I just saw a picture of Eleven in Ten's clothes and got all feclempt. SRSLY! I didn't have this much trouble when Four regenerated and I was about have my current age when it happened! I am getting so pathetic in my old age. I can't believe I got so attached to Ten. Cripes.

She wrote this for me as a gift. :D

Dr. Who Adventures by A. McLeod

Once upon a time there was a machine called the TARDIS. It travelled through time and space. It carried two people, The Doctor and his companion Rose.

One day Rose was eager to meet the Doctor's granddaughter Susan. "Oh Doctor," said Rose, "When are we going to get there?"

"I don't know." said the Doctor, "I'm pretty sure soon." Then he saw his granddaughter Susan. "Susan!" he cried.

"Grandfather!" cried Susan.

"Oh my gosh, there she is, Susan!"

When they landed Susan ran to the door of the TARDIS. "Grandfather! Grandfather! Are you there?"

The door opened. Out came the Doctor. He hugged Susan and cried "Oh Susan, I've really missed you!"

"I've missed you too, Grandfather!" said Susan. "You look different, what happened?"

"Oh, regeneration I guess." he said. "I just came here to ask you if you wanted to join me on more of my journeys. So do you want to?"

"Sure!" said Susan.

"OK! This is my companion Rose. Rose!" he called. Rose came out.

"Oh!" said Rose, "You must be Susan!"

"Yes!" said Susan, "You must be Rose!"

"Yes!" said Rose.

"I'm coming with you and my Grandfather." said Susan.

And they lived happily ever after...with Susan.

::grammar and spelling added by me LOL:: This is what happens when Disney meets Who in an 8 year old brain. Isn't it adorable?

Srsly, I don't care WHAT you like, these guys have made fanpods of it. I'm listening to a miniseries of the ORIGINAL Battlestar Galactica these guys made. They did a fanpod of Escape from New York for crying out loud! GO! LISTEN! NOW!

Since I seem to be rather in the minority for Fan Who media, unless it's fic or vids, I'm just going to post stuff here and anyone who notices can check them out and pass them along if the want.

First, an actually not too bad movie, with a dude making a valiant effort at portraying Ten. Didn't do a great job, but nice try.

Doctor Who: Victimsight It's got the Rani, how can you go wrong? LOL

And a podcast that I've been enjoying. Also in the Ten timeline, but it would seem that they've completely rewritten Ten. Lots of Classic and NuWho references and characters, though.

Broken Sea - Doctor Who They seem to be leading up to either bringing back or unveiling a plot to cover up the continuing existence of the Time Lords. Interesting.

If I come across more, I'll put em up. :D

1. If you're on my friends list, I want to know 35 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine.
2. Comment here with your answers and repost the questionnaire on your own journal.



01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
02) What was your dream growing up?
03) What talent do you wish you had?
04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
05) Favorite vegetable?
06) What was the last book you read?
07) What zodiac sign are you?
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
09) Worst Habit?
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
11) What is your favorite sport?
12) Do you have a pessimistic or optimistic attitude?
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
16) Do you have any pets?
17) If we met randomly, where would it be?
18) What was your first impression of me?
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22) What color eyes do you have?
23) Ever been arrested?
24) Bottle or can soda?
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
26) What's your favorite place to hang out at?
27) Do you believe in ghosts?
28) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
29) Do you swear a lot?
30) Biggest pet peeve?
31) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
32) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
33) Favorite and least favorite food?
34) What's your strongest belief?
35) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

So I finally watched the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie yesterday. I've been putting it off because I've not heard good things about it, particularly my most favorite of all X-Men characters Remi LeBeau (aka Gambit). Srsly. Before hubby trashed my collection, I had Uncanny X-Men 36, the first appearance of Gambit. I had the three part special series on his backstory with Bella Donna. I'm a Gambit Fangirl! I was happy that the guy they picked to play him was blonde-ish and nice looking. I was happy that they made good use of his Mutant Power. A bit different from the comic, but really cool, nonetheless. I'm not happy that someone thought him having red eyes all the time was too creepy so he only has them when he's "charging up". That's annoying.

