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i. I saw New Moon yesterday! I even paid money for it, sigh. And I enjoyed the hell out of it, not least because much like Twilight it could not decide whether it wanted to be a slow-moving indy movie full of strumming guitar soundtrack and mostly concerned about an awkward quiet girl's relationship with her quiet father and awkward friends, or if it wanted to be an action-packed fast-paced supernatural thriller with lots of CGI. Unfortunately somewhere in those things lurked Meyer's awful plot and creepy subtext about how if a boy is afraid that he's going to hurt a girl, the girl should forgive him out of love and because he'd never mean to hurt her. On the other hand, they also got in the fantastic (unintentional by Meyer, I am sure) subtext of "Are you sure you can't just ...?" "Not be a werewolf? It's not a lifestyle choice! I was born like this!" A++ would like Eclipse to laugh at now.
ii. Children In Need featured the first three minutes of the Doctor Who Christmas Special, although I imagine that most everyone who's interested has probably watched it repeatedly already. This looks so promising! Of course I am going to remind myself that at the very best what I should hope for is the weird love-hate relationship I have with Last of the Time Lords, but that's all right. On first viewing it looked like the Doctor's flirtation with going off the deep end was short-lived and that at worst he's procrastinating on his inevitable death, but ... the thing that sticks with me is that, after the little chirp-chirp of car-locking the TARDIS, Ood Sigma is unimpressed and the Doctor says, "Funny? Isn't it funny? Little bit?" I had no idea why that sounded familiar and then I got flashbacks to the Master-gassing-the-Cabinet scene. efskslddfs.
The desire to write Doctor/Master fic right now is overwhelming. But I have three gift-fic exchanges I really need to do first.
iii. This is probably interesting to ... me ... but I finally got my hands on Paul Gross's Call of the Wild commentary, and even though I have already heard most of these stories (like the one about TURNBULL & CHEESE) it was still vastly entertaining and, let's be honest, I'd listen to Paul Gross read the phonebook. Um, really these are just a bunch of random notes & quotes that gave me happy.
+ "Because in part you think, oh, what if [the Rays] don't get along, this could be horrible, what if they hate each other? But it actually turned out really well, and it was quite a lot of fun, and I was sort of thinking, it's too bad that we couldn't go on and make another season of the show and have both of them in it." f;dskdsjf. dfslkjds. wait. words? no, never mind. fdsjkdsjds. (Not that I ever felt guilty about dS fic, because I have the vague impression that it's sanctioned more than most fandoms are, but -- dude, way to validate my OT3.)
+ "The details of plots are really not my strength. And it's very interesting to be watching this now a few years later and ... I have no idea, really, what's going on. But then, that was actually true while we were shooting it." YES PAUL WE KNOW. <333 I think really he should just have been banned from writing two-parters, because he does well enough with "Nuclear terrorists on a train/nuclear terrorists in a courthouse/let's TORCH THE WHOLE SET/this seems like maybe a good time to make out with all of the attractive regulars," but he should probably have made someone else do the actual case plots and just stuck to the Fraser-and-Ray dialogue. Anyway, I guess this explains why CotW MAKES NO SENSE.
+ One of their original ideas for the finale was to bring Victoria back. I am kind of desperately glad they didn't go with that, in large part because the Victoria episodes were a huge tonal shift in the show and you'd want to know what happens after, and also because I suspect they would have tried to cram way too much in, especially if they were also having Vecchio return. I trust due South to do good storytelling in small doses, and that would've been far too many threads.
+ Re: Martha Burns playing Caroline Fraser: "I should probably go into therapy for that." I -- I feel strangely better about Martha playing his mum now.
+ "This would be one of Callum's on-the-spot inventions. 'Dolphin boy.' Nobody ever really understood what that meant. But he did. And that's -- that's really what's important in the long run." The tone of sheer bemusement in which he says this has me laughing like mad. DOLPHIN BOY. <3
+ And the epilogue is apparently supposed to be cheerfully open-ended! Maybe he meant the hand-of-Franklin part, but it really sounded as though everyone's endings are as up-in-the-air as you like. Your optional epilogue is Paul Gross-approved. \o/
Them sledding off into the sunset still makes me tear up every goddamn time. Heh.
ii. Children In Need featured the first three minutes of the Doctor Who Christmas Special, although I imagine that most everyone who's interested has probably watched it repeatedly already. This looks so promising! Of course I am going to remind myself that at the very best what I should hope for is the weird love-hate relationship I have with Last of the Time Lords, but that's all right. On first viewing it looked like the Doctor's flirtation with going off the deep end was short-lived and that at worst he's procrastinating on his inevitable death, but ... the thing that sticks with me is that, after the little chirp-chirp of car-locking the TARDIS, Ood Sigma is unimpressed and the Doctor says, "Funny? Isn't it funny? Little bit?" I had no idea why that sounded familiar and then I got flashbacks to the Master-gassing-the-Cabinet scene. efskslddfs.
