aria: ([doctor who] tardis)
valinor spider party ([personal profile] aria) wrote2009-05-18 04:36 pm

links o' the day

Links o' the day:

i. Doctor Who casting spoiler. (Link url is also spoilery; don't hover if you want to remain spoiler-free.) The casting spoiler before this made me want to keysmash with glee, even though it was mostly speculative; this one looks pretty definite, and makes me want to keysmash for ... other reasons. Say it with me, kids: I'm. tired. of. Rose. I adored her in s1. On a rewatch and with some BSing about the meaning of the canon I could deal with her in s2. The incoherence of her plotline in s4 annoyed me, and I wish there'd been fewer explosions and maybe a little bit of time for her and Martha to say more than a dozen words to each other, but I did not mind her presence, because rather than standing crying on a beach, she got a Doctor of her very own! Her story is done. I admit to some faint interest if she brings human!Ten along, because I am easy for more than one Time Lord on my screen even if they are the same one, but ehh I am done. I am politely avoiding the fandom right now because the ratio of intelligent enthusiasm:wanking was starting to give me a headache, and I doubt this is going to improve matters. Ah well.

ii. Decoding the Subtext; or: With Love, S.H. [personal profile] polarisnorth linked me to it and I am awash with love and joy, because Holmes/Watson is one of my persistent and snuggly old OTPs, and I can become readily enthusiastic about it at the drop of a bowler hat. I've been distracted reading through it for an hour now, and on top of that the sheer volume and enthusiasm of the project is making me feel a lot less insane about spending all my hard-won summer free time writing a whole-series commentary on due South. (Holmes is still the Most Epic Detective. Sorry, Rays.)

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