Murray Gold returning as Doctor Who composer 📺

The news that Murray Gold is returning to Doctor Who is quite exciting, for me anyway.

I love the way each season he created new material, giving each important character their own piece. You hear Clara’s theme and you see that leaf blowing on the wind. You hear “I am the Doctor” and you see Eleven leaping into action.

Hearing his theme in 2005 when the Doctor finally returned to our screens was just so exciting. It was a new arrangement but so familiar and took me straight back to how hearing that music as a boy meant the latest episode was starting and for 25 minutes I was going to be caught up in an adventure in time and space.

Finished The Diplomat on Netflix.

Good pacing, underlying story isn’t overly complex and links everything together. I’ve seen comparisons to West Wing but I think it’s closer to Madam Secretary. If you liked those or more recently The Night Agent or The Recruit on Netflix you should enjoy this. 📺

Some spoiler free thoughts on Star Trek Picard S3E8.

My two favourite lines:

“Is this a rescue mission or a continuation of the torture”

“Personal space is a right”

My favourite scene was the conference room, complete TNG fan service and I loved it. 🖖🏻📺

Just watched The Mandalorian S3E6.

For a show that’s about “The” Mandalorian it’s spending a lot of time on Bo-Katan. Is she now “The” Mandalorian?

Not even sure why they bother showing Grogu apart from merchandising tie-in.

I’d like more Andor instead of this. 📺

Star Trek Picard S3 just gets better with each episode. Jonathan Frakes does a superb job as director of episode 3.

So many great lines. 🖖🏻📺

Wait until there are three episodes then binge together I thought.

Have a nice Sunday night I thought.

Wind the weekend down with a bit of tv I thought.

Then I made it to the third episode of The Last of Us.

I absolutely was not ready for that, any of it. 📺

Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister are two of my favourite shows. Insightful political comedy that is still as accurate and cutting as when it first screened 40 years ago. 📺

I’m enjoying both House of the Dragon and Rings of Power but the former is definitely the better of the two. I think the jumps ahead in years has helped it in terms of pace and the feeling things are happening. Rings is a slow burn with disparate plot lines that works against it in some ways. 📺

Rings of Power this week felt like a filler episode and I’m finding the Harfoot storyline annoying. 📺

Just watched the first three episodes of the new season of Westworld. I see that they’ve stayed with the approach of multiple confusing sub plots, cryptic statements by characters, nothing is simple, blood, gore and death, so much death. All set to the usual great music. 📺