Some fannish things:
1) Time Crash is still making me all smiley and cheerful. I have decided that my very favourite bit is when Five says 'I'm so sorry' when they bump arses, because it's so instantly 'ah yes, it really IS him', and I miss that ridiculous polite wordiness. Also, when Ten says 'I'm so sorry' it means 'I have just witnessed the death of one or more people/species, and I wish to express to you that I am sensitively emo about it, yet also conscious that this one or more people/species death is but a tiny drip in my infinite ocean of
2) I went to that Spike and Ianto gig thing. Bloody weird way to spend an evening, that, but larks all the same. Tosh was there and had one of those tops that has buttons going up the back, and is either terribly stylish or evidence that you do not know which is the front of your cardigan. I shook Ianto's hand on the way out. He has big hands. Just in case anyone was wondering.
3) Despite really hating 301 and it still being in many ways appallingly misogynistic telly, I am quite in love with the new season of Supernatural. I hear the fandom hates on the new women: SURPRISE! I'm quite fond of them, Bela especially. No idea what they think they're doing with Sam's characterisation, but at least his hair is a bit less stupid now. And anyway I am not really looking at him. Ah, shallowness.
4) I have now seen the first episode of Prison Break. Best Entirely Implausible Premise Evar! Also more candy for the ever-hungry shallowness brain.
5) Oh, I am going to miss SJA terribly. There were three actively bloody awful things in this one (the fucking Slitheen AGAIN, the crapulous ruination of the beautiful Sarah-doesn't-need-a-Mr-Smith-she-just-needs-herself-and-her-self-created-wonky-family metaphor via the K9 deus ex machina, and Floella Benjamin, who was unwatchable, alas), but I have to let them off because there was so much that was magnificent. I found the first 10 minutes or so actively upsetting, and got quite tearful. I want to hug them all, and if they don't get a second series I will throw stuff.
Missed Robin Hood on Saturday. Was it worth chasing up? (I mean, obviously it was bollocks, but was it the good kind of bollocks or just woeful and turgid? In essence, I'm asking did Guy take his top off again in front of Alan for no reasons other than gay ones like last week? I enjoyed that bit.)
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Hee! But so true. I squeed a little over the appearance of the glasses. :D
I do agree with you about Sam's hair. Now that he's finally abandoned that forehead-eating fringe, he's much more lookable-at. But, y'know, Dean still owns me on lookable-at-ness, which should absolutely be a word. Fandom's reaction to the new female characters has been ridiculous and verging on hysterically mysogynistic. I'm looking forward to finding out more about Ruby's motivation for helping the boys slay her demonic brethren, and though I started off loving-to-hate-her-but-still-appreciating-her-character I now love-to-love Bela.
I don't watch Robin Hood, but folks on my flist say it's even gayer than ever.
I remain amused at how perfectly my own total lack of interest in Sam in favour of Pretty Broken Dean seems so entirely mirrored by the writers. I know it isn't anything new, but still: they so can't be bothered, and it cracks me up. The fandom thing makes me so relieved I have no fervent urge to engage, because, oh my, they make the worst of the Rosefen seem outstandingly mature. I can't claim that Katie Cassidy is my favourite actress of all time, but I'm intrigued by the character and hope she gets enough screentime to actually do interesting things (unlike poor Jo). And Bela is exactly the kind of 'has a brain, and her own job, and will snark' woman that the fangirls claim they want, and yet... I still like her regardless of the accent, and that's quite the achievement.
Ooh, Hoodiness without actually having to sit through the shit bits: ta!
Really, I'd just like Ellen and Jo back, thankyouverymuch.
I think the trouble is that in SPN, the women who aren't just death-fodder DO have to be emphatically 'I am better than you' - yet in a way the show will, by necessity, beat down and thus make look stupid. They've established such a rule of 'the show is the boys, do not touch the boys' with the only female presences being people who get to die, and occasionally get snogged, but not usually in that order, that any recurring woman has to be evil (check) or disinterested to the point of being evil (check). (There's a discussion to be had re whether it's possible to be 'good' and a shag-prospect in the Winchesterverse without it leading to instant death, methinks.)
And after all the fansnit over Jo, it's tricky. They fucked up big time with her character, I can't bear to watch 'No Exit', I think that her final ep with no apologies after is 'Born Under A Bad Sign' says a lot about how unspeakably thoughtless the producers were - but then from what I can tell the fan dislike wasn't from her being treated as some kind of meatpuppet at random, but that she dared to express any interest in St Dean. So fuck knows.
I'd LOVE to see Ellen back (now there's a woman who didn't need to prove herself, jusyt did it by turning up), and Jo too, only with some better writing so she didn't appear to be the reverse Buffy pls. But in the meantime, if they can keep Bela and Ruby at the level they are, as recurring guesties who progress the plot, that's great. I'd like to see some more of the romantic tension too, but bizarrely enough I can see the boys remaining neatly celibate just to keep the cesty fans happy.
Ultimately, of course, I am mainly in it for Dean's manly manpain, so *shrugs* whatever.
