Truthfully, I wouldn't know how

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This afternoon was spent at Dura-Europos with wind05 and Sabitha, or at least at the very fine Yale-BC exhibit thereon. Names like Marcia Aurelia Mat-Tar'atha make me very happy. There were gods mentioned I had never heard of.

Pitch Black (2000) is a surprisingly good little piece of science-fiction survival horror with a successful genre-switch halfway through. I have been warned against the sequel.

For the foreseeable future, I will be in Providence with greygirlbeast and humglum, line-editing my eyes out.

I forgot about Daylight Savings.

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The sequel switches genres once again, revealing that Riddick lives not in an Alien universe but on the outskirts of a very dark Star Wars one (or maybe even a Flash Gordon one), and turns him into Conan/Kull the Conqueror. They sort of can't be seen as sequels, even though they absolutely are, but I enjoy both of them on their own merits; if you had to pick and choose, though, Pitch Back would absolutely be the keeper.

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Riddick lives not in an Alien universe but on the outskirts of a very dark Star Wars one (or maybe even a Flash Gordon one), and turns him into Conan/Kull the Conqueror.

And I'm not sure how I feel about that, given the character (and the parameters of the world) established by this film; I don't think it needs space opera. greygirlbeast mentioned David Twohy and Vin Diesel keep talking about a third movie, although it does not yet seem to have materialized.