The Patent Dragon's Zone of Soul Retraction

I've been thinking - and that's never a good thing...

( Let's just assume a whole bunch of potential spoilery about Torchwood: Miracle Day ahead... )

BONUS! For the best laugh ever, read the main article, then read this comment, but make sure you have fresh underwear to hand, as you may just p!!! yourself laughing...

Now, to the office, and some story posting...?

ITEM! Saturday is looking... better (could be about the best day of the "summer"), and that means Mission 101 Task 4 could still be a goer. This time tomorrow, I'll make my decision - and stick by it.

ITEM! And so, Torchwood - Miracle Day nears its conclusion, and whilst the story has thrown up some interesting questions - how do you deal with people who simply will not die? - it's taken too many episodes to do not a whole lot. The very fact that tonight's episode began with "Two months later" and at the end, we still have very few answers, except for the involvement of *SPOILERS* some colossal Earth-penetrating vagina or whatever the hell that was supposed to be *END SPOILERS*. I suspect the last episode will be heavy on decompression, and light on resolution, which is a big shame for such a grand concept.

The previous series, Children Of Earth was better.

ITEM! I rather get the feeling that Apollo 18 and Troll Hunter might not make it to my local cinema at all, just like Monsters last year, and my opinions for seeing Apollo 18 at all are drying up pretty rapidly...

Hey, even late night showings might be worth a go. If I can stay awake, of course - at least I'd have some kind of excuse today, in that there were footsteps on my bedroom roof at around 7am this morning. This was, however, expected...

Change of plan... I'm trying the new monitor as a second display for the laptop, which has a beefier graphics capability. It still doesn't like running IMVU at full-screen, though - something even more powerful is going to be needed, but this should still be okay for Ultima Online tonight...

I'm trying out a few other things in the meantime, and obviously there's a limit to what this laptop can churn out. I will have to go for a desktop machine that can do the crazy stuff - and I had budgeted for something a bit more pricey than the basic-level box I've been struggling along with these last few years. Just wish I knew something about graphics cards.

Development News... Right now, there really isn't any. Work on the new Brighthawk story has ground to a halt as the latest shopping "cascade" absorbs a bit more of my attention than I'd like. I'll be restarting at the weekend, perhaps taking a different approach, and folding some important current characters into the mix.

Now maybe a Glitterthorn story might be fun - just a one-chapter snap-shot like the Mane-of-Night one I just completed...

Tonight's highlight... At last - new Torchwood - mmmmm, and in HD, too!

In Today's Concluding Episode... Mane-of-Night tries to unwind, but life is never that easy - especially when a shocking revelation crosses her path...

Includes a startling glimpse into the future!

Release Notes... After plenty of work, and some post-release edits to correct some formatting, this story is done, and the seeds are sown - in more ways than one.

Development News... And things are going nicely on MoN-203 "Mane-of-Night And The Wayward Child". Chapter 1 is still mid-development, but it's a good start, and I won't be rushing this one. No sir.

Tonight... The conclusion of Torchwood - Children Of Earth. Someone will be kicking ass and taking names - if The 456 actually have either. Best thing on TV all year, I'd say. Watch it.

Development News... I love it when something pops up out of nowhere. Just before Torchwood, I was working on TDD-603 Part 4, typing up existing material and laying the foundations for the final "push", and an opportunity for something emerged. I needed an explanation for just why One Character had come looking for Another Character, and the answer to that was born like Athena from Zeus's forehead - and with it came a nice solid link to the events of the epilogue, and a tasty bit of foreshadowing. I think today's hospital/shopping trip has been refreshing for the creative process, and I could actually have the whole "anthology episode" finished by tomorrow. Seriously.

No, really.

Really really...

Watch me finish this post, do a bit of web "housekeeping", then it's game time.

Tonight's Feature Presentation... In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was ROCKING. Today saw "Day One" of Torchwood - Children Of Earth, and damn, it was GOOD. We get some nasty goings-on in government (no surprise, really), some sweet insights into the family lives of our heroes as the reduced cast allows for more character exploration - and then everything goes to hell. You'll smile, you'll laugh (OMG not the Torchwood-mobile!!!), you'll cry - you'll not be able to wait until tomorrow night for Day Two! Highly Recommended!