I mentioned Sci Fi last post, and whilst I was tempted to write a long list of films I’ve seen recently (because I have seen an absurd amount recently, including the perhaps over-hyped Heat) it occurred to me that this is not massively interesting for anyone.

I thought I’d talk about something more interesting I’ve seen. This covers Sci Fi I’ve been watching, namely the BBC’s Day of the Triffids, which surely the world must have already seen and I really quite rate. It initially keeps a slow pace similar to the book, although the plot deviates sinfully, which I don’t really mind about. Alas, it’s no longer on iPlayer but I did stumble across a Charlie Brooker commentary on Sci Fi mentioning the 1981 version which pleased me nonetheless.

Another video I’ve been surprised by liking is Matt Smith in Dr Who’s series five trailer. It’s hard to judge a new character in thirty seconds after David Tennant’s just disintegrated himself and many women’s hearts, so I try not to (although having appeared on every BBC program in existence over Christmas his departure didn’t dismay me as much as it might have done, even if he was an ace Doctor). This looks good though, very good compared to the 30 second snippet. I found it via Rob’s Blog which is made up of 90% of Dr Who gushing.

Faris recently Tumbled this image. Interesting, I thought. But I have no radio (and in other news my TV watching stretches to iPlayer, surfthechannel, and 4od, the latter of which I rarely go near out of interface laziness) and wasn’t sure this average quite applied to me*, so I reflected upon my week of insane laziness and drew a picture of what I’ve probably done.

*or perhaps I was just fidgety and had a tablet handy.

I suspect that the book part is in fact fictitious. I’ve been halfway through 2001: A Space Odyssey for three months now, although perhaps this is because I’m more of a Phillip K Dick fan, rather than having a dislike of books (which I do not).

There’s lots of Alice in Wonderland about recently. I saw the Tim Burton trailer which looks unsuspiciously Tim Burton-like, and also something slightly more interesting was the SyFy (haw) channel’s marching about of white rabbit heads in a New York PR stunt.

I liked this since Alice in Wonderland has nice potential for interpretation and because, in the same way Dr Who sometimes manages, they’ve pulled off the eerie enemy quite well (aside from the slightly awkward dancing, above). Perhaps combine any sort of eye-obscuring object with a suit, and you’re sorted on the evil front (The Matrix for one).

Happily the show ‘Alice’ happens to be up on YouTube, and I like it. It’s silly good fun. Universally appealing, I thought (and really quite interesting after the first five minutes) until the boy looked at it from an uninvolved point of view and pointed out it was girly. For example it’s got romance and a ‘quirky English chap’ type Hatter character who is not only very good but coincidentally fills the “swooning” criteria. So perhaps it is.