Doctor Who
3x03 Air Lock
aka Galaxy 4 Part 3. This is the one episode of the serial that survives, but I'm still watching the animated version for consistency.
Friday, 8 September 2023
Games
The Dragon Staff of Maladoria
16–22 January 2021
Well, playing this in chunks definitely paid off today: January 16th through 22nd are just character introductions and stat sheets, so you can pick your hero. According to the developers on the game's forum, spending a whole week introducing the characters "was meant to be an experience in reading each of their bio's and learning more about the world [but] it inevitably slows down the story." Yeah... So, that's why I've broken my own pacing rules (today should have ended on the 20th) and read ahead a couple of days, so as to cover all the intros in one. This only adjusts my catchup pace slightly: playing five days tomorrow will just get me on track a day earlier than initially intended.
16–22 January 2021
Well, playing this in chunks definitely paid off today: January 16th through 22nd are just character introductions and stat sheets, so you can pick your hero. According to the developers on the game's forum, spending a whole week introducing the characters "was meant to be an experience in reading each of their bio's and learning more about the world [but] it inevitably slows down the story." Yeah... So, that's why I've broken my own pacing rules (today should have ended on the 20th) and read ahead a couple of days, so as to cover all the intros in one. This only adjusts my catchup pace slightly: playing five days tomorrow will just get me on track a day earlier than initially intended.
Thursday, 7 September 2023
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
TV
Doctor Who
3x01 Four Hundred Dawns
aka Part 1 of Galaxy 4, one of the missing stories that's recently been animated — and therefore has ended up with two listings on places like IMDb and Letterboxd, both for its original '60s version and the animation. For someone as anal as me, it's kinda confusing knowing which to log / link to: more people have done the original, but that's because the animation is recent and/or wasn't listed when it first came out. In some respects it doesn't matter (whichever I choose to log/link, I can't have watched the original, because it's lost), but it bothers me!
3x01 Four Hundred Dawns
aka Part 1 of Galaxy 4, one of the missing stories that's recently been animated — and therefore has ended up with two listings on places like IMDb and Letterboxd, both for its original '60s version and the animation. For someone as anal as me, it's kinda confusing knowing which to log / link to: more people have done the original, but that's because the animation is recent and/or wasn't listed when it first came out. In some respects it doesn't matter (whichever I choose to log/link, I can't have watched the original, because it's lost), but it bothers me!
Podcasts
Light the Fuse - The Official Mission: Impossible Podcast
2x11 Why We Love Mission: Impossible
Oh, I'm all caught up! Now I just need the Empire one to get on with posting the rest of their McQ sessions...
2x11 Why We Love Mission: Impossible
Oh, I'm all caught up! Now I just need the Empire one to get on with posting the rest of their McQ sessions...
Games
The Dragon Staff of Maladoria
6–10 January 2021
My "speedrun" plan calls for playing three days per day (because I'm doing it in four months rather than twelve — s'just maths, innit), but as I forgot to start on September 1st, I'm currently doing five days per day to catch up (I should be on track by the end of January, aka the end of this week).
6–10 January 2021
My "speedrun" plan calls for playing three days per day (because I'm doing it in four months rather than twelve — s'just maths, innit), but as I forgot to start on September 1st, I'm currently doing five days per day to catch up (I should be on track by the end of January, aka the end of this week).
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
Games
The Dragon Staff of Maladoria
1–5 January 2021
So, somehow I came across Sundial Games' Quest Calendars thanks to their Kickstarter campaign for the 2024 edition. It sounded fun and I backed it, and in the process ended up with a digital copy of this, their first calendar from 2021. It's meant to play out over a whole year (obviously), but as I intend to be playing the 2024 one from next January, I decided to speed-run this one over the next four months (it would've been ideal to start on September 1st, therefore, but I forgot).
The game is designed to give you a quick little burst of RPG-ing each day (or, rather, for 6 days out of 7, as the weekends are doubled up). That means it actually works quite well saved up and playing a few days at once — each day is so short (especially here at the start, which has a lot of intro material) that even playing through a few days doesn't take very long.
So, that means there's not much to comment on so far (in terms of interactivity, I've conducted precisely one dice roll), but I'm curious to see where it goes and how it plays over the long term.
1–5 January 2021
So, somehow I came across Sundial Games' Quest Calendars thanks to their Kickstarter campaign for the 2024 edition. It sounded fun and I backed it, and in the process ended up with a digital copy of this, their first calendar from 2021. It's meant to play out over a whole year (obviously), but as I intend to be playing the 2024 one from next January, I decided to speed-run this one over the next four months (it would've been ideal to start on September 1st, therefore, but I forgot).
The game is designed to give you a quick little burst of RPG-ing each day (or, rather, for 6 days out of 7, as the weekends are doubled up). That means it actually works quite well saved up and playing a few days at once — each day is so short (especially here at the start, which has a lot of intro material) that even playing through a few days doesn't take very long.
So, that means there's not much to comment on so far (in terms of interactivity, I've conducted precisely one dice roll), but I'm curious to see where it goes and how it plays over the long term.
