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- The Time of Maximum Study happened (i.e. I had two deadlines a week apart) and I vanished for a bit, due to not having the mental wherewithal to post things that aren't newsletters or tweets. I have been reading, but commenting even less than usual (see above re. mental wherewithal), sorry! But I've just handed the second thing in, so may be around a bit more now, possibly.
- New Gallifrey is out and between work and studying and keeping up with stuff that is on the actual telly and that lovefilm has sent me, I have not had time to listen to it yet. D: The CDs are sitting on my dressing... shelf looking all tempting and stuff. SOON, PROBABLY. Hopefully before![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
vidukon. (VIDUKON! :D)
- In other Doctor Who audio related news, I really liked "The Feast of Axos": I am still officially meh on Brewster, but other than that I thought it was a great story, very reminiscent of the Pertwee era, but nicely updated. It helps that the same sort of preoccupations are coming up again, i.e. looming energy crises. I say "helps", but on the whole I would rather not have a looming energy crisis, however handy it is for Doctor Who spinoffery. I also want to praise the end of episode three, which was rather heartbreaking - Colin Baker does "presumed loss of companion" very well. Speaking of Colin Baker, he and Nicola Bryant are now on twitter! I just want to draw hearts round all their tweets, all the time.
- I have decided to watch All Of Voyager From The Beginning. Because I think I would like to have proper opinions and feelings about it, and feel that I won't be able to do that unless I have seen EVERYTHING. This makes perfect sense. Already I have seen from halfway through season four to the begining of season six, and some random earlier episodes (yes, I have seen "Threshold"), and am also spoiled for basically everything. My current opinion is basically this: if I had a TARDIS I would go back in time to 1995 and tell the producers: "look, you have this program with a great premise and many things going for it, but you are going to MESS IT UP and make something FRUSTRATINGLY INCONSISTENT, and I am here to explain to you exactly what you are going to do wrong, and then you will do it PROPERLY instead", and then they would say, "fair enough, tiny angry woman, we will do as you say", and it would be GREAT.
Anyway. Yesterday I watched "Caretaker" (WHICH WAS AWESOME; it needed more Seven of Nine but then so do most things), and also "Parallax" and "Time and Again". The opinions I have now include JANEWAY IS AMAZING. Ships I am shipping include Janeway/B'Elanna (especially after "Parallax" because !!!!), Paris/Kim and Paris/B'Elanna/Kim. I am already tired of Neelix though, which is a shame. But Kes is lovely! Oh, I also liked the bit where Tom and Harry were in Quark's, it was like a bit of bonus new DS9. And the fact that in "Time and Again" Janeway got the plot stuff and Tom got the bonding with small children stuff. And the first mention of the Delaney sisters! I like them because one of them has my first name and the other one has my middle name. (I am easily pleased.)
In retrospect is it a bit worrying that we're only on episode three and have already had our first iteration of the "stuff happens, but is then wiped from the timeline and no-one will ever know that it happened" plotline, isn't it? At least they haven't yet resorted to killing off Harry Kim to prove that it is a SERIOUS alternative timeline.
...apparently I am full of new fandom enthusiasm. Or new old fandom enthusiasm, as Voyager was the first fandom I ever read fic for. *nostalgia* (It’s also the first fandom I ever posted fic for, but luckily said fic is long lost.)
One slightly weird thing about watching Voyager is that every now and then there's a bit of dialogue which is strangely familiar, and I get all confused for a second, and then go "oh, Quotable Star Trek, of course".
- Also am rewatching Doctor Who season 5. "Victory of the Daleks" is a lot better than I remember! "Cold Blood" is a lot worse. Apparently all the things I liked about that two parter were in part one. And I cannot be having with the new Silurians. DISAPPROVE. Oh well, the next four episodes are all smashing.
- Apparently not posting for two weeks = lots of pent up words waiting to escape, most of them about Voyager. Now I have used up all the words and am going to go and lie down in a darkened room with a damp cloth over my eyes. Metaphorically speaking.
- New Gallifrey is out and between work and studying and keeping up with stuff that is on the actual telly and that lovefilm has sent me, I have not had time to listen to it yet. D: The CDs are sitting on my dressing... shelf looking all tempting and stuff. SOON, PROBABLY. Hopefully before
vidukon. (VIDUKON! :D)- In other Doctor Who audio related news, I really liked "The Feast of Axos": I am still officially meh on Brewster, but other than that I thought it was a great story, very reminiscent of the Pertwee era, but nicely updated. It helps that the same sort of preoccupations are coming up again, i.e. looming energy crises. I say "helps", but on the whole I would rather not have a looming energy crisis, however handy it is for Doctor Who spinoffery. I also want to praise the end of episode three, which was rather heartbreaking - Colin Baker does "presumed loss of companion" very well. Speaking of Colin Baker, he and Nicola Bryant are now on twitter! I just want to draw hearts round all their tweets, all the time.
- I have decided to watch All Of Voyager From The Beginning. Because I think I would like to have proper opinions and feelings about it, and feel that I won't be able to do that unless I have seen EVERYTHING. This makes perfect sense. Already I have seen from halfway through season four to the begining of season six, and some random earlier episodes (yes, I have seen "Threshold"), and am also spoiled for basically everything. My current opinion is basically this: if I had a TARDIS I would go back in time to 1995 and tell the producers: "look, you have this program with a great premise and many things going for it, but you are going to MESS IT UP and make something FRUSTRATINGLY INCONSISTENT, and I am here to explain to you exactly what you are going to do wrong, and then you will do it PROPERLY instead", and then they would say, "fair enough, tiny angry woman, we will do as you say", and it would be GREAT.
