I am in a quandary. This year, I will not have my brother to accompany me on holiday
Should I go to South America. Spend a little of my savings, and strike out for a holiday of a life time. Should I have more modest goals
I would like to go to Kiev, and see my friends there.
There is always Moscow. I have often wished to travel
My mother wishes me to go to Boston, with her, and my uncles. This would be expensive, and I have been there. I have thought of combining Boston, with another trip to Hawaii, NC or even Peru
I realize it is a time of austerity. I don't want to spend money
I hesitate
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
This is a record, my brother bought. I think in the 1990s. I am surprised to find it was still around. I don't recognize the name of the band. Anyway, my brother had bought the record at a jumble sale or school fete. At the time, we didn't have a record player. Little careless and prying fingers had long since broken it. I asked my brother if I could see the record, and I started to throw it about. I broke it. My brother was upset. I think, I enjoyed it. I also pretty much got away, with breaking something my brother had bought and paid for.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Bad Teacher
A parsons egg.
Its interesting to see Cameron Diaz, aging. I remember her in the mask. That glorious, 5 minutes at the beginning of the movie, when with just wet hair, and cleavage. In another universe, this film might have been the biggest smash in 2003. I seem to remember at one point Diaz and Cameron used to date.
Anyway Cameron Diaz, is a floozie. Who took a teaching job, as cover for her gold digging. Caught out by her fiance and his mother, she has to resign herself to another year, slog,
She nurses hangovers, as her children watch Dangerous minds.
She gains a rival, in Ms Squirrel. The perky, and buxom professional teacher.
The blonde v the redhead. Interesting. The maiden versus the whore.
Curiously when Cameron does start teaching, Her methods are quite conservative. She punishes the children, and demonstrates that she means it. She sends a boy out of class for speaking out of turn. You can even argue she uses a form of physical discipline. Her interactions with the children, are actually not too dissimilar from the way, my teachers did. When she tells the over sensitive boy that his good years will be in college. She is telling a truth. Less so, to the chipper, would be class president.
In a similar vein, there is an argument between the gym teacher and a kid, about who is the better basketball player. Jordan- or Lebron James. One of the few arguments you could have with a teacher
For a gold digger, and someone who is obsessed with body image, Cameron eats a lot junk. She is gorging on a bucket of chicken. When she drives off to Illinois, she snacks on a bacon burger. She also smokes pot, as a solitary vice.
As a film, it flips between a gross out teen comedy. There is a scene of Timberlake, and Diaz dry humping on the bed. Which is just gross. There is a scene with Cameron handling newly enhanced breasts. A scene where miss squirrel, confronts her principle in the bathroom, and someone trapped in the next stall, has to make a superman effort to hold it in...
It tries to keep an eye on the more mature comedies of the Aptow stable too. Cameron does not flinch in telling her charge, who confessed his love for an 7th grade beauty, that his life will be horrible. The rich young man who Cameron pursued. Is shown to be a moron.
The Principle interest in dolphins, may have been kept cleaner, than in the first draft
There is some politics going on here too. There is a mention of the power of the teachers union, in US schools. Racial bias on standardized tests... Medical Maurijana and even Obama
As I said, it was fun, it would have been the smash hit of 2004 pity that's almost 8 years ago
Its interesting to see Cameron Diaz, aging. I remember her in the mask. That glorious, 5 minutes at the beginning of the movie, when with just wet hair, and cleavage. In another universe, this film might have been the biggest smash in 2003. I seem to remember at one point Diaz and Cameron used to date.
Anyway Cameron Diaz, is a floozie. Who took a teaching job, as cover for her gold digging. Caught out by her fiance and his mother, she has to resign herself to another year, slog,
She nurses hangovers, as her children watch Dangerous minds.
She gains a rival, in Ms Squirrel. The perky, and buxom professional teacher.
The blonde v the redhead. Interesting. The maiden versus the whore.
Curiously when Cameron does start teaching, Her methods are quite conservative. She punishes the children, and demonstrates that she means it. She sends a boy out of class for speaking out of turn. You can even argue she uses a form of physical discipline. Her interactions with the children, are actually not too dissimilar from the way, my teachers did. When she tells the over sensitive boy that his good years will be in college. She is telling a truth. Less so, to the chipper, would be class president.
In a similar vein, there is an argument between the gym teacher and a kid, about who is the better basketball player. Jordan- or Lebron James. One of the few arguments you could have with a teacher
For a gold digger, and someone who is obsessed with body image, Cameron eats a lot junk. She is gorging on a bucket of chicken. When she drives off to Illinois, she snacks on a bacon burger. She also smokes pot, as a solitary vice.
As a film, it flips between a gross out teen comedy. There is a scene of Timberlake, and Diaz dry humping on the bed. Which is just gross. There is a scene with Cameron handling newly enhanced breasts. A scene where miss squirrel, confronts her principle in the bathroom, and someone trapped in the next stall, has to make a superman effort to hold it in...
It tries to keep an eye on the more mature comedies of the Aptow stable too. Cameron does not flinch in telling her charge, who confessed his love for an 7th grade beauty, that his life will be horrible. The rich young man who Cameron pursued. Is shown to be a moron.
The Principle interest in dolphins, may have been kept cleaner, than in the first draft
There is some politics going on here too. There is a mention of the power of the teachers union, in US schools. Racial bias on standardized tests... Medical Maurijana and even Obama
As I said, it was fun, it would have been the smash hit of 2004 pity that's almost 8 years ago
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
The Hangover part two
The Hangover part two
The Hangover, was one of highlights of last summer. I remember going to the cinema, in a bad mood, having to sit next to strangers. Normally I go to the cinema, during the week. Well anyway I remember the poor mood I was in when I sat down and watched the film
I laughed and I laughed. The Hangover made Bradley Cooper and Zach G stars.
Having had a spat at work today. I wanted something to raise my spirits. so despite, it being a school night I headed over.
I am glad I went, however it was never going to be as good, as the first one. The strength of the first Hangover was it different. I was not sure, how it would end. Now, its a formula. There was no Dodgeball sequel. There is no successor to the 40 year old virgin,or Knocked up
It would have been better to let the hangover stand alone. The appearance of Mike Tyson, at the end, did make me gasp. Than I remember, its Mike Tyson. You don't invite him to a wedding
I guess Bradley Cooper needs his star vehicle It is more subtle here, than the A-Team. It must have been a payday for all involved.
Well the gang from the Hangover. `` The wolfpack'' meet up for another wedding. The Dentist who (left his cuckolding woman, at the end of the Hangover) found a beautiful Thai soulmate. Really, how did he get her? Despite the Dentists attempts to play it safe. Having a Batchelor Brunch, in an I-Hop. (I have to go to an I-Hop one day. I miss a good brunch) Despite this he is perusaded, to reunite the gang for a wedding. Though they try to play it safe this time
``I am a stay at home son'' Zach G, still has the best lines playing the Manchild, who joins up with the three friends. The scenes of his domestic life, are great. Its always a pleasure to see Jeffery Tabor. The addition, of the monkey despite one great and crude set piece joke. Not so good
There are two sub-plots with the Thai brides family. her father not approving of her groom, and him investing his time, in his son.
There is a problem, with shock value. You have to keep increasing it. For example we are used to seeing male nudity on the screen. Rome, Sarah Marshall, and the original Hangover. When, what happens in Vegas isn't enough, I guess you have to go onto Bangkok.
I don't know if you would call it an advert for Thai Tourism. The scenes at the resort, where the wedding was hell, reminded me of Hawaii, there is something about the light too. I wanted to say its Pacific light. Than there is Bangkok. A Tigers den. We see, the backpacker bars, selling fosters. Our heroes start a riot, in one. That must be near the knuckle, with the events of late in Thai politics. (the Red shirts) The Skyscrapers and hotels. I noticed that when our heroes, called back to there resort and contacted there loved ones. They were on top of a Skyscraper. Far above the madding crowds. All human life is here. It may be significant, that the villains, our heroes run into. Russian dealers. Arab criminal, and Asian-American and American gangsters
I thought though the film passed over a little two lightly the loss of Johnnys finger. The lad, was a talented musician , and had plans to be a surgeon. It is a tragedy. Yep it is better than dying of thirst, in a bangkok lift shaft. I didn't think it was something to be glossed over. I would not have been okay, with my little brother, or son. Losing a finger, on the first night he got drunk. Also the incident with the prostitute. Screams, AIDS Test.
I saw, what was coming in the Banghok bar, like Christmas. Did they really go, all that way just to make that joke?
The other bit of commentary, may be the clinic where Bradley cooper gunshot is treated, costs six dollars.
The message is a bit confused. The first Hangover, saw one of the leads, realise he was not enjoying his life. Through the journey, the dentist got his confidence back. This episode tries to go down that part. The Thai Bride, father insults, her groom. I did think so, what You will go back to America, but that kid, lost his finger. A little bit of a confused message. Stealing prescription pads when you have kids, bad idea.
If the message of the Hangover was Post Vino veritas. Well, yeah but if you can only solve your problems, by getting that blasted...
The Hangover, was one of highlights of last summer. I remember going to the cinema, in a bad mood, having to sit next to strangers. Normally I go to the cinema, during the week. Well anyway I remember the poor mood I was in when I sat down and watched the film
I laughed and I laughed. The Hangover made Bradley Cooper and Zach G stars.
Having had a spat at work today. I wanted something to raise my spirits. so despite, it being a school night I headed over.
I am glad I went, however it was never going to be as good, as the first one. The strength of the first Hangover was it different. I was not sure, how it would end. Now, its a formula. There was no Dodgeball sequel. There is no successor to the 40 year old virgin,or Knocked up
It would have been better to let the hangover stand alone. The appearance of Mike Tyson, at the end, did make me gasp. Than I remember, its Mike Tyson. You don't invite him to a wedding
I guess Bradley Cooper needs his star vehicle It is more subtle here, than the A-Team. It must have been a payday for all involved.
Well the gang from the Hangover. `` The wolfpack'' meet up for another wedding. The Dentist who (left his cuckolding woman, at the end of the Hangover) found a beautiful Thai soulmate. Really, how did he get her? Despite the Dentists attempts to play it safe. Having a Batchelor Brunch, in an I-Hop. (I have to go to an I-Hop one day. I miss a good brunch) Despite this he is perusaded, to reunite the gang for a wedding. Though they try to play it safe this time
``I am a stay at home son'' Zach G, still has the best lines playing the Manchild, who joins up with the three friends. The scenes of his domestic life, are great. Its always a pleasure to see Jeffery Tabor. The addition, of the monkey despite one great and crude set piece joke. Not so good
There are two sub-plots with the Thai brides family. her father not approving of her groom, and him investing his time, in his son.
There is a problem, with shock value. You have to keep increasing it. For example we are used to seeing male nudity on the screen. Rome, Sarah Marshall, and the original Hangover. When, what happens in Vegas isn't enough, I guess you have to go onto Bangkok.
I don't know if you would call it an advert for Thai Tourism. The scenes at the resort, where the wedding was hell, reminded me of Hawaii, there is something about the light too. I wanted to say its Pacific light. Than there is Bangkok. A Tigers den. We see, the backpacker bars, selling fosters. Our heroes start a riot, in one. That must be near the knuckle, with the events of late in Thai politics. (the Red shirts) The Skyscrapers and hotels. I noticed that when our heroes, called back to there resort and contacted there loved ones. They were on top of a Skyscraper. Far above the madding crowds. All human life is here. It may be significant, that the villains, our heroes run into. Russian dealers. Arab criminal, and Asian-American and American gangsters
I thought though the film passed over a little two lightly the loss of Johnnys finger. The lad, was a talented musician , and had plans to be a surgeon. It is a tragedy. Yep it is better than dying of thirst, in a bangkok lift shaft. I didn't think it was something to be glossed over. I would not have been okay, with my little brother, or son. Losing a finger, on the first night he got drunk. Also the incident with the prostitute. Screams, AIDS Test.
