Adventures in Bat Country

I should have gone to sleep two hours ago, but the Colony fascinates me.

The premise is a group of volunteers running through an end of the world simulation.

In other words, Fallout 3 LARP!!!

insatia and I have been watching Dollhouse on DVD.

We just received the last two disks. I haven't looked at them yet because we like to watch them together, but I looked on the last disk.

Unaired pilot.

Really Fox?

Again?

You can't bother to show the first episode?

A number of writers have been writing about their YA Character Crushes . I decided I would try to so the same, only obviously, I'd pick girls. These are characters that I wish I had created.

5. Lyra Belacqua from His Dark Materials

I think Pullman really captured what it is like to be an orphan. I love Lyra's scenes with Mrs. Coulter. She's strong and smart, and really wants to see Polar Bears. Who can blame her?

4. Tally Youngblood from the Uglies Series

Tally is selfish, rude, curious, and thinks she knows everything. A perfect teenager. I really enjoyed this series as a whole. It was interesting watching Tally fight her programming and evolution to see people as just people.

3. Meggie Folchar from InkHeart

Meggie is pure awesome. If you love books, and I am the smell, the feel, just having them, you should read InkHeart. Maggie is the daughter of a book binder that has the magical ability to pull characters from books into the real world. She has a wry sense of humor and uses the gifts she has to make a difference. And in the end, when she discovers she has the same talent as her father, she chooses instead to write her down stories.

2. Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter

Loony Luna is an outcast. She is picked on. And still she is happy. She enjoys life and makes the best of things. A lot of people accuse J.K Rowling of writing Hermione as a Mary-Sue, but I think she catches a lot of sadness in this character. The scene in Luna's bedroom with the friends montage always makes me tear up. In a manly way of course.

1. Hermione from Harry Potter

Hermione kicks ass in the Harry Potter books. She's smart, funny, and good at magic. And yet, still loses her temper and has a bit of the dark side. Yeah, I noticed she tried to have Umbridge with the Centaurs. She's one bad-ass bitch when she gets angry.

The Land of the Lost is a lot better than I remember. I've been watching the marathon today on the Sci-Fi channel.

The acting is horrible. The special effects abysmal.

And yet, the writing was consistent. The characters slowly learn about the Land of the Lost and all of the details are consistent, even if the science isn't perfect.

I actually am curious about the new movie coming out.