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Contrary to earlier reports, Primeval is coming back for another two series. Great news for everyone except ITV - it's a real nail in the coffin for their mad dash towards utter worthlessness as a channel.
"Two "offensive" number plates have been withdrawn from a Worcestershire auction. The plates F4 GOT and D1 KES"...would clearly never have been bought by a straight, only by a faggot or a dyke reclaiming the term. Over-sensitive idiocy.
Read Jeph Loeb's Ultimates 3 last night, expecting a comic at least as staggeringly bad as his Hulk, and was disappointed to find that it was merely mediocre. The plot makes no sense, the misogynist overtones are depressing, the pacing's shot, the art is clunky and the resolution's unsatisfactory - but you could say all of those things twice over about the original Stan Lee/Jack Kirby run on the originals of these characters in The Avengers.
As already seems to be the common view, I prefer the DW TARDIS to the full DOCTOR WHO in the new Who logo. But then, I like all of it more than the last logo, or the McCoy era one, and those prefaced some of my favourite stories in the series' 46 years. And some stinkers too, of course, but it was ever thus - this was never a show anyone loved for consistency. For instance: I just listened to Time Works, which made me revise my opinion of Steve Lyons; I'd always thought of him as a pretty poor writer of Who books, but it turns out he's also a poor writer of Who audios. He's in love with weird fairytale ideas - the Land of Fiction, the Doctor landing on a cartoon planet, or clockwork men who move between the tick and the tock. But he forgets that for every time the series carried something like that off in a 'Blink' or a Kinda, there were messes like Warrior's Gate or the end of Trial of a Time Lord. Hell, even the original Mind Robber was of questionable merits, a few fine images aside. And yet, still, among the tedium and confusion he brings out the one great exchange which means I don't regret the time spent with this:
Villain: You! Do you realise what you've done?
The Doctor: "I've brought down an oppressive regime in a little over two and a half hours. Not my best time, admittedly.
"Two "offensive" number plates have been withdrawn from a Worcestershire auction. The plates F4 GOT and D1 KES"...would clearly never have been bought by a straight, only by a faggot or a dyke reclaiming the term. Over-sensitive idiocy.
Read Jeph Loeb's Ultimates 3 last night, expecting a comic at least as staggeringly bad as his Hulk, and was disappointed to find that it was merely mediocre. The plot makes no sense, the misogynist overtones are depressing, the pacing's shot, the art is clunky and the resolution's unsatisfactory - but you could say all of those things twice over about the original Stan Lee/Jack Kirby run on the originals of these characters in The Avengers.
As already seems to be the common view, I prefer the DW TARDIS to the full DOCTOR WHO in the new Who logo. But then, I like all of it more than the last logo, or the McCoy era one, and those prefaced some of my favourite stories in the series' 46 years. And some stinkers too, of course, but it was ever thus - this was never a show anyone loved for consistency. For instance: I just listened to Time Works, which made me revise my opinion of Steve Lyons; I'd always thought of him as a pretty poor writer of Who books, but it turns out he's also a poor writer of Who audios. He's in love with weird fairytale ideas - the Land of Fiction, the Doctor landing on a cartoon planet, or clockwork men who move between the tick and the tock. But he forgets that for every time the series carried something like that off in a 'Blink' or a Kinda, there were messes like Warrior's Gate or the end of Trial of a Time Lord. Hell, even the original Mind Robber was of questionable merits, a few fine images aside. And yet, still, among the tedium and confusion he brings out the one great exchange which means I don't regret the time spent with this:
Villain: You! Do you realise what you've done?
The Doctor: "I've brought down an oppressive regime in a little over two and a half hours. Not my best time, admittedly.
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But hey, if you really like it, try Steve Lyons' first two books...
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