I saw, what was coming in the Banghok bar, like Christmas. Did they really go, all that way just to make that joke?
The other bit of commentary, may be the clinic where Bradley cooper gunshot is treated, costs six dollars.
The message is a bit confused. The first Hangover, saw one of the leads, realise he was not enjoying his life. Through the journey, the dentist got his confidence back. This episode tries to go down that part. The Thai Bride, father insults, her groom. I did think so, what You will go back to America, but that kid, lost his finger. A little bit of a confused message. Stealing prescription pads when you have kids, bad idea.
If the message of the Hangover was Post Vino veritas. Well, yeah but if you can only solve your problems, by getting that blasted...
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Marshal Teeto
This is Teeto. Actually he is a Marshel, in what ever his race are called.
Yes I got the name, from there. Actually I spell it correctly
, however I don't want to get involved in a flame war. I saw the name, in the book when I was 8 or 9 and I thought it was cool. I know very little of politics.
You may than also notice the picklehaub,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picklehaub.
You may than also notice the picklehaub,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picklehaub.
I had seen this in History books too. The police in Danny the Champion of the world, are wearing a helmet with spikes on as was not uncommon historically . Anyway, I decided to add it to the design
As I did the thunderbolt.
Worryingly I picked up, a lot of stuff, which has unpleasant political overtones. However you must remember, that all authoritarian movements, want to look cool and impressive to appeal to children. They do.
Anyway, Teeto's people had been fighting a war, for a while.
As I did the thunderbolt.
Worryingly I picked up, a lot of stuff, which has unpleasant political overtones. However you must remember, that all authoritarian movements, want to look cool and impressive to appeal to children. They do.
Anyway, Teeto's people had been fighting a war, for a while.
They were based at Fort Setrax. I think they were fighting the Zacheins. They were part Saurian, because Dinosaurs rock. Actually now I think of it. There principle weapon was based on the Uzi. Which I had seen on the A-Team
I should have been made play more sport
I should have been made play more sport
Monday, June 20, 2011
Alice and the Swan
Yesterday, I was at the pub. As I am a little older, and there is a touch of frost around my temple. I now drink at a more refined establishment, than I used to frequent. In fact its really more of a gastro pub. How ones life changes.
Anyway, strangely my very respectable pub, was full of drunks. There were two people who had to be carried out. I'd not seen someone that drunk in a while. One man, managed to tote up a bill of over a hundred, but was unable to type in his pin, and basically they had to wait for him to settle up when he was sober.
Bossy girl, the buxom brunette, with the slight lisp, who is one of the reasons I hang out there. Was perplexed at this, and demanded from me an explanation....
I realized today, that it was fathers day, and I should have asked her, and how was your relationship with your father? good?
The Walking Dead
This was recommended, on one of my history lists.
It was broadcast, however I missed it. I wanted to wait, until it came out on DVD. Or rather blue ray in this case. I had to search about, for a program to update it. Its from AMC, the same stable as Mad Men.
Anyway, a man wakes up, after spending several months in a coma, to find that zombies have overun the Earth. Oh look its him from Teachers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lincoln
and ``this life'' Let us never mention that show again. So curiously, the first episode, has two brits. Andrew Lincoln, and Lennie Jamies pretending to be Americans born south of the Mason Dixon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennie_James
Anyway Lincoln's Grimes, was an ordinary man. A sherrif's deputy, who was having troubles with his wife. (After the teaser, in which Grimes despatches a child zombie) One of the first scenes we have of Grimes, is him complaining, about his wife, washing their dirty laundry in front of there child.
Its one of the best genre TV programs I have seen, in a long time. The dead are walking. They feast on the living. Man has been reduced, to life in a hobbesian sense. Nasty, brutish and short. However are protangonists. Still deal with the workaday concerns of abusive marriages, guilt, racism and deceit. Our Hero's famil is rescued, by his partner. His wife conducts a discreet relationship, with the man who rescued her. Only for the impossible to happen, and her husband, who she believed to be dead.
To walk into the camp, were a little band of surviors had made there home..
I remember reading somewhere, an assertion that people in the past. Dealt with death much better than we do. Look at the descirptions of death, in epic poetry. X was killed, he was buried and mourned. I wonder if the interest in zombies, is inspired by our distance from death. We no longer see death. We know despite our great art and science, we will succomb to it one day. We have forgotten how to mourn. The walking dead, being longer than most Zombie movies, gives us a view of the horror of the world. Where the dead must be feared and destroyed. They cannot be mourned.
One scene has Grimes, and his friend attempt to escape the walkers, by covering themselves in the entrails, of a corpse. Another scene has lennie James attempt to destroy the animated corpse of his wife. To give him, and his son some peace
Grimes, his son, his wife and his partner are joined by a rag tag bunch
The surviors, include two brothers from the backwoods. A family of Mexicans. An Asian delivery boy, and African American town cler, Soon, it becomes clear that the Dead are not the only people that the surviors have to worry about. There is a great story in which Grimes gang confront another band of survivors in the ruins of Atlanta. Who are not what we think they are.
I am enjoying the Atlanta skyline, and scenary too. I am wondering if our little band of survivors, will make it to the Sea islands. Not only that, but the effort in creating the world 20 minutes after the apoclaypse is supberb. The abandoned Tanks, and soldiers lying dead, in the street. A flashback has a scene, in which medical staff are massacred by soldiers. Presumably to create a firebreak, to check the shambling, but steady advance of the walkers. The quiet and the birdsong
Such horror, and such humanity. As I observed with Battlestar Galatica, when faced with the challenge of Sturgeons law, this is part of the Case for the Defence
It was broadcast, however I missed it. I wanted to wait, until it came out on DVD. Or rather blue ray in this case. I had to search about, for a program to update it. Its from AMC, the same stable as Mad Men.
Anyway, a man wakes up, after spending several months in a coma, to find that zombies have overun the Earth. Oh look its him from Teachers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lincoln
and ``this life'' Let us never mention that show again. So curiously, the first episode, has two brits. Andrew Lincoln, and Lennie Jamies pretending to be Americans born south of the Mason Dixon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennie_James
Anyway Lincoln's Grimes, was an ordinary man. A sherrif's deputy, who was having troubles with his wife. (After the teaser, in which Grimes despatches a child zombie) One of the first scenes we have of Grimes, is him complaining, about his wife, washing their dirty laundry in front of there child.
Its one of the best genre TV programs I have seen, in a long time. The dead are walking. They feast on the living. Man has been reduced, to life in a hobbesian sense. Nasty, brutish and short. However are protangonists. Still deal with the workaday concerns of abusive marriages, guilt, racism and deceit. Our Hero's famil is rescued, by his partner. His wife conducts a discreet relationship, with the man who rescued her. Only for the impossible to happen, and her husband, who she believed to be dead.
To walk into the camp, were a little band of surviors had made there home..
I remember reading somewhere, an assertion that people in the past. Dealt with death much better than we do. Look at the descirptions of death, in epic poetry. X was killed, he was buried and mourned. I wonder if the interest in zombies, is inspired by our distance from death. We no longer see death. We know despite our great art and science, we will succomb to it one day. We have forgotten how to mourn. The walking dead, being longer than most Zombie movies, gives us a view of the horror of the world. Where the dead must be feared and destroyed. They cannot be mourned.
One scene has Grimes, and his friend attempt to escape the walkers, by covering themselves in the entrails, of a corpse. Another scene has lennie James attempt to destroy the animated corpse of his wife. To give him, and his son some peace
Grimes, his son, his wife and his partner are joined by a rag tag bunch
The surviors, include two brothers from the backwoods. A family of Mexicans. An Asian delivery boy, and African American town cler, Soon, it becomes clear that the Dead are not the only people that the surviors have to worry about. There is a great story in which Grimes gang confront another band of survivors in the ruins of Atlanta. Who are not what we think they are.
I am enjoying the Atlanta skyline, and scenary too. I am wondering if our little band of survivors, will make it to the Sea islands. Not only that, but the effort in creating the world 20 minutes after the apoclaypse is supberb. The abandoned Tanks, and soldiers lying dead, in the street. A flashback has a scene, in which medical staff are massacred by soldiers. Presumably to create a firebreak, to check the shambling, but steady advance of the walkers. The quiet and the birdsong
Such horror, and such humanity. As I observed with Battlestar Galatica, when faced with the challenge of Sturgeons law, this is part of the Case for the Defence
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
X Men :The First Class
A fun but forgettable summer movie
January Jones, is a cute bit of casting. The former Mrs. Don Draper, makes a spectacular entrance into the film. There is a fair bit of eye candy. Miss Jones, The actress playing Moira MacTaggart, strips off to her bra, stockings and knickers, early on.
Anyway, our film begins in Poland 1944. A boy being separated from his parents, in a death camp
Yes that's why we have the retcon. The Nazi's are now just too far in the past. For someone watching this in 2015, the last conscription class at the battle of Berlin, will be in there 90th Birthday. The Nazis are dead. So, we are now referencing History that we know through movies. So Erik, does Munich, with the Nazi gold, and the swiss banks. The Odessa files in reverse. Tracking down Nazis.
Anyway Erik, uses his powers to free his parents. He comes into contact with a Man named Shaw. Kevin Bacon. Superbly reptilian. In trying to get Erik to demonstrate his powers he kills Erik's Mother. There is a cool scene where Erik kills,
Oh and subtitled. A lot of this film is subtitled. There are scenes across the world. Argentina. The General government of Poland. Oxford. New York State. A Dacha in the USSR, and the Kremlin. That said, obvious pictures of Red Square and Moscow landmarks, get subtitled Moscow-Russia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow,_Scotland
Its you may remember him, from Savanah, from Robocop, playing John F Kennedy, or McNamara?
The Nazi's hiding out in Austria drink Bittburger. One is a tailor from Dusseldorf. So was Erik's father. Nice bit of writing that. Dusseldorf, is the German fashion centre. I get killing the two Nazis. But killing the bar tender. Who saw, some guy come in and kill two of his patrons?
Charles Xavier, moves to Oxford, and pics up a British accent. He tries to pick up women, by recognizing there mutations. Later he drinks a Yard of ale. There is a yard of ale, in the pub I drink in.
Anyway, once Charles recognizes the threat from Shaw, he founds a team to stop them
The actor playing Banshee has no Irish accent However when he is rejected, by a girl at the aquarium, he kills a lot of fish. Taking out your frustration, on dumb animals. What is more Irish than that!
Well Shaw, is planning to start a nuclear war, to destroy Mankind, to leave the Mutants as rulers of the world. There is a scene, when we see the Capitol building destroyed by atomic fire, and Shaw, and January Jones, standing over a cheering crowd
The KGB are strangely absent, from the events in the soviet union. The soldiers at the dacha, are all army. Red stripes on the uniform
The USSR needs Shaw, to put the idea of putting missiles into Cuba? Really? On the other hand, I am aware, that the USSR thought that Cuba was not forested enough to hide missiles.
Nicolas Holt, has grown. Or is McAvoy short? Anyway he plays the beast. Henry McCoy. I wonder did, he consult with Kelsey Grammer for this role. He is outed by McAvoy's Xavier.
Michael Ironside plays the Captain of a US navy ship. It's quite 1990s!
If the Russians can create a helmet which protects the wearing from telepathy. Than why cannot the CIA. Why don't the Russians leak it to the CIA. If Mutants are such a danger. Than better to have human running than
At some point Michael Fassbender, starts speaking with an Irish accent, rather than various foreign and RP. Just after they solve the Cuban Missile crisis
Its a fun movie. Hopefully, Teens will google the Cuban Missile Crisis.
January Jones, is a cute bit of casting. The former Mrs. Don Draper, makes a spectacular entrance into the film. There is a fair bit of eye candy. Miss Jones, The actress playing Moira MacTaggart, strips off to her bra, stockings and knickers, early on.
