SUMERIAN ALIENS

 Over 6,000 years ago, a mysterious civilization had detailed maps of our solar system. The Sumerians created these drawings using clay. The surviving drawings show that they understood that the sun is a star at the center of the solar system and that other planets revolve around it. They even accurately sketched the orbits and positions of the planets.

Interestingly, some of their paintings also depict strange images with giant entities. The Sumerians considered them to be deities. Intriguingly, some of the drawings of these gods even display symbols resembling human DNA sequences. Additionally, they had symbols related to medicine, which bear significant resemblance to modern medical symbols. To this day, we still cannot understand how thousands of years ago, the oldest civilization of mankind had such profound knowledge of astronomy.

This raises the question of whether this ancient civilization was not backward, but rather had advanced far beyond our current understanding of them.

BONAPARTE MEETS THE JERSEY DEVIL

 Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother Joseph once claimed to have had a run in with the infamous Jersey Devil. Following Napoleon’s defeat, Joseph went to America where he purchased 800 acres in Bordentown, New Jersey. As he was hunting in the forest near his home, he noticed tracks, seemingly donkey tracks, but if the donkey were walking on its hind legs. Upon recounting his tale to friends, Joseph mentioned that one hoof was larger than the other.

He followed the tracks curiously until they ended. That’s when the beast let out a hissing sound and he turned to face it. Joseph described the creature as having a horse-like head, a long neck, wings like a bird’s, legs like a crane, and small stumpy arms that ended in paws. Upon freezing, where he and the beast just met eye-to-eye, the creature let out another hiss and took off into the air.

THE HIDEBEHIND

 The Hidebehind is a fearsome critter of lumberjack folklore. It is reportedly a large and powerful animal, though no one has ever seen one to be sure of that rumor.

The legend of the Hidebehind was blamed for many cases of disappearances among loggers when they did not return to camp. This is the main reason that the beast is said to feed on humans. However, the human prey never sees it coming. No matter how fast the observer is, the Hidebehind always manages to conceal itself behind something if it is being looked at. It is said that alcohol is a sufficient repellent to Hidebehind attacks, and it avoids the substance as much as it possibly can.

FALLING STARS

 In the pre-dawn hours of November 12,1833 the sky over North America seemed to explode with falling stars. It was unlike anything anyone had ever seen before and visible over the entire continent. The falling stars are from Leonid meteor shower, which occurs every year in November. The meteor stream associated with Comet Temple-Tuttle and it tends to increase in visual strength every 33 or 34 years. The 1833 meteor shower was one of the most intense of its kind with as many as 150,000 meteors per hour visible to the naked eye. People reacted with a mix of fear, awe and scientific curiosity to the 1833 Leonid meteor storm. Michael Shiner noted that the event"frighten the people half to death ".Denison Olmsted, a professor at Yale was promoted to study the phenomenon and appealed to the public for more information. The event was widely reported in newspapers with eyewitness accounts and scientific explanations. The public's interest in the event helped to launch one of the first crowdsourced science projects.

TIGER FISH

 "This fish [Congo Tiger Fish] is only found in the central part of the Congo river system, which is a place where nobody really goes from the outside world, so most people don’t know about it. It’s related to piranhas — it’s a giant piranha, really; they can grow to the size of a large person. The teeth on this one are an inch long, which is about the same size as the teeth on a 1,000-pound great white shark."

UNDERGROUND CHINA

 In modern China, over 30 million people continue to reside in caves, a testament to a unique and enduring way of life. These cave dwellings, known as "yaodongs," are particularly common in the Shaanxi province, where the Loess Plateau's soft soil makes it easy to carve out habitable spaces. These homes are not just relics of the past but are well-adapted to the region's climate, offering natural insulation against both the summer heat and winter cold.

Living in caves has been a tradition in China for centuries. These yaodongs provide a cost-effective and environmentally friendly housing solution. They require minimal construction materials and blend seamlessly into the natural landscape. Despite their simplicity, many cave homes are equipped with modern amenities, providing their residents with a comfortable and sustainable lifestyle.

