That whiskey saved Superman!

[alexsarll]

Last night's Skins: I'm not saying it was my favourite episode ever, or even of the new series so far, but it was nonetheless brilliant. Without once becoming A Very Special Episode, or the sort of didactic slop a US teen show would usually give us, we get something which I'd wager will make at least a few kids up and down the country think twice before they parrot their Mail-reading parents' line on immigrants. And while the scum might object to Skins because it's all sex and drugs and electro-indie, how many of them realise that it's not only undermining their anti-fun stance, but also their intolerance? Heroic.
In other scandalous but socially conscious TV news, by finishing the third season of Oz I've caught up to where I started. No more left for me to watch - well, except the musical episode, for which C4's scheduling went from merely wasteful to actively hiding an episode in a slot previously announced for something else, but I'm not sure I want to watch through all the intervening bits again just yet.

"Londoners escape heavy snowfall", apparently. Yeah, so rather than a winter wonderland outside my window, it's the sort of formless and apparently infinite muddy grey which makes me wonder whether it's even worth leaving the house today. What an escape!

As if recent reactivation of my old Warhammer 40K habit weren't bad enough, last night I learned how to play Heroclix. I know that geek is cool these days, but I still can't help but worry whether I'm going too far. Speaking of cool geeks: Scott Pilgrim! The new instalment is strangely downbeat in places, but also a thing of wonder. I only bought it on a whim because it was a slow comics week, and yet I still got the limited edition bookplate. This is because I am wonderful.

Comments

[exmoor-cat.livejournal.com]

The downside of WH40k and Heroclix is having once's arse handed back to one by a 10 year old who understands completely the game mechanics but has no clue on anything to do with battlefield tactics.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

But I have no intention of playing any children, only people my own age who have realised sod it, we did 'cool' for a few years, and it was fun, but now let's get back to the important business of tabletop FIGHT!

[exmoor-cat.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me, though the prospect of having to paint up the 5000 points of space marines is giving me the jitters.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Paint? Half of the Marines we've been using aren't even fully assembled!

[exmoor-cat.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, that brings back memories. Brother and I used to buy the old esci plastic figures and line up and knock em down. Who do you play?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

So far I've been Marines, specifically Crimson Fists, against Orks and Traitor Marines. But all the model's are my opponent's, because he has way more money and space than me.

[exmoor-cat.livejournal.com]

Mine's an unfinished project of developing my own chapter, though the vast majority of the collection is historical. Currently worknig on WW2 Royal Navy in micro scale.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

These are only really Crimson Fists because I like their Chapter Master's special abilities...

[icecoldinalex.livejournal.com]

i can't get the bookplate, because it's my sisters birthday tomorrow and I only have £15! OCH.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

You could have asked them to reserve you one and then gone in for it once in funds!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I like that, though, those bonkers openers which make it all the more poignant once the party ends.

[msdaccxx.livejournal.com]

I just bought the Skins season 1 & 2 box-set (a bargain £12.95 offa Amazon), so I will be able to refresh my memory a bit as to whether or not I thought they were all appalling little twunts for the first few eps of season 1. I rather suspect I did think that, but found them too compellingly awful to switch off and then found myself loving them all in spite of myself.

Last night's ep was streets ahead of the first two, but then, last week's was a ton better than ep 1, so maybe we are in for a process of continuous improvement. Fingers crossed, eh?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I thought that, just considered as drama, the Cook's-a-mess episode was the strongest so far. But yeah, I strongly suspect that as with the previous bunch, the best is yet to come.