Anyway, our film begins in Poland 1944. A boy being separated from his parents, in a death camp
Yes that's why we have the retcon. The Nazi's are now just too far in the past. For someone watching this in 2015, the last conscription class at the battle of Berlin, will be in there 90th Birthday. The Nazis are dead. So, we are now referencing History that we know through movies. So Erik, does Munich, with the Nazi gold, and the swiss banks. The Odessa files in reverse. Tracking down Nazis.
Anyway Erik, uses his powers to free his parents. He comes into contact with a Man named Shaw. Kevin Bacon. Superbly reptilian. In trying to get Erik to demonstrate his powers he kills Erik's Mother. There is a cool scene where Erik kills,
Oh and subtitled. A lot of this film is subtitled. There are scenes across the world. Argentina. The General government of Poland. Oxford. New York State. A Dacha in the USSR, and the Kremlin. That said, obvious pictures of Red Square and Moscow landmarks, get subtitled Moscow-Russia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow,_Scotland
Its you may remember him, from Savanah, from Robocop, playing John F Kennedy, or McNamara?
The Nazi's hiding out in Austria drink Bittburger. One is a tailor from Dusseldorf. So was Erik's father. Nice bit of writing that. Dusseldorf, is the German fashion centre. I get killing the two Nazis. But killing the bar tender. Who saw, some guy come in and kill two of his patrons?
( Magneto is an ends justifies the means guy)
Anyway, Erik goes off to track Shaw.
We first meet Charles X, in 1944. He is wearing cool retro pajamas. He finds his mother in the kitchen. Seeing that I was reminded of the works of Ayn Rand. Anyway young Charles realizes that it is not his mother in the kitchen. He discovers the imposter is Raven. Raven comes and lives with Charles.
Anyway, Erik goes off to track Shaw.
We first meet Charles X, in 1944. He is wearing cool retro pajamas. He finds his mother in the kitchen. Seeing that I was reminded of the works of Ayn Rand. Anyway young Charles realizes that it is not his mother in the kitchen. He discovers the imposter is Raven. Raven comes and lives with Charles.
Charles Xavier, moves to Oxford, and pics up a British accent. He tries to pick up women, by recognizing there mutations. Later he drinks a Yard of ale. There is a yard of ale, in the pub I drink in.
Anyway, once Charles recognizes the threat from Shaw, he founds a team to stop them
The actor playing Banshee has no Irish accent However when he is rejected, by a girl at the aquarium, he kills a lot of fish. Taking out your frustration, on dumb animals. What is more Irish than that!
Well Shaw, is planning to start a nuclear war, to destroy Mankind, to leave the Mutants as rulers of the world. There is a scene, when we see the Capitol building destroyed by atomic fire, and Shaw, and January Jones, standing over a cheering crowd
The KGB are strangely absent, from the events in the soviet union. The soldiers at the dacha, are all army. Red stripes on the uniform
The USSR needs Shaw, to put the idea of putting missiles into Cuba? Really? On the other hand, I am aware, that the USSR thought that Cuba was not forested enough to hide missiles.
Nicolas Holt, has grown. Or is McAvoy short? Anyway he plays the beast. Henry McCoy. I wonder did, he consult with Kelsey Grammer for this role. He is outed by McAvoy's Xavier.
Michael Ironside plays the Captain of a US navy ship. It's quite 1990s!
If the Russians can create a helmet which protects the wearing from telepathy. Than why cannot the CIA. Why don't the Russians leak it to the CIA. If Mutants are such a danger. Than better to have human running than
At some point Michael Fassbender, starts speaking with an Irish accent, rather than various foreign and RP. Just after they solve the Cuban Missile crisis
Its a fun movie. Hopefully, Teens will google the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Doctor Who, The Curse of the Black Spot
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
Don't you listen to Dr River Song!
SPOILERS
I started writing reviews, after the Doctors wife. I re watched this episode, several times. Since than.
Well the pre credits teaser starts with atmospherically enough. With a team of men, rowing back to a pirate ship. ( One wonders where they were rowing to. As the ship was becalmed somewhere in the middle of the ocean.
One of the crew reports the matter to first mate. Whom decides to wake the captain. There was a man wounded. The man slipped while he was pumping out bilge water. It seems like a minor wound.(*)
A black spot rises upon the unfortunate sailors hand. The wounded sailor's name is MacGrath
MacGrath is told he is a dead man. The viewers get to hear singing, beautiful singing. Macgrath, snatches a pistol and makes a run for it. Tripping on the deck.
The Captain locks, himself, and the rest of his crew, in the captain. Closing the door by tying a knot on the handle with a medallion.
The crew having heard MacGrath expire, make there way out to the deck. There is no blood, no bones, and no sign of a struggle.
One of the crew swears they will be shark bait.
There is noise from below
The Captain, and his crew, open the hatch.
Yo-ho-ho. Oh look its the Doctor, Rory and the lovely Amy....
cue Credits.
Well the Doctor tries to explain the situation. However his mentions of sensors, brought forth blank looks. So the doctor, decided not bring up multi dimensional engineering
The Captain, is not impressed. He orders, Rory and the Doctor seized. The Doxy (Amy) is to be put to work on the Galley. Rory protests that his wife, is not a Doxy.
The Doctor is compelled at pistol point to walk the plank. Amy bundled below stairs, finds a cutlass, and a great coat and tri cornered hat.
The Doctor is belaying, the attempt to make him take a long walk off a short plank, he calls for more guffaws.
With one mighty bound, are beloved redhead is free. She is warned a sword could kill us.
There follows some sword fighting. Amy is attacked by a guy with a cudgel. Amy scratches the man, with the sword.
There is a stunned silence. ``You have killed me''
A sword goes flying, and Rory catches it before it can hit, his wife.
A black dot, appears on Rory's hand.
The crew are shocked, the black spot, brings the monster. They hear its voice. Its siren song. A nice classical reference that.
Anyway, out from the Sea rises Lilly Cole. She sings, and stretches her hand out. Rory, is drunk, on the site of her. He flirts with Amy. Telling her to dress up as a pirate more often. One for the dads there...
The Siren tries to grab Rory. Seeing this Amy, tells her no, Rory is taken for. The siren hisses, and turns red. Propelling Amy back several meters. This leaves her unharmed.
Lilly cole is lovely. I guess Steven Moffat has a thing for red heads. As we need to keep hold of rory for the moment. The crewman who Amy scratched with her sword, touches the siren, and than disappears into the night. Leaving no trace.
They Grab Rory, and bring him below. The Captain, points his pistol. The Doctor makes a quip about it being freudian.
Believing that the Siren, travels via water. The doctors theory seeming being confirmed, when she appears, from the bilge water, and from a barrel of drinking water. Our Tars and time travellers make there way to the magazine. Which is the driest part of the ship
However the Key to the powder room, is gone. The door is open, someone had the same idea
``Whose been sleeping in my gun room'' That would have made the little ones laugh
Our heroes, push the door open. We discover a stowaway the Captains son.
A cough comes from a powder barrel
The father tells his son. His mother will be searching for him. The son replies, his mother is dead, with fever. Last winter. She had told her son, about his father, the Captain of a ship.
The boy coughs, and we catch sight of his hand. The black spot. The lad is marked, for the siren
When the boy opens,a water barrel.
The Doctor remarks, Humans are second rate. The get damaged to easily. Than he chases off talk of a curse. A curse means game over means your helpless. Which is a good message for the children to hear.
The Doctor goes on to share another purple passage about the Siren, boiling a sauce pan, and grating cheese, and licking her lips. I had the image of Lilly Cole, doing just that as he spoke of it. Well done to the writer there.
The Doctor makes a crack, about we all have to go, sometime. (Remember the events of the Impossible Astronaut)
The Doctor takes Captain Avery into the Tardis. Dodging a fall, on a nail. Once inside the TIME AND RELATIVE DIMENSIONS IN SPACE. We get the famous ``Bigger on the inside''
``Kitchen that way-choice of Bathrooms
`` The most beautiful thing you've ever seen'' Rory is apologizing to Amy, because of what he said, under the sirens influence. Now, and until the heat death of the universe. However the pirates have different ideas. They want to get off, the ship rather than molly coddle the boy
Avery and the Doctor, discuss, the Tardis controls. Avery, grasps it pretty quickly. Wheel, telescope. A Ship is a ship.
The captains son, confronts the deserters. Who sneer, at his words. When he demands, that they obey his father, as honour demands. The sailors, tell him, it is a pirate ship, they sail under the black flag. The jolly Rodger, and the Captain, is a man who shoots down the innocent.
The two sailors, will steal the treasure, and row for it.
The Boy, grabs a cutlass. The Sailor, tells him, he doesn't know how to use it. The boy replies he doesn't have to, he cuts the sailor slightly. Enough to bring down, the wrath of the siren upon him. The boy's actions madden the pirate enough that he draws his pistol. Only to belay when Rory, tells him that there in the Magazine, and the spark and shot, will cause an explosion which kills them all. Luckily, the pirate does not wish to blow himself up. Even though this might be a swifter simpler demise, than meeting the sirem The other deserter, Mulligan makes a break he steals the key at sword point and and runs
The Doctor, wass having problems, with the Tardis. Its stuck. ``Becalmed'' indeed its sulking In fact, its about to Dematerialise. The Captain and the Doctor make a swift exit stage left. The Tardis is gone. We see it flash off, into nothing
Meanwhile mutinous Muligan meets his maker, in the form of the Siren. However Muligan had fled into a cabin, from his Master So there was no water., The Doctor, than has another inspiration, the Siren, travels via reflective surfaces into our world. The treasure has a reflective surface. Such as still water
The Captains boy, Toby is polishing the Mermaid medallion up to a nice shine. Oh dear, and the boy has fever. The Siren.....
The Siren legend, the curse. The Siren attacks ship filled, with treasure. Where else would she find a lot of reflective surfaces, but ships loaded with polished metal
The Doctor than leads his shipmates, to smash all the reflective surfaces. The Glass, windows. Did 17-18th century pirate ships have glass? The Mirrors. To hell, with the seven years of bad luck, that it would entail.
Than he comes to the chest, full of gold, in the Captains cabin. The Captain stops, him. Its the treasure of Mogul of India. (*) A bunch of Anglo American pirates did steal it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Every#In_popular_culture
However the crown, that Henry polishes. Looks a bit western.
Any reflection will bring the siren. However Henry hides, the crown, in his coat
The travellers, in time, and the shipmates
Henry talks to his son. Tobys Mother, has been dead three years. Toby asks his father why did he turn pirate, however his father will not answer
The camera passes over Rory and Amy asleep
Amy sees the woman with one eye. She tells her, she is doing fine, and to stay calm.
Henry goes on Deck. The Doctor, mentions Sirius which is two stars. A binary system. Henry uses it to navigate the ocean. Henry discusses his plan for the boy. The Doctor asks, the Captain, the same question that Toby did. Why did he turn pirate?
Henry won't answer the question from either his son, or the Doctor, but insists his course is set. The Doctor, tells him not to be so sure. Sometimes things change
The wind rises. Henry summons, what is left of his crew. Shouting into the storm, which follows the wind. Rory and Amy are, well all at sea. They cannot understand Henry's commands
Henry shouts for his son, to bring his great coat
. Toby does, and falls, letting the crown, slip onto deck. The golden bright and shiny crown. The Siren is released and she claims, the boy
Toby is gone.
The Doctor throws the crown overboard. The Doctor berates Henry Avery. The Man loved gold, more than his wife, and son. More than his commission, and now look what the pirates lust for gold is has done.
Rory falls, overboard. At the mercy of the sea, he is drowning.
The Doctor, makes another leap of faith. Better the Siren, than the sea. The Siren, snatches Rory from the waters and spirits him away.
With Rory and Toby gone, a gale blowing up, The doctor tells Henry and Amy, that they must let the Siren take them, they prick there fingers, and hold out there hands, for the beautiful Lilly cole.
They awake, on the deck, of another ship. In dry. They can see the deck of the pirate ship, even hear the rain. The Doctor, explains that the two ships are in other universe. Two things trying to hold the same place in time and space.
