Kai's not too sure about the orienteering. He sort of enjoyed it, but he managed to turn his ankle in a pothole which slowed him down so his team (of two) only came in second of their school, which annoyed his team mate I gather... There's another open orienteering event on the 30th: I'll see if he wants to go to that, maybe with a friend.
We watched our old, ex-rental video of
Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear at the weekend, thinking Kai might like it. He did - so much he then bought the DVD on amazon! It arrived yesterday, and this morning the
Alien Nation and
Lexx Season 3 boxed sets dropped through the letterbox...
So I took a light day, got a few bits and pieces of business done while watching the first
Alien Nation disc. Most enjoyable: I'd forgotten that great scene outside the school. When Kai got back from school he played his DVD - exclaiming about how much better/sharper/clearer it was than the video - then I gave him a brief summary of the start of the
Lexx story and the main characters. Because I thought he'd like the concept, even though much of it is dark and somewhat adult material (it's rated 15, though I would have thought 18 would be more appropriate). Kai gave it a few minute's thought then decided he'd like to give it a try...
We watched
3.01: Fire and Water and he was absolutely enthralled. Begged us to play
3.02 since 01 ended on a cliffhanger! Hated 790 on sight - [grin] sprog after my own heart - and was fascinated by his namesake.
I told him the story of how I first watched and became addicted to
Lexx while he was still a baby, and when I first got in touch with other Lexx fans they asked me if he'd been named after Kai in the show. (Of course he wasn't - not only was he born and named before I ever saw the series, but I would hardly be likely to name my son after a 2,000 year-dead, decarbonised assassin for the Divine Order now, would I? [glower] That was a rhetorical question. I do not expect answers. Certainly not positive ones.)
Anyway, Kai (my Kai that is, not the aforementioned dead decarbonised assassin - and yes, that is his hair, not some sort of headgear ->)
now wants to see the rest - not one ep a night as I suggested, but two episodes please... [grin] He's going to find some of the episodes a little slow, I know that, but he loved the sheer uniqueness of it, just as I do. We might even be able to watch the full season before I take him down to Exeter next Wednesday...
Doctor's appointment 10.30 tomorrow. Suppose I ought to try for an earlier night.
Labels: Alien Nation, Lexx, Orienteering
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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