Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennants: People Like Us, teasing Graham Norton, and at the BAFTAs

David Tennant in People Like Us

David Tennant and Graham Norton

David Tennant at the BAFTAs

Time once again to admire acclaimed Scottish actor David Tennant and his amazing ability to avoid standing up. We have three pictures today, now that Ms Jaradel has managed to pick herself up and activate her patented “Pictures of David Tennant sitting down finder”. The first is from People Like Us and appears to show some very unsubtle paparazzi, the second shows David Tennant trying to get Graham Norton’s attention, while the third sees our David mesmerised at the BAFTAs by a particularly exciting group of Lithuanian knife throwers, demonstrating their skills on Fern Britton.

Despite Ms Rullsenberg’s attempt to skew the scores by captioning her own picture, no inspiration points to be awarded this time since both of last week’s pictures were captioned an equal number of times by everyone else. So that means the picture leaderboard now stands as follows:

  1. Rullsenberg: 21.5
  2. Jaradel: 17.5
  3. Sister Chastity: 16.5
  4. Rosby: 2.5
  5. Persephone: 1

Back in witty caption land, Toby got the 10 points award for best usage of the world’s smallest pigs in a caption; witty points went to Marie for picture 1 and Rev for his slightly macabre caption for picture 2. That gives us a points board that looks suspiciously like this:

  1. Toby: 121.5
  2. Marie: 105
  3. Rullsenberg: 69.5
  4. Jane Henry: 62.5
  5. Persephone: 45.5
  6. Jaradel: 38.5
  7. Electric Dragon: 25
  8. Rev/Views 19
  9. Scott: 3
  10. Aaron: 2
  11. almostwitty.com: 1

Ten bonus points will be awarded this week to the person who comes up with the best caption involving Nigerian fraud, beauty queens and/or surfers who rescue kangaroos.

As always, captions and new submissions for the gallery, please. Remember, you can submit as many (witty) captions as you like for each and every picture, with topical captions (and pictures of David Tennant in current productions) getting extra marks. The wittiest caption for each picture will get double points. And there’s a bonus point for using Gary Numan lyrics appropriately.

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. You can also enter the witting and amusing captions league table by commenting on existing photos in the gallery.

What have you been watching this week (w/e 15 May)?

So what have you been watching on the gogglebox this week? Anything new? Anything good? Anything that sucked big time? Let everyone know so they can iPlayer/Hulu accordingly.

I’ve already covered quite a few of the finales this week already, so I won’t regurgitate them. But

  • We caught up with My Name is Earl this week and wished we hadn’t – dull
  • I tried the Fringe finale, purely to have a gander at Leonard Nimoy: nice final image and the revelation about Peter was impressive, but it still doesn’t look like I’ve been missing that much since I gave up circa episode seven
  • The Daily Show‘s been meandering a little bit
  • Prison Break continues to be as daft as a brush but considerably less entertaining
  • Scrubs had a great finale (nice to see all those cameos, especially Amy Smart) which is likely to be ruined if ABC brings the show back; we were giggling like idiots at the JD/Elliott “Oh God, they’re us” moments
  • CSI: Miami is trying to behave like a proper drama series for some reason, but since it left our galaxy years ago in terms of plausibility, it’s a strange beast to behold right now.
  • Is it possible that Mona from The Apprentice is in fact the least comfortable person in the whole world when dealing with LesBiGay issues?
  • There is a neverending supply of Grand Designs and Come Dine With Me episodes on More4. Our Sky+ box is almost full of them. How is this possible?

As always, no spoilers unless you’re going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please? Ta!

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Star Trek: still for geeks?

Star Trek movie cast

I was going to write a review of Star Trek. But then I couldn’t be bothered. Lovely wife loves it and wants to see it again in IMAX; I thought it was good, but all that time travel made it feel too geeky and continuity-ridden for my liking. But it’s definitely one of the best, if not the best of the Trek movies, and I did love the fact they showed Christopher Pike (who was the captain of the Enterprise in the show’s original pilot) as a decent captain, on a par with Kirk, rather than a simple placeholder, waiting for Kirk to come along. Plus Karl Urban as Bones was spooky.

Thing is, it’s supposed to be a movie that sheds the Star Trek universe of geekiness and makes it accessible to non-fans. However, while preparing to write said review of Star Trek, I went to its IMDB page to do some research. Turns out the geeks hadn’t got the message.

First thing to make me roll my eyes and laugh was the cast list. See if you can see what I mean:

The cast list on IMDB for Star Trek

After that, I checked out the goofs page. I did so love this one, not just for being wrong, but because someone cared enough to add it:

Continuity: In the final “Spock on Spock” scene, you can see the obvious height difference between the two. Young Spock should be the same height as old Spock.

I won’t even delve into the forums. They’re busy complaining about promotion-speed.

Still, if it makes them happy and it’s a good film: an enjoyable romp, but not an absolute must-see.