Pilot's Log

(I found out a fact this week I should have known decades ago.)  The Feggans Brown company, which built aircraft mockups for movies and TV series, also built scores of Daleks for various Doctor Who productions.

Don't mind the above thingy.  I'm just doing that to enter a sweepstakes.

Suss the Seuss?

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On television in general or on television AND I get to actually watch it?

In the first catagory: Top Gear (original UK, please?), Torchwood, Doctor Who, Burn Notice (all of which I'm lucky to catch on recorded video).

Stuff I get to watch: CHUCK, Criminal Minds, Person Of Interest.

What I said on Facebook last night: --A typical DOCTOR WHO plotline with a typical DREAMWORKS budget. Meaning that the aliens are rendered to the point that they don't have to be portrayed by Shakespearean-trained human cast members, and that the dog is a real one and not a chrome puppet. (Not that I have a problem with chrome puppet dogs, per se.)

Further thoughts:

Emma is a Time Lady. She "regenerated", tho' it was a far more powerful regeneration than most of the ones we've seen, although the Master's in the FOX Doctor Who TV movie comes close. She is somewhat telepathic and can speak any language she needs to. Fanfic, anyone?

Harrison Ford rocked a role that John Wayne would have probably gotten if this movie was made fifty years ago. Hmm. Can we have a Western movie in which Ford and Jeff Bridges play archrivals?

I feel sorry for the designers of the alien villain race. I'm sure they felt the need to outdo the dozens of villain species (no pun intended) going back over dozens of movies. But do their features make biological, structural sense? To me, they didn't.

This actually makes them a two-time machine family...Brent previously inherited Marty McFly's DeLorean after a temporal jump into the distant past.

Tonight I've been celebrating my re-connectivity by downloading YouTuberies while, in another room, binge-watching Torchwood via my brother's loaner DVDs. Seen three stories so far. I guess I'd sooner call it technoid-horror than sci-fi. Or perhaps fusion social SF/horror?

Captain Jack reminds me of the character Jon-Erik Hexum played on (*cheats by looking on IMDB.com*) Voyagers! (*realizes that most of the readers of this LJ probably never SAW Voyagers!) Of course Jack is much much smarter than Bogg. But a lot of the same traits are there.

(*multiple sighs of resignation*) Now I really feel old.

Torchwood wins for its fabulous visual storytelling, its effects, its direction and its "reality". I'm not sure I'm into all the characters yet, tho'.

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( And Another Video For the Weekend )

Just awoke from a nap.

Premise for a television series...the setting looks like our contemporary world, but something's strange. Like how sorcerors and mages are walking around in public and nobody seems to think it's wrong. The central character is a magic-using private detective, who is capable of time-travel and other useful feats. (Crossbreed Doctor Who with Charmed, Men In Black, Harry Potter, and Sliders and I think I come close to the idea.)

The pilot's plot is set in Washington DC and involves the President of the U.S.' favorite brand of chewing gum. Why is this important? Tell you the truth...I can't figure that part out myself.

In the series, Eddie Murphy would play a recurring role, as a mage who often helps out the hero but just as often is out for himself and in competition with the hero...kind of like Doctor Who's The Master but not as nasty and much more unpredictable. All the episodes with him in the cast, the Nielsen ratings go into orbit and there are rumors of him getting his own series...but he never does.

What do you think?