Friday, August 12, 2005



Debate roundup

As mentioned earlier, SciFi geekery trumped politics, and I didn't watch the debate - so here's some links to comments from people who did:

Frogblog
Keepleft
About Town
Aaron Bhatnagar - liveblogging
NZPundit
Keith Ng

DPF also comments briefly here.

Update: Also Just Left and Blogging it Real. You can also vote for who you think won on Andrew Falloon.

9 comments:

I think that you were better off with Dr. Who. It was nice to hear "Ex Termi Nate" again.
The debate was the usual fluffing about with some slight interest in the worm. It does seem that the way to get a good worm result is to talk about nice things.

Posted by Anonymous : 8/12/2005 08:19:00 AM

Also:
http://bloggingitreal.blogspot.com/2005/08/ask-not-for-whom-worm-turns.html

Posted by dc_red : 8/12/2005 08:53:00 AM

vote on who "won" at
http://andrewfalloon.blogspot.com/

Posted by andrewfalloon : 8/12/2005 11:01:00 AM

What a choice, ghastly mutants with no emotions, or Dr Who on the other channel!

Posted by Anonymous : 8/12/2005 12:27:00 PM

Heh the how to do a good worm presentation on Keepleft is priceless
"i like grandchildren"
I also like puppies and flowers

Posted by Anonymous : 8/12/2005 01:11:00 PM

You are going to tell us what you thought of "Dalek", aren't you?

Posted by Anonymous : 8/12/2005 02:35:00 PM

Actually I was working on what I thought of the Dunne decision. As for Dalek, I liked it, particularly the moral tension between the Dalek and the new Doctor. He's changed a lot - in Genesis of the Daleks he turned down an opportunity to wipe out the Daleks because it would make him like them; now, as the Dalek said, he would make a good Dalek. Obviously, the war (will they tell us more about that?) changed him; I'm now wondering if he'll get better.

Posted by Idiot/Savant : 8/12/2005 02:49:00 PM

I couldn't bring myself to watch the "leaders' debate" last night. I decided to watch Dr Who instead. Now I've never been a big fan of this occasionally irritating and frequently wobbly series. But I decided to give it a go, what with it being a sort of a cult thing and I hate to be feeling left out of the subcultural loop - even if some of it is more loopy than is good for my soul.
But was I impressed with the Dalek episode? In summary, the Doctor picked up the fagboy from Corrie Street and killed off the last ACT Party voter "I want my FREEEEEEDOOOOOMMMMM" Dalek. Not world shattering and mildly more interesting than NZ politicians spouting soundbites.

Posted by Hans Versluys : 8/12/2005 04:09:00 PM

And my rather lengthy contribution is here
http://bloggreen.blogspot.com/2005/08/leaders-debate-brought-to-you-by.html

Posted by Kakariki : 8/12/2005 05:31:00 PM