Talk To Rex - blog entry - Comments

Actually...

James Lark — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:52:15 +0000

...I'd be more than happy to go to California if you sent me. I'd bravely risk my delicate skin. Nice to see Barry Cryer's getting about, anyway.

The Sitcom Room's Chinese Food

Dan O'Day — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:56:55 +0000

At Sitcom Room I, the Chinese food was as bad as we'd promised. Subsequently, however, we decided it wasn't worth the lawsuits. Otherwise, thanks for the great write-up.

More sweeping statements

James Lark — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:16:02 +0000

Curiously, Dawkins' recent statements about religion bear more than a passing resemblence to Brian Roper's recent statements about Oxbridge Universities ("finishing schools for privileged"). They're both obviously against entrenchment in a rather sweeping way, so perhaps they should get together? Except that Roper would probably think Dawkins was overprivileged (and who could disagree, really). Still, I bet they'd be united in their disgust over Thomas More, who was both privileged and religious.

Ha!

James Aylett — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:52:28 +0000

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

Possible paranoia

James Lark — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:25:30 +0000

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

Poor journalism

James Aylett — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:55:54 +0000

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 14:23:28 +0000

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 12:45:00 +0000

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

Really?

James Aylett — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:20:40 +0000

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

Mia

James Lark — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:43:45 +0000

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

Really?

James Aylett — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:40:42 +0000

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 08:37:11 +0000

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).