Day 749

Aka Monday 18^th February 2019

Today I walked 4.57km (2.84 miles), which took 1 hour 4 minutes and 44 seconds and burnt through 528 calories and took 6,617 steps…

…and my copy of ’The Edge Off’ arrived. I thought that this was going to be a detective/noir story, similar to ‘Point Blank’, and it is, until the twist hits. Although calling it a twist feels like I’ve cheapening the story, as it turns the story on its head and gives the earlier scenes a completely different light and expands the scope of the story to something much more (directly) relatable. 8/10.

…and I finished watching the TV show ‘Grimm’. When I first started watching ‘Grimm’ I wasn’t expecting much and I thought that the first few episodes/half of the first season was okay, nothing special. That it was a Buffy knock-off with the ‘controversial’ edges smoothed off. But the more I watched the more it grew on me. Yes, there are references (or what can be viewed as references) to the Buffy world, the lead character is a chosen one, there’s an overarching plot for each season, one of the ‘bad’ characters from the shows early episodes slowly becomes a ‘good guy’ (and is also blonde), but the show put its own spin on them. 

The show has a lot of heart and humour and it’s learnt from Buffy’s mistakes, for example there’s no trying to use magic as a stand in for drug/alcohol addiction. And it does a smart thing with its seasons, like ‘Supernatural’ did, with each one build on the previous, introducing new elements which expand the world, creating a growing moment, which makes the ‘Grimm’ world (and the threats) bigger and bigger. A really fun show that gets better and better as it goes. 8/10.

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which gets the week off to an ok start, only had to cheat on a fifth of the clues (five out of 24), but I did learn that ‘coral’ is another name for unfertilised ‘lobster or crab roe’, that a ‘reredos’ is an ornamental screen behind a church alter’, and that ‘dolce’ is a ‘musical instruction to play gently and sweetly’, so an educational start to the week.