Oooweeeeeooooooooooooh!
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hathycolDid you all watch it? DID YOU? I'm in post-squee, as it was... oh, I don't know, actually. It was peculiar, and bits seemed to jar, but it was lovely sci-fi escapism. Fun! Despite the vast sweeping majority - in fact, all - of the Brits on my flist were very much of the not alive variety when it was first transmitted or indeed finally transmitted (I watched the Paul MacGann film with my Dad - can I say for the record that it really is a family thing?) I will be muchly disappointed if I find that people didn't watch. Personally, I enjoyed it. My father enjoyed it more.
Personally? I rather liked it. Some elements were decidedly Naff, as Iona said, but my inner small child found it amusing. Christopher Eccleston was quite a good Doctor, although I made the fatal mistake of trying to Understand The Fandom first, which means that I was all disappointed not to see Sylvester MacCoy or Paul McGann dying and being appropriately regenerated, etc etc. Understood why, though, and yay for the Doctor being from the North as well. And there is BACKSTORY! There was good Wibbling at the... um... Big Plastic Blob which may well have had a name and there is a chance for angst there. Eccleston seems to be completely nuts at one moment and then occasionally angsty and I like that. Not sure I like the non-so-subtle giving of ship there, because I like the asexual Dcotor idea, but there we are.
The best part was watching Dad regress. We had to have all the lights turned out, he was quite serious about pushing the sofa forward so there would be a crawl space (although Mum scathingly pointed out that his beer belly wouldn't fit so he sheepishly gave up on that idea) and he giggled at all of the quite crap jokes. And split coffee EVERYWHERE when the arm jumped out from behind the sofa. Mum disliked it - she walked out twenty minutes in, huffing "nerds!" I think she is jealous. This morning we had the following exchange:
"Colleen, you are far too excited about this."
"It's like the entire sci-fi community is excited via osmosis! It's fun!"
"No, you just fancy Billie Piper."
"OMGWTFBBQ?!"
Cool and accepting, yes, but still, it's my mother. For the record, I don't fancy Billie Piper.
... much.
I was a wee bit sceptical at the Farscape similarity (if that TARDIS isn't secretly a part of Moya then I will buy and eat a hat). But there we are. Also:
"Everything plastic, coming to life and being manipulated... phones, mannequins..."
"Breast implants!"
All in all, you can damn well bet that I'm going to be watching next week, because I really liked in in a sort of "WHEEE SCI FI HERITAGE" type of way. I need to make up my mind on the theme tune, though. I still like the original music.
I'd like to thank everyone for not de-friending me in a huff on Thursday. I would have deserved it. I suspect it was dehydration and low bloodsugar. Clare phoned me up to laugh at me quite thoroughly and to tell me not to be such an idiot. She then asked why I was so concerned; frankly enough, I missed out several hours, two broken glases, a broken shoe and a trip to the pizza place. I get worried when I miss time out like that.
So, Friday meant that I actually went out with Clare. I am a Bad Catholic and have not been to Church throughout the whole Easter season. I am quite genuinely contemplating going tomorrow. Make of that what you will. It was, however, very nice seeing Clare. We drove into Southport and I didn't eat meat all day. Yay me, etc. We wandered throughout the Pier and the touristy bit, and it was all just rather nice. I then went home, drove around for a few hours in a driving lesson and discovered that I can reverse park out on instinct. If I could handle roundabouts like that, I would be sorted.
Today was Saturday, though, and I went and did returns. That truly and utterly has the highlight of my day, until Dr Who came on. That was, obviously, the other highlight. As was seeing two people on my flist become quietly addicted to Summon The Lambs To The Slaughter. I woudl not comment on this, except for the scaryness of these two lovely people.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sevenhelz and helonlgs hold the honour of being the two Helens that I know. Don't you two feel special?
Happy Easter for tomorrow! And happy birthday to my mother for tomorrow. I have bought her a DVD of 'A Beautiful Mind' (she works in psychiatric care for the NHS, natch). I would put up a photo of her or something, except for the fact that I don't like people working out how much like each other we look. IT IS SCARY and much scarier when you put a photo of Dad up by it. ARGHARGHARGH.
I need a Dr Who icon.
I would drop everything I'm doing to read the following pairings (if well written):
1. Remus/Sirius. (Harry Potter)
2. Elladan/Elrohir (LOTR) (I AM A BAD PERSON.)
3. Gaius/Number Six (BSG)
4. Haku/Chihiro (Spirited Away) (I need to buy that film)
5. Pooley/Omally. I would drop anything to read that because NO ONE HAS WRITTEN IT. (The Brentford Trilogy, now at 7 books and counting.)
6. Armand/Louis (Vampire Chronicles.)
7. Aragorn/Legolas (LOTR)
8. Sam/Daniel (Stargate.)
9. Roslin/Adama (BSG) (*coughLibrarianFollycough*)
10. Maglor/Elros (Silmarillion) (To see if anyone else in the world ever wrote it other than me.)
I had to think really, really hard about them. Shipperdom makes me squee, but... not as much as it used to.
Holy crap, am I maturing as a fan?
Oooh, one last thing: Any Earthsea fans in the good old UK? The mini-seires is showing tomorrow on C4 at 5.20pm. Quality looks doubtful, but you never know.
~Hathy_Col~
Personally? I rather liked it. Some elements were decidedly Naff, as Iona said, but my inner small child found it amusing. Christopher Eccleston was quite a good Doctor, although I made the fatal mistake of trying to Understand The Fandom first, which means that I was all disappointed not to see Sylvester MacCoy or Paul McGann dying and being appropriately regenerated, etc etc. Understood why, though, and yay for the Doctor being from the North as well. And there is BACKSTORY! There was good Wibbling at the... um... Big Plastic Blob which may well have had a name and there is a chance for angst there. Eccleston seems to be completely nuts at one moment and then occasionally angsty and I like that. Not sure I like the non-so-subtle giving of ship there, because I like the asexual Dcotor idea, but there we are.
