When you’re selling a book of poetry and you offer a sample poem as an enticement, you will presumably pick one of the better poems in the collection, not one of the worse ones. And so if the sample poem is unbelievably wretched, that would tend to bode ill for the book as a whole.
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Chip the Glasses and Crack the Plates, That’s What Bilbo Baggins Hates
Our first glimpse of Martin Freeman as the “first-class and legendary burglar,” with his dwarvish companions in the background:
Benedict Cumberbatch has been confirmed as playing the voice of the Chief Burglee, so the scene under Lonely Mountain will be a Sherlockian reunion of sorts.
The Only Water On Mars Is In the Bucket
SPOILER WARNING:
I’ve put some spoilerish Doctor Who info in the comments section.
Curtailed Dimensions in Time?
Will series 7 of Doctor Who be a standard “full run” of 14 episodes (13 plus a Christmas special), or a “curtailed” run like Torchwood’s five-episode series 3, or the run of specials between Who’s 4th and 5th series?
The answer seemed to be “full run” from this BBC announcement – though there were grounds for caution in BBC’s addendum that “we do not know yet how many will air in 2012.”
But a subsequent announcement clarifies that “there won’t be a full series of Doctor Who in 2012, but a special run for the anniversary in 2013.”
It’s not clear what precisely this means. Maybe seven episodes in 2012 and another seven in 2013?
Previously, when asked about 50th anniversary plans, Steven Moffat has said “there are thoughts” and “we’ll do something big, or something more.” About the 14-episode commitment, the Grand Moff has said: “I’ve got a plan and I’m NOT TELLING YOU WHAT IT IS.”
So might 2013’s “special run” be a miniseries featuring multiple past Doctors, in the tradition of such episodes as the 10th anniversary special The Three Doctors; the 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors; the, um, 22nd anniversary special The Two Doctors; the unofficial 30th anniversary episode Dimensions In Time; and the, um, um, 44th anniversary episode Time Crash? (Among the living candidates, Christopher Eccleston probably wouldn’t return; Tom Baker might or might not; David Tennant, Peter Davison, and Paul McGann probably would; Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker almost certainly would.)
Wonder Woman, Maybe
I’ve heard nothing good about this series, and the costume material looks awful, but at least she looks like she might be an angry warrior. Lynda Carter’s version was always too sweet. We’ll see.
Dead and Alive, Part 2
Here are all six of the Torchwood season 4 character promos combined together.
It continues to look promising – though as I noted previously: “John Barrowman may not be the greatest actor of all time, but he’s usually a hell of a lot better than this.”