http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:19:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-18652 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:02:35 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-18652 But David Tennant is hot (Id be nude in bed with him any day)! You have a good series just with that! And Andrew Hayden Smith too! Boy, I want a threesome. But David Tennant is hot (Id be nude in bed with him any day)! You have a good series just with that! And Andrew Hayden Smith too! Boy, I want a threesome.

]]> http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-17221 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:42:45 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-17221 [...] Once I got to grips with all this, the rest slotted into place neatly. I saw how the likes of Sulla, Pompey and Caesar all played their parts in chipping away at the Republic’s constitution and strata until it became ultimately untenable. But it took time, and this is the main challenge facing the makers of Rome. Sensationally, the BBC decided to chop the three first episodes of the series into two, believing that British viewers knew more about the subject than they might in America. It’s fortunate that I was desperate enough to see this not to wait for the mangled version screened over here, instead getting the Stateside editions virtually as they premiered. I think the Beeb’s logic simply makes no sense, and would choose to go with the counter-argument - that they opted for the liberal amounts of gore and sex to put out an affair that would no doubt boost viewing figures and court controversy. This it might have achieved in the first instance, but Rome was a flop overall in terms of viewing figures in the UK, barely scraping into the top 100 shows of the year. There are various reasons for this, of course, but a factor must have been the nonsensical mess that constituted those two opening episodes, cutting out vital information about the Republic’s political and social framework that underpins the entire series. Add to this the apologetic lack of publicity (constrast Rome’s promotion with, say, Doctor Who, and you get a real idea of how some programmes get a raw deal) and you have a show that was always going to struggle. Considering the amount of money ploughed into it by both the BBC and HBO, Rome’s handling in the UK seems to have only one foot in reality. [...] […] Once I got to grips with all this, the rest slotted into place neatly. I saw how the likes of Sulla, Pompey and Caesar all played their parts in chipping away at the Republic’s constitution and strata until it became ultimately untenable. But it took time, and this is the main challenge facing the makers of Rome. Sensationally, the BBC decided to chop the three first episodes of the series into two, believing that British viewers knew more about the subject than they might in America. It’s fortunate that I was desperate enough to see this not to wait for the mangled version screened over here, instead getting the Stateside editions virtually as they premiered. I think the Beeb’s logic simply makes no sense, and would choose to go with the counter-argument - that they opted for the liberal amounts of gore and sex to put out an affair that would no doubt boost viewing figures and court controversy. This it might have achieved in the first instance, but Rome was a flop overall in terms of viewing figures in the UK, barely scraping into the top 100 shows of the year. There are various reasons for this, of course, but a factor must have been the nonsensical mess that constituted those two opening episodes, cutting out vital information about the Republic’s political and social framework that underpins the entire series. Add to this the apologetic lack of publicity (constrast Rome’s promotion with, say, Doctor Who, and you get a real idea of how some programmes get a raw deal) and you have a show that was always going to struggle. Considering the amount of money ploughed into it by both the BBC and HBO, Rome’s handling in the UK seems to have only one foot in reality. […]

]]> http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-17216 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:50:10 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-17216 [...] More than anything, Night at the Museum is easy on the eye, and I don’t think any more was intended during its production. It reminds me a little of the last Doctor Who series, in the sense that it’s clearly been made as diverting entertainment, for as wide an audience as possible. As such, hardcore fans might be let down by the family friendliness of it all, but that doesn’t make it a bad thing. The same’s true of Night at the Museum, which had me won over with its sheer likeability. The pace never lets up, and some of the incidental comedy thrown in - ‘There is a 20-foot jackal staring at you right now. Don’t make eye contact’ - is expertly written and nicely delivered, more often than not by Williams, who puts in an admirably restrained turn as Roosevelt. [...] […] More than anything, Night at the Museum is easy on the eye, and I don’t think any more was intended during its production. It reminds me a little of the last Doctor Who series, in the sense that it’s clearly been made as diverting entertainment, for as wide an audience as possible. As such, hardcore fans might be let down by the family friendliness of it all, but that doesn’t make it a bad thing. The same’s true of Night at the Museum, which had me won over with its sheer likeability. The pace never lets up, and some of the incidental comedy thrown in - ‘There is a 20-foot jackal staring at you right now. Don’t make eye contact’ - is expertly written and nicely delivered, more often than not by Williams, who puts in an admirably restrained turn as Roosevelt. […]