The enduring popularity of cave dwellings can be attributed to several factors. Economically, they are significantly cheaper to build and maintain compared to conventional houses. Additionally, their energy efficiency is a major advantage, reducing the need for heating and cooling. Socially, living in these traditional homes fosters a strong sense of community and cultural heritage, as families often reside in the same caves for generations.

As China continues to urbanize rapidly, the existence of such a large population living in caves highlights the country's diverse range of living conditions. It underscores the blend of ancient traditions and modern advancements that characterize Chinese society today. The resilience and adaptability of the people living in these cave dwellings are remarkable, preserving a unique lifestyle that has stood the test of time.

WAXWORK

 This afternoon, we watched this horror comedy film on Shudder.

It was recommended by a good friend of mine the other week.

"A waxwork museum comes to town, and the mysterious owner invites some teens to come to a special showing at midnight. Once inside, while viewing different exhibits, they get sucked through portals and the scenes come alive with the story being portrayed which leads to their demise except for two of the teenagers who must stop the mysterious owner from unleashing evil on the world."

The cast list include Zach Galligan, David Warner, Patrick Macnee, and John Rhys-Davies.

The special effects are not that bad and the story had some good merits to it but the teenagers were awful and I really wanted them to being ended by the bad guys in the Waxwork Museum.

The "eighteen most evil beings" used in the film are the Marquis de Sade, a werewolf, Count Dracula, a Golem, the Phantom of the Opera, The Mummy, George A. Romero-style zombies, Frankenstein's monster, Jack the Ripper, The Invisible Man, a voodoo priest, a witch, a snakeman, Rosemary's Baby, an axe murderer, an alien, a giant talking Venus flytrap, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

They even had a creepy dwarf that needed to be set on fire and locked away forever. Think of Tattoo from Fantasy Island but more creepy looking.

The end battle between Patrick Macnee's Sir Wilfred and his fellow monster hunters going up against a whole load of evil monsters come alive was the highlight of the movie.

I was slightly disappointed by the film and I expected a lot more.

I shall rate this film a score of 5/10.

LIFE

 Last night, I watched this Science Fiction Horror film on Netflix.

"A six-member team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused the extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth if let loose but as the crew begins to conduct their research, their methods end up having unintended consequences and the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected."

This film has a stellar ensemble cast of actors that include Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, and Olga Dihovichnaya.

SPOILER ALERT - One by One, The Alien organism starts to kill them off and it's a race against time to find a way to stop the alien from escaping to Earth and eradicating all life!

The special effects are well done, the Alien looks cool in an Octopus type of way and the deaths are decent as well.

The story reminds me of Alien from 1979 as it was inspired by it, but it's not all blood and gore, well not much anyway.

I enjoyed it and the first death was a shocker.

I shall rate this flick a score of 7/10.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEL BROOKS

 This afternoon, in honour of Mel Brooks 98th Birthday, we watched this classic black comedy western on BBC iPlayer.

This film is one of our favourites as is Spaceballs, also by Mel Brooks.

The film was not edited so all the funny good bits are still in this and I watched this the first time when I was about 5 years old, but i have not since it since the 90's as it does not get shown on terrestrial TV here in the UK that often as it does offend those poor little snowflakes with the language and the themes.

I highly recommend this movie if you want to watch a decent intelligent comedy western with so many lines of dialogue that now exist in our popular pop culture and vocabulary.

It is sad to note that out of the whole cast, Mel Brooks and one other female actress are the only two surviving actors left from this movie.

I shall rate this movie a score of 10/10.

SUMOTHERHOOD

Last night, I watched this British action crime comedy on Prime.

It is directed, written, produced and stars Adam Deacon.

"Two hapless friends Riko and Kane have got it all... big dreams, no respect and a fifteen grand debt. Could things get any worse? Yes. So, it's time to man up and finally be taken serious as "Roadmen". Once putting their heads together on various ways to make some money, they decide to rob a megastar (Lethal Bizzle) in a nightclub toilet and hold up the local bank where they encounter Jeremy Corbyn, but things inevitably don't go to plan!. However, somehow a misunderstanding leads them to be desired and acquired for business with one of East London's toughest firms, putting them in the line of fire to the firm's arch-rivals. Can Riko and Kane live up to their name? Will Riko win the affection of Tamara and if he does, will Tyrese, Tamara's lunatic stepbrother, allow Riko to live? Will his life be worth living if the local London Feds draw a line back to our duo?"

