I had an email from Classic FM the other day
Subject: Win a magical trip to Mexico and get behind the scenes at Downton Abbey
I've not watched Downton Abbey, but from the trailers and stills that I have seen, I'd never had guessed that it was filmed in Mexico.
Psychovilla - Q'est Que se? no comments
Posted at 10:12 PM in
Missed Psychoville (2) last week (episode 5) due to being out for the evening. Remembered to watch it on the BBC website yesterday, in readiness for tomorrow's finale. (Should that be finalé?)
Finally I figured out what had been bothering me for the last three weeks about Peter Bishop from the Hoyti Toyti shop: he was Herrick in Being Human!
Thank goodness he's found a nicer character to play.
Finally I figured out what had been bothering me for the last three weeks about Peter Bishop from the Hoyti Toyti shop: he was Herrick in Being Human!
Thank goodness he's found a nicer character to play.
Doctor Hmmm . . . no comments
Posted at 4:51 PM in
Well, the short season of Doctor Who ends tonight with the promise of a cliff-hanger.
It's all a bit soon - I'm still warming to the 11th Doctor, and with difficulty. I liked a lot of his first series, but this one has been very patchy. Presumably this is more because of the change of script editor rather than change of Timelord.
I enjoyed the Venetian Vampires; the story of perception filters not working in mirrors was a clever twist, but (perhaps inconsistently) I didn't like the pirate black spot re-written as a plot device.
Said fishy fiends warned the Doctor that "the Silence will fall", not that they would fall flat. They suffered from the same problem as the 'husks' in Ghostlight - they are supposed to look frightening without actually doing anything. Most of them were too comatose to even notice that humans had broken into their tunnels.
OK, the one in the toilets tried to establish credibility by vapourising that irrelevant woman (she might as well have been wearing a Starfleet red shirt since she was only there to die) but why? Zapping people into oblivion at random gets you noticed - which the Silence seemed to try to avoid.
And if they'd been on earth for centuries they would have known that warning the Doctor off was a waste of time. And giving the warning to someone who would forget it in a few seconds is hardly useful.
This underlines the other shaky pillar they were based on: if the tunnels were centuries old, how come the Doctor had never cottoned on to them? Like the Master, a simple perception filter wouldn't fool him, and the scanners aboard the Tardis are so far beyond earth technology that they would have detected alien technology even if the aliens slipped his memory.
We know he was on earth in Shakespearian times (Code),Victorian times (Simon Callows Dickens, David Morrisey's Next Doctor), before the First World War (Family of Blood), in the Second World War (Curse of Fenric, Victory of the Daleks) and in the sixties (picture of Eccleston at the Kennedy assasination). How many chances does he need to spot them? (I assume they were gone by the seventies (Pertwee's exile), showing his exposé had worked.)
But, by the miracle of plot contrivance one of the doctor's companions saw one and mentioned it. And the other companion heard her say it. Given the few seconds delay before forgetting that must have happend to countless people over the 2+ centuries, yet there was absolutely no suspicion of their prescence.
Plus the problem of having to keep them out of vision for the effect to kick in. What if you were in a lift with one? You wouldn't turn away and stare into the corner - best not to, in lifts.
It has been mooted that Matt Smith is young enough to quit now and come back in a few years, although he's ruled that out, which would comb over the two century gap between the start of this story and . . . the start of this story. (I don't see why we couldn't have another Eccleston series. Please. )
And then, of course, the Doctor's "death". I've no idea how they'll work around it, but it is obviously bogus, despite the 200-years-older aspect. If the 11th Doctor dies . . . there wouldn't be a 12th, regardless of all the time-twizzling.
[Afterthought: how do we know that Eccleston was the 9th? He may have regenerated one or more times during the Time War. Who saw McGann change? I didn't. ]
It's all a bit soon - I'm still warming to the 11th Doctor, and with difficulty. I liked a lot of his first series, but this one has been very patchy. Presumably this is more because of the change of script editor rather than change of Timelord.
I enjoyed the Venetian Vampires; the story of perception filters not working in mirrors was a clever twist, but (perhaps inconsistently) I didn't like the pirate black spot re-written as a plot device.
Said fishy fiends warned the Doctor that "the Silence will fall", not that they would fall flat. They suffered from the same problem as the 'husks' in Ghostlight - they are supposed to look frightening without actually doing anything. Most of them were too comatose to even notice that humans had broken into their tunnels.
OK, the one in the toilets tried to establish credibility by vapourising that irrelevant woman (she might as well have been wearing a Starfleet red shirt since she was only there to die) but why? Zapping people into oblivion at random gets you noticed - which the Silence seemed to try to avoid.
And if they'd been on earth for centuries they would have known that warning the Doctor off was a waste of time. And giving the warning to someone who would forget it in a few seconds is hardly useful.
This underlines the other shaky pillar they were based on: if the tunnels were centuries old, how come the Doctor had never cottoned on to them? Like the Master, a simple perception filter wouldn't fool him, and the scanners aboard the Tardis are so far beyond earth technology that they would have detected alien technology even if the aliens slipped his memory.
We know he was on earth in Shakespearian times (Code),Victorian times (Simon Callows Dickens, David Morrisey's Next Doctor), before the First World War (Family of Blood), in the Second World War (Curse of Fenric, Victory of the Daleks) and in the sixties (picture of Eccleston at the Kennedy assasination). How many chances does he need to spot them? (I assume they were gone by the seventies (Pertwee's exile), showing his exposé had worked.)
But, by the miracle of plot contrivance one of the doctor's companions saw one and mentioned it. And the other companion heard her say it. Given the few seconds delay before forgetting that must have happend to countless people over the 2+ centuries, yet there was absolutely no suspicion of their prescence.
Plus the problem of having to keep them out of vision for the effect to kick in. What if you were in a lift with one? You wouldn't turn away and stare into the corner - best not to, in lifts.
It has been mooted that Matt Smith is young enough to quit now and come back in a few years, although he's ruled that out, which would comb over the two century gap between the start of this story and . . . the start of this story. (I don't see why we couldn't have another Eccleston series. Please. )
And then, of course, the Doctor's "death". I've no idea how they'll work around it, but it is obviously bogus, despite the 200-years-older aspect. If the 11th Doctor dies . . . there wouldn't be a 12th, regardless of all the time-twizzling.
[Afterthought: how do we know that Eccleston was the 9th? He may have regenerated one or more times during the Time War. Who saw McGann change? I didn't. ]
In Memory of Elisabeth Sladen no comments
Posted at 11:12 PM in
Actress Elisabeth Sladen died yesterday; she will be fondly remembered.
Sarah Jane Smith has gone on her last Adventure.
Sarah Jane Smith has gone on her last Adventure.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIX OF ONE ! ! ! no comments
Posted at 6:06 PM in
No, it's not Seven of Nine's sister. The Six of One Society are an incurable bunch of Prisoner fans.
They've got a dozen websites on the go, so search 'em out.
They've got a dozen websites on the go, so search 'em out.
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