Hey everyone! How were your weekends? Mine was pretty good. A bit on the crazy side towards the end, but still good. Today I'm here to give you all an update on the blog for this month and to make an announcement for a series of reviews I'm going to be starting at the beginning of June. Right now, let's get into what didn't happen on Friday.
As you probably noticed I didn't get my review of Bedknobs and Broomsticks done on Friday as I'd planned on doing. That's because I just didn't feel like watching the movie on Thursday night. Also I'd already put up my review of Freaky Friday on Monday, so I at least got a movie review up last week. So I think I'll get it done for this Friday instead. We'll see though.
There will also be a delay on my review of Codename: Sailor V Volume 2, and the Sailor Moon manga and anime because Brad, very sneakily, dropped off a book to lend me yesterday called To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini, the author of Eragon and the other three books in the Inheritance Cycle. Right now I'm on page 104, the beginning of chapter 8, and there's 878 pages, including the appendices and afterword/acknowledgements. Naturally, I started it right away. It's a little slow, but it's good so far. I didn't like Eragon all that much when I first read it a long, long time ago. Mainly because I felt it was a little too derivative of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope without being subtle about it, but that was Paolini's first novel and he was around fifteen or sixteen when he wrote it, so naturally it's going to be awkward, stilted and derivative. Gordon Korman wrote This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall when he was twelve and it was awkward and stilted too, because Korman himself was awkward, being a twelve year old writing his first novel. So maybe if I can get my hands on it I might give Eragon another chance, and then read the rest of the series. I'm aiming to have my review of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars out by Wednesday of next week, end of next week at the latest. Like I said there's 878 pages in the book in total and I have just under 800 pages to go, so we'll see how that goes.
The sixth season of DC's Legends of Tomorrow began last weekend, and I had no clue the premiere was even on. I haven't been watching Space Channel for the last few weeks because Superman & Lois has been on hiatus and there isn't a Star Trek series airing right now. As a result I haven't seen the commercials for the return of Legends and the online promo campaign has been pretty lax. I only found out that the season started because this week's episode's airing was trending on Twitter. Being the VHS fan/collector that I am the season 6 poster actually looks pretty cool. Also, Superman & Lois comes back from it's hiatus next week, on the 18th so I'm looking forward to that for sure.
While I'm finished my overviews of the major home video collections from Disney, I've decided to go deeper into the releases that I have. Thanks to some online friends I have digitized editions of the Disney VHS releases that I'd been on the hunt for before the pandemic hit, including some of the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection releases, and all but three of the remaining Walt Disney Classics releases from the 80s and early 90s. This is like how Vincent sent me the digitized versions of the Teddy Ruxpin VHS tapes that I used for those reviews. I still want to get the actual physical copies for some of them obviously, but for right now this will be beneficial to the blog. Starting on May 31st I'm going to look at each release that I have, in the order of their home video release date, each week until I've gone through all of them. Basically this will be a more in depth look at the history of Walt Disney Home Entertainment, from the earliest VHS releases that I have, through to the most recent DVD and Blu-ray releases that I have in my collection. I might do this with my non-Disney VHS tapes in the future, but for now I want to focus solely on Disney.
With that said, aside from my Bedknobs and Broomsticks review, which will be coming out on Friday (hopefully), I don't actually have much content coming out this week. Mainly because I'm doing some prepwork for my Disney home media release review series the rest of the week, as well as focusing on reading To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. I'm going to at least get a single issue comic book review in on Wednesday. I'm not sure which issue yet though.
I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to talk about in this update. I am doing a review of season 1 of The Orville in two weeks along with the full season review of season 1 of The Hardy Boys. I've been rewatching The Orville on Disney+ with my sister and we're three episodes away from finishing the first season. We wanted to make sure that my memory was refreshed and my sister was caught up before the third season starts later this year or beginning of next year, depending on when it starts.
Alrighty, that is going to be it for me for today. I'll be back on Wednesday to review whichever comic book I decide to read this week. So until then have a great evening and I will talk to you all later. Take care.
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