]]> http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-17201 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:04:15 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-17201 [...] After a largely run of the mill Series Two, what could the third outing of Doctor Who bring us? Yes, it’s that time again - Christmas, and another boxset of the latest season featuring everyone’s favourite inter-planetary, inter-fourth dimensional adventurer. With Billie Piper gone, and past her sell-by date if you ask me, we had Freema Agyeman’s Martha Jones entering as the Doctor’s new companion. David Tennant went into his second series, now tightly associated with the title character and by all accounts a hit with the viewing public at large. Perhaps less so with the hardcore fans, the so-called Whovians, who not only saw his take on the Doctor as overtly hammy and with a tendency to gurn through his scenes, but also questioned the direction of the show itself. Head writer and driving force, Russell T Davies, might have done much for the cause of television, but was he the right man for Who? [...] […] After a largely run of the mill Series Two, what could the third outing of Doctor Who bring us? Yes, it’s that time again - Christmas, and another boxset of the latest season featuring everyone’s favourite inter-planetary, inter-fourth dimensional adventurer. With Billie Piper gone, and past her sell-by date if you ask me, we had Freema Agyeman’s Martha Jones entering as the Doctor’s new companion. David Tennant went into his second series, now tightly associated with the title character and by all accounts a hit with the viewing public at large. Perhaps less so with the hardcore fans, the so-called Whovians, who not only saw his take on the Doctor as overtly hammy and with a tendency to gurn through his scenes, but also questioned the direction of the show itself. Head writer and driving force, Russell T Davies, might have done much for the cause of television, but was he the right man for Who? […]

]]> http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-14236 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:20:55 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-14236 [...] After a largely run of the mill Series Two, what could the third outing of Doctor Who bring us? Yes, it’s that time again - Christmas, and another boxset of the latest season featuring everyone’s favourite inter-planetary, inter-fourth dimensional adventurer. With Billie Piper gone, and past her sell-by date if you ask me, we had Freema Agyeman’s Martha Jones entering as the Doctor’s new companion. David Tennant went into his second series, now tightly associated with the title character and by all accounts a hit with the viewing public at large. Perhaps less so with the hardcore fans, the so-called Whovians, who not only saw his take on the Doctor as overtly hammy and with a tendency to gurn through his scenes, but also questioned the direction of the show itself. Head writer and driving force, Russell T Davies, might have done much for the cause of television, but was he the right man for Who? [...] […] After a largely run of the mill Series Two, what could the third outing of Doctor Who bring us? Yes, it’s that time again - Christmas, and another boxset of the latest season featuring everyone’s favourite inter-planetary, inter-fourth dimensional adventurer. With Billie Piper gone, and past her sell-by date if you ask me, we had Freema Agyeman’s Martha Jones entering as the Doctor’s new companion. David Tennant went into his second series, now tightly associated with the title character and by all accounts a hit with the viewing public at large. Perhaps less so with the hardcore fans, the so-called Whovians, who not only saw his take on the Doctor as overtly hammy and with a tendency to gurn through his scenes, but also questioned the direction of the show itself. Head writer and driving force, Russell T Davies, might have done much for the cause of television, but was he the right man for Who? […]

]]> http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-426 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:39:06 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-426 [...] More than anything, Night at the Museum is easy on the eye, and I don’t think any more was intended during its production. It reminds me a little of the last Doctor Who series, in the sense that it’s clearly been made as diverting entertainment, for as wide an audience as possible. As such, hardcore fans might be let down by the family friendliness of it all, but that doesn’t make it a bad thing. The same’s true of Night at the Museum, which had me won over with its sheer likeability. The pace never lets up, and some of the incidental comedy thrown in - ‘There is a 20-foot jackal staring at you right now. Don’t make eye contact’ - is expertly written and nicely delivered, more often than not by Williams, who puts in an admirably restrained turn as Roosevelt. [...] […] More than anything, Night at the Museum is easy on the eye, and I don’t think any more was intended during its production. It reminds me a little of the last Doctor Who series, in the sense that it’s clearly been made as diverting entertainment, for as wide an audience as possible. As such, hardcore fans might be let down by the family friendliness of it all, but that doesn’t make it a bad thing. The same’s true of Night at the Museum, which had me won over with its sheer likeability. The pace never lets up, and some of the incidental comedy thrown in - ‘There is a 20-foot jackal staring at you right now. Don’t make eye contact’ - is expertly written and nicely delivered, more often than not by Williams, who puts in an admirably restrained turn as Roosevelt. […]

