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An interesting dark twist to the main character.

Isn't that too much of a cliche now, put a campy character into shadow and he's somehow magically deep, meaningful and edgy.

You have a point, but it's still a great image. I'm not suggesting they throw away the original premise though. Just on it's own merits as a piece of art, I find it effective, if not exactly in character with the original Lion-o. (Not that I've seen enough to judge, but he was rather a childish cheesy character wasn't he?)

As for the one who people tend to think of as camp-gone-dark and edgy- Batman. I think dark an edgy is the way he should be (and actually was, from what I hear, at the start). Not that this is a batman thread. Or that it excuses Ledger's silly husky voice...

I really liked this episode. The monster was rubbish. An invisible giant space turkey (as Jamescor says), stranded on Earth after all his mates had moved on without him. How did they travel? In a spaceship? Through wormholes like those bus-eating dunesharks from way back? By flapping their wings and flying? Answers on a postcard please.

Considering it was stranded, and the fact the Doctor knew it could understand him, I think it was sentient if vicious and amoral. (Although the fact it was blind and afraid balanced that somewhat, but from the blurb at the start it seems killing is very much their thing.) Hence, being sentient it seems likely it came by space ship or some kind of long range teleportation device.

I liked the episode a lot too. Even the stuff that I think I should have found sentimental and sugary I found very sweet and touching. I think I am a bit of a sentimentalist at heart though, but I do think it was a truly great character moment.

And the way they matched the sets to the pictures was brilliant. Just look at that shot of the inside of Van Gogh's studio/house with the golden sunlight. I'm sure I've seen that in a painting, and I'm not really an arty person.

That is a terrific picture. But are your muscles that rippling? Be honest now, the ladies want to know.

Okay I'm not a lady (since the op, whaa! whaa! Whaa), and I'm certainly not inclined that way... I'm just felt it my duty to ask.

For the ladies.

Honest.

I'll get my coat.

Yeah, isn't it weird how even the crap ideas are being remade these days?

But surely the stuff which started crap is the stuff that should be remade?

As long as it's an improvement of course. Not just more... crap.

Not that I'm saying Thundercats was crap. I never saw enough of it to judge.

That poster is brilliant though. An interesting dark twist to the main character.

The table football bit made me laugh though.

The donkey woman is a (creepy) hoot.

Having just clicked that link that trailer actually did look rather good, which doesn't mean the film will be of course. It does look a lot of fun.

It's great it's following the Frog Brothers too. And one of those guys actually hasn't changed all that much!

Looks like a bit of a Bladey thing going on with the vamps in nightclubs, but I like the drug-vamp-blood premise. Albeit a bit True Blood, we know from the first film a little goes much further that just getting you high like in TB.

He rubbed oil onto her back not her tits. Which is no doesn't take away the point that the scene was titillating.. just... oh, never mind.

I actually rather liked Enterprise, although I thought the Vulcan drugee thread in series 3 was stupid and contrived. I missed much of four but it was actually one of my favourite Star Trek shows. There I've said it.

As for this new dinosaur series, I like the premise... but I'm worried about the fact it's based around a family. Not that that is bad in itself, but it could just be dealt with in such a clichéd way.

Still. Dinosaurs. I know it won't happen but I'd so love to see a real one.* So another story set in dinosaur times which isn't that 'The Lost World' series (saucy posh chick aside) could be the next best thing.

*Well, okay, there's a school of thought they're actually around us. Looking at pigeons just isn't the same though, is it?

I'm going to embarrass myself here... but there was a Lost Boys 2?

Indeed there was. Although I've never seen it. (I've heard bad things but I wouldn't mind giving a chance. I don't seem to react as strongly to films other people hate. I quite liked AvP for example.)

No bad pun intended.

[spoiler]("dont let the light touch you" following sticking your hand in the sodding light! [/spoiler]

Yeah, I wasn't keen on that either. Made very little sense. [spoiler]I'm not sure of the existence eating crack containing stuff either, but then it could be argued stuff not existing in the universe doesn't mean it doesn't exist in the crack. If there is an 'in' in the crack. I liked the twist of the identity of the shrapnel though.


