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The Sontaran Stratagem wasn't too bad at all. In hindsight, the plot was a bit rubbish, but there were lots of other good bits to make up for it; Donna's reunion with her...
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I'm pretty apathetic to these patron saint days at the best of times, and I'm not one for national pride. So seeing all these posters and signs up in shops saying stuff like...
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Well, the Ood episode was a lot better than I expected, playing up the mystery behind the Ood's hostility quite well, as well as getting some decent material out of the slavery...
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Did the brief, fatherly relationship between Tony Stark and Peter Parker still happen post-"One More Day"? Brevoort: "Yes." Does Tony Stark know who Peter Parker is? Brevoort:...
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Robbie Williams has packed in the music, grown a beard, and is investigating alien abductions in Nevada.In other news, those blokes who did that annoying tune for Friends...
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Well, we're only two episodes into the fourth series so far, but Doctor Who is off to a good start with two very strong episodes. I'm not sure about next week though; while I...
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Why is it that holidays end up tiring you out more than if you'd just stayed at home with a cup of Bovril?I'm back from a largely uneventful week off in what appeared to be...
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On the ITN television news this afternoon:"Perhaps your power is out, or maybe a tree has fallen and caused damage near you. We want to hear your storm stories, so email the...
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I finally decided to dump my old bolted together blog template and go with one of the prepared Blogger ones. I don't understand the new template syntax at all, and it appears...
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One of my big problems with the Harry Potter books, aside from the chronically unsympathetic protagonist (really, how do you get your lead so badly wrong?) is that they just...
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Did anyone else notice that the BBC iPlayer volume control goes up to 11?
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I'm geeking it up again at the Virtual Console Archive, this time with a feature article on the mighty Commodore 64.So that's comics and video games; to complete the set, I...
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The Golden Age of Censorship is the worst book I have ever read. I get the feeling that Paul Hoffman wanted to write something about his experiences as a film censor, but...
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If you headed over to Comics Bulletin today, you would find that the regular "What Looks Good" column has been taken over, for one week only, by myself. I don't really know why...
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Steven Spielberg resigns as artistic director of the Beijing Olympic Games:"I find that my conscience will not allow me to continue business as usual. At this point, my time...
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I wonder how long this new BBC redesign will last. I thought only BBC Three was getting a revamp, but I noticed that even BBC One now has a thoroughly annoying...
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US Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, talking about the men they're charging over the September 11th attacks:[There will be] full due-process and defence lawyers...
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A lot of my fondest video gaming memories involve not the games themselves, but their soundtracks. The Amiga in particular had some great music ; Chaos Engine and Stardust are...
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"Good luck staying awake!"The BBC's Super Bowl presenter, within thirty seconds of the coverage beginning.
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"[We] are devastated that he will no longer be on hand to divert us, surprise us, inspire us, cheer us."Oh, now it's just getting silly.
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Right, so as part of the Silver Bullets transformation into Comics Bulletin, they've set aside Tuesdays exclusively for Marvel content. And they've asked me to do a regular...
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Two posts in two weeks. It's getting to be a habit.Not much to report, actually, except that over at SBC, we've read the first chapter of "Brand New Day" and found it rather...
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Again, it's been a while. Oops.Things have been fairly eventful, which makes a change, as usually I struggle to find interesting things to talk about here. The biggest thing is...
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I saw Richard Herring in the street today. He's quite tiny.
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I think Papa Lazarou may have been out-scaried by The Mighty Boosh's Cockney Eel Man.
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Apologies to Americans and Torrenters, but I'm watching Heroes on BBC Three, so I'm a bit behind you lot. So this is unlikely to be a ground-breaking bit of analysis to you,...
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Yeah, so they are going to be remaking The Thing.Now, on one hand, there have been two very different, and very good, versions already, so there's nothing to say that they...
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Yes, still alive, just not interesting enough to blog.How about Halloween? I've decided I probably won't bother seeing the completely unnecessary remake. I'm a huge fan of the...
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They let me in again. I've just had another article published at the Wii Virtual Console Archive; this one's about finding alternatives to the big role-playing game franchises...
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Today I saw a poster for a Born in the 90's club night.I'm not sure it's going to be a very lively event.