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‘Veronica Mars’ is a teen crime-drama which is incredibly addictive. It might be Kristen Bell, who hits almost every fetish button in my body or it might the plausibly unreal world they are living in. It may even be that, for the most part, the individual stories are well written, entertaining and feature an awful lot of Apple Macs.
It isn’t, however, the season one plot arc and it definitely isn’t the extended cast of characters. (more…)
I must stop falling madly in love with fictional characters. Year before last it was Jaye from ‘Wonderfalls.’ Now it’s the titular Veronica Mars.
Show’s good as well. But Kristen Bell is hot, hot hot.
And she’s hitting almost all my fetishes. Oh yeah.
I am watching an episode of ‘Forever Knight’ that has a bona-fide psychic in it. I keeping thinking that this is complete nonsense. However the fact the the main character is a detective who is also a vampire isn’t causing me trouble whatsoever.
I think my brain fluids are faulty.
Well, I just upgraded WordPress on this, my most venerable of blogs, and it all seems to have worked. Still, I’m expecting errors any time nqeqefdzgtg[at…
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The Unquiet Dead
The good: the two thirds of the story, Charles Dickens and the developing relationship between Rose and the Doctor.
The bad: the last third of the story and the ‘suddenly we look evil Gelf.’
I had forgotten just how good Eccleston is as the Doctor; he often plays the character for laughs but it works because often you feel the humour is being pushed so as to hide the fact that this regeneration of the Doctor is really quite morose at heart. I sit watching these episodes really wondering what a second Eccleston season would have looked like. I’d pay good money to have found out.
Plot-wise, this feels very Seventh Doctor and it sets itself up well and then, regrettably, rushes towards a conclusion. Indeed, it’s very ‘Ghostlight’ and, now having watched the behind the scenes material, you get the impression that that is the kind of material Mark Gatiss, the writer, would like to be working on. The original plot, about a Spiritual Hotel, sounded very 7th Doctor. The commentary was slightly more informative than that of ‘The End of the World,’ although there were frequent moments where you knew the commentators were watching the episode rather than finding something interesting to say.
Coming up next: Aliens of London/World War III – Not my favourite two-parter ever.
So, ‘Torchwood.’ What a lot of old tosh.
Well, that’s a little harsh. Whilst half the episodes were fairly boring and mundane it did have some highs. ‘Random Shoes’ was a good clone of ‘Love and Monsters’ (from season two of the new Who) and I liked ‘Out of Time.’ ‘Countrycide’ was a nice wee ep that I thought was going to be ‘Bad Taste’ (but it wasn’t) and episodes like ‘They Keep Killing Suzie’ and ‘Combat’ were watchable if rather forgettable.
For those who are counting, that’s two good eps, one middling and two average eps, which makes five vaguely watchable stories in a run of thirteen. (more…)