overyourhead - some irreverent musings by a gay London guy - crawling though technology, love and life... so you don't have to.
Stuart and I went to the Trinity College Alumni Carol Service in Marylebone yesterday evening.
It was tremendous. Thunderingly loud organ & choir. Incredibly rousing. We almost elevated.
We sang our hearts out.
OH COME! OH COME! EMMAAAAANUEL!!!
HAAAARK!!! THE HEEEERALD!! AAAANGELS!!! SIIIING!!!! etc.
#TrinityCollege #Cambridge #AlumniLife @trincollcam @stmaryleboneparishchurch
So the Doctor Who spinoff, reimagining the Sea Devils as Homo Aqua 🧜🏼♂️, has finally hit our screens. Hurrah!
What did I think?
First the positives…
It’s good to have the Doctor Who world back on BBC One and on a Sunday night slot too 📺. I love it when we have sci-fi shows on prime time telly. And I especially like it when those sci-fi shows are set in London ❤️
The show looks good - they’ve obviously spent a lot of (Disney) money on it - and the production values are high🌟
There are some funny one liners 😆
It’s well acted. And Russell Tovey is very easy on the eye. 😉
And now some things I think that aren’t quite so good…
The plot, and much of the script, could have been written by AI 🤖. Russell T Davis seemed to be sticking to his ‘policy of no surprises’. There are some dodgy character names, zero plot subtlety, and the usual dubious approach to female roles.
However noble the message, and as catastrophic as the pollution of the seas is, sophisticated TV audiences require a more interesting - either dramatic and twisty or nuanced and layered message. This was by the numbers. Humans are the bad guys, we get it 👿
You know with the way it’s gonna run. The politicians / invested interests behind Homo Aqua and Homo Sapiens will want to go to war and Salt 🧜♀️ and Barclay🙍♂️will go on the run and have to work together to bring about peace in a dramatic fashion in the final episode💥. Yawn. 🥱
Granted we are only two episodes in, but I would’ve expected our fishy adversaries to have been playing a slightly most strategic game. Rather than just swimming ashore and shaking a spear, why not have them committing some major acts of sabotage on the main polluters or indeed the general population? 🧨They are eco-warriors, right? 💣 Try wiping out a few million people who are causing the pollution. Yes, basically I want some more jeopardy💥. More death. It’s a war, right? 💀
So let’s have some three dimensional characters. Let’s have some traitors! Let’s have some drownings! If you’re gonna drop RMS Titanic and 1 billion tons of plastic on peoples heads why don’t you show some people dying? ⚰️
I get that the dilemma RTD has - if you’ve got an ‘alien’ species who is sort of on the right side of history, you can’t then make them into “baddies”. Otherwise people will not buy to their eco-message . But that’s a problem with your story dear Russell, your plotting. 📒
Still, it is early days. Perhaps the next episodes will reveal cunning twists rather than another sermon with splashy lighting. I live in hope 🤞.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
That said, any show that can get GBNews to spout the following gets my vote! 🗳️
“BBC sparks 'WOKE' fury as new Doctor Who spin-off branded 'self-righteous box-ticking fest' by furious viewers: 'Force-fed virtue signalling!'”
Oh GBNews you uniformed dipshits. Doctor Who is and always has been woke. And proudly so. If you're bitching about you have never watched it! 😆
🐟🐠🐡🌊🐬🐳🐙🧜🧜♀️🧜🏼♂️🪸🦈🦀🐚🐋🦞🍤🦪
@bbc @russelltdavies63 @russelltovey #DoctorWho #TheWarBetweenLandAndSea #HomoAqua #TeamSalt #TeamBarclay
No matter how much train fares will cost under the new nationalised Great British Railways, no one can accuse the government of wasting money on an expensive redesign. Looks like someone knocked over a pile of paint pots in B&Q. 🔴⚪️🔵🟡 😂
Last Saturday Stuart and I had a great Xmas🎄afternoon (and night!) out with all the Essex gang 🎉
First we all went to see Dave‘s fantastic play End at The Dorfman theatre 🎭 and then we went on to the Anchor pub 🍻 on the river.
