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( Random thoughts )

[TV] BBC Win and Fail

Last night I caught up on the "Hunters and Hunted" episode of Life which again had some utterly mind-boggling footage of things I had neither seen nor in some cases even heard of before like the fishing bat, the stoat hunting and killing a rabbit three times its size(!) and the amazing agility of the young ibex escaping a fox.

Then I tried to watch Paradox which looked vaguely interesting but gave up half way through. Now, there are things like Bonekickers that are so bad they are good because they are funny in a silly way and then there are things that are just bad. Some people found it funny for the wrong reasons (and I agree with a lot of things in that review) but I couldn't stand it and switched off half way through. Ridiculous characters you don't care for, ridiculous setup (a non-networked computer receiving data from the outside etc.), a plot that neither made sense nor established an air of mystery along the lines of "OK, this is weird, I want to know what's going on" like it's been done quite well in Lost or Flashforward and was predictable at the same time (I didn't watch it til the end but now know that what I thought would happen did).
The #paradox page on twitter reflected the general bad impression, especially Charlie Brooker's comments ("it'll be on iplayer. Or, this being a PARADOX, repeated last week") were hilarious. I retweeted a few others, too, the best one being this one:

@catvincent He's an arsehole physicist, she's a cop who can't deduce her way out of a paper bag. They fight crime. *From the Future*.

I then watched Monday's (in the US) episode of The Big Bang Theory which, while not particularly thrilling (Howard's antics and practical jokes aren't my thing) was still a lot better. BBT sadly seems to have hit a bit of a low point, last week's episode was full of old stoner jokes but those were remedied by some Penny/Sheldon character development.

Speaking of US TV, Sunday's Dexter was WTF/Holy Crap/edge of the seat awesome. Bloody hell...

Especially for madwitch

Audrey Hepburn at her most stunning
(from life.com)