There is a klaxon, in the background. A distress call. The Doctor,Henry and Amy, go off to investigate. They find one of the crew, from an Alien ship. It is dead ship. Or as Henry observes ``long enough for the Captain to run out of grog''
The crew have been killed by Human bacteria, and the Doctor puts his hand, on a sneeze. Alien bogies. Okay the sneeze persists but bodies rot? Odd biology
By the way, I thought the Alien, skeleton, looked a bit like Beta ray bill.
The trio enter a room, with the crew of the pirate ship and rory, and Toby on the beds. There is a scene where all three are reunited with the loved one. Look at Matt Smith, hug the Tardis. The Tardis, is there too. The crew are in suspended animation on beds, suspended from mid air. So they are suspended in suspense. The curse of the black spot is solved. Its a tissue sample. But why would you take tissue samples from someone who you are about to eat, the doctor inquires. Amy had been fiddling with Rory's bed. T
As Lilly/Siren re enters the room. The Trio hides. The Doctor watches the effect the singing has on the crew, and he realises. The Song is an antahesitc
The Siren, walks over to check on Toby. Captain Henry having reloaded his pistol, takes aim, at her. Lilly goes into attack mode. The Doctor tries to draw her attention. His sneezes
The Siren, is helping the crew. Not eating them. She sets the soiled hanky of the Doctors on fire.
The Siren, is a super intelligent automated medical system. She has been keeping the crew alive, but cannot heal there wounds.
Amy wants to free her Husband but the siren refuses to let her. The Doctor tells Amy, to tell the automated siren that, Rory is her husband. ``Show her, your (wedding) ring'' The doctor guessing that the system is intelligent enough to release, Rory to Amy's care
Rory is still drowning. One of the few moments of tension on the show, as Rory tells Amy how to give him the kiss of life. With the tender and frantic touches of his loving wife, Rory Williams, is brought back to life. The Nurse, provided the little bit of practical knowledge that the Doctor did not have
The crew, are still there. Toby still has fever. Hugh decides to stay aboard the ship. He will pilot it home. Lead his son, and crew, to a great adventure across the Ocean of stars
Back on the Tardis. The Williams-Ponds, are settling in for the night. Amy is troubled with the revelations that the Doctor will die. `You can't tell him. Its his future'' Her Husband insists
Good night Amelia, says the Doctor.
You only call me Amelia when your worried about me
Go to bed Pond
The Doctor is still trying to understand, why his scanner, tells us that Amy is and isn't pregnant
**********
Grrr Pirates!!!!!! I guess Doctor who is Cashing in. On the Pirates of the Caribbean. Well its an interesting enough trope
The plot is the same, as the Doctor dances, the girl in the fireplace, and the Lodger. Its alien/advanced technology gone astray. With no one to turn it off. I was going to say, it ended well here. However it did too in the Doctor Dances.
There is a flaw in the black spot in that in the world the pirates live in. A scratch is enough to kill you. There was no way of treating lockjaw, before antibiotics, and antiseptics. There is no ships surgeon either. Oh and there pirates. Remember people in the days of sail, died not from cannonballs, but the splinters, when they hit the ships. The episode does realise this. The point about its only a matter of time, before everyone gets bruised.
I also wondered, why could the Captain, simply not dump his jewelry in the gunpowder magazine. Remember fresh water, was used as a portal, for the Siren. Why did she not use the glass, in the first place. I know the Captain, had to be redeemed. On the other hand, the moment he sails off. The captain, and his son, are stuck on a ship alone. Might not the Captain, need to hire a crew. How will he keep himself, and his son.
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Don't you listen to Dr River Song!
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I started writing reviews, after the Doctors wife. I re watched this episode, several times. Since than.
Well the pre credits teaser starts with atmospherically enough. With a team of men, rowing back to a pirate ship. ( One wonders where they were rowing to. As the ship was becalmed somewhere in the middle of the ocean.
One of the crew reports the matter to first mate. Whom decides to wake the captain. There was a man wounded. The man slipped while he was pumping out bilge water. It seems like a minor wound.(*)
A black spot rises upon the unfortunate sailors hand. The wounded sailor's name is MacGrath
MacGrath is told he is a dead man. The viewers get to hear singing, beautiful singing. Macgrath, snatches a pistol and makes a run for it. Tripping on the deck.
The Captain locks, himself, and the rest of his crew, in the captain. Closing the door by tying a knot on the handle with a medallion.
The crew having heard MacGrath expire, make there way out to the deck. There is no blood, no bones, and no sign of a struggle.
One of the crew swears they will be shark bait.
There is noise from below
The Captain, and his crew, open the hatch.
Yo-ho-ho. Oh look its the Doctor, Rory and the lovely Amy....
cue Credits.
Well the Doctor tries to explain the situation. However his mentions of sensors, brought forth blank looks. So the doctor, decided not bring up multi dimensional engineering
The Captain, is not impressed. He orders, Rory and the Doctor seized. The Doxy (Amy) is to be put to work on the Galley. Rory protests that his wife, is not a Doxy.
The Doctor is compelled at pistol point to walk the plank. Amy bundled below stairs, finds a cutlass, and a great coat and tri cornered hat.
The Doctor is belaying, the attempt to make him take a long walk off a short plank, he calls for more guffaws.
With one mighty bound, are beloved redhead is free. She is warned a sword could kill us.
There follows some sword fighting. Amy is attacked by a guy with a cudgel. Amy scratches the man, with the sword.
There is a stunned silence. ``You have killed me''
A sword goes flying, and Rory catches it before it can hit, his wife.
A black dot, appears on Rory's hand.
The crew are shocked, the black spot, brings the monster. They hear its voice. Its siren song. A nice classical reference that.
Anyway, out from the Sea rises Lilly Cole. She sings, and stretches her hand out. Rory, is drunk, on the site of her. He flirts with Amy. Telling her to dress up as a pirate more often. One for the dads there...
The Siren tries to grab Rory. Seeing this Amy, tells her no, Rory is taken for. The siren hisses, and turns red. Propelling Amy back several meters. This leaves her unharmed.
Lilly cole is lovely. I guess Steven Moffat has a thing for red heads. As we need to keep hold of rory for the moment. The crewman who Amy scratched with her sword, touches the siren, and than disappears into the night. Leaving no trace.
They Grab Rory, and bring him below. The Captain, points his pistol. The Doctor makes a quip about it being freudian.
Believing that the Siren, travels via water. The doctors theory seeming being confirmed, when she appears, from the bilge water, and from a barrel of drinking water. Our Tars and time travellers make there way to the magazine. Which is the driest part of the ship
However the Key to the powder room, is gone. The door is open, someone had the same idea
``Whose been sleeping in my gun room'' That would have made the little ones laugh
Our heroes, push the door open. We discover a stowaway the Captains son.
A cough comes from a powder barrel
The father tells his son. His mother will be searching for him. The son replies, his mother is dead, with fever. Last winter. She had told her son, about his father, the Captain of a ship.
The boy coughs, and we catch sight of his hand. The black spot. The lad is marked, for the siren
When the boy opens,a water barrel.
The Doctor remarks, Humans are second rate. The get damaged to easily. Than he chases off talk of a curse. A curse means game over means your helpless. Which is a good message for the children to hear.
The Doctor goes on to share another purple passage about the Siren, boiling a sauce pan, and grating cheese, and licking her lips. I had the image of Lilly Cole, doing just that as he spoke of it. Well done to the writer there.
The Doctor makes a crack, about we all have to go, sometime. (Remember the events of the Impossible Astronaut)
The Doctor takes Captain Avery into the Tardis. Dodging a fall, on a nail. Once inside the TIME AND RELATIVE DIMENSIONS IN SPACE. We get the famous ``Bigger on the inside''
``Kitchen that way-choice of Bathrooms
`` The most beautiful thing you've ever seen'' Rory is apologizing to Amy, because of what he said, under the sirens influence. Now, and until the heat death of the universe. However the pirates have different ideas. They want to get off, the ship rather than molly coddle the boy
Avery and the Doctor, discuss, the Tardis controls. Avery, grasps it pretty quickly. Wheel, telescope. A Ship is a ship.
The captains son, confronts the deserters. Who sneer, at his words. When he demands, that they obey his father, as honour demands. The sailors, tell him, it is a pirate ship, they sail under the black flag. The jolly Rodger, and the Captain, is a man who shoots down the innocent.
The two sailors, will steal the treasure, and row for it.
The Boy, grabs a cutlass. The Sailor, tells him, he doesn't know how to use it. The boy replies he doesn't have to, he cuts the sailor slightly. Enough to bring down, the wrath of the siren upon him. The boy's actions madden the pirate enough that he draws his pistol. Only to belay when Rory, tells him that there in the Magazine, and the spark and shot, will cause an explosion which kills them all. Luckily, the pirate does not wish to blow himself up. Even though this might be a swifter simpler demise, than meeting the sirem The other deserter, Mulligan makes a break he steals the key at sword point and and runs
The Doctor, wass having problems, with the Tardis. Its stuck. ``Becalmed'' indeed its sulking In fact, its about to Dematerialise. The Captain and the Doctor make a swift exit stage left. The Tardis is gone. We see it flash off, into nothing
Meanwhile mutinous Muligan meets his maker, in the form of the Siren. However Muligan had fled into a cabin, from his Master So there was no water., The Doctor, than has another inspiration, the Siren, travels via reflective surfaces into our world. The treasure has a reflective surface. Such as still water
The Captains boy, Toby is polishing the Mermaid medallion up to a nice shine. Oh dear, and the boy has fever. The Siren.....
The Siren legend, the curse. The Siren attacks ship filled, with treasure. Where else would she find a lot of reflective surfaces, but ships loaded with polished metal
The Doctor than leads his shipmates, to smash all the reflective surfaces. The Glass, windows. Did 17-18th century pirate ships have glass? The Mirrors. To hell, with the seven years of bad luck, that it would entail.
Than he comes to the chest, full of gold, in the Captains cabin. The Captain stops, him. Its the treasure of Mogul of India. (*) A bunch of Anglo American pirates did steal it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Every#In_popular_culture
However the crown, that Henry polishes. Looks a bit western.
Any reflection will bring the siren. However Henry hides, the crown, in his coat
The travellers, in time, and the shipmates
Henry talks to his son. Tobys Mother, has been dead three years. Toby asks his father why did he turn pirate, however his father will not answer
The camera passes over Rory and Amy asleep
Amy sees the woman with one eye. She tells her, she is doing fine, and to stay calm.
Henry goes on Deck. The Doctor, mentions Sirius which is two stars. A binary system. Henry uses it to navigate the ocean. Henry discusses his plan for the boy. The Doctor asks, the Captain, the same question that Toby did. Why did he turn pirate?
Henry won't answer the question from either his son, or the Doctor, but insists his course is set. The Doctor, tells him not to be so sure. Sometimes things change
The wind rises. Henry summons, what is left of his crew. Shouting into the storm, which follows the wind. Rory and Amy are, well all at sea. They cannot understand Henry's commands
Henry shouts for his son, to bring his great coat
. Toby does, and falls, letting the crown, slip onto deck. The golden bright and shiny crown. The Siren is released and she claims, the boy
Toby is gone.
The Doctor throws the crown overboard. The Doctor berates Henry Avery. The Man loved gold, more than his wife, and son. More than his commission, and now look what the pirates lust for gold is has done.
Rory falls, overboard. At the mercy of the sea, he is drowning.
The Doctor, makes another leap of faith. Better the Siren, than the sea. The Siren, snatches Rory from the waters and spirits him away.
With Rory and Toby gone, a gale blowing up, The doctor tells Henry and Amy, that they must let the Siren take them, they prick there fingers, and hold out there hands, for the beautiful Lilly cole.
They awake, on the deck, of another ship. In dry. They can see the deck of the pirate ship, even hear the rain. The Doctor, explains that the two ships are in other universe. Two things trying to hold the same place in time and space.
