| Dashed off Dot Points |
[Dec. 11th, 2009|07:43 am] |
* Today I get three wisdom teeth out!
* My teeth tend to lock into my jaw with curved and hooked tooth... thingys. So for one, they actually have to saw away a small part of my jawbone!
* Weirdly, I'm not nervous at all. I honestly expected to be. ( Read more... ) |
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| The Prisoner 2009 - Harmony |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|07:11 pm] |
A definite improvement, darker and more interesting, drawing on concepts used in the original series while adding one that would not have been out of place in that show.
5/10 as a Prisoner remake
6/10 as a TV show
( Major spoilers below the cut... ) |
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| Invisible Man |
[Aug. 2nd, 2009|12:33 pm] |
Had chills and been substandard the last two days. Blah!
But I needed to watch through a few things before the The Best TV Shows That Never Were panel I'm on at C5, and being sick suddenly means I'm better able to make the time to do so. Just rewatched the pilot of the 2000 series The Invisible Man (also known as I-Man in some countries), and pretty much instantly remembered why I enjoyed the show. ( Read more... ) |
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| Spec Fic TV List |
[Jul. 3rd, 2009|03:27 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | tv | ] |
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) angriest is doing his The best SF television of all time II, again over on his LJ. After I wrote in, I got curious and came across a pretty good list of titles, dating back to 2006. I added about twenty to the list, then sent it to Grant, but know full well I'll have missed lots of stuff.
So, have a look and see what you can add. The original list did not include animation, so feel free to start filling the gaps by replying in comments with any titles you can think of to add. For clarity, and an (A) after the title for animated series.
( 500+ titles below the cut ) |
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| April Dot Points additional +pics |
[May. 3rd, 2009|10:16 pm] |
Just some extra things I forgot to mention...
* While seated and holding Lex in the kitchen the other week, he head-butted me, driving my head back into the wall. *Whack* *Thud*
"Nice one, Lex," I said, prompting him to do it twice more in rapid succession. *Whack* *Thud* *Whackthud!*
* Lex is now shit scared of my dalek.
* hehehehehe...
* Lex only started to properly crawl a week or so back. Within a couple of days of nailing crawling, he started to pull himself up to standing using things like the couch. A day after that, he started trying to actually climb up onto things like the couch. Too fast!
* Tomorrow night at 7:30 on SBS is the Botswana episode of Top Gear. If you've never seen the show, or have seen an episode but didn't like it, try this one. This is the one that turned Sharon into a fan. I've been married to her for over a decade, and I have literally never seen her laugh so hard for so long. She was in real pain by the end.
Basically, if this episode doesn't get you in, Top Gear will never be a show you'd enjoy.
* She's sitting beside me and giggling now, just thinking about it.
* I have decided that at some point, within the next few years, I will have to get a theremin.
* Continuum 5 seems to be shaping up well. We're going, who else is?
* Lex also gets to listen to Uncle Terry on PaleoCinema fairly regularly.
( * Four Lex pictures below the cut... ) |
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| Suspension of disbelief |
[Apr. 30th, 2009|01:14 pm] |
Films and tv shows usually rely on suspension of disbelief.
To me, if one is going to maintain the suspension of disbelief, you have to obey all the ordinary everyday rules that people know and understand. One can believe an massive alien invasion with giant biomechanoid floating death cannons, so long as the world rules beyond that are consistent. But if a human character, in avoiding one of these cannons, jumps off a ten storey building without any sort of aid, or interruptions to their fall, and land unharmed and run off - that's the deal breaker. One knows that's not possible, and suddenly one is left questioning that moment, and by default, the rest of the film.
I mentioned in a post yesterday that I hate it in films and tv when medics use the defibrillator paddles on a woman to try and restart her heart, and they are using them through material - bras, tank tops, etc. - rather than on bare skin. It pulls me right out of the moment, because I know it's not right.
I also mentioned hating when people can just break passwords when they have no information on the person, which has become really common in shows. Any computer whizz can break any password, within a relatively short time.
Another one I hate is when someone who is driving spends time looking at the their passenger rather than paying attention to the road. Quick glances are fine, but when they're maintaining eye contact for whole big chunks of conversation it annoys me. If you regularly did it in real life there's no way you wouldn't crash.
king_espresso mentioned that he hates when people don't wear ear protection on board military helicopters, which is a great one. Well, except now I'll be looking for it and getting annoyed by it.
kaths brought up the way people type madly on computer keyboards to do things that the rest of us would do with a mouse. We're in the internet age, everyone uses computers, we know they don't work this way.
kaths also mentioned the way they can zoom in on a small section of a photo, blow up that section, sharpen/clean it up, and suddenly have a incredibly clear and detailed picture. It's the equivalent of being able to blow up my icon for this post to read all the book titles.
