Gotta be the best review of anything I have ever read... A review of Iron Man 3 by Laura Hundson and Jim Rugg. They nailed it. Sequential Stark: Wired Reviews Iron Man 3 - In Comic Book Format.

Especially the parts about identity.

A review almost as clever as the movie.

Wired's Infographic of who's who in Iron Man 3. I think they're guessing - a lot of the characters there aren't in Iron Man 3, and there are a few who ought to be mentioned but aren't, like Hayley Keener and President Ellis.

It's fun anyway.

An article about Captain Jack Harkness: Captain Jack And River Song Met, Decided They Want A 'Doctor Who' Spinoff. Well, of course they do.

I'd like it too, if only because it's not likely to be the dirge to morosity that Torchwood Miracle Day was. And since the loss of Elisabeth Sladen and The Sarah Jane Adventures, there's a gap to be filled ( Read more... )

The trailer for the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special is up: Doctor Who: The First Question.

Wow.

Now I'm excited.

Heh. From Newsarama:

In tangentially related X-Men movie news, The Hollywood Reporter has word that Ian McKellen is set to officiate at Patrick Stewart's wedding to jazz singer Sunny Ozell. McKellen discussed the upcoming nuptials on a recent appearance on the Jonathan Ross Show.

Everything I hear about the coming X-Men movie makes me want to see ( Read more... )

I just watched this scene from Doctor Who, series 4, from "The Doctor's Daughter", which - as I mentioned recently - was one of my favourite episodes.

"Let's find a new world. For her."

What a wonderful scene! Donna really shines in it. I wonder which scene was aired in its place.

There was an interview with Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R. Tolkien, in LeMonde.

It was disappointingly superficial.

First off, I have little sympathy with Christopher Tolkien's viewpoint. I think that:

(a) no author has control of his work after it is published - a right to royalties, yes, but what readers make of the work is their own ( Read more... )

An interesting revision of the history of English that makes perfect sense to me: English is a Scandinavian language.

In the I-love-this-world department: The Day William Shatner Tweeted at an Astronaut (and the Astronaut Replied).

Mark Askwith, on his Facebook page, posted a link to this io9 list: The Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2012. Is it the list I'd have made? Perhaps not... the things that impressed me most in 2012 were not things that were predicted in the past, but new, unexpected discoverings. Like the importance of microbiomes: a word that wasn ( Read more... )