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parma_violets

This New Series Of Doctor Who, And Other Vital Issues Facing A Changing World

Jun 22, 2006 19:47

LA's top cop wags his finger at us from across the Atlantic over how we're carping on at the police for doing a dashed good job fighting terrorism. All this stuff about shooting Brazilian electricians and raiding the wrong house, he says, isn't it all a bit, well, negative? Of course, only an unpatriotic shit who wants to see England under ( Read more... )

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trav28 June 22 2006, 19:15:11 UTC

I'm sorry, but it just wasn't believable. The Doctor couldn't fall in love with Reinette after only meeting her a few times

heh - remind me never to tell you of the time I met this American babe in a hotel lift, who ended up asking me out to dinner. I fell for her in 3 hours flat ;)

parma_violets June 22 2006, 19:56:05 UTC

Yes, but would you voluntarily imprison yourself in pre-Revolutionary France for the rest of time for her? That's the real test.

trav28 June 22 2006, 19:58:09 UTC

es, but would you voluntarily imprison yourself in pre-Revolutionary France for the rest of time for her? That's the real test.

mmmmmm....curious. If you asked me this back in 1990 - yes. Now, as I have aged a little and met someone else/got married, possibly not. But the 20 year old me, back then. God yes.

parma_violets June 22 2006, 19:59:37 UTC

You're a very shallow man and I am in no way jealous of you. :p

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baron_scarpia June 22 2006, 19:45:45 UTC

You see, that's Love and Monsters in a nutshell. Decent enough premise, perhaps, but then Davies has to spoil it all by going too far.

parma_violets June 22 2006, 19:57:41 UTC

You really should avoid his interviews like the plague. Since August last year or thereabouts, he appears to have been replaced by some kind of Egozaloff.

baron_scarpia June 22 2006, 20:11:29 UTC

I've read some of his stuff, actually, and each and every time I've ended up just wanting him to shut up.

londonkds June 22 2006, 20:12:23 UTC

He'd have to go some to beat Whedon or Stracynski on their DVD commentaries.

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cpt_buggernuts June 23 2006, 07:55:33 UTC

Horizon, which I'm really getting into.

Heh. We've just gone right off it in Bovril Towers. (We made the dire mistake of watching a taped edition from 15 or so years ago within a day or so of last week's 'The Crazy Adventures of Spermbank mcWacky' or whatever it was called and it pretty much rubbed our faces in how far it's gone downhill).

parma_violets June 23 2006, 20:14:57 UTC

Aw, I loved Spermbank McWacky! One of the few recent instances of drama-documentary that hasn't made me want to put my surprisingly resilient fist through the TV screen.

That said, last night's was a bit irksome; they'd got some great interviews, so why they had to cap it all off with a smirky "ho, ho, silly scientists, haven't thought anything through" voiceover is beyond me. The Daily Telegraph review had a good old haughty sneer about how the documentary made it clear that "there are no certainties in science any more" - well, apart from superstitious imbeciles making desperate attacks on its credibility to shore up their own insecurities, that is.

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parma_violets June 26 2006, 17:14:36 UTC

I had an idea the other day that we should do a sponsored bile-off for charity - you rewatch 'Love & Monsters' and I rewatch 'The Girl in the Fireplace'. The one with the most fulminating LiveJournal entry afterwards wins!