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    Sunday, February 7th, 2010
    9:45 pm
    Why I Love Brighton No. 4379

    In Brighton
    Originally uploaded by Loz Flowers.



    Current Mood: refreshed
    Current Music: Lo-Fidelity Allstars- I Used to Fall in Love
    Monday, February 1st, 2010
    8:49 pm
    Blues Explosion!
    Finally, some years late, the Guardian have finally given a right-to-reply to someone to point out that Julie Bindel knows not whereof she speaks when it comes to transsexual matters, Julie Bindel's dangerous transphobia, although that title does sound like the best band name ever.

    Anyway, from rumblings heard around the internet it seems likely that Bindel is going to drop her pretence of 'not wanting to talk about this issues' that she pulled after the S'onewall demo in 2008 and will write something lashing out offensively at anyone who disagrees with her dignified and measured on the matter. Anyone want to guess what will be in it? I'll go first, Julie will bring up her Jewish background in order to claim that the demonstrators outside were chanting slogans comparing her to the BNP and Nick Griffin. She will also claim that demonstrators chanting outside was responsible for rowdiness inside while continue to deny she has any responsibility for a climate of transphobia in the country.

    Anyone else?

    Current Music: Pet Shop Boys - Red Letter Day
    Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
    11:05 pm
    Monday, January 25th, 2010
    7:59 am
    Dollhouse [SPOILERS for most recent]
    I was going to suggest a new trope of 'The Dumbledore' to describe someone that puts the hero character through unnecessary risk that could quite easily lead to DOOMS if the hero were to die when the story wouldn't be much different if the hero stayed at home and had a cup of tea or at least did something a lot less fun and unnecessary dangerous. TV Tropes has already assigned The Dumbledore to mean something else. It does seem as though Langton's great plan would have been much simpler if they'd hooked Caroline up to the Attic from the start and then drained her rather than sending her out into the world at large for two years where she could have been killed. Certainly if nothing else Alpha kidnapping her at the start of season 1 should have been a wake-up call that he might have lost the special spinal fluids.
    Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
    5:57 pm
    5:56 pm
    8:56 am
    Ugh.
    Julie Bindel given platform at some event called Queer Question Time at the Vauxhall Tavern. There's a fair amount of criticism of this on the Wall of the Facebook Group and the current feeling seems to be towards boycotting the event rather than wasting time and energy engaging with a woman who is not for turning.
    Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
    5:31 pm
    Cleaning the flat today I've been aware that there's not any dust but there are strange little collections of fluff all over the place. It doesn't seem to come from anywhere, just magically appear, as though the flat is generating it's own belly button fluff. Is this something typical to places with wooden floors and no carpets?
    9:11 am
    'Cos There's Nothing Worth Lying For'
    Following a series of high profile detentions under s44 of the terrorism act including 7 armed police detaining an award winning architectural photographer in the City of London, the arrest of a press photographer covering campaigning Santas at City Airport and the stop and search of a BBC photographer at St Pauls Cathedral and many others. PHNAT feels now is the time for a mass turnout of Photographers, professional and amateur to defend our rights and stop the abuse of the terror laws.

    12 Noon
    Saturday 23rd January 2010
    Trafalgar Square.
    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
    10:28 pm
    The problem is that I think I wouldn't mind being followed round by the Black Dog, I quite like dogs and I invariably end up envisioning it as some hulking Great Dane or Saint Bernard and who can really imagine the Schnorbitz of Depression? I need a really annoying animal with no real positive attributes.

    So, I am occasionally pecked by the Gannets of Depression.

    Current Music: Garbage- Androgyny
    Thursday, January 7th, 2010
    7:54 am
    < sigh > It does seem that, living in Central London, I get to experience all the annoyance of ice and ballsed-up transport but not the joy of fresh snow. It snowed most of yesterday but was melting the moment it hit the ground.

    Current Mood: pissed off
    Current Music: Spiritualized - Amazing Grace
    Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
    9:36 am

    Edgar Wright
    Originally uploaded by Prince Charles Cinema.

    Friday, January 1st, 2010
    11:03 pm
    The End of Who? - The End of Time Parts 1 & 2 (SPOILERS)
    It would be interesting to know the health of Doctor Who right now. None of the kids I know are particularly concerned about Doctor Who, preferring instead the sparkly passive-aggressive stalker or the grumpy werewolf, so I've got no idea whether the presumed target demographic that this entire Christmas effort has been aimed at, the seven-year-old with ADD who doesn't follow the stories but likes pretty pictures presumably, walks away pleased. However, while I think that, with the end of season 4 arguments could be made either way, the end of this so-called 'season five' was utterly and incontrovertibly shit. There was, if not a great story then at least a passable story, but it was buried in layers of wretched toss that suggests that RTD has one of those contracts that means no-one gets to edit his work or tell him to go away and come back when he's written a proper story and so they are forced to put on a brave face and tell Doctor Who Confidential about how they think this is Russell's best script ever while they die inside.

    When the Doctor gets that fatal blast of radiation I looked at my watch and realised we were still a good fifteen minutes from the end. And I thought 'what the hell?' Little did I know what horror was going to follow. The Doctor has enough time to invent a machine to save his life, or visit one of the millions of places in the universe that could save him. Instead he travels round all the characters RTD has created, including chipmunk Billie Piper and her new Esther Rantzen teeth. She looks at him clearly, yet somehow never puts two and two together during her time with Ten to point out she met him before. Bad RTD. Unnecessary RTD. It goes to show that Tennant and RTD should have both left a year earlier as, if a big reunion was needed, then everyone flying the TARDIS was the last time many of those characters should have been seen. Finding a new boyfriend for Jack after he had to experience his previous partner dying horribly and then being forced to sacrifice his grandson was an insult. What the hell is a Sontaran doing running around on Earth while the Master and then Time Lords invade?