That is definitely a huge part of why I hate it--it's humiliating for the women, and there's little I despise more than smug men. (I also hate the competition, but that's RL issues coming through in part, I think.) It's weird that they manage to write Ruby without the competitive streak--then again, Ruby's a demon, and how the hell do you compete with that?
Clyde is made of awesome, indeed. I love them all. It's Five's crowded TARDIS o' love all over again. :)
Sort of? Hahhahahaha. I wouldn't call any of the three kidlets Tegan though. :P But yeah, I see what you mean. XDXDXD I do love it, and I think they're doing a great job of juggling it all too.
I have no idea what catcus thing you're talking about, ahahahahha, but I certainly hope there is more. It's full of win.
It possibly makes more sense if you see it. A friend of mine gets paid to think this stuff up: I am always so very amused when I hear his 'boring work anecdotes'. :)
Luke is Nyssa and Adric's lovechild.
And, yes, yes. My versions of the show always cut off after the credits, so I guess that explains that. It sounds like an awesome job though, man.
It is an awesome job, I reckon. He's always 'so today, I wrote eight comedy sketches, and made a guy dress up as a pie'. I am waiting for the day he finally gets to run his own show.
And yes. But, let's see. If Luke is Nyssa/Adric, I guess that makes Maria Tegan and Clyde Turlough? :D
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I can't see Maria or Clyde as Tegan. They've got the curiosity and determination, yeah, but then Peri has those things. I can't see Tegan having the calm common sense needed to do the mental typing thing inside Mr Smith: she'd just hit things with her shoe. And Maria's a bit more willing to take advice.
And there's only one Turlough. :) Besides, SJ herself is hardly a Five type. Works as an indirect analogy, maybe?
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Plus much Whoviana. Presumably mine are being targeted based specifically on my own comments, so me posting about 'boys wearing tampons' spawns more the same - and maybe it's regional. Guess all those boys wanting tampons and bras will ahve to move to blighty. :P
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Granted, it's not boys wanting tampons or men needing bra training, but it's a step in the right direction.... um. What am I saying.
Now I just want to see if mentioning boys wearing tampons in my comment gives me something hideous too, ahahhaa man.
No embroidered panties for me, since we don't have no ITV! D:
*sits back to watch*
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Mine is wall to wall knicker ads now, and not a sniff of 'Doctor Who bedding'. Although that will presumably now change.
At least that's a step in the right direction.
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That is all.
Also, I commented on your RSS feed thingie... but should I go the extra click and comment on the proper blog itself instead? I don't know if you're mailed the rss feed comments.
Am not emailed comments at present (must fix that, it's silly) but have read and responded. Ta! Most interesting. :)
Yay for responding, thanks. And getting comments emailed to you would be smart, yes. :D
2) I don't care if it's really meant that way or if it's just the stylish thing to do -- cardigans / jumpers that button up the back look like you're wearing them backwards.
Naoko certainly looked v foxy in hers, anyway. If anyone's going to pull off a backwards knitwear scenario, she will.
1) Yes to ALL. :D It was just so sweet and lovely and oh-I-miss-Five! (And all the others quite frankly. Lets do away with the timelordpain, yes).
2) Spike and Ianto? *brain shorts out momentarily* They did a gig together? How awesome! :)
3) Supernatural could be the best show ever if they did drop all that misogynistic bullshit. *sigh*
5) I wish to state for the record that SJA >>> TW. By quite a lot. Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? was absolutely brilliant. And yeah, freaking Slitheen. I hope we're done with them now.
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Spike and Ianto did a little fan thingy in Cardiff this past weekend (James Marsters was back doing some Torchwood filming, and they both have bands, so they did a little Q&A, which i didn't see, and a small fan gig, which I did). Not onstage together performing, but from what I gather they both have high opinions of each other. Bless.
SPN remains a show I'm slightly embarrassed about liking, because at times it really is reprehensible. And other times it's fabulous. And sometimes it's just angsty and thrilling and I am soooo easily distracted. Am enjoying this season more than I expected given the opener, anyway!
SJA > TW by so so so much. Frankly, SJA > DW too. I know which I'd most happily sit down and rewatch right now.
It's quite cheery embarking on something where I honestly know bugger all about it. (Apart from there being a prison break, obviously. And it apparently being really very exciting at points in S3. :P)
Bela's good, but she's no substitute for Ellen. I want Ellen back NOW. We all know she's staying with Bobby post-Roadhouse-fire (um, in my personal fanon, anyway); where is she in all the Bobby episodes? (Frantically hiding all the evidence of their grouchily perfect sex life in case the boys or Jo have a surprise visit, possibly.)
Ruby is a bit... I forget who was talking about the problems with the way Meg was very very gendered with all that demonette seductress crap. Now, Ruby's not so bad - in a fight between her and the Crossroads Demon, f'ristance, CD'd be all scratching and hair-pulling and Ruby would totally lay her out with one punch - but it's still there. And it annoys me. Please let her be a boy demon in a girl body and interestingly genderqueered. Especially if Sam wants to shag her.