pedanther

:lol: This is why you should always watch the stuff with David Collings in first. ;-)

Still, I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I'd rather be able to satisfy my curiosity and see if things were good/rubbish/whatever than just wonder. There are few things that don't have something worth looking at in them. (Although there are some candidates...) And I have this thing about old sf and showing previous decade's paranoias, and which bits are baffling now, and which bits are still worth thinking about.

Level 7, as I said, was... well, beat me over the head with a cricket bat with the anti-Cold War stuff but, hey, you can't say 'Destroying the world with nuclear weapons is a bad thing' often enough, really. And they had so much trouble condensing the book, even with an extra ten minutes, you need to keep an eye out for how much time is passing. (I don't know whether I imagined it, but I think someone right at the end referred to what happened 5 minutes previously as being 'years ago'. But I was a bit tired.) And some rather 1960s things, generally. But even painted in with fairly broad strokes (and it is), there's some nice psychological horror/sf going on, and some cool visuals (I loved the air supply/plant room) and the way everybody has something that causes them to crack and show their humanity. David Collings is just the most human person who sees the stupidity and the horror of it first. Ha. Also, nobody was evil.

But I was a bit tired and I might just have liked it because of the David Collings stuff (especially when his hand didn't want to be there any more). But I don't think so.