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I mean, OK, probably nobody cares what I think, but here it is anyway.
First of all, I found out from the Metro. Yeah, thanks for that. It's weird when you realise that it is only on the internet that the concept of spoilers actually exists. Everywhere else presumes you want to know as soon as possible. Personally, yeah, I probably would've decided I wanted to know, but... I know people who really wouldn't and anyway just think of the wank it would've saved if we didn't have to know. There'd still be wank but it wouldn't have to go on for the next six months.
Anyway. Here is the official pronouncement on the whole Martha, Torchwood, Donna thing.
I really don't care much. Are you surprised? I thought not.
Martha is good. Freema is good. She will survive being in Torchwood even if she doesn't manage to help them not to be crap.
And Catherine Tate. Well. She was fine in the Christmas episode, I thought. I guess I'm ever so slightly disappointed because I loved the fact that she turned him down. But really - she was fine, I thought she was quite funny, mostly because she reacted to things the way I probably would, and she wasn't entirely useless and also, I have to say, the fact that she isn't very pretty is really interesting me. I'm not saying she's fugly, I'm just saying she's actually really normal looking and I liked that and it might lead to a bit less damsel-in-distress, even if what we get instead is silly faces and asking the stupid question.
I am long-winded. If you can't tell, this is me trying not to get into the wank. When it comes time to find a new Doctor and he isn't someone immediately perfect, then I will be wanking with the best of them.
Interestingly, I think the companions are basically not that important to me. As far as my limited experience goes, they all have their damsel-in-distress days and their kick-arse messianic days and their days when they don't get to do much except stand in the back ground making silly faces. That is what it is to be a companion. I realise that most of that is in the writing, and I don't exactly mean to say that anyone could do it, but... eh.
(Incidentally I liked Sally Sparrow better than Donna in their respective episodes, but am also quite glad it's not Sally because I liked her happy ending. What about her stationery shop, eh? And her lovely geeky boyfriend? No, leave her there and pick up with the woman who's just had her fiancee turn out to be an evil alien. It makes more sense to me, anyway.)
Another thing? Didn't I read from somewhere official that Kylie was definitely, without a doubt, officially not going to be in Voyage of the Damned? So why did a 'yes she is' article turn up in the paper complete with picture of her hugging Tenant? I can't remember where I got the first one from so don't now know which one to think is more official. So confused. Probably ought to google it but can't actually be bothered right now.
Today I went to work and discovered there was nobody going to be in today. And the internet wasn't working. So basically there was nothing I could do because all the things I was going to get on with involve emailing people. I did some filing and went home. But I could've had another hour in bed if they'd remembered to tell me they weren't going to be there, and then done filing and gone home. Grr.
Still, I faffed happily for a while. I'm going to write (or pester to write because she would do it better than me) a suite/song-cycle based on The Sword in the Stone, which I am currently reading and which is full of songs. And I wrote a silly thing (Taurus doesn't think it's very silly, but only because I made him cry again).
OH, and I started putting together the lineup for what might possibly be the best thing ever and could never, ever happen for so many many reasons.
The multi-fandom charity concert. There will be actors singing connotationally shiny songs in character:
David Tenant as the Doctor - Time After Time
Freema as Martha - Back in Time
(OK, I can't have Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa - or Keith Richards, he would do - singing The Good Ship Venus, because it is probably in aid of a children's charity and televised. BUT.)
