style to the elegant Siliang, so requires some tolerance.)
Otherwise nothing too compelling, although the animation of My Heroic Husband was fairly entertaining. Haven't got far into the live-action version yet. Also recent, Link Click started interesting, got much too serial-killery for me by the end of season 1, have not yet sampled season 2. When all that fails, it's back to the bottomless bin of Great Courses on Wondrium.com.
This would be a good place for commenters to share media finds with each other.
Ta, L.
Otherwise nothing too compelling, although the animation of My Heroic Husband was fairly entertaining. Haven't got far into the live-action version yet. Also recent, Link Click started interesting, got much too serial-killery for me by the end of season 1, have not yet sampled season 2. When all that fails, it's back to the bottomless bin of Great Courses on Wondrium.com.
This would be a good place for commenters to share media finds with each other.
Ta, L.
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Shane Castle
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
The first of your stories set in the world of the five gods that your public has seen is The Curse of Chalion. Was that the first one written? And, can you (briefly) outline your thoughts behind this world? I know that a lot of energy can go into backstories that the public never sees, but I would love to hear about some of them.
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