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All My Love to Long Ago
Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:16 am
[  Mood: Happy ] [  Currently: Listening to Joe Bethancourt - Second Star to the Right ]
Today, the 17th, is my Birthday. And lucky me, I got something really cool that I get to share with everyone.
Joe mentioned this here, that as part of the annual BBC Children in Need charity event, they're doing a short bit where Fifth Doctor Peter Davidson meets current Doctor David Tennant.
Well, the bit, aired in England and has been posted to YouTube for those of us across the pond, as they say, can watch and enjoy. According to DWM, you can watch it on YouTube with a clear conscience so long as you then go on to make a donation. 
Ladies and Gentlemen: Time Crash
My thoughts:
I love how seamlessly they slid this between the end of last season and the lead in for the next Christmas special.
I love how it's quite funny, yet also manages to be a very sweet love letter to Davidson's Doctor.
I loved the one joke that almost had me break my desk from laughing when I heard it, and will have the entire Slash community screaming "I WAS RIGHT!!!"
I loved Davidson's Doctor's comment about the look of the TARDIS.
I love how Tennant pronounces the word "vegetable."
I love how they manage to touch on a lot of continuity bits, like Tegan, LINDA, and Time Lords in funny hats.
I was dismayed when I realized that, indeed, the current generation of fans of the show did grow up with Davidson as their Doctor, as mine was Tom Baker. Which reminds me that I'm gettin' old.
My biggest complaint is this: I wish it was just a little bit longer.
I'll easily score this a nine on our rating scale. Watch it. Enjoy it. Then give a little money to the kids in need.
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Anyone Else NOT Playing Halo 3?
Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:38 am
I don't own an X-Box 360. I can't afford it. I don't even own a regular X-Box, or a PS3, PS2 or a Wii. I do, in fact, own a PSOne, and I've not touched it in at least two years, despite having a handful of games I still enjoy playing on it (mainly the original Resident Evil, RE2, Monster Rancher 2 and Metal Gear: Solid). Two of those games are among my top 10 games ever, and it's a shame that I really don't have time to play them more often.
But, without an X-Box 360, there shall be no Halo 3 for me. I do own the original Halo, for the PC, and I enjoyed it a lot until the Flood showed up. I got very frustrated trying to out-walk them (Master Chief doesn't run. Or if that is his running speed, it's pathetically slow) through a maze of identical hallways, only to get stuck in a dead end and get killed by the little yellow bugs. Repeatedly.
I'll probably get back to it someday, as it's one of the few games where as I was playing it, I really felt like a bad-ass. There's nothing like leaping amongst a group of grunts, blasting away, tossing grenades and hearing them scream "He's everywhere! He's everywhere!" as they run for their lives. I felt like Arnold mixed with Kurt Russell.
Still, as much as I'd like to, I'm not going to get to play Halo 3 anytime soon. No chance for me to "Finish the Fight," as there's no way I can afford an X-Box 360 anytime in my near future, as I have too many other things I have to spend cashy-money on, like rent, car payments and food. But at least I can enjoy all the fun web-based stuff. The Museum bits and that huge diorama are amazingly cool, and I recommend checking it out. The "interviews" with the survivors of the battle are also very well done. Bungie is going all-out to make Halo 3 a true event, and they're doing a fantastic job of it.
I also enjoy their selection of Chopin's Raindrop Prelude to play as you zoom around inside the diorama. Anything that gets more people listening to Classical music, and realizing why it's still around, is a good thing, I think. I'll actually go t to the web page and drop into the thing, letting the music play in the background as I do other stuff. It's that good of a version, and I really hope they put out a Halo 3 soundtrack CD, with that on it.
But it also inspires me to want to play a table-top RPG with this kind of action going on. That would be a blast, if my friends could gather to game more often than once every other month or so. Ah well, the life of the older, responsible gamer.
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Send War Rocket Ajax to Bring Back His Body
Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:06 pm
[  Mood: Confused ]
The new Flash Gordon started on Friday, and God does it suck. It has the budget and acting of those Sorbo-Hercules knock-offs from the late 90's. We have our big review here, but I wanted to post my few brief thoughts on it.
Ming might as well have been a cardboard cut-out. Dale was our generic "tough reporter gal." Flash has half the acting talent that Sorbo has (Sorbo can, at times, be charming), and he and Dale have the obligatory "will-they/won't-they" relationship going. Flash and Dale both have minority sidekicks whom seem to be close friends, yet both are ditched quite swiftly and never mentioned again. And the guy doing Zarkov seems to have two facial expressions.
The Sci-Fi channel went with this, instead of the BSG spin-off Caprica. My guess is that there are two different sets of executives at Sci-Fi: the ones who green-lit buying Dr. Who, Farscape and BSG, and the ones who green-lit this, Ghost Hunters, Crossing Over and canceled Farscape. Somehow, we must find and eliminate the second group.
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It Is Mine!
Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:25 am
[  Currently: Reading What Else? ]
I have The Book. I shall be reading for the next few hours, and will post when I'm done.
I am so not built for standing in line for an hour anymore. Ow.
Thankfully, there were no bozos going by yelling spoilers, which happened for Half-Blood Prince. Which is good, because if they had, I'd have had to chase the idiots down and used unforgiveable curses on their asses with my wand, which is made from a tire iron. It would go something like:
"CRUCIO!"
crunch!
"AVADA KEDAVRA!"
splat!
Anyway, I was hoping it was going to be a big book, and it's 759 pages. Yea!
The cover's still dull, the Brittish "Adult" cover is better. I mean, look for yourself:
See, it's just . . . classier.
Reading!
At 06:55pm on Saturday the 21st, I completed The Book. Sleep claims me, to dreams of Hogwarts.
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hurm.
Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:04 am
[  Mood: Cool ]
The first teaser website for a movie coming out next year is up. So far, all it has is a logo that will let you email the character that runs the site.
Never Compromise.
I'm hoping this movie doesn't suck. So far, at least, they've got his look right:
If they don't screw it up, this movie will blow people's minds.
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