Fanboy Gushing Just finished watching Doctor Who's finest hour. I thought the same thing last week, and the week before, and the week before that. But this week, oh man. Spoilers are everywhere and nearly unavoidable, but skip the next paragraph if you don't already know what made this week special.
Derek Jacobi was brilliant, absolutely perfect ... what a genius way to bring the Master back. (And the new guy looks like he'll do just fine.) The drums, the voices from the past, they really did this right. Wow. And we get the dope on Capt. Jack, and the hand in the jar (of course!), and it all ties back to the end of Season 1 and Torchwood (sort of)and the classic series, while managing to stand alone as a great episode. More wow.
HD, if you haven't seen this yet, when the Series 3 DVD comes out, I'd actually consider asking the missus if I could fly up to NYC, or fly you down to NC (yeah, I'll be down there Oct 1st) for, if nothing else, a mini-marathon of the last 4 episodes and next week's conclusion to this one.
Sports Night, Villians Win Edition!As both a Patriots and Yankees fan, I'm one of the few New England sports fans who is all around happy about last night. The Patriots' dismantling of the Chargers showed that to their already stacked team they have added a chip on their shoulders. (Thanks, Jets!) I have mixed feelings about cameragate. I don't think any fan knows how bad the cheating was. If the cameraman had been in the stands, would this have been legal? Don't coaches assume they're being watched when the send the signals in? Isn't this why athletes and coaches always talk through their gloves or the play sheet? Did they store this for future information or use it during a game? Part of me doesn't get the big deal. Were the Patriots just more brazen about what everyone does?
Maybe there's more. Maybe the Pats defense was illegally wired. Maybe the Jets are right and the Patriots had tapped their radios. (See and everyone wondered what Tom Brady was doing at Bush's State of the Union. It wasn't anti-steriods, it was pro-illegal eavesdropping.)
The Yankees-Red Sox game, less hyped but more exciting, changed little in the grand scheme of things. The Sox are probably winning the division with the Yanks taking the wild card. Nice to see a great Jeter HR, take 2 of 3, and wonder what Red Sox Nation means when it chants "MVP! MVP!" for Papi. "We think in other years you have played like an MVP. Is it okay if we remind you of that during this, a rather non-MVP year?" This game did matter psychologically for the post-season. The Sox have had a much better year than the Yanks. Yet the season series ends at 10-8, Yanks. The Sox have yet to prove they can really handle the Yanks, which has to hurt should they meet again.
By the way, the other Mark D. is on strike at the University of Minnesota. If you haven't stopped by cheek in a while, you should and read his strike diary.
"Romeo and Juliet" Covered by the Killers Caught this on the "Live from Abbey Road" show on Sundance. Not included in this clip is the the band talking about how much they love Dire Straits, this song, and hoping that by trying to do it justice they can introduce some of their younger listeners to Mark Knopfler & co.
If you're like me, easy quizes make you feel good about yourself. Here's an easy movie quiz about movies from the last 25 years. (Although the first one is about Star Wars?)
