@purofilion I talked this through with my friend instead of letting it be my own problem, apparently it helps a lot, but hey, drinks are on you, and I’ll just raise the glass, and at this point I don’t really care what drink you give, I kinda just need some. Cheers!

@pedant Cheers to that. But we’re going to Wembley! And I’ll stick the blue flag…[Read more]

Can I put in a request for @JimtheFish to continue his early DW series reboots please 🙂 I like punky Susan especially. (Once he’s done with Buffy and Angel of course!)

@bluesqueakpip @jimthefish @pedant – holy hell.

I’m…. stunned by what the guardian have done. After they’re redesign some years ago, they were someone I’d point to as ‘getting it right’ (hierarchy of information, legibility, ability to ‘ignore’ information, innovation etc).
Over time they kept adding stuff and it destroyed what they’d had…[Read more]

Hi everyone

*shakes the snow off wellies and flops in the corner”

Ah, it’s so cosy in here. Glad someone brought some sofas in.

Have to say I’m in complete agreement with the comments about the new style Graun. I thought it was just me getting progressively more confused with it. The Last Christmas board I nearly gave up on – it was just…[Read more]

@JimTheFish @Bluesqueakpip

Further more, when you mention in comments the staff come of board at get all obnoxious at you…  See this moronic exercise in not using captions, and the comments: http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/ng-interactive/2015/jan/07/best-january-tv-shows-premieres-guide, most notably this total cockwomble

@purofilion @JimTheFish

I never had a problem with Jonathan and rather like Superstar for the chain-yanking of the fans in the titles (there is a much darker version of that in …ooooh… 30 or so episodes time). I like a bit of “meta” me. Also, I sort of see Jonathan as Xander without the benefit of some really fuckin’ cool gal pals with su…[Read more]

@Purofilion

(Moved back the to TV corner to keep stuff together)

BTW, I watched some of (what I thought) was the worst (no, say ‘not the best’) Buffy in ‘Put the I in Team’?

Is it just me, but whilst Crouse’s performance in parts was spectacular, some things just did not work at all?

And the ENDING?? What the hell happened! I get the vague moti…

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Well the pub is lively!

@Ichabod The Vampire Tapestry looks great! How exciting.

@Pedant and @JimtheFish

I believe twas I, not @Barbaralefty who said, upthread, that one might think of Moff and Gattis’ Sherlock as fan fiction. I stand by that. I disagree @Pedant that something becomes a somehow loftier “adaptation” rather than fan-fic if it is…[Read more]

@janetteB   So many girls started reading SF in the same way — usually (in my youth, anyway) out in the garage, where parents wouldn’t find the stash of “trashy escapism” and confiscate it.  I was a latchkey kid and got my books from the nearby public library, where the SF was thin on the ground at first, and when it did show up, the librarians *…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Couple of things:

@barbaralefty – I wholly disagree that Moffat’s Holmes if fanfic. It is an adaptation and the striking thing about it – especially the first two trilogies – is how very respectful of the source material (while not being constrained by it). See also US TV’s Elementary. Even post-Reichenbach the change was more to…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

I think it was Jenkins who pointed out in his study of fanfic that fans who write (including My Little Porny — whoops, *slap*, carry on — “ship” pornography) don’t write for the wider audience, but for others on their own wavelength.  And it’s more than just fun, for some.  The “failure” that they want to compensate for with their w…[Read more]

I am a writer too though you probably wouldn’t have though so from my usually incoherent, and invariably misspelled comments on here. In fact @Arbutus self description so well applies to me that I am quoting,

, as the balance between being the primary homemaker and chauffeur/cheerleader for a teenage son, and my own artistic endeavours is a…

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@JimTheFish @purofilion

Not a comment on the book, but on it’s likelihood of having stonking great spoilers in it. You can’t be too careful.

@purofilion

OK, first I’m going to shout at you:

DO NOT GO RUMMAGING AROUND YOUTUBE FOR BUFFY STUFF. THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF SEVERAL EPISODES WILL BE WRECKED AND THE SHEER WTF???ery OF OTHERS SEVERELY UNDERMINED!!

GET IT?

GOT IT?

Good.

Hush is simply marvellous and is the episode I managed not to see for three years when I lost faith in…[Read more]

@phaseshift @jimthefish

“casual sex is bad, m’kay?”

Eh? Where?

“drinking beer will lead to you devolving into a Neanderthal”

Actually, it’s getting mickey-finned (kinda the point of the story)

And right wing christians missing the point of the story? Well, that’s me shocked. Whatever next?

I have no problem with the idea Fox might try to pres…[Read more]