Of Friday night

M:i:III is a good enough film to unwind in. Lots of action, just enough neat blood to balance the syrupy sweetness between Agent Hunt and his wife. Thankfully, this movie doesn't end like In Her Majesty's Secret Service. Those of you who were old enough to catch, or interested enough to go back to the old 007 movies get my point. It raises the question, though. if ever there's another sequel, will Mrs. Hunt still feature in it? If she doesn't, what kinda excuse are they going to give? Divorced? On vacation? Involved in an extended medical emergency? What? The film is open-ended enough to admit a fourth installment. The rabbit foot isn't explained, not really, and going on honeymoon isn't retiring.

By the way, wasn't the pilot/driver there the coach in the indie film Bend it Like Beckham? And somebody tell me if the computations being scribbled across the glass pane by Hunt were actually equations or plain gibberish.

M, thank you for Seduced by Moonlight. I've actually scanned two of the earlier books in the Merry Gentry series. The world of the fey didn't really do it for me in the beginning, but let's just say that it grows on you. Not you, literally, but I'm excited about the whole stuff now. There's a possibility I'll complete the series to see

1. Whether Prince Cel (Celtic: KEL) is a completely insane sadist who deserves rightly not to ascend the throne of the Sidhe, and
2. Which of the former Queen's Ravens Merry ends up with, the Queen's Darkness or the Freezing Frost.

The clincher was the bibliography at the end of the novel. I know. But I really like checking the biblio. Plus, it's easier to collect the four books, compared with the 14-novel Anita Blake series. Toni, Danse Macabre is coming out on June 27. I hope to read just a tad less about the ardeur there, and more about lycanthropic and vampire politics.