The Week in Entertainment

TV: Will someone explain to me why producers think we want to watch shows where characters we have grown fond of are killed? Torchwood was interesting this week, a glimpse into their pasts, and funny how Torchwood mistrusted the Doctor still (they and UNIT could have had interesting chats!), but I fear next week. I have to admit to Basilisk since I posted about it. Don't bother if you haven't seen it. John Adams was a bit dull this week, but then I think being vice-president was dull. Nova - Breaking the Mayan Code was very interesting, not least because one of my standard texts for my intro translation course is an Izvestiya profile of Yuri Knorozov. A Child Is Waiting, which I'd never seen before. It was odd, considering how most of the children were played by actual patients at the hospital, to see Billy Mumy (unmistakable) in the first scene; I rather expected him to show up again. The Masters (and at what point do the announcers finally admit to themselves that Tiger can't win, or is just playing badly (he's allowed an off-weekend, you know), or both? I mean, damn...) (OK. It seems to be when he's six strokes back of an unflustered leader with only two holes to play; now he's still "chasing Immelman" but Faldo at least is calling him "finishing second".). And of course the NCAAW Basketball Final Four!

Read: The Grasshopper King was indeed excellent. I then read Irreligion, a slight but amusing book, and started Every Day is for the Thief.