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I hate funny robots.
> I hate funny robots. The Doctor, ‘The Waters of Mars’, commenting in advance on ‘Dinosaurs on a Spaceship’. Which was actually kind of alright. Except for the robots.
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Klingon mind-melds
> Unless there was something going on, some sort of Klingon thing happening between Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey, then it simply can’t be true that they read the statement together at 3.45 pm. Anthony Albanese, displaying his shameful ignorance of the telepathic abilities of races in the
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Asylum of the Daleks
It has been said that the Doctor is worth the monsters. Similarly, ‘Asylum of the Daleks’ is worth the nonsensical. I don’t like making excuses for stories, but it’s an achievement to write an ambitious 45 minute episode which manages to paper over every crack. 'Asylum’ doesn’
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Okay, so Jenna Louise Coleman is very pretty.
I have more to say about ‘Asylum’, but once again I haven’t managed to write it all down yet so instead I present this picture from the BBC’s gallery. Which, frankly, should be distracting enough for anyone.
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Without a gun, you're a tricycle with a roof.
> Without a gun, you’re a tricycle with a roof. The Doctor on Daleks, ‘Asylum of the Daleks'
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These are a few of my favourite things
These are a few of my favourite things [http://letterboxd.com/tomcharman/list/films-i-love/] I’ve been playing around with the very attractive new film-listing site, Letterboxd [http://letterboxd.com], and I’ve compiled a list of the movies I love the most. If the site is anyone’s cup
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Rises
Thar be spoilers in these here parts. Me hearties. Big ‘uns. No, really. … Don’t say I didn’t warn you. … Oh, Bane. What is the point of you? Strong, check. Mask which is an inversion of Batman’s, check. Mask that obsures your mouth making you regularly impossible to
Bane vs the World
favoritesticle [http://favoritesticle.tumblr.com/post/28957868309/bane-wants-to-know-if-anyone-has-seen-a-girl-with] : > Bane wants to know if anyone has seen a girl with hair like this…
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Hobbit Time
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Frustrations of a casual gamer with Diablo III
1. Weekly server maintenance on the US servers happens in the Australian evening. This isn’t so bad though: at least I have the occasional productive weekday evening. 2. You have to start playing on the rarely challenging Normal difficulty to begin with. For most games I won’t get
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Inspiration
> A woman patted me on the arm and said “I see you on the train every morning and I just wanted to say it’s great. You’re an inspiration to me.” Should I have said “you too”? Because we were doing exactly the same thing; catching public transport
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Epic fan theory
> As for me, my favorite epic theory about Doctor Who remains that Graeme Harper and Robert Holmes are both, as ‘The Brain of Morbius’ suggests, pre-Hartnell Doctors, and that the making of 'The Caves of Androzani’ is itself a multi-Doctor story that explains how the Doctor got around