There is a klaxon, in the background. A distress call. The Doctor,Henry and Amy, go off to investigate. They find one of the crew, from an Alien ship. It is dead ship. Or as Henry observes ``long enough for the Captain to run out of grog''
The crew have been killed by Human bacteria, and the Doctor puts his hand, on a sneeze. Alien bogies. Okay the sneeze persists but bodies rot? Odd biology
By the way, I thought the Alien, skeleton, looked a bit like Beta ray bill.
The trio enter a room, with the crew of the pirate ship and rory, and Toby on the beds. There is a scene where all three are reunited with the loved one. Look at Matt Smith, hug the Tardis. The Tardis, is there too. The crew are in suspended animation on beds, suspended from mid air. So they are suspended in suspense. The curse of the black spot is solved. Its a tissue sample. But why would you take tissue samples from someone who you are about to eat, the doctor inquires. Amy had been fiddling with Rory's bed. T
As Lilly/Siren re enters the room. The Trio hides. The Doctor watches the effect the singing has on the crew, and he realises. The Song is an antahesitc
The Siren, walks over to check on Toby. Captain Henry having reloaded his pistol, takes aim, at her. Lilly goes into attack mode. The Doctor tries to draw her attention. His sneezes
The Siren, is helping the crew. Not eating them. She sets the soiled hanky of the Doctors on fire.
The Siren, is a super intelligent automated medical system. She has been keeping the crew alive, but cannot heal there wounds.
Amy wants to free her Husband but the siren refuses to let her. The Doctor tells Amy, to tell the automated siren that, Rory is her husband. ``Show her, your (wedding) ring'' The doctor guessing that the system is intelligent enough to release, Rory to Amy's care
Rory is still drowning. One of the few moments of tension on the show, as Rory tells Amy how to give him the kiss of life. With the tender and frantic touches of his loving wife, Rory Williams, is brought back to life. The Nurse, provided the little bit of practical knowledge that the Doctor did not have
The crew, are still there. Toby still has fever. Hugh decides to stay aboard the ship. He will pilot it home. Lead his son, and crew, to a great adventure across the Ocean of stars
Back on the Tardis. The Williams-Ponds, are settling in for the night. Amy is troubled with the revelations that the Doctor will die. `You can't tell him. Its his future'' Her Husband insists
Good night Amelia, says the Doctor.
You only call me Amelia when your worried about me
Go to bed Pond
The Doctor is still trying to understand, why his scanner, tells us that Amy is and isn't pregnant
**********
Grrr Pirates!!!!!! I guess Doctor who is Cashing in. On the Pirates of the Caribbean. Well its an interesting enough trope
The plot is the same, as the Doctor dances, the girl in the fireplace, and the Lodger. Its alien/advanced technology gone astray. With no one to turn it off. I was going to say, it ended well here. However it did too in the Doctor Dances.
There is a flaw in the black spot in that in the world the pirates live in. A scratch is enough to kill you. There was no way of treating lockjaw, before antibiotics, and antiseptics. There is no ships surgeon either. Oh and there pirates. Remember people in the days of sail, died not from cannonballs, but the splinters, when they hit the ships. The episode does realise this. The point about its only a matter of time, before everyone gets bruised.
I also wondered, why could the Captain, simply not dump his jewelry in the gunpowder magazine. Remember fresh water, was used as a portal, for the Siren. Why did she not use the glass, in the first place. I know the Captain, had to be redeemed. On the other hand, the moment he sails off. The captain, and his son, are stuck on a ship alone. Might not the Captain, need to hire a crew. How will he keep himself, and his son.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Brian Lenihan
(21 May 1959 – 10 June 2011)
Brian Lenihan
Father, TD, Finance Minister Cancer patient
Not since Colins went to London, will an Irish leader actions be so debated.
Brian Lenihan
Father, TD, Finance Minister Cancer patient
Not since Colins went to London, will an Irish leader actions be so debated.
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
So, who is Madam K?
Madame Kovarian, is the Woman with the Eye patch, who hoped to turn the infant River Song, into a weapon. She refers to fighting an endless and bitter war against the Doctor
Yet why, and why did she become so powerful?
For starters Madam K knows enough about Time travel to send a signal into the Tardis. This works, even when the TARDIS, is outside our universe. See the events of the Doctors Wife. Where the TARDIS, is outside the Universe for a moment.
Watch the Sound of the Drums. Watch the Master flirt with Lucy Saxon, and Tish. Martha's sister. The Master is not immune to the charms of humans. Indeed from the Doctors Wife. We learned that one Timelord. The Corsair took, male and female form. The Doctor flirted with the Corsair.
So this is my theory. She was once, the companion of a renegade Time Lord. Perhaps the Master. For fun, it could be the Rani. Though the BBC, do not hold the Copywrite for her. So alas not.
Though in one of the BBC specials written by Stephen Moffat, did have the Rani, with a companion.
So this is my guess. Kovarian is the companion of the Master, or the War chief. Indeed possibly fathered by one. Hence her bitterness, at the man, who killed her chance to be reunited with her father's people. The man who murdered her father. Also her intelligence and rage
Madame Kovarian, is the Woman with the Eye patch, who hoped to turn the infant River Song, into a weapon. She refers to fighting an endless and bitter war against the Doctor
Yet why, and why did she become so powerful?
For starters Madam K knows enough about Time travel to send a signal into the Tardis. This works, even when the TARDIS, is outside our universe. See the events of the Doctors Wife. Where the TARDIS, is outside the Universe for a moment.
Watch the Sound of the Drums. Watch the Master flirt with Lucy Saxon, and Tish. Martha's sister. The Master is not immune to the charms of humans. Indeed from the Doctors Wife. We learned that one Timelord. The Corsair took, male and female form. The Doctor flirted with the Corsair.
So this is my theory. She was once, the companion of a renegade Time Lord. Perhaps the Master. For fun, it could be the Rani. Though the BBC, do not hold the Copywrite for her. So alas not.
Though in one of the BBC specials written by Stephen Moffat, did have the Rani, with a companion.
So this is my guess. Kovarian is the companion of the Master, or the War chief. Indeed possibly fathered by one. Hence her bitterness, at the man, who killed her chance to be reunited with her father's people. The man who murdered her father. Also her intelligence and rage
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Blogger disappeared
(NB, this turned out to be fraud. July 2012)
Syrian blogger Amina Abdallah kidnapped by armed menAuthor of A Gay Girl in Damascus had shot to prominence for her frank views on Syrian uprising, politics and being a lesbian
Amina Abdallah blogged on Syrian uprising, politics and being a lesbian in Damascas.
A blogger whose frank and witty thoughts on Syria's uprising, politics and being a lesbian in the country shot her to prominence was last night seized by armed men in Damascus.
Amina Arraf, who blogged under the name Amina Abdallah, holds dual Syrian and American citizenship and is the author of the blog A Gay Girl in Damascus, which has drawn fans from Syria and across the world.
She was kidnapped last night as she and a friend were on their way to a meeting in Damascus. The kidnapping was reported on her blog by a cousin.
"Amina was seized by three men in their early 20s. According to the witness (who does not want her identity known), the men were armed," wrote Rania Ismail.
"Amina hit one of them and told the friend to go find her father. One of the men then put his hand over Amina's mouth and they hustled her into a red Dacia Logan with a window sticker of Basel Assad."
Basel is the brother of president Bashar al-Assad, and was being groomed for the presidency until his death in a car crash in 1994.
Amina, who was midway through writing a book, had become increasingly popular after capturing the imagination of the Syrian opposition as the protest movement struggled in the face of the government crackdown.
Several Facebook pages had been set up on Monday evening calling for her release. The Free Amina Arraf Facebook page had already gathered over 150 members by midnight and activists were tweeting using the hashtag FreeAmina.Writing on Amina's blog, Ismail said it was unknown if she was in a jail or being held elsewhere in Damascus. Syria has at least 13 branches of security forces, various police divisions as well as militias and gangs.
"We do not know who took her, so we do not know who to ask to get her back. It is possible that they are forcibly deporting her. From other family members who have been imprisoned there, we believe that she is likely to be released fairly soon. If they wanted to kill her, they would have done so. That is what we are all praying for," she wrote.
Amina was increasingly angered by the government crackdown, writing on Sunday: "They must go, they must go soon. That is all there is to say."
Human rights groups say over 10,000 have been detained by the authorities since protests started in mid-March. They include women and children and many report ill-treatment and torture at the hands of the security services as the regime seeks to put an end to growing dissent against over 40 years of rule by the Assad family.
Amina's last post earlier yesterday [Mon] was a poem about coming freedom entitled Bird Songs.
During an earlier interview with the Guardian Amina said: "The Syria I always hoped was there, but was sleeping, has woken up. I have to believe that, sooner or later, we will prevail."
Syrian blogger Amina Abdallah kidnapped by armed menAuthor of A Gay Girl in Damascus had shot to prominence for her frank views on Syrian uprising, politics and being a lesbian
Amina Abdallah blogged on Syrian uprising, politics and being a lesbian in Damascas.
A blogger whose frank and witty thoughts on Syria's uprising, politics and being a lesbian in the country shot her to prominence was last night seized by armed men in Damascus.
Amina Arraf, who blogged under the name Amina Abdallah, holds dual Syrian and American citizenship and is the author of the blog A Gay Girl in Damascus, which has drawn fans from Syria and across the world.
She was kidnapped last night as she and a friend were on their way to a meeting in Damascus. The kidnapping was reported on her blog by a cousin.
"Amina was seized by three men in their early 20s. According to the witness (who does not want her identity known), the men were armed," wrote Rania Ismail.
"Amina hit one of them and told the friend to go find her father. One of the men then put his hand over Amina's mouth and they hustled her into a red Dacia Logan with a window sticker of Basel Assad."
Basel is the brother of president Bashar al-Assad, and was being groomed for the presidency until his death in a car crash in 1994.
Amina, who was midway through writing a book, had become increasingly popular after capturing the imagination of the Syrian opposition as the protest movement struggled in the face of the government crackdown.
Several Facebook pages had been set up on Monday evening calling for her release. The Free Amina Arraf Facebook page had already gathered over 150 members by midnight and activists were tweeting using the hashtag FreeAmina.Writing on Amina's blog, Ismail said it was unknown if she was in a jail or being held elsewhere in Damascus. Syria has at least 13 branches of security forces, various police divisions as well as militias and gangs.
"We do not know who took her, so we do not know who to ask to get her back. It is possible that they are forcibly deporting her. From other family members who have been imprisoned there, we believe that she is likely to be released fairly soon. If they wanted to kill her, they would have done so. That is what we are all praying for," she wrote.
Amina was increasingly angered by the government crackdown, writing on Sunday: "They must go, they must go soon. That is all there is to say."
Human rights groups say over 10,000 have been detained by the authorities since protests started in mid-March. They include women and children and many report ill-treatment and torture at the hands of the security services as the regime seeks to put an end to growing dissent against over 40 years of rule by the Assad family.
Amina's last post earlier yesterday [Mon] was a poem about coming freedom entitled Bird Songs.
During an earlier interview with the Guardian Amina said: "The Syria I always hoped was there, but was sleeping, has woken up. I have to believe that, sooner or later, we will prevail."
Monday, June 06, 2011
Saturday, June 04, 2011
A Good Man Goes To War, Doctor Who
A Good Man Goes To War
WILL YOU EVER LISTEN TO RIVER SONG?
Spoilers!
Spoilers!
Melody is placed into a basket, ala Moses. The action goes back and forth between Amy, and Rory/Doctor
The Cybermen, confront Rory, who asks them where his wife is? Says he has a message from the Doctor. We see Cyber space stations exploding,
``Why the blank faces'' (Cybermen don't have facial expression).
Why do Cybermen talk? If they don't need to smile? Do they need language? Or at least the spoken word
Finally, we see Rory come into his own. There is a reason the world remembers the title Centurion.
