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What’s not to like right? It is my favourite genre of fiction by a long way indeed.
I went to the Doctor Who Experience yesterday, which was great fun, and I took loads of photographs, so expect quite a few posts with a ‘Who’ theme.
These pictures are a bunch of Radio Times covers featuring Doctor Who, and I thought they looked great. I’d forgotten some of the old logos from the Radio Times as well.
I’ve watched the film a couple of times and it’s ok. But the soundtrack really is quite excellent and listening to it on and off for the last week or so I’ve got really quite into it. So much so that I think I might have to see the film again.
I’d forgotten just how much I enjoy the forbidden planet soundtrack. It was so far ahead of it’s time. I think that everyone should watch the film and listen to the music. Not that it would engage everyone I know. Still, I love it.
I’ve just been reading about a terrible plan to bring Doctor Who to the big screen. Apparently the director of the last few Potter movies is planning to move the Doctor to Hollywood.
What a terrible idea, what a really awful idea. The only good thing that came out of the last attempt at taking Who to the US was that Paul McGann ended up doing the most excellent series of audio books for big finish as the 8th Doctor.
I have no hopes of this plan bringing anything good to the world of Doctor Who.
I finally watched the last few episodes of the Sarah Jane Adventures. I’d been putting it off for a while as I almost didn’t want to admit that these would be the last episodes.
They were great, and I’m glad I saw them.
I’ve just watched the latest episode of Touchwood Miracle Day, and I have to say that I’m disappointed so far. The basic concept behind the story is excellent, but there are so many plot lines and threads that I have no idea how this is going to turn out.
One thing I do worry about is that it’ll be as big a disappointment as Children of Earth was. That was a great story and a terrible ending.
I went to see this firm this morning. I was somewhat apprehensive about what the film would be like as the last remake of planet of the apes was a disappointment.
But I needn’t have been worried as this was a great film. A real sci-fi film. A good story, just the right level of action and enough in the story for a sequel. If that wasn’t enough there were also a few choice references to the original films just for the fans.
I won’t spoil it for you, but it was well worth seeing.
I watched episode 1 of this ‘sci-fi’ show tonight and was almost instantly disappointed. I suppose it could get better, but so far it is no BSG and doesn’t look like it will be capable of being one.
I could be wrong. It could improve, but for now I don’t think it will. I’m sure I’ll still watch it, but I’m not hopeful of that being a worthwhile experience.
I watched what I assume was the final episode of Caprica the other night. I shan’t spoil the story for you if it is something that you might watch at some point, but the series has been on my mind for a while now so I thought I’d jot down a few notes about it.
I was really pleased that there was going to be a BSG prequel. I really enjoyed BSG and the thought of something that would run right up to the start of the series was a great idea.
Although I found Caprica slow and at times overly complex, it was in many ways very similar in structure to BSG and so there was a common theme within it, That worked, and worked well I thought, but I could understand people finding it too slow and intricate to stick with. Taken together, then entire BSG stories form an amazing re-telling of the original 80’s series. If you put them side by side I think it could be hard to recognise one as the start point for the other even though they share many of the same characters.
Caprica, even though it is a prequel almost defined the point at which BSG diverged from the original, which is a strange way to tell a story, but for me it worked.
I think at some point I’d like to watch the whole thing again, but perhaps that might be too big an undertaking, and perhaps it would damage my memory of BSG as can often happen when you re-watch something.
I’m glad I stuck with Caprica. I wish there was something else that could come from the BSG universe, but I can’t see how. Maybe the franchise has run it’s course, but then again, money talks and with the following it has perhaps someone will want to squeeze more out of it. If they do I’ll give it a go, but I hope it isn’t at the expense of quality.
I had to watch this film. There was a sense of inevitability about that, but I put it off for quite a while until recently.
It took me while to work out what it was I actually thought about the film. So here’s what I think.
I don’t think that this film was meant for me. Although I do think it was meant for people who loved the first Tron. This was a film that was made for children and if I was a child again I’m sure I’d have enjoyed it more, but I wanted to enjoy it as an adult and I’d expected it to be a film which worked on more than one level. Sadly it didn’t.
I did enjoy it though, although for me one of the best things about it was the soundtrack, but more about that in another post.
So, in a way I wasn’t disappointed at all. It was what I expected on the whole, but in some ways I think it was a missed opportunity.
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