* So, who in the UK actually read last week's
Doctor Who article in the
Radio Times? And if you did, do you think that their nod to
The Deadly Assassin is purposefully there to foreshadow the Christmas Special this year?
If the dieu ex machina is a
computation matrix I shall be most pissed off! And no, I haven't seen the entire episode but feel free to get yourself over to YT and search via the title. Also, I take it the premise was the inspiration behind
The Matrix films?
* Talking sci-fi I will undoubtedly tune into the BBC's
Paradox which starts Tuesday. I am
convinced that this is where Torchwood's Series 4 budget really went - regardless of what RTD tells the US press. What I will say from
the preview (on YT) is that Dr. Christian King seems to have John Sheppard's haircut and the blond copper, Rebecca Flint, seems to be just tad Gwen Cooper with a hint of Scully - though blonde and looking as if she's bitten into a lemon, while she totters in impossible heels. Yes,
Tamsin Outhwaite does set my teeth on edge.
Hopefully this will be more
Children of Earth and less
Bonekickers. That said I actually think they'll go the way of
Five Days. The preview has me betting I
won't tune in for the whole five weeks.
* Did my f-list notice that the author of
Belle du Jour was unmasked - or rather unmasked herself? I don't know if I believe her
at all when she says it hasn't affected her professional life - she's a research scientist - or rather that it might not do so at a later date. What's mildly interesting is that a fellow blogger twigged six years ago and set up a
Googlewhack tripwire for the mainstream press. Oh and what's also interesting in a financially salacious sense - yes, money not sex - is a comment left on a
newspaper blog which reads:
[...if she’s continued to publish stuff and be paid for it after being employed on an academic contract, she may well be breaching it. My own contract (I work at a similar university to Bristol) states that any extra wage-earning activity besides academic publishing and external examining must be disclosed to and approved by the university in advance.
If there is a similar provision in Dr. Magnanti’s contract, she has earned money from non-academic publishing since and the University of Bristol doesn’t take disciplinary action against her as a result, then it will effectively render itself unable to take action against any other member of staff who ignores the ‘no outside earning without our permission’ clause, as they would have a defence in employment law that this provision is not being enforced consistently across the university’s workforce...]
A tad gossipy, I know, but interesting I found.
* I'm not going to read the reviews for the N.T's
The Habit of Art as I have tickets for January, but am delighted to see the same paper give it 5*'s. Richard Griffiths I will forever adore after his role as Hector in the
History Boys.* I could also mention I have tickets to see Ben Whishaw in
Cock at the Royal Court, but then you'd really, really hate me - wouldn't you?
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