Stuffs from the Latest DWM
DWM have started having a YouTube recs column. I'd seen most of them before, but this one was highly amusing. And, er, instructive:
(1963-2008 - A catalogue of any variation on the phrase "What are you doing here?" Which is a lot more entertaining than it sounds. And a nice whistle-stop tour through nearly every episode.
(While we're at it, this is probably the most appropriate place I'll ever find to post a Star Trek: Voyager vid - presumably by someone who was very bored - that records every instance of someone saying: "Now!" Which sounds even more dull than the above, but once everyone starts joining in with variant pronounciations, it gets highly gigglesome, and doesn't require any Voyager knowledge. "Now!" / "No, now!" But obviously, I like the DW one best.
And apologies for any accidental wasting of people's time.
Plus, there was an interview with Janet Fielding, which is never a dull thing:
On BFA The Gathering:
"I had a good time doing it, although I had some doubts about the story. I was a little concerned about some elements of the character because she was a bit nasty, wasn't she? Tegan is feisty and bolshie, but actually she's quite kind."
On how Hell came to freeze over for Janet to do further Big Finish audios.
"I wanted to move on... I'd been an agent and I didn't think it was appropriate... if I was agenting. But then I heard that Mark was coming over from New Zealand... I hadn't seen him for years. The yes column just got longer than the no column. I was left thinking why did I ever say no? So I agreed to do some more."
On how to describe the character of Tegan to new fans who haven't seen her before:
"She was take-no-prisoners, intensely practical, feet on the ground. There's an element of the absent-minded professor about the Doctor, and Tegan is the antidote to that. She will tell you the blatanatly obvious thing that's sitting there in front of your face, but you haven't seen because you're looking for a complexity that isn't necessarily there." (And goes on then to talk about her father being an absent-minded scientist and her mother being not too dissimilar to Tegan.)
On the new series' return in 2005:
(She talks about how it makes a positive difference with the producer (RTD) being from a writing background...) "and I thought Billie was the best thing ever. Fabulous! I know Joe Ahearne, so I contacted him and, said, 'Do you think Russell T would think I was really naff if I sent him a fan letter?'" ♥
And why Peter Davison should get a chance to return to the show:
"I'd kind of love to see Peter get a chance to do some episodes in the modern format, because he's a wonderful actor. I love listening to him when we're doing the audios together, because - and this is why it's easy to underestimate Peter - he does that thing that I mentioned earlier of making it sound effortless, therefore it has a reality to it. I love what he does."
Which prompts this response:
Int: Would Janet also be prepared to return?
Janet: "Why would you want me to play Tegan on TV? I just don't get it."
Int: For the same reason you'd like Peter to...
Janet: "Ah, okay. But he's a big star. And deservedly so. I'm not.... I think I'd say no. I'd play a monster, maybe."
On whether or not things improved once Matthew Waterhouse left:
"What, for him, or for us?" (LOL)
At which point the interviewer tells her that Matthew was quite gracious about her last time he interviewed him...
Janet: "Why did you interview him?"
Int: "He had a book out."
Janet: "Why would he do a book?"
Int: It's his autobiography... Blue Box Boy
...
Janet: "Is it odd? I bet it's odd. That goes without saying."
Int: Well, it's written in the third person..
Janet: "What, you're saying he's written his own biography? He's ghosted his own autobiography?! I think we've just got to the nub of why the boy's a bit strange..."
(He does get a more sympathetic response when he reminds her Matthew was only 18 when they first worked together. She also talks about how much harder it must have been for Sarah, being younger, too.)
On the companion being a sex symbol:
"Never felt I quite nailed that... Tegan didn't exactly ooze sex, did she?"
On what would have happened to Tegan after she left:
"I think she'd have ended up in some way, shape or form supporting or facilitating - or somehow enabling - scientific research of some kind... Although I think what would actually happen... is that you'd go kind of slightly nuts, like astronauts do."
On the line in SJA (about Tegan fighting for Aboriginal rights):
"Oh, yeah? That's another possibility. Yes, I think it would be issue-led. How wonderful... Trust Russell to come up wth something like that. I think he's mighty."
