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Comment on Lost season 4 episodes 13-14 [end]: save the island, save the world by Karura

Karura — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:42:41 +0000

Thanks for the link; I’ve looked through the latest few posts and it all makes for good reading- I’ll be checking out more of your blog once I have a moment.

Comment on Lost season 4 episodes 13-14 [end]: save the island, save the world by izikavazo

izikavazo — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:30:02 +0000

Good review.
I Like all of your observations/speculations. I have been blogging and theorizing about all these things for months now so I have a lot of (potential) answers to most of your questions.
Come see my blog: http://ncjl.wordpress.com/
You might have to go pretty far back to read about Daniel and Jin, or Sun and Whidmore.

Comment on Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii by tarbox

tarbox — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:41:12 +0000

sorry for the lame bracketed ‘quote’ and ‘/quote’ - oops.

And also sorry for not including the URL citing the quotes source…

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-End-of-Pompeii-and-Herculaneum-(August-24-25,-A.D.-79)-Part-1-of-3&id=205893

Comment on Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii by tarbox

tarbox — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:39:53 +0000

Your quibble about the Pompeiians is based on a misapprehension about the eruption. I have an 11 year old son who not long ago went to a travelling exhibit about Pompeii and came home armed with facts and books and questions we had to wiki every few days.

Anyway… Vesuvius erupted for something like 19 hours, began approximately midday, and there was ample time for probably all residents of Pompeii AND Herculaneum to have escaped had they taken prompt action as the eruption began.

So if there’s a quibble, perhaps it’s that the eruption engulfed the city with deadly ash and so forth much too quickly in this episode - that in fact there was much more time from start of the eruption until the holocaust at Pompeii than would make taut escape drama.

Maybe?

(I just quickly pulled up the first citation I saw…

[quote]It was approximately 1 PM and lunchtime in Pompeii and Herculaneum when Mt. Vesuvius’ 19 hours of sustained eruptions began that left both towns buried in volcanic ash and rock, and frozen in time. By the end of Vesuvius’ massive eruption, more than 2,000 people had perished even though there had been sufficient time for everyone to flee. Although the actual death toll is not known since some victims perished in flight and others were swept into the Bay during the tsunami, the remains of 1,150 persons have been recovered in and around Pompeii, 350 victims in Herculaneum[1] and two on a road north of Pompeii.[2]

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Comment on Doctor Who: Midnight by Salma

Salma — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:16:04 +0000

To be honest, i am really quite surprised that this episode was written by RTD. And i understand that they were on a low budget for this episode but they could have done so, so much better even on such a small budget! This episode, the plotline, the ideas and concept had so, so much potential but to be honest they were -in a sense- murdered? brutally f*cked? and yeah tbh i was left at the end just thinking ‘what was the point.. of .. that?’.
anyways cant wait til next episode, rose!!
and yeah i must check out this whole medusa cascade thing, blatantly it is something big..?
also did anybody else notice at the end how he kept repeating himself at saying ‘dont do that’.. ‘dont’.. ‘dont’.. ‘dont’..?

Comment on Doctor Who: Midnight by Ken Dillard

Ken Dillard — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:12:48 +0000

I must be in the minority. I thought the episode was brilliantly written. You have a threat, but you are never sure of what it is. And you’re never sure if it’s really gone when it’s “killed.” The episode had to rely on the actors and their emotions, and not on special effects, to get across the terror. They did good jobs.

Comment on Doctor Who: Midnight by Neirya

Neirya — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:09:56 +0000

Absolutely dreadful. The repeated voices, the repeated angry babbling was both incredibly annoying and decidedly aggravating.

I was surprised to learn it was a Russell T Davies episode at the end, throughout it I thought it was just written by some guest writer we’d never see again.

Comment on Doctor Who: Midnight by Bad Wolf

Bad Wolf — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:40:06 +0000

I agree… I’m a big fan of the Dr. but this one left me wanting it to be over quickly “sad to say” but i did stay to the end like a good fan. can’t wait until next weeks episode “Hello Rose long time no see”

Comment on Doctor Who: Midnight by Necromancer

Necromancer — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:38:07 +0000

“well, what was the point of all that, then?”

Exactly what I thought at the end of the ep too. I found the Doctor Who Confidential (which I usually don’t watch) ep about the making of Midnight much more interesting than the actual ep.

Comment on Lost season 4 episode 11: when effect precedes cause, you know something’s messed up by izikavazo

izikavazo — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:25:56 +0000

I don’t want to spoil anything, but after you watch the season finale(s) come check out my blog http://ncjl.wordpress.com/
seeya there.
BTW I agree with much of what you say