Meme: The long and the short

[thisbluespirit]

Two memes:

One memed from persiflage_1 where you write ORANGES! and the person gives you 5 questions, but sorry, I am going away, so i'm just going to stick to answering the qs that Pers gave me:

1 - How do you like them oranges?
2 - If you could bring back one Classic Who companion for a series of adventures with New Who folks, who would it be?
3 - Would you watch a UNIT spin-off show (provided RTD didn't write it in the vein of Torchwood)?
4 - Which are you favourite Big Finish audios?
5 - Imagine the BBC were willing to make any crossover show of your choice - which two (or more) shows would you crossover with each other?

1. Organic, otherwise I'm not really supposed to eat them. (Apparently they inject them with arsenic or something equally ridiculous, so they stay preserved. And, yes, am probably making up the arsenic bit, but you never know.)

2. *flails* Too much choice! I mean, do I do this realistically (so no one dead/too old to get away with it) or just fantasy? Leela. (Except for the whole Gallifrey issue). So Tegan. Or Turlough. Or Nyssa, just to find out what she did post-Terminus (Hey, there's an audio coming out soon I really need to listen to. Maybe it's playing on my mind.) Actually, what I would MOST like would be Benny, Evelyn and Charley to appear and be Definitely Canon at last. They are too good not to be, and Benny's been in every other format - come on, BBC (I know there may be copyright issues, but it's my fantasy).

3. Um. I don't know. Of course, if someone wanted to make a spin-off UNIT show set in the 1980s, I could probably help them out. *looks innocent*

4. This is boring of me, but they remain (so far): The One Doctor (There is nothing to compare with Bonnie Langford and Christopher Biggins putting up shelves, while the Doctor faces down Anne Robinson... and yet, despite all the fun and games, it gets at the heart of just why the Doctor is wonderful. Every single New Who episode (even this series) that's tried to do it hasn't matched this audio in pulling it off.) The Chimes of Midnight (*becomes incoherent* After all, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without plum pudding. Can they film it as a one-off special with Paul and India, please? ) and Doctor Who and the Pirates (like The One Doctor; it pulls off a lot of ridiculousness, while ending up at a perfectly serious point, makes use of its audio format like no other and, and has a musical episode.) I've also really enjoyed The Shadow of the Scourge, Memory Lane, Scherzo, The Gathering, Spare Parts, The Settling, The Doomwood Curse and Paper Cuts among many others. (I realised I wanted to make this answer into an essay. I really do love a lot of the audios I've heard.)

5. *flails again* Again, does this want to be realistic or just fantasy? Okay: Dear BBC, for the next CiN, I would like you to crossover any combination of the following shows - Doctor Who, Spooks, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Hotel Babylon, Press Gang, Who Do You Think You Are?, LoM/A2A and any classic drama you feel inclined to include, but bonus points if it's Austen. This will save me writing ridiculous crossovers and the world will be grateful. Thank you. love lost_spook PS. If you include Spooks, Nicola Walker as Ruth Evershed is not allowed to be absent. This is important. Especially when crossing with DW. (I should explain, that if involving WDYTYA, this clearly means Six and Evelyn walking in the middle of a touching moment in an archive:

Six: He was your ancestor, was he? Hah. Complete bounder and a scoundrel.
Star: What?
EVelyn: Doctor, perhaps a little more tact might be...
Six: And he picked my pockets, I'll have you know. I don't care how grand his beard got to me, he's not my idea of a pillar of society.
Cameraman: Look, we were just about to get X to cry over the parchment... Can you get out of the way?
Six: Not if you're going to propagate such a farrago of lies, white-washing of... Oh, wait, did he say Benjamin Smith. Completely different fellow. Never heard of him. Now, excuse me, there's a Grel loose in your archives and heaven only knows what damage they might do.
Evelyn (as he marches off): I'm so sorry. He forgot to take his medication this morning. I'll see that he keeps out of your way. Oh, and does your Smith branch have any London Smiths, because, I have some interesting connections...

You see. They need to do this in Time Team and Antiques Roadshow also. Especially Time Team.

If fantasy, some wonderful 1970s special, where the Key to Time gets a proper ending, involving Blake's 7. Or just some random B7/DW/Red Dwarf mix up. It probably did happen somewhere...

*cough* That was supposed to be the short meme!


Memed from daibhid_c

Go to Wikipedia and paste all the films released in the year you were twelve. Put in Italics the ones you've seen. (If you can't remember, you haven't seen them). Any you own, in bold.


