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Okay so we’ve all had a fine day of political entertainment. But there is real entertainment on the way.

Doctor Who returns on March 31 too.

Written by Sinclair Davidson

March 21st, 2013 at 6:20 pm

Posted in Libertarians don't live by argument alone

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  1. Is that wot them cryptic comments from Dismissive were all about? The Game returning?

    Gab

    21 Mar 13 at 6:22 pm

  2. Awesome

    anonandon

    21 Mar 13 at 6:23 pm

  3. Hee. hee……it’s 6 weeks to the election, Julia a wipeout…..will Lu Kewen…”The Ghost Who Walks” ….have another round left in his 30 shot mag? Oh yes he will……with his then new mate, The Hero of Beaconsfield, attempting to minimise the rout.

    Ghost loses, Hero takes over.

    Alfonso

    21 Mar 13 at 6:41 pm

  4. The only thing from March I will remember in my dotage will be the Doctor.

    (GOT is ,as yet, unknown)

    MT Isa Miner

    21 Mar 13 at 7:16 pm

  5. Still trying to get through season two. I’ve found it immensely disappointing.

    Although I will watch in the hope that that infuriating little shit joffre loses his head.

    Rabz

    21 Mar 13 at 7:30 pm

  6. Rabz – I’m worried that having read the books that I’ll find the tv series disappointing.

    Sinclair Davidson

    21 Mar 13 at 7:32 pm

  7. Sinc – OTOH, I’ve absolutely loved “the Walking Dead”.

    Riveting stuff.

    Rabz

    21 Mar 13 at 7:53 pm

  8. I did read the first Walking Dead graphic novel – but it didn’t grab me so I gave the tv series a miss.

    Sinclair Davidson

    21 Mar 13 at 7:59 pm

  9. GOT is the best show on TV, possibly the best show that’s ever been on TV.

    Yobbo

    21 Mar 13 at 8:06 pm

  10. Regretfully I got stuck near the end of the first book. I was sad that a good SF writer (GRRM) should go to fantasy, but it pays well. Can’t complain. Not in the league of a Tamora Pierce or a Sprague de Camp though. Or Poul Anderson, another crossdressing SF and F author.

    Bruce

    21 Mar 13 at 8:09 pm

  11. The novelist is an eccentric nutty leftist but I loved the the first two series.

    Though it got more than a little silly towards the end.

    Peter Dinklage is brilliant and we definitely need to see more of him if interest is gonna be sustained

    JamesK

    21 Mar 13 at 8:11 pm

  12. Gab – No

    dismissive

    21 Mar 13 at 8:21 pm

  13. Lawdy, never had that said to me before, Dismissive :D

    Okay, so I’ll have to wait a further 7 days then.

    Gab

    21 Mar 13 at 8:26 pm

  14. It’s not that interesting!

    dismissive

    21 Mar 13 at 8:36 pm

  15. Bruce – I normally read hard scifi but did love the Ice and Fire series (so far anyway). The second last book was a bit tedious as he concentrated on a sub-set of the characters. I suspect the delay on the next two books (to complete the series) will annoy me. But I’m an abused reader – Frank Herbert died, David Weber and now GRRM have been taking their time in completing series that I follow.

    Sinclair Davidson

    21 Mar 13 at 8:46 pm

  16. James Herbert too.
    Died that is.

    lotocoti

    21 Mar 13 at 8:51 pm

  17. Well yes. James Herbert did die over-night – but did he have any incomplete series on the go? Does he have a talentless son who will ‘discover’ his notes and completely stuff up the franchise?

    Sinclair Davidson

    21 Mar 13 at 8:56 pm

  18. Xavier Herbert died too. I haven’t missed him

    dismissive

    21 Mar 13 at 9:13 pm

  19. Frank Herbert was simply not the kind of guy you could imitate. And I doubt any SF writer in the current crop could produce anything like what he did. The guy was complex, you could tell you were reading somebody who could think more than one way and really encompass the moral complexity of the real world, or of real history.

    Most of the SF writers I’ve read recently who tried to touch on the life of mind ended up writing twee little starry-eyed morality tales, with anger thrown in as though it made the whole thing grown-up.

    wreckage

    21 Mar 13 at 9:26 pm

  20. with anger thrown in as though it made the whole thing grown-up.

    Richard Morgan you mean? I liked his early stuff, but he has been disappointing too.

    Sinclair Davidson

    21 Mar 13 at 9:58 pm

  21. GOT TV is really good, though it is lighter than the books, it does strips long sections from the books that can be cut.

    e.g. the section in the first book where Tyrion goes to the Aerie is too drawn out, rather the TV series focuses on the key details.

    Agree with Rabz on Walking Dead. The story line is stark and confronting. Into 3rd series and can’t wait to get the next series of episodes.

    Token

    22 Mar 13 at 8:32 am

  22. … it (the Walking Dead) didn’t grab me so I gave the tv series a miss.

    Sinc, do yourself a favour – it is riveting television, far better than GoT.

    Rabz

    22 Mar 13 at 8:39 am

  23. I started the first GoT book (after wifey devoured the whole series), but put it down when I realised fluffy fantasy is best delivered by screen.

    I’m looking forward to the next season, with the benefit of not knowing what’s going to happen.

    I get a similar feeling from the Walking Dead, but in the sense of “will they ever get to that bit from the graphic novel?” after the first two seasons diverged so much. That show has improved a lot after stagnating a bit.

    I wish there was more of the post-apocalyptic genre being produced for TV. It fits much better into the episodic format than into movies.

    Jarrah

    22 Mar 13 at 9:02 am

  24. My wife had to get me past the first few episodes of the Walking Dead.

    At that stage I felt the characters in Home and Away were more realistic. It picked up a good comic book feel as the series went on.

    Token

    22 Mar 13 at 9:07 am

  25. it is riveting television

    It was riveting television until the ‘instead of holing up in a defensible position, let’s have a camping holiday within jogging distance of a major Zombie centre’ got too much to tolerate.
    Did none of the staff writers read World War Z?

    lotocoti

    22 Mar 13 at 9:14 am

  26. SF went to shit after Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
    Although it has perked up a bit with Scalzi.

    Winston Smith

    22 Mar 13 at 12:57 pm

  27. Scalzi’s rewrite of Little Fuzzy highlighted that he is leftist scum. Sad but true.

    dismissive

    22 Mar 13 at 7:23 pm

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