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You could well be right, because I’ve not seen the Avengers movie, and only caught the end of Silver Surfer on TV. I just remembered the climax had the heroes in London saving the London Eye after it starts to topple over, and the storm clouds gathering as Galactus is summoned, and made a guess at that one.
Weirdly – the movie was released in 2007 so with Runaway Bride showing the Christmas before, that was twice the Thames was drained in a short space of time [Shakes fist at inconvenient aliens 🙂 ]
Really enjoyed the clip though. As you said, lots of fun with the Doctor Who clips.
I was trying to place the clip of what looked like King Kong next to Big Ben. If it is Kong, I don’t remember that version at all.
@bluesqueakpip @jimthefish @wolfweed
Le-definitely-not-taking-Romana-on-a-date, honestly. It was the randomiser. Really, it was the randomiser.
it’s almost palpable that the two of them are on the verge of knocking each other off at this point
A ‘dirty’ weekend in Paris.
Yep – it passed me by as a nipper, but rewatching the episodes with Lalla later, there is an increasing strand of “dates gone wrong” to the stories. So in something like Nightmare on Eden, they sort out a hyperspace crash they come across which just happens to have occurred around a very famous pleasure planet.
It continues throughout, and it’s a shame Shada wasn’t finished. But even the footage that was used in the Five Doctors (the Doctor punting Romana along while she relaxes) just screams “Romantic Date”.
When you get to the start of The Leisure Hive on Brighton beach, you can’t help feeling the Doctors fugue is largely down to “It keeps going wrong!”.
@wolfweed mentioning the design of the ship made me remember that I always thought the exterior design of the Timeship of the Lodger was a bit of a call-out to it.
The G has featured a couple of stories on Vikings recently, and I thought I’d mention it because we talked about depictions of them in Time Meddler.
As some of you may have witnessed in my inane ramblings with @juniperfish, I have a love of Norse mythology, so I watched this, and my experience was similar to Orphan Black. A bit bemused at the start, but rapidly becoming engrossed in it.
I’ve watched both series so far (it’s being shown on the History Channel on Sky apparently) and it’s become a minor joy. Although I love the mythology, my sense of history about that time is shaky to say the least. I do know people who are really into that period though, and I’ll talk about what they say.
Ragnar in a rare smile – on a boat.
It’s largely about Ragnar Lothbrok, a warrior in his ascendance, and a recorded (given the time) historical figure. In terms of history, you can cheerfully lob boulders through the holes as key events are absorbed into his assumed timeline. A student of that era could happily fixate on them for eons.
However, the actual depiction of what the Vikings (and their counterparts in what is now the UK) were is actually pretty accurate, allowing us possibly the best glimpse into the people, pressures and societies that existed around that period. Swings and roundabouts to present a cohesive and engaging plot.
Some of the comparisons between the barbarian hordes and the lands they invade are quite adroitly done. A strand of the episodes in series 2 sees the Vikings decline to sacrifice someone to their gods because he does not believe in them (apparently – a real thing). The Christians of the new land are quite happy to crucify him as an unbeliever (also, apparently – a real thing). This comparison between belief systems, their clash and merger seem to be an ongoing theme. There is no good and bad – just philosophies, with some of the most powerful on either side beguiled by each others.
It has violence, but not too bloody. It has sex, but not the fairly obvious viewer pandering and sexposition that turned me off GoT.
Ultimately it has Gustaf Skarsgård as Floki, a boatbuilder and frankly demented ally of Ragnar.
Look at him – it’s Keith Flint from the Prodigy! He’s a Firestarter, twisted firestarter!
I look forward to series 3 with anticipation, and heartily recommend it.
I’m a big fan of Battlestar as well. For me, there was a slight sag in the middle of season 3, but I thought the last series played its cards well. The ending seems to divide people but, to be frank, the themes it plays with are there from the start.
Just on that note for anyone watching Orphan Black (the clone drama) I couldn’t help thinking the second episode showed some cheeky casting with two new characters (no spoilers on who or what they are).
Matthew Bennet, who played one of the Cylons (hence multiple copies of the same person) popped up in the episode.
And then Peter Outerbridge turns up. He was in a very “Doomwatchy” series, ReGenesis, as a scientist investigating abuses of biological research, disease outbreaks, etc. One of his first cases was investigating human cloning.
Probably all very coincidental, but it made me laugh.
