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‘Planet of the Dead’ through the medium of sock puppet

21 April 2009 AT 11.34am in Blog | 2 comments | Share/Save

“Hello, I’m a scary fruit fly!”

“You’ve evolved to keep the head of a fly, the ugly hands of a fly, but not the actual, useful wings?”

“No. Nobody said that evolution was infallible.”

This is wonderful. Please take a look.

(Original link to the silly people at the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre.)

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Why I should never have watched ‘Planet of the Dead’ again…

20 April 2009 AT 12.50pm in Reviews | 4 comments | Share/Save

After raving about it on first viewing, I now find myself loving and hating ’Planet of the Dead’ in equal measure…
 

Tongue40 things I hated…

  1. If the Cup of Athelstan has been in the International Gallery for 200 years, why the sudden need to surround it with a security grid (open at the top and a two-foot gap at the bottom, of course)? Or do the armed guards go through their little ritual every night? If it’s been brought out for display, I’d whack it in a vault at night. Little tip. (Incidentally, I’m glad we never got to see this disaster of design and punctuation.)
  2. Might’ve been an idea to have oiled the waving cat, you silly bint.
  3. Why the ricocheting gunshot sound effect when the camera flips? Followed by a quite deathly twenty seconds of Christina looking hither and thither from one police car to the next. Over and over.
  4. Stock working-class bus driver. Irritating in so few lines, with an over the top accent that’s just weird.
  5. incompetentD I McMillan: awful awful awful, like a bumbling comedy policeman from an episode of Terry and June. Or CBeebies. “It’s definitely her, come on! Jackson, follow that bus!” Perfectly reasonable lines, but from the mouth of Adam James somehow… shit. And later he says “You do not have to say anything, et cetera et cetera” which proves he’s a rubbish copper too.

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New old Radio Times cover

18 April 2009 AT 11.56am in photoshop | 5 comments | Share/Save

Planet of the Dead original Radio Times cover Who? What? Where?

I hope this gives you some small pleasure.

(Oh, and right-click and open in a new tab or window to see the full-size version.)

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Planet of the Dead, now with added wallpaper

11 April 2009 AT 8.35pm in Blog | 17 comments | Share/Save

60s Planet of the DeadSo… I was wondering what you all thought of the latest episode of Doctor Who?

Bloody good fun, I thought. Punch-the-air fantastic in places. Not convinced it had an original bone in its fluffy body (I expected it to riff on Pitch Black, Flight of the Phoenix, Indiana Jones, but Back to the Future Part 3??) but who cares when so many disparate elements were slotted together with such aplomb. Some lovely turns from the guest stars too. I hope we’ll see more of the adventures of Lady Christina and Lee Evans’s Malcolm was fun - could have been a nightmare, but somehow he fitted the story perfectly. The other guest was the gorgeous desert setting - I’m not 100% convinced they couldn’t have made do with a Welsh beach and The Mill, but as the episode went on we were treated to some stunning widescreen vistas quite unlike anything seen on Doctor Who before. Bet it looked amazing in HD. (By coincidence I watched the desert-set first episode of ‘The Chase’ last night. Although I’d argue that ‘The Chase’ is funnier…)

Anyway, I’ll write more after I’ve watched it again. For now, leave a comment and let me know if you enjoyed it as much as I did.

WALLPAPER: Due to overwhelming pressure (well, two of you, but I’m easily overwhelmed) here’s a wallpaper-sized version of the John Cura telesnap above. Click for 1280×960.

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