TV Shows

TV Shows that I watched and related topics.

7 June 2011

Much Ado About David Tennant And Catherine Tate

Back in January, on a boring Sunday while doing the usual nothing on the internet, I got a Twitter pop-up on my screen from David Tennant’s news channel. It had just been announced that David Tennant and Catherine Tate would be performing on stage in a new production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. “Interesting…”, I thought aloud to myself, which alerted my boyfriend who was sitting next to me doing stuff on his own computer. I told him about this discovery, and after about 3 minutes of discussion, we had spontaneously decided that our summer vacation would take place […]

5 June 2011

In the QI audience

I’ve been planning my current trip to London since January, so naturally I continuously kept checking out cool stuff do to while I’m there. One of the things I checked out was applausestore.com, which is a platform where you can apply for TV studio audience tickets. And I got extra lucky – after applying for the waiting list, the reserve list and the actual ticket list, I got a priority ticket to the show QI! Yay! Unless you’re not British or a total Stephen Fry fanatic, you might be thinking “huh?”. QI (Quite Interesting) is a panel quiz show hosted […]

16 December 2010

Of Parallel Universes, Alternate Realities, Realms and Dimensions

As a side effect of the significant amount of Science Fiction I’ve been enjoying lately (most recently having devoured Fringe in no time), I’ve noticed a phenomenon that is almost as inexplicably over-present in fiction as vampires or zombies are: Parallel Universes. There’s just one thing in which Parallel Universes strikingly differ from fiction-favorites vampires and zombies: their existence can not be proven, nor can be proven that they don’t exist. They are the lab cat of science, locked in a box labeled “Schrodinger’s”. Science usually refers to Parallel Universes as the “Multiverse”, which I will also do here, mostly. […]

6 September 2010

Eureka!

from Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heurēka, “I have found”) I have found my affection for the TV show Eureka only recently. When I first borrowed the DVD, I had no idea what to expect, because “a town full of geniuses” is a pretty vague description. But I was positively surprised when, while watching, I discovered that this is fully-fledged fun-to-watch Science Fiction. Eureka is best described as a mixture of Torchwood, Doctor Who and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The lead character is Sheriff Jack Carter, an average guy who accidentally stumbles upon this sleepy Oregon town and ends up being the […]

19 August 2010

Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes

I have only ever read one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books – The Hound of the Baskervilles, a long long time ago. Before even thinking about reviewing stuff that has anything to do with Sherlock Holmes, I should probably read all the other books. But currently I’ve been stuck on one book for months because I’m so busy and the weather is too good to hide out in café’s in my lunch break (anything that doesn’t involve rain and temperatures below 5°C is too good). I’ll review this stuff anyway, maybe someone will feel inspired to watch it […]

8 March 2010

History: Contains Spoilers for Rome and The Tudors.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the TV shows Rome and The Tudors! Cesar is stabbed! Anne Boleyn loses her head! So what is the point in watching those shows, you say? Well, when not written by a dull and dry textbook author, history can be very exciting (and much more cruel than any splatter film you can think of). Rome was a truly epic TV show – so epic, that the producers couldn’t afford to do more than two seasons of it – and we’re talking about HBO and the BBC here. Which is quite sad, because towards the […]

5 February 2010

For a little while (Dollhouse)

Regarding Joss Whedon’s show Dollhouse, for the past three years there has been much ado about… nothing? The fans were ambitious when they first learned about Whedon’s latest project, then they were upset about what FOX tried to turn it into. Later on they were glad that it got renewed for a second season, and eventually sad-but-not-surprised that it got canceled. All those facts contributed to what Dollhouse is now: a nice show, but nothing more. Whedon has proven many times in Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Firefly that he can do so much more. Make us roll on the […]

17 January 2009

Mars. vs. Mars or Is there life in 1973?

Is there life in 1973? Is there life on mars? Is there life after the Doctor? Three perfect questions. As briefly mentioned in my 2008 wrap-up post, I got completely and utterly lost in the Whoniverse toward the end of last year. I kept hearing and reading from all sides how amazing the TV shows Doctor Who (2005) and Torchwood were, that I became more and more anxious to watch them. And then I did, and though I at first thought “Well, ´tis a bit trashy.”, I quickly learned to ignore the trashy bits and was completely blown away by […]

10 December 2008

The Interior Design Of A Spaceship

When I was watching Serenity the other night, I was wondering why spaceships in the movies and on TV always have such a cold and unfriendly interior design. I’m not much of a Sci-Fi geek, but I have been watching an awful lot of Sci-Fi lately. And I keep noticing the same thing: depressingly gray rooms made of metal and concrete, grills in the floors and zero comfort. How exactly does River Tam handle being barefoot in that thing all the time? And why do spaceships hardly ever have wooden floors, or carpets, or tapestries? Though the Serenity, a Firefly, […]