A review in 2 parts
Part I : “Dead of Trite”
Oh, for pity’s sake. The first two episodes weren’t nearly as much rubbish as this. All the cliches, the pointed observation of localised British-American differences, the frankly moronic behaviour by the protagonists… For instance, Jack saying to Danes, ”Did they mention the name ‘Jack Harkness’? Of course, asking him that may signal that’s an important name to know, so if he’s allied with them and he’s now going to tell them… Read More
This is for something else I’m doing, but I thought this is a tale which deserved its own post. Many years ago, when I was in primary school, aged ten, my dad came home from work and gave me some stuff, which was jolly nice of him. Specifically, a Bill Bailey CD (The Ultimate Collection… Ever!) which is a brilliant thing in itself, and contains Insect Nation, which remains one of my favourite songs, but more importantly, a CD rip of the record of the audio version of Genesis of the Daleks. Also, the Dalpol Davros in the picture above. I listened Genesis all in one go. I distinctly recall the ‘Do I have the right’ speech bit… and its subsequent resolution when the wires were run over by a Dalek anyway. A program which has writing of that calibre, I decided, must be worth my time. From then on, I started watching videos of old episodes, reading the BBC Doctor Who books and listening to Big Finish audios where I could find them. I got library staff to order in as many of the books as I could (though I never got into the old Virgin novels) and looking through the list, I’ve probably read all the Eighth Doctor Adventures (and most of the Past Doctor Adventures) at some time or another. And two years later, the TV series started again!
I think that works much better as a post on its own than as a footnote, don’t you?
My brother watched this on Friday night, and, as he’s wont to do, spent nearly every subsequent minute demanding I watch it. But to give him his due, it’s probably just as well he did, or else I’d have forgotten, which would have been a darn shame, because it’s great.
A review in two parts
Part 1 : New world, old problems.
It’s funny what I’m willing to suspend disbelief for. Take this episode of everyone’s favourite* silly Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood. I’m perfectly willing to accept that by some unknown mechanism by which prevents everyone, all around the world from dying at exactly the same time. I’m a bit less willing to believe in the bullshit legal explanation for a paedophile convicted of rape and murder being released. It’s probably because it contradicts what I would view as sensible human behaviour, i.e, don’t release rapist/murderers just because legalistically there’s the possibility of justification and the rapist/murderer is threatening to ‘sue the Governor’.
These are just some of my thoughts following a day of messing around with the new! shiny! version of OSX. If you’re looking for something more substantial, by which I mean if you’ve got a spare few hours and you’d like to read something by someone who appears to be channeling Tim Rogers (but in a good way), you probably want to read John Siracusa’s review at Ars Technica*.
Yeah, that was actually quite good. Not so much the title, though since the first episode back’s called ‘Let’s Kill Hitler” I think we can forgive that.
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So, I’ve just finished watching The Killing. It’s been sitting on my iPlayer Desktop for flipping ages (and looking at it now, I’ve got lots of Spiral to watch, and Episode 2 of Rubicon, though since that was the last episode on which downloading was enabled, (thanks a lot for that, by the way, The BBC) I might not bother. And the first new Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle) and I’ve at last wrapped it up, blasting through the final three episodes last night. I appreciate lots of people were watching them on BBC 4 as they were broadcast, but I don’t have BBC 4, and have had to rely on the internet. It’s been rather interesting, as my viewing sessions have been rather temporally diffuse. I’ve also got a few other things I want to discuss, which I’ll stick in here as well rather than posting separately.
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But who are the real monsters?
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Eee-by-by-gum.
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It’s the Ood I feel sorry for. Seems like they can’t do anything without being possessed by some evil demonic force/sentient asteroid.
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