Saga styles itself as a "digital autobiography" pulling information in from various other apps including Facebook, Instagram and various fitness trackers.
The new game wraps a Saga-style structure around Boggle-ish word-finding, and at the sight of the first power-up, my brain leaped ahead to the moment where a level would be so hard, I'd feel the pressure to buy more of them.
Apart from Sigourney Weaver's singular Ellen Ripley in the stereotype-shattering Alien quartet – the older soul sister to Katniss in what Jacobson calls "feminine ferocity"– there aren't many saga-style heroines around who show their emotional wounds quite as openly.
It's a classic multigenerational saga, retail style.
Ikenobo is the oldest, dating back more than 500 years, while Ayumi works in the Saga Goryu style.
If you read this year's coverage from Cannes — where Bjork won the best-actress award for her portrayal of a woman going blind who takes the rap for a murder she didn't commit — you probably know that she and von Trier didn't get along....She's as primal and theatrical as the Icelandic sagas...a style that von Trier, in his shallow and cruel film, couldn't obscure.
"We are specialists in history because of our history," says Annette Hess, the screenwriter of "Weissensee", a cold-war saga in the style of "Romeo and Juliet" that airs on ARD, Germany's main public-service network.
Initial reports suggest that the picture uses the Japanese attack of 1941 as a peg on which to drape a teeming war saga in the style of From Here to Eternity.
Hers is a blunt, Tiger-mom style saga of snatching salad from a child who's already had dinner, "accounting for" every Oreo and pouring out a drink at Starbucks when the barista can't narrow down its calorie count from the "120-210″ listed on the menu board.
You could make it a Game Of Thrones-style saga.
The British actor is reported to have beaten out several major Hollywood names to take the lead in the Moby Dick-style saga In the Heart of the Sea.
