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Thursday EclectiaShortpacked on Wonder Woman and the Flag. Heh … I particularly like the Captain America quote at the bottom. # I’ve seen the Bookscan numbers for Red Hood’s Revenge [B&N | Mysterious Galaxy | Amazon]. Sales for the official release week? Best ever for any of my books, and about 30% higher than the first week sales for Mermaid’s Madness, the previous record holder. Thank you!!! # We bought a half-dozen guppies a while back. As I should have expected, they soon produced bonus baby guppies. I’ve been moving the babies to a separate bowl to keep them from becoming guppy food. One of the babies got messed up before I could get him out. His spine was kinked in two places, so he looked like a little lightning bolt. He wasn’t growing, and I didn’t expect him to survive. Shows what I know. He’s still a little guppy runt, but he’s now big enough to join the others in the tank without becoming a snack. He’s even getting some color in his tail. Watching that little zig-zag fish zipping around makes me happy for some reason, so I thought I’d share. # RANDOM POLL: Which has better banter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer or the Sherlock Holmes film? # Yesterday, the tooth fairy brought my daughter a dollar folded into a fairly intricate heart shape. She loved it, and is once again convinced the tooth fairy is real, because she doesn’t think Mama or Daddy are talented enough to do that. I am quite pleased … and also vaguely insulted # I don’t think “eclectia” is a real word, but it should be. 20 comments to Thursday Eclectia |
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I’ll give Buffy banter a slim lead over the new Holmes film.
Looking at the responses over on LJ, so far Buffy is kicking Holmes’ butt in this one…
Buffy…but it has an unfair advantage…many more hours to banter as compared to the length of a feature film. For the record, I like both fo them.
Congrats on the rise in sales…I bet Joshua is happy, too. I told him how much I love both your series at Bouchercon.
Thanks, Debi! Joshua mentioned RED HOOD on Twitter yesterday. He is indeed pleased
I don’t think Eclectia is a real word… but I’ll bet Eclictica is, or should be… in the same mode as “esoterica” and “exotica”.
That’ll be $0.02. Thank you.
(Also: congrats on the growing sales figures.)
I looked up both versions when I was writing the blog post, and neither came back as an actual English word (though eclectica did have more one-off uses according to Google).
And thanks!
I hit Google, too, and came up with the same. But I think the pattern of “groups of things that are exotic”=excotica and “groups of things that are esoteric”=esoterica would best hold true for “groups of things that are eclectic” being equal to “eclectica”. It sounds like a fine word!
(another example: “groups of things that are american”=americana; which implies that it’s the addition of the -a, rather than a -ca that makes it work this way…)
You’re right that eclectica probably would have fit the patterns better … but this is officially too much thought for me for a random blog post
Ahh… a very worthwhile observation.
Also… a question: do you refer to the original Buffy movie or to the Buffy series in your question?
My own question is academic: I’ve seen neither the Buffy movie nor the recent Holmes movie, but the distinction might be important for the coming debate.
I was thinking of the series, which — as I understand it — was much more of what Joss Whedon intended for the character and story.
I was going to suggest eclectica as well. The people (all two of them) have spoken!
Have to disagree with the Buffy and go with SHerlock Holmes. After all, banter in French as well as English.
Tres bien!
I have to go with Buffy - but it’s helped along by the fact that there’s much more time for character development, and thus banter that makes the watcher feel “in” on the conversation
Clearly we need more Sherlock Holmes movies in order to do a proper comparison!
When Sherlock Holmes can use banter in musical form (ala Once More With Feeling in Season 6? of Buffy) or without talking at all… we’ll have a fair fight.
Bah. Fair fights are highly overrated.
One more vote for the word “eclectica”.
And Buffy the series definitely has an edge in the banter over the Sherlock Holmes movie. Partly, I agree with Suzuka regarding the character development, maybe partly just because of the pacing of a TV show vs. a movie, and partly because the Buffy series could make a lot more pop culture references (such as “Scooby Gang”) which can act as a verbal shorthand to generate an idea in the viewers’ minds. We don’t have quite enough understanding of Victorian culture to allow a verbal shorthand for the Holmes movie, which puts it at a bit of a disadvantage.
If you compare the Buffy movie to the Sherlock Holmes movie, Sherlock Holmes wins hands down. If you like the Buffy series but haven’t seen the movie yet - just don’t. The seeds of the series are there and it has fun moments, but it’s too much like a typical cheesy high school B movie with bonus undead. Only teenagers should see it.
It’s funny, the Buffy movie was on this weekend, so we just caught it. I saw it when it first came out, but that was ages ago. the movie has its moments, but … yeah. The series was so much stronger in so many ways.
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