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Mar. 5th, 2010 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charameiSaw the new Doctor Who trailer on BBC One last night (well, half of it. The TV switched over and I had a panic getting it back to Channel 1). I am... still having trouble differentiating the Eleventh Doctor from the Tenth. I really hope Smith can make the part his own quickly in the first episode.
Also, FFS, BBC, we've known it was coming in Easter 2010 for two frigging years. This isn't news. Give us a proper date, kthxbai.
Also, Being Human! Series finale! Finally watched it! Not very impressed for the first time this series! Going to stop exclaiming now!
Am I alone in thinking the climax came way too early? The slow horror of Mitchell killing everyone in the building, the triple-whammy of Annie's exorcism, Mitchell vs Lucy and George being forced to watch... that was fantastically emotional. Then there's a long, slow downtime section in the farmhouse, and... Jaggat and Kemp turn up at the end, but by that point the episode had calmed down such that it had lost its dramatic momentum for that sort of climax. If they wanted to end it on that sort of note - and I agree that they should have - then they needed to build up tension again, and they just... didn't.
Annie in the TV was so, so sad. Conversely, though, I really thought she was wasted in the early episode: if she and George were both getting suspicious, couldn't she do some Randall and Hopkirk-style invisible sleuthing? In fact, short of production concerns about stealing the format, why doesn't she do more of that anyway?
Nina and George's relationship thoroughly confused me, too. When did they start being 'in a relationship' again? Did I miss something?
And we end wiiiiith... vampires cutting their wrists. Thanks, guys. Thanks. You started the series by making me curl into a quivering phobic ball of terror and ended it by inducing light-headedness and mild nausea.
I suppose in some ways it was a great finale, except that the episode continued for half an hour afterwards.
Other things! I'm currently struggling through The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, although I no longer know why - I got bored enough to turn to the end, and it doesn't get any better or worse as it goes on (in fact, the end looks like a terrific disappointment, but I'll save that judgement until I've read it properly at least). I suppose one of those is a blessing. Review up soonish, most likely. Then I plot to finish The Eyeless, which I've been halfway through reading forever, and then we'll see. Every time I look at my bookshelf, A Game of Thrones looks back, GRRM taunting me from between its multitudinous pages, but after getting bogged down in Perdido Street Station... ehhh.
Also, FFS, BBC, we've known it was coming in Easter 2010 for two frigging years. This isn't news. Give us a proper date, kthxbai.
Also, Being Human! Series finale! Finally watched it! Not very impressed for the first time this series! Going to stop exclaiming now!
Am I alone in thinking the climax came way too early? The slow horror of Mitchell killing everyone in the building, the triple-whammy of Annie's exorcism, Mitchell vs Lucy and George being forced to watch... that was fantastically emotional. Then there's a long, slow downtime section in the farmhouse, and... Jaggat and Kemp turn up at the end, but by that point the episode had calmed down such that it had lost its dramatic momentum for that sort of climax. If they wanted to end it on that sort of note - and I agree that they should have - then they needed to build up tension again, and they just... didn't.
Annie in the TV was so, so sad. Conversely, though, I really thought she was wasted in the early episode: if she and George were both getting suspicious, couldn't she do some Randall and Hopkirk-style invisible sleuthing? In fact, short of production concerns about stealing the format, why doesn't she do more of that anyway?
Nina and George's relationship thoroughly confused me, too. When did they start being 'in a relationship' again? Did I miss something?
And we end wiiiiith... vampires cutting their wrists. Thanks, guys. Thanks. You started the series by making me curl into a quivering phobic ball of terror and ended it by inducing light-headedness and mild nausea.
I suppose in some ways it was a great finale, except that the episode continued for half an hour afterwards.
Other things! I'm currently struggling through The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, although I no longer know why - I got bored enough to turn to the end, and it doesn't get any better or worse as it goes on (in fact, the end looks like a terrific disappointment, but I'll save that judgement until I've read it properly at least). I suppose one of those is a blessing. Review up soonish, most likely. Then I plot to finish The Eyeless, which I've been halfway through reading forever, and then we'll see. Every time I look at my bookshelf, A Game of Thrones looks back, GRRM taunting me from between its multitudinous pages, but after getting bogged down in Perdido Street Station... ehhh.