More telly

And Torchwood. In which ( Spoilers for next week on BBC2... )

Never has the authorial finger in the small of the back been more obvious or more emphatic. Also, its fingernail needs cleaning.

(Next bit held over so that people can comment on it without seeing the above)

More telly, part two

The last episode of Jekyll got rid of the nasty taste of Torchwood quite well, though. Nicely carried through, and of course open-ended. (Why of course? Because we the viewers have to be kept dangling with the promise of more, even if it's never going to be fulfilled. Unless of course the ending is downbeat, depressing, and makes a total nonsense of the premise of the series, in which case, hey, closure. Yes, it's been over twenty-five years and I'm still pissed off about it.) I was chuffed that I'd spotted one of the big revelations in Jekyll quite early on, and this episode had a nice twist on a storytelling device I normally hate. (Hint: it was used in the film of The Shining, and then JMS claimed to have used it in Babylon 5.)

I'd quite like to see more of this series, since I am not of that hardy stock that says "My goodness, that was excellent. Never offer it to me again." I would take an indifferent season two of Jekyll over any kind of season of Torchwood any day. Unfortunately, the odds are all in favour of the latter, and rather against the former.

I've kept this as indefinite as I can, but spoilers may occur in comments. Click at your own risk.

The Countess dreams

Of pirates, apparently. In gold shirts with red sashes. Carrying their ship through the streets of Paris and doing song and dance routines. And anyone without long flowing hair was issued with a wig and a moustache, regardless of gender.

Which leads, of course, to...

We're Pirates of the Caribbean
We don't like to be me-an
But if you run
Or fire your gun
We're apt to cause a sce-an
We have fun on the quarterdeck
Play cards, if someone's brought a deck.

Ayup, don't think that rhyme's going anywhere else...

Doctor Who Magazine reveals...

...that an episode of nuWHo's upcoming season will be set in Pompeii at the time of the eruption of Vesuvius. I would be prepared to bet a small sum of money that the Seventh Doctor and Mel, who were also there at the time according to the Big Finish audio adventure "The Fires Of Vulcan," will not be making an appearance. Given the editorial chunterings in this issue about how realWho and nuWho are actually all the same, one great big series (whose hero figure just happens to become a completely different type of character in 2005), one might think, if RTD and the team share that view, that they might have run to sticking another TARDIS into the background of a long shot, unnoticed by any of the others. But I suppose that would be pandering to the fans. Or showing that they care, perhaps.

All one big series except for the bits that aren't, then.

In imitation of cadhla...

...who has just posted a description of her Babylon Wood and some of the beings who inhabit it. My writing has fallen off lately, due to stresses of other things and generally feeling bleurgh, so I wonder if it would be helpful for me to do something similar about my inner landscape. Well, what I mean is, I'm going to anyway, so either click on the cut-tag or not, as you please.:)

( Avevale and environs... )

And that's it for now. More, maybe, in another post.

Another way I spend my time

This is my attempt at the tutorial Age developed by the Guild of Writers for the standalone Uru game. It's very. Very. Basic. And it's taken me gods know how long just to get this far. Notice the odd sharp edge to what should be a patch of grass (there is grass there, just very very sparse).

But...it's progress. It's baby stuff compared to what I can do in Vue, but in Vue, no matter how exquisite the pictures might be, I can never walk into them, even virtually. With Blender I can. And so I persevere.