Thursday | January 04, 2007

Torchwood - The season average

1 - Everything Changes            8.9
2 - Day One                              7.2
3 - Ghost Machine                     8.1
4 - Cyberwoman                       6.3
5 - Small Worlds                        6.1
6 - Countrycide                          8.0
7 - Greeks Bearing Gifts            9.2
8 - They Keep Killing Suzie        9.2
9 - Random Shoes                     8.4
10 - Out of Time                        5.6
11 - Combat                              9.0
12 - Captain Jack Harkness       7.6
13 - End of Days                        9.7

 

Overall average: 7.9/10

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Tuesday | January 02, 2007

Torchwood TW01E12 - Captain Jack Harkness - Review

Spoilerific, Mindezman!

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Monday | January 01, 2007

SJS ADVENTURES PILOT - INVASION OF THE BANE - REVIEW

Contains spoilers. Click Read More to read the review.

 

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New years resolutions

Ugh, it's that time again. New years resolutions. And I'm going to make them - not because I intend to stick to them or have my life be controlled by them, but so that, next year, I'll have something to look back on and laugh and go "HHAHAHA, DID I REALLY INTEND TO DO *THAT*?!?!"

So, here goes.

1) I will blog more. Much of 2006 was taken up by my blogging unsuccessfully. I think that, in 2006 alone, I must have started and failed with about 4-5 seperate blogs. So, I shall not let this blog die.

2) I will review Doctor Who. I have felt that, over the course of the last two years, my skill of reviewing something has really improved. I'm looking more at character development, and emotions, than my previously childish "Ooh, pretty effects! :o" that I was at this point two years ago. So I'm going to review my Doctor Who episodes [2006 season]. I'm definetely getting better - instead of the old short "..Yeah, didn't like this episode" posts, I've found myself elaborating on it. I'm trying to find exactly what the *reason* I didn't like it was, and stuff. Yeah.

3) I'm going to start my novel. My *proper* novel. My novel about Tamino, that I've had in my head for the last 5-6 years. I'm *going* to write this, and it's *going* to be good.

4) I will complete Operation Californication. I have so far completed around 40% of Operation Californication, but I *AM* going to finish it, and I'm going to try and finish it as soon as possible. I really need to stick at something once I've started it.

5) I will use square brackets instead of round ones. ['nuff said.]

6) I will complete this frigging annoying puzzle book that's been on my desk since September 2005. It's so annoying now. Seriously. And I will order 2006's puzzle book, and I will finish that before 2008. Promise.

7) If I start something, I will finish it. This is the resolution that I'm not in any way going to keep, it's just in to taunt me.

8) I will do well on my exams this year. I have to put this in, frankly. I'm probably going to stick to this one, though.

 

Um.. I'm sure there's more. But I can't think of them right now. 5 hours until I can go to sleep!

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Sunday | December 31, 2006

How was 2006?

Right, here goes. My review of 2006!

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Wednesday | December 20, 2006

Review of... Doctor Who S01E02 - The Daleks

Yay, review time!

 This post contains spoilers about Doctor Who S01E02, starring William Hartnell, and stuff.

 CUT for spoilers.

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Monday | December 18, 2006

TORCHWOOD TW01E10 - OUT OF TIME - REVIEW

A REVIEW OF TORCHWOOD EPISODE 10 - OUT OF TIME. Spoilers abound, but I don't know how to break the post (Which is unusual, normally I'm really good at breaking technical things) so..yeah.

Okay, well. I'll be brief with this: I didn't like it. My original just-after rating was 3.2/10. Lets see if I can talk myself into changing it.

It started alright - the idea of people being lost in time, falling through a hole into a world that they otherwise would never know, that is completely different from anything they've experienced before. Wanderers, lost in the fourth dimension. And Torchwood were the only people that know of how they could possibly have fallen. And I think that the whole "lost in time" theme is a strong theme, if explored well. It was explored in this episode, but.. not well enough. It was certainly explored ENOUGH (Practically every scene had "omg we have nothing left!" and "omg it's so NEW!", but.. that was seemingly all there was to the episode.

It didn't 'pick up pace' towards the end, or seem to get any stronger, as far as I could see, except in one case.

So, now to focus on the characters.

John - The business man, who's lost everything. His name is all he's got left, and he doesn't want to give it up. He seems to want to keep the three lost people together, not to get mingled with the 'new' world. The prospect of the new world is too overpowering, and drives him crazy. He doesn't want to live with nothing left. And his resolve not to gets the better of him. His storyline was, in my opinion, by *FAR* the strongest of the three.

Diane - ..Seemed to me just to be an excuse to insert random rompings into the episode. Her storyline followed a more passionate approach. As I have commented on Tamino Badwolf, it seems that you would have had to have experienced something like this in order to be absorbed by this. I haven't, and so I wasn't. Weakest of the three.

Other person - Seemed to not be doing much, actually. Besides having trouble adjusting, she seemed to have been inserted into the plot just to create Gwen/Rhys argument.

I think that combining the three ideas together only made it a bit messy. It would have been better, in my opinion, to just concentrate for longer on John's storyline, which I found the most compelling. As I say, some people's opinions may differ. It could be the boring non-emotional logical robotic personality of me that watched this, but I wasn't remotely interested in Diane's or TheOtherPerson's storylines.

And finally, I will re-rate this episode. I'll rate it at a 5.6/10. Decent, could be much much better, not my preferred choice of viewing on a Sunday evening. But at least the rating is higher.
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