Meme: The long and the short
Two memes:
One memed from persiflage_1 where you write ORANGES! and the person gives you 5 questions, but sorry, I am going away, so i'm just going to stick to answering the qs that Pers gave me:
1 - How do you like them oranges?
2 - If you could bring back one Classic Who companion for a series of adventures with New Who folks, who would it be?
3 - Would you watch a UNIT spin-off show (provided RTD didn't write it in the vein of Torchwood)?
4 - Which are you favourite Big Finish audios?
5 - Imagine the BBC were willing to make any crossover show of your choice - which two (or more) shows would you crossover with each other?
1. Organic, otherwise I'm not really supposed to eat them. (Apparently they inject them with arsenic or something equally ridiculous, so they stay preserved. And, yes, am probably making up the arsenic bit, but you never know.)
2. *flails* Too much choice! I mean, do I do this realistically (so no one dead/too old to get away with it) or just fantasy? Leela. (Except for the whole Gallifrey issue). So Tegan. Or Turlough. Or Nyssa, just to find out what she did post-Terminus (Hey, there's an audio coming out soon I really need to listen to. Maybe it's playing on my mind.) Actually, what I would MOST like would be Benny, Evelyn and Charley to appear and be Definitely Canon at last. They are too good not to be, and Benny's been in every other format - come on, BBC (I know there may be copyright issues, but it's my fantasy).
3. Um. I don't know. Of course, if someone wanted to make a spin-off UNIT show set in the 1980s, I could probably help them out. *looks innocent*
4. This is boring of me, but they remain (so far): The One Doctor (There is nothing to compare with Bonnie Langford and Christopher Biggins putting up shelves, while the Doctor faces down Anne Robinson... and yet, despite all the fun and games, it gets at the heart of just why the Doctor is wonderful. Every single New Who episode (even this series) that's tried to do it hasn't matched this audio in pulling it off.) The Chimes of Midnight (*becomes incoherent* After all, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without plum pudding. Can they film it as a one-off special with Paul and India, please? ) and Doctor Who and the Pirates (like The One Doctor; it pulls off a lot of ridiculousness, while ending up at a perfectly serious point, makes use of its audio format like no other and, and has a musical episode.) I've also really enjoyed The Shadow of the Scourge, Memory Lane, Scherzo, The Gathering, Spare Parts, The Settling, The Doomwood Curse and Paper Cuts among many others. (I realised I wanted to make this answer into an essay. I really do love a lot of the audios I've heard.)
5. *flails again* Again, does this want to be realistic or just fantasy? Okay: Dear BBC, for the next CiN, I would like you to crossover any combination of the following shows - Doctor Who, Spooks, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Hotel Babylon, Press Gang, Who Do You Think You Are?, LoM/A2A and any classic drama you feel inclined to include, but bonus points if it's Austen. This will save me writing ridiculous crossovers and the world will be grateful. Thank you. love lost_spook PS. If you include Spooks, Nicola Walker as Ruth Evershed is not allowed to be absent. This is important. Especially when crossing with DW. (I should explain, that if involving WDYTYA, this clearly means Six and Evelyn walking in the middle of a touching moment in an archive:
Six: He was your ancestor, was he? Hah. Complete bounder and a scoundrel.
Star: What?
EVelyn: Doctor, perhaps a little more tact might be...
Six: And he picked my pockets, I'll have you know. I don't care how grand his beard got to me, he's not my idea of a pillar of society.
Cameraman: Look, we were just about to get X to cry over the parchment... Can you get out of the way?
Six: Not if you're going to propagate such a farrago of lies, white-washing of... Oh, wait, did he say Benjamin Smith. Completely different fellow. Never heard of him. Now, excuse me, there's a Grel loose in your archives and heaven only knows what damage they might do.
Evelyn (as he marches off): I'm so sorry. He forgot to take his medication this morning. I'll see that he keeps out of your way. Oh, and does your Smith branch have any London Smiths, because, I have some interesting connections...
You see. They need to do this in Time Team and Antiques Roadshow also. Especially Time Team.
If fantasy, some wonderful 1970s special, where the Key to Time gets a proper ending, involving Blake's 7. Or just some random B7/DW/Red Dwarf mix up. It probably did happen somewhere...
