Stuff that has come up recently
1. Bob (the cat) watches music videos. He has an odd liking for Sherlock Holmes footage, but was utterly bored at a Dresden Files vid. Go figure.
2. Anybody who thinks Erle Stanley Gardner is a dry author has clearly not read The Case of the Substitute Face. There's some serious awwww in that one.
3. Speaking of music videos, Methos apparently has the best Quickenings.
4. One week had passed. All was quiet in scumland..... The generalissimo of evil was waiting until the triumph of the law had been forgotten. *snickers* There's nothing like reading old Shadow pulps when one is feeling under the weather. Weakened by his ordeals, the Shadow is trapped behind a steel door in a walled-off cellar -- only to reappear a few pages later with the terse explanation "Somehow, The Shadow had escaped"! Doubtless the truth will be provided soon, but... LOL.
*reading the last chapter* ..Ah, of course: he used the switch that controlled the upstairs lights to signal one of his agents. IT ALL MAKES SENSE. A throbbing, outlandish laugh broke through The Crime Master's lair. It rose to a pitch of strident mockery. Sardonic echoes answered. The Shadow's triumph!
5. The other good way to spend a sick day (i.e. yesterday afternoon) is by watching Classic Who: specifically The Talons of Weng-Chiang, in which the Doctor visits Victorian London dressed up as Sherlock Holmes and winds up stuck in the middle of a murder case. Matters pertaining to Weng-Chiang's history and Chinese culture in general are so poorly done they're ludicrous, but I love how the Doctor barges in and starts ordering the police around. He's appallingly rude to Leela, though. The Second Doctor wouldn't have treated her like that. And LOL THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA! *goes on to Episode 2*
Speaking of the Shadow, here we have our main villain... BWAHAHAHAHA.
"Chang, I have given you mental powers undreamt of in this century!!"
Hmmm... this campily spooky personage announces that the Doctor is not a Time Agent, for "A Time Agent would not ask questions. A Time Agent would know." Well, well, well.
And now Professor Lightfoot comments that "Mrs. Hudson always leaves me a cold collation." Hee!
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if RTD had watched this serial (even as its makers clearly took their inspiration from Sherlock Holmes). There's Leela, walking in with a new Victorian outfit after having her old one stolen by villains, and the Doctor has just about the same reaction the Ninth Doctor did in The Unquiet Dead.
Doctor: (picking up a scientific thingie) Do you know what that is?
Leela: (wryly) You asked me so that you can tell me.
Doctor: That's right.
No wonder the Doctor was so annoyed that K9 kept beating him at chess. It's a bit of a comedown from constantly beating Leela at checkers. I'm torn between admiring his nerve when dealing with the villains and wanting to whack him about the deerstalker with his Penang lawyer for the way he smiles as she blunders about.
Another thing about this episode is the technobabble. In those days, it didn't have to sound nearly as realistic; the effect is to actually increase one's suspension of disbelief. "Weng-Chiang is a scientific ignoramus: he doesn't understand the nature of zigma energy." XD In a universe containing zigma energy, anything is possible.
6: And this is why Vaarsuvius is my favorite character in The Order of the Stick.
*goes off to print more school paperwork*
2. Anybody who thinks Erle Stanley Gardner is a dry author has clearly not read The Case of the Substitute Face. There's some serious awwww in that one.
3. Speaking of music videos, Methos apparently has the best Quickenings.
4. One week had passed. All was quiet in scumland..... The generalissimo of evil was waiting until the triumph of the law had been forgotten. *snickers* There's nothing like reading old Shadow pulps when one is feeling under the weather. Weakened by his ordeals, the Shadow is trapped behind a steel door in a walled-off cellar -- only to reappear a few pages later with the terse explanation "Somehow, The Shadow had escaped"! Doubtless the truth will be provided soon, but... LOL.
*reading the last chapter* ..Ah, of course: he used the switch that controlled the upstairs lights to signal one of his agents. IT ALL MAKES SENSE. A throbbing, outlandish laugh broke through The Crime Master's lair. It rose to a pitch of strident mockery. Sardonic echoes answered. The Shadow's triumph!
5. The other good way to spend a sick day (i.e. yesterday afternoon) is by watching Classic Who: specifically The Talons of Weng-Chiang, in which the Doctor visits Victorian London dressed up as Sherlock Holmes and winds up stuck in the middle of a murder case. Matters pertaining to Weng-Chiang's history and Chinese culture in general are so poorly done they're ludicrous, but I love how the Doctor barges in and starts ordering the police around. He's appallingly rude to Leela, though. The Second Doctor wouldn't have treated her like that. And LOL THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA! *goes on to Episode 2*
Speaking of the Shadow, here we have our main villain... BWAHAHAHAHA.
"Chang, I have given you mental powers undreamt of in this century!!"
Hmmm... this campily spooky personage announces that the Doctor is not a Time Agent, for "A Time Agent would not ask questions. A Time Agent would know." Well, well, well.
And now Professor Lightfoot comments that "Mrs. Hudson always leaves me a cold collation." Hee!
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if RTD had watched this serial (even as its makers clearly took their inspiration from Sherlock Holmes). There's Leela, walking in with a new Victorian outfit after having her old one stolen by villains, and the Doctor has just about the same reaction the Ninth Doctor did in The Unquiet Dead.
Doctor: (picking up a scientific thingie) Do you know what that is?
Leela: (wryly) You asked me so that you can tell me.
Doctor: That's right.
No wonder the Doctor was so annoyed that K9 kept beating him at chess. It's a bit of a comedown from constantly beating Leela at checkers. I'm torn between admiring his nerve when dealing with the villains and wanting to whack him about the deerstalker with his Penang lawyer for the way he smiles as she blunders about.
Another thing about this episode is the technobabble. In those days, it didn't have to sound nearly as realistic; the effect is to actually increase one's suspension of disbelief. "Weng-Chiang is a scientific ignoramus: he doesn't understand the nature of zigma energy." XD In a universe containing zigma energy, anything is possible.
6: And this is why Vaarsuvius is my favorite character in The Order of the Stick.
*goes off to print more school paperwork*