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| Nov. 27th, 2007 | 09:37 pm | ||||||
Why. WHY??? *headdesk* GODDAMMIT RUSTY. You give us the worst companion ever - and I mean, worse than Peri worst - and then you BRING HER BACK? Oh gods. I HATE ROSE SO MUCH. SO VERYVERY MUCH. Why have they not brought back the GOOD companions? Like Romana? Nyssa? Leela? ADRIC, even? WHAT ABOUT JAMIE? *sob* FUCKITY FUCK. Rose is just so ANNOYING. Whiny and incompetent and stupid and BLONDE and chavvy and OVER-EMOTIONAL and UGH. Not to mention badly acted. And if they continue the TRUU-LUFF-4EVA shit I will fucking kill someone. HE LOVES THEM ALL, DAMMIT. And (half-human or not), I can't see him in a long-lasting (or anything LIKE it) relationship with anyone who isn't a Time Lord/Lady. I mean, I'm not a hetshipper (DUH) in the slightest but I'd rather see him with Romana than with a normal human. (I think Jack's possibly excepted from the 'human' clause, because, well, he's sort of not anymore, is he? Not really. I mean, the Doctor's big issue has always been that he can't spend a significant - to him - amount of time with anyone mortal because their lives are so short compared to his, but that problem's just not there with Jack. And I think they do have an...understanding, shall we say, just because they're both so old, now, and have seen so much and suffered so much. That forms bonds.) Honestly, I don't think I can see the Doctor with anyone but the Master at this point. They just don't work without each other - I mean, they've said that themselves, haven't they? They need each other on a very deep level, even more so now they're the last Time Lords in existance (oh yeah, like anyone belives the Master's really gone. Come on.) I'm glad we know that Jack's coming back - from John Barrowman's own mouth have we heard it, so I'm not going to doubt that. And that does make me happy because they have such wonderful banter, aside from anything else. And the Doctor needs someone who won't go away. A part-time companion'll be good for him, I think. On that note, yay, Martha. <3 I still don't like the Donna thing. I just...she was okay-ish, I suppose, for the Christmas Special, but she's so overpowering. All shout-y and bleh. I don't know how that'll work...they'll have to tone her down to make it work, and then that's betraying the character. And I don't like Catherine Tate much, anyway. She's not as funny as she/people think she is. The "Am I bovvered?" sketch was really only funny in the slighest the first time, and even then only just. And that Comic Relief skit was rubbish. "Bovveréd," indeed. HONESTLY. Happy about Martha on Torchwood. Happy about, y'know, more Torchwood in general. VERY happy about more Jack/Ianto on Torchwood. Not so happy about new-female-love-interest-for-Ianto. Not so happy about not the slightest hint of femmeslash yet. Not happy about Gwen still being alive. D= WHERE'S MYFANWY? DX Another thing - Martha spent the ENTIRE of Season 29 being made to feel like she was inferior to Rose (which is the biggest bullshit I've ever heard, because Martha actually has a BRAIN. WOWIE.), which was a terrible deal for her and was no doubt part of why she left the TARDIS of her own volition in the end (good girl! Keep your life! Be awesome!). Rose coming back canNOT make that any better and will in fact make it worse. Obviously the Doctor won't be ambivalent towards her return but if they write it in a big DOCTOR/ROSE OTP way I'll be majorly pissed off. That's not fair towards Martha - or Jack, or Donna, or anyone, really - and the last thing the Doctor needs is more emoing when she buggers off again. Oh ye gods, I hope she gets killed properly this time. I really, really do. What I don't understand is why the goddamn fandom loves Rose so much. I just don't get it! She had no redeeming qualities - we didn't even get much T&A! - and to be honest I was expecting the whole fandom to rise up in arms against whoever the first companion of the new series was. It just seemed like the sort of thing that'd happen... And yet every single reaction post linked to in who_daily on this whole sordid affair has been "YAY ROSE". And I just don't understand why! How can people not hate this girl? HOW? ... This cannot end well. (And why have we not had a Leela-type companion yet, may I ask? We've not had one single 'fighter' companion over three seasons (plus another two confirmed). That's a bit shit, isn't it?) |
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| Jul. 24th, 2007 | 10:38 pm | ||||||
I've not really got time to write this right now - I've got maybe twenty minutes before I get kicked upstairs - but what the hell. I've been wanting to write this con report since Sunday. =D OMFG. Bad Wolf was brilliant. We left home at 7:30am on Saturday, which is normal time for me during termtime, but in the holidays? Blergh! So, anyway, we listened to the Doctor Who soundtrack in the car - *geekgasm* - and the journey only took about an hour and a half, which is a blessing considering the floods. Ohhh, the floods. We'll get onto those later. So, we get to the hotel, park the car, get our stuff, and find everyone milling around the entrance. Apparently, there's been a fire alarm go off, and everyone's been evacuated. Bloody hell. Thankfully, it didn't last long and we got inside and got registered soon enough. So, into the main hall. The con had basically hijacked the whole hotel, which was pretty awesome - no interference from non-Whovians and we got a hugeass business suite for all the functions. Cue "amusing" intro video, and Paul the MC gives us a couple of jokes about the alarm. Lovely jubbly. First panel: Eric Roberts, a.k.a. The Master from the TV movie. I did rather like the movie and I thought he was a good master - although, of course, not nearly as awesome as John Simm (<33) - but in person oh my god he is odious. Seriously. He's one of those...American actors, all big smiles and calling everyone "bro" or "doll" and urgh. False charisma and crowd-pleasing, and he wasn't very good at the whole interview thing. Kept flashing his eco-credentials and talking about his family. Pshaw. Next panel: Carol Ann Roberts, who was - of course - Susan in the old series. Oh, she's lovely! And she's really, really tiny - about 5', of her own admission - and interviewed very well, giving wonderful stories about Bill Hartnell deliberately confusing "Fault Locator" with "Fornicator". Some interesting questions, about how the death of JFK affected them on - as it turned out - the first day of filming, and so on. Very good panel. Third panel: Linda Clark, Amanda Lawrence and Gareth Roberts, otherwise known as Bloodtide, Doomfinger and The Bloke Who Wrote The Shakespeare Code. OMG I loved this panel! Gareth Roberts was really interesting - and I adore his writing - and Amanda and Linda were very sweet. It was very interesting to hear them talk about Rusty, and how people treat him, how he is very much Lord Of All Gallifrey, as it were. Lord President, I suppose. In the nicest possible way, of course, but still - his authority is absolute, but I suppose it would be, given that the show is very much his BAYBEE. Heh. Didn't go to the third panel, because it was the Hyde Fundraisers and thus a bit boring. So we went to lunch - meatball Subway. Mmmm. - and the merch stalls. I got three autographed pictures from the autograph stall - Cypher from The Matrix, the Fifth Doctor and Tara from Buffy. Eeee! I will frame these and put them on my wall. Dad - oh GOD - got the new bloody Harry bloody Potter, which I absolutely refuse to touch. I've read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia and to be honest I don't give a shit beyond that. Her writing style is just so utterly juvenile and BLERGH. *rage* Back down after lunch, and they were playing some cool animations, including a very clever one; a portmanteau of all the title sequences, from the very first once up to the most recent, blending together the music and the graphics into one continuous stream from past to present. It was masterfully done and I really hope I can find it on YouTube or something, I really liked it. =D First panel after lunch was Owen Teale. Gareth Thomas pulled out, apparently, but oh my god Owen Teale was totally the best panel of the whole con! He was - *shudder* - Ewan Sherman The Creepy Cannibal Guy from Countrycide and oh my god he's actually an absolute dear. He told some wonderful stories about acting, including one about John Barrowman's reaction to him showing up all roughed-up and teeth-prosthetic'd. "I like a bit o' rough! Uh, but...not the teeth. >.<" He and the interviewer had a great vibe, and given that they made their way through a bottle of white wine over the course of the interview... Anyway, great stuff. I'll see if I can find a transcript because he was just brilliant. Next panel was Yasmin Bannerman. Apparently it's her first time doing a con, and she did look a little terrified. She played Jabe from the Forest of Cheem in End of the World, and DCI Kathy Swanson in They Keep Killing, and I must say she was lovely. And, um, really quite gorgeous. *ahem* Nothing incredibly in-depth about the whole Who thing - although she did have some interesting insight about the prosthetics and costuming side of things, i.e. how her prosthetics went from "A little something on the hair" to "Full facial overhaul" - but she was still a dear to listen to. Aww. <3 Last panel of the day: Nick Briggs, in his role as part of Big Finish Audio Productions. I don't listen to the Big Finish plays - always meant to, never found the money - so it wasn't really my area of expertise but he's a very amusing speaker, so it was actually quite entertaining. Most of the audience questions were various people asking about the fates of their favourite non-Who BF plays, which was quite funny if completely off topic. So, afterwards, we went for dinner, and - given that it was MY BIRTHDAY and everything - dad said I could have whatever I wanted, which was awesome. The restaurant was a carvery, and a very, VERY good one, and then I had a slice of Chocolate Truffle for pudding, which really reminded me of the Orgasm Cake from Matrix Reloaded. XDD (I mean that in a somewhat literal sense. Dude, that was really fucking good cake.) We went back to my room and watched Jeckyll, which was FANTASTIC - Jimmy Nesbitt was born to play that role, and of course the whole thing is written by Stephen Moffat, who wrote Blink and other shit-your-pants-scary Doctor Who episodes. So. Woooo. Anyway, in the morning - no fire alarm, this time! - had a nice breakfast, got me face on, briefly got stuck in the lift with the Shakespeare Code witches and K-9 (aww! <33) and headed down to the show. We're met with notices. Lalla Ward couldn't make it; she was stuck in the floods in Oxfordshire, the poor love. (Of course, she lives in New College - my dad's old college! - with Richard Dawkins - <3333333333333 - so I guess that's logical.) Gareth David-Lloyd hasn't shown up yet and there's no word from him. Bit worried, but we have faith he'll show up eventually. We hope. Please? So, anyway, first panel of the day: Murray Melvin and Matt Rippy, a.k.a. Bilis Manger (*shudder*) and Real!Cap'n Jack. (<3333) OMG. My second favourite panel, totally. They were amazing! Murray Melvin is - contrary to his character, I might add, who is a demon-worshipping creep - an absolute sweetheart, and Matt Rippy is lovely indeed. The first question he was asked - by the interviewer, no less! - was "Is John Barrowman a good snogger, then?", which had us all in fits. Well, it was certainly at the top of MY mind...XD His response, by the way, was along the lines of "I don't kiss and tell" but, uh, we got the impression that He Certainly Is Very Much Oh Yes Really. And this led to a discussion of Very Awkward Sex Scenes, which was really funny. XD It was wonderful listening to them, seriously - the contrast between the old and the new, the American and the British, the predominantly-theatre and the predominantly-TV. Wonderful, wonderful panel. Someone's put some pics of Matt up on LJ somewhere if you want to find 'em. Next panel was Nick Briggs - again! - and Elisabeth Fost, who played an Auton in Rose and one of the Slitheen. She was interesting, although being such a minor part wasn't particularly Who-oriented. Nick Briggs really stole the show, this time in his role as Dalek and Cyberman voice-actor. It was BRILLIANT. He talked a lot about doing the Weakest Link special, and just how much of a cow Ann Robinson actually is, and how she made him flirt with her in Dalek