Things

[thisbluespirit]

1. hamsterwoman has started watching Blake's 7 for the first time, is up to the end of S2 and has thoughts (and doesn't mind stray friendly B7 people wandering over for a chat if they feel inclined, because I asked before I posted this).


2. Someone made a podfic of my Miss Marple/Dracula crossover fic So We Meet At Last. (It's short enough that even I managed to listen to it and it's a very good reading of it and, you know, I can almost see for the first time why other people like it!!)


3. I have not yet watched this week's Doctor Who. I've not been feeling so great and even though I'm a bit better these last two or three days, the spoilers that met me on Monday morning made me want to wait till I was stronger. Or possibly forever. Well, no, I will watch it, of course. (I don't want to be That Fan, but I honestly never have before - but here I am: I haven't even seen it and I'm upset that they broke my show. I mean, it's DW, it'll all be retconned eventually or next season even, or we'll absorb into the time-space vaccum somehow but still. I don't like it and I'm upset even though that's silly. RL is being miserable enough; leave my fictional worlds alone at least for a bit, thanks. :-/ )


4. Entirely related to the fact that I couldn't even find a way to type #3 till now, I have made about 8 James Maxwell gifs and so now I can. (First resulting tumblr post here.)




Courtesy of liadt who sends me nice things on occasions, like episodes of Dangerman that contain JM being unconvincingly shot but still nearly dying of it anyway.


5. I've been working my way through the freeform tags for hurtcomfortex to find the ones I want to request and offer. It's certainly entertaining anyway. (They are like: CHARACTER A SACRIFICES THEMSELVES FOR B, CHARACTER B IS FED UP WITH CHARACTER A SACRICING THEMSELVES, and lots of people dying and then ATTEMPTED AROMATHERAPY MAKES EVERYTHING WORSE and it's a ride, basically.)

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

I was one of the "give Chibnall a chance!" people when he was taking over as showrunner, but now, well. I Have Learned Better.

That was a good and sensible and fair thing to do! It's not your fault if Chris Chibnall then went and blew it. (I just had disliked him for too long by the time he took over, and on too many different shows; it would be unrealistic to expect him to magically start pleasing me. Although I'd have been very happy with that!)

*hugs*

[auroracloud]

Well, it would just have been less disappointing if I'd already have disliked his writing to start with. But I generally liked most of his Torchwood episodes (I mean, all of Torchwood was deeply flawed, and there's not a lot to be said for Cyberwoman but most of S1 was crap anyway; but otherwise I mostly liked Chibnall's stuff) and I liked S1 of Broadchurch, at least, so even if I hadn't been wild about his Doctor Who stories, I was hopeful, and the bastard let me down.

Well, I haven't forsworn a showrunner or an era before, I guess this is an experience to have. I have a lot of local friends who utterly hated Moffat!Who, so now I can try out how that felt! Except that Moffat!Who didn't mess around anywhere near this much with the whole continuity.

[thisbluespirit]

Well, I haven't forsworn a showrunner or an era before, I guess this is an experience to have.

New experiences! Yes, um... It's a silver lining, I suppose. Of sorts. I mean, I was a little mixed on RTD and I did not expect to like CC, but, yeah. Forsworn is probably more than I can manage even now, although I'm annoyed about that. (Self, at this point, watching it is unwise!!)

[auroracloud]

Forsworn is probably more dramatic than I'll manage in reality, too, but I liked the opportunity to use the word in my current dramatic feelings about the matter. I have no idea how to engage with future seasons - ignore them, watch them on DVD, watch them on TV but get spoilers first so I know what to expect, I don't know. A good thing there's a long time before I have to decide that.

I found the show through the RTD era so in a way it's very nostalgic for me and clearly worked for me, but also after I watched non-RTD Who I realized I actually have a lot of issues with RTD-Who. So I understand mixed feelings!

[thisbluespirit]

I liked the opportunity to use the word in my current dramatic feelings about the matter.

A perfectly valid reason! XD

Yeah, I'm still feeling a little weird. At the moment, I'm basically, I can deal with Moffat-era stuff and Big Finish and beyond that, it's going to take time.

I don't have a problem with RTD, really. Just it was so long off the air and then it came back and was real and different, and I definitely chime a bit more with the Moffat era, so I felt a bit mixed wry and jubilant all the way through. But, as I've probably already said enough time, I was a children's librarian and watching so many of them get enthusiastic was worth everything.