Also, certain wabbits have nasty pointed teeth.

Bunnies aren’t just cute like everybody supposes. They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses. And what’s with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anywaaaaaaaay?

Oh, Mal. You’ll never understand. Because you rejected it. Sigh.

He hasn’t really borrowed them in the sense that they’re in the same house they would be in if I was watching them.

And yes…it is a long way from Ballymun to Belfield, in every sense. It’s funny watching tracksuits give way to briefcases.

I am inferring from the fact that you were in the ‘Mun last night that you spoke to your brother about my Buffy DVDs then. I really hope you didn’t take them home and leave them there BEFORE asking me if he could borrow them. I hope this because I don’t want to hurt you. Doesn’t mean I won’t…

Why do they never make soap films? because they’d never finish any story. that’s the beauty of soaps, they just keep on going. For generation after generation

I hadn’t a clue what was going in The Great Hunt; I think I gave up after about twenty pages. It was just the earliest volume I could find in Ballymun library.

Hey, maybe I should start putting on my socks before my shoes? Toasting bread and THEN buttering it? So many possibilities are opening up!

I think women ADMIT to watching soaps more than men. Of course, I don’t watch soaps…but I APPROVE of them. Or rather I approve of the Coronation Street ones, which are (I presume) about ordinary folk doing ordinary things. Rather than people lusting after some gaudy lifestyle of the rich and brainless.

Why do they never make cinema fillums of soaps? I’d go to them.

If a plot and characterisation are both top notch you can’t separate them; the plot proceeds spontaneously from the characters. Carrie is the example I always think of. From the scene in the showers, the rest of that film unfolds so naturally that you couldn’t imagine it happening any other way, given those people.

I didn’t think Kelley Armstrong’s characters were very interesting, though.

I agree plot isn’t so important, though. When my small brain gets confused by a plot I stop even trying to follow it. So his wife thinks that he works for MI5 but really he’s a plumber except he’s hit his head at work and now he thinks he’s a spy…whatever…

I have this theory, the reason more women than men watch soaps is because of the longevity of characters. The plots are really fairly unimportant, it is how the characters react that make it watchable. Although in the case of soaps they are never believable. But that is beside the point.
As far as I’m concerned plot doesn’t matter, it is only a series of actions that give the characters something to do. Obviously an arc and well thought out plot can make a book or film tighter and help with pacing. But if the characters don’t interest me, but the plot is fantastic, then I’m never going to love something as much as I would if it was the reverse.

Dime Store Magic isn’t the best of Armstrong’s; the first is, Bitten. imo of course.