From the Orient

LugRadio Live: Don’t Listen Alone

Obviously, the guy tapping away at his (blank screened!) laptop wasn’t using Ubuntu.

If I go, does it make be a lug nut ?

It turns out that you can get 2% added to your exam score if a pet dies.

Just be careful if your child is struggling; “Recent death of parent or close relative” gives you a whopping 5%

Series three starts with a bang as we get a new Rose in the shape of Martha Jones, excellently played by Freema Agyeman. The pace and dynamism of the first series was back and it felt far more of a new start than last season’s opener, New Earth. Odd, considering we got a new Doctor last time.

Martha looks like she will be a very good Companion. Different from Rose, but the same in a regenerated sort of way. She impressed both the Doctor and viewers with her attitude and character under pressure.

Child’s View

My four year old thought it was excellent too, liking the Judoon and the fast pace of the episode. It scored bonus points for having a New Rose and an alien that sucks people to death with a straw.

It scored points with Dad for having an alien very much like the Sontarans and the Doctor having to solve something without his Sonic Screwdriver (even though he simply made a new one in about 30 seconds).

This Years Bad Wolf

Clearly the theme is going to be Time Lords. In the first series [1] they were very careful not to mention the Doctor’s race, only that they’d all died. Now the Doctor is telling someone he’s only just met that he is a Time Lord. Plus I’ve seen one of the later episode titles in the Radio Times.

[1] Hang on, when did I stop calling it Series 27?

A bit late on this one as the series finished a few weeks ago, but I wanted to comment on Life on Mars.

So, was he mad, in a coma or back in time? And what happens at the end?

Co-creator Matthew Graham reveals in The Life of Wylie: Life On Mars: The Answers that it was all quite straightforward really.

“The truth is, when I wrote it, what I was trying to say is that’s he’s died, and that for however long that last second of life is going to be, it will stretch out for an age, as an eternity for him. And so when he drives off in that car, he’s really driving off into the afterlife.”

Basically, he was in a coma then. And if you woke up in the real world and you hadn’t been playing the game all wrong (you bunch of twonks) then maybe you’d throw yourself off a tall building as well.

Some people will be South Africans tonight.

On the positive side, at least we weren’t humiliated by the Australians in the semi-final.

I heard on the radio someone say that Sheffield United would be happy to keep United to an English cricket score tonight.

1: Indian in the mountain
2: Nazi building
3: Hidden Donut store
4: Cat in a bottle
5: Google in a bathtub
6: Big Fuck
7: Crop circle
8: Dutch sunbather
9: Weird black line and a fire on ice
10: Giant Firefox symbol