Entries in review (4)

Saturday
Jul122014

Thoughts on J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst's strange novel "S."

I've read Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams' novel S. recently. Here are my thoughts. They are many and spoilery. If you haven't read the book, I highly recommend it.

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Sunday
Aug252013

Oooh wii uuuuu...

After eating breakfast today, I sat down at my desk and felt the need to watch something... fun. My eyes drifted over to my DVD/Blu-Ray-collection, and I saw my Doctor Who box sets sit there, waiting patiently for me. I pulled out "The Complete Specials" (the episodes made between series four and five) and started flicking through it. And then something strange happened.

I'm a huge Doctor Who fan. I love the show, I love most of the characters, I love David Tennant and Matt Smith, and whenever a new episode pops up I make sure I'm at home, ready to watch it as soon as possible. But, looking over my box sets, I couldn't really remember any of the great episodes. I could pretty much count on one hand the ones I liked from the first four seasons - Blink is great, The Family of Blood two-parter is good, Moffat's Silence in the Library two-parter is fun... But that was pretty much it. So many of the episodes are subpar and merely alright.

I started going through the episode lists and I usually found one or two episodes each season that I really liked - the others were just fluff. Now, there are a few conclusions I could've reached based on these thoughts. One is "I don't really like Doctor Who after all", "I like the idea of Doctor Who more than the stories and scripts themselves", or "It's been too long since I've seen some of this." I reached the last one, pretty much immediately.

While I have rewatched season 5 a couple of times, and season 6 a whole bunch of times, I have never seen most Doctor Who-episodes more than once, especially of Russel T Davies' and Tennant's run. So, with 90 days to go till the show's 50th Anniversary Special and 102 episodes of Doctor Who made, I'm thinking of doing a mass rewatch and writing about every single episode.

The plan is to do one episode a day, but that's probably not going to end up working. So I'm thinking maybe a season done over two weeks, before moving on. Of course, two-parters (and three-parters) are going to be watched and reviewed mostly on the same day. Now, the plan for this project is probably going to spin out of control as soon as I begin, but whatever. I want to try, and we'll see how much time it takes before I fall through.

The plan is this; watch and review every produced episode of Doctor Who from 2005 to 2013, with the deadline of 23rd November. 90 days - 102 episodes. It's going to be a fun ride.

Saturday
Mar312012

The Hunger Games Review

A review of "The Next Big Thing", The Hunger Games. I go in-depth and the result is a bit spoilery, so beware if you haven't seen the film.

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Saturday
May282011

Melancholia

Some thoughts on Lars von Trier's new film.

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