Monday, 4 September 2023
Podcasts
Light the Fuse - The Official Mission: Impossible Podcast
2x07 Henry Czerny on the Evolution of Kittridge Part 2
2x08 Rebecca Ferguson’s Adventures with Ilsa
Here's what happens after you get bought out and become "official", I guess: your Mission: Impossible-centred podcast has to do a 15-minute segment promoting a completely different and unrelated film (the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie) from the same studio. Almost worth it for the "Light the Ooze" pun.
2x07 Henry Czerny on the Evolution of Kittridge Part 2
2x08 Rebecca Ferguson’s Adventures with Ilsa
Here's what happens after you get bought out and become "official", I guess: your Mission: Impossible-centred podcast has to do a 15-minute segment promoting a completely different and unrelated film (the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie) from the same studio. Almost worth it for the "Light the Ooze" pun.
Sunday, 3 September 2023
this week on 100Films.co.uk
It's time again for "this month on 100Films.co.uk", with my review of August...
...and my look over all the films I failed to watch last month...
More next Sunday, perhaps; next month, if not.
...and my look over all the films I failed to watch last month...
More next Sunday, perhaps; next month, if not.
Saturday, 2 September 2023
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
I always knew this week was going to represent an uptick in additions, because I was expecting a tidy pile of preorders, plus a couple of discount purchases that didn't quite turn up in time for last week. But then another whole pile turned up from the US a week earlier than I was expecting, and so I was left with a grand total of 15 new titles. Crikey.
Not that it says 15 below. That's thanks to those two that were due last week — both recent-ish-but-not-brand-new 4K releases that upgrade my old DVD copies (always nice to jump straight from DVD to 4K, because I don't feel like I've wasted money on a Blu-ray that way — especially as half (or more) of those BDs I upgrade are ones I haven't even watched).
There were more 4Ks among the five preorders: four titles from Indicator, with three in 4K; and the fifth was a delayed box set from Eureka, though that's not 4K. But the 4K love continued with that box of American titles: eight Blu-rays in total, five of them in 4K. That's a total of 10 new 4K titles this week alone, which I suspect is a personal record (maybe I should go back and check...)
Number of titles in collection: 3,153 [up 13]
Of which DVDs: 1,026 [down 2]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,127 [up 15]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 290 [up 10]
Number of discs in collection: 7,704 [up 25]
Number of films: 3,865 [up 16]
Number of additional cuts: 338 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,628 [up 4]
Number of short films: 1,077 [up 8]
See you next week, faithful reader, when I'm expecting... nothing whatsoever, now. Huh. But it is time for the monthly running time update (already? Apparently so!), so at least there's that to look forward to.
I always knew this week was going to represent an uptick in additions, because I was expecting a tidy pile of preorders, plus a couple of discount purchases that didn't quite turn up in time for last week. But then another whole pile turned up from the US a week earlier than I was expecting, and so I was left with a grand total of 15 new titles. Crikey.
Not that it says 15 below. That's thanks to those two that were due last week — both recent-ish-but-not-brand-new 4K releases that upgrade my old DVD copies (always nice to jump straight from DVD to 4K, because I don't feel like I've wasted money on a Blu-ray that way — especially as half (or more) of those BDs I upgrade are ones I haven't even watched).
There were more 4Ks among the five preorders: four titles from Indicator, with three in 4K; and the fifth was a delayed box set from Eureka, though that's not 4K. But the 4K love continued with that box of American titles: eight Blu-rays in total, five of them in 4K. That's a total of 10 new 4K titles this week alone, which I suspect is a personal record (maybe I should go back and check...)
Number of titles in collection: 3,153 [up 13]
Of which DVDs: 1,026 [down 2]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,127 [up 15]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 290 [up 10]
Number of discs in collection: 7,704 [up 25]
Number of films: 3,865 [up 16]
Number of additional cuts: 338 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,628 [up 4]
Number of short films: 1,077 [up 8]
See you next week, faithful reader, when I'm expecting... nothing whatsoever, now. Huh. But it is time for the monthly running time update (already? Apparently so!), so at least there's that to look forward to.
Friday, 1 September 2023
Thursday, 31 August 2023
Films
65 (2023)
[#65 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2023]
Yes, I deliberately held off watching this to make it #65.
[#65 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2023]
Yes, I deliberately held off watching this to make it #65.
Podcasts
The Empire Spoiler Special Film Podcast
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One ft. Christopher McQuarrie Part Three
Finished off Part Three on my commutes today. Now just impatiently waiting for Part Four. In the meantime, back to the regular Mission pod...
Light the Fuse - The Official Mission: Impossible Podcast
2x04 Inside the Action with the Cast of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One ft. Christopher McQuarrie Part Three
Finished off Part Three on my commutes today. Now just impatiently waiting for Part Four. In the meantime, back to the regular Mission pod...
Light the Fuse - The Official Mission: Impossible Podcast
2x04 Inside the Action with the Cast of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
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