{"id":3706,"date":"2010-01-18T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2010-01-18T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T23:30:16","slug":"monday-various-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3706","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did James Cameron <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirstpost.co.uk\/58399,people,entertainment,avatar-director-accused-of-plagiarising-soviet-novels-noon-universe-strugatsky\">plagiarize a series of Russian novels<\/a> for <i>Avatar<\/i>? Well, just throw it on the pile with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/reddit\/james-camerons-pocohontas-err-avatar\/\">Pocahonatas<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D-SVpZrnF34\">FernGully<\/a>. I mean, Cameron does sort of have a track record <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DwyyJ3D3g1E&#038;feature=player_embedded\">with this sort of thing<\/a>&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Will Kiefer Sutherland still be doing <i>24<\/i> when he&#8217;s sixty? Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/2010\/01\/14\/kiefer-sutherland-says-hed-like-to-do-24-until-hes-60\/\"><i>he&#8217;d<\/i> like to think so<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, from someone who maybe knows when it&#8217;s time to retire, <a href=\"http:\/\/cavalorn.livejournal.com\/553650.html\">David Tennant&#8217;s foreword to the <i>Doctor Who<\/i> specials<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Happy families are all alike. Presumably because they&#8217;re built that way in the robot factory. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quirkclassics.com\/index.php?q=quirk-classic-4\">Android Karenina<\/a>.\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p>I still haven&#8217;t read <i>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/i>, and I am sort of waiting for this trend to die out, but at least Quirk handles their own entries with some degree of humor and style. [<a href=\"http:\/\/sfscope.com\/\" title=\"SF SCope\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2010_01_17.html\">a long post from Mark Evanier<\/a> on the whole Jay Leno\/Conan O&#8217;Brien situation.\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p>I think he makes a lot of valid points, including about why Leno probably isn&#8217;t the big villain he&#8217;s being portrayed as in some circles. I still think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterdavid.net\/index.php\/2010\/01\/15\/the-leno-situation-is-clarified-for-me\/\">Peter David<\/a> is right, that Leno &#8220;can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be the deposed king returning to power and court jester at the same time.&#8221; And I&#8217;m still a little saddened that NBC is pinning its hopes and future of late-night on the man who&#8217;s greatest contribution to comedy in decades has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XQPVA2bGsB4\">the Dancing Itos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p>But at least Evanier does a decent job of explaining how and why this all happened.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did James Cameron plagiarize a series of Russian novels for Avatar? Well, just throw it on the pile with Pocahonatas and FernGully. I mean, Cameron does sort of have a track record with this sort of thing&#8230; [via] Will Kiefer Sutherland still be doing 24 when he&#8217;s sixty? Well, he&#8217;d like to think so. Meanwhile, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3706\">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":[16,80,18,14,9,17,10],"class_list":["post-3706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-comedy","tag-doctor-who","tag-movies","tag-pop-culture","tag-tv","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706"}],"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=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}