Anna Torv must go into botox rehab now. She makes Formica seem expressive — which is not really helpful when you're supposed to be the viewpoint lead character.

Actually, rewatching the pilot, I think that's a bit unfair. She has plenty of facial performance. It just that not…

I'd quite like a new toaster and waffle iron.

My Homosexual Agenda is very much like Emma's – D-rings are very handy. I've also got tattoo-like swirls on it. I don't have the studs, because that's just a tad too diesel for me.

I'm so glad I came out in the mid-80s though…

Keep watching is my recommendation.

Not a hard ask, Josh, because it is well-made and the cast (with the exception of Anna Torv) is engaging. But you're not the first person I've heard say it takes a while to really hit its stride, and I'm looking forward to it.

Justa clarify, my comment of John Noble was in no means meant as as a criticism of him. Casting perhaps...

Sure, just as Grant Bowler (who I'm sure is a frightfully nice chap) has carved out an international career playing strangely endearing bastards with itchy feet.

X-Files "dance of torch beams."

I thought Speilberg has patented that.

John Noble.

On quickdial for unstable characters.

I'll give it another go next week...

Reading online interviews with the producers you may want to check episode 4 as the series story arc supposedly is introduced then.

Fringe is designed…

And what did we all think of Fringe then?

1) WTF does JJ Abrams have against commercial long-distance air travel? I await the very special episode of Dr. Phil where he reveals being traumatically bad touched by a trolly dolly.

2) John Noble brings the crazy in a richly satisfying…

And what did we all think of Fringe then?

McCleod's Daughters and Dawson's Creek meets The Twilight Zone via…

After making happy noises at the beginning of the decade about how they wanted the world to see the BBC's programmes, by whatever means — indeed, this was part of its mission — they snapped back in…

They tipped me to crazy over QI, which I can't legitimately watch here, and when they did release series one on DVD

Yeah, not being able to legitimately watch QI sucks. It's got better and better over time.

Allegedly.

Perhaps they feel that as the UK tax-payers have funded it, they are entitled to it for free, and the rest of us should pay?

Which brings me back round to Russell's point on another thread. IF I could pay for it, I would. But I can't, it's not available…

Though again, BBC, why UK-only, what would be the point?

Perhaps they feel that as the UK tax-payers have funded it, they are entitled to it for free, and the rest of us should pay?

Though again, BBC, why UK-only, what would be the point?

John Barrowman:
"I felt like we were being punished."

Russell T Davies:
"Why not change it?"

BBC spokesman:
"We wanted to create a powerful sense of event."

BBC. That last makes sense I think as it moves to BBC1, is exposed to new viewers less familiar with…

I think that's how they broadcast Jekyll , and my failing flu-ridden memory suggests a costume drama as well.?

You might be thinking of Bleak House which broke the format by being, I guess, semi-stripped with fourteen half hour episodes on Thursday and Friday following Eastenders, after a more traditional…

Evil deceitful girl – they still only come in black and white and you know it!

Ha, I was waiting to get called on that! So someone could say 'wait a minute, there's no purple iPod Nano', and I could say 'sure, sure there isn't...'.

Anyway I was very amused,…

Well, he is making remarkable progress on his comeback... and GOD THE ALL BLACKS NEED HIM AND RICHIE. Kahui, not so much.

From a rugby point of view, Richie is indeed sorely missed.

Too clever for me. I assumed author meant something about Dan C. being cloned or something something.

…

Dan Carter is the 1.0 model, Richard Kahui is the 2.0 model

Oooohhhh right. Too clever for me. I assumed author meant something about Dan C. being cloned or something something. Possibly.

Well, he is making remarkable progress on his comeback... and GOD THE ALL BLACKS NEED HIM AND RICHIE.…

Anyway I was very amused, given the obvious excitement over him from certain posters here to find the top google hit was from The Guardian asking "Should Torchwood star John Barrowman be stripped?‎

Heh... but its an interesting question. When you get right down to it, I'm sure everyone connected…

my new purple iPod Touch

Evil deceitful girl – they still only come in black and white and you know it! But I had to go the site and check in case the beautiful purple of the nano had been given to the touch or phone – it hadn't :(.…

Anyway…

I thought Carter had an Achilles issue? Is there something the All Blacks coaches need to know?

I think Dan Carter is the 1.0 model, Richard Kahui is the 2.0 model

*PS: the one Capt Sunshine Comic that was published featured excellent colour work by none other than your very own Joe Wylie – who also has a stand out piece (fire breathing Hamsters against the bush clad hills & southern alps!) in the COCA Board Art exhibition in Chch

Oh hey,…

"The 2.0 model was doing really well too, but it seems to have some kind of design fault in the shoulders. We're working on it."