voice, which is just creeeeeepy. And he also talked about, oh, getting cramps in his foot during shooting one time, except he was still talking into the Dalek mic, so out of the Dalek comes this "Ooh, argh, my FOOT!". Hee. XD GDL...was a no-show, as you've probably figured. This was Very Disappointing but I think I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, seeing as half the damn country's underwater and a lot of mobile phone networks are out of action at the moment. There have been an awful lot of fans denouncing him as "unprofessional" and the like and claiming that he got smashed after the James Masters gig on Saturday and thus was too hung over to make it, but I have it from a good source - i.e. a girl in the same bar as he was that night - that he had a quiet drink with his girlfriend (is that still the Carys girl? I think so.) and left quite early. Nyerr. Anyway, I won't condemn him just yet. Still pretty emo, though. So! Instead of watching what they had instead of his panel, which was some footage from a Blake's 7 con last year - not my fandom - dad and I went to the autographs room, where I got Mary Tamm's and Louise Jameson's autograph. OMFG! Mary complimented me on my eye makeup, which makes me ridiculously happy every time I think of it. Eeeee. I HAVE LEELA'S AUTOGRAPH OH MY GOD. I have such a ridiculously huge crush on her, it's daft. XD Anyway, after that, went out for lunch - ended up in the Starbucks in Borders in the Bullring, after - FINALLY - getting Nanny Ogg's Cookbook and a Doctor Who book. Nice panini, headed back in time to catch the next panel, which was: Mary Tamm herself! Romaaaaaaaana. Mm. She was lovely and very articulate and very interesting to listen to, and hearing her talk about Tom Baker and so on was very amusing. XD I do wish Lalla had been there, because I'd have killed to get both of their autographs, and apparently they have a groovy double-act when they go to cons. But oh well, Mary was still lovely on her own. Wasn't particularly interested in the next panel - Doctor Who Magazine, which is perennially juvenile and sort of irritating - so I went back to the merch stands, got a gorgeous picture from one of the art stands, of portrait pieces of each Doctor. Looovely. And the girl running it was cosplaying the Eighth Doctor! She was kind of cute, too. ;D Also, there was a guy, obviously not a Torchwood fan, who picked up one of the prints - it was based off the Torchwood promo pics, of Jack in the centre, surrounded by headshots of the others - and he was like "Um, this is Torchwood, right? That's...John Barrowman..." and she was like "Yeah, and that's Gareth David-Lloyd, and that's Eve Myles...and I can't remember who the other two are." and I chipped in with "Burn Gorman and Naoko Mori! Um. *geekgeek*" XD Last panel was Leela Herself, Louise Jameson. Oh, she was lovely. Also there was Clare Clifford, who was...a character in Earthshock, which I've never seen (more shame me, I guess). She was very nice - there was a wonderful moment when they were asked to describe their relative Doctor actors - Baker for Louise, Davidson for Clare - and Clare went first, said "Charming" with a rather amusing smile, and of course all eyes were on Louise because, well, knowing Tom... "Complicated." XD Through the two days we'd noticed some characters hanging around, and eventually we figured out it was the Hyde Fundraisers - they'd brought costume actors of a Sycorax, two Scarecrows from Human Nature/Family of Blood, a retro Dalek, a retro Cyberman, two of the Droids from Girl in the Fireplace, an Ogron and a Exxilon. Very cool, although the Ogron told me I should read Harry Potter. >.< Anyway, drove home quite nicely, got home in time for West Wing - woo! - had birthday cake. Yay! I'll wait until the guestlist for Bad Wolf 2008 is released, but damn I want to go. XD |
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| Jul. 13th, 2007 | 07:47 pm | ||||||
Took less time to code than the other one. Practice, I guess. I've spent the day watching the Matrix movies, and I'm gonna bake some muffins later. Apple and blueberry. I think they should turn out well. God. Kemala - is that how you spell it? Sati's mother, anyway - is fucking gorgeous. Phew. *fans self* Anyway. I'm gonna go get my bake on. BD |
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| Jul. 6th, 2007 | 04:06 pm | ||||||
1) Another 21st centuary human girl. For fuck's SAKE! VARIETY PLZKTHX. I am so sick of these girls. At least she shouldn't be like Rose. Oh god, I hope she isn't. DDDX 2) This means Jack isn't special anymore! 'Cause, right, Jack was unique because he was the only companion ever to serve two separate terms. The Wikipedia time line I used to prove this seems to have disappeared - that's the problem with Wikipedia, it's so bloody impermenant - but he's the only companion in the actual series (as opposed to the spin-off media, which is - as we know - of dubious canonicity anyway) to return to the TARDIS after an extended period of no contact, in his case nearly two seasons. Mickey doesn't count because he was in contact with the TARDIS crew despite not actually being present, and neither does Sarah-Jane, because she never rode in the TARDIS again. But now Donna's coming back and Jack won't be special anymore. And that's sad. Because I like Jack and I don't like Donna - not just because she's - sigh - another one of Rusty's female protagonists, just because she's IRRITATING and I don't like Catherine Tate much anyway. Jack has character without being an obnoxious twat. Booooooh. SILLY RUSTY. Way to lose contact with your fandom, dude. |
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| Jul. 5th, 2007 | 09:09 am | ||||||
I hate Donna. D= She was so annoying. And does Catherine Tate have nothing better to do with her time than annoy me? Uuugh. She's so annoying, I can't even think of fucking slashing her. FUCK! Should have been Brannigan. We need a non-human companion. At least this one isn't all family-crazy, though. WE HOPE. Silly Rusty. Also, wtf? TiTardis = NOT POSSIBLE HELLO THE TARDIS IS IMPENETRABLE. Of course. Grargh. |
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| Jul. 1st, 2007 | 12:47 pm | ||||||
