Book review, EI the Other Dimension, and Operation Dash Dream half-time

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Book review: Eerie in the Mirror

This book takes place in the Other Dimension with Mitchell in Stanley. It's the first book by Robert James I've read, and I'd have to say that the main difference I find between his writing and the others is that there's slightly less humour in it (although the usage of the 90's term 'not' was a brief source of amusement), and he uses the book as an excuse to lecture readers with little tidbits in history, science and morals (ugggh). Ok, I get it. Crime is not cool. Stanley makes a comment that Bonnie & Clyde is a really cool movie, and Mitchell says that there's nothing cool about robbing banks, and the rest of the book is basically 100 pages of proof that Mitchell was right. Mmkay?

      They go about searching for the 'edge of Eerie weirdness' one day with a tv, because whether it's plugged in or not, or wired for cable or not, it still gets Eerie's 2000 channels, and they want to see how far they can go before the signal goes out. Because of their equipment, or perhaps cus Stanley breaks a mirror with a rock, they end up in the anti-Eerie, with the anti-Mitchell and anti-Stanley who are two-faced bank robbers (although to give them credit, they're pretty good at what they do). From there, there aren't really any plot-twists, nothing that is in any way amusing has any consequence to the story, and I found myself jonesing for another drabble by one of you lot. <3



EI: The Other Dimension

I saw EI: The Other Dimension for the first time yesterday. I actually liked it! *shocked* I'm pretty sure that if my childhood self had seen it I would've hated it, 'philistines!' I would've shouted. But I surprise myself from time to time.

I hadn't known that the first episode would feature clips of Marshall and Simon getting in touch with Mitchell and Stanley via a tv screen, warning them that Eerie weirdness is leaking into their universe where Mitchell's lived in Eerie his whole life and it just so happens to be totally normal. That Eerie weirdness then ensues. Apparently the reruns of Eerie, Indiana did so well that they wanted to bring the show back, but by that time the actors were 'too old' so they 'passed the torch' to these kids in a parallel universe.

If only Dash was in it.



Operation Dash Dream
((Just to recap I've been trying to dream of Eerie Indiana using methods I wrote about here http://eerie-indiana.livejournal.com/47215.html))

I've had some success.

1) Dash and Mars climbing up an apartment building to break in.

2) Asked to be in Eerie, Indiana. I saw a modern-looking bedroom, it panned to a living room. "Is this Eerie?" I thought. "It looks like Cali... Well, I guess it was filmed there, good enough." I walked up stairs and had to keep touching things and rubbing my hands together to stabilise the dream. Then it blacked out and I heard Marshall's voice say "Simon, you've gone invisible!" I thought "I'm Simon? Nooo! Cus that won't work with Dash!!" (Lucid dream)

3) I told my brother that I saw 'the guy who played that grey-haired kid from Eerie Indiana' on the street.

I think from now on I'll only update if it's a lucid dream where I actually get somewhere. I ran out of everyone's favourite short-cut to lucid dreaming - galantamine so I have to order some more. Le sigh.

Comments

[froodle]

Dude, seriously? I am so disappointed. To hear that Eerie in the Mirror sucked- that cover with the crow and the dove facing off looks really good and seemed to promise wonderful nightmare-world style hijinx.

[froodle]

I WAsNT FINISHED, LJ, GOD!! So basically I need to learn LITERALLY not to judge a book by its cover, and publishing dudes need to learn not to waste good cover art on sucky books

[eerieslash.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but maybe you'd have another take on it though? Maybe I was just in a sucky mood when I wrote it x

[yarol-2075.livejournal.com]

Good here your progress in the dreaming. I'm looking forward to future reports!

I agree with Froodle, what a waste of a good cover. :(

I've never seen EI: The Other Dimension, but I find the ideas of Eerie weirdness leaking into alternate realities intriguing; maybe Dash is from another Eerie and traveled to Eerie Prime to stop the leakage, but something screwed up his transport, resulting in his memory being blanked.

[froodle]

...Obviously you now need to write fic about that.

[eerieslash.livejournal.com]

yes...obviously. :>