*cough* That was supposed to be the short meme!
Memed from daibhid_c
Go to Wikipedia and paste all the films released in the year you were twelve. Put in Italics the ones you've seen. (If you can't remember, you haven't seen them). Any you own, in bold.
Interesting - do you know, I'd never have thought that a lot of these films came out together. I expect because I didn't go to the cinema really, so it was a matter of when they came on TV, so I'm finding that fact hard to get my head around:
The Abyss
All Dogs Go To Heaven
Always,
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt
An Innocent Man
Apartment Zero,
Arena
The BFG
Babar: The Movie
Back to the Future Part II
Batman
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Best of the Best
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure,
Black Rain (American film),
Black Rain (Japanese film),
Blaze,
Blind Fury
Born on the Fourth of July
The 'Burbs
Cameron's Closet
Camille Claudel,
Casualties of War,
Chances Are,
Chandni
Checking Out
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.;
Cinema Paradiso
A City of Sadness (Beiqing chengshi) - Golden Lion award
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover,
Cousins,
Crack House
Crimes and Misdemeanors,
Criminal Law
Crusoe
Cyborg
Dead Bang,
Dead Calm
Dead Poets Society,
Deepstar Six
The Delinquents,
Dimenticare Palermo
Disorganized Crime
Do the Right Thing,
Dream a Little Dream,
The Dream Team
The Dressmaker
Driving Miss Daisy
Drugstore Cowboy,
A Dry White Season
Enemies, a Love Story
The Experts
The Fabulous Baker Boys,
Farewell to the King,
Fat Man and Little Boy
Field of Dreams,
Fletch Lives
The Fly II
For Queen and Country,
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan,
Getting It Right
Ghostbusters II,
Gleaming the Cube
Glory,
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Great Balls of Fire!,
Gross Anatomy
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers,
Heart of Midnight,
Heathers,
Henry V,
Her Alibi,
Hit List
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,
The Horror Show,
Houseboat Horror
How I Got Into College
How to Get Ahead in Advertising,
Impulse
In Country
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,
Interrogation
Jacknife,
The January Man,
Jesus of Montreal
K-9,
The Karate Kid, Part III,.
Kickboxer,
Kiki's Delivery Service
The Killer,
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Lauderdale
Lean on Me,
Leningrad Cowboys Go America,
Lethal Weapon 2,
Leviathan
Licence to Kill,
Life and Nothing But,
Listen to Me
The Little Mermaid
Little Monsters
Lock Up,
Look Who's Talking,
Major League,
Marquis,
Meet the Feebles
Meet the Hollowheads
The Mighty Quinn
Miss Firecracker,
Monsieur Hire,
Music Box -
My 20th Century
My Left Foot
Mystery Train
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation,
New York Stories
Night Game
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child,
No Holds Barred
Nowhere to Run
Parenthood,
Penn & Teller Get Killed
Pet Sematary,
Pink Cadillac,
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Prom Night III: The Last Kiss,
The Punisher
The Rainbow
Red Scorpion
Renegades
River of Death
Road House
Roger & Me,
Rosalie Goes Shopping
Say Anything...,
Scandal,
Sea of Love,
Second Sight
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Sex, lies, and videotape -
She-Devil
She's Out of Control
Shirley Valentine,
Signs of Life
Sing
Skeleton Coast
Skin Deep,
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland,
Sonny Boy
Split
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,
Steel Magnolias,
Tango & Cash,
Tap
Teen Witch
Three Fugitives,
The Toxic Avenger Part II, sequel to The Toxic Avenger
The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie,
Transylvania Twist
Triumph of the Spirit
Troop Beverly Hills
Tropical Snow
True Love
Turner & Hooch,
UHF,
Uncle Buck
Valmont,
Violent Cop,
The War of the Roses,
War Requiem,.
Weekend at Bernie's,
When Harry Met Sally...,
Who's Harry Crumb?
Wilt
The Winter War
The Wizard,
Worth Winning
Zatoichi
But… I don’t own any of them. (Unless it counts that my housemates owns the Indiana Jones and the Back to the Future titles, and that I am currently borrowing Henry V from Mum.) One or two I would like that hour or two of my life back, please.
