Telly.

[whatho]

I've been watching multiple episodes of Would I Lie To You? on Dave for two primary reasons:

1. David Mitchell's rants. They're ace, they are. He's doing something about ice-wardens right now. It's a BIT great.

2. Angus Deayton's silhouette OH GOD. I almost wish the whole thing were just a compilation of Angus entering the studio. He starts off doing a BRILLIANT THING behind a circle, in silhouette. In one he rides a bicycle and in another he's lying on a couch smoking a pipe and OH GOD, it's entirely beautiful.

But the autocue script. Is it anything than 100% pure offensive? It's so upsetting. It's like contemporary HIGNFY. I think Angus is trying to keep pace. Did HIGNFY always used to be this way, incidentally? I'm sure I remember being largely unoffended by the HIGNFY autocue script and by HIGNFY in general, while recently it mostly makes me furious, but I'm terrified I was just blind to it.

I also saw Dr Who this evening, though not in any sense on purpose. My cat decided she wanted to sit on me, which has never happened before, so I stayed very still and quiet and watched Dr Who. Mostly I thought it was a big pile of wank. But I'm not very open to the idea of Who's being good these days. I don't know. I couldn't understand a word Billie Piper was saying through her ill-fitting dentures. I liked that David Tennant wasn't in it. I can't be doing with Rose. RTD protests too much. I can't believe they're using Bad Wolf again. It doesn't signal the end of the world; it signals a whacking great red herring. Doesn't he remember? I did like the big plastic beetle. My brother says they stole it from 1973, only then it was a spider and the prop was better. Or something. I don't really know.

Also my mother bought me a bus ticket today so I could go swimming with my brand new noseclip. It was grand. I didn't drown once.

Comments

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Your brother is correct. But I do like the beetle better.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

The beetle was great. It just sort of made everyone smile a bit. I wouldn't mind having a giant stiff-jointed beetle on my back AT ALL. Actually.

[lolabobs.livejournal.com]

They showed the 1973 thing on Confidentiaql - it was a giant spider on Sarah Jane's back.

Billie's teeth were quite shocking. Where did they come from?

[whatho.livejournal.com]

I love that everyone's talking about Billie's weird teeth. I'm fairly sure she wasn't doing that in her first season. I don't entirely the recall her delivering every single line in a mumbling monotone. Like a sort of a zombie with a badly swollen tongue.

Was this just a sort of a plagiarism episode then? One of those ones where they run out of fresh ideas and rehash something from several seasons ago like Bob in Blackadder Goes Forth and all that Ace Rimmer stuff?

[lolabobs.livejournal.com]

Alas I can't answer your query as I'm one of those shocking folk who don't know OldWho canon. I used to hide behind cushions when Tom baker was the doctor - and then again for different reasons when it was Sylvester McCoy, but never retained any of it.

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

I can't believe HIGNFY right now. I'm sure it wasn't always this terrible - I mean, I know that Ian was always quite bad, but he never made me quite as angry as he does at the moment - but I'm a bit scared to rewatch it in case it is not as brimming with loveliness as it was in my imagination. Woe.

I should watch more Would I Lie to You! I love Angus so very much. I love how GOOD he is at Reading Out Loud.

OH MY GOD, I can't believe they're re-using Bad Wolf. As if the Bad Wolf reveal wasn't MASSIVELY DISAPPOINTING the first time around. I could understand Rose using it as a code so that the Doctor knew she'd been helping Donna - but trying to make it part of the plot is just ridic.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

HIGNFY's so upsetting. I suppose on the plus side Ian is so excessively upsetting that Paul's having to be ultra-brilliant to make up for it and I'm falling more profoundly in love with him than once I was. Or possibly that's Whose Line. But yes. Ian was always rather an issue. But I don't remember it being so scary to watch as it is these days.

On the plus side, Angus is great, even if his autocue is abysmal. You could just watch the very start of Would I Lie to You? for the silhouette bit. It's slightly too much.

Bad Wolf made me so cross. I was powerfully excited about Bad Wolf and all the potentially brilliant conclusions that might have been and then it turned out to mean NOTHING AT ALL. And now it's back. WOO.

[tiniago.livejournal.com]

I love David Mitchell on WILTY, I LOVE him. I went through a bit of a David Mitchell Phase just before I went to Ethiopia, with the result that I spent a lot of idle hours there plotting how to make him my bride. It is now agreed with my friend that he shall be my plus-one when we travel down the Nile on a papyrus raft. I hope this plan proves to be agreeable to him. Oh, I love him, I love his little face, I love his huge dark eyes, I love his occasional embarrassment, I love that his opposite captain-guy loves him in a man-friend sort of way and defends him when other people think he might like Margaret Thatcher. Oh, David Mitchell. *dreamy sigh* I quite like WILTY for some reason, I think it's because I have no expectations of it at all and quite often it seems like a dream to me (I think Angus fooling around with silhouettes helps with that one). So I am able to bear such things as Jimmy Carr and the autocue with fortitude.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's quite lovely. That's a great phase to go through. I've a bit of a thing for people getting comically worked up over trivialities. Not that people thinking you might like Thatcher is anything approaching a trivialities. The autocue certainly is abysmal, but Jimmy Carr was only in one episode that I saw. It was worth putting up with him for the David Mitchell rants. And Angus.