Seems that British Politics show I mentioned a week or so ago has written half of their leads out (and all of those pushing for that unbelievable potline). briefly tried to promote a new female villain but then settled on making the lead one of the former minor supporting characters, also female ( Read more... )

Reading about the Chilcot Report brings oh so many things to mind. On the (dimly) bright side, after the last ten days highlighted the dysfunctionality of British politics, the mere existence of a) the comission, and b) the report now delivered is a reminder that the U.K. does have a political tradition and understanding of responsibility to be ( Read more... )

Still catching up with the internet. I see that The Waters of Mars has won the Hugo, which pleases me. It definitely was the best of the year-of-interruption specials, and not just because of the last ten minutes. (Though I still think the DW endeavour by RTD that should have won for best short form was the episode Midnight in season 4, but that ( Read more... )

I will not read BSG spoilers. I will not read BSG spoilers. I will not read BSG spoilers.

So, here are some things serving as distraction from same. Firstly, I have no compunction about reading second season Rome spoilers, because a) it's going to be a year till it's shown here, and b) well, history. Which led me to come up with the following ( Read more... )