HOWEVER, I am PISSED OFF about the fact that they didn't portray him as a New Orleans-er (I apologize, I have no idea what citizens of that fine city call themselves). Gambit was brought up in a deep-rooted Cajun household, he has an accent that is almost incomprehensible! To have him portrayed as a smart-assed card sharp with a vanilla midwestern accent is as close to sacrilege as one can come in the comic-verse. URGH! And it's only going to get worse with Disney taking over. It just really makes me want to cry. Really.

Just when I thought they were going to try and "sneak" Nichols in as a "Bobby-clone" it seems that I was proven wrong. They're wheeling him out with a big ol' "Bobby Clone" sign around his neck! Srsly! After the guy makes a determination on ethnicity based on English syntax in a letter Alex says "He's starting to remind me of someone" and Ross says "This one's taller". Like they're interchangeable!

AND THEN! In CLASSIC Bobby style, this guy brings the Dad into the hostage situation to talk down the brainwashed daughter with the motion switch bomb belt on. While trying to save her she gets shot by the obligatory FBI sniper, he ends up splattered in her blood holding her dead body up so the bomb doesn't go off, THEN making a disparaging remark about fathers in a trying-not-to-act-crazy crazy-eyed fashion.

Honest to christ, Dick, if you're gonna try and replace Bobby like a burned out light-bulb, just be honest about it and tell us so we can start the "You SUCK" letter writing campaign. As much as it may pain you to admit it, we really are going to notice. ::gibbsslap::

ooooo there are so many good ones it's wicked tough to choose. Honestly though, I have to stick with the original Sire, Dracula. Either Frank Langella's or Gary Oldman's. Although I wouldn't kick Jasper Cullen out, either. hee

Cause she really is and always will be. :D

On the off chance that there are any Whovians on the face of the earth that haven't seen this, I thought I'd put it up cause it's just off the chain. LOL

I'd love to see them get McGann & Eccleston together to actually make this.

Cause I'm now feeling 6 years old and pissy. LOL

There was discussion on one of these lists about the placement of the Doctor's hand in the promo pics. Someone had mentioned that it was only Rose that he more "intimately" positioned his hand in his defensive posture. I racked my brain trying to think of any I'd seen with other companions where he did. After much Googleing, I feel confident that yes, Rose is the only one with that kind of intimate contact. I present the following visual, empirical data.


( Follow the Evidence )

So I'm keeping the smug grin. :)

weeeeeeelll...year .5. I finished up the last half of Season 9 yesterday. I always thought that since Laurence Fishburne was going to be the replacement, I wouldn't completely write it off. I love LF, always have. But I do think I went into the Post Grissom episodes with much higher expectations than was truely fair.

Ray Langston started out very...ishy. Eager and driven, with the same drive for truth and justice Grissom had, but really not much character to speak of. LF has always been an understated actor, which is something the team needs with Nicky and Catherine in charge and the new girl being a psycho. But toward the end, starting with "Mascara" he began to peek out as a full bodied character. The emotional explosion at the end was perfect. Then his wonderful relationship with Doc Robbins; the fact that he loves Original Blues and motorcycles, we can start to relate to him as a person. I'm slightly ashamed to admit that I missed Grissom just the tiniest bit less when Ray went off on Aeschylus. LOL

The final episode where he goes wandering off on his own after getting a lecture from the new girl and Catherine about being reckless at crime scenes really did have me annoyed at first. I've had a burr under my sadle about that kind of lack of continuity since "Gum Drops" when Sara walks into a basement full of weed and is surprised to find it. I was livid! LOL Either the cops didn't clear the basement, or they missed about 10 tons of cultivated weed plants. But then I remembered, that Grissom did that kind of thing all the time. The season finale of Season 1 where he would have gotten himself killed if it weren't for Catherine. I do bemoan the fact that they are starting to have the CSIs be more "cop-like". Following the cops into the scene with guns out before it's cleared. Ray killed someone after how many months on the job, Grissom only drew his weapon once or twice in his whole career. Half the time he never even carried it.

