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Real life may get in the way shortly and the established schedules on this, and the other two blogs I maintain, may fall apart slightly until I get into a new rhythm, so I thought that I would give a...
View ArticleThe only thing to fear is... stories that make no sense
Short one this week. Well, that was pants.A couple of Friday nights ago 5* launched a new series; or new to them, anyway; called Fear Itself, a horror anthology from Masters of Horror 'creator' Mick...
View ArticleWON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE DIE?!? Oh, right, thanks.
Playing catch up at the minute, since the blogs haven't been updating lately, so this post may not be quite as topical as I might have liked. Never mind though eh? Around this time last year; can it...
View ArticleAnything Frankie Boyle Can Do...
I realised something recently. You know that Fear Itself thing I wrote about the pilot of and said it wasn't very good? I've forgotten all about it. Seriously, it's entire existence slipped my mind. So...
View ArticleOut of date Who
It was the end of an era at the weekend, as I finally watched the last ever episode of 70's children's classic, The Tomorrow People; a four parter entitled The War Of The Empires. It was a suitably...
View ArticleJekyll
Hello and welcome to another thrill packed edition of 'Paul watches something and waffles about it it to no real point until he gets bored.' This week, Jekyll.At some point over the course of the last...
View ArticleWhere the devil are you, DM?
So what it is, right, is it's this, right. I was going to come back from the latest of my little hiatuses with an in depth and insightful discussion of that most venerable of 80's cartoons,...
View ArticleThank You Little Paper Boy
I finally, after months of fruitless searching (and fruitless whining on the internet) managed to get hold of a copy of Supernatural S6 on DVD a week or so back. My fears of once more falling massively...
View ArticleWhere did it all go wrong?
Well, that was... yeah.When I started watching S6 of Supernatural I did so knowing that it was not considered the best, by it's legions of adoring fans. I also did so not really caring that it wasn't...
View ArticleI couldn't think of a title for this. So I'm going with 'Ballbag'
Brace yourselves. It's a long 'un.Now I'm sure we all know that Flash Gordon pre-dates the Queen singing, James Bond indulging his Robin Hood fetish, Blackadder's Dad cosplaying as Katar Hol, 80's...
View ArticleWolf Blood
Despite regularly declaring myself resolutely pro children's drama, and jumping to their defence on more than one occasion, I have to confess that I didn't really make that much of an effort to keep up...
View ArticleI'm a fool to myself
This week, I was going to write a post all about how I'd started watching the 60's version of Dark Shadows, the soap opera that started life as a sort of Gothic Romance but only really took off in the...
View ArticleCaprica
The art of the successful spin-off is a very tough nut to crack; for every Xena: Warrior Princess or Angel, there's a Lone Gunmen or Crusade. So it's a brave writer/producer who takes on the task; and...
View ArticleSwitch
Didn't do a Quest post last week, so here's just a brief rundown of my sci-fi/fantasy viewing in the last fortnight:Doctor Who ended on an episode which wasn't Moffat's best but was still great; Merlin...
View ArticleAntonio's Folly
After last weeks rant about Switch, I thought I'd go a different route this time around, and tell you a story, just to lighten the tone. I'm good like that you know; I like to give you a bit of...
View ArticleRed Dwarf X
Red Dwarf, eh? Will it ever truly die? I hope not.I didn't watch Red Dwarf at the height of it's popularity; I was too young and it was on past my bedtime. I came to it with it's later, less beloved...
View ArticleWizards vs Aliens
At the risk of alienating the adults amongst my readership, such as it is, I'm going to talk again about childrens television. Again. Sorry y'all.With Wolfblood; CBBC's spectacularly well received...
View ArticleA random round up of odds and ends and things and stuff.
Last post, I said that I was going to be talking about Caprica this week. And I wrote an essay about Caprica to post this week. And somehow, either through my own incompetence or blogger being shit, or...
View ArticleCaprica; Too Soon An End (Or 'Isn't Magda Apanowicz great?')
First things first, DID YOU SEE MISFITS ON SUNDAY? Fuck was that all about eh? Actually swore at my telly at the end there.Ahem, anyway, to the business at hand...(This is not the post I originally had...
View ArticleChristmas Is Coming! And so is Doctor Who.
I've been thinking about something a lot lately. Something which occurred to me in a quiet moment of contemplation, as I lovingly slipped another William Hartnell Doctor Who into the disc drive, and...
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