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[labellementeuse]

The latest two Who eps? Awesome, awesome, awesome, Martha kicked butt and Tennant was amazing as usual. I'm too fucking tired to have any other comments, BUT. I am watching this programme called "Foyle's War" at the moment.

This is this really good Beeb (ETA: uh, BBC) drama about a policeman Foyle in WWII - he and his driver, Sam (short for Samantha!) Stewart and their colleague, a wounded soldier whose name... I don't remember: anyway, it's WWII, Foyle, Sam, and One-legged Man Fight Crime. It's formatted with four episodes a season, the episodes are an hour and a half long, and it's just very good.

Also, it was written by Anthony Horowitz (yes, that Anthony Horowitz, the guy who wrote Stormbreaker.) Also, the woman who plays Sam Stewart, Honeysuckle Weeks (what a name, seriously) looks a little like Alona Tal (more when she's acting...) and a little like my friend Anna. Which is not really relevant, but hey.

ANYWAY. I was watching the third episode of the first season, and all of a sudden this guy's walking along, and I'm thinking hang on, his hair looks real familiar... HOLY SHIT, IT'S THE DOCTOR. Yes. Hi, David Tennant, how pretty you look (this was 2003, must have been pre-Who.)

And finally: kheha has written AWESOME meta on being a Young Wizards fan, which has all these beautiful wider applications about fannishness and our relationships with TPTB, and just - it's really, really awesome, and it has a couple of moments that genuinely moved me as a fan. So like, read it. Go go go.

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[wenchpixie]

The latest Who ep was a touch gobsmacking (in the good way) - certainly I though it was up there with last season's finale.


I love Foyle's War, so much :) (and it's now finished for good, which makes me most sad in the face). Honeysuckle is great (and that's her real name) - she's been in a lot of beeb things, so I hope to see her again. she's not always so cut-glass accented.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Me too. Just awesome, especially as I haven't really liked a two-parter since Empty Child/Doctor Dances.

Ah, but I'm only on the first season so I still have a lot to get through - sad though that it's finished. :(

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Family of Blood is heartwrenching. I cried when John saw what the rest of his life would have been, and I hardly ever cry at tv.

Then of course they had to ruin all the sad with that they will not grow old cheesiness and I just cracked up laughing.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I didn't cry but it was a near thing at the end there. *sniff*

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

kheha's essay kind of just made me go "whaaaaat!?" I mean, I understand all of her points, but, sorry, why is that relevant? It's fandom no matter what you do with it. It's a unique fandom in that the author is involved, but other than that...what!?

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

*splutters at you* OK, fine then, have no soul. I don't think it has to have a point, it's just a fun and exciting thing to point out. IMO, anyway. An interesting parallel. And I was pretty moved by "Wizards/devoted fans are necessary to bring a dynamic, long-lasting universe into being (one with as little entropy/loss of enthusiasm and interest as possible)." and ". We tend the worlds that belong to TPTB in all "official" senses of the term, because we are as invested in them as the Powers themselves. We remake them and share them and try to make them better and fix the rough spots, and they belong to us -- but before we can do this, we analyze the original and attempt to see and know what TPTB see and know about the characters and their motivations and the plot." Made me all happy with soppy fannish love.

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

I have no soul? I think I would've noticed...

Well, yeah, but...I still just don't...it doesn't really affect me >_>

[kheha.livejournal.com]

Hee hee -- it's all just good fun. =D I'm sorry it didn't do anything for you though!

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

Heh, oh dear, hullo :) All in good fun, right? Again, heh.