The Week in Entertainment

DVD: A for Andromeda, which is ... an odd experience, since virtually all of it is gone. Instead we have "telesnaps" which are essentially screen shots - taken with a camera pointed at a television - two or three a minute, and then subtitled for this DVD release. There are several snippets, one 10 minute segment, and one recently discovered entire episode. You get the whole story - subplots and all - but it's odd... The main reason for watching it is that The Andromeda Breakthrough is heavily dependent on the original. And yes, I have Breakthrough.

TV: Ashes to Ashes. I wish I knew why they subtitle only Gene Hunt! He's not the only one with a heavy Manchester accent, after all. The first one (which I DVR'd) was quite a good episode, and the second was an interesting look at the 1981 gay London scene and also the pretty much unarmed criminal scene... House - wow, what an episode. Mos Def was excellent. And the outsider-looking-in thing rocks when it's done well. (But I wonder when (if?) Kal Penn et al will ever get their names in the credit sequence?) Scrubs - a rather nice, somewhat poignant episode. Eliot is not my favorite character, by any means, but I kind of enjoyed this look at her. Better Off Ted - worst episode so far and still funny. It's a winner! Little Dorrit, which was gorgeous and well-acted, but would have been better if the sound hadn't kept cutting out. And The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, a very worthy adaptation, and just as gorgeous to look at as Dorrit, though very very different in all possible ways..

Read: Seven for a Secret - got it for Christmas. It's okay, if you like that sort of thing (which I certainly used to, so can't fault the giver), but it is also pretty heavily dependent on the other books about these characters. Still, it's a lovely, signed edition. As She Climbed Across the Table - strange but good. And the third (or fifth, depending on how you count) OOTS book - War and XPs.