“The Curse of the Black Spot” Review
After the plot-ful and pacey opening two-parter, it was inevitable that the this episode would be considered filler (especially with Neil Gaimen’s much anticipated story following next week). That’s fine […]
Film, TV & Radio
“The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon” Review
The pattern is broken. For five series since Doctor Who returned in 2005 we’ve had 13-episode runs following a fairly predictable pattern; this time the run is split, and opens […]
iPlayer for iPad Is Three Features Away From Useful
A week ago, the BBC launched iPlayer for iPad onto the App Store. I’ve played with it a little bit, and the interface is superb, so lightweight you almost don’t […]
Object Oriented Storytelling
Fiction subclasses reality, overriding certain methods and implementing the interfaces of genres. I touched in a post yesterday on the boundaries of the fiction within a story, the fact that fictional […]
The Physics of Storytelling
Arthur Dent once fell our of a cup suspended thirteen miles above ground level. The cup, explained the bird who had caught him, was held in 13 miles above the […]
“Dirk Gently” Review
“Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.” That quote, […]
“Misfits” Episode 1 Reviewlet
I saw Howard Overman’s Vexed at about the same time I heard about the Dirk Gently adaptation he’s written (the one that’s on tomorrow night). Vexed had a peculiar mixed […]
“Death of the Doctor” Review
What if the Doctor were dead? How would his former companions, many of whom seem to be concentrated on Earth at around the turn of the millennium, know if he […]
The Best of Bond, and the Worst
Having been arguing about Bond films lately, I cannot believe I haven’t already posted my best and worst… Here’s the top three. From Russia With Love is a near perfect […]
The Peladon Trilogy Review
What’s better than a story featuring space-age feudalism, sexy young monarchs, a mythical monster and a hermaphroditic hexapod diplomat? A trilogy of them, of course. The template is set by Brian […]
Ten First Time
My obsession with the actors who have played the Doctor continues… I’ve been reading the Eighth (Paul McGann) discussing the Tenth (Tennant) and Eleventh (Smith): David Tennant is such a […]
Casting the New Dirk Gently
Since BBC 4 have announced there will be a TV adaptation of Dirk Gently, but there are few actually details to be garnered (aside from the fact that Vexed writer […]