Sometimes this fandom... continues to be awesome!

[eponymous_rose]

This post contains spoilers and ranting about series four. MANY SPOILERS FOR SERIES FOUR. For series four, yes. Definitely.

Oh, clever fandom! On occasion you remind me why I stick around. :D (The comments in particular are gold. Be sure to read them. Comment here if confused.)

Big Bang fic progress: 2000 words and counting. On schedule so far, believe it or not! Mine is an insane sort of schedule.

Comments

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Whoa, wait, I never heard about half these spoilers--are they "real" and/or "confirmed" or just more wild rumor? I can't keep up anymore.

ETA: Never mind, I fell for the prank too. :-D I'm impressionable that way.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

I thought my icon might give it away - think of another series four that includes the departure of a blond companion. ;)

ETA: Yes, I did too at the start. I'm too cowardly to pull that sort of thing off myself, though, so I shall take a vicarious pleasure in watching others get hooked!

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Seriously, it's pathetically easy to prank me with this kind of stuff. April first is an ongoing nightmare for me. ;-)

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

My Mom is a notorious prankster, and my brother and I were the ultimate gullible children. April first was a day of tears and hasty apologies in our household. ;)

[biichan.livejournal.com]

It took me way too long to catch on. I was nearly to the end of the post.

[imsanehonest.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to lie - had to read the comments. But once I got it... *snicker*

Man, so good. *high fives Who fandom*

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Hee, no shame in that. I figured there must be some sort of joke, but I wasn't sure, so I had to read the comments, and then I figured out it was a parody on the "ZOMGZ series four spoilers" posts, and then I read the comments again and figured out it was a "ZOMGZ series four spoilers" post for the Classic series. And then I did sporfle, verily. :D

Slow on the uptake? Moi?

[imsanehonest.livejournal.com]

And myself as well? The two of us, with our brilliant minds and incredibly sharp and pointy wit!

NEVAH! *shifty eyes*

I love that there's so much history to this fandom that it's actually possible to play an awesome joke like this. How many other TV shows/etc. have a history so vast that fandom can trick another part of itself in good fun?? Brilliant!

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

NEVAH, indeed! *shiftier eyes*

I just listened to the Most Awesomest Easter Egg commentary on "The Five Doctors", which mostly involves David Tennant, Helen Raynor and Phil Collinson geeking out over anything and everything whilst being plyed with champagne. Towards the end, they are giggling at every little thing (include the pink polka-dot pyjamas of Rassilon). It was amazing! And yes, at the beginning they were all: "Wait, why are we even doing this? We were all about twelve years old when this came out and- OOOH IT'S GALLIFREY! DID YOU SEE THAT? THAT WAS GALLIFREY! SQUEE!" That was an insanely amusing ninety minutes. Special mention goes to David Tennant fondly remembering Peri in a bikini, and Phil Collinson fondly remembering Turlough in a Speedo.

But yes! That exemplifies the long history of the show. People who grew up watching it are getting tipsy while recording DVD commentaries for it. It's just brilliant!

(Also, heck, I've almost been at it a year and I've still got miles of canon left. Hooray!)

[imsanehonest.livejournal.com]

Awww... Geekery is just so adorable. Especially when it's highlighted with mild tipsiness and leering over appreciating the physical aesthetic of actors of olde. (With an 'e' so that we're all aware of how serious this appreciation is. *shiftiness continues*

The moral of the story? Everything is made better with champagne! Doctor Who is an endless sea of awesome spanning out before fans of every generation! Okay, well. Every generation since the late sixties. Still! That's an awful lot of generationiness.

Speaking of canon, I think I might go take a look at some of One's serials. It's about time, right? I'm off to hunt down your directory o' power... *hunts*

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Alas, many of One's serials have been pulled off YouTube! :( But yes, introduction to One would be well-timed - there'll be a glut (always wanted to use that word!) of Ian/Barbara fic posted on Sunday for a ficathon. Hooray!

(A note - while the first episode of "An Unearthly Child" is definitely awesomesauce, I found the rest of it to drag quite a lot. Adopting an unhealthy attachment to the main characters seems to help!)

I need to update that directory and mess around with it a bit to include veoh and things. That will be tomorrow's tardis_bigbang procrastination facilitator!

(I need to get back to my whole epic Who-in-order thing! I stopped right before Hartnell's series three, and am not really relishing starting up again with fairly new companions and a reconstruction. But I will press on, for the wonder of Patrick Troughton commands me!)

[imsanehonest.livejournal.com]

Woe! No One watching this eve then. *weeps*

(Re: A note - I actually managed to watch the first epsiode of "An Unearthly Child" back in 'the day,' but then stopped. *ponders* Why this is remains a bit of a mystery. I suppose I magically knew of this dragging nonsense that would occur and preemptively decided to spare myself? *ponders* Yes. Yes indeed. When in doubt one should always assume that previously unknown psychic abilities were the logical cause!)

Yay! Procrastination! (I find this icon far more clever than it actually is, and thus am using it at every available opportunity. *displays proudly*) I'm glad to hear that I was indirectly a part of this procrastination process (because really, if you're going to participate in any of man's grand endevours, shouldn't procrastination be it? Well, if you ever got around to it anyway...).

*blinkblink* A Who-in-order thing would be epic indeed and if it wasn't for that Patrick Troughton wonder... (Damn him and his wonderfulness! It's the recorder that does it, I'm convinced.)

[imsanehonest.livejournal.com]

OH snap! I have the first two One serials DELICIOUS LOBSTERED from long ago. One, here I come! (Needed to share the joy of random accomplishment of chance and stuff! Woot!)

[rapunzelita.livejournal.com]

...It actually took me a few seconds minutes to get it XD

IT'S NOT FAIR IT'S NOT APRIL 1ST YET!

[rachelbeann.livejournal.com]

*snort, cackle, pop"

I was totally had until I read the comments. Note to Fandom: THIS is why I stick around. Only you can make me laugh this hard, this long, and at myself.

And ha, even when some fans actually got what was going on, there were still these "OMG not rose that's who you mean right? and holy cow OMG daleks again!" comments to laugh at. The funniest though were comments COMPLAINING that "the daleks were back again" and "it's always earth" and then blaming New!who. Hee.

[charleygirl.livejournal.com]

That is an absolute classic. *g*

I despair of some of the commenters though. Certain sections of NewWho fandom should be made to do an in-depth course on the show's history with immediate effect! They're missing out on so much...

[thelamppost.livejournal.com]

It took me an embarrassingly long time to get it >.> I've been avoiding S4 spoilers for a few weeks anyway, so I had no idea if these were true or not or what was going on; I had to read all the comments and realize that "Wait, there's something to 'get'?"

Then I re-read it and was like, "Oh, that season four!!!"

Thanks for sharing it, it is nice to see this sort of thing in fandom...