Millennium Elephant 🌟

Beloved '70s BBC sci-fi series from Daleks creator confirmed for reboot with Doctor Who director This is not a drill!

PS:
New Blakes 7 reboot from Mr Jason Haigh-Ellery, Mr Peter Hoar and Mr Matthew Bouch.

The existence of a Mr Bouch implies the existence of a Mr Boucher…

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Me!
Also some special space people.
Daddy Alex on the wonderful words and worlds of Mr Chris Boucher

Jeff Bridges as wise old Jedi Master

‘Jeff Bridges’ as fallen son of god

OTD 2010 TRON: Legacy
A movie of extraordinary vision and thrilling electronica score
Want to read something brilliant?
Insightful @millenniumelephant.bsky.social review:
millenniumelephant.blogspot.com/2010/12/day-...
Tron theology, and mythology, and why it’s this century’s best Star Wars film

You know, I think if I owned the rights to a century's worth of the most acclaimed films ever like The Wizard of Oz and 2001, plus all the most popular characters in cartoon history, plus Superman and Batman, plus tons of other stuff, I could probably make enough money I wouldn't need to sell it.

And POINT at it!!!

Millennium Elephant gazes at the big screen in anticipation of Blake’s Seven

Down and safe!
Standard by lots!
#BlakesSeven at the #BFI

A living legend.

MILLENNIUM WILCOCK!

But also
“Thank you for wearing your ID Cards – they’ll help to identify the bodies!”
—Authoritarian trad. arr. Doctor Who

In case you need to hear it today:

Being exhausted is completely valid.

The world is exhausting and actively trying to wear you down. There is nothing wrong with you if you are feeling it.

The wrong in this aspect is folks of the world trying to make you think this is normal.

If you're unsure if you've plugged your book enough: I've followed Dr Sweet for 10+ yrs, he became more famous when he (politely) destroyed Naomi Wolf in an interview

I found out he'd a) written a novel & b) it was now that succesful show seeing this

Jennie's been nagging me to watch it for ages

I mean, he could try not just implementing Farage’s policies to the point where it’s unclear what the point in voting for him is: either you like Farage’s policies, in which case you vote Reform, or you don’t, in which case why vote for a tribute act?

BBC headline: Badenoch encourages Tory councils to challenge asylum hotels.

Utter hypocrisy and bandwagon jumping from the party that set up every asylum hotel and made them necessary by slowing down the processing of applications. The Tories are a joke.

Though it was music featured in a very different TV series shown that same evening that so terrified and appalled yet fascinated me it became a life-changing event…

Star Cops logo – words in star blaze over the Earth from space

OTD 1987: Star Cops – A Double Life
Self-perpetuating, cascading grudges add character to the revenge plot
And though it couldn’t be more obvious whodunnit, naming the man with the perfect alibi “Albi” is funny
“No two performances are identical”
[But spot yet more awkward stereotypes]

the funniest thing about this is that labour have since fully embraced transphobia and women... women have fled to the greens and the lib dems.

supporting trans ppl does not ostracise women. supporting the teeny, tiny, cabal of loud mouthed transphobic bigots in our media ostracises women.

I don’t feel I can top this.

Sigh.
Daddy is always doing that.

New signs found of giant gas planet in 'Earth's neighbourhood' The possible planet is just four-and-a-half light years away and may have moons that sustain life.

There are billions of stars in our galaxy. If our closest neighbour has a system that could support life, it adds weight to the idea that the universe is teeming with life. In turn, that's evidence that FTL travel is impossible.

Colonel Virginia Lake (Wanda Ventham) of SHADO, in lilac

Thea Ransome’s (Wanda Ventham) apotheosis as the Fendahl core, a golden gorgon with a smile of dreadful cruelty

Wanda Ventham with Millennium Dome, Elephant

Happy birthday, Wanda Ventham!
A brilliant actor and iconic screen presence, three times a Doctor Who guest star – her Image of the Fendahl forever seizing my awe, fear and imagination – and so many others from Colonel Virginia Lake in UFO to Only Fools and Horses…

Running Up That Hill single cover – Kate Bush draws back an arrow, the bowstring close to her face

Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) 2012 remix for the Olympics – this single hit No. 6 and was at the time also her joint-fifth-biggest hit as well

OTD 1985: Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
At No.3, Kate Bush’s 2nd-biggest hit
…Then 22 years later, No.1 all round the world!
A momentous, magnificently record-smashing record

I once wrote about a secret meaning:
loveandliberty.blogspot.com/2012/08/runn...
But it probably is about shagging.

There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

Star Cops logo – the words “STAR COPS” in star blaze over the Earth from space

OTD 1987: #StarCops Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits
If you think this episode title’s dated and ’80s, try docking at the Space Station Ronald Reagan…
Probably my favourite episode at the time, with terrific lines, suddenly more pacy and energetic direction and non-stop cynicism.

A heart formed by hands in the Non-Binary Pride Flag colours of yellow, white, purple, black

Happy International Non-Binary People’s Day!

(Celebrated on this day as it’s the midpoint between International Women’s Day and International Men’s Day. Gender can be more fluid than one point, but calendars are like that)

Love to all my enby friends and theys and thems.

The colour of your skin has no bearing at all on whether you are British (or any other nationality).

There are people who disagree, and there's a name for those people: racists.

Josh Babarinde is interviewed by Nick Robinson Last week Josh Babarinde was interviewed by Nick Robinson for his Political Thinking series. The blurb for this edition on the BBC website ...

At one point Robinson asks Josh why the Liberal Democrats don't have as much impact on the news as Reform UK does. This betrays such a lack of self-awareness on Robinson's part that you can probably see it from space.

I'm the trouble starter, punkin' instigator I'm the fear addicted, the danger illustrated
Hey, hey, hey
I'm a fire starter, twisted fire starter
Hey, hey, hey
You're a fire starter, twisted fire starter
Hey, hey, hey
I'm a fire starter, twisted fire starter

Radio Times cover 30 June-6 July 2007 – John Simm is the Master

BBC website promo of withered Doctor (David Tennant), mean Master and Martha (Freema Agyeman) doing all the work (and walk)

OTD 2007: #DoctorWho Last of the Time Lords
The Master at full power
Tennant suffering captivatingly
Martha striding the Earth, then leaving the TARDIS with her head held high!
3 glorious episodes, still for me the greatest New Who finale

…But I can never resist then watching Flight of the Darned.