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eponymous_roseSaw the two-minute CiN preview for the Doctor Who Christmas special - here it be - and am very much on the excited side. Possible spoilers follow:
Most of you know that I am a huge fan of the Big Finish audio The One Doctor, so this "what what what two Doctors?" setup - no matter how similar the actual storyline may be - makes me squee way too loudly. By the way, if you have not yet heard The One Doctor, you must listen to it right away. Go now. Yes, now. It's worth buying sight-unseen (or, um, sound-unheard?), for it features Six and Mel and several massive bucketloads of awesome. And those are metric massive bucketloads, you know. They're. Um. Big buckets.
SPEAKING OF THINGS, look! A new shiny preview for the third series of Eighth Doctor audios! I haven't actually finished listening to series two yet (so behind on... everything, pretty much, but that way I can marathon things! Right? Right!), so I was a bit confused, but it still sounds very exciting and all.
(Quasi-fannish thing - I have started putting little post-its everywhere a la Get Smart movie, and I am actually remembering to do things! It's nifty. Thanks, movie! And, um, we'll ignore the stuff I forget to write down on the post-its. Anyone else a compulsive list-maker? How do you guys keep organized? I am always looking for new tips.Aaand my post-its just fell off the wall again.)
Am almost done rewatching the original series of Star Trek (woe!), and am amazed at how little I remember of it. I suppose I probably saw it a bit differently at the age of five. Ahem. And oh my goodness, there are some cracky episodes. Some are also very nifty, though! Am looking forward to rewatching the movies very much! And the new one! Exciting time to be a Trek fan. :D
All I can really say about Yuletide is this: HURRAH! I am very excited about my assignment. And, you know, the whole Yuletide thing, because obscure fandoms! I love them.
(Am way, way, way, way behind on NaNo, with my 5,000 words on the first day and pretty much nothing else. This weekend may be a turnaround point? We'll see.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elyssadc, you'll be getting a finished fic out of that at some point, mark my words!)
Most of you know that I am a huge fan of the Big Finish audio The One Doctor, so this "what what what two Doctors?" setup - no matter how similar the actual storyline may be - makes me squee way too loudly. By the way, if you have not yet heard The One Doctor, you must listen to it right away. Go now. Yes, now. It's worth buying sight-unseen (or, um, sound-unheard?), for it features Six and Mel and several massive bucketloads of awesome. And those are metric massive bucketloads, you know. They're. Um. Big buckets.
SPEAKING OF THINGS, look! A new shiny preview for the third series of Eighth Doctor audios! I haven't actually finished listening to series two yet (so behind on... everything, pretty much, but that way I can marathon things! Right? Right!), so I was a bit confused, but it still sounds very exciting and all.
(Quasi-fannish thing - I have started putting little post-its everywhere a la Get Smart movie, and I am actually remembering to do things! It's nifty. Thanks, movie! And, um, we'll ignore the stuff I forget to write down on the post-its. Anyone else a compulsive list-maker? How do you guys keep organized? I am always looking for new tips.
Am almost done rewatching the original series of Star Trek (woe!), and am amazed at how little I remember of it. I suppose I probably saw it a bit differently at the age of five. Ahem. And oh my goodness, there are some cracky episodes. Some are also very nifty, though! Am looking forward to rewatching the movies very much! And the new one! Exciting time to be a Trek fan. :D
All I can really say about Yuletide is this: HURRAH! I am very excited about my assignment. And, you know, the whole Yuletide thing, because obscure fandoms! I love them.
(Am way, way, way, way behind on NaNo, with my 5,000 words on the first day and pretty much nothing else. This weekend may be a turnaround point? We'll see.
elyssadc, you'll be getting a finished fic out of that at some point, mark my words!)
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Date: 2008-11-15 01:46 am (UTC)Morrissey had me as soon as he did the cocky wink thing. XD
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Date: 2008-11-15 01:52 am (UTC)Don't understand the gripe.
I tend not to understand most gripes fandom seems to acquire, but this one really baffles me quite a lot. I mean, no matter how good or bad people believe the Christmas special will be (and, come on, it'll be immensely amusing at the very least), the fact remains that word has already gone round about the awesomeness of the audio, and Big Finish in general, and how is that a bad thing? (I've seen/fielded several questions in the last couple weeks alone from people looking for more information about these audios everyone was on about.)
Morrissey had me as soon as he did the cocky wink thing. XD
With all the Elevens going around lately, I managed to completely confuse him with somebody else, so I had a little punch-the-air moment when he rushed in. "Blackpool! Right!"
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Date: 2008-11-15 02:05 am (UTC)Isn't it? XD I got it from over yonder this way...
the fact remains that word has already gone round about the awesomeness of the audio, and Big Finish in general, and how is that a bad thing?
I know, right? This is like, free publicity for BF! "Huh, this is based on what? Really? Maybe I should go check that out..."
Never mind the fact the New Who eps so far have been simply "inspired" and have no way actually straight ripped-off anything... It's the concepts that were being taken, not the actual scripts. That I have no problem with.
(I'll say what I said before... the only disappointment I have is that Donna isn't here for DM to hit on every five seconds. That would have made for mucho lolz, ha!)
A friend of mine proposed the very sound theory that DM is a theatrical showman that saw Ten in action somewhere and made an act out of it. I'm sticking to that for now.
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Date: 2008-11-15 02:14 am (UTC)Yes, exactly! And then there's all the overlap between the people who do Big Finish and the people who do New Who, which makes lots of arguments a bit silly, all in all. (I have actually seen people complain about how Dalek was so obviously based on Jubilee. Um. Same writer, guys?)
A friend of mine proposed the very sound theory that DM is a theatrical showman that saw Ten in action somewhere and made an act out of it.
Okay, I love that theory! Surely there must be scads of people around the universe who've started running around like the Doctor.
And in reply to your edit: HEE! Oh, that would have been epic. :D
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Date: 2008-11-15 02:28 am (UTC)Not to mention that Rob Shearman rips off himself all the time anyway. "Dalek" and Jubilee have totally different plot all together! The only thing that's similar is the scene where Nine/Six is locked in a room with the lone Dalek. That's it.
And closest similarity "The Fires of Pompeii" and The Fires of Vulcan share is the title. On top of that, the stories could easily have taken place simultaneously. (I'm a bit in love with the idea someone proposed on OG that in the "Turn Left" universe, it was Seven and Mel who sorted the Pyroville mess out in Ten and Donna's absence...)
HEE! Oh, that would have been epic. :D
Donna would have totally broken her "Runaway Bride" record for number of times she slapped the same person in a single episode... ;)
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Date: 2008-11-15 02:48 am (UTC)...
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WHY HAVE I NOT SEEN THIS? XD
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Date: 2008-11-15 02:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-15 03:01 am (UTC)Must... find... downloads... (Thou art no Region 1 DVD because American is EVIL)