A guilty pleasure
B movies, history, and new books and old
A little tidbit about me: I have watched Deep Blue Sea … more than once. I’m pretty sure I’ve watched all the sequels. I don’t know how many people who’ve done that would admit it. If you’re not familiar with the name, it’s the movie where — I don’t think this is a spoiler — Samuel L. Jackson is eaten by a shark … a human-modified super smart shark.
So, when I read about a new mutant shark movie in an article in National Geographic about the cleaning of the Seine — yes, the river through Paris, that Seine, and yes, that Nat Geo — I knew I needed to watch it. And as mutant shark movies go, it wasn’t the worst … it might have been better than those Deep Blue Sea sequels.
However, I have a problem with the movie.
BTW, spoilers ahead.
The problem isn’t the mutant sharks. It’s not sharks in the Seine. It’s not even the main character being dragged ridiculously deep by a shark and somehow surviving. It’s that they blow up these water reservoirs under Paris (there are legit reservoirs that are part of the efforts to keep the Seine clean) which somehow floods Paris.
Maybe my understanding of fluid displacement is not right. I can understand the water being pushed up from the explosion but once those reservoirs collapsed, wouldn’t the water flow back into the space left by the explosion?
The images seemed even worse than after the 1910 Paris flood, which had rain and winter melt contributing to it.
A writing update
Writing continues on the next book in The Lyra Cycle series! I love the local university library — it’s amazing how much a change of scenery has helped.
I also have some ideas about another series in the same universe. “No, new shiny idea, you stay in the box until I’m ready.”
What I’m reading
I’m still in a non-fiction mode, reading Endangered Eating, a book about disappearing food in the US. It’s similar in some ways to Eating to Extinction.
You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo is up next. I haven’t read any of their books but I love the title!
Books for your TBR shelf
Since I’m working on the next in the series, can I recommend book 1 in The Lyra Cycle? A Dead Ship in the Deep Black is available for free from the Armchair Alien store or your favourite online bookstores.
Happy reading!
—CR