Anyway. Yesterday I watched "Caretaker" (WHICH WAS AWESOME; it needed more Seven of Nine but then so do most things), and also "Parallax" and "Time and Again". The opinions I have now include JANEWAY IS AMAZING. Ships I am shipping include Janeway/B'Elanna (especially after "Parallax" because !!!!), Paris/Kim and Paris/B'Elanna/Kim. I am already tired of Neelix though, which is a shame. But Kes is lovely! Oh, I also liked the bit where Tom and Harry were in Quark's, it was like a bit of bonus new DS9. And the fact that in "Time and Again" Janeway got the plot stuff and Tom got the bonding with small children stuff. And the first mention of the Delaney sisters! I like them because one of them has my first name and the other one has my middle name. (I am easily pleased.)
In retrospect is it a bit worrying that we're only on episode three and have already had our first iteration of the "stuff happens, but is then wiped from the timeline and no-one will ever know that it happened" plotline, isn't it? At least they haven't yet resorted to killing off Harry Kim to prove that it is a SERIOUS alternative timeline.
...apparently I am full of new fandom enthusiasm. Or new old fandom enthusiasm, as Voyager was the first fandom I ever read fic for. *nostalgia* (It’s also the first fandom I ever posted fic for, but luckily said fic is long lost.)
One slightly weird thing about watching Voyager is that every now and then there's a bit of dialogue which is strangely familiar, and I get all confused for a second, and then go "oh, Quotable Star Trek, of course".
- Also am rewatching Doctor Who season 5. "Victory of the Daleks" is a lot better than I remember! "Cold Blood" is a lot worse. Apparently all the things I liked about that two parter were in part one. And I cannot be having with the new Silurians. DISAPPROVE. Oh well, the next four episodes are all smashing.
- Apparently not posting for two weeks = lots of pent up words waiting to escape, most of them about Voyager. Now I have used up all the words and am going to go and lie down in a darkened room with a damp cloth over my eyes. Metaphorically speaking.
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Date: 23 Mar 2011 22:34 (UTC)Eee, I only watched through Voyager for the first time fairly recently, but now I want to do it again!
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 20:44 (UTC)I didn't remember Kes making a huge impression in the few episodes I'd seen her in before, so was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked her. ♥
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 03:43 (UTC)"Cold Blood"... ehh. I don't like the Silurian stories; didn't Pertwee do it right the first time? I almost like their new look, though.
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 20:47 (UTC)The new look is fine in itself, but I don't like it as an update for the Silurians - they're too humanoid!
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 06:21 (UTC)And hurry up and listen to Gallifrey IV PLEASE!?!
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 20:54 (UTC)but Colin and Maggie are *fantastic* together always
They really are. ♥
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 12:37 (UTC)Kes is SO AWESOME.
OMG, what were your early Voyager fics like? It was my first fandom too, and I was an exclusive Janeway/Chakotay shipper, and scarily fanatical. Most of my fic from those days is gone too, thank goodness...
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 21:01 (UTC)I only ever posted one fic, some embarrassingly angsty Paris/Torres, and the file was left behind about four computers ago, the email address I used is defunct and I can't remember where the site I posted it was, so hopefully it's gone for good!
I can't understand why more people don't rabidly ship it. Especially in the early seasons.
*agrees* I was half expecting it to be canon a couple of times in "Parallax".
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 21:17 (UTC)Present-Day Me is like, pffft, no way would she pick him over Tuvok. Getting back into Trek fandom is really making me realise how much I've changed.
Aww, good old Paris/Torres! Bless them. Now that I still ship.
LOL. Unfortunately I feel like Parallax is about as good as it gets. That and the final scene of Persistence of Vision, if you pretend you don't know what their hallucinations were actually about. I do love them together though.
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 21:30 (UTC)Getting back into Trek fandom is really making me realise how much I've changed.
Me too. Not so much with DS9, because I've been watching that fairly constantly, but certainly with Voyager: I really didn't appreciate Janeway's awesomeness first time round! I'm wondering what I'll make of the episodes I've already seen when I get back to them.
Unfortunately I feel like Parallax is about as good as it gets.
Aw, that's a shame. But as high points go, it is pretty awesome!
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Date: 25 Mar 2011 19:33 (UTC)Ah, Janeway's awesomeness was what got me into Voyager in the first place! But yeah, it's so interesting to rewatch and see how your perspective has changed.
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Date: 25 Mar 2011 22:34 (UTC)Oh, awesome! I loved that site so much, I'm still sad that it's not going anymore.
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 14:11 (UTC)I have no intention of of rewatch Cold Blood though. Or the Hungry Earth. I don't think there's any reason why it would have changed in my opinion. Just ... ugh, the whole thing. Ugh.
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 21:09 (UTC)I was going "Do I want to rewatch this? It was okay ... " and then I rewatched and was all "This is fun! And dramatic! And there are hilarious Daleks wanting to offer tea!"
Yes! That's exactly what I did too! I think low expectations really help that episode. :D