The Gamer's Quarter

Oh! The Series 4 soundtrack is out. Just the other day I was thinking, 'tis the season, but I hadn't checked yet.

Watched the Confidential. Laughed at "I've got you under my skin".

Also: Noel Clarke is visible in a clip from the script read-through so it should be no surprise (not that it would have been anyw ...

The last four years were foreplay, and this is the orgasm.

So many grace notes, played so well -- who knows who, who's seen what -- with such gleeful payoffs. The episode is probably pretty unforgi ...

The moon is [url=http://dr-ian.livejournal.com/24509.html]man's oldest enemy.

Four takes a somewhat different approach to the previous series. There are no big binding words like 'Bad Wolf', 'Torchwood', or 'Mr Saxon'. This time, it's cumulative: an element from every episode — ...

Next Week: Ood: Your Freaky Friend Who's Fun To Be With.

So do those kids in the park.

So the historical events that are "set" are ones that in some way involve the Doctor's personal timeline, I gather? He can't do a thing to change the events in Pompeii because he was responsible for t ...

daph i'm just trying to show people the side of cycle they don't see, the man behind the trenchcoat

And it looks like the/one of the arc word(s) this season is "ATMOS". Pretty interesting, considering the bees as well.

There's a sticker saying that as a sort of logo in the corner of the windshiel ...

Yeah, the CBC is like that in Canada, too, so it's not entirely a foreign notion to me. It just seems like those issues at the BBC might be at a bigger scale (or at least a higher level of public rele ...

These are interesting.

One thing I get from this is how much, at the BBC, programming and scheduling are political/bureaucratic decisions -- not business decisions.

That doesn't surprise me.

Anyway. Basically, in everything she does, I just always get this weird "DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" feeling from her.

Maybe that's because you do know who she is?

Fro ...

I was only talking about their reaction to repeated alien invasions -- not the rest of the stuff.

There's something to be said for that comment in the episode calling Britain "the most obese countr ...

I believe I read half that book on the toilet, once.

In the intro, doesn't he talk about how one of the patients was named Colonel Crapping or something?

Sort of. You're crossing a few wires. Th ...

I notice that people (not here, particularly; out in the wild) keep... not understanding what's going on with the show. There are long discussions even amongst reasonably intelligent people, criticizi ...

I think what I like most about the episode it breaks from the established patterns in so many little ways. Because the things that those patterns are composed of... they've done that already. Time to ...

Yeah, this was a fun episode. Not sure why it was rumoured to be so bad. Could it have been better? Sure. But it was fun and whimsical and totally appropriate for starting the year and bringing back D ...

My vote is they recruit that pair of sadistic lesbians from Torchwood: 1900. They could be in that freezer, too!

http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/blog/2008/04/up-pompeii.html

Reading between the lines there ... are they seriously planning to tie [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder]colony co ...

Oh no, aderack has drawn too much aggro. Quick, somebody cast Taunt!

I watched Casino Royale recently and noticed that the rookie agent at the start whose screw-up causes the movie is played by the same guy as the dad on Sarah Jane Adventures.

Yes, after three full years a probably a hundred pages of continuous discussion you'd think we'd have realized how terrible and unwatchable and boring and stupid the new show is.

Television would be better if all ads had to be either shorter than 10 seconds or longer than a minute.

ha @ 19th century Torchwood 3 being even more gay.

The episode seemed to be searching for a purpose and coming up short. I'm not criticizing the back-stories, or the usefulness of knowing these thi ...

Yeah, this was what I expected given the writer and the preview. My expectations were such that I was numb to the faults of logic -- rather than thinking about it, and getting upset, I've just not tho ...

Well his comment is largely just about production scheduling -- specially, next year's pseudohiatus -- and amounts to little more than "don't put off your vacation until after you lose your mind" or " ...

That's probably a decent fit ... I still haven't watched the second half of SJA's first series.

Yeah, my current overall opinion of the show is about the same. It's improved to the point that it's a pretty good show I consistently enjoy watching, but it still falls short of having enough unique, ...

Though I don't remember them offhand, Ianto had some of his best lines so far. They didn't leap out and take a bow the way some of his earlier ones did; they just were brilliant in context, and well-b ...

Oh, wow. Lots and lots of great little lines and reactions. The show continues to fire on all cylinders.

I assume the "fans" have exhibited a great level of overreaction to the unsurprising news?

t-this would be the perfect moment to see and hear Tennant give a "Mwahahaha!"

I've watched the last couple L&Os for lack of anything else on Wednesday nights: the Sugar one, and the one before that (with the dead Doctor in the hotel - s18e09 I think). That one was particula ...

The fact that you literally hear him breathe as he expresses his frustration the moment after he "realizes" he can't does indeed weaken the moment. And it all draws unnecessary attention to certain ot ...

Hell, you didn't have the original actors after a couple of seasons. It all went downhill after John Rhys-Davies left. Then it got a little better when Lieutenant Bimbo was replaced with Jerry O'Conne ...

Yeah, same idea as Buffy Season Eight, which I haven't read. BUT: the fact that Buffy had a relatively tidy ending while Angel ended with a huge game-changing cliffhanger changes the way both writers ...

Replace Jack with Angel, and the Weevils with... Weevils, and that whole progression could have come straight out of an Angel episode.

Speaking of which: Has anyone here read the Angel: After the F ...

Razor Doctor HG!

... that would seriously be quite fun to watch.

No single episode of Torchwood has used that sound as often as that episode of Smallville. My brother was watching it with me, ...

Last week's Smallville (please god explain why I still watch it) was filled with "the Torchwood sound". You know the "waaaaaooooop" sound at the end of the Torchwood theme? Smallville used it to mark ...

Ok this is odd: Italics is broken on this page in Firefox 3 Beta 3. Probably some CSS or font issue I guess.

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I find it's easiest to just use the feeds at http://tvrss.net/ -- there's an RSS feed ...

just to give the hardest-core fans an aneurysm.

We need to invent a term for these people. My first thought is "diamond core", but that's far too kind.

Hmm.

Apparently Brittleness, in technic ...

I understand that Supernatural is going back to make up at least a few of the episodes this season. Seems like most of the interesting shows are, except BSG. Who knows what's going on there.

Return ...

I think the best Groundhog Day episode of any show was the Stargate SG-1 episode. If only for golf through the gate. That, and putting the two least brainy characters in the situation.

And the ep ...

This Adam dude was certainly ill-defined, wasn't he. As were the logistics of the memory-inveiglement. (If he's worked himself into their long-term memories, why does a 48-hour wipe have any tangible ...

Are you also counting Enterprise?

And, uh, Voyager was on for seven seasons same as both TNG and DS9 and they all have almost the same number of episodes. (No argument with the "so easily ignored" ...

So still no confirmation on Jack for the Moffat episodes?

"Meat" was good. The CG for the alien whale-thing is terrible. Normally I don't pay much attention to these things, but really. It's that bad. And there are some weird or cheesy moments, a lot of them ...

So from the sounds of it, no Christmas special this year?

re: framing of motion in LotR: Maybe it's a southern hemisphere thing and Peter Jackson just thinks backwards. But honestly I'm not sure if I agree with you.

Going by memory, I think that north-> ...