Stooooop reading ontd_political.

Maybe then your head will hurt less from slamming it into the table so much.

(I BET YOUR MOM USED MATERNITY CARE.)

Well, between the fanwanking over Eleven, which means Oh my God, please shut the hell up, before my brain explodes, I do actually still love Doctor Who, even if I'm regressing to the 60s to find that long lost love. And I haven't been very active, what with the lack of writing and inspiration and so on, and me avoiding all the fanwanking as best as possible. And recovering from JE. So here we go.

( Just a twinge of cosmic angst. )

ATTENTION ALL.

It has come to my spurious and admittedly flighty attention that Pushing Daisies is doing somewhat badly in its ratings. So I am here to tell you this.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, WATCH IT. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL AND LOVELY SHOW, AND IF IT GETS CANCELLED, WE'LL ALL BE DISAPPOINTED, AND SO WILL YOU WHEN YOU FINALLY GO NETFLIX IT AND REALISE IT ONLY GOT A FEW SEASONS BEFORE BEING CANCELLED, BECAUSE IT DIDN'T GET ENOUGH RATINGS.

I mean honestly. I cannot describe how absolutely gorgeous this show is. Please don't let ABC cancel it.

Every Wednesday at 8PM.

This is why I should have started watching the Daily Show waaaay before 2007.

(Also, does anyone know if Steve was actually, seriously drunk? A lot of people say that he was, but I'm not sure.)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7619828.stm

NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO.

NO.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NO.

I know that Douglas was very 'meh' about the last book, but THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY HAVE TO WRITE ONE FOR HIM. UNLESS THEY'RE DIGGING HIS EXHUMED CORPSE OUT OF HIS GRAVE AND MAKING HIM WRITE, I DON'T WANT THIS.

As much as I love Artemis Fowl, they can't do this to me.

MOAR. MOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR.

NAAAAAO.

On a side note... why is it that everyone's interpretation of Darcy seems to have one's that I don't consider quite... Darcy? I suppose I can't say anything about the a-fixed scowl, that, in itself, is Mr. Darcy, but in my head, I imagined... I dunno... dashing? I think Macfadyen's portrayal was the closest to what I had envisioned. Darcy, while being a complete git and looking so, had every ability, as shown in the second half of Pride and Prejudice that he could be caring and such. But the Darcy in Lost in Austen... with that man's forehead, I don't know if he can do anything but Darcy's scowl, even if I admit he does Darcy's scowl quite well.

I'm glad it looks like in the next episode we get Bingley and Jane together. As much as I loved the Elizabeth and Darcy relationship, I always thought Bingley and Jane were absolutely adorable.

Two DW actors in this, both from Moffat's episodes. I have to say, I am enjoying Alex Kingston's performance down to the very last letter. I kept imagining Mrs. Bennett when I read the books as a non-Asian, more loud version of my mother, therefore frail, frustratingly narrow-minded and prejudiced, and annoyingly outspoken. I love Kingston's interpretation. She's exasperating and overbearing to the very last, just like in the books.

Not enough of Nancy's actress to get a good feel for her, but I'm enjoying it all the same, if only for the snickering and cracky crossover thoughts.

Considering in one of the reviews they compared Jemima Rooper (who plays the main character Amanda) to Billie Piper? I find it too easy to find the crossover ideas lulz-worthy.

Eh, Mr. Bennett doesn't fit right in me because of the looks as well, but he's still lovable, as he always was. Bingley looks waaaaaaay too much like the pretty boy. So I'll be over here, finding that annoying. I hate his sister already, so that's good.

OMG, WHY CAN'T NEXT WEDNESDAY BE NAO.

Dear mimi-na, I appreciate your art, just wish you weren't such a dick about it.

You would think that at twenty years old or whatever the hell she is, she'd grow some maturity.

I was sorely mistaken.

Why don't they just make an anti-Rose comm and start 'baaaw'ing already? Does she really think that because I'm D/R I'm any less broken up about Donna than anyone else? I'm just really pissed at what RTD did to Rose too.

And yeah, 'better writer'. That's why Steven Moffat made such a shite episode like Silence in the Library and creates a lot of his own Sues to fall desperately in love with the Doctor in ten minutes. Yeah.

You can tell me they're lovely characters and I'll believe you, you just can't tell me that they aren't Sues as much as Rose is.

I know I'm acting like a colossal brat, but you know, I'm fine if people don't like characters, they just don't have to call me 'Rosefen' for liking D/R and thinking I'm ignorant of anything else.

By all means, go fuck yourself.

There are times... when writers confuse me. There's this extremely confusing chasm between my love for them and my hatred for them, and yet they are almost indistinguishably close to each other that I get confused on whether I'm supposed to smash in my screen out of frustration or hug it and give it tea and send it to a spa in Jamaica.

