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December 7th, 2008

sqbr: Torchwood spoilers for various episode numbers: Jack dies (torchwood spoilers)
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 01:15 pm
Not feeling at all review-y but I keep meaning to post about these. So:

A review I did of the graphic novel Persepolis. Very good autobiography of a girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

Also I finally got around to watching the 90s movie Dating the Enemy. I have a major soft spot for body swap/change stories, especially genderswap, but it is so often done badly I've kind of given up on the genre. This isn't a fantastic film (the writing/directing etc is...ok. For an aussie film. From the 90s) but it did manage to have some clever/insightful touches, and most importantly made the central couple's differences largely a function of who they were as people rather than their gender. Also the characters have a refreshingly fluid attitude to their sexuality for a mainstream film :)

Hmm. Dating the Enemy and Wives and Daughters are about the only two romantic movies/tv shows with a female science nerd lead I can think of (And no Roxanne, The world is not enough and any other films with hot "physicists" don't count :P) There need to be more!