A lot of laughter 😂 and great to see everyone. ❤️
Today Stuart and I carried on our annual tradition of picking a Christmas tree from Pins and Needles Highbury. 🌲
We both always put the lights up 🌟. But ONLY STUART puts the baubles up 🪩. He loves it so much ❤️. It’s his thing.
And he definitely subscribes to the MORE is MORE school of tree decorating 🤣
As ever, each year he adds all the new decorations we have bought from each place we have been to on our travels that year.
It’s getting so bad, the poor tree can barely cope. At this rate we’ll soon need a second tree! 🥴🌲🎄🤣
Yesterday afternoon Andrew and I went to see the On the Art of Teeth exhibit at Barts Pathology Museum in London’s glitzy Smithfield.
The museum is a wonder - housing over 4,000 human pathological specimens over 3 mezzanine levels.
For the exhibit, artist @JanetkaPlatun and #DrDavidMills have turned nineteenth century dental specimens into sly wonders using micro tomography to sneak inside enamel and expose memories decay and survival.
Fab.
#BartsPathologyMuseum #TeethArt #Smithfield #QMUL
Lovely to spend some time with the gorgeous Pierre yesterday lunchtime. Thanks for the catch up (and the wine!) 🍷❤️ #flatiron
A delightful gathering with the gaygooners before the match was the perfect warm up before heading to the Emirates Stadium where the Gunners took on those pesky Bees from across town.
Who needs specialist strikers when Mikel Merino decides to reinvent himself as a target man though? A makeshift forward line doing the business again. He headed home early on from a Ben White cross while that man Saka finished the job off with a gentle tap past the (Bee)keeper.
Brentford offered little, bar a single scare for Raya.
Eighteen games unbeaten and five points clear at the top of the league feels dangerously competent for this football club. Now we just need to wrap Declan Rice in cotton wool immediately!
Onwards and upwards, my friends.
@Arsenal @GayGooners #COYG #ARSBRN #arsenal #wearethearsenal #thearsenal #gooners #gooners4life #goonersfamily #afc #gunnersmate #gunners4life #gunners #goonerfamily #arsenalfc #arsenalfootballclub #arsenal4ever #arsenalday
Yesterday afternoon went to see Pillion at Odeon in London’s glitzy Holloway.
Colin (Harry Melling) meets mysterious biker Ray (Alexander Skarsgård) and gets roped into a kinky biker BDSM romance. Writer/director Harry Lighton weaves a darkly funny but tender tale of submission, self-discovery and sad longing. The sex is rough. The romance is unexpectedly gentle. Colin blossoms. Ray stays a sad enigma. Melancholy rides shotgun. That explicit picnic scene stays with you. A gutsy queer film. A film that’s messy, honest, sometimes shocking. But a film that is quietly hopeful and deeply human.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@harrym31 @alexander_skarsgard @hlighton @OdeonHolloway #PillionMovie #BDSM #QueerCinema #London #FilmReview #HarryMelling #AlexanderSkarsgård #HarryLighton #OdeonHolloway #LGBTQFilm
It was lovely to have the boys over on Saturday afternoon / night for our annual pre-festivities party. 🎄🥳
Stuart did us proud with the food and we made up goodie bags of homemade fayre; sloe gin, quince jelly, marmalade, and biscuits. 🍸🫐🍑🍊🍪
We laughed. A lot. 🤣
Another gaygooners trip across town yesterday to Satan’s Playground to watch the mighty Arsenal take on the soulless Blue Devils.
Arsenal almost had everyone fit again only for Saliba to drop out at the last moment. Arteta turned to Hincapie and Mosquera for central defence and the usual set piece swagger evaporated somewhat. Chelsea scored from a corner which felt like someone else had borrowed Arsenal’s favourite party trick.
Mosquera looked a little rattled and collected a booking. Calafiori and Hincapie followed suit in the name of team spirit.
Merino rescued the mood because he enjoys doing that. Not the slickest display but unbeaten through Spurs and Bayern and now Chelsea. Still five points clear and a point away from home is perfectly respectable even if Chelsea finished with ten.
Onwards and upwards, my friends.
@Arsenal @GayGooners
#COYG #CHEARS #arsenal #wearethearsenal #thearsenal #gooners #gooners4life #goonersfamily #afc #gunnersmate #gunners4life #gunners #goonerfamily #arsenalfc #arsenalfootballclub #arsenal4ever #arsenalday