Interesting - do you know, I'd never have thought that a lot of these films came out together. I expect because I didn't go to the cinema really, so it was a matter of when they came on TV, so I'm finding that fact hard to get my head around:
The Abyss
All Dogs Go To Heaven
Always,
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt
An Innocent Man
Apartment Zero,
Arena
The BFG
Babar: The Movie
Back to the Future Part II
Batman
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Best of the Best
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure,
Black Rain (American film),
Black Rain (Japanese film),
Blaze,
Blind Fury
Born on the Fourth of July
The 'Burbs
Cameron's Closet
Camille Claudel,
Casualties of War,
Chances Are,
Chandni
Checking Out
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.;
Cinema Paradiso
A City of Sadness (Beiqing chengshi) - Golden Lion award
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover,
Cousins,
Crack House
Crimes and Misdemeanors,
Criminal Law
Crusoe
Cyborg
Dead Bang,
Dead Calm
Dead Poets Society,
Deepstar Six
The Delinquents,
Dimenticare Palermo
Disorganized Crime
Do the Right Thing,
Dream a Little Dream,
The Dream Team
The Dressmaker
Driving Miss Daisy
Drugstore Cowboy,
A Dry White Season
Enemies, a Love Story
The Experts
The Fabulous Baker Boys,
Farewell to the King,
Fat Man and Little Boy
Field of Dreams,
Fletch Lives
The Fly II
For Queen and Country,
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan,
Getting It Right
Ghostbusters II,
Gleaming the Cube
Glory,
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Great Balls of Fire!,
Gross Anatomy
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers,
Heart of Midnight,
Heathers,
Henry V,
Her Alibi,
Hit List
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,
The Horror Show,
Houseboat Horror
How I Got Into College
How to Get Ahead in Advertising,
Impulse
In Country
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,
Interrogation
Jacknife,
The January Man,
Jesus of Montreal
K-9,
The Karate Kid, Part III,.
Kickboxer,
Kiki's Delivery Service
The Killer,
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Lauderdale
Lean on Me,
Leningrad Cowboys Go America,
Lethal Weapon 2,
Leviathan
Licence to Kill,
Life and Nothing But,
Listen to Me
The Little Mermaid
Little Monsters
Lock Up,
Look Who's Talking,
Major League,
Marquis,
Meet the Feebles
Meet the Hollowheads
The Mighty Quinn
Miss Firecracker,
Monsieur Hire,
Music Box -
My 20th Century
My Left Foot
Mystery Train
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation,
New York Stories
Night Game
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child,
No Holds Barred
Nowhere to Run
Parenthood,
Penn & Teller Get Killed
Pet Sematary,
Pink Cadillac,
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Prom Night III: The Last Kiss,
The Punisher
The Rainbow
Red Scorpion
Renegades
River of Death
Road House
Roger & Me,
Rosalie Goes Shopping
Say Anything...,
Scandal,
Sea of Love,
Second Sight
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Sex, lies, and videotape -
She-Devil
She's Out of Control
Shirley Valentine,
Signs of Life
Sing
Skeleton Coast
Skin Deep,
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland,
Sonny Boy
Split
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,
Steel Magnolias,
Tango & Cash,
Tap
Teen Witch
Three Fugitives,
The Toxic Avenger Part II, sequel to The Toxic Avenger
The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie,
Transylvania Twist
Triumph of the Spirit
Troop Beverly Hills
Tropical Snow
True Love
Turner & Hooch,
UHF,
Uncle Buck
Valmont,
Violent Cop,
The War of the Roses,
War Requiem,.
Weekend at Bernie's,
When Harry Met Sally...,
Who's Harry Crumb?
Wilt
The Winter War
The Wizard,
Worth Winning
Zatoichi

But… I don’t own any of them. (Unless it counts that my housemates owns the Indiana Jones and the Back to the Future titles, and that I am currently borrowing Henry V from Mum.) One or two I would like that hour or two of my life back, please.

Comments

[paranoidangel]

I pretty much agree on all those audios - The One Doctor, The Chimes of Midnight and Doctor Who and the Pirates are really great.

When I read the instructions for the second meme, I thought, that'll give away the year you're born. But I looked through them, not recognising any, until I came to some I remember coming out. And when I got to Star Trek V I knew which year it was. I can't decide now whether you're really young or I feel really old...

