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I feel it is time for another flail post. So much going on this year that a fan can look forward to. Where to begin?
Star Trek:
- I have preordered and paid the new 1:6 scale QMX Kirk and Spock. Now I just need to wait for them to arrive in July. The story behind those is wonderful. In 50 years of Star Trek no company ever made 1:6 scale high ( Read more... )
Star Trek:
- I have preordered and paid the new 1:6 scale QMX Kirk and Spock. Now I just need to wait for them to arrive in July. The story behind those is wonderful. In 50 years of Star Trek no company ever made 1:6 scale high ( Read more... )
And I don't even know whether David Tennant still is in the third Broadchurch season?
No one has officially said he is, and I can't remember David saying anything about season 3 (the fimling dates come from Olivia Colman) but everyone, including me, assumes he is there. He's one of the two main characters! I can't imagine Broadchurch without him. And I don't feel like his story has ended - the taxi driver has asked him where did he want to go, and he didn't answer. We know he can be a policeman again after the surgery, we know he's "done his penance" but what he's going to do? Where does he belong? When this story ends, I want to know he's going to be fine.
I guess it will take till last year till be see anything of these filmings though?
Yes, which is very frustrating :) No Doctor Who this year, except a Christmas episode, no more Sherlock this year, no Broadchurch this year. What am I supposed to be doing until then?
Not all conventions allow filming though, so I hope we will be lucky.
I know and frankly, I don't understand the rule. It's supposed to prevent fans from just watching it online instead of spending money on tickets but if you can go, if you can afford it and it's close to where you live, of course you'll go! Fans would always like to meet their idols in person. And for people who can't go, the records work as an advert and make the event more popular. There's a chance more people would be interested in the event next year. They would share the links and spread the info about the event. It looks like a win-win scenario to me.
Other cons even film it themselves, in good HD quality and put it on youtube.
And that's a good behaviour to follow!
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Is there actually Broadchurch fic? I'll have to check it out. To read some fans speculations where it could go next. Some are very talented.
Speaking of David, did you know about this? http://www.david-tennant-news.com/richard-ii-american-debut/
(And I meant take till next year of course but you figured it out ;) )
As for the conventions, at the British cons it always has been forbidden and the reason they gave to us was that the guests shall be able to relax, and have fun, and not watch what they are saying all the time in fear it ends up on the internet. I can understand that but at least they should do their own filming and cut a DVD then.
Some American cons even had a way for you to watch the panel live in the minute it happened but you had to sign up for a little fee (10 Dollars). It was also watchable afterwards. So there are many ways.
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There are some Broadchurch fics but I don't know how many of them have an actual plot. I've only read some short ones with Alec and Ellie, I mean those when they're not a couple. A big number of people seem to ship them...
As for the conventions, at the British cons it always has been forbidden and the reason they gave to us was that the guests shall be able to relax, and have fun, and not watch what they are saying all the time in fear it ends up on the internet.
I see. I'd like to know what actors think about that, do they really mind being recorded at the conventions?
Some American cons even had a way for you to watch the panel live in the minute it happened but you had to sign up for a little fee (10 Dollars).
If I remember correctly, Comic Con has done that recently? I think I've read about it somewhere... It is a way, I suppose.
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In the two years after Sherlock jumped from the building, I have read some great fanfictions with plots trying to explain how he did it - and especially how John would react to him coming back. I never could write something like that.
Edit: Totally forgot to reply to this part: I'm following so many of his fan sites I get all news at least three times now :D
I'm of the opinion that one never can follow too many fanblogs! Better to have the same info three times than missing it. So often I have been glad for all the people finding all the information I otherwise wouldn't have gotten. There was that warning ahead that David and Catherine may play theatre together so I could get prepared.
Or, a few months ago, I joined a forum to talk about 1:6 figures. It is huge and I don't know half of the fandoms, but I was happy in the corner of those that I know. Now with the announcement of the Star Trek figures, I am glad to have a place where to ask questions from all the experienced people. If it hadn't been for this forum, I would have had to buy them for expensive money either at an American shop or at Forbidden Planet. But in this forum is also a member who is a retailer in the UK and he has great feedback and great prices, and on top of that will even get the extras. And without that Matt Bomer forum I wouldn't have found the link for the "Walking Out" story (have we talked that one yet?) And I'm sure there are many more examples which escape me at the moment.
And of course if I find any important information I do share as well. That is the beauty of fandom! Give and take.
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Me too. They set the bar high for the show :)
Better to have the same info three times than missing it.
