it's not every day your show turns fifty
Monday, 8 July 2013 21:12
I really need to stop reading speculation about the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary episode, it's only making me grumpy, and there will be time enough to be grumpy later on if any of it turns out to be true.
In other Doctor Who anniversary shenanigans, I watched Dimensions in Time on Saturday night and I actually kind of loved it! (It helped that it wasn't nearly as long as I thought it was going to be.) Thirteen companions in as many minutes! Basically that is all it takes to keep me happy. ♥ (OK, some of them weren't that well written, but by the time I'd got over the YAY of seeing them, there wasn't time for me to be annoyed about that before we'd moved onto something else.)
In even more Doctor Who anniversaryness, I have a ticket for the Friday of the Doctor Who Celebration! Is anyone else going that day? (Process basically went "that looks fun. I'll see if anyone else is going. Other people are going! I want to go too! ALL THE TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT WHAT IS THIS I MUST HAVE ONE. *refreshrefreshrefresh* YES A WILD FRIDAY TICKET APPEARS!") And then I went out at lunchtime and accidentally bought a dress that might work for a Clara cosplay. The neckline is all wrong (and, er, possibly indecent, since although it said size 8 on the hanger, it turned out to be size 16), but that would mean I could wear the amazing Dalek necklace that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_smut_fairy made for me. Hurray!
On a completely different note, I've been watching She-Ra (thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
silly_cleo kindly lending me her DVDs ♥)! I've not seen much of it yet (partly because I fell into Orphan Black, which is really awesome and you should watch it if you haven't already) but I love it a lot. One thing I especially like, aside from the obvious things like all the superpowered women and the way her horse turns into a RAINBOW UNICORN, is that her transformation slogan is "by the honour of Greyskull". I feel like women don't often get to fight for honour in fantasy: their bodies are often the battlegrounds, and their violation, destruction or seduction becomes the symbol of an offense to their associated man's honour, but they rarely get to be active defenders of their own or their family's honour. It may, of course, just be that I haven't read enough fantasy...
And I am still not over seeing He-Man's transformation sequence. O.o
In other Doctor Who anniversary shenanigans, I watched Dimensions in Time on Saturday night and I actually kind of loved it! (It helped that it wasn't nearly as long as I thought it was going to be.) Thirteen companions in as many minutes! Basically that is all it takes to keep me happy. ♥ (OK, some of them weren't that well written, but by the time I'd got over the YAY of seeing them, there wasn't time for me to be annoyed about that before we'd moved onto something else.)
In even more Doctor Who anniversaryness, I have a ticket for the Friday of the Doctor Who Celebration! Is anyone else going that day? (Process basically went "that looks fun. I'll see if anyone else is going. Other people are going! I want to go too! ALL THE TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT WHAT IS THIS I MUST HAVE ONE. *refreshrefreshrefresh* YES A WILD FRIDAY TICKET APPEARS!") And then I went out at lunchtime and accidentally bought a dress that might work for a Clara cosplay. The neckline is all wrong (and, er, possibly indecent, since although it said size 8 on the hanger, it turned out to be size 16), but that would mean I could wear the amazing Dalek necklace that
the_smut_fairy made for me. Hurray!On a completely different note, I've been watching She-Ra (thanks to
silly_cleo kindly lending me her DVDs ♥)! I've not seen much of it yet (partly because I fell into Orphan Black, which is really awesome and you should watch it if you haven't already) but I love it a lot. One thing I especially like, aside from the obvious things like all the superpowered women and the way her horse turns into a RAINBOW UNICORN, is that her transformation slogan is "by the honour of Greyskull". I feel like women don't often get to fight for honour in fantasy: their bodies are often the battlegrounds, and their violation, destruction or seduction becomes the symbol of an offense to their associated man's honour, but they rarely get to be active defenders of their own or their family's honour. It may, of course, just be that I haven't read enough fantasy...And I am still not over seeing He-Man's transformation sequence. O.o