Blogs Against Humanity - Adventures in Sympathetic Misanthropy

Not-so-little observations , because sometimes I have a lot of words. Please forgive any changes from past to present tense, because sometimes I do that. Perhaps I was a time-traveler in a previous life? * After an adventure in 2005, its time to travel into the far, far future onto a hospitality satellite called Platform One. To be precise, the year five point five slash apple slash twenty six, 5 billion years into the future, to watch the Earth die. Gravity satellites have held back the long-delayed expansion of the sun into a red-giant, AND the host of this event, the so-called National Trust has even moved the continents back into their 20th/21st-century configuration, because that's supposedly the "classic Earth". Makes sense, because that's the configuration for the rise of Homo Sapiens and their various cultures. * Nice global-warming shout-out. Pity we've done so little about it in the 15 years since this episode aired. We suck. * No, the Platform attendant...

Okay folks, time to actually USE this thing on the regular, yeah? So, in addition to anything that just strikes my fancy to watch, I had the urge to re-watch something, and I finally settled on something long overdue for a re-watch. And here we go... Little observations: * After so many years in the wilderness, the first episode of "NuWho" goes so right where the 1996 Fox TV movie went so very wrong. It distills down the entire premise into something very simple and easily accessible. Russell T. Davies doesn't load us down with a truckload of nostalgia-driven continuity references, or a needless regeneration sequence. Nope, what we get is quick, simple, streamlined, and effective. The episode smartly focuses in on Rose Tyler herself, only introducing the Doctor himself a few minutes into the show when Rose is menaced by a classic-series enemy that we haven't seen in FOREVER: The Autons. Backing Rose into a corner and then bringing in the Doctor when, out of nowhere he...

  This first story of Series 6 opens exactly as it should. With a dedication to the late Elisabeth Sladen (although I think a dedication to Nicholas Courtney should have been there as well), who passed away so very unexpectedly this past week. I will go into greater length and detail on this sad event on my blog a bit later. After all, this is a review, and that adventure beckons. With Matt Smith’s debut season now over and done, Steven Moffat now has the opportunity to truly build on the foundation of the metaphorical house that is now well and truly set down. And its already apparent that he’s going to be doing some very bold, very striking design work this season. So with that said, let us proceed. The Story… Relaxing at home, Amy Pond is reading aloud from a history book to Rory, finding mentions of the Doctor, feeling he’s being deliberately ridiculous in an attempt to get their attention. Soon they get a TARDIS-blue card in the mail, giving a date, a time, and a...