Yeah, sorry. Incoherent. But oh my GOD MASTER JACK DOCTOR MARTHA EVERYONE. Srsly. You know, Imp!Doctor looked like Gollum. Just sayin'. And the Master has done ONE thing that pissed me off - ONE! - and that was beating up his wife. I mean, dude, you just don't DO that. Especially if your wife's really, really hot. =D Glowy Doctor! Yeah, there was a lot of WTF at that point. I think I get it but it was a bit Deus Ex Machina, yeah? OHMYGOD JACK = FACE OF BOE?? My two favourite characters are THE SAME PERSON WTF. At least this means he gets some closure - he actually gets to die. I suppose being billions of years old has worn out his flirting instinct, but - as someone on LJ said - I wouldn't put it past Jack to propegate an entire species by himself. <3 Woo, Action!Martha! Damn, she looked hot in those...whatever the fuck you call them. Military whatnots. Veeery flattering. =D I love how the Doctor cries FAR more over the Master's death than Rose. Haha. I mean, it's pretty logical - he's known the Master since their days in the Academy, battled him through time and space, and they're the last of the Time Lords, y'know? He's gonna have more of a connection with him than some stupid chavvy blonde bint, isn't he? Very slashy. Lovely stuff. =D The way Jack said "Doctor" = SLASHIEST THING EVER Y/Y? =DDDDD Bondage!Jack was rather awesome. Very, uh, gratuitous for the guy-lovers. Of which I certainly am not one, but I still lol'd at Dirty!Jack. Hee. Swede is gross. >.< (Well, actually, it's quite nice when you mix it with mashed potato. But WHATEVER.) Martha leaving? Honoes! I know she's not gone forever, because - aside from what was sad in-episode - Freema Agyeman (is that how you spell her name? I hope so, it's a very pretty name) has confirmed on her website that Martha will return on a part-time basis in S30. So that's okay. I just wonder who the new companion will be? Someone like Leela, I hope. Damn, I loved Leela. And not just because she was REALLY FUCKING GORGEOUS. <3 I still wonder what was going on with Lucy Saxon, y'know. In any case, wouldn't she have noticed the basic anatomical differences in her husband? I mean, the chameleon arch was non-functional at that point, so he'd have had a 15°C internal body temperature, not to mention the two hearts. Would she not have twigged there was SOMETHING wrong with that...? I'm pretty sure it was her hand picking up his ring at the end, though. We all knew they couldn't/wouldn't kill the Master off permanently, because of COURSE they couldn't. He, the Daleks and the Cybermen are the biggest pullers of the whole show. But it does mean no more Simm!Master, which is a great shame. He was brilliant. What else...? TITANIC WTF. In any case, I thought the TARDIS was impenetrable? It's been canonically described as so - something about the armies of Atilla the Hun. Or Ghengis Khan. Or something? Oh, on the Master's "I'm a Time Lord, it's my right" line - bullshit. The Time Lords took a vow of non-interference. That's the whole POINT. That's why the Doctor's a renegade - because he interferes LIEK WOAH. Anyway. We do know the Master's real name. It's Koschei. Although that WAS established in the spin-off novels which are - as Wikipedia so often tells us - of dubious canonicity anyway. Whatever, it's a cool name. I'm sick of people saying that Theta Sigma is the Doctor's real name. It's established REPEATEDLY in the Classic series (blah, I hate that name) that it was only a nickname. Grr. That's like people saying Moose is my birth name. XD (Although it WILL be my legal name, soon enough.) Can I think of anything else to go on about...? Ooh, yes, fic idea. What iiiiif, during the Master's REIGN OF TERROR!!!1111oneleven, he finds Ianto, brings him up to the Valiant to, uh, torment Jack by brutally murdering him in front of the poor sod? Sounds like a very Master thing to do, really. God, I'm so mean to Ianto in my fics. D'aww. Poor woobie. XDD I really want a King Ianto's Coffee Club shit. I've got a Vote Saxon shirt (<333333) so I might as well get one for the good guys, too. I think Hannah B wrote the motto - Everlasting Peace and Damn Fine Coffee - on my shirt on the last day o' school, but I'm hardly going to WEAR that, am I? (Can't let my parents see it, either. It's got DYKE in big letters on it, not to mention the Sexy Bra and other assorted obscenities. <3 XD) Anyhoo. Lunch in a couple of minutes, I need to actually, y'know, get some clothes on. Haha. I want a laser screwdriver. :( |
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Does the Doctor re-record all his Emergency Protocols every time he regenerates? Because we've never seen one with the face of a previous regeneration, and he always addresses them to his curren companion. Gods, how many are there? That must take AGES. And he never forgets the words or stutters or anything. On that note, I think I've picked up his habit of stuttering during moments of intellectual ranting. Oops. |
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We all know I hate Gwen Cooper. I mean, it's pretty difficult to find one of Good Ol' Russel T's female protagonists who I don't hate, actually, because they tend to be whiny stupid cows. And ugly, to boot. His secondary characters, however...(*cough*Suzie*cough*Tosh*cough*M But something really pissed me off today - and if you've seen me pissed off about fandom, you KNOW how pissed off I can get - and I wanted to bitch about it. In my sad, pathetic SEE WUT I DID THAR? *ahem* So the Radio Times came today. We get it on subscription - well, it's cheaper and easier than actually going to the shop to buy it - and there is, of course, an interview with John Barrowman (he of Awesome and Win) about Jack's impending return - insert fangirl sqeeing here. Most of the interview was about Jack as a character, of course, because no-one really cares about actors (except us Gareth David-Lloyd fangirls, of course. Heh, heh, hehh...). Let's have a quote: Who will Jack miss most from the Torchwood team? If you're talking personal, Gwen, because he can talk to her. He's teh only one she talks to and they have a relationship that he has with none of the others. Wait. Wait, what? Gwen is - well, actually, she very much isn't - all very well and good but she's not the one Jack's sleeping with. Okay, so maybe he's sort of obliged to pimp her, as she's the protagonista - *hairrip* - but dear god it's not