Back at the asteroid base of Demons Run, two marines chatter as they go off on break. They are talking about the Doctor- a powerful person, a legend. One Marine is tall and thin, one fatter
``We are here to fight him, not to praise him'' praising him cost more
The married Marines practice on psychic paper. You have to look out for the fractals, apparently. They then pass a young lady. Who had actually met the Doctor. From the Gamma forest. which we later learn is ``Heaven Neutral'' Moffat really has a thing for religion
A marine goes off, with the Headless monk for a conversion ritual. We are later shown, what happens when you convert to join the Headless monks, its pretty final.
``Red to hide the stains'' Indeed.
``Heaven Neutral'' now that does not sound good. The female marine, is sewing something, on her lunch break.
London 1888 ad. A carriage stops, outside a townhouse. Well I suppose they would all be Victorian, back than. The Lady sends her driver away,
The driver known as Parker, utters the immortal words. ``Yes my lady''
The Lady places her broadsword, on the mantlepiece and informs her maid to tell, Scotland Yard. That Jack the Ripper is dead. The Maid, compliments her mistress on her exertions
The woman who had just dismissed her driver, takes off her cloak. She is revealed to be a Silurian, a homo repiltus. Or rather terra repiltus. (As the Silurians are not hominids)
The Maid calls her mistress attention to a matter in the other room. We hear the whirring of the Tardis. An old debt is going to be repaid
The battle of Zathustra, in the Far future. The president, her child wounded, cries out for a nurse,
Who answers her call?
River song?
UNIT?
Martha Jones?
The Doctor?
The camera finds a Sontraran nurse. Brilliant!
WILL YOU EVER LISTEN TO RIVER SONG?
Spoilers!
Spoilers!
Spoilers!
Mid season finale. Well I suppose the cousins need to be humored
Last week Amy Williams-nee pond was revealed to be flesh. our beloved redhead, had been abducted heavy with child
i did not grasp this point. Until after the episode.
If last week, had a wow ending, this is a wow episode.
Its epic in scale. Some questions are finally answered
More to come!
**********
W
The episode begins with a recap of what has happened, in the last seven episodes.
``Who is the little girl'' The child in the spacesuit, who we see in ``The Impossible Astronaut''
The episode takes place on ``Demons Run'' which is an asteroid in the middle of nowhere.
Mid season finale. Well I suppose the cousins need to be humored
Last week Amy Williams-nee pond was revealed to be flesh. our beloved redhead, had been abducted heavy with child
i did not grasp this point. Until after the episode.
If last week, had a wow ending, this is a wow episode.
Its epic in scale. Some questions are finally answered
More to come!
**********
W
The episode begins with a recap of what has happened, in the last seven episodes.
``Who is the little girl'' The child in the spacesuit, who we see in ``The Impossible Astronaut''
The episode takes place on ``Demons Run'' which is an asteroid in the middle of nowhere.
Seriously it is, I did not see a star around the asteroid.
Amy has given birth, she has named, her daughter, Melody. A beautiful name. The pre credits scenes, are Amy. Karen Gilliam, screaming WIFE MATERIAL, with a baby, talking to her new born, in a room flanked by soldiers. She tells the child, her father, is famous, her father has lived for centuries Her father is a legend.
Her Father is the last Centurion-(Rory Williams)
Than the action changes, to 20000 light years away. (Which Star Trek fans will remember is twenty years away from Earth at maximum warp.) The Cybermen have established a listening post. Manned by the Twelfth Cyber Legion, for those of you keeping score back home.
Amy has given birth, she has named, her daughter, Melody. A beautiful name. The pre credits scenes, are Amy. Karen Gilliam, screaming WIFE MATERIAL, with a baby, talking to her new born, in a room flanked by soldiers. She tells the child, her father, is famous, her father has lived for centuries Her father is a legend.
Her Father is the last Centurion-(Rory Williams)
Than the action changes, to 20000 light years away. (Which Star Trek fans will remember is twenty years away from Earth at maximum warp.) The Cybermen have established a listening post. Manned by the Twelfth Cyber Legion, for those of you keeping score back home.
Melody is placed into a basket, ala Moses. The action goes back and forth between Amy, and Rory/Doctor
The Cybermen, confront Rory, who asks them where his wife is? Says he has a message from the Doctor. We see Cyber space stations exploding,
``Why the blank faces'' (Cybermen don't have facial expression).
Why do Cybermen talk? If they don't need to smile? Do they need language? Or at least the spoken word
Finally, we see Rory come into his own. There is a reason the world remembers the title Centurion.
Back at the asteroid base of Demons Run, two marines chatter as they go off on break. They are talking about the Doctor- a powerful person, a legend. One Marine is tall and thin, one fatter
``We are here to fight him, not to praise him'' praising him cost more
The married Marines practice on psychic paper. You have to look out for the fractals, apparently. They then pass a young lady. Who had actually met the Doctor. From the Gamma forest. which we later learn is ``Heaven Neutral'' Moffat really has a thing for religion
A marine goes off, with the Headless monk for a conversion ritual. We are later shown, what happens when you convert to join the Headless monks, its pretty final.
``Red to hide the stains'' Indeed.
``Heaven Neutral'' now that does not sound good. The female marine, is sewing something, on her lunch break.
London 1888 ad. A carriage stops, outside a townhouse. Well I suppose they would all be Victorian, back than. The Lady sends her driver away,
The driver known as Parker, utters the immortal words. ``Yes my lady''
The Lady places her broadsword, on the mantlepiece and informs her maid to tell, Scotland Yard. That Jack the Ripper is dead. The Maid, compliments her mistress on her exertions
The woman who had just dismissed her driver, takes off her cloak. She is revealed to be a Silurian, a homo repiltus. Or rather terra repiltus. (As the Silurians are not hominids)
The Maid calls her mistress attention to a matter in the other room. We hear the whirring of the Tardis. An old debt is going to be repaid
The battle of Zathustra, in the Far future. The president, her child wounded, cries out for a nurse,
Who answers her call?
River song?
UNIT?
Martha Jones?
The Doctor?
The camera finds a Sontraran nurse. Brilliant!
One of the more inspired cameos’ of the series. A Sonatraran, who has been disgraced by his birthpool, works as a nurse, healing the sick. A child here, and whishing them health, so that one day he would face them on the battlefield for the Empire. The People at the battle of Zarathustra seem to be in Victorian dress. I guess the 41st century will be into steam punk in a big way
Finally we come to than brings us to River song. She has set the alarm off, in her prison. Of course she is trying to get back in.
Then she meets Rory, Rory is still in the uniform of a roman centurion. ( The Roman army changed it’s uniforms, and kit several times, and Rory is in the uniform of a roman centurion at it’s height, he should have been issued several sets of armour, between the events of the The Pandorica opens, and the fall of the Roman empire, however that is a nitpick)
Rory thinks the uniform is silly, but it was the Doctors idea. River, (who Rory called Doctor Song) suggests he tries high heels;
Our River, is therefore in a good mood. She had been with the Doctor, to see the Frost fair, in 1814and Stevie Wonder had song, for her. The Doctor, did not tell Stevie the date. Steven can never know
River asks Rory the date, and the place. Demons Run
River recalls the name. It is the place, where the Doctor, will learn, who River its. Remember River knows the Doctor’s real name. Its hinted they marry in the ``Big Bang'' You know that, but if you have read this far, I may as well repeat it.
River tells us, via Rory that today is the battle of Demons run. Where the Doctor will rise higher than he ever has, and than fall further. It is also the Day When the Doctor finds out, whom River Song is...
The Marines are having a rally. There leader Colonel Manton announces speaking of the Doctor
``He is not the Devil, or a God, He is not a Goblin'' ``The Doctor is a living breathing Man'' They are going to fix that problem.
The Marines cheer.
Ms. Bucket The very pretty brunette. Slips off to talk to Amy. Amy's guards don't seem to worry about the only person who had a visitation from the Doctor, talking to the imprisoned companion
Amy asks, to borrow the female marines gun. She does not want to hear someone else, talk about the Doctor. Amy has you will recall had her baby taken from her. I would not push her to far
The two woman recount there meetings with the doctor. The Marine met her as a little girl, Amy did too. However the Doctor came back for her
``You must be very special'' The Lorna tells, Amy
The marine hands Amy, a prayer leaf with the name of her child written on it
We are returned to Colonel Manton's speech. The Colonel, informs his troops. It is a level one heresy. Punishable by death, to remove the hood of a headless monk. However on this day, as authorized by the Papal mainframe herself, he can reveal, the secret of the headless monk to the marines. They are in fact headless. They are bodies, without heads, kept alive by some contrivance and thus cannot be reasoned with, or persuaded or lied to.
( A nice touch that. The Cybermen and indeed the Daleks are variations on the same theme. Here it is simple. Remove the mind, which is materialistically in the philosophical sense located in the head and you have the body, as a tool, with the pity and humanity of a claw hammer)
As Colonel Manton gives his speech, about how the Monks, cannot be stopped.
The Doctor reveals himself, he has been disguised as a monk.
As the Marines step backward, and cower. We see the control room, has been infiltrated by the Silurian lady and her maid. Whom are lovers. The control room, in the hands of the Doctors Allies. They command the marines there to lower the lights.
With the lights off, the headless monks, and the marines, start to face off. As the Marines keep seeing the Doctor, in the headless monks. The headless monks draw there energy weapons. It looks like both sides are about to destroy each other.
The Colonel, re graining control by putting his gun away, and getting his troops to chant I am not a fool. Is a nice subversion.
It is to no avail. An Army of Silurian's, are transported into the station. They surround the marines. Any further resistance will be futile. Accompanied by Juddoon.
I have a fleet out there, announces Colonel Manton, if Demons run is destroyed. They will intervene
Danny Boy to the Doctor . That surprised me-The converted spitfires from Victory of the Daleks, fly into destroy the communication's array on Demon run. The Doctor, talking to the colonel pretends to be the gunner, on an airplane. piow piow. piow
The one-eyed woman, is trying to get away. She tells her guards( For no reason, that they must bring her the child, and that the Doctor must think he is winning) As she gets into her ship, is confronted, by the centurion and his gladius. She tells him, she has a crew of 20.
The door opens, and the one eyed woman is confronted by the pirates from the black spot
The Doctor confronting the colonel after his defeat. The sontaran nurse, tells the Colonel he is o give the order, for his men to withdraw. The Doctor tells the colonel, he wants him specifically I want you to be known as Colonel run away. Children will laugh at you, because they have found the house of Colonel Run away
I am an angry that's new. ( We have seen, the doctor get angry a few times in the series so far, The Almost People, and the Doctors wife) However the Silurian lady flinching at the sight was well executed)
There is a confrontation between the Doctor and Madame Kovarian. ( The eye patch lady. I just found the name in my notes. The eye patch lady dismisses the Doctors anger. As the anger of a good man, is not to be feared. They have too many rules.
The Doctor than tells her. Good men, don't need rules.( I will come back to this later, but this is the statement of a monster)
Rory, and Amy are reunited. Amy, grabs a toothbrush or some such and brandishes it at the door. Announcing she is armed, and dangerous and cross. A familiar voice answers from behind the door. Rory is attempting to enter the room with the sonic screwdriver. It takes a little longer than he expected.
Amy tells her husband, that they took her baby. Rory, tells Mrs. Williams, that it is never going to happen. Father and mother, and daughter, and husband and wife, are reunited.
A crying roman with a baby, definitely cool. The doctor, a little put off by the crying and the kissing, puts his head round the door. (*) The happy couple discuss the name of there
Melody pond is a superhero. Melody Williams is a geography teacher.
The Doctor speaks baby. He translates Melodies cries. ( We will see this skill a few times)
The doctors allies, give us some exposition about what has happened. The clerics, have been escorted out of the quadrant. Which is a huge part of the galaxy. The spitfires have returned to there own time.
The Silurian aristocrat, announces, that Demons run, is the doctors without a drop of blood spilt. Surely the Doctor has never risen higher.
The Titanic was unsinkable too. Peace in our time. There is a world market for 5 or 6 computers. Rory looks worried.
The sontaran, tells Rory and Amy, that there baby needs feeding, and offers to demonstrate the root of the English word nurse.
