I’ve been flying through the Millenium trilogy, aka The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series. Its pacing is somewhat inconsistent, occasionally going into lengthy, meandering exposition to set up a significant plot point, or dumping an intricate history of a newly introduced character in your lap all at once. But those complaints are minor, because the series’ highs are significantly higher than its lowest lows!

I think Lisbeth Salander is a fantastically fleshed out character with a great back story and a personality that makes getting through all the Salander-less chapters almost a chore just so I can get back to more of her anti-social antics! I haven’t seen the American version of the first film, but I did watch the Swedish version on Netflix. It was pretty good, and actually made some minor changes that I’d thought would’ve been good for a movie while reading the book, but over all I think the characterization in the book is far stronger.

Poor Atsumori gets all the blame.

The sound effect isn’t sure. They may be many tiny spears.

The force of Nataku’s kick has clearly ignited the sake in Ken’s stomach. BWOOF!

You think Ken looks beat up on the outside? You don’t want to see his spleen.

Somehow I knew Alex wouldn’t object to the Star Wars Reference.

Check out Ken’s original flashback here.

Merry Christmas, Ina and Yori, you frisky kids!

So I’ve been playing me some Star Wars: The Old Republic (and by some, I mean a lot). I’m on the Lord Adrass RP-PVE server, smuggling spice and running blockades with my gunslinging smuggler, Captain Postle Wattle. (‘Postle-wattle’ technically, since they won’t allow spaces in names). You know, I tried WoW long ago and didn’t care for it at all, but SWTOR is just so much more immersive in its story telling! And this is some seriously good storytelling. I can almost pretend the prequels never happened. But, no, the prequels will never go away… Still, SWTOR almost makes up for it.

I wouldn’t want to be wherever Ken’s sword lands.