Well fuck me sideways (I tried to sanitise that response but there's nothing else that covers it)

I downloaded Primeval 03x03 a few days ago but just now got around to watching it while I wait for Planet of the Dead to download (part four of six!) and holy crap cakes, when did this show go from "vaguely silly Saturday night dinosaur insanity" to "holy shit, they just did what now give me the next episode immediately or I may die of the waiting"?

Seriously. This show just took a step up. There is a reason I'm bothering to download this while Robin Hood isn't even getting recorded back home; take note BBC. You make have hit everyone's fun and fabulous gaydar-mad dragons-Anthony Head being an awesome tyrant-kinks with Merlin but watch Primeval for tips on how to make a show that forces you to sit up and pay attention.

( major spoilery spoilery spoilers! )

Yeah. I'm going to bed now, with my buzz totally killed dead. You know what the problem with TV shows is? Actors.

(But in Torchwood's case it's the scriptwriters. Or occasionally the camerawork. Or...

...okay, okay, tangent. I'm just bitter. WATCH ME DOWNLOAD ROBIN HOOD INSTEAD NEXT WEEK ITV...except Jonass is leaving at the end of this series too.

SEE. ACTORS ARE THE PROBLEM. DAMN THEM ALL.)

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I just Googlemapped directions to the place I have to catch my Blue Mountains bus trip for tomorrow, namely 804 George Street, Sydney, expecting a trip of around five to ten minutes. But no!

224 days, 11 hours.

Because Googlemaps gave me directions - walking directions - to 804 George Street, Sydney, Canada. Via Japan. Walking.

Well done Googlemaps. Take a cookie.

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I'm still pissed about Primeval but I need to run to Starbucks for breakfast before I go on my walking trip to Bondi at 12pm, so comments'll get answered tonight. I'm still mad at actors in general. What happened to loyalty? Do you see authors getting bored halfway through a book trilogy and saying "No, screw this! I'm off to write something else with my new floppy hair!" (I'm paraphrasing). Possibly. But not the good ones. Yet an actor abandons a show for no apparent reason (that I've seen; I will stand corrected if anyone points one out) and everyone's all "Oh good for you! Don't want to be typecast!

Yeah well Henshall, I'd never heard of you before Primeval and I suspect I won't in future either. Share Googlemaps' Cookie of Fail complete with the Chocolate Chips of Stupidity.

...I will now stop ranting on this matter and go to Starbucks. Yes.

Just when you think it can't get more bizarre...

So I didn't really have the time to check this morning for how Googlemaps recommended I handle the minor problem of the ocean between me and Canada. Assumed it'd be 'catch a flight' or at worst a ferry. Then tasheila asked and out of curiosity I replicated the directions I'd given it this morning.

Not a plane. Not a ferry. Not. Even. Swim.

I present to you, M( Googlemaps' recommendation for how to get from Australia to Canada )

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My day of walking between Coogee and Bondi beaches with a group of other people from the hostel was all kinds of awesome and I've just Facebooked my first two people in Australia (other than mayakitten who I already knew. ^_^) All awesome, except now I'm exhausted and I still have Bondi beach sand between my toes and I have to be up at 6am tomorrow. Yeah. Shower and DW in bed I think. Mmmmmm.

(Still bitter but I've decided to draw a line under it and move on. Short of finding Douglas Henshall and demanding at gunpoint that he go back to the show, (which admittedly is a little extreme)? Not a lot I can do. Bah. It better not suck for the rest of the series, if I bother downloading it. Which I probably will because I still have an annoyingly niggling Connor/Cutter post-ep 3 bunny and it's not as wrong as that makes it sounds. Hm.