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[alexsarll]

Some further thoughts on Doctor Who:
On Sunday, the top of the up escalator at Bermondsey station was doing the Sound of Drums...diggerdydum, diggerdydum, diggerdydum...
Never mind getting Widdecombe to endorse Saxon - they should do a whole episode with Lembit Opik as himself, teaming up with the Doctor to avert some asteroid-related threat. I'm sure he'd be up for it.
The design of the Citadel confirmed me in my suspicion that Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars was a significant influence on the portrayal of Gallifrey.
I really hope they at least leave enough unsaid about the Paradox machine that unreconstructed geeks such as myself can tie it in to the marvellous Faction Paradox lunacy of the books.

It was bad enough having Johnson from Peep Show in Hyde, but now Super Hans is working for him! It's a grand week for TV, though, isn't it? This and Who, two episodes of Rome, and on Friday, the return of The Shield, the one other cop show which, if not The Wire's equal (what is?), can at least look it in the eye. Oh, and last night BBC4 decided, for some opaque and unguessable reason, to show the delightful Yes, Minister special in which Jim Hacker ascends, unopposed, to Prime Ministership, following it with a documentary about ex-PMs. The most remarkable detail of this was how much enhanced John Major looks nowadays; he's more charismatic, happier, the voice less nasal, even the upper lip less offputting. The voiceover concluded that every PM, secretly, would love to return to running the show, but in everything Major said, every twinkle in his eye, you could tell that he really wouldn't. He's been there, done that, and concluded that he really does much prefer the cricket.

I am otherwise musing on the peculiar obscurity of Weird Al Yankovic's UHF (which really should be considered in the mainstream of eighties American teen comedies, rather than as a cult oddity), the sheer manliness of Glengarry Glen Ross (arguably even more male than Conan the Barbarian, the otherwise unchallenged champion), and the utter Englishness of W.Somerset Maugham selling his soul to Aleister Crowley for worldly success, and then grudging him £50 once Crowley was on his uppers.

Comments

[ksta.livejournal.com]

I though it was Super Hands?

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Hur hur. I bet you did.

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

btw sorry for not replying to yr text. I have no money AT ALL. :( I would have liked to come round but my brother was making my flat cat proof...

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

A common misconception, that.

Incidentally, here's something I mailed the others earlier, but I don't have your address:
"Apparently the actor who played Raul was killed during filming, and
had he survived, there would have been a further scene in which the
poodles get their revenge. So either way, I think we can say the
poodles were avenged.

Also, the Spatula City billboard was real, and was left up by the
roadside - and lots of passers-by who hadn't seen the film actually
tried to go there and were disappointed not to find it.

(Amazing the things one learns from imdb, specifically
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098546/trivia )"

[ksta.livejournal.com]

no way! Spatula City!

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Spatula City!
We Sell Spatulas!
And That's All!

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Cheeky Girls for companions in Season 4!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Or adversaries...

[azureskies.livejournal.com]

I really hope they at least leave enough unsaid about the Paradox machine

I wouldn't worry. My guess is that "Paradox machine" is simply "cool sounding name for the thing that's making all that stuff happen", and it won't be expounded upon further.

See also : "Time War".

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Oh, we've had loads of oblique but cool-sounding references to stuff from the Time War - the fall of Arcadia, the Cruciform, the Deathsmiths of Goth...

[stu-n.livejournal.com]

The Deathsmiths of Goth?! Don't remember that one — series, or books?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

It was in the 2005-6 Annual...so technically 'books', but in a piece written by RTD and aimed at the new series' mainstream audience. It also mentioned N-Forms from his New Adventure, of course...

[mylifebythesea.livejournal.com]

I was similarly pleasantly surprised at the Yes Minister special being on BBC4. I'd almost forgotten why I love that channel.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Even on days when I have no active plans to watch BBC4, I know that if I were left with no entertainment options but the TV, it's the channel I'd most likely end up reasonably content with viewing.

Now I'm just hoping they carry on with Yes, Prime Minister.

[mylifebythesea.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I've not seen Yes, Prime Minister since my old Modern Studies teacher lent me some tapes back in the day. Always seems to be Yes, Minister that gets the repeats.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I suppose repeats of most things tend to start from the beginning, even if that means they never get round to anything else - see also Twin Peaks, where only the first series got repeated, issued on DVD &c.

[martylog.livejournal.com]

Haha, I laughed at the Johnson/Super Hans crossover too. Though I was admittedly only watching because of the Zoe-from-Eastenders-speaking-in-plummy-accent factor.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yes, a lot of reviews have concentrated on that; I'm not saying I'd kick her out of bed for having a hidden agenda, but she's no Hannah-from-S-Club-in-her-knickers.

[missfrost.livejournal.com]

Oh also re Gallifrey: The Time Lords were described as "watchers" (or "watching"?) and were dressed rather like... The Watcher.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, I wonder...that stuff was all established in 1976, and while clearly The Watcher had been used by then, I'm not sure whether Who writers of that vintage would have been following US comics.