Oh, and, she says, she never heard anyone use 'rabbits' as a swearword. "But you can't say **** on a family show..."
Click to view(1963-2008 - A catalogue of any variation on the phrase "What are you doing here?" Which is a lot more entertaining than it sounds. And a nice whistle-stop tour through nearly every episode.
(While we're at it, this is probably the most appropriate place I'll ever find to post a Star Trek: Voyager vid - presumably by someone who was very bored - that records every instance of someone saying: "Now!" Which sounds even more dull than the above, but once everyone starts joining in with variant pronounciations, it gets highly gigglesome, and doesn't require any Voyager knowledge. "Now!" / "No, now!" But obviously, I like the DW one best.
And apologies for any accidental wasting of people's time.
Plus, there was an interview with Janet Fielding, which is never a dull thing:
On BFA The Gathering:
"I had a good time doing it, although I had some doubts about the story. I was a little concerned about some elements of the character because she was a bit nasty, wasn't she? Tegan is feisty and bolshie, but actually she's quite kind."
On how Hell came to freeze over for Janet to do further Big Finish audios.
"I wanted to move on... I'd been an agent and I didn't think it was appropriate... if I was agenting. But then I heard that Mark was coming over from New Zealand... I hadn't seen him for years. The yes column just got longer than the no column. I was left thinking why did I ever say no? So I agreed to do some more."
On how to describe the character of Tegan to new fans who haven't seen her before:
"She was take-no-prisoners, intensely practical, feet on the ground. There's an element of the absent-minded professor about the Doctor, and Tegan is the antidote to that. She will tell you the blatanatly obvious thing that's sitting there in front of your face, but you haven't seen because you're looking for a complexity that isn't necessarily there." (And goes on then to talk about her father being an absent-minded scientist and her mother being not too dissimilar to Tegan.)
On the new series' return in 2005:
(She talks about how it makes a positive difference with the producer (RTD) being from a writing background...) "and I thought Billie was the best thing ever. Fabulous! I know Joe Ahearne, so I contacted him and, said, 'Do you think Russell T would think I was really naff if I sent him a fan letter?'" ♥
And why Peter Davison should get a chance to return to the show:
"I'd kind of love to see Peter get a chance to do some episodes in the modern format, because he's a wonderful actor. I love listening to him when we're doing the audios together, because - and this is why it's easy to underestimate Peter - he does that thing that I mentioned earlier of making it sound effortless, therefore it has a reality to it. I love what he does."
Which prompts this response:
Int: Would Janet also be prepared to return?
Janet: "Why would you want me to play Tegan on TV? I just don't get it."
Int: For the same reason you'd like Peter to...
Janet: "Ah, okay. But he's a big star. And deservedly so. I'm not.... I think I'd say no. I'd play a monster, maybe."
On whether or not things improved once Matthew Waterhouse left:
"What, for him, or for us?" (LOL)
At which point the interviewer tells her that Matthew was quite gracious about her last time he interviewed him...
Janet: "Why did you interview him?"
Int: "He had a book out."
Janet: "Why would he do a book?"
Int: It's his autobiography... Blue Box Boy
...
Janet: "Is it odd? I bet it's odd. That goes without saying."
Int: Well, it's written in the third person..
Janet: "What, you're saying he's written his own biography? He's ghosted his own autobiography?! I think we've just got to the nub of why the boy's a bit strange..."
(He does get a more sympathetic response when he reminds her Matthew was only 18 when they first worked together. She also talks about how much harder it must have been for Sarah, being younger, too.)
On the companion being a sex symbol:
"Never felt I quite nailed that... Tegan didn't exactly ooze sex, did she?"
On what would have happened to Tegan after she left:
"I think she'd have ended up in some way, shape or form supporting or facilitating - or somehow enabling - scientific research of some kind... Although I think what would actually happen... is that you'd go kind of slightly nuts, like astronauts do."
On the line in SJA (about Tegan fighting for Aboriginal rights):
"Oh, yeah? That's another possibility. Yes, I think it would be issue-led. How wonderful... Trust Russell to come up wth something like that. I think he's mighty."
Oh, and, she says, she never heard anyone use 'rabbits' as a swearword. "But you can't say **** on a family show..."