Look at this! A new arrival in picture land! Everyone say hello to shilohforever and get ready to provide a caption.
Hebbie: 25
Sister Chastity: 15
Janice, shilohforever: 10
Meanwhile, in the caption competition, SK and Rullsenberg tie for the lead so get 10 points each, while everyone else gets five points – including newcomer Jen: everyone say hello to Jen, too!
Sister Chastity, Rullsenberg, SK: 10
Jen, Toby: 5
Good luck with this week’s captioning and picture-hunting everyone!
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 and doesn’t obviously infringe copyright, 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.
Each month, I’ll name the best picture provider and best captioneer, and then at the end of the year, the overall champion will be announced for 2012!
Time for “What did you watch this week?”, my chance to tell you what I watched this week that I haven’t already reviewed and your chance to recommend things to everyone else (and me) in case we’ve missed them.
First, the usual recommendations: The Daily Show, Modern Family, Happy Endings, Portlandia, Sherlock,Suburgatory and 30 Rock. Do watch them.
But still in the viewing queue are the first episodes of The Finder, Eternal Law, Rob, The L.A. Complex and Arctic Air, none of which appeal to me in the slightest, but fingers-crossed, I’ll take the bullet for you guys on some time next week. And embarrassingly, I haven’t seen this week’s Sherlock, either. Yes, I watched Are You There, Chelsea? instead, just for you guys. I hope you’re happy.
A few thoughts on what else I’ve watched this week, though:
Three Inches: around the time SyFy was working on Alphas, it was also developing this pilot with James Marsters and Naoko Mori of Torchwood (albeit in the supporting cast). Practically identical to Alphas but played for laughs, it’s about a mysterious, probably benevolent individual (Marsters) who assembles a team of superheroes with slightly rubbish abilities to solve crimes for the government, including the hero who can move things three inches with his mind. It’s easy to see why SyFy went for Alphas – this was rubbish – but at the same time, it’s clear that Three Inches had more heart in any given two minutes than Alphas did in any episode you care to name.
The Firm: NBC’s TV sequel to the movie and book of the same name by John Grisham. NBC showed two episodes of it but it couldn’t maintain my interest for 15 minutes, not even when Juliette Lewis and most of the Canadian cast of Battlestar Galactica turned up. Basically, just lots of running around being chased by men in suits. It may make more sense to people who have seen the movie, mind.
Portlandia: good, but not as laughter-filled as last season. Nice to see the feminist bookstore back, though.
In the glorious tradition of “things that I’ve recorded that I won’t watch because the commissioner decided to strip them and I don’t have the time to watch them”, I’ve just deleted the following from my DVR: Great Expectations and The Royal Bodyguard. I’ve taped the first two episodes of Borgen in the same tradition and confidently expect to delete them some time in the next couple of days.
“What did you watch this week?” is your chance to recommend to friends and fellow blog readers the TV and films that they might be missing or should avoid – and for me to do mini-reviews of everything I’ve watched. Since we live in the fabulous world of Internet catch-up services like the iPlayer and Hulu, why not tell your fellow readers what you’ve seen so they can see the good stuff they might have missed?
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 and doesn’t obviously infringe copyright, 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.
Each month, I’ll name the best picture provider and best captioneer, and then at the end of the year, the overall champion will be announced for 2012!
