January 2012
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Introducing Beer:Stuff:Nonsense
The Room515 blog has now been moved to Beer:Stuff:Nonsense aka @beerbloguk please come say hello!
All the same stuff - but with a little more beer.
October 2011
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http://www.apple.com/ios/features.html →
The more I check out IOS5, the more of a sad iPhone fan-boy I become…
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September 2011
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Doctor Who - Closing Time Review
I have to admit.
Theres a reason why it took me a while to write this.
I wasn’t sure what to say about this.
On one hand. You have the plot. As far I know, the plot of any story is meant to be the driving force through the storyline. The plot in this case was basically: Shop is built on top of a dead cybership, Cybermat wakes up and gets power for the cybermen. Cybermen wake up. Cybermen...
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WatchThe Wedding of Riversong
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Doctor Who: "The God Complex" Review
There’s a hotel. Each room inside it, has someones biggest fear. There’s a room for everyone.
One thing that “Steven Moffat Doctor Who” seems to do well is to stay away from big crazy storylines, but focus instead on the smaller scary ideas. And here’s one of them. After all, we have a monster that takes your worst fear, and then feeds on your faith that would...
There’s a hotel. Each room inside it, has someones biggest fear. There’s a room for everyone. One thing that “Steven Moffat Doctor Who” seems to do well is to stay away from big crazy storylines, but focus instead on the smaller scary ideas. And here’s one of them. After all, we have a monster that takes your worst fear, and then feeds on your faith that would...
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Torchwood: Miracle Day Part 10 - Review
Well.
I’m not sure what to say.
It wasn’t exactly good was it?
What did we get?
Quarter of an hour into it, we getthe best Captain Jack moment. The conversation between Danes and was the sort of nice moment we needed more weeks ago.
Well. The CIA, were almost useful. They almost go all CTU on us. They are almost fantastic. They then get blown up. Dear Russell T Davies, by blowing...
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Doctor Who: "The Girl Who Waited" Review
Well here something special.
Last week we had the creepy but fairly standard fair of Night Terrors. This week we get something... A little different.
It starts of with a standard idea; an alien planet, with an alien virus. Both ideas in this case, twisted. A virus that would only kill the Doctor - giving us what could well be this years equalivant of a Doctor lite episode? With the action...
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Torchwood: Miracle Day Part 9 - Review
"2 months later..."
Well that sucks... It sounds like it went mad between this and the last episode. May have been interesting to watch...
The thing is. It's two months later. Things have changed, and it feels like a different story, set in the same universe. Rex and Q are in charge of the CIA, Jack and Esther are hiding, and Gwen's stealing drugs.
Then scary child killer turns up, and offers...
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Doctor Who: "Night Terrors" Review
“Please save me from the monsters”
Creepy. Moody. And a little bit creepy again.
And alot of creepy investigation… stuff…
Shame it kinda took a while to get to the good stuff. Alot seemed to happen in the last 10 / 15 ish minutes. Gentle pacing problems maybe?
Mark Gatiss is very good at writing very much standard Doctor Who stories, and this is one of them. Theres...
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Torchwood: Miracle Day Part 8 - Review
Well... Torchwood...
Do we keep watching because it can't get any worse?
Well we get to see the guy from last week as an old man... But it seems that he's not to blame... This is episode 8 for crying out loud! Get on with it!!
Talking about getting on with it, it seems that even Gwen was struggling to comprehend why last weeks episode existed.
We get some explanation... But its sooo dull!!! ...
August 2011
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“It’s camouflaged. It’s disguised as a police telephone box from 1963. Every time...”
– The Doctor (via 50onourforeheads)
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Doctor Who: "Lets Kill Hitler" Review
Wow, now wasn’t this fun…
If not a little bit odd.
Kinda glad I’m a fan, else I’m not sure how accessible this would have been. Saying that, the episode did manage the great trick of kinda explaining itself as it went along, so maybe the non casual viewer would have been ok with it.
Some gorgeous moments from the episode include:
“Shut up Hitler”
The...
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Hello
This is a test Move along now. Nothing to see.
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Torchwood: Miracle Day Part 7 - Review
Yey!
We get our first flashback of the series… Nooooo… It’s really dull!!!
Why are we presented with all of this now? Why couldn’t the flashbacks have been taking place over the last few episodes? Why is this all been presented to us now? If nothing else having all of this presented at once made the whole thing feel rather obvious.
Well it’s kinda slow…
But...
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“Arthur: It would have to be a 747.
Cobb: Why is that?
Arthur: Because in a...”
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Torchwood: Miracle Day Part 6 - Review
The end of the last weeks we were given what looked like an excellent preview of tonights episode. It made tonights episode look amazing.
We get to tonights episode… and for the first 20 minutes… We get nothing.
Again.
Then 3 treats.
Then for some reason. Captain Jack becomes useful. He somehow shifts himself from what ever miracle day show that was featured at the end of last...
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“The Doctor: She’s a woman. And she’s the TARDIS.
Amy: Did you wish...”
– Doctor Who: The Doctor Wife
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So Doctor Who goes to America, and we get a movie that should be watched on the big screen… Torchwood goes to America, and what do we get in comparison?
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Torchwood: Miracle Day Part 5 - Review
“”Torchwood’s gone - its just a name these days”
Well. The Good.
We’re back in the good old UK.
The bad news. It didn’t stay in the UK… or lets face it - Wales.
I cant help but think this just helps to remind how much I miss the “Welsh Torchwood”. On one side we seem to have - what look liked fairly big budget drama, on the other side -...
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s9/24/news/a333601... →
If this is anything like 24: Redemption - This HAS to happen!
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/08/06/new-res... →
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Torchwood: Miracle Day Part 4 - Review
Remember Torchwood Series 1? Where the stories were alright but we just didn’t care about the characters for a long long time?
So Torchwood Part 4… And after three weeks worth of non caring Russell T Davies pulls out his trump card. The precredit sequence manages to include an unfolding human tragedy with Esther’s sister, and weird Triangle Stalker man; setting up a unique event...
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July 2011
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Where are the monsters in this series of Torchwood?
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Torchwood: Miracle Day Part 3 - Review
So Miracle Day Part3.
What have we got? It still feels slow, it still feels Americanised, and Rex still doesn’t have a personality.
Well we have some form of character development, in form of Rex having a strop, Esther having a a good cry, and weird child killer dude having a bad time… Shame it’s just not that interesting…
…Until the end… Again they save...
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“In an acting master class at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Christopher Eccleston...”
– Christopher Eccleston
Bad Wilf Podcast
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Torchwood: Miracle Day Part 2 - Review
Ok. Episode 2, and we’ve got rid of Wales. I never thought I’d miss it… Well immediate impressions. We still have Rex, he’s still unlikeable. The good. We have the Jack and Gwen show back…
In fits and bursts anyway…
And I suppose this episode was fun in fits and bursts as well.
That poisoning stunt was probably the best thing so far.
Yes we have some...