telly wot is not dr who, shock horror
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I have been watching some things other than Dr Who recently.
- Pushing Daisies, which I've actually just given up on due to it being twee and irritating, especially that voiceover, argh. Very disappointing what with Bryan Fuller also being responsible for the marvellous Dead Like Me (which I have nearly seen all the way to the end of, in the right order too! This is quite rare) but it just had this air of "look how quirky we are" which was rather annoying.
- Lovefilm sent me the first disc of Battlestar Galactica S3, which I am watching right now. Sometimes I think BSG is really good but it tends to go in waves whereby it gradually annoys me more and more until I am just on the point of giving up, when suddenly it gets good again. At the moment I am chiefly watching the Ellen/Tigh storyline and thinking how fab it would have been if the genders had been switched. This way it is a bit clichéd. Oh but now Gaeta is having a scene, yay! Also the octagons annoy me, partly because they are my least favourite shape (I find them sinister), mostly because they make no sense. They don't even tesselate! Every time I see an octagonal bit of paper I can't help thinking "why did you cut the corners off of that perfectly good rectangle? What did you do with the corners?" On the other hand it all looks really good and I still have lots of leftover goodwill from the miniseries, which I loved greatly.
- Now, positivity! Lovefilm also sent me Adam Adamant Lives! which is all kinds of stylish and fun (though I am eager to find out if they can get through an entire episode without using the Montage of Unconsciousness). And they sent me the first two episodes of Hornblower which has many shiny things like tall ships and heroics and lots of actors I vaguely or completely recognise and satisfying villain comeuppances and a wide variety of splendid hats. The straw one from episode two is my favourite so far. As well as being rather fine in its own right, Ioan Gruffudd also wears it terribly well.
- Pushing Daisies, which I've actually just given up on due to it being twee and irritating, especially that voiceover, argh. Very disappointing what with Bryan Fuller also being responsible for the marvellous Dead Like Me (which I have nearly seen all the way to the end of, in the right order too! This is quite rare) but it just had this air of "look how quirky we are" which was rather annoying.
- Lovefilm sent me the first disc of Battlestar Galactica S3, which I am watching right now. Sometimes I think BSG is really good but it tends to go in waves whereby it gradually annoys me more and more until I am just on the point of giving up, when suddenly it gets good again. At the moment I am chiefly watching the Ellen/Tigh storyline and thinking how fab it would have been if the genders had been switched. This way it is a bit clichéd. Oh but now Gaeta is having a scene, yay! Also the octagons annoy me, partly because they are my least favourite shape (I find them sinister), mostly because they make no sense. They don't even tesselate! Every time I see an octagonal bit of paper I can't help thinking "why did you cut the corners off of that perfectly good rectangle? What did you do with the corners?" On the other hand it all looks really good and I still have lots of leftover goodwill from the miniseries, which I loved greatly.
- Now, positivity! Lovefilm also sent me Adam Adamant Lives! which is all kinds of stylish and fun (though I am eager to find out if they can get through an entire episode without using the Montage of Unconsciousness). And they sent me the first two episodes of Hornblower which has many shiny things like tall ships and heroics and lots of actors I vaguely or completely recognise and satisfying villain comeuppances and a wide variety of splendid hats. The straw one from episode two is my favourite so far. As well as being rather fine in its own right, Ioan Gruffudd also wears it terribly well.
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Date: 8 May 2008 12:05 (UTC)Yes, that's exactly it - it didn't feel organic, like it had grown out of the characters and their situation, but more like it had been imposed from outside.