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Jun. 21st, 2008 07:34 pmDoctor Who: loved last week, with Agatha Christie--it was funny, a little goofy, and it opens with Professor Peach in the library with a lead pipe. Come on. This week ... not as creepy as I was expecting, but interesting thus far, and the ending reminds me of the ending to the "Empty Child"/"Doctor Dances" two-parter, where everything is just cascading into chaos in time to a creepy, repetitive phrase (two, this time) ... and we have to wait and see how the Doctor sorts it all out. So we'll see next week what I think, overall.
Alex Kingston's character was annoying the snot out of me--look, if you can't tell your secrets, don't even allude to them; all you're doing is making it obvious that you're going to spill something eventually and aggravating everyone in the meantime; no, it's not charming--but I have a feeling she'll have grown on me by the end of the next episode.
Went to see The Incredible Hulk today. It was all right. Better than the other one. Scott and I both found it slow, but I think the Hulk is a slow character in general. If you do his origin, you have all the science stuff to wade through; if you do a post-origin story, he's probably going to be off somewhere alone to keep people safe, and you have to wade through hauling him back into the world. Also, I'd have rewritten Betty Ross a little. But I thought Liv Tyler did pretty well, and I really liked Edward Norton and Tim Roth.
( spoiler bit )
ETA: Oh, and best Stan Lee cameo, ever.
(Also loved all the TV show shout-outs.)
Alex Kingston's character was annoying the snot out of me--look, if you can't tell your secrets, don't even allude to them; all you're doing is making it obvious that you're going to spill something eventually and aggravating everyone in the meantime; no, it's not charming--but I have a feeling she'll have grown on me by the end of the next episode.
Went to see The Incredible Hulk today. It was all right. Better than the other one. Scott and I both found it slow, but I think the Hulk is a slow character in general. If you do his origin, you have all the science stuff to wade through; if you do a post-origin story, he's probably going to be off somewhere alone to keep people safe, and you have to wade through hauling him back into the world. Also, I'd have rewritten Betty Ross a little. But I thought Liv Tyler did pretty well, and I really liked Edward Norton and Tim Roth.
( spoiler bit )
ETA: Oh, and best Stan Lee cameo, ever.
(Also loved all the TV show shout-outs.)