like she probably even understands half of what he says! We've had so little canonical evidence of this 'special relationship' - past the first few episodes, there really isn't much of a Jack/Gwen vibe, actually. That sort of surprised me, because after the - brief - kiss in Day One I was very much expecting a long, irritating, drawn-out romance. Instead, we had Stopwatch!Flirting, which was MUCH better. But, no, really. I see no reason Jack can't talk to Ianto - hey, look, the whole post's been about this character and I've only mentioned his actual name just now! - about...well, whatever he talks to Gwen about. Ianto was just as distraught over Jack's death as Gwen was - and in a considerably less irritating/stalkerish way. He's known Ianto longer, and even if the whole Cyberwoman thing sort of fucked things up for a while, it's obvious that Ianto's regained Jack's trust, even by They Keep Killing - you do not have vaguely kinky sex with someone who you don't trust. Srsly. And it's not like Jack kissed Gwen when he did his Jesus impression, did he? HMM?! Sorry, yeah, I know, I sound like even more of a retarded fangirl than usual. But this has gotten my Jack/Ianto-shipping back up, and I really REALLY hope they're not going to abandon the Jack/Ianto plotline in Season 2. That's my big worry, actually, both in Doctor Who Season 29 - LESS THAN A WEEK TO GO OMG - and Torchwood Season 2 - that, for Torchwood, the move to BBC2 will tone down Our Rusty's (Yes, we honestly do call him that. WE LOVE HIM THAT MUCH) fantastic Gay Agenda (I mean, in how many BBC shows do you get sexy lesbian alien serial killers? SERIOUSLY. At least until I start writing 'em. ;)) and that the beautiful Jack/Doctor plotline running through Doctor Who Season 27 and Torchwood Season 1 will be abrubtly cut short as Jack metamorphoses - and, no, really, this is confirmed by JB himself in the very same interview - from the angsty, angry Jack we know and - ostensibly - love from Torchwood into pretty much the same Jack we knew in Doctor Who Season 27. That, there, is another WTF. Just because he's back on the TARDIS, just because he's found the Doctor again, does NOT mean he's not still got his fair share of angst to hand out. He's immortal. He was left for dead on the Game Station, surrounded by Dalek dust and corpses. He was ABANDONED by the two people he probably cared for most in the Universe. I refuse to believe that he can just switch - like a switchy thing! *hemhem* - back to Flirt-with-everyone-and-never-angst-EVAR Jack. Nngh. We'll have to see, I suppose. Obviously JB can't reveal as much as the fangirls want him to, having been sworn to secrecy and all that. Oh, that reminds me - before Cyberwoman, there was all this speculation about Ianto's mysterious partner - which had been sourced, AGAIN, from a Radio Times interview. It was quite funny, actually, because this was before the episode preview had come out - in fact, the episode was still officially called The Trouble With Lisa (and you can tell I've been in this fandom a long time, can't you?) and we were wondering, well, why the hell CAN'T he say anything about it? IS IT A GUY?! - yes, that really was our most pressing concern. Heh. Aww. I do feel sorry for Lisa, partly because of her ridiculous - RIDICULOUS, I SAY - costume, but mostly because she did have a shitty deal, didn't she? Costume-wise, though; Even as a dyke - and, yes, I really DID appreciate the metal bikini thing, and I can happily - gaily! *snigger* - admit to that - I can probably say I'd rather she had a more, y'know, realistic costume. The Cybermen don't have sex drives. No, really. Someone ranted about this on canon_rants before, ages ago, but still - come ON. High-heeled shoes? Blegh. I hate heels. And I don't think the Cybermen think they're particularly practical, either. Oh, bollocks to this. I'm done. MOOSE THE |
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| May. 16th, 2007 | 09:24 pm | ||||||
Not quite sure why. Haven't had much to say, but I've had plenty of time to say it in. Updates: Coursework is over! For good! I got my final marks - well, as final as they get before they're moderated - for ICT and Textiles. 98 out of 104 for Textiles, 137 out of 157 for ICT. So I'm pretty happy about that. First exams tomorrow. RE Ethics and Spanish Listening. Not fun. I haven't really revised as much as I should have. Okay, fine, I haven't revised NEARLY as much as I should have but then again I got an A in my mock without revising AT ALL for RE. And I'll have a couple of hours between the two to revise for Spanish Listening, which is the easy Spanish exam anyway. So it could be worse. I'll revise in a bit, and on the bus in the morning. What else...? I might be getting an external hard drive! I've been lusting after one for a while, because I've only got 100Gb on this computer and I've barely got any of THAT left, even using both drives. The EHD I want is 250Gb, sexy as fuck, and 70 quid. I'm thinking about using some of the money from the savings account - since that money's gonna go on the laptop anyway, I might as well get the EHD and then get a laptop without the vast stores of memory I'd need otherwise. Then I can set up a wireless network and fileshare between the two. Very useful. Which reminds me - I need to get a wireless adapter for my desktop, because being four years old it doesn't have one. I need a new USB hub, too, since the old one's only got four ports on it and I'll need at least two more soon. Got Saiyuki Reload 7 the other day. Eeee. Most Gojyo/Hakkai moment EVER and seriously that's saying quite a lot. Aww, I love Gojyo. He's very sweet, really. I mean, for a guy. Hakkai is just fucking creepy but in a vaguely awesome way so THAT'S ALL ALRIGHT THEN. I posted to queer_rage about my dad's 'there are too many gay people on Torchwood!' whining. Two nice comments since, both from people within the fandom - which is pretty predictable, I guess. I think I recognize one of them from torchwoodcoffee or maybe tw_archives but I can't remember that well. All the comms for one fandom tend to sort of blend into one for me, except at_the_ritz I guess because that's a little different from the others. And inthesestones, which is just MADE OF PURE AWESOME. I have a horrible cold. Or, rather, the aftermath of a