This is a very funny comedy that pokes fun at the whole "Black Youth Gangsters Culture" and other London based crime films.

The dialogue was hard to understand at first as there is a lot of British Black culture words that do not make any sense, they sounded very alien to me.

The action scenes were really good for a comedy film, and yes you do notice when a stunt double is replacing the character of the tiny short Riko played by Adam Deacon.

The cameos were good and outside of British viewers, I doubt American viewers will understand who they all are.

We had the former Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn appearing in the bank robbery scene. We had the Ginger singer Ed Sheeran as Crack Ed, a drug pusher.

The British Black rapper Lethal Bizzle was in this as himself as he takes down the duo as they try to rob him in the Gents toilets at a gig.

And a whole host of other Black rappers, grime artists, comedians and actors that make up the various gangsters.

I have only seen a few Adam Deacon films, and he is entertaining fellow, he even incorporates is Bipolar Disorder into his character and his usage of smoking weed.

This was a very good film, but I wish it had subtitles! lol

I shall rate this flick a score of 7/10.

 

THE ISLAND

 Last night, I watched this mindless action film on Prime.

"When his brother is killed, LAPD officer Mark (Michael J. White) leaves the city to return to the island he grew up on. Seeking answers and ultimately vengeance, he soon finds himself in a bloody battle with the corrupt tycoon who's taken over the island paradise."

Michael Jai White was alright in his role of a man out for revenge as he teams up with his ex-wife, and other friends to fight back against this evil tycoon and his team of mercenaries.

The action scenes were pretty good but some parts of the writing was a bit bad, at no point was the island's name mentioned and it was simply called The Island. It turns out after some research on my part, that the film was filmed on location at Saint Kitts and Nevis, which is a British colony, but they made out that the Island is closer to America than anywhere else as in off the coast of Los Angeles.

The acting was fair, even if I did not know any other cast member apart from White. The bad guy was a bit OTT and hammy however.

All in all, a fairly decent evening viewing of a mindless action film that I doubt I will watch again but it entertained me and that's what was important after having a shitty day.

I shall rate this movie a score of 6/10.

BUNNY

 Where the heck is this movie? I would watch this action queer hero!

"Now I've shot so many Nazis, Daddy will have to buy me a sable coat."

Neil Munro "Bunny" Roger

Born – June 18, 1911

There have always been queens, but few compared to the glib, quick-witted Bunny Roger. He was a war hero, yet his most notable contribution was his 1949 invention – Capri pants! He lived his life courageously and consistently; a man who knew who, what, and why he existed. Born in London, he was the most eccentric of three life-long "bachelor" brothers.

Here's an anecdote: Roger got out of a taxi and powdered his nose, when his driver said: "You've dropped your diamond necklace!" Roger replied: "Diamonds? With tweed? Never!"

He influenced how men of his era dressed. As a main character in the neo-Edwardian movement in the 1950s, he brought back the precise tailoring of the turn of the century, influencing the Teddy Boys (Google it).

Once, when Cecil Beaton was photographing him, he asked Roger to step off the sidewalk into the gutter and Roger's retort was: "Not on your life! We've spent two generations getting out of the gutter!"

I don't understand how he had the time to be a hero in World War II, when he was busy as a full-time fop on the verge of becoming an important fashion designer. He died a few days before his 86th birthday, partying until right before entering the hospital for cancer treatment. He bragged at the time that he and Princess Diana had the same waist measurement.

The son of a self-made tycoon, as a youth, he taunted his conservative father by bleaching his hair and wearing a bit of rouge. He was expelled from Oxford for his indiscrete queerness. Undaunted, he started his own fashion house at 26 years old, and his first client was Vivien Leigh.

Five years later, Roger was fighting Nazis in Italy and North Africa. He was noted for his courage under fire while still wearing chiffon scarves. He saved a wounded fellow officer from a building that had been bombed. Roger claimed to have gone into a battle brandishing a rolled-up copy of VOGUE and commanding: "When in doubt, powder heavily!" Perhaps meaning gun powder, or maybe not.