One memed from persiflage_1 where you write ORANGES! and the person gives you 5 questions, but sorry, I am going away, so i'm just going to stick to answering the qs that Pers gave me:
1 - How do you like them oranges?
2 - If you could bring back one Classic Who companion for a series of adventures with New Who folks, who would it be?
3 - Would you watch a UNIT spin-off show (provided RTD didn't write it in the vein of Torchwood)?
4 - Which are you favourite Big Finish audios?
5 - Imagine the BBC were willing to make any crossover show of your choice - which two (or more) shows would you crossover with each other?
1. Organic, otherwise I'm not really supposed to eat them. (Apparently they inject them with arsenic or something equally ridiculous, so they stay preserved. And, yes, am probably making up the arsenic bit, but you never know.)
2. *flails* Too much choice! I mean, do I do this realistically (so no one dead/too old to get away with it) or just fantasy? Leela. (Except for the whole Gallifrey issue). So Tegan. Or Turlough. Or Nyssa, just to find out what she did post-Terminus (Hey, there's an audio coming out soon I really need to listen to. Maybe it's playing on my mind.) Actually, what I would MOST like would be Benny, Evelyn and Charley to appear and be Definitely Canon at last. They are too good not to be, and Benny's been in every other format - come on, BBC (I know there may be copyright issues, but it's my fantasy).
3. Um. I don't know. Of course, if someone wanted to make a spin-off UNIT show set in the 1980s, I could probably help them out. *looks innocent*
4. This is boring of me, but they remain (so far): The One Doctor (There is nothing to compare with Bonnie Langford and Christopher Biggins putting up shelves, while the Doctor faces down Anne Robinson... and yet, despite all the fun and games, it gets at the heart of just why the Doctor is wonderful. Every single New Who episode (even this series) that's tried to do it hasn't matched this audio in pulling it off.) The Chimes of Midnight (*becomes incoherent* After all, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without plum pudding. Can they film it as a one-off special with Paul and India, please? ) and Doctor Who and the Pirates (like The One Doctor; it pulls off a lot of ridiculousness, while ending up at a perfectly serious point, makes use of its audio format like no other and, and has a musical episode.) I've also really enjoyed The Shadow of the Scourge, Memory Lane, Scherzo, The Gathering, Spare Parts, The Settling, The Doomwood Curse and Paper Cuts among many others. (I realised I wanted to make this answer into an essay. I really do love a lot of the audios I've heard.)
5. *flails again* Again, does this want to be realistic or just fantasy? Okay: Dear BBC, for the next CiN, I would like you to crossover any combination of the following shows - Doctor Who, Spooks, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Hotel Babylon, Press Gang, Who Do You Think You Are?, LoM/A2A and any classic drama you feel inclined to include, but bonus points if it's Austen. This will save me writing ridiculous crossovers and the world will be grateful. Thank you. love lost_spook PS. If you include Spooks, Nicola Walker as Ruth Evershed is not allowed to be absent. This is important. Especially when crossing with DW. (I should explain, that if involving WDYTYA, this clearly means Six and Evelyn walking in the middle of a touching moment in an archive:
Six: He was your ancestor, was he? Hah. Complete bounder and a scoundrel.
Star: What?
EVelyn: Doctor, perhaps a little more tact might be...
Six: And he picked my pockets, I'll have you know. I don't care how grand his beard got to me, he's not my idea of a pillar of society.
Cameraman: Look, we were just about to get X to cry over the parchment... Can you get out of the way?
Six: Not if you're going to propagate such a farrago of lies, white-washing of... Oh, wait, did he say Benjamin Smith. Completely different fellow. Never heard of him. Now, excuse me, there's a Grel loose in your archives and heaven only knows what damage they might do.
Evelyn (as he marches off): I'm so sorry. He forgot to take his medication this morning. I'll see that he keeps out of your way. Oh, and does your Smith branch have any London Smiths, because, I have some interesting connections...
You see. They need to do this in Time Team and Antiques Roadshow also. Especially Time Team.
If fantasy, some wonderful 1970s special, where the Key to Time gets a proper ending, involving Blake's 7. Or just some random B7/DW/Red Dwarf mix up. It probably did happen somewhere...
