All Shall Love Me and Despair

Right, below is my report as I typed it up on my laptop late Saturday night, 3 May 2008. I had wanted to post but couldn't get online for some weird reason.

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Sat 2008-05-03 - Milton Keynes, Jurys Inn Hotel, room 1029

Typing this up in Word since I can't seem to get onto the portal page that would allow me to choose the connection type and pay for it...

Before I tell you about my trip so far - ahaha Brian Blessed is on some show on BBC2 right now - ah, Have I Got a Bit More News For You! I really can't wait for my DVDs of The Return to Treasure Island... :D

( Some introductory ramblings about travel on bank holiday weekends )

AHAHAHA - A Blessed in Disguise! Black squirrels now pushing back the grey ones which had pushed back the brown ones? Where do those come from?!

lips_and_rouge and I intended to go for Mexican at Leicester Square but the only waitress there seemed too busy, so we ended up with fish&chips around the (Square) corner, which was delicious. Then we hurried over to the Odeon for The Oxford Murders, which I actually enjoyed a lot more than I had expected. The parts I enjoyed least were what they changed from the book (as far as I remember - it's been a while since I read it).

omg Brian is now telling a rather disgusting story from his trek up Mt. Everest... *snigger*

For those who don't mind (some major) spoilers for film and book, you can find more detailed remarks ( under the cut. )

I didn't notice the stilted language so much like others have, but then I'm not a native speaker.

It was fun to play "spot my friends" in the lecture scenes - definitely something I'll have to do while freeze-framing once I got the film on DVD! :D

I do need to re-read the book to refresh my memory, but from all I remember and all I recognised in the film from the book, I have to summarise that the changes they made to the story were mostly a disservice to the film, IMHO.

But like I said, despite my quibbles I did enjoy The Oxford Murders surprisingly much after hearing others' comments. The performances were all good, particularly John Hurt, and of course this is finally a film again that provides us with a lot of Elijah - yes, physically as well as in terms of screen time. ;)

We only had time for a coffee after the movie before we had to say goodbye and make our separate ways "home", but it was lovely to have seen the film with a fellow Elijahphile - and of course, just to meet up and catch up a bit. Hopefully until another time! *waves to lips_and_rouge* :D

( Ramblings about trip back and plans for Sunday which are irrelevant by now. )

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That's it. Would gladly discuss OM with others who've seen it - therefore a warning for possible spoilers in the comments, for those who haven't.

Now it looks like I'll actually be able to make it to Collectormania 13 with a reasonable amount of time to spend there on the Sunday*, they add a photo session with Mark Ryan - at 2PM on Monday! *headdesk* I could ask my boss at the new job if I could take Monday off, but this is my first day of working there full time so I don't really want to do that. Oh well. I hope that Mark's autograph queue won't be too busy and it's possible to take a picture at the desk at least.

Still undecided whether I should do one with John Barrowman (it looks like tickets are still available) - I do have my photo from the stage door in Birmingham. Now if they had a session with Captain Jack and Captain John together, that would be a must-have! ;)

It seems the Jurys Inn near The Centre still has rooms, and at a great last minute rate too, so I will get busy with the various bookings in a bit. serenitysangel and kneonlight - where/when should we meet up? :D

lips_and_rouge, are you still up for Oxford Murders in London on Saturday? Anyone else who'd like to join us?



*Thanks to my successor at the old job very generously offering to come pick me up by car at the station halfway to home, if I don't manage to catch the last train from there and my sister can't do it!