{"id":3328,"date":"2009-02-01T22:58:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T03:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2009-02-01T22:58:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T03:58:59","slug":"smoke-gets-in-her-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3328","title":{"rendered":"Smoke gets in her eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Vaguely disappointed by <i>The Ruby in the Smoke<\/i>, which I just finished watching. The acting&#8217;s quite good, and there are some really nice moments, but it just doesn&#8217;t hang together very well. There are moments of rushed exposition, when we discover <i>how things actually happened<\/i>, often straining credulity and happening much too quick. The commenter who called it &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0498382\/#comment\">a bit frantic<\/a>&#8221; wasn&#8217;t at all wrong. <\/p>\n<p>Still, it was interesting to see the future Doctor Who, Matt Smith, in action for the first time. He&#8217;s actually not at all bad &#8212; nor is Billie Piper. The IMDB user comments are much less kind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0913262\/\">about the sequel<\/a>, but this way okay. Not remarkable, but okay.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaguely disappointed by The Ruby in the Smoke, which I just finished watching. The acting&#8217;s quite good, and there are some really nice moments, but it just doesn&#8217;t hang together very well. There are moments of rushed exposition, when we discover how things actually happened, often straining credulity and happening much too quick. The commenter &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3328\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}