Weekend In Review

[kingandy]

A good weekend.

Friday and Saturday were occupied mostly with Maelstrom, which was fun, as far as it went.  The Kamakuran game is an odd fish at the moment.

Sunday was the Date, which is of course the first thing most people are asking about at the moment. 

We met up in the Piccadilly (ex Tavern) and spoke at length, before wandering off to find food.  My first thought was a Thai place but this was closed, so we went to the Mongolian Barbecue instead.  My first time - it was good, though initially confusing with the plates of raw meat and such (you assemble your own dish then take it to the man, who barbecues it while you wait).  Then we elected to follow the time-honoured tradition of "Dinner And A Movie" by proceeding from dinner to a movie.  The movie chosen was Scary movie 4.  It was not completely awful.  Then home, to watch some TV, the details of which are lost to me, and the Star Wars Clone Wars Season 2.

(I did not make it home in time to watch Doctor Who, but I have procured a very good quality version from teh intarewebnets, and saw that it was good.)

After that we went to bed.  We did not get up until 3pm.  I will say no more about that, except to say that you are probably wrong.  So there.

In summary, relationship has been upgraded from Internet to Long Distance, and I am quite happy.

Oh, and yes, he is most definitely the same young gentleman as in the picture.  I checked.  Quite thoroughly.

In other news: ed_fortune found this interesting and informative guide to the world of re-enactment.

Comments

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

Good.

[mj-uk.livejournal.com]

:O


glad to see something i did has worked out right

[areteus.livejournal.com]

Yay!!!!! All is good in the world!!!!!

[dracven.livejournal.com]

Excellent news mate.

[si-lloyd.livejournal.com]

Glad you had a nice date. Unfortunately you are wrong about Dr Who. It wasn't good. Lets hope they rescue it.

[kingandy]

I did not say it was excellent; it was good enough. There was some weak editing, an unexplained change of heart and awful, awful science, but it was Doctorr Who vs plague zombies. I did like the use of multiple adversaries, each of ambiguous morality.

Say it ain't so

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

"Unfortunately you are wrong about Dr Who"

You Lie!

I thought is was excellent. The ham is part of the show's DNA. I mean honestly you can't say no to a bit of plague zombie horror can you? The Doctor does seem to off turned into a bit of a megalomaniac though. Do you think being the last Time-Lord has gone to his head a bit?

Re: Say it ain't so

[kingandy]

He's certainly gone a bit action-hero. Jury-rigging a rapid descent mechanism and holding on with your bare hands? Yeah, boys!

Re: Say it ain't so

[kingandy]

ps. Off? Off? At least "of" sounds like "-'ve".

Re: Say it ain't so

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

I realised what I'd done just after I'd clicked post. Unfortunatly you can't edit your own posts....

Re: Say it ain't so

[si-lloyd.livejournal.com]

Umm..... Yeah but I expect the actor to be good at their ham-acting specialisation. I liked his flirty eccentric moments, but the angry megalomaniac came across like a limp lettuce. That was Mr Ecclestone's realm of which he was King, and the trait should have died with him. Billy Piper was so cool though. Never fancied her more than when she was channelling Zoe Wannamaker.

Not even plague zombies can rescue worst internal logic inconsistencies ever, and the 'emotional' content felt more unearned than than in a Japanese cartoon, whilst trying its hardest to be sincere.

Its not killed it for me, I will come back next week, but I expect better.

Re: Say it ain't so

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Maybe. I wouldn't be quite so harsh in my appraisal of his meglomania - Mr Eccleston always came across as a little too bi-polar for my liking. We shall have to see how he develops that asspect. I think he is mainly playing it for eccentricity which is a approach I can applaud.

When you say internal logical are you talking about the "science"? I'm probably more forgiving of Doctor Who than any other Sci-Fi program that I suspend disbelief for any of the science including its internal consititancy. I'm obviously too much of a happy fan-boy....

Re: Say it ain't so

[si-lloyd.livejournal.com]

Your happy fan-boyness is fine. Maybe I'm just too much of a grumpy young man.

Still, looking forward to werewolves, kung-fu monks and Queen Vic in future.

Re: Say it ain't so

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Indeed :-D

Re: Say it ain't so

[kingandy]

They have to use those monks as a BBC ident at some point. (They haven't yet - I checked.)

[myki.livejournal.com]

Bravo that man! Please? I should Cocoa!

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Good good.

[amber-missy.livejournal.com]

Chuffed! Glad date went well! And I'm living evidence that the long-distance thing can work! :D T x

[ash1977law.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Well done!