TV Review and Recommendation -- Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King

Those of you who watch The SciFi Channel may have seen advertisements for a "SciFi Original Miniseries" called Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King. Some of the ads have said things along the lines of, "Before The Lord of the Rings... before Narnia...", which certainly raised an eyebrow or two on my couch.

Given the dismal record SciFi has for both "SciFi Originals" and my general dissapointment in most "Fantasy", we didn't expect much. We'd seen more than a few ads that were just intriguing enough for us to tune in to something unwatchably bad. Given the cryptic "Before Tolkien" tagline, though, and of course the fact that we have to at least glance at any movie with a dragon in it, we made sure the DVR was going to catch both parts.

Part I aired last night.( Minor Spoilers )

It has so far proved entirely watchable, and not bad at all.

They're re-running Part I tonight, just before Part II, and have reruns scheduled throughout the upcoming week, so all of you out there in LiveJournal land have plenty of opportunities to catch it. And it's worth the effort.

TV Review and Recommendation -- Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King

Those of you who watch The SciFi Channel may have seen advertisements for a "SciFi Original Miniseries" called Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King. Some of the ads have said things along the lines of, "Before The Lord of the Rings... before Narnia...", which certainly raised an eyebrow or two on my couch.

Given the dismal record SciFi has for both "SciFi Originals" and my general dissapointment in most "Fantasy", we didn't expect much. We'd seen more than a few ads that were just intriguing enough for us to tune in to something unwatchably bad. Given the cryptic "Before Tolkien" tagline, though, and of course the fact that we have to at least glance at any movie with a dragon in it, we made sure the DVR was going to catch both parts.

Part I aired last night.( Minor Spoilers )

It has so far proved entirely watchable, and not bad at all.

They're re-running Part I tonight, just before Part II, and have reruns scheduled throughout the upcoming week, so all of you out there in LiveJournal land have plenty of opportunities to catch it. And it's worth the effort.

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I just deleted most of my Web bookmarks.

Some of them probably date back ten years. I had scores, if not hundreds of the damned things. I knew a lot of them were probably broken, but going through and finding which ones were still was an impossible task. I sort my bookmarks by folders, and the stuff I check regularly was all in neatly-labled folders at the top of my list (kept there with "AAA" prefixes: "AAA Blogs", "AAA Comics", "AAA News", et cetera).

The older folders, I didn't check so often. In fact, I'd say I hadn't touched the bulk of them in two or three years.

Today, I realized that it was generally faster and easier to Google on any given topic than to hunt through my bookmarks, even if the Google search took me to a page that was somewhere in that long list. In fact, my first reflex upon thinking "I remember seeing a page that..." is to Google.

Given the speed of my connection and the convenience of the Search Toolbar in Firefox, that huge collection of links was just plain defunct.

So why keep'em?

kerflush!!

Ahhh, if only it were so easy to part with physical clutter that way.

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I just deleted most of my Web bookmarks.

Some of them probably date back ten years. I had scores, if not hundreds of the damned things. I knew a lot of them were probably broken, but going through and finding which ones were still was an impossible task. I sort my bookmarks by folders, and the stuff I check regularly was all in neatly-labled folders at the top of my list (kept there with "AAA" prefixes: "AAA Blogs", "AAA Comics", "AAA News", et cetera).

The older folders, I didn't check so often. In fact, I'd say I hadn't touched the bulk of them in two or three years.

Today, I realized that it was generally faster and easier to Google on any given topic than to hunt through my bookmarks, even if the Google search took me to a page that was somewhere in that long list. In fact, my first reflex upon thinking "I remember seeing a page that..." is to Google.

Given the speed of my connection and the convenience of the Search Toolbar in Firefox, that huge collection of links was just plain defunct.

So why keep'em?

kerflush!!

Ahhh, if only it were so easy to part with physical clutter that way.