The Doctor who had not wanted to turn off the noise brings a cot out. Rory states that it is a cot ``No flies on the roman'' Its beautiful, glowing and there are stars outside the cot. Amy says its best. ``
Rory and Amy ask about the cot. His companions ask whom this cot belongs to . Do you have children? The Doctor does not answer this. From the episodes of the tenth doctor we know that is true. The Doctor does not answer it
Amy asks the doctor, about her time in captivity. The doctor asks permission from the centurion to hug Amy. Rory is still jealous of the doctor, but why? The doctor explains, that while Amy was in a cell on demons run. Her heart-mind and soul, were on the Tardis.
Rory points out that whoever was holding Amy, was powerful enough to project the signal into the Tardis. Rory, than tells the doctor, that he did not tell, them he suspected. That Amy was flesh. The parents ask for answers. The Doctor gives an answer. It was his, this was the cot, the Doctor slept in as a babe ``Look the The Doctors first stars''
The Doctor is called to the control room. The Silurian, tells him off, about his anger, earlier in the episode. Than they get to the business at hand. Melody pond, is more than human. She has timelord DNA, alongside her human genes.
The Doctor and the Silurian and Dorium, the blue man. discuss the events. We get a quick recap of the first season. Sexy fish vampires. Rory was dead, and than he wasn't there, and than he was plastic. It turns out, the first time, that Rory and Amy were together on the Tardis, was on there wedding night. Dorium smirks. The Silurian, had told the doctor, that she was trying to be delicate, as he knows how the doctor can blush, and indeed the millions of parents and grand parents watching with there kids
There is by video screen, a final confrontation between the Doctor, and old one eye. (Madame K) The child is hope, for an ending in the war, against the Doctor. For a moment, I thought about the Daleks. Who are still out there
The headless monks, make there attack. After erecting forcefield between Team Doctor and the Tardis, and locking the doors. They chant. ``The attack prayer'' exclaims Dorium
Amy has one last wish for her husband ``Let them all die first''. Your so Scottish!
Centurion your needed. Rory joins his comrades for the fight
The plasma pistols are broken out. The swords are drawn. Our heroes make a stand.
The Doctor and Madame, K are still chatting. The Doctor tells her the Child is not a weapon. His opponent tells him it will be The cyclopes is gloating. Fooling you once, doctor, was a joy. Fooling you twice would be a privilege. Little melody is flesh
We see through melodies eyes. Madam K opens the slot, into her universe.
Amy is crying. Melody, is no more.
Yeah we know''
The day is carried. The Monks are driven off, but at a cost. The Sontaran, Commander Strax is wounded, struck by a headless monk, laser sword in the back
Rory, talks to Strax as he dies. He tells him, he had a good life, he is nearly 12. He chides Rory with the phrase. I am a nurse''
The Doctor talks to Lorna, the marine. Who met, him as a child. They ran, and ran. She joined the clerics, to meet the doctor. She sees him again. She dies,
``There always brave'' So many dead...Remember how Tegan left as she was sick of all the killing.
The Doctor, has a petulant moment. His Silurian friend asks if he is giving up. He did that before, in the Stolen Earth. The Time Lord, exclaims, don't you wish I would...
Well than Soldier how goes the day. River Song, is teleported into demons run
``Where the hell, where you?'' The Doctor, is the position the people he has to help are in, an onlooker to events outside his control
``I could not have prevented this''
River than tells the Doctor, that he changed the universe. When he spend off, from Galifrey, when he confronted the Daleks, and the cybermen and the rest. When he became a legend. There would be consequences.
The Doctor and river have an angry confrontation. The Doctor demands of river, the secret of her identity. River takes him to the Cot. The doctor giggles, and says Hello. Pleased with the answer, he lowers the forcefield between himself and the Tardis, and vanishes, promising to rescue the Pond-Williams baby
Amy confronts River. No one was pleased to see river. Brandishing a pistol at her, Amy demands, River tell them, who she is.
River takes them the cot. She soothes the fury of a mother, she points, to the writing on the side of the cot. Its in Galifreyan, it does not translate. So Doctor Song shows them the prayer leaf, Lorna prepared earlier. She explains, that in the Gamma forests there is no word for pond.
``The only water in the forest is the river''
``Its me,
I'm Melody,
I'm your daughter''
River Song is Melody Pond...
**********
Okay, so there was a much better Silurian story out there. The Doctor meets, a Silurian woman, while Victorian London builds its great sewer, and tube tunnels. The Silurian woman hunting down Jack the Ripper
Its been a long while building up. One wonders if Steven Moffat was asked to write an 18 episode season, for the cousins. Which can be viewed as 1.5 series in the UK. The story referenced, the Doctor and Rivers first meeting. Silence in the library
Finally, we see Rory, playing the last centurion on Camera. Finally. This is the man, who waited two thousand years, to protect the woman he loved. This is what has been held back. The Kenny-Rory trope ends here.
The explanation given for why, the child/Melody, changed, exposure to the time matrix. Is good, neat and elegant. The same thing happened to the time lords, over millions of years. Nice to see the Doctor's conversation with the Silurian and Dorrium. Its good to see the Doctor having a conversation on a more equal level. Its in contrast to Rory and Amy, who he was keeping information from a married couple, and from parents. Yes that is a problem, as the Rory and Amy stories go on. Having single Companions,
The series maintains, the high visibility of people and indeed Aliens of LBGT that it started in the reboot, under Russel T Davis
I was confused, by Madams K, motivation. Okay so they want to make a Timelord to fight the Doctor, with. That makes sense, However it seems a little mundane. If you can make a Timelord, why not be Timelords. Why not rule the Universe?
I wonder how many parents cringed, when the Doctor has to lampshade the fact where babies come from....Its interesting that Matt Smiths Doctor, is less of the sensualist and less sexualized then his counterparts in the Russel T Davis era
Alex Kingston, could conceivably be the child of Rory and Amy. Look at her coloring. I was skeptical about river songs character at first. In this episode she comes into her own. She even steals the doctors role. Descending from out of the sky at the last moment, to explain everything.
Amy has taken her pregnancy awful well, She should be full of hormones. This was brushed aside
Also her breasts should have been larger. I know she might not lactate. I am still of the opinion her breasts should have been larger
There was a lot of continuity porn. Juddoon, Cybermen, Silurians. It also seems that the Clerics which we saw in Flesh and Stone, might not be good guys.
Lorna Bucket is beautiful.
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Did anyone else, feel in places, that you were watching Star wars. The soldiers, the bad guys, the cloaks and the swords. The Doctor as the Jedi, leading a band of rebels against an empire. The Star wars Franchise has left so many tropes, that you cannot avoid them. Along with the words Mid Season finale. I was wondering if this was a concession to the American Audience
You could even argue, that the Doctor is fighting the dark side. I don't object to the Doctor having a human enemy, but what is there motivation beyond the desire for wealth and empire.
Also I felt there was a little bit of a problem of scale. Demons run v Ending the last Time war. Demons run V defeating the Daleks. Demons run V restarting the Universe.
It was a nice tidy up of the Matt Smith-Moffatt era. With a nod to the past. Looking towards, the future. I look forward to seeing the second half of the season if only for the title of the next episode
``Lets kill Hitler''
Finally we come to than brings us to River song. She has set the alarm off, in her prison. Of course she is trying to get back in.
Then she meets Rory, Rory is still in the uniform of a roman centurion. ( The Roman army changed it’s uniforms, and kit several times, and Rory is in the uniform of a roman centurion at it’s height, he should have been issued several sets of armour, between the events of the The Pandorica opens, and the fall of the Roman empire, however that is a nitpick)
Rory thinks the uniform is silly, but it was the Doctors idea. River, (who Rory called Doctor Song) suggests he tries high heels;
Our River, is therefore in a good mood. She had been with the Doctor, to see the Frost fair, in 1814and Stevie Wonder had song, for her. The Doctor, did not tell Stevie the date. Steven can never know
River asks Rory the date, and the place. Demons Run
River recalls the name. It is the place, where the Doctor, will learn, who River its. Remember River knows the Doctor’s real name. Its hinted they marry in the ``Big Bang'' You know that, but if you have read this far, I may as well repeat it.
River tells us, via Rory that today is the battle of Demons run. Where the Doctor will rise higher than he ever has, and than fall further. It is also the Day When the Doctor finds out, whom River Song is...
The Marines are having a rally. There leader Colonel Manton announces speaking of the Doctor
``He is not the Devil, or a God, He is not a Goblin'' ``The Doctor is a living breathing Man'' They are going to fix that problem.
The Marines cheer.
Ms. Bucket The very pretty brunette. Slips off to talk to Amy. Amy's guards don't seem to worry about the only person who had a visitation from the Doctor, talking to the imprisoned companion
Amy asks, to borrow the female marines gun. She does not want to hear someone else, talk about the Doctor. Amy has you will recall had her baby taken from her. I would not push her to far
The two woman recount there meetings with the doctor. The Marine met her as a little girl, Amy did too. However the Doctor came back for her
``You must be very special'' The Lorna tells, Amy
The marine hands Amy, a prayer leaf with the name of her child written on it
We are returned to Colonel Manton's speech. The Colonel, informs his troops. It is a level one heresy. Punishable by death, to remove the hood of a headless monk. However on this day, as authorized by the Papal mainframe herself, he can reveal, the secret of the headless monk to the marines. They are in fact headless. They are bodies, without heads, kept alive by some contrivance and thus cannot be reasoned with, or persuaded or lied to.
( A nice touch that. The Cybermen and indeed the Daleks are variations on the same theme. Here it is simple. Remove the mind, which is materialistically in the philosophical sense located in the head and you have the body, as a tool, with the pity and humanity of a claw hammer)
As Colonel Manton gives his speech, about how the Monks, cannot be stopped.
The Doctor reveals himself, he has been disguised as a monk.
As the Marines step backward, and cower. We see the control room, has been infiltrated by the Silurian lady and her maid. Whom are lovers. The control room, in the hands of the Doctors Allies. They command the marines there to lower the lights.
With the lights off, the headless monks, and the marines, start to face off. As the Marines keep seeing the Doctor, in the headless monks. The headless monks draw there energy weapons. It looks like both sides are about to destroy each other.
The Colonel, re graining control by putting his gun away, and getting his troops to chant I am not a fool. Is a nice subversion.
It is to no avail. An Army of Silurian's, are transported into the station. They surround the marines. Any further resistance will be futile. Accompanied by Juddoon.
I have a fleet out there, announces Colonel Manton, if Demons run is destroyed. They will intervene
Danny Boy to the Doctor . That surprised me-The converted spitfires from Victory of the Daleks, fly into destroy the communication's array on Demon run. The Doctor, talking to the colonel pretends to be the gunner, on an airplane. piow piow. piow
The one-eyed woman, is trying to get away. She tells her guards( For no reason, that they must bring her the child, and that the Doctor must think he is winning) As she gets into her ship, is confronted, by the centurion and his gladius. She tells him, she has a crew of 20.
The door opens, and the one eyed woman is confronted by the pirates from the black spot
The Doctor confronting the colonel after his defeat. The sontaran nurse, tells the Colonel he is o give the order, for his men to withdraw. The Doctor tells the colonel, he wants him specifically I want you to be known as Colonel run away. Children will laugh at you, because they have found the house of Colonel Run away
I am an angry that's new. ( We have seen, the doctor get angry a few times in the series so far, The Almost People, and the Doctors wife) However the Silurian lady flinching at the sight was well executed)
There is a confrontation between the Doctor and Madame Kovarian. ( The eye patch lady. I just found the name in my notes. The eye patch lady dismisses the Doctors anger. As the anger of a good man, is not to be feared. They have too many rules.
The Doctor than tells her. Good men, don't need rules.( I will come back to this later, but this is the statement of a monster)
Rory, and Amy are reunited. Amy, grabs a toothbrush or some such and brandishes it at the door. Announcing she is armed, and dangerous and cross. A familiar voice answers from behind the door. Rory is attempting to enter the room with the sonic screwdriver. It takes a little longer than he expected.
