Miscellaneous media consumption

* Gravity was excellent -- I would say the best movie I've seen all year, except that I saw it last night, which makes it the only movie I've seen all year. Especially when superhero movies have lately been making up such a huge chunk of my movie viewing, it's pretty rare to see a movie where you get such an intimate and visceral sense of vulnerability, and frailty, and the certainty of death, and what it's like to have to narrow your vision to the one thing you need to force yourself through just because the alternative is giving up and the alternative is terrible and irrevocable.

And the 3D was actually good and rarely gimicky, and did not make me feel sick, although I was annoyed that I couldn't find a 2D showing. (After, I know, waiting months after it came out to actually go and see it...)

* Watched Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries on Netflix -- it was lots of fun, and I'm looking forward to figuring out where I can dig up episodes of the second series, though I found it perhaps a little overly weighted on the side of "heroine has all the correct opinions despite living 100 years ago" and "everyone is loyal and devoted to heroine without sufficient apparent motivation" for my tastes.

* Pretty excited about the new season of Community though I won't be able to see it until tomorrow morning!