    Praise to John Simm for taking a bad script and making it almost work. The scene where Ten tries to sell him yet again on the idea of them travelling together is very well done as both Tennant and Simm have to try and make us believe there's a possibility of something we know won't happen happening. The whole thing about the Time Lords being responsible for the drumming in the Master's brain doesn't bother me as much as I would have thought it would, perhaps I was largely numb to the car crash on screen by that point. That no explanation is given for the mysterious woman that speaks to Wilf and who the Doctor recognises is a flaw. I think RTD doesn't name her because she can only be one of a few possibilities, the Doctor's mother/wife/daughter, Susan or Romana. But if the Time Lords can only just imprint the child Master with the drumming signal how is she merrily able to project herself into Wilf? I genuinely feel that the major fault with this last two-parter is that RTD just doesn't care any more so is happy to throw any nonsense on screen.

    Such as the Doctor's fall from the shuttle-craft. I know that all it took was a knock on the head to turn Doctor Six into Doctor Seven, but this was a fall of Logopolis-like distance, plus velocity, and the Doctor gets away with minor abrasions. Would it have taken much time to have the cactii give him something to break his fall?

    And to bring Donna back and do absolutely nothing with her, what a waste of time that was. She remembers everything, has a brain storm and is then fine and her pre-Doctor self again. I kept expecting her to metaphorically swoop in and help the Doctor, as it is I don't see how things would have been any different if she'd been turned into another of the Master clones.

    I don't have much of a problem with the Time Lords, as they were a minor ten minute thing, they come back, Gallifrey appears in the sky, the Doctor destroys a machine, they and Gallifrey disappear. Big fucking deal. That Timothy Dalton was apparently Rassillon is another issue but, again, numbness.

    In many ways this two-parter seems nothing more than a calculated 'fuck you' from RTD to Auntie. Heavily and exhaustively trailed, then turns out to be a two-parter with long pauses where nothing much happens, I do wonder whether RTD wrote this so that children in Spring decide they don't want to watch Doctor Who any more as it got so boring and it dies again in a year or two. I did feel a twinge when the Tenth Doctor said "I don't want to die" or words similar, even if that was a lie, but hopefully Moffat will take steps to make clear that Doctor Toddler is different in temperament to Ten and Nine, Toddler's gurning and checking out his body being pretty much a direct copy of the Ninth Doctor in that Children in Need special. I know that Comic Book Guy has helped to mock the fan that feels that program makers owe them anything, but I do still believe that, and that this was a slap in the face not just to the adult fan, but even the young child watching.

    Worst episode ever? Definitely.

    Current Mood: disappointed
    Saturday, December 26th, 2009
    4:33 pm
    Doctor Who: The End of Time (SPOILERS)
    It's Christmas so Russell T. Davies is going to write a Doctor Who special and it's going to be poo. The only satisfaction in this was that by now we all know that Doctor Who specials are always quite uniformly plopped from Satan's behind (all except The Runaway Bride) so at least this didn't come as a surprise. As it was we had a jumble of ideas thrown in together with little care and attention (did we really need the Ood?) and what sounds like a fairly big plot point about the Time Lords chucked in to Confidential as though it's no big thing.

    What we had yesterday was quite large dollops of filler pie. No doubt whatever story it is RTD wants to tell (perhaps retconning these Time Lords as being what Dalek Caan went in to the Time Vortex meaning to save but accidentally letting out a Dalek fleet at the same time) is more than an hour long, but not much, so we get June Whitfield pinching the Doctor's bum and The Master laughing more than the annoying bald bloke from Derek Jarman's Jubilee. Russell talked about how there's got to be moments of levity before the gloom of the end of the Doctor, but he's been saying this since last Christmas. Get on with it!

    That said, there were some nice moments. The scene with the Doctor and Wilf in the cafe is wonderful, for a moment David Tennant seems older than Bernard Cribbins as each of the nine hundred years of his character's life but also however many the Tenth Doctor has lived since his last regeneration. And it's a nice point of view on regeneration, even though something walks away afterwards for this Doctor it is still as final a death as the one that Wilf will some day face. And I did get a little excited when Timothy Dalton turned up (I've been fairly succesful in avoiding spoilers for this), even more so when I realised he was spitting and gobbing in front of a load of Time Lord costumes.

    But The Master with his energy blasts and his bouncy legs and his eating people whole? What a sad diminuation of the character, it's like at his end RTD decides to channel the worst excesses of the John Nathan-Turner era. For all that fannying about with the Cult of Saxon and his wife and what-have-you at the start it all seems rather unnecessary and over-complicated and timewasting. And so presumably the Doctor will now have to fight the Master on a rain-soaked street of the city will all the other Master's look on until the Master can absorb Neo and so balance out the free-will equation and... ugh.

    And if seeing alien/weird shenanigans is enough to make Donna start remembering her adventures with the Doctor isn't that another black mark for the Doctor in dumping her on a planet which gets invaded by aliens every other week?

    I'd like to believe that the reason Wilf finds the Doctor so easily is because he's another Time Lord in a human body, the stuff with the mysterious woman on telly did seem to infer quite heavily towards him being someone who avoided fighting or at least killing in the Time War. I'd like to hope that the woman is either Susan or Romana but it seems unlikely, maybe she's the spirit of the TARDIS? And what exactly are these Time Lords going to do (presumably it'll be their fault) that might cause the end of time?
    Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
    11:22 pm
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