Torchwood

Review — 2x05, “Adam”.

Well, here’s something I never thought I would be writing. Just finished watching “Adam” and it was thoroughly excellent on all fronts. I take back what I said about the 3 people that couldn’t act — they were all extremely good in this one with a stand out performance by Gareth…

Torchwood

I’ve been giving Torchwood another go. I’ve got to say that I’m actually pretty much enjoying season two. Okay one of the characters is intensely annoying and three of the actors have slightlh dubious acting skills but I can forgive that for the genuine moral dilema plotlines (as opposed to rubbish like the…

Optical illusion

The squares “A” and “B” are the same colour (on the screen).

Smokers

Obvious really but it occurred to me that there seems to be a lot more smokers out in the streets these days than before the smoking ban — because they’re not allowed to smoke in the buildings so they do it between places…

Law & Science

I went to my first Temple 2008 event this evening on Law and Science at The Royal Society. The panel was very interesting (the current President of the FRS, the ex government spokesman on science, a Nobel laureate, the ex head of the HFEA.and one of the leading fertility researchers).

Lost

Well, there we go…

The writers have already said that the show <i>isn’t</i> taking place in someone’s mine, the afterlife or a story being told. That means that Charlie turning up for Hurley was “real” — that is, like Desmond going back in time, that the show has gone very firmly down the “supernatural is real”…

More cartoons

Another couple of good recent ones.

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Not saying a word…. :-)