OK, so there's this short drama being broadcast online, and it's called Girl Number 9. The first episode went online last night, and is viewable here: http://www.canyousaveher.com/ The torchwood fangirls reading this need to be aware that a certain welsh actor with the same initials as me is in it.

It's a dark thriller. I can't tell you how dark, because I've only seen episode 1. Anyway, go and have a look, this post is not about plugging it. It's for me to record my theories for posterity.


So, spoilers ahead...

( Spoilers and theories behind the cut )

I'm expecting lots of nasty twists though, so all of these could turn out to be way off the mark. I may find myself posting revised theories after each episode.

1) The hobbits have gone, where have they been taken to?

Welllllllll. It depends who is taking them. If it's nice people, then it'll be somewhere like Lorien, or Rivendell, or back to the Shire. If it's nassssssssty people, then it'll be somewhere less pleasant, such as Mount Doom, Minas Morgol, or, you know, that other place.

Now, where's Gandalf? I wanna word.

2) If you had to choose another name for yourself, what would you pick?

Right. This question sounded familiar, so I went and looked at what other questions there were on my LJ Profile. I found "What name would you have chosen for yourself?", to which I said "I'm perfectly happy with the one I've got. Choosing names is a pain in the arse, speaking as a writer who has to do it with every new story. I'm glad someone else took care of mine for me."

But, of course, this is not the same question, quite. This says I have to have another name. So "Geraint", the reason being that this is name I have toyed with using as a pseudonym for my writing. But then, I chose that because it was what I was neeeeeearly called. So does that count? Or do I have to pick something completely different? In which case <random>Horace</random>.

3) What is it that makes you iron a shirt every day, rather than ironing a few shirts at a time? XD

No wardrobe space to hang multiple ironed shirts. But then, part of the reason for that is that I iron every morning. Mostly it's just that I can't stand ironing, so doing it for as short a time as possible at a time is preferable.

4) You're given £10 for every hour you stay off the internet; how long do you last?

Ooooh you little fucker, that's an evil one. I'd choose to do it when I was going on holiday for the week anyway, which would be 7 x 24 x £10 = £1680 which would get me plenty of PackRat tickets XD

5) Ideally, how many pies would you like baked for you? Is there any number that simply will not do(oooo)?

Shut up woman, get on my horse.

I've started going to the office gym. This is because it is free - you wouldn't catch me paying money to do that sort of nonsense to my body. Anyway, here is a list of the things I have learned. The music-related ones are as a result of seeing music channels (for the first time in several years) on the TVs in there.

• Never try to look behind you while on the treadmill.
• R'n'B videos have a new staple requirement. At some point, beautiful women must be shown in a clinch either about to kiss (cf. Dizzee Rascal) or actually kissing (cf. Black-Eyed Peas)
• Dizzee Rascal has gone from Edgy Innovator(TM) to R'n'B Cliché.
• The first line of Cheryl Cole's song is "too much of anything can make you sick". Fantastically ironic given you can't get away from her at the moment.
• Cross Trainers are evil.
• Stair Climbers are eviller.
• I'm (apparently) not as unfit as I thought.
• I go to the gym on random days, and there's at least one guy who's ALWAYS there, which suggests he goes every day, which concerns me. People are scary.

So there.

Had a text from my brother last night:

I've got a bone to pick. Dylan will no longer say fast properly, now says it like you cos "Uncle Gareth says it like that" ;)

This is hilarious and fantastic and all sorts of other good things.

To clarify, me and Bro grew up in London, but then I went to Uni in the North, and picked up all kinds of Northernisms. So I say 'fast', whereas he says 'farrrrrrst'.

Yes, it's all very sad about Stephen Gateley. Yes, he went too soon. But so do plenty of other people. It fucks me off that whenever a celebrity dies there is this massive public outpouring of grief (mostly from other celebs, but also the world and their wife seem to feel the need to comment on it on facebook/twitter).

A celebrity's death is no more or less tragic than any other death. Normally, you wouldn't expect someone to grieve for someone they didn't know. Show respect, yes[*]. Be sad, maybe. But grieve, no. Go figure.

'kay, I'm done.

[*] Perhaps this post isn't showing respect. But neither is jumping on the "It's so sad!" bandwagon. Hmph.

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*ded*

Spoilers. Big big fucking spoilers for Torchwood: Children of Earth. And lots of rant about fandom.

( Seriously. HUGE MOTHERFUCKING SPOILERS. )

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