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DK Latta
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I write sometimes: F/SF/H/Myst &, when I can, superheroes! Tweets a mix of self-promotion, pop cultural musings, whimsy, politics. Older than I used to be.
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Not Dalton. Craig. I always muddle DDDDael Craig withTimothy DDDDalton; the "D"s confuse m for some reason
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The more operatic sense of melodrama; personalizing relationships (enemies & friends) - esp. retconning (a comic book term!) Blofeld as his stepbrother; the more emotional inner turmoil; the more complex exterior moral dilemmas. (I mean, Bond was always comic book/superhero a bit, but still...)
3/3
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Blaxploitation, Martial Arts, good ol' boy hijinxs, space opera; villains go from Cold War, drug lords, terrorists, cybercrime, etc. Theme songs: current pop stars. All mapped onto the same-ish formula/Act structure.
A pop culture timeline.
And I'd argue Dalton films infl'nc'd by...superheroes! 2/3
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Yrs ago (midst race riots in var. nations) an article argued integration failed while acknowledging Canada hadn't had riots n treated Multiculturalism as a genuine policy. Rather than see that as pertinent, it dismissed CDN as irrelevant outlier.
They can always "prove" by cherry picking evidence
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
.. to be Bond's Kobayashi Maru (to ref another enduring franchise) or dilemme cornélien (if ya wanna get hi-falutin') but I feel that stories/story choices like that (and the Outer Limits ep) raise interesting questions about how diff people view these kind of dilemmas/dramatic concepts. 3/3
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Reminds me of ep of Canadian #OuterLimits re-boot (circa 1990s) where guys dying from radiation go on a suicide mission and my brother and I thought: but if they're dying already, the fact that it's a suicide mission is kind of irrelevant. I dunno. I get that in No Time to Die they wanted it...2/3
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
..knifing and '70s era Creley could stealth slip a stiletto into Clearcut Greene. The others concede.
Then scary things start happening and the game is interrupted. (Also I think Doyle was supposed to be a psychic/medium)
About then I drifted off to sleep...
Well, Doc, am I normal?
4/4
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Doyle offers Donald Sutherland; Chen counters John Vernon. Gee Graham Greene; the others balk but she cites Clearcut. Kreuk (still protesting) says Jack Creley. They scoff. No way Creley could win a knife fight against Clearcut Graham Greene; Kreuk says they never specified a "fight" just...3/4
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Kreuk's character doesn't know what it is (she seems less of the group); they explain it's celeb/can-do: in this case: a dead Canadian actor who could knife another. Gee opens with Gordon Pinsent; Kreuk protests she doesn't understand the game then blurts out Ken Welsh (the others seem impressed)2/4
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
..wrote the jokes, maybe begged the director to let him flesh-out a character who was otherwise just "the guy with glasses" (and the director said OK, but I'm not re-blocking or slowing the scene for it). Further to my theory? The jokes *do* feel tonally consistent with Black's later scripts!
2/2
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Sorry: Auguste Levasseur - Chef des Clacquers (singular chef :)
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The play: quite good. Dicken-esque w/ star-crossed lovers and organized crime. Written by Mike Harris with cast including Kenneth Cranham (one of THE great radio-actor voices) and Ayesha Antoine (who I've mentioned before liking). Radio is this wild parallel uni full of "movies" and "series" 2/2
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM