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redfiona99Well, it was far better than last year, which was boring, an unforgivable sin, to my mind anyway.
Did they have to mess with the theme music? I don't like the new one, it suffers from being far too much like a techno dance remix.
I love that it wasn't the real Titanic, if only because the Doctor's visited that so often now that the only story I could imagine working is as a high farce as he tries to avoid his other incarnations.
Eeeee! George Costigan! While the character he's playing is truly venal evil, his presence brings a huge smile to my face.
I though Geoffrey Palmer's character was fantastically interesting, because he knew what he was doing was wrong but he had such strong motivation. Midshipman Frame was lovely and wonderful, if possibly amazingly alive given his injuries.
I loved Clive Swift's characters and the Van Hoofens were lovely. I loved that Dr. Who helped them gain a small amount of revenge on the twerps.
I'm just going to ignore that I think what the Doctor did to rescue the ship is physically impossible.
I'd be more upset over Astrid if I were over Bannakaffalatta. I'm sorry but funny-looking small person sacrificing himself for group of people > pretty girl sacrificing herself for the hero.
But yes I enjoyed it.
I shall leave it to you to imagine the dolphin noises made over the Torchwood trailer.
The Ballet Shoes was exactly what it said on the tin, which would explain why, despite what the Radio Times thinks, there are girls amongst us who haven't read it. I enjoyed it, despite the icky romance and the fact that the only one I thought had any decent ambition was Petrova, even if it was most unfortunate that they had Emma Watson playing the character who wanted to act. I did love Posey most of all in the end, if only because I have a love of tiny brats who are fully aware that they have no conscience what so ever (see also the Abomination St. Alia).
There were unfortunate moments of romance, and they appear to have found the only hair colour ever that Marc Warren can't carry off. It's also unfortunate that playing romantic leads is not exactly his strong point.
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My family make me emo. I don't think that's exactly news. But my girl cousin makes me want to shake her by the shoulders and make her eat something. She's practically wasting away and while I am aware that shaking her is going to do no good, I want to do something and I have no idea what.
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Book review:
This book contains not just one of the most ingenious criminals I've read about but a brilliant deductive investigator who is an intriguing character in his own right.
Add to that a small amount of well done romance, interestingly described secondary characters and lots of random but useful information about ancient Eygpt and sheep parasites, although I can say with hand on my heart that that did help me remember things from my paristology lectures for an exam.
It's fantastically clever, and there are very few of the tricks of the dective novel trade used, we are given the same information as the protagonists and while I certain didn't guess the how, why and who, I could at least work out one of the major pieces of evidence before it is presented to us.
Great fun, and in this age of dective shows being everywhere, I don't understand why the Thorndyke novels haven't been turned into television programmes.
No unsuggestions, not enough people have it. Why is beyond me, because it's such a well constructed murder mystery. Seriously, if you like CSI, you will adore this, it's 1910s style.
If you hate CSI, you might well love this.
Did they have to mess with the theme music? I don't like the new one, it suffers from being far too much like a techno dance remix.
I love that it wasn't the real Titanic, if only because the Doctor's visited that so often now that the only story I could imagine working is as a high farce as he tries to avoid his other incarnations.
Eeeee! George Costigan! While the character he's playing is truly venal evil, his presence brings a huge smile to my face.
I though Geoffrey Palmer's character was fantastically interesting, because he knew what he was doing was wrong but he had such strong motivation. Midshipman Frame was lovely and wonderful, if possibly amazingly alive given his injuries.
I loved Clive Swift's characters and the Van Hoofens were lovely. I loved that Dr. Who helped them gain a small amount of revenge on the twerps.
I'm just going to ignore that I think what the Doctor did to rescue the ship is physically impossible.
I'd be more upset over Astrid if I were over Bannakaffalatta. I'm sorry but funny-looking small person sacrificing himself for group of people > pretty girl sacrificing herself for the hero.
But yes I enjoyed it.
I shall leave it to you to imagine the dolphin noises made over the Torchwood trailer.
The Ballet Shoes was exactly what it said on the tin, which would explain why, despite what the Radio Times thinks, there are girls amongst us who haven't read it. I enjoyed it, despite the icky romance and the fact that the only one I thought had any decent ambition was Petrova, even if it was most unfortunate that they had Emma Watson playing the character who wanted to act. I did love Posey most of all in the end, if only because I have a love of tiny brats who are fully aware that they have no conscience what so ever (see also the Abomination St. Alia).
There were unfortunate moments of romance, and they appear to have found the only hair colour ever that Marc Warren can't carry off. It's also unfortunate that playing romantic leads is not exactly his strong point.
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My family make me emo. I don't think that's exactly news. But my girl cousin makes me want to shake her by the shoulders and make her eat something. She's practically wasting away and while I am aware that shaking her is going to do no good, I want to do something and I have no idea what.
~~~~
Book review:
This book contains not just one of the most ingenious criminals I've read about but a brilliant deductive investigator who is an intriguing character in his own right.
Add to that a small amount of well done romance, interestingly described secondary characters and lots of random but useful information about ancient Eygpt and sheep parasites, although I can say with hand on my heart that that did help me remember things from my paristology lectures for an exam.
It's fantastically clever, and there are very few of the tricks of the dective novel trade used, we are given the same information as the protagonists and while I certain didn't guess the how, why and who, I could at least work out one of the major pieces of evidence before it is presented to us.
Great fun, and in this age of dective shows being everywhere, I don't understand why the Thorndyke novels haven't been turned into television programmes.
No unsuggestions, not enough people have it. Why is beyond me, because it's such a well constructed murder mystery. Seriously, if you like CSI, you will adore this, it's 1910s style.
If you hate CSI, you might well love this.