After the war, he was hired to take over the couture department at an upscale London department store. He also invested in fashion house of Bunny's buddy, Hardy Amies (1909 – 2003), a discreetly gay fashionista who designed for the Queen. Roger's money revived the House of Hardy Amies, and when it was sold, it gave him enough funds to retire in comfort and pursue his favorite activities: socializing and buying clothes.

He spent tens of thousands of pounds every year on his wardrobe. His signature look was bowler hat paired with extraordinary shoes that he polished himself using a concoction of beeswax and natural dyes, which he customized by adding red laces to compliment his ruby cufflinks. For each of his suits he had four pairs of shoes made to maximize the number of looks. He owned over 150 Savile Row suits, so it was not a small shoe collection, made larger because had several pairs of the same shoe made when he found a favorite style.

Roger hosted outrageous themed soirées. There were Diamond, Amethyst, and Flame Balls held to celebrate his 60th, 70th, and 80th birthdays. He wore an exotic mauve catsuit with a feather headdress at his Amethyst 70th birthday ball in 1981. At his 80th, he wore a catsuit made of scarlet sequins with a cape of orange organza, casually greeting his 400 guests from behind a wall of fire to the applause of all. His parties were covered by spreads in the newspapers, including a New Year's Eve Fetish Ball where half the guests were of the stiff upper-class, while the other half wore rubber S/M gear and high heels while being led by women tethered in chains. This outraged his father who seemed to have had no sense of humor, although when Roger was a teenager, he had asked for a doll's house as a reward for being selected for a sports team, and his father gave it to him.

When he was six years old his mother gave him a fairy costume with diaphanous skirts and butterfly wings. When he got a little older, Roger plucked his eyebrows to look like Marlene Dietrich, whom he adored. When he visited Hollywood, he was disappointed that he was compared to actor George Arliss and not Dietrich. In his later years his face was what he described as "much-lifted".

He lived with his gay brothers at their estate in Scotland, which Roger furnished with elaborate Gothic furniture, carved with bull and goat motifs, symbols of male sexuality.

There is that old-timey euphemism for his type of queer: "…a little light in the loafers". Well, Roger loved to dance and by all accounts he was a little light in his perfect size-seven loafers. From his London Times obituary: "Beneath his mauve mannerisms, Bunny was stalwart, frank, dependable and undeceived; to onlookers a passing peacock, to intimates, a life enhancer and exemplary friend."

THE PINK PANTHER 2

 Night before last, I watched The Pink Panther 2 on Prime Video.

"After having been rewarded for solving the mystery of the Pink Panther Diamond, inspector Jacques Clouseau has been assigned to minor tasks by his boss inspector Dreyfus so as not to have him in his way anymore. Unfortunately, the famous diamond has once again been stolen as have many other artifacts in a series of burglaries around the world. His past success will enable inspector Clouseau to be part of the dream team comprised of the greatest detectives of the affected countries, where he will be able to display his numerous talents across the world."

This is still a very silly, daft and slapstick of a movie and I enjoyed it for the fun moments.

Steve Martin is brilliant as the idiotic Inspector Clouseau, and his French accent is OTT bad!

The rest of the great cast were brilliant and they seemed to have enjoyed their funny turn in this film.

We had some great actors in the likes of - Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Andy García, Alfred Molina, Yuki Matsuzaki, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, and the rather sexy Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

The only damp squib of this movie was the unfunny Cleese who refused to put on a French accent, not even a bad fake one.

This was a daft movie that was alright and I enjoyed it.

I shall rate this flick a score of 6/10.

TRIGGER WARNING

 This afternoon, we watched this action thriller on Netflix.

"The film follows a skilled Special Forces officer who takes ownership of her father's bar shortly after he dies, and soon finds herself at odds with the violent gang running rampant in her hometown."

The movie is Indonesian Mouly Surya's first directed English language film and unfortunately it shows.

Jessica Alba is the main star and she is alright in this low budget and slow action flick. but the lighting and story progress is very poor as is the supporting cast members as they hired quite a few men with beards and wearing flannel shirts that due to the poor lighting, you could not tell who is who.