The best part was watching Dad regress. We had to have all the lights turned out, he was quite serious about pushing the sofa forward so there would be a crawl space (although Mum scathingly pointed out that his beer belly wouldn't fit so he sheepishly gave up on that idea) and he giggled at all of the quite crap jokes. And split coffee EVERYWHERE when the arm jumped out from behind the sofa. Mum disliked it - she walked out twenty minutes in, huffing "nerds!" I think she is jealous. This morning we had the following exchange:
"Colleen, you are far too excited about this."
"It's like the entire sci-fi community is excited via osmosis! It's fun!"
"No, you just fancy Billie Piper."
"OMGWTFBBQ?!"
Cool and accepting, yes, but still, it's my mother. For the record, I don't fancy Billie Piper.
... much.
I was a wee bit sceptical at the Farscape similarity (if that TARDIS isn't secretly a part of Moya then I will buy and eat a hat). But there we are. Also:
"Everything plastic, coming to life and being manipulated... phones, mannequins..."
"Breast implants!"
All in all, you can damn well bet that I'm going to be watching next week, because I really liked in in a sort of "WHEEE SCI FI HERITAGE" type of way. I need to make up my mind on the theme tune, though. I still like the original music.
I'd like to thank everyone for not de-friending me in a huff on Thursday. I would have deserved it. I suspect it was dehydration and low bloodsugar. Clare phoned me up to laugh at me quite thoroughly and to tell me not to be such an idiot. She then asked why I was so concerned; frankly enough, I missed out several hours, two broken glases, a broken shoe and a trip to the pizza place. I get worried when I miss time out like that.
So, Friday meant that I actually went out with Clare. I am a Bad Catholic and have not been to Church throughout the whole Easter season. I am quite genuinely contemplating going tomorrow. Make of that what you will. It was, however, very nice seeing Clare. We drove into Southport and I didn't eat meat all day. Yay me, etc. We wandered throughout the Pier and the touristy bit, and it was all just rather nice. I then went home, drove around for a few hours in a driving lesson and discovered that I can reverse park out on instinct. If I could handle roundabouts like that, I would be sorted.
Today was Saturday, though, and I went and did returns. That truly and utterly has the highlight of my day, until Dr Who came on. That was, obviously, the other highlight. As was seeing two people on my flist become quietly addicted to Summon The Lambs To The Slaughter. I woudl not comment on this, except for the scaryness of these two lovely people.
sevenhelz and helonlgs hold the honour of being the two Helens that I know. Don't you two feel special?Happy Easter for tomorrow! And happy birthday to my mother for tomorrow. I have bought her a DVD of 'A Beautiful Mind' (she works in psychiatric care for the NHS, natch). I would put up a photo of her or something, except for the fact that I don't like people working out how much like each other we look. IT IS SCARY and much scarier when you put a photo of Dad up by it. ARGHARGHARGH.
I need a Dr Who icon.
I would drop everything I'm doing to read the following pairings (if well written):
1. Remus/Sirius. (Harry Potter)
2. Elladan/Elrohir (LOTR) (I AM A BAD PERSON.)
3. Gaius/Number Six (BSG)
4. Haku/Chihiro (Spirited Away) (I need to buy that film)
5. Pooley/Omally. I would drop anything to read that because NO ONE HAS WRITTEN IT. (The Brentford Trilogy, now at 7 books and counting.)
6. Armand/Louis (Vampire Chronicles.)
7. Aragorn/Legolas (LOTR)
8. Sam/Daniel (Stargate.)
9. Roslin/Adama (BSG) (*coughLibrarianFollycough*)
10. Maglor/Elros (Silmarillion) (To see if anyone else in the world ever wrote it other than me.)
I had to think really, really hard about them. Shipperdom makes me squee, but... not as much as it used to.
Holy crap, am I maturing as a fan?
Oooh, one last thing: Any Earthsea fans in the good old UK? The mini-seires is showing tomorrow on C4 at 5.20pm. Quality looks doubtful, but you never know.
~Hathy_Col~
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Date: 2005-03-26 10:03 pm (UTC)Also, Colleen, I hate to break it you, but you're a lesbian. You couldn't be a worse Catholic if you tried. :)
And, finally - I have a ficathon assignment that involves Roslin/Adama (and Lee/Roslin!). Any tips? I never even thought about them as a couple.
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Date: 2005-03-26 10:10 pm (UTC)Tips regarding Adama/Roslin? Have we mentioned how long it is since I've read fanfic? I should try again, really... does it have to actually have them as a couple? Or just thinking about it? I don't think anything would ever happen, but I do think that perhaps they would contemplate it, what with the dancing and all.
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Date: 2005-03-26 10:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-26 10:21 pm (UTC)*panics*
If I were tackling this - we all know how my mind works, yes? - then it would simply be Roslin watching Lee and contemplating on how like/unlike the father is to the son. Go from there. And that would be me.
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Date: 2005-03-26 10:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-26 10:33 pm (UTC)I particularly enjoyed the bit with the wheelie-bin belching. *G*
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Date: 2005-03-27 12:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-28 05:34 pm (UTC)lol well you can guess where I ended up. Having finished the fifty chapters, I'd say it could be a lot shorter, maybe a little better planned, but she obviously loves words and rhythm. Nice.
xxx