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I should be thrilled about today's episode of Who, but right now, I feel that this and the two regeneration specials are simply things to be gotten over with before the fun begins again.

Date: 2009-11-15 12:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nycdeb.livejournal.com
I'm so out of the loop, I didn't even know it was happening today.

Date: 2009-11-15 01:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
In the UK it is. *quiet cough*

Date: 2009-11-15 01:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nycdeb.livejournal.com
yes, I assumed you meant in the UK - heck all the TV I watch these days is UK and on the UK schedule - I just haven't been paying attention to the calendar, Who, etc and I lost track of time.
Edited Date: 2009-11-15 02:04 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-11-15 09:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
Today, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. Ose, ose, and more-ose, quite likely.

Date: 2009-11-15 12:57 pm (UTC)
ext_3965: (10 Coat Swirl Fires of Pompeii)
From: [identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com
Is it too late to tell Rusty I don't *want* doom and gloom, angst and emo over the Xmas break?

Date: 2009-11-15 01:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
Judging from the past, he'd just say that you "need" your holiday ruined by him. As if he had a right to decide that.

Date: 2009-11-15 01:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I hear from comments in another post that he really did move to California. I'm just nasty enough to look forward to the reaction when he tries to pitch an angstfest as a holiday special here. Much less try to get into racial issues.
Edited Date: 2009-11-15 01:53 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-11-15 01:55 pm (UTC)
ext_3965: (BFF Martha Donna TDD)
From: [identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com
With any luck, they'd rip him to shreds (metaphorically).

Date: 2009-11-15 02:26 pm (UTC)
ext_43: proust quote: let us be happy to those that make us happy.  They are the constant gardners that make our souls blossom. (SJA - Clyde & Rani)
From: [identity profile] drho.livejournal.com
There are a lot of Filipinos in California. :P

Date: 2009-11-15 09:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
?? I'm not making the connection between my comment and yours.

Date: 2009-11-16 12:09 am (UTC)
ext_43: proust quote: let us be happy to those that make us happy.  They are the constant gardners that make our souls blossom. (Gwen - wheeeee!)
From: [identity profile] drho.livejournal.com
Oblique Children of Earth reference, sorry.

Date: 2009-11-16 12:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
Oh, the maid/chimney sweep thing? Yeah, that'll go over well here. /sarcasm

Date: 2009-11-15 08:04 pm (UTC)
ext_3685: Stylized electric-blue teapot, with blue text caption "Brewster North" (*facepalm*)
From: [identity profile] brewsternorth.livejournal.com
Ugh. It takes a special sort of Brit to survive L.A. (And that's even if you do make the big time: for others aspiring thither it's even worse.) I hope it forces RTD to raise his game, but I'm not optimistic.

Date: 2009-11-15 09:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I hope it forces RTD to raise his game, but I'm not optimistic

Market forces are probably going to force him to at least change his game; that Torchwood was a huge hit on a tiny cable channel that most people don't even get isn't going to take him far; that he oversaw a huge hit in another country will only get him marginally further. Sooner or later, he's going to have to deal with the fact that American entertainment is predominately tilted towards the upbeat and inspirational.

IOW, snuffing kids onscreen will NEVER play in Peoria!

Date: 2009-11-15 02:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] padawanpooh.livejournal.com
I took the decision not to watch the final 3 Ten specials back after Planet of the Dead and I'm sticking to that.

It'll probably be a re-watch of a Three & UNIT story (with *proper* UNIT) tonight for me!

Date: 2009-11-15 09:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I'm going to watch, if only to know. But in the long run, you're probably making the wiser decision.

Well, I haven't watched the latest SJA yet either. I think I'll save that for *after* to re-establish my faith in the Whoniverse.

Date: 2009-11-15 04:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ponygirl72.livejournal.com
I'm *so* glad you said that out loud. I was feeling a bit guilty for holding that exact same opinion. :-/

Date: 2009-11-15 09:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I think it louder and more grimly with every news report. If it weren't for the leaking pictures of Eleven, I think I'd leave this fandom. But if I just hold on, I have faith in the Mighty Moff.

Date: 2009-11-15 09:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ponygirl72.livejournal.com
Help us, Grand Moff! You're our only hope!

Date: 2009-11-15 10:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
Did you hear that? It was the sound of millions of fans crying out."

Date: 2009-11-15 11:44 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-11-16 01:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com
Let us pray they are not silenced suddenly...

Date: 2009-11-15 04:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jonquil.livejournal.com
Me, TOO. I told the fam at the suppertable and my son said, "Has he regenerated yet?!??"

Date: 2009-11-15 09:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
No, RTD wants to ruin the next two holidays first. Ho Ho Hum.

Date: 2009-11-15 09:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jonquil.livejournal.com
The early word from my flist isn't good (the bits before the cut-tag.)

Date: 2009-11-15 10:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
From what I've been reading, it's what I expected - really rather good right up to the point where it gets unmistakeably awful.

