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shapinglightI keep starting posts and then deleting them because I decide you can't possibly be interested in the boring tripe I've written. For instance, why would anyone but me be interested in the fact that today I discovered there are no dry cleaners left in the town centre of the place where I live?
Don't all hold your hands up at once.
On the other hand, we have to keep posting, don't we?
So anyway, re: last Saturday's Doctor Who....
Spoilers behind cut.
I have a distinct 'out-of-step' feeling about fandom at the moment. From what I can gather, not only did most people on LJ not like it, but it caused a s**tstorm on Twitter which ended with Stephen Moffatt deleting his account. I, on the other hand, enjoyed it enormously. I thought Ron Weaseley's dad/that bloke from the Fast Show was hilarious as Rory's dad and loved the scene at the end where he's sitting eating his packed lunch with his legs dangling out the TARDIS door. And okay, I admit there was no real reason for Queen Nefertiti and some random big game hunter to be in the episode, but the sarcastic robots were fun, so were the dinosaurs, and within its own daft little world, the plot made sense.
In other words, I don't understand what the fuss is about. Just as I was completely bewildered by all the people saying that season 5 of True Blood was the absolute pits when I thought it was the best one ever.
Still, I'm not claiming to be the sole voice of reason or anything. For one thing, most of my flist seem okay with the Dark Horse Spike comic and I loathe it so much (apart - ironically - from the space bugs) that it's making me angry just thinking about it.
Obviously, it's all different when something you love is threatened.
But what about that dry cleaners thing, huh? Doesn't anyone use dry cleaners any more except me?
I may be back later with awhinge post about fic writing, but I'm going to try and do some first.
Don't all hold your hands up at once.
On the other hand, we have to keep posting, don't we?
So anyway, re: last Saturday's Doctor Who....
Spoilers behind cut.
I have a distinct 'out-of-step' feeling about fandom at the moment. From what I can gather, not only did most people on LJ not like it, but it caused a s**tstorm on Twitter which ended with Stephen Moffatt deleting his account. I, on the other hand, enjoyed it enormously. I thought Ron Weaseley's dad/that bloke from the Fast Show was hilarious as Rory's dad and loved the scene at the end where he's sitting eating his packed lunch with his legs dangling out the TARDIS door. And okay, I admit there was no real reason for Queen Nefertiti and some random big game hunter to be in the episode, but the sarcastic robots were fun, so were the dinosaurs, and within its own daft little world, the plot made sense.
In other words, I don't understand what the fuss is about. Just as I was completely bewildered by all the people saying that season 5 of True Blood was the absolute pits when I thought it was the best one ever.
Still, I'm not claiming to be the sole voice of reason or anything. For one thing, most of my flist seem okay with the Dark Horse Spike comic and I loathe it so much (apart - ironically - from the space bugs) that it's making me angry just thinking about it.
Obviously, it's all different when something you love is threatened.
But what about that dry cleaners thing, huh? Doesn't anyone use dry cleaners any more except me?
I may be back later with a
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Date: 2012-09-12 12:15 pm (UTC)I have never dry cleaned anything, although I can get it done through work if I so desired.
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Date: 2012-09-12 12:28 pm (UTC)Doesn't anyone use dry cleaners any more except me?
Apparently not in your town! lol I think we have several. We did used to have just one, but that was 30 years ago. Now, every new shopping area seems to come with its own dry cleaners/tailor/shoe repair store.
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Date: 2012-09-12 12:35 pm (UTC)I wasn't thrilled with the episode, but I enjoyed it - the way I enjoy most epis of that show. Strangely enough, I am reminded of my Buffywatching days, when few episodes were able to meet my high expectations - at least at first viewing. Every time the writers went elsewhere or tried something new I felt like taking the helm and steering them back on track. With DW it's similar - when rewatching all 5 seasons with my daughters I realized that I liked the master-episodes much more the second time around. Once you stop checking whether a new episode "get's it right" you can have more fun.
Having said that, I must admit I thought the epi was a bit too hurried, with too little time for the exposition, and the chemistry between Nefertiti and Riddel would have worked - if it had been given time to develop, say in two epis or three. Oh well, I mustered some goodwill (based on the fact that I like the Lestrade-actor).
It was fun, with a few plot holes - and I thought making tricey's death resonate more than the murder of all the Silurians was poor writing, but hey, it's still a good show, it hasn't been canned...
I miss Russel T. Davis's input - there was also a transgressive subtext, which in Moffat's world seems to translate into juvenile, but still....
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Date: 2012-09-12 12:41 pm (UTC)Yep, I totally agree there. It was fun story, but rather too fast paced for it's own good imo.
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Date: 2012-09-12 01:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-12 01:30 pm (UTC)There are four of them in my town, want to ship something.
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Date: 2012-09-12 01:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-12 03:35 pm (UTC)We still have a couple of dry cleaners and they always seem to have suits hanging up. I do live in 'the commuter belt' and you can get to the City from here, so I'm assuming people who still need to wear suits at work need dry cleaners? I have quite a few items that need dry cleaning come to think of it..!
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Date: 2012-09-12 03:52 pm (UTC)I enjoyed Dr Who, though it was definitely bonkers. As long as it's witty and has good dialogue I can forgive a lot, though - as, I imagine, anyone who watched it through the dark days of Sylvester McCoy and Bertie Basset can.
I'm OK with the comics because all I know about them is what you and a few others in my flist write. Otherwise, as far as I am concerned, they do not exist.
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Date: 2012-09-12 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-12 04:16 pm (UTC)Yes. Best to retain some mystery.
Lucky you about the dry cleaning at work. S used to get that. But then he went and retired.
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Date: 2012-09-12 04:16 pm (UTC)(See, this is why you post random crap! I have an anecdote for everything...)
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Date: 2012-09-12 04:17 pm (UTC)It often doesn't make sense. In fact, apart from Queen Nefertiti and the big game hunter, I thought it made more sense than usual.
Maybe all the dry cleaners in UK have moved to America?
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Date: 2012-09-12 04:23 pm (UTC)I did too. I was away at the Paralympics.
I actually don't think I have any expectations beyond being entertained when I watch Doctor Who. New Who seems like much more of a kids' program to me than it did when I was a kid myself (well, it would, I suppose), though of course there are exceptions, like my favourite ever New Who episode, Midnight, which I thought was superb drama on any level, closely followed by The Doctor's Wife.
Not sure I agree about tricey's death vs the Silurian genocide. The Doctor was angry enough about the latter to kill Solomon, which is not something he ever does as a rule. Tricey's death was just more immediate because we saw it in front of us.
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Date: 2012-09-12 04:36 pm (UTC)Don't suppose they want to open a UK branch, do they?
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Date: 2012-09-12 04:38 pm (UTC)They do, but then I'm no one to talk. ;)
Hmm, there are plenty of people who wear suits to work here. Maybe I should stop one in the street and ask them where they take their dry cleaning these days.
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Date: 2012-09-12 04:40 pm (UTC)Whereas I know of at least two here.
As long as it's witty and has good dialogue I can forgive a lot, though - as, I imagine, anyone who watched it through the dark days of Sylvester McCoy and Bertie Basset can.
I liked Sylvester McCoy. He was one of my favourite Doctors. :is uncritical:
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Date: 2012-09-12 04:41 pm (UTC)I agree. I can't understand why it was the last straw for some people. But then, not my fandom.
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Date: 2012-09-12 05:46 pm (UTC)*pulls up fandom pants*
Technically It's not a kids show. Hasn't been since the early days the the show It's now meant to be aimed at a family audience. If there is such a thing anymore.
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