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swordznsorcery) wrote2015-12-26 07:39 pm
swordznsorcery) wrote2015-12-26 07:39 pm
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2009
2009 was the year that bit back. It seemed as though just about everybody in my family got diagnosed with something horrible this year. Happily, for the most part it went okay, but blimey, 2009. What did we ever to do you?!
Elsewhere, it was the year of Children Of Earth, the Torchwood mini series that broke the fandom. Some loved it, some hated it, some were baffled at how completely it reimagined everything. I think it's great, but it's so far removed from the first two series that I have trouble seeing it as the same show. It was also the year when White Collar started, hurrah! I do love that show. I probably didn't see it until early 2010 though. I know I had several episodes to catch up on anyway.
FlashForward also happened this year. And then stopped abruptly. It was one of those shows with a lot of promise, but a production staff who clearly didn't know what to do with a twenty-two episode season. Nothing happened for weeks, half the audience stopped watching, it picked up, but too late. A shame, as I should dearly have loved to see where it was all going! Another one to add to the list of sci-fi shows that got bashed over the head by the networks. It wasn't alone. This was also the year when the BBC aired Paradox, a wonderful show starring Emun Elliott and Tamzin Outhwaite as a scientist and a detective investigating weirdness from outer space. Outer Space!! I rewatched it only recently, and it turned out to be even better than I remembered, annoyingly. Why can't they let me choose which shows to axe and which to save?!
Talking of ending, this year also saw the final episode of Late Night With Conan O'Brien, the chat show/Pythonesque comedy series that had been a hit for NBC since 1993. I only watched it for Max Weinberg, but it was a lot of fun over the years. I still rather miss it. Still, sixteen years is a good run for any show.
Some good films at the cinema this year. None of which I saw this year, or in the cinema, but whatever. The Hangover, which I love (and didn't see until around 2012), Sherlock Holmes (the RDJ/Jude Law version), which I think I also saw in around 2012, and The Brothers Bloom, which nobody saw in 2009. Which is a shame as it's extremely good, and I recommend it highly. So yes. Not so much "cinema in 2009", as "on DVD just the other day", but never mind.
Oh, and politics, world events, things that make me look brainy, etc, etc. Yeah.
From their album Foot Of The Mountain, this is a-ha and Nothing Is Keeping You Here:
From their debut album Looking Through You, this is the Yeah Yous with Getting Up With You. I wanted to post If I Could, which is my favourite of theirs, but it doesn't appear to be on the internet. Anywhere.
Bruce Springsteen put out Wrecking Ball this year. Here is everybody playing it splendidly noisily in 2013:
2009 was the year when Tony Hart died. I think those of a certain age will rather enjoy this video, from the Official Morph YouTube Channel:
Mostly though, for me, this is the year when Don Galloway died. He played Ed Brown in Ironside, a show that became ridiculously important a long time ago, during a very difficult time. It's funny how we can bond with these things, isn't it. Here's the very whizzy theme from Ironside, composed by Quincy Jones:
Good old Ed.
Elsewhere, it was the year of Children Of Earth, the Torchwood mini series that broke the fandom. Some loved it, some hated it, some were baffled at how completely it reimagined everything. I think it's great, but it's so far removed from the first two series that I have trouble seeing it as the same show. It was also the year when White Collar started, hurrah! I do love that show. I probably didn't see it until early 2010 though. I know I had several episodes to catch up on anyway.
FlashForward also happened this year. And then stopped abruptly. It was one of those shows with a lot of promise, but a production staff who clearly didn't know what to do with a twenty-two episode season. Nothing happened for weeks, half the audience stopped watching, it picked up, but too late. A shame, as I should dearly have loved to see where it was all going! Another one to add to the list of sci-fi shows that got bashed over the head by the networks. It wasn't alone. This was also the year when the BBC aired Paradox, a wonderful show starring Emun Elliott and Tamzin Outhwaite as a scientist and a detective investigating weirdness from outer space. Outer Space!! I rewatched it only recently, and it turned out to be even better than I remembered, annoyingly. Why can't they let me choose which shows to axe and which to save?!
Talking of ending, this year also saw the final episode of Late Night With Conan O'Brien, the chat show/Pythonesque comedy series that had been a hit for NBC since 1993. I only watched it for Max Weinberg, but it was a lot of fun over the years. I still rather miss it. Still, sixteen years is a good run for any show.
Some good films at the cinema this year. None of which I saw this year, or in the cinema, but whatever. The Hangover, which I love (and didn't see until around 2012), Sherlock Holmes (the RDJ/Jude Law version), which I think I also saw in around 2012, and The Brothers Bloom, which nobody saw in 2009. Which is a shame as it's extremely good, and I recommend it highly. So yes. Not so much "cinema in 2009", as "on DVD just the other day", but never mind.
Oh, and politics, world events, things that make me look brainy, etc, etc. Yeah.
From their album Foot Of The Mountain, this is a-ha and Nothing Is Keeping You Here:
From their debut album Looking Through You, this is the Yeah Yous with Getting Up With You. I wanted to post If I Could, which is my favourite of theirs, but it doesn't appear to be on the internet. Anywhere.
Bruce Springsteen put out Wrecking Ball this year. Here is everybody playing it splendidly noisily in 2013:
2009 was the year when Tony Hart died. I think those of a certain age will rather enjoy this video, from the Official Morph YouTube Channel:
Mostly though, for me, this is the year when Don Galloway died. He played Ed Brown in Ironside, a show that became ridiculously important a long time ago, during a very difficult time. It's funny how we can bond with these things, isn't it. Here's the very whizzy theme from Ironside, composed by Quincy Jones:
Good old Ed.