The desire to write Doctor/Master fic right now is overwhelming. But I have three gift-fic exchanges I really need to do first.
iii. This is probably interesting to ... me ... but I finally got my hands on Paul Gross's Call of the Wild commentary, and even though I have already heard most of these stories (like the one about TURNBULL & CHEESE) it was still vastly entertaining and, let's be honest, I'd listen to Paul Gross read the phonebook. Um, really these are just a bunch of random notes & quotes that gave me happy.
+ "Because in part you think, oh, what if [the Rays] don't get along, this could be horrible, what if they hate each other? But it actually turned out really well, and it was quite a lot of fun, and I was sort of thinking, it's too bad that we couldn't go on and make another season of the show and have both of them in it." f;dskdsjf. dfslkjds. wait. words? no, never mind. fdsjkdsjds. (Not that I ever felt guilty about dS fic, because I have the vague impression that it's sanctioned more than most fandoms are, but -- dude, way to validate my OT3.)
+ "The details of plots are really not my strength. And it's very interesting to be watching this now a few years later and ... I have no idea, really, what's going on. But then, that was actually true while we were shooting it." YES PAUL WE KNOW. <333 I think really he should just have been banned from writing two-parters, because he does well enough with "Nuclear terrorists on a train/nuclear terrorists in a courthouse/let's TORCH THE WHOLE SET/this seems like maybe a good time to make out with all of the attractive regulars," but he should probably have made someone else do the actual case plots and just stuck to the Fraser-and-Ray dialogue. Anyway, I guess this explains why CotW MAKES NO SENSE.
+ One of their original ideas for the finale was to bring Victoria back. I am kind of desperately glad they didn't go with that, in large part because the Victoria episodes were a huge tonal shift in the show and you'd want to know what happens after, and also because I suspect they would have tried to cram way too much in, especially if they were also having Vecchio return. I trust due South to do good storytelling in small doses, and that would've been far too many threads.
+ Re: Martha Burns playing Caroline Fraser: "I should probably go into therapy for that." I -- I feel strangely better about Martha playing his mum now.
+ "This would be one of Callum's on-the-spot inventions. 'Dolphin boy.' Nobody ever really understood what that meant. But he did. And that's -- that's really what's important in the long run." The tone of sheer bemusement in which he says this has me laughing like mad. DOLPHIN BOY. <3
+ And the epilogue is apparently supposed to be cheerfully open-ended! Maybe he meant the hand-of-Franklin part, but it really sounded as though everyone's endings are as up-in-the-air as you like. Your optional epilogue is Paul Gross-approved. \o/
Them sledding off into the sunset still makes me tear up every goddamn time. Heh.
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I approve heartily of this interpretation, because the only thing that can make Mormon-abstinence-propaganda literary Cheetos like Twilight more hilarious is SUBTEXTUAL HOMOLUST. (Y)
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Sigh. My love for this man is the supermassive black hole of fannish heartage. You don't realise you're falling into it until you're nearly at the centre and then BANG. Spaghettified.
Also, yay support for the "the epilogue is Fraser's podfic" theory of my heart! I still maintain that he's telling the truth about himself and Ray, even if the Hand of Franklin thing is really a metaphor for the exploration of their adorable dorky love for each other.
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even if the Hand of Franklin thing is really a metaphor for the exploration of their adorable dorky love for each other.
Eee, yes. And that reminds me, during Fraser and Ray's first night in Canada when they're around the campfire, 'Northwest Passage' starts getting worked into the incidental music and PG starts waxing poetical about how that song was sort of the theme of the episode and by extension the show, how it's all melancholic wistfulness and a sense of reaching for something, which sl;kfdsksd. I think this dovetails nicely with your theory of what the metaphor is? :D
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Eeeee, that is the cutest and most excellent thing ever! I think this is the show trying to tell us something, Aria. Paul Gross loves his fans and wants them to
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Ahahaha. Exactly. (He said a few vague general things about fans, in fact, all of them positive, which is especially nice considering the weird way I've been seeing a lot of producers treat their fanbase.)
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Ohgod, Aria, ohgod, I want that Doctor/Master fic like burning.
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Ahaha, I know, right. /o\
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Also, JACOB: not hot with his shirt off! TOO MUCH MUSCLE. But his face was fucking gorgeous. I want to see him suck so much dick.
Um. NO SLEEP. BOYS. idk! *flails flails*
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JACOB, I WOULD TREAT YOU RIGHT, NOT LIKE BELLA. I WOULD KISS YOU FOR REALS.
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(Your brain, by the way, wins. :D)