{"id":880,"date":"2009-11-19T08:23:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T16:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=880"},"modified":"2011-07-14T05:39:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T13:39:06","slug":"he-speaks-french-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"He Speaks French.  In English."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was holding off on this but people have been twitting it for a few days \u2014 hell, someone even <em>rated<\/em> it, if I&#8217;m reading <a href=\"http:\/\/freesf.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/actusf-interview-peter-watts.html\">this<\/a> right \u2014 so here you go.\u00a0 ActuSF has posted their interview with me, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actusf.com\/spip\/article-8476.html\">French<\/a> and in the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actusf.com\/spip\/article-8477.html\">English<\/a>.\u00a0 There&#8217;s not a whole lot of new stuff there (basically, it serves to introduce me to a French audience who isn&#8217;t nearly as familiar with me as you lot), but it&#8217;s nicely compact.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;m still mulling over AMC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1938714-1,00.html\">recent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesdaily.com\/article\/20091119\/ARTICLES\/911195004\/1004?Title=AMC-s-new-Prisoner-tries-to-undermine-the-original\">remake<\/a> of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/tunedin.blogs.time.com\/2009\/11\/18\/the-prisoner-finale-now-it-can-be-told\/\">The<\/a><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/6580978\/The-Prisoner-AMC-TV-Review.html\"><em>Prisoner<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not quite certain whether it&#8217;s a soulless incoherent mess, or just too smart for me.\u00a0 Ambiguity is not necessarily a bad thing.\u00a0 Still, if I&#8217;m reading this right (spoilers whited out)<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> the punchline basically boils down to the whole thing having been a dream<\/span>.\u00a0 Normally that kind of an ending would be unforgivable, but before we jump on the condemnation bandwagon I think we should all go back and look at the way the <em>original<\/em> series ended.<\/p>\n<p>It might be difficult to argue that the new ending  isn&#8217;t an improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was holding off on this but people have been twitting it for a few days \u2014 hell, someone even rated it, if I&#8217;m reading this right \u2014 so here you go.\u00a0 ActuSF has posted their interview with me, in French and in the original English.\u00a0 There&#8217;s not a whole lot of new stuff there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ink-on-art","category-public-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}