Bits and pieces of telly-related stuff
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shapinglightToday's Observer Review included this very interesting article about David Simon's new series Treme. I can't wait to see it. Are any of you watching it? What do you think?
More behind cut with slight spoilers for last night's Doctor Who.
The Observer also featured news that apparently some die-hard Marvel Comics fans are cutting up rough at the idea of Idris Elba playing Heimdall, guardian of the Rainbow Bridge, in the upcoming Mighty Thor feature film. I think they should consider themselves lucky to get him.
Speaking of Idris Elba, his new BBC show Luther starts this Tuesday. I'm not much of a fan of cop shows and the 'maverick cop' premise is so tired. I'll be watching, though. No way I'd miss Elba's return to Brit TV.
In other telly news, I missed the first episode of the second series of Dollhouse last week (S was watching football), and since it doesn't look like it gets repeated, that's that. I'll have to carry on waiting for the DVDs. Oh well.
Then there's last night's Doctor Who. So far, I've found myself with very little to say about the new series, beyond Matt Smith is fine (funny looking, but then the Doctor is always funny looking), Amy Pond is fine, and the eps have been okay, except for the dalek one, which was dreadful. Things did ramp up a notch with this latest two-parter, though. Lots of interesting mythology stuff, River Song (though I actually found her a bit annoying, I'm afraid), and the usual offing of minor characters left, right and centre, which is what you expect. Sadly, though, one thing fell a bit flat for me. See, in the original Blink, I found the Weeping Angels borderline scary (not really scary, because after all this is a kids' program, but close enough). This time, however, they just...weren't. They looked like very unscary statues that were being moved around by an army of prop men whenever the lights went off. Oh well.
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51stcenturyfox wrote a fun John Hart/Liz X fic the other day. Detained, rated R. Highly recommended.
Also, last night I decided to try reading the tbp of Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1910, only to find myself ploughing through speech bubble after speech bubble written in Punjabi. Lucky for me, I suppose, that I didn't need a translator (or at least, when my crap Punjabi failed me, S was able to translate for me), as there rather uncompromisingly wasn't any translation in the text. Might ask Comic Shop Boy whether the original single issues included translations next time I see him.
More behind cut with slight spoilers for last night's Doctor Who.
The Observer also featured news that apparently some die-hard Marvel Comics fans are cutting up rough at the idea of Idris Elba playing Heimdall, guardian of the Rainbow Bridge, in the upcoming Mighty Thor feature film. I think they should consider themselves lucky to get him.
Speaking of Idris Elba, his new BBC show Luther starts this Tuesday. I'm not much of a fan of cop shows and the 'maverick cop' premise is so tired. I'll be watching, though. No way I'd miss Elba's return to Brit TV.
In other telly news, I missed the first episode of the second series of Dollhouse last week (S was watching football), and since it doesn't look like it gets repeated, that's that. I'll have to carry on waiting for the DVDs. Oh well.
Then there's last night's Doctor Who. So far, I've found myself with very little to say about the new series, beyond Matt Smith is fine (funny looking, but then the Doctor is always funny looking), Amy Pond is fine, and the eps have been okay, except for the dalek one, which was dreadful. Things did ramp up a notch with this latest two-parter, though. Lots of interesting mythology stuff, River Song (though I actually found her a bit annoying, I'm afraid), and the usual offing of minor characters left, right and centre, which is what you expect. Sadly, though, one thing fell a bit flat for me. See, in the original Blink, I found the Weeping Angels borderline scary (not really scary, because after all this is a kids' program, but close enough). This time, however, they just...weren't. They looked like very unscary statues that were being moved around by an army of prop men whenever the lights went off. Oh well.
In slightly related news,
51stcenturyfox wrote a fun John Hart/Liz X fic the other day. Detained, rated R. Highly recommended.Also, last night I decided to try reading the tbp of Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1910, only to find myself ploughing through speech bubble after speech bubble written in Punjabi. Lucky for me, I suppose, that I didn't need a translator (or at least, when my crap Punjabi failed me, S was able to translate for me), as there rather uncompromisingly wasn't any translation in the text. Might ask Comic Shop Boy whether the original single issues included translations next time I see him.
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Date: 2010-05-02 07:23 pm (UTC)I'll probably have similar problems, if that helps. I struggled all the way through The Wire, and though I've now watched four out of the five seasons, I often have to listen to things over and over again to get them.
I'm very impressed that you have a Punjabi that can fail you.
I tried so hard to learn it before I got married - taught myself to read it and everything. Then the kids came along and it all fell by the wayside. I still can't really speak it, though I can understand some. And I can still read it.
S, on the other hand, is illiterate in Punjabi, so we had this daft situation where I was reading him something he couldn't read and I couldn't understand and he was telling me what it said.
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Date: 2010-05-02 08:48 pm (UTC)I found a neat site though, where you can find subtitles for practically everything.
S, on the other hand, is illiterate in Punjabi, so we had this daft situation where I was reading him something he couldn't read and I couldn't understand and he was telling me what it said.
You kind of complete each other then :)
Rob usually just laughs his ass off, when I try to speak polish, because I can't pronounce it even remotely right.
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Date: 2010-05-05 01:27 pm (UTC)Well, the great thing about Punjabi is that the alphabet is completely phonetic. If you can read it, you can make a fair approximation of the word, even if you don't know what it means.
I hope you get the chance to watch The Wire at some point.