I just don't know. So today, you get to sit there and read my incredibly long rant about my thoughts or RTD and Steven Moffat, all while I debate endlessly with myself on whether I love them or hate them.

To be honest, my favourite New Who writer is usually Paul Cornell, 'cause mercy of fuck, he knows how to pull at heart strings and he does it so well and roundedly and thoughtfully.

Steven Moffat
I shall deal with the Moff first, because everyone seems to have a love affair with him nowadays, and I don't understand any of that. I think it's more of a syndrome of 'RTD is crap, Moffat is so much better' that seems to be spreading like virulent turkey virus. Frankly, I think I adore them both, even if Moffat is slightly irritating me as of late, but that's mostly due to rabid followers and general Rose hating. I'm fine if fans are outspoken about their opinion on characters, but I would think that a writer shows some equilibrium on the subject. He is, after all, the freaking writer. It doesn't matter if you want to throw the girl into the lake or not, show them some goddamn respect, and don't screw it up when you write them.

( Dear me, shut the frack up. (Spoilers for S4, slightly shippy, cause I'm a dork.) )

Well, this is much too long for Moffat's section already, so I will write up RTD's part tomorrow. You know, if anyone cares.

What? WHAT? WHHAAAAAATTTT?

"I know the 10th Doctor is the best, but what about the other incarnations, I wanted the incarnations Chibi because thats I imagine it to look like, 10th is the most handsome, youngest looking, scruff, but the rest have some."????

WHAT?

"The rest have some"?

See, this is why I really don't like people who always go on about David Tennant and the Tenth Doctor (not you Nelly, at least you do it intelligently) and then shove all the other Doctors to the side. "They're not as good as him but they have something" kind of drivel that seems to be clutched onto this supercilious and ill-functioning head of theirs makes me want to shove my face into a moving truck. WHAT? WHAT IS THIS BULLCRAP? They're not as good as him? WHEN WAS THIS. The kind of narrow-minded bullcrap this person is spewing from their interminably small brain is making my insides shudder.

I LIKE David Tennant, I LIKE the Tenth Doctor. I like him as much as I like any of the other Doctors, which is a lot. And I mean that. I don't think he's any better, or any worse than any of the other Doctors. I really, just don't have a preference. If I just saw that Doctor, I'll be going "SQUEE! THAT DOCTOR" a lot for a while. Like yesterday and today, I've been "SQUEE! EIGHT" cause I watched the DW movie again. And "SQUEE! SEVEN", cause like.. for all he was in that movie, Seven is still lovely. And William Hartnell was damn handsome, all right? One was fricking awesome.

I don't mind if you prefer the Tenth Doctor, I mean, fine, okay, whatever, don't give a frick. But DON'T say it's because 'he's the most handsome' (What happened to liking characters because of the character development?), and DON'T say that 'he's the best of all the Doctors'. That is a PREFERENCE, not a FACT, so don't bloody SAY it as a FACT like THIS person is or I will personally, go to your house, dress up as Six to make you go blind, and SET YOUR HOUSE ON FIRE.

Also, I think this person might have ASSBURGERS.

I wasn't going to, but does anyone think I should deviantartsnark this?

The fact that they posted this onto my "Wives and Goatees" gives me the impression that they think that they're terribly clever and deserve my never-ending praise for their infinite wit.

Watched the Master episodes of S3 again.

Sound of Drums = Still awesome.

Last of the Time Lords = Still crap. I mean... like.. Eric Roberts crap. Journey's End crap.

I'm never going to get over Journey's End. Preferred it if Rose'd died or something. That would have been a more satisfying ending.

I wish RTD would do another Series finale, to SHOW me he hasn't lost ALL ability to do this.

Oh. OH, BUT LOOK AT MAH ICON. IT'S SO FREAKING AWESOME.

RICHARD DAWKINS ICON FTW.

So I wrote this into my deviantArt journal and then realised "oh yeah, WHAT THE HELL IS MY LIVEJOURNAL FOR, EH!?"

I finally watched it! Blink! I know, I know, I took so long, you all hate me.

And you're going to hate me more after my next sentence.

It wasn't as good as I thought it would be.

I'm not saying it was bad, it was really, very very well written. Possibly the best time travelling Doctor Who plot I've seen and that includes a lot of the old!Who stuff as well, although... maybe not the dramas, because the dramas do really good stuff when it comes to things like this.

It's just... two years of listening to people rave on and on about this episode and I expected to be terrified, hiding under my covers, with the lights on, staring at statues for the rest of the night.

