Just a couple of shows that I don't think I'll be tracking separately:
Finally got around to watching "New Earth", the first episode of the second season of the rebooted Doctor Who. David Tennent's first regular episode as the new Doctor (or the "new new Doctor" as he puts it) shows him already in good form - a young infectious version of the Doctor, not wholly unlike Eccelston, but so far without the darker side that would crop up every so often for the Ninth Doctor. Of course, we've only seen him for about two hours of screen time, so far, so we'll have to see how things develop.
Unfortunately, the storyline wasn't too much help. A trip to a futuristic hospital turned into a more-or-less standard, run-away-from-the-zombies story. I didn't much like the whole "they have every disease in the universe" description - wouldn't it make more sense to have individual carriers of each possible disease? I also didn't like Cassandra's possession jumping around from character to character with such ease. It seemed a little too easy somehow, although I guess we've seen it before on the show. And speaking of too easy, Cassandra sure did have a change of heart at the end, deciding to accept her death after all of the work she had done to prolong it. So, on the whole, only a partially-successful episode. And I'm not looking forward to the next one either, which according to the previews promises a visit from Queen Victoria?
Also watched MST3K episode number 202, "The Sidehackers". God, what a horrible movie this was. Joel's song on "Love Pads The Film" didn't do much for me - this film was padded with crap. And there wasn't even much sidehacking! The riffing wasn't anything special this time around either, although Joel's Sidehacking song is definitely worth the praise it gets from long-time MiSTies. This was still fairly early in the show's run, and they hadn't quite hit the stride they would reach in season four.
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