You don't know what's going on,
You've been away for far too long
You can't come back and think you are still mine
You're out of touch my baby
My poor old fashioned baby
I said baby, baby, baby, you're out of timeAre those singing this tune to Kring regretting giving up too early? Is Kring teasing the shiny, happy people who were losing their ( Read more... )

Depressing thought of the week: More people are tuning in for Moonlight than ever did for Buffy or Angel. That's just wrong ( Read more... )

I am a battered moth. For three years, I buzzed around a bright light before the darkness finally fell. Now, I buzz around the bright light that is Life and the darkness is even denser. What is it about me and ratings-challenged, quality shows that are hard to describe in a way that doesn't make them sound lame? Anyhoo, this is not a venture in ( Read more... )

I'm an unapologetic plot-bunny. I leave the theme and character analysis to my far more clever friend wee_warrior. I don't really talk much about Heroes, but I had a few thoughts after "The Line."

( Speculation follows. )

My pleas for reasons to watch Moonlight went unheeded which I take to mean that all of you have more sense than to be watching it. This makes you smarter than me. This will never do. Therefore, I have concocted the following which serves both as a reason to watch and to lower your collective IQs. I present...

(  The Sceptic's* Recap of Episode 4** Fever )

As I type, I am sitting at my desk dressed in a fleece over which I have added a thick woollen cardigan. There is a blanket on my knees and a Winnie-the-Pooh hot water bottle pressed between my stomach and the edge of the desk. I have to face facts. I am an old biddy. In keeping with this reassessment of myself, I have an overwhelming desire to ( Read more... )

You may or may not have noticed that picklepocket is no more. Most of you who know me know me as Inigo anyway, so hopefully it's not a major irritant. Those of you who have me friended because of the old transcript days are welcome to hang around if you want but I'm noticing one effect of posting daily and turning up on radars is that I'm losing ( Read more... )

I've watched three episodes and I'm about to cut it loose. I can't feel any interest in the characters and actively cringe on sight of the best friend. The plot is the same every week. To give us any story at all the devil has to make it tough to find each escaped soul - for no discernible reason other than to create another contrived tale. If they ( Read more... )

Morgan Matthews' Beautiful Young Minds is one of those documentaries with that magical quality of gripping you with a subject in which you had no prior interest. It followed a number of young hopefuls through the process of selection for the British team for the International Mathematics Olympiad in 2006. This is an annual competition open to all ( Read more... )

Moonlight is dire. I don't have a problem with it being derivative for that's true of most television. I do have a problem with it being dull. There's not an ounce of chemistry between the "romantic" leads, the acting puts the Troy horse to shame, and the characterisation is confused. It can't even count as a guilty pleasure due to the distinct ( Read more... )