Here is probably the (second?) best scene from last week’s season finale of Doctor Who. In it, the Doctor tries to bring the Master (or at least Missy) to his side to save the people he has committed himself to. Wonderful acting by Capaldi and crew.
It’s a great but rare treat when something from Rich Mullins surfaces online. Here’s a moment from 1997 from a Caedmon’s Call concert with a song written by Mullins but later recorded by Caedmon’s.
Every year on the Fourth of July this comes to mind.
Tonight saw the conclusion of the current series of Doctor Who. Not sure how I feel about it, really. Perhaps the whole series 10 will age well. Here’s the final scene, which sets up the 2017 Christmas special quite nicely . . . it even has snow and ice.
I enjoyed reading IGN’s review of the episode, particularly the idea of the hyping of regenerations in general. You can read it here.
Today was a travel day for me. Late out of Honolulu, late out of LAX, but still a good day into Nashville. Not much sleep, but already time well-spent.
This song, a Caedmon’s classic, always comes to mind on such occasions. Ah, them lines on the road.
It’s almost a wrap for this season of Doctor Who on BBC America. Last week’s episode had its moments, but I’m not sure how it’s all going to come together to create a greater whole. And one big question: will the Doctor’s regeneration happen in this finale or will we have to wait until the Christmas special? Here’s the trailer for the finale.
Granted: three Time Lords together means pretty much anything can happen. We’ll definitely know this time next week . . .
A few weeks ago I spent some time reflecting on some of the high points of Andy Crouch’s The Tech-Wise Family. It is, in my opinion, a book that everyone should read, Christian or not, single or married. The folks at Q Ideas just posted a short talk given by Crouch on the topic of “managing technology.” It’s a nice primer for all that Crouch says in the book.
Best use of Downton Abbey as an analogy that I’ve heard in a long while, too!
Tonight brought the season (and perhaps series) finale to Fargo on FX. This season was built well, hit lots of solid notes over the course of 10 episodes. The law enforcement end of the story didn’t click as well as in the previous seasons, but that could easily be a fatigue thing. Always beautifully shot with nice, artistic flourish.
Saturday brings us closer to the end of the current run of Doctor Who, leaving us with a few months until the Christmas special (where we will supposedly meet the new Doctor). Lots of interest in this week’s episode as it brings back a character long hoped for (and almost ruined by weak scripts): The Master. Here’s the latest trailer.
Two versions of the Master running around (don’t forget Missy). That and an impending regeneration could make for some interesting shenanigans. As always with the Doctor, time will tell.
From “On Gargoyles,” the January 1909-penned introduction to Daylight and Nightmare, a collection of short pieces by G. K. Chesterton:
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason. This is so not merely in the sense of insanity but of suicide. It has lost its reason; that is its reason for existing. The old Greeks summoned godlike things to worship their god. The mediaeval Christians summoned all things to worship theirs, dwarfs and pelicans, monkeys and madmen. The modern realists summon all these creatures to worship their god; and then have not god for them to worship. Paganism was in art a pure beauty; that was the dawn. Christianity was a beauty created by controlling a million monsters of ugliness; and that in my belief was the zenith and the noon. Modern art and science practically mean having the million monsters and being unable to control them; and I will venture to call that the disruption and the decay. The finest lengths of the Elgin marbles consist of splendid horses going to the temple of a virgin. Christianity, with its gargoyles and grotesques, really amounted to saying this: that a donkey could go before all of the horses of the world when it was really going to the temple. Romance means a holy donkey going to the temple. Realism means a lost donkey going nowhere.
By the end of the introduction, the gargoyle also becomes a picture for Chesterton’s own work. You can also find the introduction under the title “The Three Temples.”
(image from Getty Images via the Huffington Post)
Space Enough, and Time 