Spring Time

Being woken by Owen going berserk as the postman arrived could only mean one thing. It's Saturday! Either that or I'd badly overslept on a weekday and was going to be in trouble:-)

The weather was once again trying to make up it's mind and switched between being cloudy, sunny, raining and hailing on what seemed at times like a minute by minute basis.

So it looks like we're stuck with the spring weather for the time being. We've also got to put the clocks forward tonight so we loose a hour of sleep. Although most people put the clocks forwrd when they go to bed it happens 'officially' at 1am. Does anybody know why it's 1am? It was one of those random questions that came up today and neither Grumpy or I knew the answer.

The new series of Robin Hood and Primeval both started tonight at more or less exactly the same time. All I can say to that is 'D'ohhh!' as people who watch one are just as likely to watch the other. I decided to go with Primeval and I'm pleased to say that it finally seems to be finding it's feet in developing it's own identity. The final shot of the first episode was awesome.

With regards to Robin Hood I was highly amused to read a story the radical transformation of Friar tuck from the stereotypical middle aged, white, fat, balding monk to young black 'warrior priest' who is a expert in martial arts has sparked fury among professors who believe the portrayal is historically inaccurate. Are they seriously trying to say that the rest of the series is historically accurate? Have they seen nottingham 'castle' in the series for a start. I see Nottingham castle everyday and let me tell you it looks nothing like that.

Whilst mentioning Geek TV as it were at the far end of the scale from Primeval and Robin Hood( not to say their bad) is (the reimagined) Battlestar Galatica series which came to an end this week. This show has set the bar so high for sci-fi shows there is nothing right now which even comes with in sight of it in terms of quality let alone be on anything approaching par with it. Even if the ending required a little leap of faith, the quality of the show was incredibly high, there was a realism to the situation the characters found themselves in which Star Trek failed to match. There was also no magical reset button, the ship wasn't blown to hell and fixed in time for the next episode, it stayed damaged. Also they developed a great range of secondary characters that you cared about but it also made you nervous as you knew unlike the main cast they could die at any time and frequently did! Which also really added to the sense of danger and desperation this rag tag fleet faced.

Star Trek Voyager for a ship which was marooned on the far side of the galaxy seemed to be more on a cruise to the shops. Crewmen died and were forgotten about by the next week. Which shouldn't have happened, every death should have been a blow to this crew all out on their own.

Also if anyone knows a place or happens to see somewhere selling a model of the Battlestar galactica(any size) I would really like to know as I would really like to get my hands on one.

So, so long BSG. All geeks will miss you.

and here's hoping they get the DVD box set out asap.

As a side note, I've also found out the next Doctor Who special is supposed to be shown over the Easter Weekend. I don't know when it will be over in the USA though Scully.

Later folks!