*cough* That was supposed to be the short meme!
Memed from daibhid_c
Go to Wikipedia and paste all the films released in the year you were twelve. Put in Italics the ones you've seen. (If you can't remember, you haven't seen them). Any you own, in bold.
Interesting - do you know, I'd never have thought that a lot of these films came out together. I expect because I didn't go to the cinema really, so it was a matter of when they came on TV, so I'm finding that fact hard to get my head around:
The Abyss
All Dogs Go To Heaven
Always,
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt
An Innocent Man
Apartment Zero,
Arena
The BFG
Babar: The Movie
Back to the Future Part II
Batman
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Best of the Best
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure,
Black Rain (American film),
Black Rain (Japanese film),
Blaze,
Blind Fury
Born on the Fourth of July
The 'Burbs
Cameron's Closet
Camille Claudel,
Casualties of War,
Chances Are,
Chandni
Checking Out
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.;
Cinema Paradiso
A City of Sadness (Beiqing chengshi) - Golden Lion award
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover,
Cousins,
Crack House
Crimes and Misdemeanors,
Criminal Law
Crusoe
Cyborg
Dead Bang,
Dead Calm
Dead Poets Society,
Deepstar Six
The Delinquents,
Dimenticare Palermo
Disorganized Crime
Do the Right Thing,
Dream a Little Dream,
The Dream Team
The Dressmaker
Driving Miss Daisy
Drugstore Cowboy,
A Dry White Season
Enemies, a Love Story
The Experts
The Fabulous Baker Boys,
Farewell to the King,
Fat Man and Little Boy
Field of Dreams,
Fletch Lives
The Fly II
For Queen and Country,
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan,
Getting It Right
Ghostbusters II,
Gleaming the Cube
Glory,
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Great Balls of Fire!,
Gross Anatomy
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers,
Heart of Midnight,
Heathers,
Henry V,
Her Alibi,
Hit List
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,
The Horror Show,
Houseboat Horror
How I Got Into College
How to Get Ahead in Advertising,
Impulse
In Country
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,
Interrogation
Jacknife,
The January Man,
Jesus of Montreal
K-9,
The Karate Kid, Part III,.
Kickboxer,
Kiki's Delivery Service
The Killer,
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Lauderdale
Lean on Me,
Leningrad Cowboys Go America,
Lethal Weapon 2,
Leviathan
Licence to Kill,
Life and Nothing But,
Listen to Me
The Little Mermaid
Little Monsters
Lock Up,
Look Who's Talking,
Major League,
Marquis,
Meet the Feebles
Meet the Hollowheads
The Mighty Quinn
Miss Firecracker,
Monsieur Hire,
Music Box -
My 20th Century
My Left Foot
Mystery Train
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation,
New York Stories
Night Game
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child,
No Holds Barred
Nowhere to Run
Parenthood,
Penn & Teller Get Killed
Pet Sematary,
Pink Cadillac,
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Prom Night III: The Last Kiss,
The Punisher
The Rainbow
Red Scorpion
Renegades
River of Death
Road House
Roger & Me,
Rosalie Goes Shopping
Say Anything...,
Scandal,
Sea of Love,
Second Sight
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Sex, lies, and videotape -
She-Devil
She's Out of Control
Shirley Valentine,
Signs of Life
Sing
Skeleton Coast
Skin Deep,
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland,
Sonny Boy
Split
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,
Steel Magnolias,
Tango & Cash,
Tap
Teen Witch
Three Fugitives,
The Toxic Avenger Part II, sequel to The Toxic Avenger
The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie,
Transylvania Twist
Triumph of the Spirit
Troop Beverly Hills
Tropical Snow
True Love
Turner & Hooch,
UHF,
Uncle Buck
Valmont,
Violent Cop,
The War of the Roses,
War Requiem,.
Weekend at Bernie's,
When Harry Met Sally...,
Who's Harry Crumb?
Wilt
The Winter War
The Wizard,
Worth Winning
Zatoichi
But… I don’t own any of them. (Unless it counts that my housemates owns the Indiana Jones and the Back to the Future titles, and that I am currently borrowing Henry V from Mum.) One or two I would like that hour or two of my life back, please.