And a happy 2010 to everyone on this site. I can't believe the time has flown. I didn't get up to much during the Christmas/New Year and I've been mainly watching my step with all the frost everywhere. How did everyone else fare?
Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Willow: Goddesses And Monsters
Caught up with this one two days ago. Hate to admit it, but this was sort of dull.
- Sagi Vasuki's real name is Aluwyn and she seemed a little determined to corrupt Willow. Which makes Willow choosing her as her guide rather baffling.
- Tara appeared for a few seconds only for Joss Whedon to reiterate that she's never gonna be raised from the dead.
- Is it me or is this comic season making anyone else hope that Willow and Kennedy break up? I didn't mind them in Season 7 but here, I'm starting to a lot.
- The letter pages had the usual stuff, though I did find the one interesting from a fan who wanted to see Andrew with a boyfriend.
Review for this issue can be read here ... http://shawnlunn2002.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-review-of-buffy-vampire-slayers.html Turbulence is released on January 6th.
Doctor Who - 4x17/4x18: The End Of Time Parts 1 And 2
Wonderful episodes and a fitting tribute to David Tennant and his four and a half year reign on the show.
- Doctor/Master. The slash literally wrote itself. Excess bondage, that beautiful dialogue and even a bout of self-sacrifice and both wanting to help the other. Between insults and trying to stop each other of course. I wonder what David Tennant and John Simm made of it. I'll be listening to that commentary with interest.
- If we had to have someone for the last companion for Ten, then Wilfred really was the best choice. But did RTD really have to tease the possibility of Wilfred being the Doctor's father?
- Unless told otherwise, I think the Woman was the Doctor's mother. The exchange they shared was definitely powerful.
- The Master race was an excellent cliffhanger. Just when you think this show cannot get any more bonkers, it pulls off something like this.
- I wished the Time Lords/Rassilon hadn't been sent back into the void and that Donna had played a bigger role but that's only a minor set back.
- The companion appearances all bloody worked excellently. But Sarah Jane and Verity's got to me the most. After Wilfred's last look at the Doctor.
- Good regeneration scene. I don't want to go indeed. And Eleven had me at Geronimo.
Review for both episodes are up here and on my Blogspot account, so please comment on the latter if you can. The Complete Specials are released on DVD from January 11th.
And to those who whinged about David Tennant and his 75 appearances over the Christmas/New Year period, it must have been a slow one in the office that day. At least someone with talent was being overexposed for once.
Season 5 Preview- Geronimo
Caught it on YouTube and went for the usual analysis routine. Link to trailer below.
- Eleven's got the wood for the violence. Assaulting a Dalek, a professor and firing a gun. Shades of the Sixth Doctor much?
- For those of you hoping for no more Doctor/Companion snogs, I think the above picture kills that one, eh? River is also supposed to get in on the act.
- Amy Pond. Apparently we're gonna meet her as a youngster and an adult as well. Not sure if Rory (who joins later in the series as a companion) is her boyfriend or not.
- Other monsters I spotted in the trailer was a creepy white clown thing, Weeping Angels, something that looked like Sulurians and vampires. Not kidding on the latter.
- Expect the cover of January 2010 DWM to be something Season 5/Matt Smith related.ETA: It's Matt Smith and he's the Doctor.
http://shawnlunn2002.blogspot.com/2010/01/geronimo-doctor-who-season-5.html
2010 Reviews
There's good news and bad news. Bad news first and after thinking long and hard, I've decided to drop both Nip/Tuck and Desperate Housewives from my regular review pile. I've gotten to a point where I've taken on too many shows and something had to give. I will try to watch the episodes and comment on them but I won't be reviewing them regularly anymore. Sorry about that. However in this month alone, I do intend to finish True Blood's second season along with Dollhouse and the wonderful Being Human. Brothers And Sisters doesn't seem to be starting up yet but that will also be reviewed when More4 start airing it.
Also a review for Lost Season 5 DVD ... http://shawnlunn2002.blogspot.com/2010/01/lost-season-5-dvd-review.html
And here's a Season 6 cast shot that was obviously influenced by Battlestar Galactica ...
Season 6 starts on February 2nd, so really it's not like there's much longer to wait.
Also Celebrity Big Brother, I don't care if your ratings have rised, I'm still gonna be jumping for joy when the BB franchise is finally laid to rest in one country at least.
And Lafayette's getting a love interest in Kevin Alejandro in the third season of True Blood. Sweet. The character's called Jesus by the way.
Song Of The Blog
Greg Laswell - Off I Go
Season 6 of Grey's Anatomy is starting up again so here's a nice reminder of Season 5's ender.