Then again, what about the contradiction right at the start where the crack eats ducks, yet the young lady in the very room containing the crack is fine? And the fact that an alien can use it to escape prison without erasing himself in the process? There have been contradictions right from the start.[/spoiler] Or we're just not privy to all the facts yet.

[spoiler]Also, what happens to the city after they leave? I have an idea we may well see the Silurians and the couple who stayed behind again in a future episode, possibly in a future series, but wouldn't the crack expand and gobble them up too? (Possibly not if it's following them through time.)

And considering that little 'view through the keyhole' a couple of episodes back, (or was it last) I wonder if the stiff lock was a little foreshadowing....[/spoiler]

I really did like the episode overall though. And this series as a whole has been pretty cracking.

I really liked Quedo, although one guys badly dubbed over-swearing made me wince.

I confess to finding Deus Bigalow, Male Gigalow (Or whatever it's called) laugh-out-loud funny. Albeit some of the the humour was somewhat puerile (double confession, I find a lot of puerile humour funny!)

As for Dredd in tights... to be fair his trousers are very close fitting. They're not tights but, it's a fairly mistake to make for someone with a passing glance who is probably more closer acquainted with superhero comics.

I'm off to the fridge now. It's too cool down due to the hot day. Not to to foil heat-seekers. Honest.

Apolgies for double post. Meant to say but forgot, there was one small fly in the ointment. That being Mays going a leeetle bit overboard with all that hissing. He's skirted with cartoon villainy all series but I felt he crossed a line tonight.

Yeah, I thought he went a bit over the top. [spoiler]Not so much at the end when he faced Gene because he had failed at that point and didn't really have anything to hide,  but earlier on when he started throwing stuff around the office. I understand that the logic in it was that he was trying to destroy Gene's world, to expose it as false to the others, but, considering his whole role was to entice the others away... well... would you have considered going with someone acting like that?[/spoiler]

Apart from that, it was a pretty decent cracking episode. [spoiler]I really wanted to see Sam Tyler though, but with a series without Sam, that was a decent way to go. Part of me wasn't sure I wanted answers. I liked the way Life On Mars ended and like the idea he might still be out there somewhere... but on the other hand it really did work.

I find myself wondering ... did all the cops forget their previous lives over time? Did Chris and the others also kick up a stink when they first crossed over, just like Alex and Sam? Or does it depend on the way they enter that world? I.e. it seems pretty clear that Gene, Chris, and the others crossed over through death,  while Tyler and Drake were only half dead when they entered that world.*

Did the comatose cops bring  more over with them, hence remembering their original lives? I think I prefer that idea as I like the idea that Tyler and Drake were a bit of an enigma in that world, teaching Gene as much as he taught them. But the fact a new guy turns up at the end of this episode reacting the same way suggests it is a common enough reaction. I.e. what are the odds of another coma victim turning up that quickly? Actually, perhaps not as low as one might think considering the concept of predestination, that people are meant to be their to fulfil certain things... and lots of people linger before they die. I'm probably over-thinking it, but I like the fact it's given me something to think about. Mark of a great programme.

*Before  you say Alex was dead too, I don't think she actually died until this series.  My take on it was that she was in a coma for the first two series, appeared to get better then probably had a relapse, a brain aneurysm at the start of this series. As far as the 'real world' is concerned I mean. That would also explain why she is so much more entrenched in this world in this series, having less flashes from the other side, so to speak.[/spoiler]

Yeah a decent enough episode. The 'turn cameras and recording devices into energy pulse weapons' was rather silly,[spoiler] but then they never got to use them anyway[/spoiler].

Interesting that the organic big eyed look [spoiler]wasn't their actual face, that they're actually quite humanoid underneath. With the modern idea of making aliens look less human due to the modern effects, I quite liked that twist. I'm not sure why a reptilian species would have breasts though.[/spoiler]