I thought Fox was billing this as "The Greatest Live Premier League Match In *BROADCAST* US Television History." In which case they might have a point, because this game would bring the grand total of non-cable matches to a whopping 2.
I stopped going to Jezebel maybe a year and a half ago. Reading it put me in this co-dependence bind: I loved a lot of the content, but to get to it, I had to prepare to feel very, very bad about being a man. And if Mariska Hargitay's taught me nothing else it's how to break that cycle.
Do ladyblogs aspire to have a male readership? Because if they are, I've missed where that boat launches from.
They get harsher than Jezebel?
(This must sound to some like asking whether magazines can be flightier than Seventeen. But I've thumbed through enough issues of Cosmo to know the answer to that...)
Ah hah (uh huh). A hah (uh huh).
Well, there's an Interwebs full of people who pinpointed Ice Cube's "Good Day" that probably need something new to look into...
I've looked forward to this post all day. Not sure how it relates to traffic; frankly, part of me thinks it'll expedite an exodus of existing readers. But somehow, Daulerio's experiment has pulled together this collective "f*** you" of a joke that is endearingly (and I gotta imagine untentionally) funny.
(Not sure just yet whether the f*** you from the writers is to new readers or to Daulerio himself. Either way, hilarious).
Doesn't the husband in every Lifetime movie ususally end up as some raging serial killer?
Somehow, I like it better than the NYC cows...
@The Real JR: Isn't every bear naked? Except for Yogi? And Smokey? And Bruce Villanch?
Hate to disappoint you Daulerio, but my brother and I ate at IHOP over the weekend, and there are these little table tents offering the free short stack to everyone...and we don't even have to meet Jean Birch.
I could die a happy man if there were another hunt for the Key to Time. But didn't the Doctor decide he didn't have the right to kill a living being just to satisfy the White Guardian's request, the 6th piece was Princess Astra (The Armageddon Factor)?
(Funny--now that I think about it, the Doctor didn't have nearly as much of a problem killing Kroll (The Power of Kroll) when he realized the 5th piece was inside of him. Granted, unlike Astra, Kroll was a squid...).
It'd be great if Moffatt wanted to take this somewhere. I think the guardians appeared only three more times in the old series (Mawdryn Undead, Enlightenment, and another episode that escapes me), but I never felt there was anything compelling about those subsequent stories.
Anyone else think this was about Suffolk County, NY, before getting further into the post? And that it was plausible for Suffolk County?
A President of the High Council who "doesn't want to die," and a device to achieve immortality. Aren't these the exact two plot points Jonathan Nathan Turner used to develop "The Five Doctors" for the show's 20th Anniversary?
(And I can't remember who played Borusa in that episode, but I'm pretty sure there was just as much shouting as what we got from Timothy Dalton. But perhaps without the campy gravitas that *is* Timothy Dalton).
I wouldn't say "End of Time" was a great episode, but I liked that there wasn't an eye-rolling over-the-topness I've come to expect from RTD's finales. Unless, of course, he *meant* for this to be over-the-top--in which case, commenter wisdom seems to be saying he missed the mark.
I'm holding out hope that next week's return of the Time Lords will give those of us who've watched forever something a bit fun to chew on.
Because I live in the sheltered hole that is the reality of Manhattan on a living wage, I hadn't known "Alice" was in development until reading it here late last week.
And now having watched it, I can firmly say my imagination and desire to recapture lost youth know how it feel to be utterly and completely violated.
The *best* I can muster is, "Well, Jack's suit fits him very well."
Ugh--after this, my intelligence is sore. I think I'm off to heal it with a screening of "Aztec Rex."
Craig Ferguson taught me what Regina rhymes with. Hee hee.
@smithereen: True, you get hints of that with most doctors (I'm thinking 4th Doc "Genesis of the Daleks" and "The Armageddon Factor," 5th Doc "Earthshock," and 7th Doc "Curse of Fenric").
But there were great moral dilemnas delivered in each of those that had a touch of menace and the unexpected. I just kind of feel that RTD's epics, by contrast, are delivered with a sense of foregone conclusion and camp.
@anAbsoluteLegend: Well, I'm an American, and I got the references. Though perhaps that's an indication the Brits are way better at putting together original reality shows that our own networks bastardize.
I was more offended by the "Captain Jack has a big unit" deal. Not the nudity, necessarily. Just the cliche.
@Mary Ratliff: Oh...to retire the Daleks. As much as I wanted them back for Eccleston, I grew skeptical with "Dalek." But I told myself that had to do with the fact that Hartnell's 2nd story was called "The Daleks," and RTD just got lazy.
Then we had "Daleks in Manhattan." With Daleks in the Empire State Building. And human Daleks. And pig people. And untold other pain-inducing atrocities.
I'd always thought the Daleks were at their best between "Destiny" and "Rememberance." The Doctor could go for years without seeing them, but their sociology and evolution was always tightly-scripted.
So I'm prepping for Davros to become the next Doctor. Just need to make sure the TARDIS is wheelchair-friendly.
10 Questions I'd Have Asked RTD If I Saw an Early Cut of "Waters:"
1) Fun? Who goes to Mars for fun?
2) Andy's checking the vegetables, and we flash the to the obituary which says he's born in Iowa. Maybe we should have vetted that accent?
3) And you really didn't want to get into the Ice Warriors any further? (I know it's 2059, and I'm sure I've got continuity issues here, but gimme a break--I'm writing at 2:30 a.m...).
4) (Around minute 20). I recognize sticking around is not an option. Can't we relocate the crew using the TARDIS and have The Doc send a crater crashing into the dome to "cover face" in the history books?
5) The iffy CGI used for the glacier-cracking scene--that's an homage to the iffy Green Screening used for stories like, say, "Underworld," right?
6) (Around minute 40). I recognize saving all the crew is not an option. Can't The Doc leave but send a crater crashing into it so he can put them out of their viral misery but still "cover face" in the history books?
7) (Around minute 50). I recognize that emotionally exonerating The Doctor is not an option. Can't we watch the crew face these painstaking deaths one-by-one with requisite shots of The Doctor walking away, doing nothing, knowing, "Today, Everybody Lives!!!" Except this is not The Library. And everyone in fact dies?
8) Silly Doctor! He knows he can't predict what happens to humans if he alters the timeline, but shouldn't he also know he can't predict human behavior if they disagree with him?
9) The Ood's not The Watcher, is he? I mean, he can't be The Watcher because that'd be schlock, right?
10) Cloister Bell? I know he's got the death omens surrounding him, but for someone who's got another few regenerations in him, isn't he a bit panicky?
@Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: Indeed, but RTD remains wry. Funny that when the Doctor wants to tell the story about the Ice Warriors (2nd Doc), Adelaide shuts him up, but when he starts to go on about Pompey (RTD's creation), she's all ears...
