Oooh, shiny!!!

I held off seeing Avatar until almost a month after it's release for a few reasons. Main one was I've become much more hype averse over the past 5 years or so, seemingly my brain has caught up to the notion that it's usually in the media's interest to go on and on and on about something even (or sometimes especially) when it's below par. Secondly, after my original thoughts when the trailer came out I was waiting to see if it did actually fall on it's arse.

It didn't. Guess that told me, eh? [More]

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The sales are a lie...

Like an idiot (a particularly *bored* idiot) I decided to venture out this morning. [More]

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Spoiler Alert!

I've been quite looking forward to the two-part Doctor Who adventure being broadcast over Christmas and New Year. Ideally I'd like to be able to watch this with no preconceptions but I've been prevented from doing so by an almost pathological insistence by the media and the internet to tell me almost every detail of what is going to happen. [More]

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