horrible cold, which means a runny nose and no singing voice. And not much of a talking voice either, for that matter. Blegh. I hate not being able to sing. I'm so used to singing along ALL THE TIME it's really jarring suddenly not to be able to. I mean, I've got maybe an octave range at the moment and it's pretty low. FUCKING USELESS. I really hate this. Eurovision was funny. Ukraine were AWESOME no matter what anyone else says. TIMMY MALLET IN TINFOIL. I love how no-one remembers Timmy Mallet except me. XD The Serbian entry was nice. There's a lot of debate about whether Marija Šerifović is gay or not, and I've heard conflicting articles and rumours. My gaydar started screaming the moment I saw her but that might just be wishful thinking. I did see someone in the crowd waving a rainbow flag, though. Oh, also! I HAVE A WEBSITE! Wahey. It's recs, the Comic, some shit about me, and some of my fic (which I haven't put up yet). The 'journal' link links back to here, though. I think this probably means I won't be updating the Reclist on my journal anymore - I'll just update the one on the site. I have new pills, by the way. Well, sort of. I'm still on the Omeprazole regularly, but Dr Wood got me some new stuff...can't remember what it's called, but it's for if I have an attack - I couldn't take the Kolanticon gel in conjunction with the Omeprazole but this stuff should work, so we'll see. It's mostly in case I have an attack the day I have an exam - since I can't miss an exam, but I can't take it if I'm in abdominal agony, I need pills. Voila. Hope they work. If they don't I guess I'll just have to tip some Codine down my throat and hope for the best. Ignoring the liver damage, I suppose. Can't wait 'til bloody Saturday. I've not got any exams on Friday so it's clean sailing from tomorrow onwards. I NEED MY DOCTOR. I can't believe they postponed it because of fucking EUROVISION. I mean, it's fun, but it's nowhere near important enough to usurp Doctor Who. (Is anything?) I mean, I really only watched it because Lordi were introducing it. And because Apocalyptica were the interval act. YAY APOCALYPTICA. They are brilliant, of course. I was so fucking pissed off, though - bloody Terry bloody Wogan TALKED OVER THEM. He was just going on and on about the circus act and I couldn't hear a fucking note from those cellos. I was SO PISSED OFF. I hate Terry Wogan. D< Oooh, I got Gamma Ray's No World Order! album. It's AWESOME. I'd had a few songs off it before - Dethrone Tyranny, The Heart of the Unicorn, Damn the Machine, plus a couple of others - but it's such a fantastic album! I mean, seriously. I've been waking up to it for the past week or so. Love, love, love. Ahahah, JERRY FALWELL'S DEAD. Now, itainohime may have respect for the dead, but I bloody don't. DING DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD. YAY. Sorry - actually, no, I'm not - but he was a fucking bastard and I hope he suffered. He deserved it. On that note - ha ha - Uncle Martin's staying. No, I don't think he deserves to die - of course not! - but he's a Republican and isn't happy that Falwell's dead. So... Eww, Republicans. NO ME GUSTAN. Anyway. I really need to go revise. Blegh. |
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| May. 5th, 2007 | 10:58 pm | ||||||
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| May. 4th, 2007 | 07:19 pm | ||||||
Booh. Also: FMA 5 arrived! So did my hat, but it's TOO FUCKING SMALL. I am very, very pissed off about this. So we're going to rent one from Benets, which means I have to go down there tomorrow so they can, uh, measure my head. Yeeeah. I dunno. I just feel weird today. It's probably because I'm bone-shatteringly tired, and my knee feels like it's on fire, and my wrist's been bad today as well. The internet's crawling - I might reset it later, actually - and I don't know, things just feel...odd. I'm so TIRED and I have no idea why because I've gotten more sleep this week than I have in the past two - no late-night coursework sessions, and for some reason I seem to be sleeping a little better, which is encouraging - but I'm SO FUCKING TIRED it's not even funny. It's ridiculous, I swear. Got my hair cut yesterday. Only a couple of inches off the bottom, just to get rid of the split ends. It looks and feels nice, but of course it won't last. I'll be back to skanky hair in no time, just you wait. Carri's coming over on Sunday. And, of course, I'm ecstatic - any time with her is good - but nevertheless it's causing me more angst than I'd like. Given our history, every time I talk to her I keep expecting a "Sorry, but I can't come...", or similar. And I know it's not particularly nice to expect that but judging from past experience... Still, she doesn't seem to have pulled out this time, so I'm happy. Had a long talk with Alex Bowden during free period today. Mrs Flewitt was teaching an English class in the library so I couldn't use the computers like I usually would, so we ended up sitting on the beanbags at the back of the fiction section and talking about stuff. Mostly getting drunk, accidental sex and drugs. But I suppose that's what 'normal' teenage girls think about these days. I really wouldn't know. I don't have much to talk about. Either that or apathy has finally gotten to me, in which case there's no point in me talking at all. I just...I don't know. There doesn't seem to be much point to anything at the moment. Everything's disappointing, or irritating, or just plain bad, or so it seems. Even the good stuff either doesn't last or brings more negativity with it. Don't worry - as if you would - I'm not sinking into the pathetic morass of scene melodrama that 'normal teenagers' are so prone to, I'm just in an odd place at the moment and not sure how to get out of it. In other news? I've found a couple of new webcomics. I'm still working my way through the archive of the second one. It's called Darken and I'm really enjoying it, actually. The characters are very endearing - there's a lot of RPG influence, particularly D&D and so on, and they're sort of based off Fighter, Thief, and so on, but they have wonderful characters. Not to mention that there are two rather attractive girls in it, so who am I to complain? Haha, no, of course I don't judge things based solely on how many hot chicks are included. It's