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I'm a bit behind schedule on all my fannish projects at the moment. Stage managing a show is time consuming, and it'll only get worse the closer to opening night we get. I'm slightly worrying that I'll only have one of my cosplays done before Chicago TARDIS, and also that I won't have anything at all done for who_at_50. I started a fic, but it veered off into very silly crackfic, and now I don't think the muse of comedy is really with me anymore. *sigh* At least I picked the last day of November for my posting date!
In other news, I went to see the National Tour of Wicked: The Musical, which was absolutely fantastic! I had wanted to go on my birthday or Halloween, but there was one front row center seat left the night before Halloween, so I took it! It was very sweet, and funnier than I expected, and of course it's a gorgeous production. Sitting so close you get to see all the details in the sets and costumes, which are just incredible. You miss some of the pretty staging from that angle, but when the fog effects roll out onto you, and Glinda's bubbles land in your hair, you feel like you're right in the middle of that world. And best of all, you get to see the actor's faces and get drawn into the characters journeys, which is the most important thing to me. The cast I saw was wonderful, and the actresses playing Elphaba (Mary Kate Morrissey) & Glinda (Carrie St. Louis) were perfect. Couldn't have asked for a better birthday present. (Although a friend of mine got to go backstage for a tour and danced with Fiyero- I admit to being slightly jealous!)
Classic Who watching continues- very glad to get to Sarah Jane's eps at last, though my enjoyment of 'The Time Warrior' was a little overshadowed by the fact that I watched it while I was really sick. But yay for Sarah Jane! Though it's a bit strange to see her so young after first meeting her older- it's like this timey-wimey time travel stuff is real!
I was feeling much better by the time I watched 'Invasion of the Dinosaurs', but that one I just plain disliked. Even though everyone talks about how bad the dinosaurs look in it, I didn't mind the cheesy dinosaurs one bit. They were really cute & unintentionally funny, and the cheesy fake monsters are part of the fun of Doctor Who. But the ridiculously convoluted plot, with it's overtones of right-wing hysteria over the evils of environmentalism (lol wut?) were just so absurd I couldn't take it. And the worst of it was what they did to Yates. It just didn't ring true at all.
There has to be way more set-up for, and some sort of logic behind, a character switching sides & turning against everything he'd stood for for the previous three years. There'd been nothing in Mike's character in any of his stories to suggest he would be predisposed to believe in utopian nonsense, let alone that he'd suddenly go completely crazy & be willing to murder millions of people, including his friends. That was just beyond the pale, and very lazy writing to boot. I could have forgiven it if he'd come to his senses at the end, but having him turn a gun on the Doctor & the Brig & Benton was completely outrageous & going entirely too far. And it's too bad too, since there was lots of great stuff with the Doctor & Sarah Jane getting to know each other in this one, and UNIT stories are usually my favorites. I'll just have to pretend 'Invasion of the Dinosaurs' didn't happen in order to get through the rest of the season- and I'm already pretending that Three isn't going to leave at the end! Good golly, what a web of denial I'm weaving just to get through Classic Who with my heart still intact... but I can't stop watching. Doctor Who owns my soul.
In other news, I went to see the National Tour of Wicked: The Musical, which was absolutely fantastic! I had wanted to go on my birthday or Halloween, but there was one front row center seat left the night before Halloween, so I took it! It was very sweet, and funnier than I expected, and of course it's a gorgeous production. Sitting so close you get to see all the details in the sets and costumes, which are just incredible. You miss some of the pretty staging from that angle, but when the fog effects roll out onto you, and Glinda's bubbles land in your hair, you feel like you're right in the middle of that world. And best of all, you get to see the actor's faces and get drawn into the characters journeys, which is the most important thing to me. The cast I saw was wonderful, and the actresses playing Elphaba (Mary Kate Morrissey) & Glinda (Carrie St. Louis) were perfect. Couldn't have asked for a better birthday present. (Although a friend of mine got to go backstage for a tour and danced with Fiyero- I admit to being slightly jealous!)
Classic Who watching continues- very glad to get to Sarah Jane's eps at last, though my enjoyment of 'The Time Warrior' was a little overshadowed by the fact that I watched it while I was really sick. But yay for Sarah Jane! Though it's a bit strange to see her so young after first meeting her older- it's like this timey-wimey time travel stuff is real!
I was feeling much better by the time I watched 'Invasion of the Dinosaurs', but that one I just plain disliked. Even though everyone talks about how bad the dinosaurs look in it, I didn't mind the cheesy dinosaurs one bit. They were really cute & unintentionally funny, and the cheesy fake monsters are part of the fun of Doctor Who. But the ridiculously convoluted plot, with it's overtones of right-wing hysteria over the evils of environmentalism (lol wut?) were just so absurd I couldn't take it. And the worst of it was what they did to Yates. It just didn't ring true at all.
There has to be way more set-up for, and some sort of logic behind, a character switching sides & turning against everything he'd stood for for the previous three years. There'd been nothing in Mike's character in any of his stories to suggest he would be predisposed to believe in utopian nonsense, let alone that he'd suddenly go completely crazy & be willing to murder millions of people, including his friends. That was just beyond the pale, and very lazy writing to boot. I could have forgiven it if he'd come to his senses at the end, but having him turn a gun on the Doctor & the Brig & Benton was completely outrageous & going entirely too far. And it's too bad too, since there was lots of great stuff with the Doctor & Sarah Jane getting to know each other in this one, and UNIT stories are usually my favorites. I'll just have to pretend 'Invasion of the Dinosaurs' didn't happen in order to get through the rest of the season- and I'm already pretending that Three isn't going to leave at the end! Good golly, what a web of denial I'm weaving just to get through Classic Who with my heart still intact... but I can't stop watching. Doctor Who owns my soul.