]]> http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-60 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:48:55 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-60 [...] Once I got to grips with all this, the rest slotted into place neatly. I saw how the likes of Sulla, Pompey and Caesar all played their parts in chipping away at the Republic’s constitution and strata until it became ultimately untenable. But it took time, and this is the main challenge facing the makers of Rome. Sensationally, the BBC decided to chop the three first episodes of the series into two, believing that British viewers knew more about the subject than they might in America. It’s fortunate that I was desperate enough to see this not to wait for the mangled version screened over here, instead getting the Stateside editions virtually as they premiered. I think the Beeb’s logic simply makes no sense, and would choose to go with the counter-argument - that they opted for the liberal amounts of gore and sex to put out an affair that would no doubt boost viewing figures and court controversy. This it might have achieved in the first instance, but Rome was a flop overall in terms of viewing figures in the UK, barely scraping into the top 100 shows of the year. There are various reasons for this, of course, but a factor must have been the nonsensical mess that constituted those two opening episodes, cutting out vital information about the Republic’s political and social framework that underpins the entire series. Add to this the apologetic lack of publicity (constrast Rome’s promotion with, say, Doctor Who, and you get a real idea of how some programmes get a raw deal) and you have a show that was always going to struggle. Considering the amount of money ploughed into it by both the BBC and HBO, Rome’s handling in the UK seems to have only one foot in reality. [...] […] Once I got to grips with all this, the rest slotted into place neatly. I saw how the likes of Sulla, Pompey and Caesar all played their parts in chipping away at the Republic’s constitution and strata until it became ultimately untenable. But it took time, and this is the main challenge facing the makers of Rome. Sensationally, the BBC decided to chop the three first episodes of the series into two, believing that British viewers knew more about the subject than they might in America. It’s fortunate that I was desperate enough to see this not to wait for the mangled version screened over here, instead getting the Stateside editions virtually as they premiered. I think the Beeb’s logic simply makes no sense, and would choose to go with the counter-argument - that they opted for the liberal amounts of gore and sex to put out an affair that would no doubt boost viewing figures and court controversy. This it might have achieved in the first instance, but Rome was a flop overall in terms of viewing figures in the UK, barely scraping into the top 100 shows of the year. There are various reasons for this, of course, but a factor must have been the nonsensical mess that constituted those two opening episodes, cutting out vital information about the Republic’s political and social framework that underpins the entire series. Add to this the apologetic lack of publicity (constrast Rome’s promotion with, say, Doctor Who, and you get a real idea of how some programmes get a raw deal) and you have a show that was always going to struggle. Considering the amount of money ploughed into it by both the BBC and HBO, Rome’s handling in the UK seems to have only one foot in reality. […]

]]> http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-11 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:57:05 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/01/21/dont-you-think-she-looks-tired/#comment-11 I've been with Doctor Who from the end of Hartnell onwards (there, hasn't that just dated me nicely lol), have rarely missed an episode and still love the revived version (albeit slightly dumbed down for kids). I am still undecided on my favorite Doctor of all time, but Pertwee is a likely choice with Davidson and Tennant equally strong contenders. Long may Doctor Who live and yes, I do have the tshirt. I’ve been with Doctor Who from the end of Hartnell onwards (there, hasn’t that just dated me nicely lol), have rarely missed an episode and still love the revived version (albeit slightly dumbed down for kids). I am still undecided on my favorite Doctor of all time, but Pertwee is a likely choice with Davidson and Tennant equally strong contenders. Long may Doctor Who live and yes, I do have the tshirt.

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