Listen Up You Primitive Screwheads!

Hi everyone, hope you're all keeping well. My first recap of the new series of Merlin is up on Snark and Fury. I'll catch up on the second one this week and hopefully recap it before Saturday.

I probably won't post any more recap pimping posts on here so either bookmark Snark and Fury and check each week, or subscribe using one of those funky RSS feeds.

Cheers!

Haven't posted on here for a while, mainly because anything of interest gets posted on Twitter or Snark and Fury. I still watch my Friends list but I don't think I'll really be posting anything up on here for the forseeable future. Twitter has become the platform for my personal blogging as I generally tweet every day nonsense and interesting links.

And for those of you who like my particlar brand of snarky nonsense, I am reviewing Torchwood every single day this week.

There's two recaps up on Snark And Fury. I will finish recapping this series on time!

There's another recap up.

So yeah, another recap is up. I'm just going to produce these as and when at the moment as I'm trying to organise a house move. Hopefully I can catch up before the series ends.

In a desperate attempt to catch up I've produced another recap.
 
I have to watch Whale Wars this weekend as someone sent me a preview disc, the fool.

Been quite ill over the last few days so that's made my late snark recap even later than it already was. Gah. Anyway it's up now so take a look.

Robin Hood episode two has been snark'd. You know the place.

I'll try and squeeze the third episode in by the weekend, although Crank 2 is out this week so I'm not promising anything.

...soon. If you've been following me on Twitter you'll know that this week has been a bit busy work-wise so I haven't had the energy to snark. I should be able to summon up the will power tonight though.

I will be making an announcement tomorrow morning at 8.00am. You won't want to miss it. It's super important.

EDIT: Announcement delayed due to a technical hitch, it's there now though.

EDIT: Although I could claim that making you all visit my other site to see nothing at all was an  April Fool's prank. There is something there now though. Honest.

Phew, that was hard work but here it is. Robin Hood snark'd.

Robin Hood season three starts this Saturday on BBC One at 6.50pm. Join me in watching the show so you can read my angry, angry words afterwards on Snark and Fury.

For those of you who like Twitter you can follow me on there as SnarkandFury. I will be posting quotes from my own recaps for the rest of this week so we can all remember how terrible the show is.

Oh yeah, I still have this livejournal thing. My reviews and whatnot all go up on Snark and Fury now but I like to keep this place open to throw links and videos on.

I've been playing Empire Total War recently so I found this Onion article most amusing:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/redcoat_holdouts_still_fighting?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Yes it's time for not one but THREE Duncan Brothers videos. Enjoy.

Demons is over. Head over to Snark and Fury for the recap of the worst episode yet.

Yes it's finally here on http://snarkandfury.blogspot.com/

I hope Phil Glennister is getting paid a lot of money for this show.

This week's mini recap of Demons is up on Snark and Fury. I've noticed that Demons is so bad, it's damaging my ability to write cohesive sentences and avoid typos. I had to perform a few rewrites on it this morning to tidy it up. Thank God it's only six episodes long.

Lock up your mints!

There are some spoilers over here about season three of Robin Hood. I'm going to talk about them in the next paragraph so if, for some reason, you don't want Robin Hood season three spoiled stop reading. Take a look at my new not-quite-a-recap-of-Demons post on Snark and Fury instead.


Obviously this is one of my favourite shows to recap but is it going to be worth recapping if the main character doesn't bother to turn up? Actually, that would probably make it even more worthy of snark... The absence of the main character in season four will surely be the deathknell for the show. The 80s ITV show, Robin of Sherwood, managed to replace Robin but that led to Jason Connery. No one should have to endure another Jason Connery. If the rumours are correct and Richard Armitage leaves too, then not only have we lost the best Sean Bean impression from our screens but the show loses Guy of Gisburne. I also read a rumour a few months ago that Keith Allen was going to be leaving at the end of season three too. I've enjoyed Keith's pantomime performance as the Sheriff as he seemed to be the only actor that looked at the script and thought, "This is quite clearly crap. Sod it, I'm going to have a laugh with this and ham it up!"

So, we'll have a show called Robin Hood that won't feature Robin Hood, Guy of Gisburne, Maid Marian, or the Sheriff. They may as well rename it Generic Medieval Fantasy Adventure Show (and I believe that was the working title for Merlin until they decided to use the Merlin brand name *shudder*). At one point do the BBC decide to pretend that the first three seasons didn't happen and start again from scratch? If you remove the four main characters from the Robin Hood legend, you haven't really got much of a story, or at least not a Robin Hood story and that's kind of the point of a show titled Robin Hood.

Of course the other option is that the show just merely recasts everyone and give the viewers new actors in the iconic roles. This is always jarring for any show that's not Doctor Who but it could be a way of relaunching the show and jettisoning some of the baggage. The problem would be that the actors would still be inhabiting a series that has always been hamstrung by poor writing, costume and those Hungarian extras that don't react to anything.

Despite the article mentioning the appointment of a showrunner, I would be very surprised if Robin Hood was commissioned for a fourth season if it lost half its cast. A new start would probably be for the best, perhaps a couple of years hiatus whilst all the parts are recast and the filming relocated and the sets rebuilt? Obviously this would be an expensive option in these times of financial apocalypse. Plus, we may not even be watching TV in a couple of years, we'll probably be forming tribes and fighting each other over supplies of Sunny D and Extra Value beans in the burning ruins of Tesco.

Before the apocalypse occurs we will have season three and that should at least threaten to be interesting towards the end as we all wait for the farewell/death scenes of certain characters...

The Eleventh Doctor will be announced tomorrow.