pmsumner

Charlie Jade... S1E1. I'm slightly disappointed with this as an opening
episode for a series. I watched and waited to find out what the point
was and it never came. I've now watched the opening episode and I still
don't understand the premise of the series. I'm in two minds whether to
carry on recording it but I guess there's no point giving up now. I
hope that someone put a rocket up the writers' colletive arses.

Day Watch was an enjoyable film. Jane and I saw it on Friday night, I
do wish I'd re-visited Night Watch on DVD before going, just to
reaquaint myself with the story as it was a tough pick-up. It suffers
from the same problems Night Watch does - in that the story seems to
jump from bit-to-bit with no apparent reason, a bit like a flitting
butterfly. I suspect this comes from making a film adaptation of a
relatively long book, trying to fit it into two hours always involved
cutting a lot of plot. Other than this, the effects and storyline more
than make up for any other short-comings.

In Babylon 5 we've just had our first glimpse of the "baddies", in Signs
and Portents. The race is mentioned and we have the briefest sighting
of them, along with Mr Morden who is just generally a very nasty man. I
remember him becoming very important over the next few episodes though I
don't remember how.

Jane watches B5 and says "That was PLOT wasn't it?" every time something
happens ;) Plot with a capital P. It's a failing in my eyes that some
of the "plot" is so obvious, some of the clues to future happenings are
almost spelt out. Or maybe they're really not and I remember more than
I thought I did, despite not really having paid that much attention
beyond enjoying what I saw.