Q:  What do you get when you cross a bad horror movie with a bad Classic Trek plot device?

A:  Why would anyone want to know?

I feel so sorry for Capaldi, this must be a nightmare for him.  As for Gattis and Moffet, four words:  Don't they look tired?

Well, that was irksome.  In addition to the other numerous problems with the script, no Isis metaphor has a chance of working if it doesn't capture the petulant outraged entitlement of the majority of the recruits.  "It's not fair" doesn't come close.  Capaldi, Coleman, and the other actors did their best with onion-skin material.

Sorry folks, it's been a busy week and I never found the time to post this first one.

The Doctor's Wife

*big goofy grin*

Called it.  *checks date*  Almost four years ago to the day I posted a fanfic about the TARDIS being a communication-impaired Goddess who stole away with a Time Lord.  Not that I'm saying Neil Gaiman stole the idea from me, or even ( Read more... )

Disclosure time:  I don't have a piracy kink.  I used to have one, as I was reared on a steady diet of Errol Flynn movies, bodice rippers, and Hornblower novels.  Then my fic brain got interested in the minutia of sea life and I discovered that sailing was like sausage making:  best viewed from a distance. But speaking as someone who went through ( Read more... )

60s haunted house movies + 90s alien conspiracy paranoia + a TARDIS = made of Win.

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This isn't going to be one of my long essays yet.  I have to wait for until I find all the pieces of my exploded brain for that.

Clearly someone told Moffet he couldn't possibly top what he had already done.

Clearly he took that as a challenge.

THANK YOU!

But for the benefit of those fans worrying over the ending...

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Sorry to be late, we all came down sick for Easter. I actually looked forward to this episode, which I haven't done anything from BBC Wales since Torchwood: Children of Earth (including, through no fault of its own, Merlin S2).

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