Star Wars and The Princess Bride

From 2012.


All right, this is perfect. I swear it is true, too. Just happened.

The last two bedtime stories were _A New Hope_ and _The Empire Strikes Back_. Frankly, whoever did these novelizations was a hack who wasn't bothering to check for continuity. We pointed out flaws all through the storyline and ended up with a running joke about how Leia welded a valve shut on the Falcon. You had to be there, I guess. Anyway, I decided that we ought to read something good in the way of an antidote.

The new bedtime story is _The Princess Bride_. We're reading the Good Parts Version, as Goldman redacted it from Morgenstern, but there's still an awful lot in there. The first chapter basically ends with Buttercup finding out that Westley has been killed by the Dread Pirate Roberts.

As I finish up with "I must never love again. And she didn't." Pause. "End of chapter. Time for sleep." E pipes up immediately and says "I don't like this book. We shouldn't read it. I want a different book."

"Okay," sez me, "What part of it didn't you like?"

"The part where Westley dies! I don't like that!"

"Ah. Let me tell you a little secret... it will turn out, later in the book, that Westley is not really dead."

"What? But the Dread Pirate Roberts kills everyone! It said so!"

"I assure you you will find out about that too. All shall be revealed. Now, does that mean we can continue in this book?"

"Yeah. Read more now, please."

Travelers: Three Seasons and Done

Travelers clearly concludes at the end of Season Three, with a fair ending for a time-travel, multiple-branching timelines show.

It calls back to the first few episodes while incorporating the themes that have run all the way through; characters display love, affection, bravery, and regret.

Recommended.