osprey update

[ewein2412]

she's back! The osprey arrived 20 March--ten days earlier than she's ever arrived before. Her mate's not here yet. The man at the visitors' centre said that they don't travel together. They just meet up at their summer place in Scotland. Apparently there is sometimes a bit of scrapping for the prime property.

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So, I had to go and get the DVD of Battlefield, the 1989 Dr. Who with a less-than-memorable Mordred in it. We've watched 3 of 4 episodes and I have to say I'm finding it highly entertaining. Jean Marsh (ie ROSE from Upstairs, Downstairs) is Morgaine, rather too obsessed with Good Form to be properly evil (like Capt. Jas. Hook). Everyone recognizes The Doctor as Merlin, and he never argues, which is a rather endearing touch. His female sidekick, Ace, is obsessed with explosives to the point of being boring, and he drives a car that looks just like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (number plate WHO 7). There is no plot that I can make out. But I am all over the hilarious love-interest between Brigadier Winifred Bambera (who I recognized immediately as the female version of Dave Lister) and the good guy Ancelyn ap Gwalchmei.

Mordred worries us when he laughs. Sara and I were both afraid he was going to literally laugh himself to death at one point.

Comments

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I both want to see this and am terrified with it. O Mordred.

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I had the same reaction, even though Ace and the 7th Doctor both really bugged me, but it's not available to stream through Netflix, and that was about the end of the amount of work I was willing to put into finding a Sylvester McCoy episode to watch.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Yay, osprey!

So Mordred is Vizzini, is what you're saying. Good heavens.

[ewein2412]

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

it was like that. oy.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

*klunk*