{"id":201,"date":"2005-04-02T21:59:09","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T21:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/?p=201"},"modified":"2005-04-02T21:59:09","modified_gmt":"2005-04-02T21:59:09","slug":"how-sad-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2005\/04\/how-sad-are\/","title":{"rendered":"How sad are&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the people who are pointing out that Britney&#8217;s &#8220;Toxic&#8221; wasn&#8217;t released on 7&#8243; vinyl?<\/p>\n<p>Like, it could never be rereleased in said format at some point in the next five billion years?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a rather mixed episode (oh by the way I&#8217;m talking about &#8220;The End of the World&#8221;, episode two of the new <cite>Doctor Who<\/cite> series). Ecclestone&#8217;s Doctor is fascinating &#8211; with what we learn in this episode it&#8217;s easy to see his inappropriate flippancy and rudeness (not to mention his becoming what could be seen as a cold blooded vigilante murderer) as symptoms of post-traumatic shock. But I have a feeling that such an analysis will turn out to be overly simplistic.<\/p>\n<p>The aliens were a very mixed bunch. Cassandra, the trees and the Moxx of Balhoun were excellent but the background aliens, and they looked like background aliens, were shown a little too prominently. Was I the only one who had a flashback to <cite>Dune<\/cite> when the Face of Boe was wheeled in? Oh, and am I right in thinking that every character with a speaking part got killed off? Good to see that the high body counts of the old series are being continued.<\/p>\n<p>7\/10 (9\/10 for effects and acting but only 5\/10 for plot)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the people who are pointing out that Britney&#8217;s &#8220;Toxic&#8221; wasn&#8217;t released on 7&#8243; vinyl? Like, it could never be rereleased in said format at some point in the next five billion years? Anyway, a rather mixed episode (oh by the way I&#8217;m talking about &#8220;The End of the World&#8221;, episode two of the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fxq5-3f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}