Things I DO like. Hodges/Wendy: GeekLove v2.0. The Trek Convention?! Epic Adorkable! And Nicky going off to seminars because "we need a new Bugman". Awwwww. Nicky will make an awesome Bugman Jr. Brave thing that, after The Coffin of Fire Ants. All in all, I'll probably stil watch, just not first run. Probably I'll record and watch over the summer like I am this year.

Oy, in French. Well it's been 20+ years since THAT class. LOL J'aime du croissant, du the, et Alexander Dumas. :D

I watched the whole thing in one sitting yesterday. ::phew:: I remember someone asked early on something like is this show meant to make people hate or mad at the Doctor. I assume because he wasn't there to "fix it". Honestly, my biggest question coming out of this was is this show meant to make people hate the human race? I actually sat there yelling at the TV, asking if NO ONE felt the least bit morally bankrupt for sitting around that table making those kinds of decisions without even taking a couple of seconds to agonize over it. They steamrollered over the fact that they set out to destroy the one group of people who could help them stop it because they wanted to cover up their complicity in the earlier atrocity with rationalizations about global overpopulation and the citizens who were a drain on civilization.

The options the government discussed weren't the only ones available to them. It wasn't an either/or situation. They were just the only ones the government deigned consider. And sadly that scenario, the government's response, was the most believable/likely to happen in real life part of the entire plot. The one thing that did kind of surprise me...well, two things actually...1.) Rather than go out and find Jack/Torchwood and bring them in or try to help them, Frobisher went home and annihilated his family and B.) NO ONE released the video. If they had, Britain would have been annihilated both from within and without.

Apparently there are quite a few folks hating on Jack for what he did. Jack had no choices by the time he could actually do anything. He spent most of the time shot, blown up, encased in concrete or locked up. He lost a WHOLE lot of people he let himself care about in a short amount of time then had to decide between all those children (knowing the 456 would just come back in another few years wanting more) or killing his grandkid to save everyone else. He already felt like he started the mess in the first place with the 12 kids in 1965. I'd be willing to bet anything that Jack never wanted to die more in his life than he did that day. I can't hate Jack for what he did. He's not written as an omniscient, omnipotent being. He's written as a flawed person trying his best to do better.

This was a rather intense series and character/culture changing episode. I've heard that they are going to have a Torchwood Series 4 most likely, but I wonder if RTD didn't write himself into a corner similar to the end of Series 4 Dr. Who. He has Plot Escalation Syndrome as a showrunner. Once you reach Max Drama Saturation Capacity, particularly if you do it in 3 or 4 seasons, you leave yourself no where to go. I can only imagine that's one of the reasons he left Dr. Who. I sincerely hope there will be a big screen Dr. Who, though, because escalation syndrome isn't as debilitating on the big screen.

I wonder where they would go with Torchwood on BBC 1 at this point, though. The HUB is a big ass hole in the ground, the only members of Torchwood 3 left are Jack and Gwen and Jack is pretty much catatonic for all intents and purposes. The government spent most of the last series trying to establish them as terrorists and their contact in the government murder/suicided his family. I can't honestly see Jack coming back all gung-ho to put the team back together nor Gwen now that she has a kid. And starting Torchwood over from scratch in it's second series on BBC 1 would be self-immolation. Jack and Gwen are the central figures and the show hasn't been around long enough for people to be so attached to the show itself that it can survive a full cast replacement. CSI lost three main characters in the last two seasons and going into it's 10th season it still took a number hit because of it. I hope RTD hasn't gotten the mistaken idea that HE is the reason the show's gotten so popular.

I've watched LO:CI since episode 1. Truthfully, I've watched the whole franchise since episode 1, but CI is my favorite. I LURVE Bobby. I love the way his brain works, I love his Asperger's-ish personality, his internal struggles and demons and most of all his passion. It's always there, brewing...simmering. He's always on the ragged edge. Well, OK, that's the Old Bobby. Or should I say Previous Bobby. The dead-eyed lump I've seen while catching up on Season 8 is the Old Bobby.

