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The Pandorica Opens… SPOILERS!!!
Jun 19th
Spoilers ahead, if you haven’t seen the frankly epic fantabulous episode that was The Pandorica Opens…
McSpace revealed…
Mar 4th
So, it has come to pass that four minutes of the failed US version of that seminal British classic sitcom Spaced has made it onto YouTube:
It’s amazing how the mere addition of American accents and standing studio sets make it seem more polished, more ‘other’ and more glamorous. Which takes away the original charm of Spaced in that it was rooted in an earthly reality we could all recognise.
Worst of all – the American version of tortured artist Brian has somehow become Jim Belushi with an easel. It’s pretty much the same dialogue, but he seems less of a sweet, likeable tortured artist and more of an escapee from a fraternity who’s convinced himself that being arty with an easel will get him ladies. Though all he’s gotten so far is Marcia (at least that plotline stayed).
The interludes also seem bizarre to the point of pointlessness. Why have a disappearing tram?
On the plus side, Daisy somehow seems more real with an American accent, because in my head a flighty not-sure-what-to-do young woman seems more real with an American accent. Having said that, it’s very hard to see her miming a gunfight with such fabulous gusto as what happens later in Spaced…
Oh no! They killed (EastEnders)! You swines!
Feb 19th
About six months ago, when Torchwood: Children of Earth killed off a key character, it created a bit of a mini-dramastorm.
Fast-forward to tonight, and I ended up watching the live episode of EastEnders. Bear in mind I haven’t watched an episode of EastEnders since 2006, during my Year of Hell (the Evil Ex loved watching any soap opera) Within ten minutes, I was hooked again, against my will.
Spoilers lie deep within…
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The Internet. It's full of chimpanzees.
Jan 29th
It’s amazing what you can cut together with rushes of interviews…
(The BBC documentary that was actually made partly from these rushes is The Virtual Revolution, presented by the divine Dr. Aleks Krotoski, Saturdays at 8.30pm on BBC Two)
Incidentally, it’s nice to know that I have finally achieved my ambition to have my name listed on a BBC network programme’s credits. Even if it’s only my netname, and it’s only listed on the website…
This is pathetic. Truly pathetic.
Jan 1st
The fab EPIC trailer for the new series of Doctor Who, Spring 2010.
The trailer’s not pathetic. I am. because:
- There were tears in my eye at the LOGO. The fricking LOGO.
- Thanks to new BBC technologies, I can now finally embed a bit of Doctor Who content on my website. There’s absolutely no need to – after all, every Doctor Who fan knows where to go to get the new trailer. Or I could just send you a link. Instead, I am making a post simply to embed a piece of content that’s avaialble everywhere else. Go me.
The End of Time Part II – my jumbled thoughts
Jan 1st
Wow. Just Wow. Definitely a programme for the fans – as, in many ways, it ought to be. Although even for the fans, the writing was marvellous. It fooled me, feigning a left hook then throwing a right punch. And the way that Matt Smith turned out to be a bad dream…
Fortunately, I think there’s just enough information for the non-fans to get it, although perhaps not the vast epic scale of it.
Jumbled spoilery thoughts after the break….
Things that make you feel old #1…
Dec 30th
roll the dice has photoshopped an image of ye olde Thames TV logo to show how it would look for today’s London:
As a kid in 1980s mid-Wales, I would look excitedly every time that logo appeared, because it meant LONDON! COOL STUFF! AND GREAT TELEVISION! Well, The Goodies in their declining years… or Dempsey and Makepeace… and you don’t want to know the amount of internal yay that happened in my head every time the London Weekend Television ident appeared…
Of course, now it’s different. Almost all the ITV companies have amalgamated into one meaningless whole – and more importantly, there’s pretty much nothing worth watching on ITV these days. But those were the days, aye…
My thoughts of The End of Time (SPOILERS GALORE)
Dec 25th
The last five minutes of The End of Time had me just staring open-mouthed in amazement at the TV, as this … no, THIS … no, no, THIS … became the most amazing cliffhanger of all. Which certainly makes one hell of a change from the usual Christmas episode where I switch off feeling slightly cheap, used, and disappointed.
But anyway, don’t look any further until you’ve watched The End of Time Part One AND the preview clip of Part Two…
A small Doctor Who moment to make you go awwwww…..
Dec 22nd
Picture the scene – you’re Russell T Davies, famed showrunner of Doctor Who and famed atheist. You’re at a Q&A just after showing a preview of the Christmas 2009 episode – your penultimate piece of work on Doctor Who – when a little kid grabs the microphone, in front of lots of journalists, and asks:
“Did you meet the Doctor or did you make him up?”
Which is pretty much the same as asking whether Father Christmas exists. The moral quandry – do you tell all or nothing?
I’ve seen two accounts of what RTD said next – via SFX and Ian Wylie (spoilers!) – which are both slightly different. But were you there?
and in Who-related news: Doctor Who star goes back to old school to direct nativity play
The Waters of Mars…
Nov 15th
Well, that was definitely a very scary and chilling episode of Doctor Who meeting 28 Days Later. Either that or I’m just so proud of myself for not gibbering and hiding behind the sofa. My jumbled random thoughts after the jump…