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Aug. 6th, 2012 11:34 pmThe Walking Dead S2 felt pretty much like a long-form Romero zombie apocalypse, as ever, but didn't feel much like a comic in particular, up until the sudden arrival of a new character in the final episode who in terms of striking design and apparent impracticality is like "HELLO I AM FROM A COMIC" in a way that seems to jar with the dirt-under-the-nails realism of the show in general.
Finland Back Again
Jul. 19th, 2012 11:41 pmSo it turns out Peter Jackson didn't make the first live-action adaptation of Lord Of The Rings. Just the first in English. And very possibly the first that was actually legal.
Hobitit - Finnish for "Hobbits"
Featuring Ninja Boromir.
Hobitit - Finnish for "Hobbits"
Featuring Ninja Boromir.
By the power of getting S1 in a charity shop and borrowing S2 from Chris, I am now more than halfway through all available Fringe.
It's pretty much "What if The X Files answered a decent number of the questions it raised?" - The Series.
"Mad scientists did it!" being the main answer, including the "mad scientists From Beyond!" subset. It explains vampires, werewolves, ghosts and the like in the first season alone, like aliens in Doctor Who. Their clearup rate is higher too - if guest stars don't die in the pre-credits they actually stand a fair chance of surviving.
Funny, good with callbacks and ongoing plot strands but not too buried in its mythology, and occasionally grotesque.
Biggest weird-out moment yet is a cameo in S2. That, or the behind-the-scenes extras where we hear just how Aussie John Noble actually is.
Somewhat more game-related talk here.
It's pretty much "What if The X Files answered a decent number of the questions it raised?" - The Series.
"Mad scientists did it!" being the main answer, including the "mad scientists From Beyond!" subset. It explains vampires, werewolves, ghosts and the like in the first season alone, like aliens in Doctor Who. Their clearup rate is higher too - if guest stars don't die in the pre-credits they actually stand a fair chance of surviving.
Funny, good with callbacks and ongoing plot strands but not too buried in its mythology, and occasionally grotesque.
Biggest weird-out moment yet is a cameo in S2. That, or the behind-the-scenes extras where we hear just how Aussie John Noble actually is.
Somewhat more game-related talk here.
Wait, what?
Nov. 8th, 2011 03:04 pmClearly American Horror Story had something to do with this...
Quinn from glee as Milli from TWH
Okay, it's more New Wave than Riot Grrrl, but still...
Quinn from glee as Milli from TWH
Okay, it's more New Wave than Riot Grrrl, but still...
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Oct. 8th, 2011 11:56 pmNew (as of last year) series of Human Target just reached our TVs. Bad new theme. Decent fights, but nothing yet on the level of the fistight in the back of a moving car. Rather postmodern of them to call Indira Varma's character Pucci. Pronounced Poochy.
Presumably it being cancelled discouraged DC bringing back the comics. Bummer.
Presumably it being cancelled discouraged DC bringing back the comics. Bummer.
The Fades - a new BBC genre series (which along with Doctor Who and the end of Torchwood: Miracle Day makes three this week) about a teenage boy with the ability to see ghosts, souls who fail to ascend for no clear reason, and as a result tend to go psycho. And there's a group hunting them. Including a healer. And there's a Nosferatu-looking ghost gone physical or somesuch. And the boy has prophetic dreams of a broken world raining ashes. And he has a comedy sidekick too. So it's a mix of things that may prove to be of interest, and for now at least has my attention.
Once Upon A Time pilot
Aug. 27th, 2011 04:28 pmThe weird outlier of the Festivals here is the Television Festival, which runs for a single weekend and can only be attended if you spend a couple hundred quid on an all-in ticket. But this year, in a bit of a spinoff, the Filmhouse has been showing some selected previews of relevant shows.
Let's Kill Hitler! sold out in minutes, despite being a preview by twenty-seven-and-a-half hours, but I was able to get a ticket for the pilot of Once Upon A Time which will air here... maybe sometime, somewhere, probably once the first season is completed, and that doesn't start in the US for two months.
It's a very low-key urban fantasy, apart from some big "wow" flashbacks to the storybook world most of the cast hail from, with nothing much fantastical bleeding into the real world... yet. Still, the people who have been trying to adapt Fables to TV must be spittin'.
And Robert Carlyle said hello in a twenty-second video intro. I imagine if he'd been there in person it would have gotten a better screening time than 11am. He plays Rumpelstiltskin in full scenery-chewing panto style, which seems appropriate.