Doctor Who is an unconventional hero, not an antihero. Apparently this message has been lost.

ETA: I do intend to watch it. But I also intend to be test-knitting a mobius strip at the same time. I want to leave the hour with something accomplished that I'll find worthwhile in my life.
Edited Date: 2009-11-15 10:18 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-11-15 10:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jonquil.livejournal.com
Aha! I'll test-drive the new tatting shuttles I got yesterday. (My first shuttle keeps fanging me with the point. I got one made of bone, another plastic one without the pronounced point, and I forget the other two. Also a metal ball to hold the roll of thread.)

Date: 2009-11-15 10:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I almost got into tatting just because I saw a display of fancy shuttles. They can be beautiful things. (But I also know from the fanging - I've got some lovely knitting needles that are vicious little bastards. Beautiful, but a ninja should own them.)

Date: 2009-11-15 10:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jonquil.livejournal.com
We have one knife in the rack that was always known as the vampire breadknife, because every time you used it it had to draw blood. Very Japanese...

Date: 2009-11-15 04:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jigglykat.livejournal.com
I'm more excited that I'll be seeing a ton of friends and NOT working more than the episode itself.

Date: 2009-11-15 09:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
Those are things to be excited about!

Date: 2009-11-15 05:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dune-drd.livejournal.com
It'll be Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies. I never enjoy that :/

Date: 2009-11-15 09:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
Me neither.

Date: 2009-11-15 05:31 pm (UTC)
ext_52603: (Minnasota Nice)
From: [identity profile] msp-hacker.livejournal.com
Right now, my reactions to the specials is "Does it have Liz Sladen or John Barrowman in it? No? Well, that's one less thing I need to download then."

Date: 2009-11-15 09:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I'll be interested in seeing Tennant's Hamlet...

It's saying a lot that I'm going to be less turned off by one of Shakespeare's biggest tragedies than by a "family friendly" show.

Date: 2009-11-15 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maypanic.livejournal.com
Yep, same here. My level of unenthusiasm is astounding, really. Might even wait to watch it until *gasp* it actually airs here.

Date: 2009-11-15 09:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
If I had the brains God gave a duck, I wouldn't watch the last two until spoiled rotten... and maybe not more than the final scene of the second.

Date: 2009-11-15 07:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wendymr.livejournal.com
Seems I'm the lone holdout who is looking forward far more to the final three Tennant episodes - despite knowing that the angst and torment index will be far too high - than to the new Doctor :(

Date: 2009-11-15 09:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I'll miss Tennant the actor, but I'm utterly worn out by the OTT angstfest that Who has turned into. I don't *care* anymore. I'm supposed to care.

Date: 2009-11-16 12:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com
When my own "character in my head- the Doctor's Elder Sister" wants to go slap him silly- there's something very wrong.

Date: 2009-11-16 12:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wendymr.livejournal.com
Well, I've seen it, and I liked it. Because I'd been avoiding spoilers, I was surprised by the ending - which is not the generic deathfest I had expected (can't be more specific without spoilers). It certainly made me think, and I enjoyed it a lot more than the pointless PotD.

And since, for all sorts of reasons, I can't look forward to Moffat, I'm going to enjoy these last few Tennant-RTD-era episodes all I can!

Date: 2009-11-16 12:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
PotD was nothing but filler. When the Scottish Falsetto Sockpuppet version is infinitely superior, you know there's something wrong.

Well, I'm going to be able to make up my own mind about Waters... eventually...

Date: 2009-11-16 05:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taffimai.livejournal.com
Yes. This.

Date: 2009-11-15 08:00 pm (UTC)
ext_3685: Stylized electric-blue teapot, with blue text caption "Brewster North" (meh)
From: [identity profile] brewsternorth.livejournal.com
My sentiments are similar. I'm more interested to see what sort of overarching plotarcs are set up to pay off in the new Doctor's era than anything to do with the episodes as such.

Date: 2009-11-15 09:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I'm not entirely sure there could be any arcs - haven't they been making it clear that Moffat's going to be more or less a new broom?

Please don't let there be any arcs. I want to see someone else's Doctor, not see someone else's Doctor mop up after RTD.

Date: 2009-11-15 09:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com
Thank you for saying what I was thinking out loud. I spoiled myself for Waters of Mars and I just...I don't care. I don't even care enough to get angry. I'm tired of Ten and though I have problems with Moffat at least he remembers that Who is a family show and its hero probably shouldn't be a self-pitying psycho.

It's almost a relief, to know that my Ten!squee is dead and not coming back. It relieves me of the responsibility to watch the regeneration specials.

Date: 2009-11-15 10:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I've stopped caring myself, and that's hardly how I'm supposed to feel about the show.

I'm going to watch, though.... eventually. This is hardly something I'm rushing to do tonight. I'm also going to be working on a new knitting technique, so that at the end of the hour, I'll feel I'll have done something worthwhile.

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