Talk To Rex - Comments

Ha!

James Aylett — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:52:28 +0100

No - Fringe is JJ Abrams' new series on Fox (which premiered to luke-warm reception).

Possible paranoia

James Lark — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:25:30 +0100

When he writes "Yes, I'm looking at you, FRINGE"... is that aimed at us?

Poor journalism

James Aylett — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:55:54 +0100

As any fule kno, all they did on Wednesday (or 10/9/8 as we write it round here) was to align things so that they can run proton beams in both directions round the LHC. They won't actually start colliding them (which is the point at which Interesting Things happen, providing you count Gathering Lots and Lots of Data for Scientists as interesting) until next month sometime, I believe. Well, I say "all they did". I couldn't do it, and I'm pretty sure neither could Terry Kirby.

Urgh...

James Aylett — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:23:28 +0100

I really don't want to think about that. Amazingly (and even with that horrible image in my head), it's still better than an episode of The Line. Actually, scratch that. It's not amazing at all. The Line is utter shite, the entirely-expected outcome of trying to get SNL writers to think in a format longer than 150 seconds. It's typical of the vast majority of serials created for web, lacking substance, depth, any real humour, or the courage to try to tell a complete story in five minutes. Or, to put it another way: the establishment doesn't get it. (D'oh.) Thank God that we still have Joss Whedon (although I suspect that, well, he's insane).

Indeed

James Lark — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:45:00 +0100

It would also explain why this young fella's video is so jerky.

Really?

James Aylett — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:20:40 +0100

Would explain why she always looks happy to be spouting RTD's lines...

Mia

James Lark — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:43:45 +0100

I think Sarah Jane Smith has one of those in The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Really?

James Aylett — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:40:42 +0100

Maybe I should watch it again. To be fair, I don't remember it as being poor writing, just largely nonsensical. Well, it's out on DVD soon anyway.

But

James Lark — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:37:11 +0100

I like that strange two-parter that Pip and Jane Baker bolted onto the end of Trial of a Timelord.

Sold

James Aylett — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:04:06 +0000

Everyone: my house, let's write this sucker.

Now we're talking

James Lark — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:28:53 +0000

Yes yes, that's sounding very promising now, especially the good hair. We could pitch it to the men in suits as "True Lies meets Home Alone", they'd lap it up. And we could call it "Fourth Grade Fugitives".

Missing the .

James Aylett — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:20:08 +0000

But that would make it good. Who wants good film pitches when there is more fun to be made out of really poor ones? Actually, it still wouldn't have been a good pitch, but at least it has some tension in it. To actually get made, Colonel Raven will need to be her father, and the people she's running from are actually the military - she's running into the arms of a splinter group intent on changing the history of the world. Thank heavens for the fourth graders, who are smarter by far than both the military, the splinter group, and Elsie herself (although she has good hair).

Poor.

James Lark — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:20:13 +0000

Oh, James. Your pitch really needs work. "Elsie is a fourth grade teacher"? I'm asleep already. "Elsie is a young, talented, beautiful woman who is bored with her job in the fourth grade" - NOW we're talking. "...prompting Elsie to run from his killers, to Fort Lauderdale" - yawn yawn yawn. "Elsie runs to Fort Lauderdale AND HAS TO TAKE THE FOURTH GRADE WITH HER" - HOORAY!!!

Well, we're agreed that...

James Lark — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:41:46 +0000

...bestiality is always funny, at least.

Seriously, not seriously

James Aylett — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:13:38 +0000

The difference between season one taking itself seriously and season two not is that season two came across as a comedy without any jokes, which I like less than a drama without any drama (for some reason). Actually, it did have one joke that worked, when James Marsters' character said something about wanting to have sex with a dog. Worst writing would have no jokes that worked at all, of course.