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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
From what I've been reading, it's what I expected - really rather good right up to the point where it gets unmistakeably awful.
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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.
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.)
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.)
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 :(
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!
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.
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.
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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Date: 2009-11-15 09:10 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: 2009-11-15 02:11 pm (UTC)It'll probably be a re-watch of a Three & UNIT story (with *proper* UNIT) tonight for me!
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Date: 2009-11-15 09:12 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-11-15 10:17 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-11-15 09:22 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-11-16 12:13 am (UTC)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!
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Date: 2009-11-16 12:27 am (UTC)Well, I'm going to be able to make up my own mind about Waters... eventually...
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Date: 2009-11-15 09:19 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-11-15 09:27 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-11-15 10:20 pm (UTC)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.