The action scenes were good and Alba is a very good scrappy knife wielding heroine with a grudge against the weapon smugglers who killed her dad.

Anthony Michael Hall stars as a corrupt and evil senator in running who is behind all of this mess as are his two sons, one being the local Sheriff and the ex-boyfriend of Alba's character.

Her only two allies are a weed user and a covert ops hacker for the CIA.

This is a poor action film and it's a shame as under a better direction and writers, it could have been a lot better.

I shall rate this film a score of 5/10.

STAGECOACH MARY

 I would watch a movie about her, why not Hollywood make this?

"She drank whiskey, swore often, and smoked handmade cigars. She wore pants under her skirt and a gun under her apron. At six feet tall and two hundred pounds, Mary Fields was an intimidating woman.

Mary lived in Montana, in a town called Cascade. She was a special member of the community there. All schools would close on her birthday, and though women were not allowed entry into saloons, she was given special permission by the mayor to come in anytime and to any saloon she liked.

But Mary wasn’t from Montana. She was born into enslavement in Tennessee sometime in the early 1830s, and lived enslaved for more than thirty years until slavery was abolished. As a free woman, life led her first to Florida to work for a family and then Ohio when part of the family moved.

When Mary was 52, her close friend who lived in Montana became ill with pneumonia. Upon hearing the news, Mary dropped everything and came to nurse her friend back to health. Her friend soon recovered and Mary decided to stay in Montana settling in Cascade.

Her beginning in Cascade wasn’t smooth. To make ends meet, she first tried her hand at the restaurant business. She opened a restaurant, but she wasn’t much of a chef. And she was also too generous, never refusing to serve a customer who couldn’t pay. So the restaurant failed within a year.

But then in 1895, when in her sixties, Mary, or as “Stagecoach Mary” as she was sometimes called because she never missed a day of work, became the second woman and first African American to work as a mail carrier in the U.S. She got the job because she was the fastest applicant to hitch six horses.

Eventually she retired to a life of running a laundry business. And babysitting all the kids in town. And going to baseball games. And being friends with much of the townsfolk.

This was Mary Fields. A rebel, a legend."

THE BATTLE OF PELUSIUM

 "Did you know?

One of the most unexpected ways a historical battle was won is the Battle of Pelusium in 525 BCE, where the Persian King Cambyses II used cats to help secure his victory over the Egyptians.

According to historical accounts, including those by the Greek historian Herodotus, Cambyses II knew that the Egyptians revered cats and held them sacred, associating them with the goddess Bastet. Exploiting this cultural belief, Cambyses ordered his soldiers to capture and carry cats in front of them as they advanced towards the Egyptian forces. Some accounts even suggest that other sacred animals were used in this manner.

The Egyptians, fearing to harm the animals and incur divine wrath, hesitated to attack effectively. The sight of their sacred animals on the battlefield disrupted their morale and fighting spirit. Consequently, the Persians were able to break through the Egyptian lines and achieve a decisive victory. This clever psychological tactic, leveraging the Egyptians' religious beliefs, is a prime example of how unconventional strategies can lead to unexpected and successful outcomes in warfare."

THE FINALE OF DOCTOR WHO

 Yesterday afternoon, we watched this shitty finale of Doctor Who titled "Empire of Death" on BBC iPlayer. This was series 14, episode 8 and it follows on from last week's story "The Legend of Ruby Sunday."

"The Doctor has lost, his ageless enemy reigns supreme, and a shadow is falling over creation. Nothing can stop the devastation - except, perhaps, one woman."

OMG! This was such a bad finale episode of the once great Doctor Who series before Jodie Whittiker took over the role and now Gatwa has completely ruined the role as has the hack writer RTD.

Bringing back Sutekh was an interesting idea, but he is an Osiran, an alien race that inspired the Egyptian Gods, but in fact he is not a true God himself, but a wannabe.

As for him attaching himself to the TARDIS at the end of the 1975 story “Pyramids of Mars”, How? When the Doctor arrived on Mars to confront Sutekh in that story, he travelled there via a Space-Time Tunnel as the TARDIS was still stuck at the priory on Earth in 1911. There is no way he was able to reach Earth and piggyback a ride on top of the TARDIS as he was sent into the far future and die of old age.