So what about you? What regularly used, unrealistic film and tv conceits pull you out of the moment? |
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| Quick points |
[Dec. 16th, 2008|10:39 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | australia, doctor who, lex, memes, serious thoughts, slice of life, things that delight me, tv, videos/dvds, watching the crap so you never have to!, wicked grin | ] |
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* Between Lex and selling stuff, I've had bugger all time to post. So here are a bunch of things I wanted to do proper posts about. ( Nothing of vital importance in here, move along... ) |
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| Still trying to destroy Western Civilisation |
[Nov. 26th, 2008|09:33 pm] |
I got an infringement notice for downloading Stargate: Atlantis! MGM doesn't want people downloading their stuff, which when Channel 7 doesn't want to show it, is basically the equivalent of MGM not wanting people to watch their stuff.
Here is my reply to them ( Read more... ) |
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| That was a golden hour... |
[Jun. 23rd, 2008|08:57 pm] |
Tonight's Top Gear was better than sex. They had to drive three second-hand across Africa, and it was the funniest thing I have seen in ages. Sharon laughed so hard she nearly coughed up a lung.
That is all. |
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| Recent watchings 01 |
[Jun. 22nd, 2008|10:34 am] |
Been very busy lately, which also tends to leave me knackered, so I've been watching a lot more stuff - as a way to make me stop for a while, drink and eat, it's reasonably effective. It's been a while since I last did one of these updates, so it'll include several months worth of watching.
( Read more... )Will do another update shortly talking about some of the flicks I've watched. In the last week or two, my dislike of Van Helsing has shifted my recent viewing.
So what shows are you watching? |
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| Marco Polo and Stone Tape |
[Feb. 6th, 2008|11:27 pm] |
Been working my way through the first Hartnell season of Doctor Who, in preparation for Swancon. I'm writing mini-reviews of each episode as I go, which will make their way up here at some point, but just had to pause and say that the first episode of Marco Polo blew my socks off all over again.
Steady pace, great characterisation on all the cast, not just regulars or the guests. But both Mark Eden (Polo) and Hartnell deserve special mentions for great performances. Says a lot that I enjoy the story so much with just audio, script, and telesnaps.
Also watched Nigel Kneale's The Stone Tape today, which was also pretty darned cool. The characters were three-dimensional and well realised, and the story was slow but steady. And at times really creepy. Easy to see how it helped inspire Spielberg and Hooper on Poltergeist, and Carpenter on Prince of Darkness (though Kneale thought that film rubbish). |
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| Top Gear |
[Jan. 28th, 2008|10:10 pm] |
For all those people who have yet to watch Top Gear because they "don't like car shows" or they "aren't into cars", be watching next Monday night at 7:30.
The challenge to Richard Hammond and James May in next week's episode is to turn a car into a re-useable shuttle craft. They know the car will never fly, but they get people from the British Rocketry Association to figure out how to launch it.
Trust me, it is a fabulously insane and inspired bit of TV, and the clearest example of why Top Gear is anything but a car show. |
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| TV (and DVD and download) viewing |
[Jan. 26th, 2008|11:38 am] |
shazgirl and I have been working our way through various TV shows over the last three or four months, a season at a time, usually 4-7 episodes a week. arcadiagt5 loaned us Heroes Season 1, and lilysea loaned us a bunch of stuff, which we've intermixed with our own bought TV shows. So in recent times we've finished Heroes' first season, watched Wonderfalls, Jonathon Creek season one, Jeeves and Wooster season one (Chrissy prezzie for me from Shaz), and have just started on the first series of Hex.
I've also been catching up on things that Sharon... it isn't that she's not interested in most of them, it's that she's less interested than in the others. I usually know a few episodes in if it's a show Sharon will really enjoy.
So here are some quick thoughts on the stuff I've been working my way through these last few months - ( Read more... ) |
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| How bizarre... |
[Jan. 24th, 2008|09:23 am] |
I just went looking for a torrent for the latest episode of Torchwood, and was disappointed when I couldn't find one. Weird. I obviously enjoyed last week's ep. more than I realised... |
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| Falling in hate again... |
[Oct. 14th, 2007|12:37 am] |
Just been catching up on some Smallville season 6. I like the show. Not enough to own it, but enough to want to see it through to the end. But you know, I still suffer Tourrets Syndrome every time Lana Lang opens her damned whiny mouth... or looks at the camera with her big, watery eyes... or breaths...
Actually, come to think of it, she's a big part of the reason why I would never own the series. Her negative impact on my enjoyment of it is just too great.
I know it's not part of the Superman mythos, but can't we just ice the miserable bitch? |
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| Doctor Who |
[Jun. 6th, 2007|06:04 pm] |
Starting to think it's time to start rewatching Doctor Who from the beginning again. Saw a little bit of Dead Planet today and was immediately sucked in at once with how cool it all is. |
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| Star Trek Enterprise Season 4 |
[May. 25th, 2007|09:15 pm] |
For those that have come in late, I hated Voyager, and found Enterprise to be even more ineptly handled. But I had heard that the fourth season of the show was a vast improvement over the previous three seasons. I've started watching it and these are my findings so far...( Quick run through... )
The quick version is, I'm actually enjoying Enterprise. If the show had been this well-written at the beginning, I would have tuned in every week. So far, well worth a look. |
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