Tuesday

Tuesday can't come quick enough for me.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World comes out on Tuesday.

Because of my slavish devotion to the books (I am in the process of re-reading ALL of the novels in chronological order) I am practically salivating over the double disc, special edition.

The only thing that troubles me is that there is no possible way that the film could possibly convey the richness and depths of the novels (note that I'm saying this before actually seeing the movie!) and that the "changes" wrought on O'Brian's text may mess things up dramatically. Why the hell can't the U.S. Navy be the opposition? And, of course they can't get into the secret agent activities of Stephen Maturin in any way (kind of hard to do any spying when the movie takes place totally at sea) which means that the movie might not have the Aubrey-Maturin balance that the novels have.

But that's nit-picking...

Tuesday! Tuesday! Tuesday!


* note: the cheapest place I've found the 2-disc advertised is the Future Shop @ $35.99.