not even a deciding factor. ... Usually. Anyway. See, this is the kind of thing I end up talking about when I'm really out of ideas, because I feel the need to write something after not updating for a while. I mean, it's not like anyone reads this, so I don't know who I'm trying to please, but never mind. Doctor Who's on in three quarters of an hour. I've seen this one already, but I'll probably watch it again. To be honest, I'm mostly killing time until Episode 11, because as much as I love the Doctor - and I do love the Tenth Doctor, quite a lot actually - and I certainly don't hate Martha - ahem - but Jack...well, he's special, isn't he? And I'm desparate to know what's going to happen when he gets into the TARDIS, especially whether he'll recognise the Doctor now he's regenerated, and just what his whole reactions's going to be to the whole 'No Rose, new companion, now what?' thing. I mean, I'm certainly not Rose's biggest fan - ha. ha. ha. - but there's no denying that Jack cared for her a lot - platonically in my view, not in the view of what seems like HALF THE FUCKING FANDOM - so his reaction to Rose being in the other universe will be...interesting. Still can't wait for Torchwood Season Two, though. And that's not going to happen until next YEAR, which is just awful. I'm more interested in Ianto's reaction to Jack's return than anything else, to be honest. I mean, my huge - HUGE - love for Tosh nonwithstanding, and since Suzie's dead I can't exactly cite her, but Ianto is a wonderful, wonderful character and since Gareth David-Lloyd has said that Season Two will focus more on Ianto's character and character development, I think we're going to have more Jack/Ianto goodness. Hehh, everything comes back to fandom. Whatever. |
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| Apr. 10th, 2007 | 12:02 am | ||||||
I'm saying it again - and again, and again - but again RIGHT NOW as opposed to again in a few minutes (probably) because I just saw (and ganked) an icon of the Doctor walking away from the Voidwall in Torchwood 1 after Rose has buggered off to the alt dimension. And the text said 'alone again' and that is EXACTLY what I've been talking about! Look. The Doctor is 900 years old, give or take. I'm not going to count but he's had dozens of companions in that time, plus whoever he had kid(s) with on Gallifrey (unless we're going for the 'Susan is the granddaughter of the Other who was reincarnated as the Doctor' theory, but let's not go into that now). He's been to a lot of places, a lot of times, seen an awful lot of things, and lost a lot of people. I don't think there's any doubt that the Doctor has - in his own way - cared about each and every companion, from Leela to Ace to Romana - even Sam, the bloody idiot he turned out to be. And he's lost them all. That's the thing, that's the whole POINT of the Doctor, of his angst, of his insecurities and periodic insistance that he's 'fine being alone' - he's lost so much, been hurt so much, he's constantly scared of making new connections because he knows that however deep he goes with this companion, it's gonna hurt when they part. And so, to Rose. Now, I don't like Rose Tyler. I think she's stupid, over-emotional, melodramatic, (badly-acted), overly reliant on the Doctor, incapable of intelligent, independant thought, and generally the kind of person I'd avoid like the Plague. Plus, she's a freaking chav, which just makes things even worse. But she's a companion, so she has to be taken into account. And, certainly, she's quite preoccupied with the Doctor. Actually, scratch that, she's in love with him - poor sod - and has been for a long time. But then again it's pretty hard NOT to fall in love with the Doctor, isn't it? They've played it up more - MUCH more - recently but the Eighth Doctor and Grace had a Thing, didn't they? There have been all sorts of hints over the years, from Doctor to Doctor, that he's not as asexual as some of his fans might like him to be. Of course, Doctors Eight and Ten being seriously attractive hasn't hurt. So. That's Rose's feelings dealt with. The Doctor's shown her a new world - hundreds of worlds, in fact - a better life, adventure, thrills and spills and all that, which certainly beats the London chav scene. And so, over the course of their adventures, she's gone from hero-worship to something that certainly resembles sincere love. But, the Doctor. The Doctor is so very, very old. He's loved and lost more times than any human can readily imagine, and he's forced himself to keep going, fighting the good fight, hiding his pain. Think back to Girl in the Fireplace - Reinette found that pain in his mind and was shocked by just how much he hurts, all the time. And of course it's reasonable that he might get closer to a companion with the weight of all that pain, because isn't that a coping mechanism? To reach for someone else, if only to hold your hand while you suffer? But, then again, the Doctor isn't human, is he? (Well, half-human. But NEVERTHELESS.) I don't really have anything against Doctor/Rose. No, really! It's het - SQUICK - but I can deal, I'm not gonna start flaming time_and_chips or anything. What I have a problem with is Rose being made out - as the new series has done, really - as some sort of One True Love for the Doctor. NO, NO, NO. It is completely unrealistic - not to mention being completely out-of-line with the classic series - to think that the Doctor could even have such a thing. NINE HUNDRED YEARS. He's already had kids! He's had a whole 850 years or so that we don't know anything about, and don't you think it's a little odd that he'd find the loveo'hislife (and how I HATE that phrase, given that the Doctor's had ten lives already and will have another three) now? And from Earth? Another thing. The Doctor has angsted. Oh, how he has ANGSTED. Ten is slipping worryingly close to the Void of Angst that Nine spent most of his time in, and that ain't good. And all 'cause he's lost - wait for it - Rose. The Doctor has not angsted this much after he lost ANY of his companions. Not even Susan, who was his FUCKING GRANDDAUGHTER. He didn't spend his time going 'Susan would know what to do', did he? (Nor did any of the previous Doctors CRY, although I don't have so much of a problem with that because the Tenth Doctor