Science fiction and Strictly
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shallownessElectric Dreams – Crazy Diamond
This was odd, and ultimately, a bit of a shaggy pig story. There were interesting strands, that they were living on an estate on a cliff that was soon to erode into the sea, the suggestion that it was all an artificial construct anyway, with little choice about where they’d move and the strong suggestion that there was nowhere to sail away to. The Mortensons’ lack of fertility, Sally secretly keeping inedible plants to try and grow stuff, while the food they were legally allowed/forced to have kept going off. And dreams and sleep. The whole porcine-human stuff PLUS the macguffin of the galactic quantum = ???
But most of that turned out to be decorative, setting for a noirish story of a schmuck with a dream, a desperate femme fatale (who was a ‘Jill’ so a sort of replicant). Sidse Babett Knudsen (yay!) vamped it up bigtime. Julia Davis’s American accent wobbled. And it was hard to sympathise with someone, Steve Buscemi’s Ed, who’d let down someone he knew could shoot her enemies. There was odd, unsettling music.
I admit I was battling sleep after a tiring day, but apart from being odd, it was unsatisfying. The show has a hit rate of one out of four then.
I have seen Blade Runner 2049, and it’s stayed with me – it looks amazing, works well as a sequel (confession: I’ve only seen the original once, and it was a version that strongly suggested that you know who was a you know what). It didn't feel too long, despite the length. I liked that there wasn’t just the one woman in it (although I rolled my eyes at the 50-foot sex dolls and wondered what the film would be like if the main character was a woman, although I'm generally glad Ryan Gosling is gainfully employed). However, I do acknowledge this spoilery criticism from Digital Spy Can we talk about Blade Runner 2049's problem with women? It raises something I hadn’t thought of, the closing point that it was made by men is very valid.
Strictly Week 3/Movie night results
Made with the full co-operation of Disney (did they tell the audience ‘and X will appear on screen now, so applaud?) we had a big number. I loved the colourfulness of the first routine – never mind cultural appropriation, in a show that used Brendan as King of Siam to advertise Movie Night when it might be best forgotten. And the rope from 'Saturday' got used well. I was both touched by the loveliness of the Little Mermaid bit and impressed Dianne didn’t vomit at all the turning, and while Janette wouldn’t have been my pick for Belle, the whirl of the last part was irresistible. Big opening, very nice.
Claudia decided to wear a colour – yay. Sadly she seemed to think that Tess’s look from last week was a good one. She was wrong, specifically on the fit and the skirt length. Tess went black, assymetric, look at my legs. Darcey went for an interesting trouser suit – trouser legs that look like skirts actually work for the judges on Strictly, and the eye-popping lining helped. But with her tailored white, Shirley beat ‘em all.
Apparently enough people like Brendan arguing with the judges/feel Charlotte has potential to keep them safe. Competitive dancer Amy showed the most reaction we’ve seen from her. I thought Simon being in the bottom two was not a travesty, and Craig gave him decent advice.
Sheridan Smith both acted and belted her song to such a degree that I wasn’t really watching the dancing, which is rare. While this was an improvement on what they gave Katya to wear last week, it wasn’t by much. Stop it with the sheer bottom of skirts, wardrobe!
As soon as Ruth was called safe, the tension ramped up under the red lights. Giovanni is welcome for my vote. It only occurred to me later that Kevin would be really sick about dancing against his wife, which I think is why they made Susan wait so long (but given that she then burst into tears, the producers may torture her some more in future). Darcey did not give such good advice to Richard, but unless if Simon went massively wrong, there was no way it wasn’t going to be Richard leaving us. Cue Dianne veering off the Strictly pro speech until returning to it.
On ITT, Craig acknowledged that they don’t apply the rule sometimes because of the music (or presumably when people are ‘flying’ or whatever), which has probably confused things even further.
This was odd, and ultimately, a bit of a shaggy pig story. There were interesting strands, that they were living on an estate on a cliff that was soon to erode into the sea, the suggestion that it was all an artificial construct anyway, with little choice about where they’d move and the strong suggestion that there was nowhere to sail away to. The Mortensons’ lack of fertility, Sally secretly keeping inedible plants to try and grow stuff, while the food they were legally allowed/forced to have kept going off. And dreams and sleep. The whole porcine-human stuff PLUS the macguffin of the galactic quantum = ???
But most of that turned out to be decorative, setting for a noirish story of a schmuck with a dream, a desperate femme fatale (who was a ‘Jill’ so a sort of replicant). Sidse Babett Knudsen (yay!) vamped it up bigtime. Julia Davis’s American accent wobbled. And it was hard to sympathise with someone, Steve Buscemi’s Ed, who’d let down someone he knew could shoot her enemies. There was odd, unsettling music.
I admit I was battling sleep after a tiring day, but apart from being odd, it was unsatisfying. The show has a hit rate of one out of four then.
I have seen Blade Runner 2049, and it’s stayed with me – it looks amazing, works well as a sequel (confession: I’ve only seen the original once, and it was a version that strongly suggested that you know who was a you know what). It didn't feel too long, despite the length. I liked that there wasn’t just the one woman in it (although I rolled my eyes at the 50-foot sex dolls and wondered what the film would be like if the main character was a woman, although I'm generally glad Ryan Gosling is gainfully employed). However, I do acknowledge this spoilery criticism from Digital Spy Can we talk about Blade Runner 2049's problem with women? It raises something I hadn’t thought of, the closing point that it was made by men is very valid.
Strictly Week 3/Movie night results
Made with the full co-operation of Disney (did they tell the audience ‘and X will appear on screen now, so applaud?) we had a big number. I loved the colourfulness of the first routine – never mind cultural appropriation, in a show that used Brendan as King of Siam to advertise Movie Night when it might be best forgotten. And the rope from 'Saturday' got used well. I was both touched by the loveliness of the Little Mermaid bit and impressed Dianne didn’t vomit at all the turning, and while Janette wouldn’t have been my pick for Belle, the whirl of the last part was irresistible. Big opening, very nice.
Claudia decided to wear a colour – yay. Sadly she seemed to think that Tess’s look from last week was a good one. She was wrong, specifically on the fit and the skirt length. Tess went black, assymetric, look at my legs. Darcey went for an interesting trouser suit – trouser legs that look like skirts actually work for the judges on Strictly, and the eye-popping lining helped. But with her tailored white, Shirley beat ‘em all.
Apparently enough people like Brendan arguing with the judges/feel Charlotte has potential to keep them safe. Competitive dancer Amy showed the most reaction we’ve seen from her. I thought Simon being in the bottom two was not a travesty, and Craig gave him decent advice.
Sheridan Smith both acted and belted her song to such a degree that I wasn’t really watching the dancing, which is rare. While this was an improvement on what they gave Katya to wear last week, it wasn’t by much. Stop it with the sheer bottom of skirts, wardrobe!
As soon as Ruth was called safe, the tension ramped up under the red lights. Giovanni is welcome for my vote. It only occurred to me later that Kevin would be really sick about dancing against his wife, which I think is why they made Susan wait so long (but given that she then burst into tears, the producers may torture her some more in future). Darcey did not give such good advice to Richard, but unless if Simon went massively wrong, there was no way it wasn’t going to be Richard leaving us. Cue Dianne veering off the Strictly pro speech until returning to it.
On ITT, Craig acknowledged that they don’t apply the rule sometimes because of the music (or presumably when people are ‘flying’ or whatever), which has probably confused things even further.
