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Yesterday afternoon, I sat down with Brendan, my friend/sidekick/guy who reminds me when I have important meetings to go to, to watch Mel Gibson’s seminal piece of torture porn, The Passion of the Christ. Two days previous, we saw Martin Scorsese’s similar take on Biblical happenings, The Last Temptation of Christ. Is this choice in movies ( Read more... )

Right. Well. Here we are. Twenty months ago, in only my third ever LiveJournal post, I undertook the task of recapping, in exquisite detail, everything that is wrong with the ultimate "So bad it's good" Classic Doctor Who story, Terminus. After recapping the first three episodes, I ploughed through the final part in just a couple of days, an ( Read more... )

IT'S ME.
It's also CHRISTMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS.
It's fairly common knowledge that I love Christmas, even if it's been a bit exhausting this year due to much of my Christmassyness being used up two weeks early in Winchester (there was much running around getting the Uni Chapel in a fit state for carol services. But worth it; our music ( Read more... )

( ...And proof he shouldn't post things when he should be working. I have no idea why I wrote this. It's just a list of good TV shows you should watch. No, you WILL watch. I command it. I'm Batman. )

Okay, then. Let's get this thing off my chest once and for all.
( In which I just glurge out any remaining thoughts I have about the series in an increasingly incoherent fashion. )

...Recap time, everybody. *waves miniscule flag*
As with last year, marks out of ten. Assuming I can bring myself to award a mark to half these dismal episodes.
( Much as I don't like to associate something like this with Classic Who, Moffat has neglected to integrate a )

I really don't want to do this.
You have to. It was the big finale.
But I really, really don't want to have to even think about that episode ever again!
Come on. It's the last one you'll have to do...
Oh, yeah! Alright, then.
...Until Christmas.
AAAAARGH.
( You think it's over, but I reckon it's only just beginning... )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15146240

Erm, no.
I'm sorry, no.
I mean, this is flabbergasting. This... individual was once Chief Inspector of Ofsted, and he believes that pupils should be allowed to be released into the real world without any GCSEs, at an age when, to some, quitting school is both the most appealing thing in the world and also ( Read more... )

Exactly what it says on the tin.

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