[paranoidangel]

And now I've just realised that says the films that were released the year you were 12, not the year you were born. In which case you are older than me and I will shut up now.

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: Yes, I'm really old. Much too old to be hanging around here, doing memes. If it was the year I was born, that would have included Star Wars because I was born in a good year. ;-)

[john_amend_all]

Your mention of Time Team leads me straight to the opinion that River Song should be replaced forthwith by Phil Harding.

[thisbluespirit]

I should hereby admit that my knowledge of Time Team is limited to watching it when I was ill (but it was much, much better than anything else I watched when I was sick that time) some years ago, but I'm sure you're right and it would be v amusing. :-D But it struck me some years later that Six and Evelyn turning up during a televised archaeological dig and being awkward would be brilliant. My list of things to write is so long, though. :-(

[john_amend_all]

For the avoidance of doubt, Phil is the one with the disreputable hat and the West Country accent.

[thisbluespirit]

Disreputable hat? Eleven would definitely approve. Plus, a West Country accent (as in a genuine one) is a long overdue thing on DW. :-)

[clocketpatch]

Your list of movies has reminded me of Babar: The Movie heh. I loved that movie as a kid and have never been able to find it again. According to wiki critics thought it was too violent and now it's hard to find. *is sad* I WANT TO RELIVE MY CHILDHOOD TRAUMA DAMNIT!

[thisbluespirit]

Can YouTube not help? Aw. :lol:

I never saw that, but then if I was 12 when it came out, by the time it came on TV (if it did much), I'd have been way too old to watch it.

*is old*

Mind, being 12 in 1989, I got to watch S26 week by week. Aren't I the lucky one? :-D

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I thought it was fairly obvious that #2 and #5 were fantasy questions? After all, they're both highly unlikely to ever happen!

I'm SO with you on wanting them to film India and Paul in 'Chimes of Midnight' - that would be awesome!

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, yes, especially 5, but I always contemplate whether I should play by 'this is technically possible' rules or 'make it as unrealistic as you like' because that would be different answers. They were fun questions - thank you!

It would. Now, if they lost that Christmas script and wanted to fill in with something, well... :lol:

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Alas, they're already filming the Xmas special! :(

So what would your other answer to #5 have been?

Also, blackcurrants!

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, actually, I did both - see above! Erm, not that either were actually realistic! :lol:

I said I wasn't doing the qs, either, but since it's you, I'll see if I can think of some good ones now I'm back. ;-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Oh did you? Sorry. My bad... (Don't feel obliged to think some up! My brain's been in something of a haze the past few days...)

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, never mind. Hope your mind is beginning to find the way out. :-(

I've been away, so I thought I didn't want everyone having thrown fruit at me by the time I got back. I think I'll take your offer to let me off the hook - it takes me ages to think up questions!

(I'll just shrug and say, Oh raspberries, or something. ;-D)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Yes, now my work-induced exhaustion (full gory details on my LJ!) is easing off, I'm feeling considerably better...

So, your mention of raspberries indicates you want some questions?

[thisbluespirit]

No, no, just pretending that since neither of us is asking questions, we're talking in fruit-related code or something... Um. Yes. I probably left my brain on the train again! :lol:

Well, I'm glad it's improving anyway. Oh dear... :-(

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Yup - boss is being a sod, pig, bastid and ar$ehole of the first water. It's a wonder he's still breathing and walking around, actually!

Ah, okay. I misunderstood - again! (Shall go back to reading your Season 7 (Liz/Brig) fics instead of trying to think!)

[thisbluespirit]

He sounds it! :-( Well, try not to murder him - these things never go well.

Oh, I won't claim to have been making sense yesterday. Heh, nice to know they're still being read by someone! :-) Nice to know anything of mine is still being read... Teaspoon seems to have turned deathly quiet of late!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I shall only murder him if I can think of a way to do so without getting caught - don't fancy a long stretch inside, you know?

Oh yes, I'm a regular re-reader on Teaspoon.

(All I keep seeing there is either Ten/Rose or Jack/Ianto fics - can't stand either ship, so I'm reading very little new fanfic, and doing a lot of re-reading!)

[belantana.livejournal.com]

BABAR OMG I REMEMBER THAT.

To be honest, my favourite part of both these memes is "how do you like them oranges". I... don't know why.

I hope you have a nice time away! *waves*

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. :-)

I did, thanks. Just v tired now... And, more importantly, my Dad enjoyed his 60th birthday celebrations.