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Galaxy Quest Very funny. I'm wondering how they are going to make this work as a TV series, it won't be the same without Alan Rickman, by Grabthar's Hammer!

^ I personally think they picked him because he looked like Christopher Reeves.

^ I nearly watched that last night. Instead I watched Superman Returns, which wasn't as bad as I remembered it being. I think Henry Cavill makes a better Superman than Brandon Routh, however.

Anything by Haruki Murakami, really. I've not read a duff novel of his yet.

Read the Ladybird Book of Dating this evening, very funny. (I don't think that it is going to help).

Well, Capaldi knocked that one out of the park.

I could never see how this was going to work anyway, but here is the rather uninspiring trailer for Warcraft. Looks like this is going to be another video game to film flop!

Getting fed up of all the grey, but I just saw something blue in the sky and there is this large glowing orb that is trying to break through the clouds. I think it is it's first sighting since Monday . . .

Bow ties are cool.

^ I don't believe this format of book shop is a good thing. This is a whole new can of worms Amazon is opening. They are planning to sell only the most popular books at on-line prices, which basically means bestsellers and new releases. In the UK the major supermarket chains are already doing this and it is undermining traditional bookshops that can't compete on the bulk prices the big chains can negotiate. Amazon can negotiate/dictate huge discounts with it suppliers and if it then starts selling only the most popular books in its own shops traders like Waterstone's etc. will lose their one remaining key selling point: that you can have the book now, without having to wait. The net result, if this model catches on, will be more traditional bookshops that carry a wider range of books closing and we end up with bookshops that only sell what is shifting now. How will this affect new authors, smaller publishers, traditional non-chain bookshops? I know this is only one store at the moment, but is this the first step in a larger scheme? Are Amazon actually trying to wipe out the rest of the competition with this move?

I've not been to Exeter for a number of years, but I believe both Waterstone's are general book shops.

^ Voyager was used to launch UPN. It is possible that is a bad example.

Living in a second floor flat, it's handy that my kitchen is directly above the front door (there is less chance of a spill when moving the hot oil around . . . ).

^ You clearly have no idea how the internet works.

Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner are, of course, responsible for returning Doctor Who to TV in 2005.

By the way, if anyone can work out what the weather is supposed to be over the next few days, please let me know. The BBC don't seem to know if it is going to be wet or dry!

Amazing weather here today. Went on a four hour walk in just a t-shirt (although the fleece I took with me came in handy when the fog rolled in at sunset!). I think I have got some pretty good photos, the light was very good this afternoon.

It's easy enough to break free of the original universe canon, just set the new series a hundred or so years in the future. The technology, political situation and settings can all be new, and they can keep the bits they want to that still work. I just hope they don't try to turn it into an action series; that works for Trek on the large screen, but it's not what the TV series was about.

I like the "Bloody Dwarves" comment by Erebor!

Jurassic World A shark! Lasers! And Dinosaurs! Wow! (not) I don't think I've seen a recent film that has felt quite so cobbled together. Lots of good bits, but the sum doesn't add up. Pity. Chris Pratt was pretty good, though.

They've done this a few times with Doctor Who now, and it's been pretty popular. I think the 50th Anniversary screening was actually the top of the UK box office for that week, and it was only on for one night!

I was really using "Star Trek" as an over-arching term for military structures in Sci-fi stories. The structure of the Culture is probably the most un-military I’ve come across, even when they go to war!

Winnie the Pooh is 99p in the daily deal today.

What is the premise of Minority Report? I'm guessing they are doing something slightly different to the film otherwise there doesn't seem much for them to play with.

I can't wait for someone to invent a time machine so that I can go back to September 1885 to watch part 3!