Let's Kill Hitler! sold out in minutes, despite being a preview by twenty-seven-and-a-half hours, but I was able to get a ticket for the pilot of Once Upon A Time which will air here... maybe sometime, somewhere, probably once the first season is completed, and that doesn't start in the US for two months.
It's a very low-key urban fantasy, apart from some big "wow" flashbacks to the storybook world most of the cast hail from, with nothing much fantastical bleeding into the real world... yet. Still, the people who have been trying to adapt Fables to TV must be spittin'.
And Robert Carlyle said hello in a twenty-second video intro. I imagine if he'd been there in person it would have gotten a better screening time than 11am. He plays Rumpelstiltskin in full scenery-chewing panto style, which seems appropriate.
More remake than remodel, emphasising the Kick and the Stab and the Splode and the Robot and the British.
Enormo Version
Analogue TV RIP
Jun. 22nd, 2011 11:05 amSo on the 1st and 15th were the switchover retune dates.
On the 8th, BBC2 was gone. (Why just 2? I dunno.)
By the 15th, so was Channel 4.
Now they're all off.
And I still can't figure out how top get my video to record the digital channel I'm watching, which it did for two weeks without warning a few months ago...
On the 8th, BBC2 was gone. (Why just 2? I dunno.)
By the 15th, so was Channel 4.
Now they're all off.
And I still can't figure out how top get my video to record the digital channel I'm watching, which it did for two weeks without warning a few months ago...
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Jun. 12th, 2011 12:20 amWould I have liked Camelot more if I hadn't known it bore the Mark of Chibnall? Honestly, I probably would, for I am human and petty. However, it would have still been a murky sweary-for-the-sake-of-sweary Tudors-y retelling of the Arthur story with lots wrong with it, with only Eva Green as Morgan and some nice design work in its favour.
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Apr. 14th, 2011 01:18 amAnd furthermore, The Wire is just Homicide: Life On The Street with more swearing and no Pemberton or Bayliss or Giardello or Munch.
(Although I concede it's better than Homicide was after Howard left. Except season two with the dockers. Good grief.)
(Although I concede it's better than Homicide was after Howard left. Except season two with the dockers. Good grief.)
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Apr. 14th, 2011 01:15 amMain emotional reaction to The Walking Dead when it was announced: "Huh. A totally straight no-new-ideas zombie apocalypse, in long form. That's mildly interesting."
Main emotional reaction to The Walking Dead on seeing episode one: "Horsey!"
Main emotional reaction to The Walking Dead on seeing episode one: "Horsey!"
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Feb. 18th, 2011 03:19 pmSo on the week Marvel give us this Thor trailer (private joke caused by Trek RPG and someone's unfamiliarity with the name of an obscure planet: "I am betazed!") and announces friend of Downey and master of raucous character-centric action comedy Shane Black is directing Iron Man 3, let's see how DC are faring by comparison, as someone leaks the Wonder Woman pilot script.
Marvel must really like only answering to one other group in this sort of thing.
Marvel must really like only answering to one other group in this sort of thing.
This week brought not one, but two new primetime genre series to British terrestrial TV. Marchlands is a slow-burn ghost story, but Outcasts is a higher concept - a colony planet for people fleeing a sketched-in doomed Earth. It still needs to be explored, which is a potentially game-friendly job to be doing, and some of the explorers have gone a bit mad. It plays everything quite straight, apart from one surreal thing - a local disease whose first symptom is "a halo of light" around the head. Messing with someone's electromagnetic field?
Naturally, my version would be a fair bit more surreal, an escape from Gamma World where new arrivals talk casually about Earth as a mad hellhole where everything has gone wrong in insane ways - "Yes, I discovered that someone at the lab had customised my attempt at a cure to make everyone who used it drink blood" - and the flight as a nightmare - "That's water? Sorry, not used to water that doesn't taste like someone with a severe iron deficiency pissed in it."
But yeah, likely to be less casually deranged than my version. And good cast, nice location work, the odd surprise and a bit of a despairing tone. We'll see.
Naturally, my version would be a fair bit more surreal, an escape from Gamma World where new arrivals talk casually about Earth as a mad hellhole where everything has gone wrong in insane ways - "Yes, I discovered that someone at the lab had customised my attempt at a cure to make everyone who used it drink blood" - and the flight as a nightmare - "That's water? Sorry, not used to water that doesn't taste like someone with a severe iron deficiency pissed in it."
But yeah, likely to be less casually deranged than my version. And good cast, nice location work, the odd surprise and a bit of a despairing tone. We'll see.
