No Fairies for Me Sep 14 2018 Gwen Cooper Ianto Jones Jack Harkness Owen Harper Toshiko Sato I tried to watch Small Worlds, but it didn't want to be watched. So I gave up. Read more ...
Ugh, Just Kill Me Now Sep 13 2018 Gwen Cooper Ianto Jones Jack Harkness Owen Harper Toshiko Sato Really? Really?!? After such a good story as Ghost Machine, this is how you follow it up? The only good news is that I never have to watch this tripe again. Read more ...
A million shadows of human emotion. We've just got to learn to live with them. Sep 11 2018 Gwen Cooper Ianto Jones Jack Harkness Owen Harper Toshiko Sato ...and then, in a shocking turn of events, a genuinely good episode of Torchwood! Read more ...
You travel halfway across the universe for the greatest sex. You still end up dying alone. Sep 10 2018 Gwen Cooper Ianto Jones Jack Harkness Owen Harper Toshiko Sato I gotta tell ya, I don't remember disliking Torchwood so much when it first aired. I dearly hope that my memory of it getting better is true, because otherwise... ugh. Read more ...
CSI Cardiff, I'd like to see that. They'd be measuring the velocity of a kebab. Sep 09 2018 Gwen Cooper Ianto Jones Jack Harkness Owen Harper Suzie Costello Toshiko Sato A bit of an update to my Time Treadmill custom software, a wee bit of data entry, and now I am rolling with the first major Doctor Who spinoff, Torchwood. It's kind of like Doctor Who except with blood and profanity and sex. In other words, not like Doctor Who at all. I'll be watching it for the next two months or so. Read more ...
The Witch of Wookey Hole Sep 07 2018 4th Doctor Harry Sullivan Sarah Jane Smith It's late, I'm drunk. Let's get this done. Read more ...
I'm Fat Sep 06 2018 4th Doctor Harry Sullivan Sarah Jane Smith Yeah, I don't feel like writing anything today. But I did work out and watch Doctor Who. Read more ...
Lad I Don't Know Where Ye Been But I See Ye Won First Prize! Sep 04 2018 4th Doctor Harry Sullivan Sarah Jane Smith Short post today. I rewatched the last part of Genesis of the Daleks on BluRay and learned a new story. Wanna hear it? Read more ...
The Struggle Is Real Sep 03 2018 4th Doctor Harry Sullivan Sarah Jane Smith I gotta say, having finished Phase One of this ridiculous project and being well over a year-and-a-half into it, I am definitely battling against gaining weight back. Which, on one level this has never been specifically about weight, but it remains a good gross indicator. For the first six months it was a pretty steady progression, from nearly 310 lbs down to about 260 lbs. From there it became more difficult to keep the momentum, but I still got down to nearly 240 lbs. Then, as you can see from looking at the graph on the sidebar (which I keep there and public in order to keep myself honest and motivated), I started moving back in the other direction. Some of that, I tell myself, came from putting on muscle mass when I started adding push-ups to my routine. This past six months I have floated back and forth between a little over 240 and a little over 250. Don't get me wrong, I am proud of what I have accomplished, there is a non-trivial part of me that is vain enough to say I really want to break that 240 barrier. I am also vain enough to say that, for some reason, I really want to get down to a 38" waist (I started at 46 or even 48, and I am currently down to 40). So how am I going to get there? Read more ...
Genesis of the Genesis of the Daleks Sep 02 2018 4th Doctor Harry Sullivan Sarah Jane Smith Before I get to today's viewing, a bit of a story: At some point in the evolution of the Time Treadmill I fell into a pattern of ending most of my above-the-fold paragraphs with "...so let's talk about that." (or some very close variation thereof. I don't know when I started doing that, I'd have to go back and look and that's more effort than I feel like expending, but in any case it pretty much became my default at some point. You can imagine, then, how chagrined I was last night when for some reason I watched an episode of the popular YouTube show Good Mythical Morning, and discovered that "let's talk about that" is their catch phrase -- to the point where now they have created a spinoff "show about the show" called (you guessed it) Let's Talk About That. Now, I have watched their videos before on occasion. I am not a subscriber, not a fan to the point of watching on any kind of regular basis, but I have definitely watched more than a few episodes. I honestly, truly, did not set out to poach their phrase. I don't even know whether I heard them say it before I started writing it, but it is possible. Which makes me a dirty, filthy plagiarist. So, um... why don't.. we... have a conversation... about the aforementioned subject...? (Crap, that just ain't gonna work.) Nah, let's just hit the Time Treadmill and talk about Terry Nation unknowingly plagiarizing himself. Read more ...