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Torchwood

Needless to say, I found this rather spiffing, and I think the level of spiff will rise yet higher. Interesting ideas, some well done interlocking with Doctor Who, and a mystery or two to wonder at. Fun, dirrrrrty, and not without nastiness.

Get watching, or downloading, or whatever. Just do it.

GWEN: I'm getting tired of following you.
JACK: No you're not - and you never will.
  - Torchwood, Everything Changes (1.01)

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Friday Haiku

A day off from work
To get a hire car and to
Lounge around, mmmmm nice.

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Black Cat = Bad Luck?

Had just left work. Car shudders and stops. Does not restart.

Breakdown guy tries it and says "it's the timing belt."

Bugger. When that goes, it's expensive and tricky to replace, and as the engine shakes to a halt after it breaks important parts can get damaged. Like the valves and stuff.

So, more expense and inconvenience. Bah.

P.S. My car is a black Ford Puma, hence 'black cat'. I call my car "that jinxy bitch" now. And not affectionately, neither.

P.P.S. The timing belt was supposed to have been replaced a while back, but both me and the mechanic who said he'd do it forgot. Double bugger.

"It is bad luck to be superstitious." - Andrew W. Mathis

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Weekend Haiku

Lots more sleeping. Then
I lounge around, not getting
Up to much. Oh yeeeaaah.

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...But Someone Got There First

I was trying to think up something funny to say about this whole Nuke/North Korea "thing", but a very funny webcomic got there first.

P.S. You've seen the footage of the North Korean TV news reporter woman gleefully announcing their success, right? Have you noticed how the place in the picture behind her looks exactly like the base of operations of the evil Bond villain, Doctor No?

"Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments." - Frederick the Great (1712 - 1786)

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Serenity Character Quiz

You scored as Hoban 'Wash' Washburne. The Pilot. You are a leaf on the wind, see how you soar. You have a good job, and a stunning wife who loves you (and can kill people). Life is good, which is why you can't help smiling. Now if you can just get people to actually listen to your opinion things would be perfect. Hoban 'Wash' Washburne 69% Kaylee (Kaywinnet Lee) Frye 63% Zoe Alleyne Washburne 63% River Tam 63% Jayne Cobb 63% Shepherd Derrial Book 56% Capt. Mal Reynolds 50% The Operative 50% Simon Tam 50% Inara Serra 44% Which Serenity character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar." - Hoban 'Wash' Washburne

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Friday Haiku

Just sneaked this one in:
Only, not much to report.
Must talk some more, yes?

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Who Is The Longest Running?

Back when it was announced that the TV sci-fi series Stargate SG-1 was officially the longest running TV sci-fi show, I immediately had questions. Actually. I only had one:

What about Doctor Who?

It was on for many years. SG-1 is talking about it's ten years while I'm thinking Doctor Who was on for more than twenty before it was (finally and properly) ended in 1989. How did SG-1 win the title?

It seems it's all down to how you work it out, and the operative word is "consecutive". Because SG-1's run is unbroken but shorter, while Who's run is longer but broken (by the 16 year gap between the old series and the new, with the Eighth Doctor TV movie in the middle somewhere), SG-1 wins the "longest (consecutive)" prize while Doctor Who gets 'merely' the longest in terms of years and number of episodes (723 eps compared to SG-1's 203).

Thing is, did the calculation for Doctor Who's longest run (1963 - 1989) include the multi-year breaks in the middle and at the end of the Colin Baker Era? If so, why not include the (admittedly much) longer breaks following the end of the McCoy Era?

Okay, so that won't happen, but I still think it's crap that Doctor Who hasn't got both records. Maybe that's just me. I doubt it, though - I'm sure there are many others who think the same way.


...Another things that's crap about Doctor Who is the insistence on having so many Earth-based episodes. We're not seeing enough "proper" space episodes, it's all about bloody Earth and Earth people all the damn time. And it's going to be even worse in the nuSeason3 - budget reasons are restricting them to even more episodes based on Earth, as it's "too expensive" to create an alien world-type setting plus sets. And the episodes that are set on alien worlds apparently get the worst reviews, as "the audience" finds it stupid that a forest on Earth should stand in for the planet Zagfon.

Too many cretins are watching, it seems. I'm getting bored of the TARD, I want the full TARDIS back! Give me more adventures In Space, dammit!!

"Five million Cybermen, easy. One Doctor? NOW you're scared!" - Rose Tyler, Doomsday

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