When VDO started having the health problems and he had to cut back on the schedule, I was sad, but when I heard they were bringing Mikey back, it started to sound interesting. I loved Mikey in the Flagship and while I had my doubts about having someone polarly opposite to Bobby in almost every respect, I was willing to give it a chance. Granted that first year was rough because they had to lash-up scripts that were meant for Goren & Eames and they had to bring in Barack to be the "Bobby" character. But they pulled it off. Barack rocked the "brainy" partner role without being Bobby-ish, and Mikey was just Mikey. The shows they did together were some of my favorites of the series.

Now I understand where they took Bobby last season. I get that he's supposed to be beaten down and recovering from extreme emotional trauma. But this flat, bland, barely acknowledging let alone showing interest in the world around him version of my Bobby is just wrong. It's useless. There's really no way to get around the fact that the show revolves around Bobby. Alex is great, but, well, you know, she's best as part of the partnership. Then Noth decides he can make a career out of Sex in the City and Mikey's gone again leaving the showrunners with a dilemma. Get another Councilman Punching, Pool Cue wielding Yin to Bobby's Yang, or try to duplicate the existing partnership.

Sadly, they chose the later. I suppose it's less work all things considered. But really the character that Goldblum is playing is just Previous Bobby. All props to him, he does it VERY well. It ticks me off a bit that I enjoy his episodes more than VDO's, actually. They're even written better! GAH! When I saw the first Bobby episode being two brothers with a schizophrenic mother I automatically groaned Gods Not AGAIN! This new guy even has Father/Authority Issues! OI! I just don't get it. Unless Goldblum is going to take over and VDO is going to retire it's gawdawful redundant.

AND Wheeler is Soap Queen with Indited Husband and Single Preggers Working Woman. At least with Barack, we had a balance of IQ Equity. Bobby was the "smart one" in the first partnership and Barack in the second. Now we're back to the guys being smart out-front characters and the girls holding the coats. grrrrrrr It's so ridiculous. ::headdesk::

Shockin innit? hee hee

Which Doctor Who are you?


this quiz was made by Auntie Krizu(:>)

Now we all know that Continuity in Dr. Who is blatantly a BIG Ball of Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey stuff. As in all productions and fandoms there is Canon, Soft Canon and Fannon. Traditionally Canon is anything that has made it onto film. Soft Canon is anything in alternate approved media (books, radio, comics, etc.) Fannon is Fan interpretation of the previous two. In an ideal world, Canon should be inviolate. With Dr. Who, where they were making it up as they went along from the get go, Canon has been a bit more frangible. The Paradox that was "The Two Doctors" created an entire Soft Canon/Fanon Season 6B to explain it. And after 40 years, different production teams, actors etc. one must allow for there to be some discrepencies that can't be easily smoothed over.

HOWEVER!! I saw a copy of "The Enemy Inside" which is advertised by BBC as the Enhanced Edition. What it actually was is the original '96 McGann movie run through a blender. They got the last fellow who played the Master in the old series to do a lead in piece pleading for his life, they skipped the bit where the Doctor talks about and prepares for bringing the Master with him back to Gallifrey. When he regenerates in the morgue they use Murray Gold's "Doctor's Theme". They chop out (and I use that word intentionally because they might as well have used a rusty spoon to remove them) the first kiss with Grace and any mention of the doctor being half-human.

Now I watched the movie when it first aired, and I recently got the original version and have watched it a few times. I LOVE the movie, not because it's objectively a cinematic masterpiece, but because it delves into the doctor as a person, it addresses a new, open incarnation full of life and passion. And Paul McGann can hunt me down and slap me upside the head, but I REALLY like the hair and kit. Sorry, Paul. I was quite pleased to see him snoggin a bit and I wasn't totally offended by the half human thing. meh, it kind of makes sense in a way. What I do mind is the BBC taking this movie which has aired and been seen by thousands and thousands of Whovians, then going in with a weedwacker to take out the bits they no longer like. It's CANON NOW! Chop it up all you want, it doesn't make it less canon. Accept it, work around it, fix it if you feel you need to, but for cripes sake don't fuck with Canon. It's just not done. This isn't 1984 you know. Corrections of facts are doubleplus ungood! grrrrr