Saturday, 11 May 2024

TV

Doctor Who
40x01 Space Babies
40x02 The Devil's Chord
Space Babies is adequate; very much in the vein of lightweight nothing-y stories that RTD tosses out when there’s something else more important going on in the episode (here: introducing the show to new viewers). What I expected it to be, basically, but it had its moments. The Devil’s Chord was a lot more fun. Not perfect, but buzzing with fresh ideas; a sense of experimentation. Promising for what's to come.
[Watch Space Babies and The Devil's Chord (again) on iPlayer.]

Eurovision Song Contest: Malmö 2024
Grand Final
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Comics

2000 AD #2375

Fiction

Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
Chapters 20–23 [the end]

Found this quite tricky to get into at first, with a lot of complex concepts flung around and abbreviations I had no reference for casually dropped in; and that kind of thing does continue to rear its ugly head throughout; but, overall, an entertaining and relatively brisk thriller.

Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.

Number of titles in collection: 3,288 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,003 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,285 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 350 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 7,968 [up 3]
Number of films: 4,048 [up 1]
Number of additional cuts: 385 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,716 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,137 [up 1]

See you next week, faithful reader.