I thought Carter had an Achilles issue? Is there something the All Blacks coaches need to know?

Is the internet flammable?

Kinda, yeah.

Imagine if there was a fire now and we lost everything. It'd be terrible.

Is the internet flammable?

Imagine if there was a fire now and we lost everything. It'd be terrible.

How's them shakes going up round Turangi?
Wouldn't wanna loosen them bungs in the Caldera
er Lake Taupo....

How many Cinder Cones are there in metropolitan Auckland again?…

Indeed. So we can store their emergency personal-use backups for them in case of very large fire.

Exactly. Look what happened in The Great Fire of London:

Everybody had thought St. Paul's Cathedral an absolute refuge, with its thick stone walls and natural firebreak in the form of a wide,…

Yesterday the homosexual spirit was Talisker, at the Matterhorn.

(I sometimes wonder if I'm a leetle bit butch-er than I think I am).

You're right. At the least, you should limit yourself to Speysides, or your voice will get lower or something.

clearly we share the same friends who record the shows on vcr and then post them to us.

Indeed. So we can store their emergency personal-use backups for them in case of very large fire.

and hello is anyone else excited about torchwood week next week

F'n'ay. And of course Helen was right before – the 6th til the 10th is FIVE days, not four. Yay for Emma's intrinsic maths skills.

Not that we would be encouraging or condoning any kind of illegal activity. Demonstrably…

John Barrowman Minister of Foreign Affairs

but change it to John Barrowman Minister of Affairs

and hello is anyone else excited about torchwood week next week

Previously Tamaki has claimed to have exorcised the "homosexual spirit" from parishioners. But he now says he has adopted a greater openness and cites conversations he has had with airline cabin stewards as proof.

Yes, I overheard Brian and a charming lesbian cabin steward agreeing "a muff is enough" only…

Because I'm flying down to Chch on Saturday, and, you know, I would hate to be caught talking to airline stewards.

Are you? Awesome. Come over and I'll show you my new purple iPod Touch.

(I sometimes wonder if I'm a leetle bit butch-er than I think I am).

Previously Tamaki has claimed to have exorcised the "homosexual spirit" from parishioners

Indeed. You really shouldn't be drinking pretentious cocktails in church.

Or exorcised might be a typo of exercised.

Ah yes, Gayrobics.

If you're curious, you can watch a gay exercism here. Not for the faint-hearted, or the weak-stomached, or the easily-indignified.

Seems every damned far right, immigrant bashing, xenphobic political party in Europe has a gay or gay-er or gay friendly leader.

This was what tipped me off that we were hitting the end of times:

Previously Tamaki has claimed to have exorcised the "homosexual spirit" from parishioners. But he now…

I mean, forty years since Stonewall, what could be left to do?

Nothing more, in fact I'd like to raise a request with teh gayz conspiracy that they stop the NZ movement right here, right now.

In Europe queer activism has charged straight across the political spectrum from the left…

I have a secret stash of bandwidth set aside. And some days I won't be leaving the house or something. Four in four days, wtf?

Thought it was five in five. Saves me from cliffhangers anyway. The week between the last two parts of the last season of Who nearly…

Thank you for reminding me I need to Sky+ that.

I have a secret stash of bandwidth set aside. And some days I won't be leaving the house or something. Four in four days, wtf?

In punishment for betraying our plot, you will never find another decent hairdresser or interior designer again!

Won't somebody pleeeeease think of the choreographers?

Hands off my Barrowman. If he's going to be anyone's Minister he's going to be mine.

By which I mean the UK. Really.

In the Who-verse, I don't know if you'd want to get any further up the greasy pole. Prime Ministers don't have a long shelf life: They get…

In punishment for betraying our plot, you will never find another decent hairdresser or interior designer again!

Fortunately, I believe the effect of the man would be so wide-spread it doesn't really matter which country he's officially working for.

Hm. Make him Secretary General of the UN? Nah, that wouldn't work. I'm liking your idea more.

I'm hoping they cast him as Captain America, that would be…

I thought we were still bickering about whether the homosexual agenda would be bound in hot pink tulle, butch lesbotic lavender leather or an all-inclusive rainbow melange that would char-grill retinas at a hundred paces?

Print on Demand. Mine is black leather and bound with o-rings.

If he's going to…

So my time to undermine the Master was limited. This job was so important it would push even writing Allison Janney slash-fic onto the back burner. (Coincidentally, 'Allison Janney' is item #124 on the Agenda, just after 'make John Barrowman Minister of Foreign Affairs'.)

Hands off my Barrowman. If he's…