Now I've avoided both Doctoro Who and ST related interviews because I didn't want to be spoiled, but the constant hate-on Fandomsecrets has for my beloved Discovery has inadvertendly informed me RTD had the good taste to like it, so I googled, and the passage invoking the Disco hating folks' ire from an article/interview pre DW season premiere some ( Read more... )

Had a very very busy week, though yes, I did watch the DW finale.

( Thoughts )

In which RTD, after having vented his whimsy in the season opener and his horror writer in "72 Yards", now reminds us he's also responsible for stuff like the COBRA meeting in Day 4 of Children of Earth. All disguised in what first comes across as a satire on social mediai, no less. Wow.

( Spoilers don't want to lower their bubble )

Be on the road for a week, and what happens? A fannish timeloop, it feels like.

( Doctor Who )

I have to say, RTD's post Doctor Who career is a superb one where the last few years is concerned. The five part miniseries It's a sin which I've just finished is the third in a row - after Years and Years and A Very English Scandal - where I feel like doffing my non existant hat at the sheer vitality of characters and masterfulness of storytelling ( Read more... )

This isn't the best of weeks, so have a few links for multifandom distraction:

Immensely entertaining chat between Vanessa Redgrave and Miriam Margolyes

Discussion about RTD's new series It's A Sin among survivors of the AIDS outbreak in the 1980s

And if you're a frustrated traveller (like me), here are a few 3 D virtual exploring of beautiful places ( Read more... )

I was alerted to this newest RTD (mini)series by this review, and also this one, both of which are very favourable indeed. Having watched it now: deservedly so. RTD seems to be on a winning streak, between last year’s A Very English Scandal, and now this, a series set basically five minutes into the future. (Not literally: it starts in 2019 and ( Read more... )

Which isn't the same as a list of personal favourite episodes - slightly different category - , and of course limited to media I actually watched, so if your own pick for "great episode of 2018" isn't in it, it might be simply for this reason. Also, there's no particular order of quality among the episodes themselves.

The other days

Star Trek ( Read more... )

Which is a three-part miniseries written by Russell T. Davies and directed by Stephen Frears, starring Hugh Grant and Ben Wishaw, received with much critical enthusiasm when it was broadcast earlier this year, and currently out on DVD in my part of the world. If you’re a Whovian: RTD also brought Murray Gold with him as a composer (mind you, the ( Read more... )

Back in my university days, I once took a class about A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which meant watching a lot of productions, both filmed and on stage. That class had the worst possible placement - Friday afternoon - during the spring-to-summer term, and when I tell you that most of the 15 participants showed up regardless, you may gather we had ( Read more... )