on a clear day you can't even see the wires

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Traipsed northwards today to see the new Tsui Hark film, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. Used that new-fangled* contraption, the O-Bahn, for the first time in my life. Definitely makes the journey a lot easier and quicker. Combined with catching the new tram to The Gov (how convenient that it's terminus is right outside the hotel now), means that this has indeed been a week of new transport experiences. Anyway, it was a quite excellent film, seen in most excellent company. Watch on YouTube There were some interesting anachronisms (such as the Father General of the Jesuit [?] order being in 7th Century China, but surprisingly, not as a bad guy**), and some mystical abilities that took it out of the real world, but it was handled with such flair and subtlety that they were readily taken in stride. Although for once, after seeing a Wuxia film (and there were good wuxia sequences, but they blend in with the rest of the film so smoothly you don't really realise they are there), I didn't immediately want to run Weapon of the Gods, or some similar game system. Instead I wanted to run a good old game of Dungeons & Dragons, with heavy emphasis on the dungeons, entirely due to the underground ruins of the Shadow Bazaar. Well worth seeing. [* Non-Adelaideans may be interested to know that by new-fangled I mean 24 years old.] [** Although in an interesting subtext was given the impression of being an unwashed barbarian gazing awestruck at the magnificent marvels of Chinese ingenuity.]