I'm of the same opinion :) Even if I already know something, I like hearing from people about it.
And without that Matt Bomer forum I wouldn't have found the link for the "Walking Out" story (have we talked that one yet?)
No, I forgot about it. I still need to read it.
That is the beauty of fandom! Give and take.
Amen to that!
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There's been an article with an interview with him:
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/david-tennant-on-shakespeare-broadchurch-and-his-new-york-stage-debut
Last question:
What are you up to after this? Anything you can tell us about Broadchurch?
As soon as I’ve done Richard II [in America], I’ll be starting Broadchurch Season 3, which is about all I can tell you. I know nothing! I have no script. It’s always been the way we’ve made Broadchurch-the actors have been kept relatively in the dark. When you play a policeman who’s investigating a crime, it’s quite useful to have the information fed to you one episode at a time so you’re not playing the ending. I’m presuming it’s about a crime and that I’ll be investigating it, but to be honest I don’t actually know. It means I have to stop pretending or obfuscating with people like yourself. It’s easier not just to be proclaiming ignorance but actually be dwelling in ignorance.
The interview was posted two weeks ago, I don't know how it got missed. Apparently, I don't follow enough fan sites! :)
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I may not follow David Tennant fan sites, but I do have friends who are a fan of him and I haven't seen them posting about that either. Very weird. There seems to be a certain focus shift over to Tom Hiddleston at the moment ;)
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It was about two people getting married but everyone saying that they won't last a year. Do you know it?
I think it's "I give it a year", it matches. I've seen it in the cinema before I knew who Olivia Colman was. Now I'm looking at the list of the cast and see that if I've watched it now I'd also recognize the actor aho plays the main character :) I remember liking the film, I hadn't watched many British comedies back then so I was surprised how different the humour was from most of the American comedies.
There seems to be a certain focus shift over to Tom Hiddleston at the moment ;)
I'm seeing it, too :)
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Double Yay! And my parents today expressed interest in the second Broadchurch season that will start on German TV tomorrow. During the past four weeks, they re-run the first season (airing two episodes at a time) and that's how they noticed so they asked me if it's old or new.
I'll record them and then give it to them for watching. They also said that they have no idea what will be there as the story had already ended. Yeah right ;)
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That's great! My dad has watched both seasons - they aired on tv one by one, like one long season - and he enjoyed it very much. He even wondered what he knew David Tennant from, and I was puzzled for a while, because as far as I knew, he hasn't seen him in anything else. Then I remembered - Spies of Warsaw. I can't believe he's remembered him from a, well, not his best role, watched two years earlier with Polish dubbing. Still, it's David. ;)
They also said that they have no idea what will be there as the story had already ended. Yeah right ;)
We've all been there :)
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Has the Sherlock one aired on Polish TV also?
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You have Doctor Who day after it's in the UK? Lucky you! Or was only the last Special? Still, lucky you!
Has the Sherlock one aired on Polish TV also?
No, there wasn't a rerun since it aired on January. Which was unbelievably quick, 17 days after it aired in the UK! The channel bought all three seasons and started transmitting in March 2014, so that means season 3 aired only four months after it aired in the UK. It's not bad for Polish standards. And then they bought the Special so quickly. We were joking season 4 will air in Poland first ;)
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I meant, whether it already has aired at all. Obviously you are quicker then than we! The English Sherlock started in 2010, I remember then having to wait two years for second season in 2012. German TV also was kinda late but for my friends who hadn't known it before then the wait between season 1 and 2 was only a few weeks. Since then new episodes usually air around March/April.
Don't joke! I had that indeed, the movie with Matt Smith about Christopher Isherwood. It was shown in German TV before it was shown at the BBC. You gotta wonder.
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I see. Yes, Peter Capaldi without his accent is not complete :)
I'm thankful we have that conversation because I check the site of the BBC channel in Poland for newest information and learnt they've just transmitted season 8 (for the first time) and they start a rerun of season 1 in a week! I'm very excited about it because since I've become a fan, they were rerunning seasons 6 and 7 in a loop and I've never watched other seasons on the telly. I have to tell my friend to whom I've been telling about Doctor Who. Maybe even my dad will watch it, although I don't know if he likes it :)
Don't joke!
I'm not joking! There was an article in a newspaper some tie ago that season 4 will air in Poland in autumn (or was it even spring?) 2016. A mistake, obviously but quite funny, considering our own fandom jokes.
I had that indeed, the movie with Matt Smith about Christopher Isherwood. It was shown in German TV before it was shown at the BBC.
And it was made by the BBC! Incredible :D
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