Course leader and Senior Lecturer in English Literature. Victorian lit and culture, detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool University Press, 2028).
Christopher Pittard
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Currently on a train stranded just west of Horsham; power cut to the track/train. Seems to have been an accident with a passenger at Horsham.
I'd just about grasped in 2015 that HD Ready is not the same thing as HD. But now I've just read that 'Full HD' is, apparently, twice as good as HD. So what was HD if it wasn't full?
Anyway, my manifesto for bringing back *Doctor Who*:
- Go back to horror and the uncanny.
- No wisecracking. It's not a sitcom.
- Get rid of the grinding orchestral schmaltz and bring in more avant-garde soundtracks. The show should sound weird.
- Cliffhangers.
One of the lenses fell out of our TV this evening, so we'll almost certainly have to buy a new smart TV in the near future.
Musk is a Bond villain in the grimier world of the novels, but he's too fundamentally uncool to be a Bond villain in the films. His aesthetic is a henchman who happened to inherit a lot of money.
Earlier this week I watched the episode of *A Very Peculiar Practice* where David Bamber plays an academic who has the tastes and attitudes of a child, but is fascinated by the prospect of a sound-based weapon which has actually been devised by his supervisee. That's a closer comparison to Musk.
Quite the week for the Royal Society to be announcing its new Fellows.