Amy tells her husband, that they took her baby. Rory, tells Mrs. Williams, that it is never going to happen. Father and mother, and daughter, and husband and wife, are reunited.
A crying roman with a baby, definitely cool. The doctor, a little put off by the crying and the kissing, puts his head round the door. (*) The happy couple discuss the name of there
Melody pond is a superhero. Melody Williams is a geography teacher.
The Doctor speaks baby. He translates Melodies cries. ( We will see this skill a few times)
The doctors allies, give us some exposition about what has happened. The clerics, have been escorted out of the quadrant. Which is a huge part of the galaxy. The spitfires have returned to there own time.
The Silurian aristocrat, announces, that Demons run, is the doctors without a drop of blood spilt. Surely the Doctor has never risen higher.
The Titanic was unsinkable too. Peace in our time. There is a world market for 5 or 6 computers. Rory looks worried.
The sontaran, tells Rory and Amy, that there baby needs feeding, and offers to demonstrate the root of the English word nurse.
The Doctor who had not wanted to turn off the noise brings a cot out. Rory states that it is a cot ``No flies on the roman'' Its beautiful, glowing and there are stars outside the cot. Amy says its best. ``
Rory and Amy ask about the cot. His companions ask whom this cot belongs to . Do you have children? The Doctor does not answer this. From the episodes of the tenth doctor we know that is true. The Doctor does not answer it
Amy asks the doctor, about her time in captivity. The doctor asks permission from the centurion to hug Amy. Rory is still jealous of the doctor, but why? The doctor explains, that while Amy was in a cell on demons run. Her heart-mind and soul, were on the Tardis.
Rory points out that whoever was holding Amy, was powerful enough to project the signal into the Tardis. Rory, than tells the doctor, that he did not tell, them he suspected. That Amy was flesh. The parents ask for answers. The Doctor gives an answer. It was his, this was the cot, the Doctor slept in as a babe ``Look the The Doctors first stars''
The Doctor is called to the control room. The Silurian, tells him off, about his anger, earlier in the episode. Than they get to the business at hand. Melody pond, is more than human. She has timelord DNA, alongside her human genes.
The Doctor and the Silurian and Dorium, the blue man. discuss the events. We get a quick recap of the first season. Sexy fish vampires. Rory was dead, and than he wasn't there, and than he was plastic. It turns out, the first time, that Rory and Amy were together on the Tardis, was on there wedding night. Dorium smirks. The Silurian, had told the doctor, that she was trying to be delicate, as he knows how the doctor can blush, and indeed the millions of parents and grand parents watching with there kids
There is by video screen, a final confrontation between the Doctor, and old one eye. (Madame K) The child is hope, for an ending in the war, against the Doctor. For a moment, I thought about the Daleks. Who are still out there
The headless monks, make there attack. After erecting forcefield between Team Doctor and the Tardis, and locking the doors. They chant. ``The attack prayer'' exclaims Dorium
Amy has one last wish for her husband ``Let them all die first''. Your so Scottish!
Centurion your needed. Rory joins his comrades for the fight
The plasma pistols are broken out. The swords are drawn. Our heroes make a stand.
The Doctor and Madame, K are still chatting. The Doctor tells her the Child is not a weapon. His opponent tells him it will be The cyclopes is gloating. Fooling you once, doctor, was a joy. Fooling you twice would be a privilege. Little melody is flesh
We see through melodies eyes. Madam K opens the slot, into her universe.
Amy is crying. Melody, is no more.
Yeah we know''
The day is carried. The Monks are driven off, but at a cost. The Sontaran, Commander Strax is wounded, struck by a headless monk, laser sword in the back
Rory, talks to Strax as he dies. He tells him, he had a good life, he is nearly 12. He chides Rory with the phrase. I am a nurse''
The Doctor talks to Lorna, the marine. Who met, him as a child. They ran, and ran. She joined the clerics, to meet the doctor. She sees him again. She dies,
``There always brave'' So many dead...Remember how Tegan left as she was sick of all the killing.
The Doctor, has a petulant moment. His Silurian friend asks if he is giving up. He did that before, in the Stolen Earth. The Time Lord, exclaims, don't you wish I would...
Well than Soldier how goes the day. River Song, is teleported into demons run
``Where the hell, where you?'' The Doctor, is the position the people he has to help are in, an onlooker to events outside his control
``I could not have prevented this''
River than tells the Doctor, that he changed the universe. When he spend off, from Galifrey, when he confronted the Daleks, and the cybermen and the rest. When he became a legend. There would be consequences.
The Doctor and river have an angry confrontation. The Doctor demands of river, the secret of her identity. River takes him to the Cot. The doctor giggles, and says Hello. Pleased with the answer, he lowers the forcefield between himself and the Tardis, and vanishes, promising to rescue the Pond-Williams baby
Amy confronts River. No one was pleased to see river. Brandishing a pistol at her, Amy demands, River tell them, who she is.
River takes them the cot. She soothes the fury of a mother, she points, to the writing on the side of the cot. Its in Galifreyan, it does not translate. So Doctor Song shows them the prayer leaf, Lorna prepared earlier. She explains, that in the Gamma forests there is no word for pond.
``The only water in the forest is the river''
``Its me,
I'm Melody,
I'm your daughter''
River Song is Melody Pond...
**********
Okay, so there was a much better Silurian story out there. The Doctor meets, a Silurian woman, while Victorian London builds its great sewer, and tube tunnels. The Silurian woman hunting down Jack the Ripper
Its been a long while building up. One wonders if Steven Moffat was asked to write an 18 episode season, for the cousins. Which can be viewed as 1.5 series in the UK. The story referenced, the Doctor and Rivers first meeting. Silence in the library
Finally, we see Rory, playing the last centurion on Camera. Finally. This is the man, who waited two thousand years, to protect the woman he loved. This is what has been held back. The Kenny-Rory trope ends here.
The explanation given for why, the child/Melody, changed, exposure to the time matrix. Is good, neat and elegant. The same thing happened to the time lords, over millions of years. Nice to see the Doctor's conversation with the Silurian and Dorrium. Its good to see the Doctor having a conversation on a more equal level. Its in contrast to Rory and Amy, who he was keeping information from a married couple, and from parents. Yes that is a problem, as the Rory and Amy stories go on. Having single Companions,
The series maintains, the high visibility of people and indeed Aliens of LBGT that it started in the reboot, under Russel T Davis
I was confused, by Madams K, motivation. Okay so they want to make a Timelord to fight the Doctor, with. That makes sense, However it seems a little mundane. If you can make a Timelord, why not be Timelords. Why not rule the Universe?
I wonder how many parents cringed, when the Doctor has to lampshade the fact where babies come from....Its interesting that Matt Smiths Doctor, is less of the sensualist and less sexualized then his counterparts in the Russel T Davis era
Alex Kingston, could conceivably be the child of Rory and Amy. Look at her coloring. I was skeptical about river songs character at first. In this episode she comes into her own. She even steals the doctors role. Descending from out of the sky at the last moment, to explain everything.
Amy has taken her pregnancy awful well, She should be full of hormones. This was brushed aside
Also her breasts should have been larger. I know she might not lactate. I am still of the opinion her breasts should have been larger
There was a lot of continuity porn. Juddoon, Cybermen, Silurians. It also seems that the Clerics which we saw in Flesh and Stone, might not be good guys.
Lorna Bucket is beautiful.
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Did anyone else, feel in places, that you were watching Star wars. The soldiers, the bad guys, the cloaks and the swords. The Doctor as the Jedi, leading a band of rebels against an empire. The Star wars Franchise has left so many tropes, that you cannot avoid them. Along with the words Mid Season finale. I was wondering if this was a concession to the American Audience
You could even argue, that the Doctor is fighting the dark side. I don't object to the Doctor having a human enemy, but what is there motivation beyond the desire for wealth and empire.
Also I felt there was a little bit of a problem of scale. Demons run v Ending the last Time war. Demons run V defeating the Daleks. Demons run V restarting the Universe.
It was a nice tidy up of the Matt Smith-Moffatt era. With a nod to the past. Looking towards, the future. I look forward to seeing the second half of the season if only for the title of the next episode
``Lets kill Hitler''
Friday, June 03, 2011
Cadium Red
The kick stool here is Cadium red coloured. They bought a few at work, some point in the last decade. Most seem to have disapeared
The Colour of item, is Cadium red/ This was pointed out to me, by a student worker-intern several years ago. I remember the girl was strawberry blonde and her father was a senior figure in the department.
I cannot remember her name, but everytime I see the kickstool, I remember, her explaining the chemistry behind Cadium based paint
( Apparently she died RIP-2024)
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Frank Davis
2-1-1918 to 1-6-2011
Born, as the sounds of the guns raged across Europe. Before he walked, Lenin, would be in power. Starting school, as Ireland was convulsed in civil war.
Frank would have remembered the General Strike, and been just old enough to have looked for work during the depression. Mr Davis would have seen the first talking motion pictures, and than the first colour ones. Than the war came
Far from his home Frank was sent across North Africa, up through Italy, and Austria. Churchill promised a weak underbelly well, it turned out to be a tough old gut. Frank made it through the fighting and the Chaos. I wonder what his head must have felt like on the morning after VE day Returning home to an city destroyed by bombs, and rockets. Than Austerity, and bread rationing.
Mr Davis were you a fan the Goons, or was it the Ratpack playing on the turntable, that lightened your post wars day. Wondering if he’d ``Never had it so good’’ sitting by the Radio, and wondering if the world would end
Staring at mini skirts. 1966. Frank would have been approaching middle age, and watching the young, dress and protest Than petrol prices rose. The Three day week. The Corona man. The IMF, and Milk Snatcher. The Falklands. Retiring, the only thing he would have had to get up to, was Breakfast televion I wonder if he thoughtthe great storm of 1987 was much of a muchness
Mr Gorbachev tore down that wall
Frank had outlived the division of Europe. He would have seen the pound drop out of the ERM. There was fighting in the Middle East again. New Labour get into power. I wonder if Frank voted, in 1996, or in 1946. Watching on the televison, he would have seen the planes hit, the twin towers. I wonder what that old soldier thought, when he saw that. ``That this time, it would be over by Christmas'' The First US president of Colour,
A long life, and I hope a full one.
Rest in Peace Frank Davis
Husband, Music lover, Soldier,
Born, as the sounds of the guns raged across Europe. Before he walked, Lenin, would be in power. Starting school, as Ireland was convulsed in civil war.
Frank would have remembered the General Strike, and been just old enough to have looked for work during the depression. Mr Davis would have seen the first talking motion pictures, and than the first colour ones. Than the war came
Far from his home Frank was sent across North Africa, up through Italy, and Austria. Churchill promised a weak underbelly well, it turned out to be a tough old gut. Frank made it through the fighting and the Chaos. I wonder what his head must have felt like on the morning after VE day Returning home to an city destroyed by bombs, and rockets. Than Austerity, and bread rationing.
Mr Davis were you a fan the Goons, or was it the Ratpack playing on the turntable, that lightened your post wars day. Wondering if he’d ``Never had it so good’’ sitting by the Radio, and wondering if the world would end
Staring at mini skirts. 1966. Frank would have been approaching middle age, and watching the young, dress and protest Than petrol prices rose. The Three day week. The Corona man. The IMF, and Milk Snatcher. The Falklands. Retiring, the only thing he would have had to get up to, was Breakfast televion I wonder if he thoughtthe great storm of 1987 was much of a muchness
Mr Gorbachev tore down that wall
Frank had outlived the division of Europe. He would have seen the pound drop out of the ERM. There was fighting in the Middle East again. New Labour get into power. I wonder if Frank voted, in 1996, or in 1946. Watching on the televison, he would have seen the planes hit, the twin towers. I wonder what that old soldier thought, when he saw that. ``That this time, it would be over by Christmas'' The First US president of Colour,
A long life, and I hope a full one.
Rest in Peace Frank Davis
Husband, Music lover, Soldier,
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