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Frontios buries it’s own dead
Apr. 8th, 2026 01:54 amTime for a post that’s equal parts random rambling and who rambling.
The rest of easter weekend was mostly low energy, spent nomming eggs and not doing too much.
Saturday night I watched The Mortuary Assistant on shudder and… it didn’t really hit for me. I’m not sure what it was, maybe it was just cause I was tired but I just didn’t really vibe with it. The effects were pretty good though and there was some scares were good but… I dunno. Sometimes that is what it is.
Sunday was dnd and I am just so baffled. Not by the decision itself but by the dice. I have the dice I use for the session (it started as one set, then became 2) in a dice tray that I keep up but slowly they have dwindled down. First it was Leia knocking them and I still haven’t found them but they’ve still gone after that.mthis time I went to roll and… there wasn’t a d20. In fact there were just 5 dice left. Thankfully there was another to hand but I’m so baffled
(I had hoped to find an on theme dice set at the con but I got sidetracked by mystery sets instead, cause the first set I got was a mystery set and was on brand [and is one of the sets that are awol])
Anyway, my focus has been off again so I’ve not wrote like I hoped (or done the music psot which should hopefully be soon, this weekend soon
But! I did finish listening to the Torchwood audio I picked up on sale awhile back (I think it was with the advent sale?) which was Torchwood Soho Parasite. I listened to the first half around when I was sick, but I dunno why I delayed finishing it so long. It was really good though! Horrific and twisted at times, especially in one part which has a flashback to the aftermath of nazi experiments (cause yeah this is set just after world war 2). And I did love the new character of Lizbeth, she’s woefully under appreciated by her superiors (mainly cause she didn’t want anything to do with aforementioned nazi experiments, but she’s also a woman and a lesbian so those also played a part). And Norton is fun I love him and Sgt Andy and the other new guy Lyme. It has made me wanna listen to the rest of the series, there’s 3 more boxsets so I’m gonna keep an eye out if they come in sales.
Speaking of Doctor Who (or adjacent at least) last night I watched the next Who ray episode which was Frontios. Frontios is sone of those scenarios that Doctor Who has done a few times: it’s the far future re and the last humans are in being menaced by an outside force. In this case said humans are the survivors of a crashed ship, eking out an existence on the titular Frontios. If that’s not bad enough meteors keep hitting the colony and the earth is hungry…
There’s a lot to like with this one. The sets look really good, Turlough has a nice plot line (having race memories of the villains) and there’s nice visuals of the tardis console room in the tunnels. I also really like the doctor here, how he didn’t want to get involved but since he was there he can’t help but help. (Which did make me wonder why he was so reluctant, did he know something about Frontios?)
It was funny to me that this was meant to be a last colony of humans… and there were only two women shown clearly on screen. The gender balance is an issue with older who but did felt a little glaring here.
The tractators were a nice concept, their designs based on wood lice, but alas the restraints of production went against them, meaning all they could really do is shuffle around, not looking terribly threatening. (A shame cause they are pretty devious). Clearly they’ve had some dealings with time lords before too, knowing what a tardis is and being so sure the doctor was sent specifically to stop them.
I did watch the making of after and it was nice to see the guy that played the Plantagenet big uo Sarah Jane Adventures (he guest starred in an ep) which makes me wanna finally do a run again. It was also shocking that one of the guest actors had to be changed last minute, because the original actor got murdered!
But it was a pretty good ep, grim of course cause of the setting and concepts, but it’s good. Next time is Resurrection of the daleks which, obviously features the daleks.
But back agin, on Monday I watched the first eps of the new Maul series and I’m intrigued so far. Yeah when it was announced I was a bit eh, mostly cause I’m sick of stuff in the rise of the empire era and want stuff outside of it. But so far it is really good, I like the vibes of Maul getting revenge on people that screwed him over and that it’s set on a world seemingly outside the empire (there’s a cop character and he doesn’t want the empire involved, even though facial rec flagged Maul), I’m curious to see how it pans out cause it is so great so far! And looks so nice. And he has a delightfully devious droid.
Also I’ve finally got back to Fake Documentary Q. The Last Countdown was a bit ?? But a film Inferno was so so creepy with that cave.
Today is mostly gonna be a rest day. I’m gonna try Pokémon Champions, then tonight I’m gonna see what the Copenhagen Test is like. Tomorrow is a trip out, we’ve got theatre tickets for Death On The Nile so it’s mostly just gonna be go and see that and look at stuff. (Timing is terrible for a trip really, especially since the vacuum has fucked up but ah well)
Monday is gonna be the cinema trip for Exit 8. It was funny that, until quite late yesterday, the listings for the day were just two showings of Exit 8 (a second got added the other day) and one other thing. I might be seeing undertone with it, but that means it’s gonna be a late night like They Will Kill You/Ready Or Not. I dunno why they’re only having Undertone to have late night showings but ah well.
I started this post before walking Naryu and now I’m back I wanna end this by going ahh! We went to see the ducks, cause we haven’t been there in awhile (causa bad weather/roadworks blocking the way) but we went today and ahh! There were ducklings! 12 of them! Of course I didn’t have anything to take pics of them but will try Friday.
