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I keep meaning to post about things. Here are some of the things I have been meaning to post about:
- The Aims Vid Album project! Vidding (almost) all the songs on Vienna Teng's amazing new album. (I may OR MAY NOT be making a vid for this. *dons hat of mystery, flees into the night*)
- I have embarked on a mini Doctor Who Squee Restoration project! (After having disliked Night of the Doctor...) So far it has been TREMENDOUSLY SUCCESSFUL and has comprised:
1) Going to a talk last Friday at the shiny new J3 Library about writing Doctor Who spin-off stuff. It was a very convivial evening, featuring Cavan Scott, Nick Walters and David Llewellyn, and covering lots of topics, including how they all got started, the different constraints of writing spin-off fiction versus other types of fiction, where Doctor Who falls on the SF-fantasy continuum ("IT IS NOT FANTASY", said Nick Walters) and so on. There were lots of women in the audience, which was excellent; I think the questions were exclusively from women, including one from a little girl in a Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, who is clearly growing up to be a woman of taste and discernment. Also there was a Dalek. (The Dalek did not ask any questions.)
2) Listening to Seasons of Fear, one of my favourite audios, and the first one where I really got why Charley is so popular. (I've never DISliked her, but she often doesn't quite click for me.) I love that the day is ultimately saved by one man, and a future version of the villain at that, deciding he'd rather care about people than have power. ♥ The dialogue is incredibly quotable and funny, and the Mithraic ceremony as typical Anglican service stuff made me laugh very much. And I would love to hear more about the Doctor and Edith. ♥
3) Watching Battlefield. I LOVE BATTLEFIELD SO MUCH. I mean, it's not PERFECT, but it's really close, and it's really trying. ♥ ♥ ♥ My reactions to it are mostly just of the order of ACE SEVEN ANCELYN/BAMBERA SHOU YUING BRIG I LOVE EVERYTHING, and also quoting bits of dialogue all over twitter, but I do have a few more coherent things I liked:
a) the Brigadier and Doris are SO CUTE right at the beginning, in the garden centre. Aw.
b) I love the little scene where Bambera is looking at one of the dead knights and Ancelyn, obliviously, says that it was a good battle.
c) BAMBERA INNA 2CV WITH A MACHINE GUN, BEST FOREVER.
d) Bambera and the Brigadier both acknowledging each other's Brigadierness without making a big fuss about which of them is Top Brigadier.
e) "Here, you be king." OH ACE. (I need fic of Ace and Faiza Hussain (off of comics) comparing notes on technically being King Of All The Britons.)
f) Mordred uses exactly the same "look me in the eyes, end my life" bluff on Seven that Seven used on someone threatening him in "The Happiness Patrol", I love this.
g) I totally get why Aaronovitch isn't a fan of the last scene - it is a little clunky - but I love it anyway. :D
4) Reading Shada, which was a joy, but I shall save talking about it for my next monthly books and comics post instead, because I like it when things are in the right place.
5) Watching The Science of Doctor Who. Sadly I wasn't really in the mood to appreciate the science, but I loved the linking scenes with Eleventy and Brian Cox, in which Matt Smith continues to have chemistry with everyone. ♥ (Which I think is one of the things I like about him: not the shippiness per se, just the general sense that he genuinely cares about and connects with people. He's never met anyone who isn't important, after all.) I was a little annoyed that all the Celebrity Volunteers were male, though the Doctor specifying that it was a little GIRL in the audience who was going to change the world made up for it somewhat.
6) Listening to Fanfare for the Common Men, since it was on the radio, which didn't knock my socks off or anything but was still pretty enjoyable. ♥
...even by my standards that's quite a bit of Who in a fairly short time. And I have packed the next EDA off my EDA pile to read at and on the way home from the Doctor Who Celebration on Friday. :D (It's The Sleep of Reason; I know nothing about it going in, which is rare.)
- The Aims Vid Album project! Vidding (almost) all the songs on Vienna Teng's amazing new album. (I may OR MAY NOT be making a vid for this. *dons hat of mystery, flees into the night*)
- I have embarked on a mini Doctor Who Squee Restoration project! (After having disliked Night of the Doctor...) So far it has been TREMENDOUSLY SUCCESSFUL and has comprised:
1) Going to a talk last Friday at the shiny new J3 Library about writing Doctor Who spin-off stuff. It was a very convivial evening, featuring Cavan Scott, Nick Walters and David Llewellyn, and covering lots of topics, including how they all got started, the different constraints of writing spin-off fiction versus other types of fiction, where Doctor Who falls on the SF-fantasy continuum ("IT IS NOT FANTASY", said Nick Walters) and so on. There were lots of women in the audience, which was excellent; I think the questions were exclusively from women, including one from a little girl in a Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, who is clearly growing up to be a woman of taste and discernment. Also there was a Dalek. (The Dalek did not ask any questions.)
2) Listening to Seasons of Fear, one of my favourite audios, and the first one where I really got why Charley is so popular. (I've never DISliked her, but she often doesn't quite click for me.) I love that the day is ultimately saved by one man, and a future version of the villain at that, deciding he'd rather care about people than have power. ♥ The dialogue is incredibly quotable and funny, and the Mithraic ceremony as typical Anglican service stuff made me laugh very much. And I would love to hear more about the Doctor and Edith. ♥
3) Watching Battlefield. I LOVE BATTLEFIELD SO MUCH. I mean, it's not PERFECT, but it's really close, and it's really trying. ♥ ♥ ♥ My reactions to it are mostly just of the order of ACE SEVEN ANCELYN/BAMBERA SHOU YUING BRIG I LOVE EVERYTHING, and also quoting bits of dialogue all over twitter, but I do have a few more coherent things I liked:
a) the Brigadier and Doris are SO CUTE right at the beginning, in the garden centre. Aw.
b) I love the little scene where Bambera is looking at one of the dead knights and Ancelyn, obliviously, says that it was a good battle.
c) BAMBERA INNA 2CV WITH A MACHINE GUN, BEST FOREVER.
d) Bambera and the Brigadier both acknowledging each other's Brigadierness without making a big fuss about which of them is Top Brigadier.
e) "Here, you be king." OH ACE. (I need fic of Ace and Faiza Hussain (off of comics) comparing notes on technically being King Of All The Britons.)
f) Mordred uses exactly the same "look me in the eyes, end my life" bluff on Seven that Seven used on someone threatening him in "The Happiness Patrol", I love this.
g) I totally get why Aaronovitch isn't a fan of the last scene - it is a little clunky - but I love it anyway. :D
4) Reading Shada, which was a joy, but I shall save talking about it for my next monthly books and comics post instead, because I like it when things are in the right place.
5) Watching The Science of Doctor Who. Sadly I wasn't really in the mood to appreciate the science, but I loved the linking scenes with Eleventy and Brian Cox, in which Matt Smith continues to have chemistry with everyone. ♥ (Which I think is one of the things I like about him: not the shippiness per se, just the general sense that he genuinely cares about and connects with people. He's never met anyone who isn't important, after all.) I was a little annoyed that all the Celebrity Volunteers were male, though the Doctor specifying that it was a little GIRL in the audience who was going to change the world made up for it somewhat.
6) Listening to Fanfare for the Common Men, since it was on the radio, which didn't knock my socks off or anything but was still pretty enjoyable. ♥
...even by my standards that's quite a bit of Who in a fairly short time. And I have packed the next EDA off my EDA pile to read at and on the way home from the Doctor Who Celebration on Friday. :D (It's The Sleep of Reason; I know nothing about it going in, which is rare.)