The one bright spot in this review (CHT Kevin C.) is the hope that the film will save the rights for a remake.
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But In An Alternate Universe, China Is Much Freer
The Chinese government is banning tv shows about time travel because they treat “serious history in a frivolous way.”
But wait, there’s more. The powers that be are also training their sights on shows featuring “fantasy,” “mythical stories,” “bizarre plots,” “absurd techniques,” “feudal superstitions,” “fatalism,” “reincarnation,” “ambiguous moral lessons,” and “lack of positive thinking.”
River and Pond
Here are two more previews of the upcoming Doctor Who premiere. If you’re strongly spoiler-averse, you probably shouldn’t watch. But these are officially released previews and so presumably don’t give away the store.
I like the hostile way that Matt Smith curls his lip when he says “I love a bad girl, me.” To play the Doctor, you need to be goofy and zany; but you also need, sometimes, to be icy cold and menacing. Smith hasn’t gotten to do that too often, but he’s very good at it when given the opportunity.
In related news, here’s what you get if you merge the faces of all eleven incarnations of the Doctor from 1963 through the present. And yes, I really can see most of them in there (though I’m not sure I’m seeing all of them).
Relative Dimensions, Part 2
Here’s the latest trailer for Doctor Who Series 6 (a.k.a. Season 32):
Here’s a mini-prequel to the first episode (featuring the inadvertently ironic line “there are no monsters in the Oval Office”):
Bit of an “Empty Child” vibe there ….
And for anyone who missed it the first time, here’s the earlier Series 6 trailer from a few months back:
Yup, this looks promising ….
Relative Dimensions
The next season premiere of Doctor Who is a little over a month away, but in the meantime here’s a two-part mini-episode that Steven Moffat wrote for Comic Relief. It’s a bit of a self-parody, riffing on Moffat’s love of temporal paradoxes; there are nods to “Blink,” “Time Crash,” “The Big Bang,” and “A Christmas Carol” (as well as a bit of Coupling).
The YouTube descriptions below call these “Time, Part 1” and “Time, Part 2,” but the actual titles are “Space” for the first one and “Time” for the second.
Ambition Should Be Made of Stirner Stuff
A new individualist magazine, titled i, has a first issue devoted to egoist anarchist Max Stirner – including an article on Stirner by science-fiction writer Ken MacLeod (whose work I’ve discussed here and here). Ken comments on his blog here and here.