Take out your copy of ‘David Suzuki Asks Did You Know…About Food and Feeding’, by Laura Suzuki and Peter Cook.
Now turn to the seventh page from the back, to the page entitled Why Egg Whites Turn White When You Cook Them?
Know that this book was first published in 1991.
Now look who’s sitting at the feet of the woman in the drawing.
It’s Photon.
QED.
Think I’m still liking it.
It’s obvious that Torchwood ain’t the same kind of fantasy dressed up in sci-fi drag as Doctor Who.
Torchwood is more like a good Lynda La Plante British crime drama, like Prime Suspect or her new ones like The Commander.
I still like what I said before: it’s dirtier, meaner, darker, weirder than Doctor Who.
But it’s not better.
And it’s still not important.
Rogers moved CNN Headline News off Channel 37 and replaced it with BBC World. Which is great because now I can’t moan about what asswipes Nancy and Glen are.
I like BBC World but I’m not used to its rhythm yet. I don’t know when anything’s on or who the presenters, hosts, or newsreaders are.
Rogers has also added Turner Classic Movies and American Movie Classics (TCM and AMC) to Tier 3.
To make room, Rogers moved CNBC and Speed up to digital. Maybe Golf is missing too, I’m not sure. Haven’t noticed it for a while and I always thought it was dumb to have specialty channels like Speed and Golf in the lower channels.
I am quite happy about not being tempted to pop over to Headline News every now and then just to see what stupid crap is coming out of Glen Beck’s mouth or how rude Nancy Grace is being to a guest.
Holy shit. I can’t say yet that I love the series - maybe, though -, but Jesus H. Christ. Seriously. And those Welsh accents…well, think rude and think randy. (Just talk to me, baby…I’m thinking Michelle Yeoh speaking Mandarin with a Welsh accent…Sorry.)
I know I said Captain Jack was wooden in the first episode, but he’s from the 51st century, stuck in the 21st and he knows way more than the people that work for him.
I was way too flippant in my comments on the first episode. Davies has a brain and a plan. I should know that by now.
The third episode is copying over even as I scribe this.
Maybe there’ll be literal miscegenation.
And by that, just so we’re cool, I don’t mean anything like the stupid racist American concept of ‘blacks’ and ‘whites’ making babies (Really, how can you even conceive of miscegenation as a sin-crime when the participants are of the same fucking species????!!!) . I mean the Star Trek kind of race-mixing: Betazoids and humans, Romulans and Klingons, or even Flurms and those fucking Kweekwets.
Seriousfully, don’t watch Torchwood if you’re thinking it’s just like more Doctor Who. It ain’t.
But watch it anyway.
It’s fun.
But it’s not important.
