they're really one and the same

I really need to go and properly start my day, but first, a drive-by link of JOY: Moffat & Matt Smith on the TARDIS, a minute-long interview clip wherein both of them apparently kind of ship Doctor/TARDIS really hard? Matt Smith knows she's a she! It sounds like they might be doing wonderful things with her sentience and their link?

All I know is that I have apparently given up pretending to not have sort of astronomically high hopes for the new series; I am beginning to suspect that it is actually the Doctor Who that is in my head. I mean, the Doctor Who that is in my head is also really specific about Time War angst, and I have no idea what direction, if any, they're going with that, but if Time War angst is Rusty's bag and we just go on to something entirely different, that would be really, really okay at this point.

TEN MORE DAAAAAYS.

(And in those ten days and change I need to write lots of due South fic! The F/K/V AU is definitely not going to be done by the time big bang drafts are due, but I hate defaulting on things, so instead I am writing the long Victoria fic! Or at least I will try to. I'm not used to being polyfannish! I can totally write reams of dS fic and be excited for the new series of Who at the same time, though.)

IN SPAAAACE

Two unrelated happy things:

i. OH MY GOD WHAT, THESE PHOTOS!! I cannot believe I have somehow missed seeing this before! It's a bunch of pictures of Stephen Colbert at the winter Olympics; he rides a moose! he waves a Canadian flag! he hangs out with Johnny Weir! he wears a Mountie uniform! HE WEARS A MOUNTIE UNIFORM WHILE RIDING A MOOSE. I think important parts of my brain just broke from the awesome.

ii. Three years ago, I started watching Babylon 5, really loved it, got through the first three seasons, and then stopped because the semester had ended and I no longer had access to my friend's DVDs. We started rewatching them together at the beginning of this semester; I've now borrowed her complete season three and, because my week is scheduled in a kind of wacky and awesome way, I'm ... pretty much mainlining the entire season tonight. I'm sure I'll sleep eventually?

( Cut for ... vague spoilers, possibly? Mostly it got long. )

I am not actually ready to have real discussions about this show yet! But apparently I needed to get my joy out there. Also I am curious if anyone knows what I'm going on about or if I'm talking excitedly into a void. (If I am talking into a void? I don't know if the show jumps space sharks at some point, and the alien prosthetics are occasionally hilarious, and the special effects are low-budget early-90s, but WATCH THIS SHOW, IT IS GREAT.)