Mostly Media Musings

My brief opinion on things I've seen on TV and such.

Doctor Who - The End of Time
Good send off for David Tennant, Russell T. Davies, and probably John Simm as well. It was good to see The Doctor and The Master sort of on the same side against a common enemy...briefly. Also, there was a nice twist in the prophecy in the end. And apparently Timothy Daulton's character is someone from previous episodes (?). Next season will start with a new Doctor played by Matt Smith, the youngest Doctor yet. Will this bring down the age of the audience and therefore dumb down the content?

Next season:



Demons
Right after the finale of DW, there was the premier of Demons, which I think used to be called The Last Van Helsing. I like Philip Glenister from Life on Mars, so I gave the show a try, but it's really not my cup of tea. Meant for a much younger audience. It's basically a British Buffy the Vampire Slayer with better effects (CGI). Glenister was good, though--always weird to hear him without the Manchester accent. And MacKenzie Crook was adequately freaky. Ashes to Ashes is better :)

Demons:



Golden Globes
Prior to the Globes, Ricky Gervais was on Conan and Ellen (he was hosting the Globes this year). On Conan, he poked fun at Conan for getting canned by NBC. He told him he has to discernible skills. Conan said he could be a lifeguard to which Ricky said his skin would "dazzle ships." There was a new exclusive from the Ricky Gervais Show cartoon, too.

Ricky's presentation was predictably self-promoting. If I had to guess what he'd do, I'd say he'd plug his new stuff and pick a fight with Steve Carell. He did both these things before the first 5 minutes were up.

Question: Why in the world did Avatar win best picture? Shouldn't it have been in the animated films section? It IS an animated film, isn't it?!

Funniest speech: Robert Downey, jr., who didn't want to thank anyone and listed all the reasons why he didn't want to thank each individual.

Touching moment: tribute to Martin Scorsese, and rightly so.

Thank god there were no musical interludes. I hate those. They drag these things out so long! You need to have the host introduce the person who's going to introduce the person who is going to tell you who won the award who is going to come up and tell why they're happy. Just list the nominees and who won! The acceptance speeches were short, though.

Ricky's Globe Highlights:



Work related news: I'm being paid for social networking now, and also I missed a fire where the whole roof was on fire and smoke in the halls, but not a single alarm went off in the building. I feel safe now.

What I've been up to, aside from looking for a full-time job and working the internship: reading Then We Came to the End, listening to Unseen Academicals, doing part 3 of the podcast (definitely the funniest yet), working on my fiction blog (out in April), failed to write a story about fire chasers (will try again once I figure out what it's really ABOUT).