And even if by some miracle he did manage to do this, which he did not, what about every time the TARDIS is destroyed in flames when the Doctor regenerates (from new Who onwards), or when the TARDIS is blown up and destroyed by The Silence, that results in the crack in reality during the Matt Smith (11th Doctor) era? Or what about the Time War? I’m sure the ruling class of Timelords would notice something not quite right with the Doctor’s TARDIS, and let’s not forget about Idris? The Human personality of the Timelord’s home, even “House” took control of the TARDIS, and what about Captain Jack Harkness, when he jumped on top of the TARDIS during a trip through the Time Vortex when the 10th Doctor was in charge.

Put it this way, the whole idea of Sutekh being controlling the TARDIS for millions of years and living on top of the machine is just plain ridiculous, but what do you expect from a failed writer!

RTD decided not to include any Egyptian Motifs in this story, so no Mummies, No Egyptian symbolism, nothing. There was nothing in this whole series to make out that Sutekh was going to be this season’s Big Bad, not like previous seasons, where we have had clues for the audience to think about it. How about in the series, we had an Eye of Horus graffiti in various buildings, or pictures of a Pyramid, or even a Mummy in a store window, or something.

And the reasons why? RTD uses a ‘metareference’ to describe the Egyptian motifs as cultural appropriation. What a load of bollocks!

And as for the mystery of Ruby Sunday, she is Normal and so is her Mum! What the Fuck?

So, explain the reason why it is snowing every time Ruby is emotional, even indoors or on a space station or the song “Carol of the Bells” is always playing too in the background that even the Doctor can hear.

And there is no way that Baby Ruby was a newborn infant, as the baby looked like a few months old and what about the nurses/doctors, would they not have been worried about the infant baby? And the mum leaving her in the dead of winter in the snow by herself was unlawfully and morally wrong, she should have been arrested for that crime. Her parents were basically 15-year-old chavs who did not deserve have a baby.

The hooded figure that left the baby at the church and walked away looked too tall for a 15 yr. old girl and weird looking, even pointing towards the Doctor was strange, as it seems she was pointing to the sign of ‘Ruby Road’ but to whom? Who was looking at that, as it means nothing to no one.

And don’t get me started with the whole “Thanos Dusting” as every life, including plant and animal all dissolved into dust, everywhere throughout the universe.

Except for one single lonely woman on an alien world, but I will get back to that in a minute.(1)

People were running away from the Dust Deathwave and nobody was safe from it, except for the Doctor, Ruby, and Mel who locked themselves in the Time Window.

What got me, was that The Doctor even ordered a UNIT soldier out of the room, knowing he was sending her to her death, but he still did it like the monster he has become.

And millions on Earth would have died anyway when the reset button was pressed and everyone in the universe was brought back to life, but I will get to that in a minute too. (2)

The trio of heroes manifested a memory TARDIS from the Hologram chamber and escaped through time and space, which is just stupid. The memory TARDIS does not work like that, and there is no way scientifically or even physically that it would work like that.

1/ Anyway, for some strange reason, they arrive on an unknown alien world and the Doctor walks into a tent where he finds a lonely kind woman who for some strange unknown reason is still alive but very forgetful and she hands the Doctor a spoon as he needs metal to repair a device onboard the memory TARDIS, and then she fades away into dust. She was basically a MacGuffin for the story that was not needed.

So, when they do defeat Sutekh, they lash a rope around his collar as he is a giant dog and tie him to the TARDIS as it travels through the Time Vortex reversing all the damage to the universe and bringing every life back to the living. He is basically a bad puppy and is being punished, the Doctor then snaps the rope and Sutekh dissolves into nothingness.

But wait, there’s more!

