Daibhid's Journal

Yeah, I finally got round to watching the first episode of Not Merlin. Actually it's more like Hercules: The Legendary Journeys with the Trapped In Another World/Secret Legacy tropes.
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So I've now watched four episodes of each of these, and while I tried to go in without any expectations, I have to say I'm liking Elementaty more than I expected and Arrow a bit less.
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Okay, this is a long one. Apparently that's what happens when you watch something on iPlayer and write the review as you go...
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It's the Justice League International! Guy, Booster, Fire and Ice, Beetle (Jaime instead of Ted, but still the Blue Beetle), J'onn, Batman and ... Aquaman? Do the creators just want any excuse to use Aquaman (which is fair enough), or did they get JLI confused with the Detroit League?

Far more importantly, J'onn is shown with a box of cookies. Chocolate chip cookies. That's not the Martian I know. Are sandwich biscuits hard to animate?

H. G. Wells really invented the stuff in the books! No problem with that, it's one of my favourite plot devices.

H. G. Wells was frozen by the U.S. Weird Stuff Agency du jour! Um, sure, why not?

H. G. Wells was a woman! Sorry, what?

I missed the first season of Warehouse 13, is it always completely freaking insane?

I keep meaning to write a bit about BBC Two's A Scottish Songbook at Celtic Connections on Monday. It was ... mixed.
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When I first heard about this, my reaction was "that's ... an odd idea". A Doctor Who themed episode of a somewhat anarchic music quiz.

And having watched it, my reaction is still that it was a very odd idea. In practice, being Doctor Who themed meant it was presented by David Tennant, Bernard and Catherine were on the teams. Jo Wylie made up the numbers on one team, and turned out to be a fan, and some singer made up the numbers on the other, and turned out to have no idea what anyone was talking about. Beyond that, and Ten's Who related links, there were some questions connected with space, some others connected with the words "doctor" and "who", and somewhat random appearances by Ood Sigma and a Dalek. I was disappointed that Kate Bush featured in one question, and no-one mentioned the mad fan theory that she wrote "Kinda".

(It's been a very long time since I last watched Buzzcocks. Bill Bailey was still a team captain, and I suspect he'd have been much more interested in a Doctor Who themed version than the new guy.)

So, yeah. Not bad, really, but ... odd.

And David Tennant is a Coldplay fan. Nobody's perfect.