The Leaf Riders of Wrenwood
8–12 May 2024
Sunday, 12 May 2024
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.]
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.]
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.
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.
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.
Friday, 10 May 2024
TV
Doctor Who
40x00 The Church on Ruby Road [Christmas special; 2nd watch]
Rewatching before the season-starting double-bill of new episodes at midnight.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Doctor Who: Unleashed
1x04 The Church on Ruby Road [Christmas special]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
40x00 The Church on Ruby Road [Christmas special; 2nd watch]
Rewatching before the season-starting double-bill of new episodes at midnight.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Doctor Who: Unleashed
1x04 The Church on Ruby Road [Christmas special]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Videos
Talks Machina
#65 'Harvest Close'
Well, here's one series that won't be on Beacon...
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]
#65 'Harvest Close'
Well, here's one series that won't be on Beacon...
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]
Thursday, 9 May 2024
Videos
Critical Role
2x17 Harvest Close [2nd half]
[Watch it (again) on YouTube.]
Today, Critical Role announced their own membership/streaming service, Beacon. I'm tempted to sign up, though most of the perks aren't relevant to me at this point — for example, exclusive series Critical Role Cooldown doesn't kick in until at least 207 episodes (c.830 hours of viewing) after where I'm currently at. ("At least" because that's not counting one-shots and miniseries and the like that I'll likely watch between Campaigns 2 and 3.) On the other hand, it would mean ad-free viewing from Campaign 2 Episode 20 onwards (Campaign 1 and Campaign 2 Episodes 1–19 remain exclusive to Geek & Sundry's YouTube, I guess for legal reasons).
2x17 Harvest Close [2nd half]
[Watch it (again) on YouTube.]
Today, Critical Role announced their own membership/streaming service, Beacon. I'm tempted to sign up, though most of the perks aren't relevant to me at this point — for example, exclusive series Critical Role Cooldown doesn't kick in until at least 207 episodes (c.830 hours of viewing) after where I'm currently at. ("At least" because that's not counting one-shots and miniseries and the like that I'll likely watch between Campaigns 2 and 3.) On the other hand, it would mean ad-free viewing from Campaign 2 Episode 20 onwards (Campaign 1 and Campaign 2 Episodes 1–19 remain exclusive to Geek & Sundry's YouTube, I guess for legal reasons).
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
TV
Doctor Who
3x36 Johnny Ringo
3x37 The O.K. Corral
aka The Gunfighters Parts Three and Four
Trivia time! The fourth and final instalment of The Gunfighters is the last episode of Doctor Who to have an individual episode title (excluding one-parters like The Five Doctors) until the new series started doing it again with their two-parters, 39 years later.
[Watch Johnny Ringo and The O.K. Corral (again) on iPlayer.]
3x36 Johnny Ringo
3x37 The O.K. Corral
aka The Gunfighters Parts Three and Four
Trivia time! The fourth and final instalment of The Gunfighters is the last episode of Doctor Who to have an individual episode title (excluding one-parters like The Five Doctors) until the new series started doing it again with their two-parters, 39 years later.
[Watch Johnny Ringo and The O.K. Corral (again) on iPlayer.]
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
Monday, 6 May 2024
Comics
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Volume IV: The Tempest by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
Six: Then, the Immortal Blue… [the end]
Volume IV: The Tempest by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
Six: Then, the Immortal Blue… [the end]
Videos
Critical Role
2x16 A Favor in Kind
Matt: "You're now going to lay low for about three days, taking a break from the story, so you can do things like shopping or whatever you want."
Me: Oh, great, an hour-and-a-half of nothing much.
The Mighty Nein: Repeatedly fuck up and almost get caught; wander through the streets on drugs; somehow manage to further the story anyway.
Me: How is this show always gold?!
[Watch it (again) on YouTube.]
2x16 A Favor in Kind
Matt: "You're now going to lay low for about three days, taking a break from the story, so you can do things like shopping or whatever you want."
Me: Oh, great, an hour-and-a-half of nothing much.
The Mighty Nein: Repeatedly fuck up and almost get caught; wander through the streets on drugs; somehow manage to further the story anyway.
Me: How is this show always gold?!
[Watch it (again) on YouTube.]
Sunday, 5 May 2024
Comics
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Volume IV: The Tempest by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
Five: The Fairy-Feller's Master-Stroke
Volume IV: The Tempest by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
Five: The Fairy-Feller's Master-Stroke
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