being emo is a very, very pretty sight. =3) And Jack. What the FUCK happened to Jack? I mean, look. It's debatable whether the Doctor - or Rose, for that matter - knows if Jack's alive, dead, immortal, or what. We don't know. The Children in Need special could well be taken as the Doctor, uh, lying through his teeth to make her feel better - something I am entirely sure he's perfectly capable of and willing to do - or not, I don't know. Either way. WHY DID NEITHER OF THEM MOURN JACK? We did not have Tenth Doctor at the start of season 29 going 'Oh, if only Jack was here *angstangst*'. No, no we didn't. We had Tenth Doctor acting like Jack had never existed, and hadn't just woken up on the Gamestation with nothing but Dalek dust and corpses for company. What the hell. I mean, I know Jack hadn't travelled with the Doctor for as long as Rose. I know they hadn't had major moments of lets-stare-into-eachothers'-eyes like the Doctor and Rose did - although that certainly didn't stop them swapping spit =D - but Jack was still a companion - and much more, now, being one of veryvery few who've returned. In fact, he is the ONLY companion ever to return to the TARDIS (with the exception of Sam and the Eigth Doctor in the spin-off novels, which are of dubious canonicity anyway; and Mickey, who was in contact with Rose and the Doctor during his absence and thus doesn't really count. And he never went back to the TARDIS, really, did he? Oh, and Sarah Jane, but they only found each other by chance and she never really went back to the TARDIS properly, anyway). We don't know the circumstances of his return - yet - except that the Doctor and Martha find him in Torchwood Three and nab him until the end of the season. But we know he was important enough to go back for. So why did losing him have such little effect on the Doctor? Even if the Doctor knows that Jack's not dead - which is debatable, actually - he's essentially in the same situation as Rose, i.e. seemingly permanent separation. So why no angst? I'm not gonna keep going on about this - at least for the moment - but I really mean it when I say that this is my big gripe with the new series. It's not just that the Doctor fell for possibly the most loathsome companion, er, ever. It's that he fell for anyone to that extent AT ALL. Silly Russell T. We love you anyway. <3 |
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| Jan. 6th, 2007 | 11:42 am | ||||||
So, it's the 1st of May and I'm updating this for the umpteenth time. Honestly, when I started this reclist almost five months ago, I never realised it would turn into the great leviathan it is now. Fourty-two fics and counting (and isn't that a wonderful coincidence?). So, I'm going to re-write the beginning, and I've changed the formatting of pairings a little. It's all explained down below. I've already pimped this over at rec_check, and I'm thinking of maybe posting it - if it's allowed - to a couple of Torchwood communities. You never know. I'm also considering starting a couple of other reclists for my other major fandoms, if I have time. Torchwood seems to have eclipsed most everything else, but I've still got a hefty list of bookmarked fics for other fandoms. I'm still pimping inthesestones, by the way. It's still very awesome, despite the dearth of updates recently - I think the author's been caught up with work, the poor thing. It takes a while to read through, but it's definitely worth it for the sheer quality of the writing. So, to the fics: They're not grouped, according to theme or pairing, because most of them have multiple pairings and anyway I don't like to classify things that way. So they're alphabetical, with all the Doctor Who ones mixed in with the Torchwood ones, due to the large - of course - crossover between the two fandoms. Ratings range from practically G all the way through to NC-17, although there's no pure smutfic. (There may one day be femmesmut, if anyone ever writes it. Don't worry, I'll warn for it.) I've put what the author's listed as the ratings but don't hold me responsible if it squicks you, please. As a general warning for all the fics - This is Torchwood. You know the content of the show. Take heed. Assume spoilers for the whole of Torchwood Season 1 for everything because I am not going to go through and list 'em all, no matter how dedicated I am to this fandom. Assume spoilers for the whole of Doctor Who season 27 (new season 1), especially Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways if it involves Jack - and, of course, most of them do. Assume spoilers up to the current episode, but especially for Doomsday/Army of Ghosts for anything involving the Doctor. And, of course, none of the characters, situations or more importantly ACTUAL FICS are mine or anything to do with me. I'm just spreading the love. Don't sue, please? If one of the authors listed reads this, and objects - comment or email me and I'll remove your fic from the list. Also, if I've messed up your penname, since not everyone uses one consistently, just ask and I'll change it. I've been updating this list roughly once every couple of weeks, even though Torchwood season one's been dead and gone for a while; there doesn't seem to have been much of a lag in fic, and there's new people joining the fandom all the time, which is encouraging. I forsee more Doctor Who fic here in the future due to season 3, but there's still a steady stream of Torchwood. A note about pairings: Romantic pairings look like this: Character A/Character B Platonic frienships look like this: Character A-Character B [[My notes, by the way, look like this. They're often quite incoherent with love, and repeat the word 'brilliant' too much.]] Happy reading. =3 ( Okay, okay. ON WITH THE LIST. ) So that's it, at least for now (as ever). If anyone has any fics they think should be put on this list - femmeslash especially welcome, PLEASE, but nothing involving Gwen in any major capacity otherwise I might die of stupid - comment or email. I'd rather not rec unfinished chapterfics (there are a couple I've been DYING to put up bu restraining myself), but I'll follow one until it's finished and put it up then, should it still be rec-worthy. Good night, sleep tight, and don't let the Weevils bite. =B |
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