TV
Nine episodes in, I’ve realised that I’m really loving Doctor Who again, for the first time since series five, if I’m honest. As a result, I now feel like I should have been saying something about it. But I haven’t been. Well, not online, anyhow. So…
Software
[I’ve dropped some updates here until I actually bother to write a better thing about it.] There’s a new paper by the folks who make the Monthly. In an impressive feat of dull naming, it’s called The Saturday Paper [http://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/]. Whatever. I’m
Doctor Who
Oh, this is all spoilers, all of it. Don’t come near it if you’ve not watched ‘The Day of the Doctor’. It’s also a whole bunch of complaining. If you’d like to read something happy, read my jolly post on the same subject [https://thegreatescapism.com/
Doctor Who
It’s becoming quite clear to me that I don’t particularly care for the premises of Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who stories these days. I love how he does them, but I’m rarely very keen on what… or indeed why, when I’m able to hazard a guess
TV
So, firstly, relief. They didn’t actually try to tell us the name of the Doctor. I was reasonably confident that they wouldn’t, after the whole issue last season when they said that the Doctor had definitely died, and it turned out that he’d been wearing a crazy
Apple
I’ve been using iOS 7 for a while now. Here are some thoughts, in no particularly good order. I’ve probably forgotten something. Background and Battery When I got my iPhone 5, I found myself significantly underwhelmed by its battery life. I’d rather assumed that the overall battery
Film
A few quick thoughts on Man of Steel. Wanton destruction. I’m surprised to see a movie pull the kind of over-the-top mindless destruction that this did. Surely a modern audience is going to find it hard to ignore the horrendous implied body-count while they watch an ultimately popcorn-level film
TV
I’m oddly ambivalent about Neil Gaiman’s second Doctor Who script. I quite liked his first: it had creepy moments and some excellent villainous and macabre characters. Of course, it also had the TARDIS getting mixed up about which door the “PULL TO OPEN” sign refers to, but I
TV
The best thing about ‘The Crimson Horror’ is that the Doctor isn’t in it for the first half. The worst thing about ‘The Crimson Horror’ is that he isn’t in it in the second half, even though they got Matt Smith to turn up anyway. But I’ll
TV
Since the Doctor is a hero who doesn’t use violence (usually), he presents, I guess, a reasonable challenge to the unimaginative writer. If you’re not capable of imagining clever ways around problems, then you might end up writing twenty minutes of the Doctor running around after tough guys
TV
How wonderful to get an episode of Doctor Who that isn’t immediately forgettable. ‘Hide’ kicks several key goals that make you feel like it actually has a reason to exist. It has characters in it: not just vague ciphers, but actual interesting people who you get to spend a
Intials
J X K T Q P Y L D R G C Z E O V S B M N H F I U A W What? This is important. I should point out that in a list of second middle initials, R would do better. But it needs a