Round 8 Hour 23

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

Anyone around this hour, or are we all off watching Doctor Whoeating?

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[lolmac]

I just got back from getting lunch, getting groceries, getting coffee, and getting a little freaked out by a guy at the grocery store. I watch Doctor Who on Tuesdays, so I haven't been doing that at all today.

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What'd the guy do? And why Tuesdays? And how's fic?

[lolmac]

I was at Costco, and the guy who assists the cashier (lifting heavy stuff, boxing groceries) decided to 'help' by walking around me, reaching into my cart behind me, and unloading some of my groceries onto the belt. I neither wanted nor needed him to do this. He didn't say anything to me before he did it (such as "Need help?"), and since my purse was in the cart, it made me very jumpy. I told him that it was a bad idea to do that, but it left me feeling very cross. Costco on Saturday is a zoo in any case, so I was already a little stressed.

On a happier note, Tuesday evening is Whoday because that's when I have time. A friend of mine and I are catching up on the New Who -- as an Ancient Whovian who almost never watches current TV shows, I had missed the reboot. So we decided to catch up together, and make a weekly event of it.

Happiest of all, the fic has actually made a little progress! Maybe 500 words at most, but it's bridged one of the gaps I was falling into. And I've bestirred myself to email a couple of people whose brains I need to pick for details later in this chapter and the next one.

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

~500 words and a bridged gap is great progress. :)

That grocery guy is weird. idk what else to say about that.

I know so many new series fans that have started doing rewatches of the old series that that just sounds completely backwards to me. How far are you? Are you liking it?

[lolmac]

We're watching in order: we just watched "Daleks in Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks" last Tuesday.

I started the catch-up with rather low expectations, having torn my hair out at the movie (which I can't even regard as canon). So far, I've been very pleasantly surprised. I like the new series and the new Doctors, and I definitely like the new visual effects budget and the non-cheesy SFX.

I especially loved "The Shakespeare Code", although I giggle at the number of Ultimate Evils there seem to be still kicking around since the Dawn of Time or before. And I'm wondering just how many times the Very Last Dalek will be destroyed. Or not.

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

The Shakespeare Code is one of my favorites. It's one of the first things I think of when I just feel like watching something fun.

I wouldn't hold out for the daleks to ever really be dead this time.

[lolmac]

Yeah, kind of like Murdoc. Which wasn't a good idea either, since it quickly became idiotic.

I don't mind the Daleks being Not Dead Yet -- it's obvious that they'll never be -- it's having them repeatedly presented as being all or nearly wiped out. Done it (to death, you might say), do something else now, k guys?

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

'having torn my hair out at the movie (which I can't even regard as canon).'

I know someone who accepts Paul McGann as the canon Eighth Doctor (as, indeed, the new show seems to treat him) but considers the movie "a giant regeneration-induced hallucination"...

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

That would make the most sense. Plus then, we get to keep Paul McGann without all that other nonsense.

[lolmac]

That does make a certain amount of sense.

I recall about 5 seconds of that entire movie that had the right flavour for me . . . other than that, well, the plot of the whole dmaned thing might just about make a single 25-minute episode of the Old Who. The rest stands as a good example of what can be expected from an American production of quintessentially British material: throw buckets of money at it and miss all the good parts.

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The rest stands as a good example of what can be expected from an American production of quintessentially British material: throw buckets of money at it and miss all the good parts.

That's a perfect description. :(

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I, um... was actually editing my journal tags. Since I just figured out how to do that. And my tags really were so cluttered I could barely find anything myself.

*eyeroll*

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Well, if it helps people find fic....