I'm not! I watched this entire thing in my chair, in front of my computer with the lights off, I emphasise, since everyone seemed to be insistent on making it frightening as possible, and I didn't find it scary at all. When the lights in the basement started flickering, I did start a little, but really, that was about it. I'm more scared of the mosquito that just bit me twice now. Want me to count the mosquito bites I got last night/today?

Six. That's what I'm more frightened about. Got absolutely no sleep last night, kept waking up 'cause of the damn mosquitoes. There were about six of them in my room.

*sigh* I'm not calling this a bad episode, I'm just kind of disappointed after all this hype and everyone screaming "OMFG, WATCH BLINK, IT'S SO SCARY, YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO SLEEP."

Yeah. Do you want to know something? Ring 2? Crap movie. Horrible writing, stupid effects, a convoluted plot of WTFery. And I couldn't sleep for two weeks after I saw it. I stay away from horror movies because I'm so very easily frightened by them. That's probably really why I took so long to watch Blink, because everyone was telling me it was just terrifying. You could say that this is because this is Doctor Who, children watch it, but you know what? That's not really an excuse. Like I said, I'm easily frightened.

And I'm confused by the end. So... the angels are looking at each other. Weeeeeeell, then what happened to the FLICKERING LIGHT THAT WAS GOING OFF AND ON AND LETTING THEM MOVE. The TARDIS just sort of FIX that, did it? And if it was the angels that were doing that, why didn't they just break the damn thing.

I'm not going to go as far as to say that I don't like this episode. But with the feeling of disappointment I'm experiencing right now, it's completely effecting what I feel about what's the best episode of S3. Blink was very well written, Moffat's best. You know. Out of five, four of which are two parters, so it's more like three. I think Ut/SoD was better. And FoB/HN better than everything in that series period.

( Sorry, went on a bit into Series 4 of DW, so spoilers. )

Avatar finale rocked socks, though. (Can't tell me Zutara isn't real. What.) BUT... ZUKO'S MOM?! WHAT!?!?! WE'LL NEVER KNOW. I FEEL BETRAYED.

Also!? Turning to Gallifrey audios, I LOVE Coordinator Narvin. Maaaan, that guy. Possibly was the best Time Lord on what used to be Gallifrey.

Okay. OKAY. OMFG, OKAY.

I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE.

( Cut for abuses in font )

Would everyone PLEASE stop calling him just some 'random scientist'? He isn't just an actor who they just stuck in there. He's an evolutionary biologist who wrote The Selfish Gene, which is now a major evolutionary theory, he wrote The God Delusion, which was dedicated to Douglas Adams, a long time friend of his, and he's MARRIED to LALLA WARD. YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. HE'S MARRIED TO ROMANA.

SO Y'ALL CAN SHUT UP NOW, KAY?

*deep breath*

I'm sorry. Really, I am. I love reading people's reaction to that episode, honest to God. It just... really grinds on my nerves when they're being so flippant about one of the smartest people I've ever read... it's like seeing Bill Gates and calling him 'some random computer scientist.' IT JUST DOESN'T WORK. And it's extremely, incredibly irritating.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6ygqJ5ZA5ss

I think that the only reaction I can give to this episode is

OMFG WTF THAT WAS FULL OF AWESOME AND SAD AND WHAT THE FUCK RTD, YOU BETTER BE TAKING THE PISS WITH US WITH THE WHOLE END THING.

Sometimes, it just takes me watching David Tennant and Billie Piper being ridiculously sweet next to each other in an in-vision commentary for Doomsday to get my spirits up to war against the haters and the fact that I'm very sort of nervous that you-know-who is coming back.

( And He said that there would be spoilers, and he said it was a rule and that you shall not read. Oh, sorry, was it the Doctor who said that? I forgot, he has been sort of God-iting all around the place, I'm getting them mixed up now... Next thing you know, he'll start saying things are 'good' or something... )

I'm going to have to say I loved this episode. I thought it was simply marvellous, even without Donna. It really wouldn't have worked with Donna, because then it would have made things go simpler for the Doctor, because she would have known what was going on. Er, I'm sure everyone knows that, so I won't go on about it.

( Dear RTD, WHY I'M GOING TO MISS YOU WHEN YOU LEAVE DDDDD: (SPOILERS FOR MIDNIGHT) )

OH MY GOD, THE PRIMARIES ARE OVER?! WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING!?

WHAT WILL THE NEWS DO?

*shudder*

That is... three minutes of my life... which I will never get back.

What have they done?

What have they done?

I have a feeling I would mind less if they'd just changed the names. Made it into their own show!

But the fact that the trailer keeps referring to him as SAM TYLER makes parts of me die.

I feel... violated.