{"id":1202,"date":"2010-04-10T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:33:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:33:18","slug":"brits-in-spa-a-a-ce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/brits-in-spa-a-a-ce\/","title":{"rendered":"Brits in spa-a-a-ce &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After due consideration following\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/benjeapes.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/my-name-in-dnepropetrovsk-is-cursed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my earlier post on the topic<\/a>, I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m not going to sue Steven Moffat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to let George Lucas do that instead, for pinching not one but two of the iconic <em>Star Wars<\/em> scenes and combining them. His lawyers are much more high powered and it will be far more entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>But while it lasts, this guy is good. &#8220;The Beast Below&#8221; could have been so unbearably silly: in fact it was just enjoyably silly, and moving at the same time. The scene where the Doctor talks about not forgetting, in a gentle, kind, wise voice that politely chides Amy while also making it clear she has done a very silly thing &#8211; that could have come from any Patrick Troughton episode. Any other Doctor bar 2 and 11 would have just lectured, over-acted, postulated or otherwise just not done it so well.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, this guy is good. And he&#8217;ll have to be even better to stop me yawning when guess-who glides back onto our screens next week &#8230; Which he probably will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After due consideration following\u00a0my earlier post on the topic, I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m not going to sue Steven Moffat. I&#8217;m going to let George Lucas do that instead, for pinching not one but two of the iconic Star Wars scenes and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/brits-in-spa-a-a-ce\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pensees","tag-dr-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4020,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}