Beta wanted, among other things

I'm thiiiiiis close to finishing my Fringe vid (gen, everybody, wackiness). However, it has some issues. (Like, "Hahaha, what the hell is supposed to be happening during the bridge?") Beta, anyone? Pretty please? *doe eyes*

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I'm really thinking about doing Yuletide this year. Mostly because I am desperate for any Northern Exposure fic (that I haven't written), Shall We Dance fic (ditto), Corner Gas (yep) and/or Robson Arms fic (at all!). Anyone have an idea what the timeline might be this year? And does the horsetrading about nominations happen in the recent brainstorming post, or is there another post specifically for that?

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Google's doodle today is hilarious and way interactive. Poor li'l redshirt e. ;)

Book review

Well, I wanted to like Never Let Me Go (the novel, not the movie, which I haven't seen), but...come on. If you've read even one sci-fi novel you knew what the twist was from approximately chapter two, and the most interesting parts--how this process actually came to be (surely there was public outcry?), all the socio-political implications of what they were doing, why whether the ( spoiler )

was even a question and what various people thought about it--were skimmed over in one chapter near the end.

Also: Really, not one person tried to escape this system? For real? Because I find this hard to believe, and I would much rather have read the story of someone who escaped and caused a revolution or something. Or at least an explanation of why no one even thought to challenge the system.

And one more thing--let's be real here, no way ( spoiler )

So basically, the plot of the book appears to be having the audience slowly deduce the twist, except the twist was deducible from way too early, so we were left with no actual story and a lot of logic holes. Bah.