Year: 2011

Sitting Tennant

Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant (week 19, 2011)

24 May 2011 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Today, it’s Sister Chastity serving up a popular request for fans of Sitting Tennant – David Tennant sitting down but also licking. I’m assuming it’s because you all want to know his ice cream technique or something. Anyone, get your caption hats on and get down to work!

  1. Hebbie: 120
  2. Sister Chastity: 95
  3. Rullsenberg: 55
  4. Erin C: 55
  5. Janice: 15
  6. esgaril: 10
  7. theriverlady: 5

It’s Electric Dragon who won last week’s caption competition (incidentally, I never noticed how hairy the backs of David Tennant’s hands were until now) so Mr Dragon gets the 10 points, 5 points to everyone else who submitted a caption. Good luck this week!

  1. Marie: 120
  2. Rullsenberg: 95
  3. Electric Dragon: 70
  4. Toby, SK: 60
  5. Lisa G: 45
  6. Jane Henry: 40
  7. theriverlady: 35
  8. Virpi, Joe B: 15
  9. whoficwriter, Hebbie: 10
  10. kallan: 5

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. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.

The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Tuesday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.

You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points, everyone who contributes getting five points.

TV reviews

Review: Doctor Who – 6×5 – The Rebel Flesh

23 May 2011 Rob Buckley 17 Comments

The Rebel Flash

In the UK: Saturday 21st May, 6.45pm, BBC1/BBC1 HD. Available on the iPlayer
In the US: Saturday 21st May, 9pm/8c, BBC America

Erm, yes. Doctor Who. It’s running up and down corridors, while threatened by a bad special effects enemy generated through odd science and with poor motivation, isn’t it?

Sigh. I wasn’t expecting much from Matthew Graham after Fear Her, and given the last non-Moffat Moffat-years two-parter was the dreadful The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood, I wasn’t expecting too much from this either. And there were some nicely creepy bits, some decent direction, some decent acting and some good ideas underneath it all. Unsurprisingly, given this was Matthew Graham (co-creator of Life On Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus So I Won’t Have Any Good Ones In My Show), Rory actually came out of this quite well and didn’t come across as a total sponge for once – he didn’t even die once – while Amy got precisely bugger all to do except scream.

But largely, this was an extremely boring episode where not much happened except people running up and down corridors in a slight homage to The Thing/The Clonus Horror. Worse still, come 20 minutes, I’m not just looking at the clock thinking "Oh, God, we’ve got another 25 minutes of this", I’m looking at it thinking "Oh, God, we’ve got another one of these next week as well."

Expectations: met.

However, your mileage may vary, so leave a comment or a link to a review on your own blog.

PS Is it just me or if you’re going to have a story arc that runs across an entire season, it doesn’t count having the same reference in every single week: yes, Amy is both pregnant and not pregnant; there’s a woman with an eye-patch behind every wall; and the Doctor’s going to die and Rory and Amy are wondering whether to tell him. We remember that from episodes 2, 3 and 4. Is anything else going to happen?

Random Acts

Random Acts: Ali and Amber at Century City, Scarlett just goes completely random but she has competition from Brad Pitt

23 May 2011 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Ali Larter at Anneberg Amber Heard with wife Tasya van Ree

Well, Ali Larter and Amber Heard were being quite normal this week, having a random team meeting at a ‘‘A seminal examination of photography’s role in capturing and defining notions of modern female beauty’ at the Anneberg Space for Photography in Century City (partners were allowed, apparently). Well, okay, Ali tried to be a little random:

“Ugh!” shrieked Ali Larter upon seeing a photograph of a bony model falling as she walked down a runway in a pair of impossibly high platform shoes, the model’s knees buckling in a way that made her look almost like a sideshow contortionist. “I have like a gag reflex to this,” she said.

Nice try, Ali, but while you and Amber were off looking at photographs, Scarlett Johansson was off doing this:

Scarlett Johansson as a clown

And this

Scarlett Johansson

And this

Scarlett Johansson

No. No idea. That’s how random Scarlett is. And she didn’t even stop there. She’s also recorded a song for a movie, Days of Grace, with Massive Attack. At this rate, this is going to have to become Random Acts of Scarlett Johansson.

Oh, no. Wait. Brad Pitt has randomly decided to pretend to be Don Johnson in Miami Vice. I’ll get back to you on that. Anyone for Random Acts of Brad Pitt?

Brad Pitt