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Now I've seen all of Torchwood, Children of Earth, and it's excellent, very good science fiction.

( Spoilers, lots of. I do thinky stuff. )

Earlier in the week I was packing with someone else in the same aisle, normally something which occurs if there's a lot in it. Sometimes this happens and I'm silent for hours; this time we struck up a conversation.

"So, are you friends with many of the women here?" he asked.

"Friendly, not friends ... I find it really hard to make friends with women. We tend to not have much in common." For some reason I felt garrulous and open, and all of a sudden I didn't care about putting on a 'normal' face. "I don't care for going out and drinking every night, and I don't have kids to discuss. I'd rather stay at home and watch some science fiction tv show instead."

"Oh, you like science fiction?"

"Yeah."

"Me too. I was thinking about going to Supernova this year. I thought about cosplaying."

I was surprised, taken aback at the casualness of this mention, of the "pop expo" (not really a convention, not really), and of cosplay. His courage to mention even the word in a mundane setting.

"I thought about going as Mario, or maybe Luigi." Definitely a Mario.

The rest of the evening was spent in a frenzy of conversation of SFness, conventions, various movies, gaming tie-ins, and general nerdiness.

It felt like coming out.

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I went to see Terminator Salvation for the second time yesterday, this time with Ben; the first was with a coworker with SFnal tendencies. I'd hoped for some discussion of the movie with the coworker, but instead we discussed his intentions to move to Thailand to be with his boyfriend, and so Ben and I nerded it up in the car last night, desperately trying to avoid stepping out into the cold.

My opinion was that if it wasn't a Terminator movie, it's not all that likely that anyone would have bothered hyping this, because the storyline is thin on the ground, so full of holes they might as well renamed SkyNet to MosquitoNet. Which is not to say I didn't enjoy it; I did go see it twice, after all.

( Spoilery musings about the good and bad. )