Some Reviews of British Television

First I saw 'The Devil's Whore', which was surprisingly crap. selenak did a good round up on why it was crappy. Let me just say that the English Civil War is far too early to be making Goya references. I'll probably watch the rest of it though, given there's only three more parts and there is quite literally, nothing on American television that remotely interests me at the moment.

Second, I saw 'Einstein and Eddington'.

( Potential spoilers for physics )

Here is my problem with math and disaster films: So there are about thirteen million people who live in the London metro area. If the flu has a kill rate of 90% of all people infected, with 100% infection rate, that still leaves about 1.3 million people in the London metro area.

Obviously, a lot more people than that died in 'Survivors'. So what if it was 99% of people? That leaves 13,000 people. Which is not a lot, but it's a lot more fucking people than you see in Survivors.

I say this only because there are so fucking many of us by this point that it would be really difficult to kill off all humans in one fell swoop and it always really bothers me to see plagues reduce the population to television portions. Especially since there's basically never been any disease (knock on wood) that was so virulent as to have that high a fatality. Battlestar Galactica did a good job by saying there were several thousands of survivors but never showing us them.

( So here's Survivors. )

Anyway, I'll keep watching this. It's only six episodes. I hope the next episodes are shorter than an hour and a half, though, because that was far, far too long for the material covered.

Paterson Joseph

Rich Johnson at Lying in the Gutters calls it on Paterson Joseph for Eleven.

I love all the Doctor Who fandom-y places continuing to scratch their heads over who Rich Johnson is, whereas all comic fans everywhere are basically like: well, that's settled then.