The Sophia Myles film festival continues! In 2006 Myles appeared as Lucy Westenra in a new BBC adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with a cast that included Marc Warren as the sanguinary count, Rafe Spall as Jonathan Harker, and David Suchet as Van Helsing. Oh my god, what a piece of shite! What the hellContinue reading “On the 2006 BBC Dracula”
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On “The Girl in the Fireplace”
The Sophia Myles film festival continues! Now up for discussion, 2006’s Doctor Who episode, “The Girl in the Fireplace,” by Steven Moffat and winner of the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. The TARDIS materializes aboard a starship in the 51st century. The ship is abandoned, though there’s a great deal of powerContinue reading “On “The Girl in the Fireplace””
On Tristan + Isolde
My Sophia Myles film festival continued with 2006’s Tristan + Isolde. The story of Tristan and Isolde is one of the great tragic love stories, and has been told in medieval romances for about a millennia. The story centers on the love triangle between Tristan, his uncle (and liege lord) Mark, and Mark’s wife Isolde.Continue reading “On Tristan + Isolde”
On Outlander
My Sophia Myles film festival began with Outlander. Norway, 704 CE. A spacecraft crash lands near a Viking village. The lone survivor discovers that his spacecraft carried an alien creature, the Moorwen, and he begins to hunt it down. He finds one Viking village destroyed by the creature, but before he can kill it he’sContinue reading “On Outlander”
On Random Observations
Here’s a collection of random ramblings taken from recent e-mails and ‘net postings, just to keep casual readers up-to-date on the things Allyn Gibson has written elsewhere…. On Jean-Luc Picard: The Buried Age is a “Lost Era” novel. It’s about Picard’s “lost weekend” when he went to L.A., hung out with Harry Nilsson, recorded anContinue reading “On Random Observations”
On Moonlight
I was flipping through channels the other day, trying to find the NBC station here in Baltimore — and for what it’s worth, I still have no idea what that is — when I caught a commercial. And it was Sophia Myles in the commercial! Sophia Myles! Doing American television! I put my Google-Fu powersContinue reading “On Moonlight”