The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/give-them-shelter
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In article <t3bmqe$qla$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia
>
>https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/give-them-shelter

Secondary world fantasy in which a refugee doctor finds their
struggle to build a new life complicated by what appears to
be a deliberately engineered medical mystery in which the
doctor is one of very few suspects, the others being his
close friends (well, and there could be a complete stranger
we never hear about but mysteries don't work that way).
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In article <t3bnii$74$1@panix3.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>In article <t3bmqe$qla$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>>The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia
>>
>>https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/give-them-shelter
>
>Secondary world fantasy in which a refugee doctor finds their
>struggle to build a new life complicated by what appears to
>be a deliberately engineered medical mystery in which the
>doctor is one of very few suspects, the others being his
>close friends (well, and there could be a complete stranger
>we never hear about but mysteries don't work that way).

Awareness of plot conventions is an effective way to ruin
tv shows and movies. My ex, for example, once guessed the
killer in a movie because there was only the one British
actor in it.
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In article <t3boa1$ca8$1@reader1.panix.com>, jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
wrote:
> Awareness of plot conventions is an effective way to ruin
> tv shows and movies. My ex, for example, once guessed the
> killer in a movie because there was only the one British
> actor in it.

Which reminds me of a certain Norwegian tv miniseries where the descendants
of the aliens who arrived some centuries ago to study Earth could be easily
identified since they spoke Swedish....

/Bo Lindbergh

Bo Lindbergh <blgl@stacken.kth.se> schrieb:
> In article <t3boa1$ca8$1@reader1.panix.com>, jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
> wrote:
>> Awareness of plot conventions is an effective way to ruin
>> tv shows and movies. My ex, for example, once guessed the
>> killer in a movie because there was only the one British
>> actor in it.
>
> Which reminds me of a certain Norwegian tv miniseries where the descendants
> of the aliens who arrived some centuries ago to study Earth could be easily
> identified since they spoke Swedish....

I have been told that aliens in Russian SF films can be identified
by the wrong plural of their word for "human". They used the
gramatically correct plural of chelovek, but nobody does that,
they use "lyudi" instead (which bears an uncanny, and probably
not accidental, resemblance to the German "Leute", which is an
informal designation of several people).

begin fnord
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) writes:

> Awareness of plot conventions is an effective way to ruin
> tv shows and movies. My ex, for example, once guessed the
> killer in a movie because there was only the one British
> actor in it.

Sometimes you can spot the bad guy from the brand of phone they use.

--
Steve Coltrin spcoltri@omcl.org Google Groups killfiled here
"A group known as the League of Human Dignity helped arrange for Deuel
to be driven to a local livestock scale, where he could be weighed."
- Associated Press

On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 11:05:17 -0600, Steve Coltrin <spcoltri@omcl.org>
wrote:

>begin fnord
>jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) writes:
>
>> Awareness of plot conventions is an effective way to ruin
>> tv shows and movies. My ex, for example, once guessed the
>> killer in a movie because there was only the one British
>> actor in it.
>
>Sometimes you can spot the bad guy from the brand of phone they use.

Somewhere (probably an allegedly-special feature) I picked two alleged
facts about the Heston /Ben-Hur/:
1. The Romans, being the bad guys, spoke with a British accent;
everybody else used an American accent.
2. Messala wore colored contact lenses because otherwise /everybody/
would have had the same color eyes.

The first may be a sort of cinematic tradition, at least for American
films (it's hard to imagine a /British/ film doing it that way).
--
"I begin to envy Petronius."
"I have envied him long since."

On Friday, April 15, 2022 at 7:36:42 AM UTC-6, Bo Lindbergh wrote:
> In article <t3boa1$ca8$1...@reader1.panix.com>, jdni...@panix.com (James Nicoll)
> wrote:

> > Awareness of plot conventions is an effective way to ruin
> > tv shows and movies. My ex, for example, once guessed the
> > killer in a movie because there was only the one British
> > actor in it.

> Which reminds me of a certain Norwegian tv miniseries where the descendants
> of the aliens who arrived some centuries ago to study Earth could be easily
> identified since they spoke Swedish....

I'm surprised it wasn't Danish they spoke.

John Savard