2/ Millions of Humans on Earth alone would have died anyway after the dusting as several weeks had passed since Sutekh had killed everyone and that means, Airplanes, Submarines, Warships, Cars, busses, Motorcycles, etc would have crashed when everyone got dusted and when they came back, to what? The Airplanes would have crashed into the ground destroying everything in its path, same goes with the Subs, Ships, and all other vehicles. And the Hospital patients on life support machines or iron lungs would have died too, The Nuclear power plants without being controlled by Humans would have blown up, because they would need a Human to press the computer buttons, and as a lot of wars are happening at the moment on Earth, people would have been de-dusted and coming back to utter chaos and conflict. And that’s just Earth, what about all the other alien worlds including Skaro? Don’t you think they would figure out that it’s the Doctors fault and they and other war-mongering Alien races would all invade Earth for retribution and revenge.

What about E-Space and the parallel universe where Rose Tyler and the alternate copy of the 10th Doctor reside? It takes up too much energy for our TARDIS to even travel to other realities to set things right, so are they all dead as well?

And speaking about the 10th Doctor, or should I say the 14th Doctor who is still a Timelord and is sleeping on Donna Noble’s sofa and has his TARDIS in her back garden, why did Sutekh not reside on his TARDIS as they had split into two when the 15th Doctor hit it with a giant hammer last year.

So, all in all, I am disgusted by the sheer lack of decent writing for this show and the direction it has head into. I am offended by the hack writing from RTD. The writing is horrendous, and he doesn’t care about the audience anymore and treats them like plebs. He writes this series as a “Choose Your Own Adventure” without filling in the ending and wanting the audience to come up with their own meanings and endings themselves as he can’t be bothered as the computer has definitely said NO!

I am sick and tired of all these sycophants who gush over and adore his style and writing, same goes for the real bad attitude and acting style of Ncuti Gatwa as the Gay 15th Doctor, who in every episode he cries like a baby and is scared, the Doctor does not get scared that often and when he does he does not show it and nor does he run away like Gatwa does. When he does run, he runs away with his companions to keep them safe!

And as for his companion, Ruby Sunday played by Millie Gibson who is talented yet highly underused in this series and her whole story arc was just stupid, as RTD sets up a mystery of her origins and does not follow through with it. I hope the actress goes on to do better things and marks this period of her career as a huge mistake and learning curve of not what to do in acting.

I am also offended by the lack of special effects, where the hell did the Disney budget money go too? It was not location shooting, it was not for the bad CGI effects, maybe it was for Gatwa’s wardrobe, I doubt that, maybe it was for RTD’s back pocket as he knows his career is coming to an end after this shitshow.

They made a huge mistake in filming the two seasons and Christmas special back-to back, as all the real bad ratings and reviews we have gotten this last 6 weeks won’t affect the second season of Gatwa’s hopefully short tenue as the Doctor as it’s already been filmed, so they won’t learn from their mistakes and the second season will be as bad as the first.

This final episode only took in 2.25 million viewers and that is really bad, the whole season has had the worst ratings ever in the history of the TV show and it’s shocking, even Jodie Whittiker’s era faired better than this and she was not very popular.

RTD just wanted to make a GAY Doctor Who series and he succeed and failed as that is not what the audience and fans want.

This series has died, and it needs cancelling or better yet, a new showrunner and a new actor, a straight male actor in the role of the Doctor. I can’t even see Disney continuing with their funding as the show has not even been in the Top 10 of their American Nielsens ratings.

This has been a damp squib of a series and episode. The only highlight for me was the few appearances of the mysterious Mrs. Flood played by the legendary Anita Dobson.

I shall rate this episode a score of 2/10 and the whole series a score of 3/10.

THE PINK PANTHER

 Last night, I watched this Steve Martin comedy on Prime.

I have never ever seen a Pink Panther film before, only clips but I am not paying to rent them out and this one was free and I love Martin.

Despite objections from the wife, I wanted to watch this film first and I enjoyed it, it was very daft and silly.

"Bumbling Inspector Clouseau must solve the murder of a famous soccer coach and find out who stole the infamous Pink Panther diamond."

The cast of actors were brilliant, including two non-speaking cameos from Jason Stratham and Scott Adkins as two footballers in the beginning of the film.

Martin's French accent is stupid and very much out of the British sitcom "'Allo 'Allo!"

I enjoyed this daft and slapstick movie and I might even watch the sequel at some point.

I shall score this movie a rating of 6/10.