User blog:Sir Koji: White Knight/The Shadow Line, Zen, Game of Thrones, Jesse Stone

So, Friday was my last day of high school, graduation is this weekend. So I haven't had school the past few days, while the other grades have. What have I been doing? Burning through my "to watch" list.

I watched all three episodes so far of "The Shadow Line" with Christopher Eccleston and Chiwetel Ejofor. Took me until the third episode to really get into it, but it's great. The police and the criminals both working the case from different sides over the death of a drug dealer, or something. I'm only watching for Eccleston (the Ninth Doctor from Doctor Who; my favorite Doctor), but it is really good. A pity it's only seven episodes.

Then there's "Zen", based on the Aurelio Zen novels (I need to read those...). Set in Rome (beautiful to watch as a result), Venetian detective Zen is essentially the only clean cop/detective and works these cases that higher ups want ignored. That's about the gist of it. Now Zen is a great character, and the three 90 minute episodes are great, though the first lacked a bit, I watched all of them. BBC canceled it, which is unfortunate, it was quite good.

Today I'm starting "Game of Thrones", since I don't get HBO. Looking forward to it ever since "Legend of the Seeker" was canceled, and especially since I'm waiting on my orders of the entire "Sword of Truth" book series (LotS was based on them).

Friday the new "Jesse Stone" movie was on. They star Tom Selleck ("Magnum, P.I.", "Blue Bloods") as the titular character. I've never read the novels, but want to see the movies of which there are seven or eight. Taped the new one, I'm going to watch the other seven or so online in the next few days. I'm a big fan of Selleck; really looking forward to these.

Other business...BZP had better come back up soon. I need inspiration to write more LoP, and burning through Book 1 would give me that motivation...