So I'm now caught up on both Dr Who and Heroes series 2.


As with last season, Tony and I are making a point of watching Heroes together - there's not much tv we make time to sit down and watch together but this is one that works for both of us. We're enjoying it I think at least as much as last year: the twisty overlapping plotting, the big ensemble of characters, playing guess-the-power, wondering why no-one else finds Syler really really creepy. But oh my the Irish accents sound awful and fake (this is the point where someone pops up and says actually they're all native Irish actors and it's my imperialist British ear making it up). And there so many Star Trek actors in it!

Tony doesn't like Doctor Who much at all, so I usually watch it with Charles, who adores the music and doesn't seem to be getting too scared by the monsters yet (though he does occasionally squeak and demand a cuddle when the people on screen seem a bit scared/upset). Apart from the dreadful vulcanology in the Pompeii episode (hint: outrunning pyroclastic flows v unlikely), I've enjoyed it a great deal. This season seems to have a bit of a reproductive obsession: both Adipose and Sontarans trying to use Earth as a breeding ground, the Doctor's clone-daughter and the waspman-human secret pregnancy. They keep mentioning the disappearing bees, a real-world problem (random google-found link of many, but presumably this repetition means it's Going To Mean Something In The Grand Season Finale.

I saw a trailer full of spoilers by accident yesterday. Daleks again, hope they are less tedious than in that Empire State Building two-parter.