Today’s Dick Head is from Marple: Ordeal by Innocence, in which Richard Armitage played Philip Durrant, the well-known bonfire night Guy. It was provided by Deb – thanks Deb.
On your marks, get set, haiku!
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This particular Companion Chronicle from Big Finish marks the start of two things: first, it’s the first to really start mixing up the idea of the Companion Chronicles and the range’s two-handers; the second is that it’s the prelude to the Key To Time 2 (aka Key 2 Time. Aargh) season that’s going to dominate the Big Finish Doctor Who range for the next five months or so.
Yey?
Based on the exciting game theory problem The Prisoner’s Dilemma, The Prisoner’s Dilemma has Ace and evil “living tracer” Zara stuck in jail together on some random planet or other and they have to get out somehow. The question is, will you care if they do or don’t?
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Today’s Sitting/Reclining Tennants come from Ms Rullsenberg again, who seems ever more intent to get the Sitting Tennant title two years in a row. They’re from the Doctor Who episode Midnight and from Hamlet and feature him in a reclining position – I’m sure that there’ll be much debate as to whether their degree of sittingness is entirely valid – and with his mouth open.
That means the scoreboard for the picture competition now stands as follows:
Witty captions-wise, for topicality, Marie chose to get ill again, which is the kind of dedication to Sitting Tennnant that needs to be rewarded; a whole lot of people picked up on the strangely compelling blonde lift back on a certain popular meme I could mention; and a few people picked up on my disappearing Internet connection (it’s already back today, apparently, but I’m not at home to test it). Wittiest caption for picture 1 (although it spreads a bit onto other pictures) was Marie‘s; picture 2’s Ghost-related caption from Ms Rullsenberg entertained me the most; while Persephone was top of the picture 3 captioners.
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.
In the US: Friday, 9/8c, Fox
Ooh Joss Whedon. Ooh Eliza Dushku. Ooh Steven DeKnight. Ooh, Amy Acker…
And so on.
Because as you look through the credits of Dollhouse, Fox’s new sci-fi spy show, you can’t help but notice a few Buffy alumni in the list.
What you won’t see is Gerry Anderson’s name in the list, despite the fact this is perilously close to one of his old shows. Joe 90, although basically a bit of wish fulfilment for kids involving puppets, saw one boy become a secret agent thanks to a special gadget that gives him the brain waves of other people – and their skills to match.
Dollhouse, while slightly more malevolent, follows more or less the same plot. Eliza Dushku, plays Echo, a personality-less drone who gets given a new persona each week for various missions. One day a party girl, the next day a hostage negotiator, Echo remembers nothing (apparently) except what secret organisation Dollhouse wants her to, including all the special skills necessary for the job and a personality to match.
Ironically, Dollhouse is pretty personality-less itself; even more ironically, you might be hankering after the acting in Joe 90 by the end, too.
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