The rest of easter weekend was mostly low energy, spent nomming eggs and not doing too much.
Saturday night I watched The Mortuary Assistant on shudder and… it didn’t really hit for me. I’m not sure what it was, maybe it was just cause I was tired but I just didn’t really vibe with it. The effects were pretty good though and there was some scares were good but… I dunno. Sometimes that is what it is.
Sunday was dnd and I am just so baffled. Not by the decision itself but by the dice. I have the dice I use for the session (it started as one set, then became 2) in a dice tray that I keep up but slowly they have dwindled down. First it was Leia knocking them and I still haven’t found them but they’ve still gone after that.mthis time I went to roll and… there wasn’t a d20. In fact there were just 5 dice left. Thankfully there was another to hand but I’m so baffled
(I had hoped to find an on theme dice set at the con but I got sidetracked by mystery sets instead, cause the first set I got was a mystery set and was on brand [and is one of the sets that are awol])
Anyway, my focus has been off again so I’ve not wrote like I hoped (or done the music psot which should hopefully be soon, this weekend soon
But! I did finish listening to the Torchwood audio I picked up on sale awhile back (I think it was with the advent sale?) which was Torchwood Soho Parasite. I listened to the first half around when I was sick, but I dunno why I delayed finishing it so long. It was really good though! Horrific and twisted at times, especially in one part which has a flashback to the aftermath of nazi experiments (cause yeah this is set just after world war 2). And I did love the new character of Lizbeth, she’s woefully under appreciated by her superiors (mainly cause she didn’t want anything to do with aforementioned nazi experiments, but she’s also a woman and a lesbian so those also played a part). And Norton is fun I love him and Sgt Andy and the other new guy Lyme. It has made me wanna listen to the rest of the series, there’s 3 more boxsets so I’m gonna keep an eye out if they come in sales.
Speaking of Doctor Who (or adjacent at least) last night I watched the next Who ray episode which was Frontios. Frontios is sone of those scenarios that Doctor Who has done a few times: it’s the far future re and the last humans are in being menaced by an outside force. In this case said humans are the survivors of a crashed ship, eking out an existence on the titular Frontios. If that’s not bad enough meteors keep hitting the colony and the earth is hungry…
There’s a lot to like with this one. The sets look really good, Turlough has a nice plot line (having race memories of the villains) and there’s nice visuals of the tardis console room in the tunnels. I also really like the doctor here, how he didn’t want to get involved but since he was there he can’t help but help. (Which did make me wonder why he was so reluctant, did he know something about Frontios?)
It was funny to me that this was meant to be a last colony of humans… and there were only two women shown clearly on screen. The gender balance is an issue with older who but did felt a little glaring here.
The tractators were a nice concept, their designs based on wood lice, but alas the restraints of production went against them, meaning all they could really do is shuffle around, not looking terribly threatening. (A shame cause they are pretty devious). Clearly they’ve had some dealings with time lords before too, knowing what a tardis is and being so sure the doctor was sent specifically to stop them.
I did watch the making of after and it was nice to see the guy that played the Plantagenet big uo Sarah Jane Adventures (he guest starred in an ep) which makes me wanna finally do a run again. It was also shocking that one of the guest actors had to be changed last minute, because the original actor got murdered!
But it was a pretty good ep, grim of course cause of the setting and concepts, but it’s good. Next time is Resurrection of the daleks which, obviously features the daleks.
But back agin, on Monday I watched the first eps of the new Maul series and I’m intrigued so far. Yeah when it was announced I was a bit eh, mostly cause I’m sick of stuff in the rise of the empire era and want stuff outside of it. But so far it is really good, I like the vibes of Maul getting revenge on people that screwed him over and that it’s set on a world seemingly outside the empire (there’s a cop character and he doesn’t want the empire involved, even though facial rec flagged Maul), I’m curious to see how it pans out cause it is so great so far! And looks so nice. And he has a delightfully devious droid.
Also I’ve finally got back to Fake Documentary Q. The Last Countdown was a bit ?? But a film Inferno was so so creepy with that cave.
Today is mostly gonna be a rest day. I’m gonna try Pokémon Champions, then tonight I’m gonna see what the Copenhagen Test is like. Tomorrow is a trip out, we’ve got theatre tickets for Death On The Nile so it’s mostly just gonna be go and see that and look at stuff. (Timing is terrible for a trip really, especially since the vacuum has fucked up but ah well)
Monday is gonna be the cinema trip for Exit 8. It was funny that, until quite late yesterday, the listings for the day were just two showings of Exit 8 (a second got added the other day) and one other thing. I might be seeing undertone with it, but that means it’s gonna be a late night like They Will Kill You/Ready Or Not. I dunno why they’re only having Undertone to have late night showings but ah well.
I started this post before walking Naryu and now I’m back I wanna end this by going ahh! We went to see the ducks, cause we haven’t been there in awhile (causa bad weather/roadworks blocking the way) but we went today and ahh! There were ducklings! 12 of them! Of course I didn’t have anything to take pics of them but will try Friday.
