Just played back the first episode of the new series of Nip/Tuck. Serious gore factor, maybe I shouldn’t have watched it whilst eating supper. Still, it has to be watched to see what will be happening next year in The Bill – womaniser attends one sexaholics anonymous meeting, pulls, has one night stand, gets contacted later by now pregnant sexaholic. Hmm, Christian Troy or Phil Hunter?

And if Nip/Tuck is Six Feet Under with live people is House, CSI with live people? (I bet I’m not the first person to say that.) And what’s all this I’ve been reading about people on the States not realising that Hugh Laurie is doing an accent? I’ve heard people from most parts of the US and I’ve never heard anyone who speaks like that (but it’s still better than Nicola Bryant’s accent). Still it looks promising.

And yesterday pink_weasel and I went to see The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse. Insane, totally insane. And brilliant, totally brilliant. I don’t think I’ve been so open mouthed for so much of a film since, um, since ever really. If you’ve ever seen any of the TV series go and see it; if you haven’t then watch the TV series and then go and see the film.

Two dinosaurs (the small and very big Iguanodons from the OOP HLBS Co/DZ Miniatures range) and a random impulse purchase of a crashed alien spacecraft (from Monolith I believe). All courtesy of eBay.

Running total is now £544.33

“We have your associate. You will obey or she will be exterminated.”
“No.”
“Explain yourself.”
“I said no.”
“What is the meaning of this negative?”
“It means no.”
“But she will be destroyed.”
“No. Cause this is what I’m gonna do. I’m going to rescue her. I’m going to
save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and then I’m going to
save the Earth, and then, just to finish off, I’m going to wipe every
stinking Dalek out of the sky.”
“But you have no weapons, no defenses, no plan.”
“Yeah, and doesn’t that scare you to death? Rose?”
“Yes, Doctor?”
“I’m coming to get you.”

Bad Wolf wan’t bad at all. Three months ago, did you think the phrase “they’ve killed Billy Piper” could ever be a bad thing? (And a nice Absolom Daak homage in there as well.)

First twenty minutes: 7/10, Middle twenty minutes: 8/10, Last five minutes: 11/10

Overall: 9/10

Next week looks like every fanboy’s wet dream. I’m looking at my miniatures shelves and thinking “I need more Daleks”. BTD must be laughing.

Shaggy Dog Stories

Now the mysterious voice at the end of the trailer, who or what is it? The theories are coming thick and fast:

1. Davros – the obvious choice. He was creating Daleks from humans back in Revelation of the Daleks (which presumably is the fate of the gameshow losers), an act which made him an enemy of the racial purity fanatic main Dalek force.
2. The Emperor Dalek – the voice is very much like that from Evil of the Daleks, but does it make sense to bring back a villain that appeared in one, deleted, 1960s story (and once as a disguise of Davros in the 1980s)?
3. The Dalek from Dalek – The phrase “they survived through me” is very similar to a line from that episode and this Dalek, already contaminated with Rose’s DNA would have less problem in using humans to create a new Dalek army. Oh dear, that would really destroy the ending and impact of that story.
4. Adam – he has 20,000 years of knowledge in his head (or does he, if he does then why would he need that answering phone message?), he’s seen a Dalek, he has a grudge against the Doctor. Stupid idea.
5. The Master – not likely.

And to add to the fun these choices can be mixed and matched (Adam is Davros; Davros is the Emperor Dalek (again); The last Dalek is the new Emperor Dalek). A whole week of wild speculation :-).