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AD ep 4.  Writing is so great, and Ron Howard was hilarious.

Breaking Bad.

Awesome on so many levels but Badger and Skinny Pete discussing Star Trek was hilarious. [mostly Pete's reactions]

As much as I'm enjoying it I know there's a finite amount of episodes left and once it's done there will be a void. I kind of want to savour it as much as possible.

Thanks to the kindness of youtubers I have been able to see The Devil's Crown again for the first time since 1978.

The Shadow Of The Tower is up there too so I will catch that while I can.

I would willingly pay top dollar for a blu-ray of both but the BBC is finding it too difficult to secure the appropriate permissions or some'in.

That reminds moi. Dexter latest fix.

Boo

Johnny Ringo said:

Breaking Bad.

Awesome on so many levels but Badger and Skinny Pete discussing Star Trek was hilarious. [mostly Pete's reactions]

As much as I'm enjoying it I know there's a finite amount of episodes left and once it's done there will be a void. I kind of want to savour it as much as possible.

I loved the Star Trek conversation, things like that are part of what made the show so great. Just fantastic writing.

I am with you on the void thing. I'm excited to see a resolution, but once it's gone it's gone. There is no other show on television I am even a fraction as into as Breaking Bad, not having more to look forward to will be sad.

georgec said:

Johnny Ringo said:

Breaking Bad.

Awesome on so many levels but Badger and Skinny Pete discussing Star Trek was hilarious. [mostly Pete's reactions]

As much as I'm enjoying it I know there's a finite amount of episodes left and once it's done there will be a void. I kind of want to savour it as much as possible.

Tread lightly.

That moment when Walt goes full Heisenberg. :)

You're gonna laugh but I have to ask you about this..

The Nerdist have started a Talking Bad series, They Had Vince Gilligan on the first ep. He was trying to answer fans questions without revealing too much, It was good fun, I'll probably keep watching it.

Looks like they also had him on thier podcast but I haven't checked that out yet.

Hopefully this revival attempt of Blakes 7 will go somewhere.

finally finished watching In The Flesh - there are only 3 episodes but i've been slack.

I don't want to say too much other than I really enjoyed it.

I've been getting into a bunch of zombie themed stuff lately, mostly through coincidence, so it's good when you see something that manages to stay fresh.

here's a quick summary I stole from tv.com -

In the world where In the Flesh takes place, the dead rose from their graves, ate human brains, got better, were rehabilitated through treatment and counseling, and then rejoined society, where they now live—with the help makeup and colored contact lenses—as if they'd simply had a bad case of the chicken pox (the show refers to their condition as "Partially Deceased Syndrome"—PDS). But at the same time, untreated zombies roam freely and cause serious problems.

There's more to it than that but I don't want to spoil anything.

The Heart, She Holler

I'm a fan of both Patton Oswalt and Kristen Schaal but this is just horrible. I made it through two episodes and felt like I needed a shower to wash it off me.

Mr. Show

I really like David Cross and had never seen this before. Frink's references finally persuaded me to check it out and I'm glad I did.

Just saw the first episode of Orphan Black.

The first part reminded me of a number of Korean movies particularly The Red Shoes with a bit of Dollhouse and Bourne chucked in.

The sex and the cultural stereotyping is almost set to Torchwood levels (gay guys flamboyant and insatiable for example).

Jordan Gavaris looks astonishingly like Prince.

Still watching Orphan Black (largely under duress). It's really Torchwoody (or like one episode dragged out for weeks) and I don't really like Torchwood.

It also reminds me a bit of Continuum and I gave up on that show long before the better half has given up on this one.

Or season three or The Next Time You'll See Me... opps *spoilers*

This night I watched the Loose Canon reconstruction of Evil of the Daleks (which is really good) and I dug out my VHS tape of the first two episodes of Adam Adamant Lives!

I was struck by how much Gerald Harper looks like David Tennant.

Reviving the UK Avengers TV series is probably impossible but the concept is strong many original episodes are missing so maybe someone should start pushing for a remake.

I saw Stephen Fry's documentary two-parter Out There over the weekend. It wasn't easy watching but it was also a bit of a missed opportunity.

For one thing Stephen's celebrity gay status creates obvious journalistic problems.

The show apparently took two years to make (presumably because of getting Stephen's busy schedule and the opportunity to talk some of the interviewees to line up).

If it hadn't been Stephen Fry (and better still not a homosexual) doing the interviews the series might have got to interview more people and get to the roots of the problem.

The interviews were clearly truncated and paint a universally unsubtle picture of homophobia (in my experience it's not always so crass).

It correctly represents the Iranian state response to gay men as appalling but fails to mention their more enlightened response to transgendered people.

Why do we have to waste time on Stephen talking to other celebrity gays (Neil Patrick Harris, Elton John etc) when there are plenty of everyday people in the UK suffering homophobic attacks or preaching homophobia?

It creates the impression that homophobia is something that only happens in faith based cultures overseas (even though he does go to great pains to claim the British Empire imported these funny ideas to most of these places).

To me homophobia, like arachnophobia is a manifestation of the disgust response.

It makes biological sense living in a desert or a rain forest that fear of potentially poisonous arachnids should bi-pass rational thinking.

Maximising reproduction makes sense, living in small isolated, communities living on the edge of extinction (that includes religious communities).

There is no rational need in the world as it is to be homophobic but it's hardwired in many people and they have to work hard not to be prejudicial.

People take advantage of that for money and influence (the desire for which also makes cultural and genetic sense).

Emotionally traversing the globe listening to horror stories and the rants of the clearly deranged (or at least people edited to sound clearly deranged) doesn't get to the core of the issue. It plays like post-colonial colonialism (though it almost certainly isn't intended as such).

Humans need not be dumb animals driven by outdated programming.

If they remain that way, they will all suffer as everyone is in some exploitable way different.

I didn't think I could get sick of puns but the Mythbusters narrator is busting that myth.

It's a pundemic.

BBC's The Joy Of Logic was a rather nice introduction to the major concepts.

It is so rare to have a television documentary that doesn't dumb down as much as usual.

I loved both Caprica and Blood and Chrome.

Neither were perfect but NuGalactica wasn't either and both could have meshed into an interesting sidewise look at the universe if they were allowed to continue.

But they are not celebrity ghosts decorating their home while wrestling so SyFy lost interest.