So we know each other quite well now, I hope, don’t we? We share stuff, right? Okay, so this week’s quick, fun summer meme (first posed by lovely wife on our hols) asks
Who’s on your List?
You know about the List, right? From Friends? It’s the list of five famous people you’re allowed to sleep with if you meet them and your partner won’t mind. So who’s on yours?
Lovely wife also added this little fillip for advanced List makers: who are your alternates – the two you’d add to your List in case you switched sexual orientation?
For those really interested, mine are (in descending order of obviousness): Ali Larter, Joanna Page, Elizabeth Banks, Christina Applegate and Julie Benz. With the addition of Ryan Reynolds and George Clooney, in case of emergencies (although lovely wife thinks I’d get on well with Stephen Fry, too).
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
Hello, everyone! I’m back from sunny Santorini to find London is sunny again. How did that happen?
Anyway, glad to see nothing happened to the blog while I was gone and that everyone seemed moderately entertained in my absence. Over the next few days, the blog will return to normal, and the news will start again on Monday. I should have a few reviews lined up of Big Finish audio plays, as well as of the premiere of season three of Mad Men – and, fingers crossed, a preview of the first episode of the fourth season of Dexter.
Until then, seeing as BBC America is showing Being Human and everyone over in the States is getting all excited about it, I thought I’d post the pilot episode, which introduced the characters albeit with a mostly different cast. To those Americans who are just getting into Being Human, have a check through the articles tagged ‘Being Human’ on the blog, since I’ve included a Q&A with the cast and producers, amongst other things. I’d already posted the pilot (and some prequel vids) once before, but YouTube seem to have taken them down, so this should act as a replacement.
When it comes to weird old title sequences, they don’t come much weirder than The Tomorrow’s People. For a show that was basically:
At first glance, an attempt by ITV to come up with a competitor to Doctor Who
At second glance, a sci-fi metaphor for teenagers discovering they’re gay and coming to terms with their sexuality
At third glance, a way for dirty old men to see lots of young boys without many clothes getting tied up a lot by blokes in black face masks
Something for which everyone involved should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves
It didn’t half have some great titles.
For those not in the know, the Tomorrow People were the next stage in human evolution – Homo Superior rather than Homo Sapiens, or ‘saps’ as the condescending twonks liked to call everyone else. Capable of telekinesis, mindreading and teleportation, among other tricks, they were normal teenagers until they ‘broke out’ and started exhibiting powers. They’d then end up being nurtured by the other Tomorrow People in an underground spaceship called TIM, while mean, nasty homophobic aliens try to take advantage of them, either here or after they’ve ‘jaunted’ to some other alien planet full of young Tomorrow People who don’t wear many clothes.
With probably only one decent story in its near-decade long run, The Tomorrow People had appalling special effects, some terrible scripts (including one in which Hitler was revealed to have been a slimey green intergalactic conman), some abysmal acting, Peter Davison wearing nothing but an afro wig and gold lamé underpants at one point, and – lest it be forgotten – puppets for aliens. It was pants, basically.
Despite this, it’s fondly remembered, and was revived in the 90s with some bloke off Neighbours, much better special effects and another guy who went on to appear in Battlestar Galactica. It even ended up with a Big Finish range of audio plays featuring the original, ever-changing cast.
I think it’s probably down to this title sequence and the theme tune that it was so popular.
Still not here. Don’t worry, I’ll be back on Wednesday. Until then, here’s something even better: pictures of David Tennant sitting down. Today’s piccies are, as usual, from Ms Rullsenberg, Jaradel, Sister Chastity, Toby and Lauren. Their generosity and tenacity knows no limits.
Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery.
Every photo displayed on Monday (one per person who sends one in) gets a point, with a bonus point if it’s from the latest DT production; the best pic in the stash each week will appear on Friday and get three points.
You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Friday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points.
