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Torchwood: To the Last Man

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Just when I’ve decided to watch just one more episode and if it’s not up to scratch that’ll be it for me and Torchwood they put together an episode like tonights, To the Last Man. No need for aliens, no shooting, no car chases and barely any gadgets. Well told, taught story telling with a […]

Thursday Thirteen #21

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

My Thirteen Things this week is for Lori who wanted to know how I change the date. Here are (somewhat more than) thirteen ways to travel in time Mark Caldwell might have used and possibly the real one too… A Police Box (Doctor Who) A Wardrobe (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis) […]

Dr Who and the Product Life Cycle

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

I’ve been messing around with several projects today but have nothing remotely exciting to show. I was going through my blog today and found I’d written this back after the end of David Tennant’s first series as The Doctor but forgot to post it. What if the Doctor was an operating system… Hartnell – Doctor […]

Doctor Who: Last of the Time Lords

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

I’m just going to ask one question… Just one… Has the whole point of the last three series of Doctor Who been to set up a one gag story arc for Captain Jack? In other news Last of the Time Lords managed not to be a lacklustre series finale and didn’t resort to a silly […]

Doctor Who: The Sound of Drums

Monday, June 25th, 2007

I was worried The Sound of Drums, part 2 of the 3 parter season finale, last Saturday would do what has happened in several of the recent two parters: lose all the momentum built up in the first half. Thankfully it didn’t. Fingers crossed part three delivers a proper closing punch to the season and […]

Doctor Who: Utopia

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

I’m not going to say a huge amount about this episode except it did the things that the better episodes of the new Doctor Who do: Foreshadowing and not just springing an ending that seems almost tacked on Pace Misdirection Interesting setting Good story Character development It also had a huge advantage in that it […]

Thursday Thirteen #10

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Thirteen things that set my brain off on a tangent yesterday Thieves steal 250,000 Flake bars: The police are looking for a gang of attractive, long haired women moving in slow motion. The gang were heard chanting about the quality of the chocolate at the scene. A senual, warm rain shower followed the gang as […]

Saturday on Saturday (Just)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

After a couple of days when I’ve been churning out words for my noir fairy tale with an enjoyable ease today things slowed down a bit. Still managed to get the 500 words down to push past the 60,000 point. Not bad for a story I didn’t expect to be more than 15,000. The pieces […]

Dr Who – Gridlock

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Caught up with last nights Doctor Who which was a cracking episode. A good episode but maybe not as good as the first two because "The Shakespeare Code" and "Smith and Jones" went to more trouble to establish a solution to the problem in the plot rather than The Doctor pluging wire A in to […]

Dr Who – Smith and Jones

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Due to tiredness and need to be up early today (see my post later once I’ve picked out a picture to go with it) delayed this post till today. I’ll not spend too much time on it to avoid posting any spoilers. Enjoyable fluff that made logical sense and was coherent without an over reliance […]

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