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Sunday Six
Nov. 22nd, 2015 06:57 pm1. I have really enjoyed the last three episodes of Doctor Who. hoping the momentum keeps up. Especially enjoyed Sleep No More which seems to have split the audience more than anything since the Sylvester McCoy era.
2. Movies - gotten a few watched, really enjoyed Mission Impossible:ROgue Nation and The Man From UNCLE, both good spy romps. My only complaint about UNCLE is the lack of the classic theme tune apart from a three second bit on a radio. The MI movies have mostly gotten it right, with the classic theme appearing in all of them and I loved it every time The Plot started up a vit in Roguer Nation.
Also the second and third Hobbit movies, after playing a Lord Of The Rings game recently had a hankering for more. I enjoyed them both, although all the Hobbit movies have the same problem, too many over the top shots that don't add anything to the atmosphere or excitement, it's like any restraint they had for LotR is gone. Had no idea Billy Connolly was in the third and he had the best speech in the whole trilogy.
Death Line, an average seventies horror movie about cannibals in the London Underground lifted to great height by Donald Pleasance's performance as the grumpiest police inspector in the history of Great Britain.
3. Qi - Stephen Fry is leaving, which I am sad about, but I think Sandi Toksvig will be an excellent replacement. a few of the other people who they could have chosen would maybe have been a bit overbearing? As always, the show is a joy and it's nice to see Matt Lucas, Noel Fielding and Rhod Gilbert appearing and there's at least a couple more people I like appearing for the first time this series.
4 - Gaming has mostly been running round Middle Earth beating things up with a magic stick in LotR:War In The North, going back to Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider 2013 and the usual mucking about in Destiny. Still not feeling any need to upgrade my console as I@ve still plenty to play on this one.
ALso liking that one of the gaming channels I enjoy is playing thorugh the mostly wonderful Mirror's Edge, a game I never completed due to a difficult section and a game I can no longer play with any competency due to my hands.
5 - I've mostly been enjoying the wrestling I watch, but that's mostly down to me only watching NXT weekly and even then, I really don't like what they're doing in the women's division. Eva Marie, a performer who is barely competent in the ring and on the mic (and has been around the WWE for years without doing anything of note) is getting a big push over many who have far better skill than her and it's really annoying. She doens't get booed for being a heel, she gets booed because people don't want to see her anywhere near the ring. It's the only real blight on an excellent show and it was nice to see a Scottish wrestler debut the other week, even if it was in a squah match against Nia Jax.
6. Hands and foot have been a bit worse in recent weeks, hands is maybe just the cold weather, but I have to look at the keyboard while typing these days and writing is haphazard (which is fun when signing on at the job centre) and they're going to be x-raying my foot again, as we suspect I may have stress fractures again, which may mean getting a moonboot for a few months again.
2. Movies - gotten a few watched, really enjoyed Mission Impossible:ROgue Nation and The Man From UNCLE, both good spy romps. My only complaint about UNCLE is the lack of the classic theme tune apart from a three second bit on a radio. The MI movies have mostly gotten it right, with the classic theme appearing in all of them and I loved it every time The Plot started up a vit in Roguer Nation.
Also the second and third Hobbit movies, after playing a Lord Of The Rings game recently had a hankering for more. I enjoyed them both, although all the Hobbit movies have the same problem, too many over the top shots that don't add anything to the atmosphere or excitement, it's like any restraint they had for LotR is gone. Had no idea Billy Connolly was in the third and he had the best speech in the whole trilogy.
Death Line, an average seventies horror movie about cannibals in the London Underground lifted to great height by Donald Pleasance's performance as the grumpiest police inspector in the history of Great Britain.
3. Qi - Stephen Fry is leaving, which I am sad about, but I think Sandi Toksvig will be an excellent replacement. a few of the other people who they could have chosen would maybe have been a bit overbearing? As always, the show is a joy and it's nice to see Matt Lucas, Noel Fielding and Rhod Gilbert appearing and there's at least a couple more people I like appearing for the first time this series.
4 - Gaming has mostly been running round Middle Earth beating things up with a magic stick in LotR:War In The North, going back to Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider 2013 and the usual mucking about in Destiny. Still not feeling any need to upgrade my console as I@ve still plenty to play on this one.
ALso liking that one of the gaming channels I enjoy is playing thorugh the mostly wonderful Mirror's Edge, a game I never completed due to a difficult section and a game I can no longer play with any competency due to my hands.
5 - I've mostly been enjoying the wrestling I watch, but that's mostly down to me only watching NXT weekly and even then, I really don't like what they're doing in the women's division. Eva Marie, a performer who is barely competent in the ring and on the mic (and has been around the WWE for years without doing anything of note) is getting a big push over many who have far better skill than her and it's really annoying. She doens't get booed for being a heel, she gets booed because people don't want to see her anywhere near the ring. It's the only real blight on an excellent show and it was nice to see a Scottish wrestler debut the other week, even if it was in a squah match against Nia Jax.
6. Hands and foot have been a bit worse in recent weeks, hands is maybe just the cold weather, but I have to look at the keyboard while typing these days and writing is haphazard (which is fun when signing on at the job centre) and they're going to be x-raying my foot again, as we suspect I may have stress fractures again, which may mean getting a moonboot for a few months again.
