The Permanence of Character Development

I meant to get ice cream yesterday, but I was given a muffin because Free Will is a lie. This past Thursday was the ten-year anniversary of the release of The Force Awakens. I considered writing the Saturday Note about it, but I’ve said a lot about it, so there wouldn’t be anything new. However! There are a lot of interesting thinkpieces and YouTube video essays about the movie out there that are probably better than what I can bang out for a Saturday Note.

Presently finishing up the first season of Percy Jackson on Hulu, and almost halfway through season three of Dark Winds on Netflix. Reading The Land Beyond the Sea, which is really, really good, but also really, really long, and I kind of want to be done with it already (almost made it the topic of the Saturday Note, but I’m not done with it, so that seemed unfair).

Revenge Isn't Everything

Stressful week! Changing plans, lack of contact, and an alarming number of drivers who don’t use turning signals. All very distressing!

Anyhow, I don’t know what’s going on with Burn Notice on Hulu, as it no longer says it’s going off the streamer soon. I did notice that the Disney Percy Jackson series is on Hulu right now, though, and now Turn is back on Netflix. Not sure how much longer I’ll be doing LEGO Star Wars, as there are over a thousand kyber bricks, and, uh, I don’t know if I care that much.

The Purpose of Armor

I’m still on a bit of a post-vacation crash; the Thanksgiving break did not help. Boy, January is going to suck, I think.

This week, I finished season four of The Witcher (which kind of inspired this Note!), and I was planning to begin season three of Dark Winds, but it turns out that Hulu is going to remove Burn Notice in less than two weeks, so I might be doing a mad dash to finish that. I probably won’t finish it all in time, though. Finishing up LEGO Star Wars and the Artemis Fowl series right now.

Lightsaber Relics

Given the holiday this week, I kind of didn’t get around to sitting and writing an outline for my Saturday Note; I just had other things on my mind, I guess. I only vaguely considered skipping this week’s entry, but I’m trying to get as many weeks of this done as I can, and I have the time, so there’s not really a reason not to. And luckily I have a list of unused ideas to write Notes about in my planner, so I’m not entirely void of ideas.

Now I wish I had something remotely Thanksgiving-related to give you guys, but, uh… I don’t even know how to handle that.

Presently reading Prisoners of Geography, which is not as much fun as I had hoped when I first spotted it in Barnes & Noble. I am still playing LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, although I am about halfway through Rise of Skywalker–after which comes a butt-ton of Free Play Mode. And then following that, I think I’ll get back into some Assassin’s Creed? Oh, and I finished Leviathan on Netflix.

Tehanu, & the Typical Fantasy Protagonist

It’s been a very odd week, all things considered. I had a delightful vacation, but coming back to work was, uh, painful, not helped by some things I got swamped with. I wasn’t even sure if I would be writing a Saturday Note this week, as I didn’t know if I’d be in on Friday, but here we are! And it’s the weekend! And Thanksgiving is coming up! And also I have a thing I need to paint next week…

I am currently re-reading Runemarks again, and I finished the Netflix Leviathan (which reminds me that I need to re-read those books, too). After that I’ll finish season four of The Witcher and then… Dark Winds’s newest season, I think? Presently playing through The Last Jedi on LEGO Star Wars.

There was a bit in which this week’s Saturday Note was going to be the “Reyna is Awesome” Note, as I have Puerto Rican matters on my mind, but we’re going with this one instead.

Greek Mythology Story Ideas

 Hallo! I am out! So I have started working on this Note ahead of time to make sure that I have something to get to you.

Misunderstanding The Lord of the Rings

I will be out of town next weekend, and probably not able to upload something the weekend after that, so I find it unlikely that you’ll get Saturday Notes these next two weeks? I’m not sure. I’ll try to make it up somehow.

When you read this, I am probably reading The Star Wars Archives by Paul Duncan, though I may have moved to something else! I’m struggling to write; not because I don’t have ideas, but because I don’t know how to start the darn thing and it’s bothering me. Maybe I’m missing a writers’ workshop?

The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe is celebrating 75 years, by the way.

The Saturday Note will start a bit political, but we’ll move away from it as we go on, so stick with me.