GIP + charity walk

[winterbadger]

My friend Rho has started posting to her LJ, and she's begun with an entry about training for her charity hike. She's going 29 miles over rough ground in 12 hours!

I'm prodding her to post how to contribute to her part of the challenge. It benefits some pretty worthy charities, so any of you soft buggers who haven't gotten me a pressie for my birthday yet, you could do worse than make a pledge to that.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have the rest of my bottle of cheap plonk and an episode of Ashes to Ashes to finish...

Comments

[reasdream.livejournal.com]

Is Ashes to Ashes good? I've not seen it.

[winterbadger]

It's OK. It's funny to see a period I lived through treated like "the old days" :-) The central figure's struggle with the difference between reality and their imagination is even more annoying than it was in LoM, to me. I really wish, in a way, that they had made both as unvarnished scifi "thrown back in time" stories; the psychological aspect is interesting, but it also causes the character to behave in ways that, frankly, I just find bloody annoying, because she's sure none of what she's experiencing is real.

Honestly, I'd be perfectly happy with just a straight-up "set in the past" cop show with Philip Glenister and John Simm and/or Keeley Hawes as his sidekick. :-)

[schizokitty.livejournal.com]

You are even more amusing than usual when you're squiffed. ^_^

BTW, if the lead character is so annoying, why do you watch it?

[winterbadger]

It's not the character I object to so much as her reactions based on the plot device. If the plot device were that she had been moved back into the past (as with LoM you never really knew until the end), I wouldn't have minded so much.