Fazzinchi

Back in Action

Way back on Sunday 1st January when we were nursing sore heads (and I was re-launching this website) there was a little show that sneaked onto BBC1 from the team that brought us Doctor Who. It wasn’t the much hyped Torchwood that was rattling towards its conclusion late at night on minority channels but instead it was The Invasion of the Bane, the first installment of the Sarah Jane Adventures. Now, here we are nine months later and that embryonic first outing has matured (more…)

Back To Babylon

There comes a time in every venture when you reach a metaphorical crossroads.   You can cut your losses and head home, or you can gird your loins and commit to the road ahead.  Of course, there are those little side roads to the left and right that take you in a new direction altogether… and so it has been with Babylon 5.  At its heart was a tale spanning five-years or, as oft remarked - a novel for television.  It was, back in the day, a work of art of undeniable beauty… so long as you (more…)

274 Years To Go

Week 34 presented me with an opportunity to watch a new installment of an old favourite of mine as I dusted off the copy of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales that I had brought back with me from my recent (and much mentioned) holiday to the States. My expectations were low (a straight to DVD movie, years after the original series had finished, did not bode well) but, you’ll be pleased to hear, expectations were exceeded… but only just. A full review will follow soon. The rest of the week (more…)

Cheerleader saved…. Check!

And so, Heroes has concluded for UK viewers on the Sci-Fi channel but before you can say “My name is Hiro Nakamura” it starts all over again on BBC2 next Wednesday. If you haven’t seen it, you really should and, with a bit of luck, the BBC’ll show it show it in proper widescreen, so that Claire (above) doesn’t look like her amazing power is being unflatteringly stretched out to Oompa Loompa- like proportions.  The final episode, “How To Stop An Exploding Man”, brought (more…)

Save The Cheerleeder, Save The World

Just how did Heroes get to be so good?  We’re just 12 episodes in to the story here in the UK, which I guess puts us about half-way through the first “volume” (rather than sticking with “series” and “episodes” to describe the unfolding story, Heroes refers back to its comic-book heritage with “chapters” and “volumes”.  It’s a nice touch).   However, despite the relative brevity of the series, it would seem that there is already a rich heritage to the show.  Regular (and observant) (more…)

Leaving Ladies

Primeval drew to an end a few weeks ago and it took the Other Viewer and I a while to get around to watching it. The delay was not because the show was bad (it wasn’t really) but we weren’t really excited enough about finding out how things would pan out.  In the end, the final half of the season was pretty solid, although there was a touch of monsters-by-numbers about it, moving as it did through “big, scary ones”, “insect ones”, “swimming ones”, “cute but (more…)