Kiera Knightley as Elizabeth Swann - Maid on the Shore
John Simm as Sam Tyler - Life on Mars
Not!Keanu (Anthony Stewart Head or David Bowie for preference) as John Constantine - Too Young To Die
That Bloke as Billy Prior - Through a Long and Sleepless Night
And there will be songs written actually about the characters, sung by their actors:
Jim Carrey as Count Olaf - Shipwrecked
Nathan Fillion as Mal - The Ballad of Serenity
The cast of Firefly - The Man They Call Jayne
The Kid Who Played Lucy in the Narnia Movies - Wunderkind
Alanis Morissette as God - Still
Liv Tyler as Arwen - My Lover's Gone
Johnny, Kiera, Orlando, Geoffrey, Bill Nighy and Keith Richards and anybody else who fancies joining in - Hoist the Colours (with all the shiny verses and Richards guitar solo)
And there would be songs about characters who don't have actors, sung by their singers. Mostly the ones that come to mind are off the Neil Gaiman CD and therefore a bit obscure, but this is my fantasy concert so we will have them anyway. Also someone would have to stand in for King Mob and do London Calling.
It's a highly subjective list of course, having only combinations of fandoms and songs that I know and would personally put together on it. But it amused me.
I may, just possibly, have taken leave of my senses.
First of all, I found out from the Metro. Yeah, thanks for that. It's weird when you realise that it is only on the internet that the concept of spoilers actually exists. Everywhere else presumes you want to know as soon as possible. Personally, yeah, I probably would've decided I wanted to know, but... I know people who really wouldn't and anyway just think of the wank it would've saved if we didn't have to know. There'd still be wank but it wouldn't have to go on for the next six months.
Anyway. Here is the official pronouncement on the whole Martha, Torchwood, Donna thing.
I really don't care much. Are you surprised? I thought not.
Martha is good. Freema is good. She will survive being in Torchwood even if she doesn't manage to help them not to be crap.
And Catherine Tate. Well. She was fine in the Christmas episode, I thought. I guess I'm ever so slightly disappointed because I loved the fact that she turned him down. But really - she was fine, I thought she was quite funny, mostly because she reacted to things the way I probably would, and she wasn't entirely useless and also, I have to say, the fact that she isn't very pretty is really interesting me. I'm not saying she's fugly, I'm just saying she's actually really normal looking and I liked that and it might lead to a bit less damsel-in-distress, even if what we get instead is silly faces and asking the stupid question.
I am long-winded. If you can't tell, this is me trying not to get into the wank. When it comes time to find a new Doctor and he isn't someone immediately perfect, then I will be wanking with the best of them.
Interestingly, I think the companions are basically not that important to me. As far as my limited experience goes, they all have their damsel-in-distress days and their kick-arse messianic days and their days when they don't get to do much except stand in the back ground making silly faces. That is what it is to be a companion. I realise that most of that is in the writing, and I don't exactly mean to say that anyone could do it, but... eh.
(Incidentally I liked Sally Sparrow better than Donna in their respective episodes, but am also quite glad it's not Sally because I liked her happy ending. What about her stationery shop, eh? And her lovely geeky boyfriend? No, leave her there and pick up with the woman who's just had her fiancee turn out to be an evil alien. It makes more sense to me, anyway.)
Another thing? Didn't I read from somewhere official that Kylie was definitely, without a doubt, officially not going to be in Voyage of the Damned? So why did a 'yes she is' article turn up in the paper complete with picture of her hugging Tenant? I can't remember where I got the first one from so don't now know which one to think is more official. So confused. Probably ought to google it but can't actually be bothered right now.
Today I went to work and discovered there was nobody going to be in today. And the internet wasn't working. So basically there was nothing I could do because all the things I was going to get on with involve emailing people. I did some filing and went home. But I could've had another hour in bed if they'd remembered to tell me they weren't going to be there, and then done filing and gone home. Grr.
Still, I faffed happily for a while. I'm going to write (or pester to write because she would do it better than me) a suite/song-cycle based on The Sword in the Stone, which I am currently reading and which is full of songs. And I wrote a silly thing (Taurus doesn't think it's very silly, but only because I made him cry again).
OH, and I started putting together the lineup for what might possibly be the best thing ever and could never, ever happen for so many many reasons.
The multi-fandom charity concert. There will be actors singing connotationally shiny songs in character:
David Tenant as the Doctor - Time After Time
Freema as Martha - Back in Time
(OK, I can't have Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa - or Keith Richards, he would do - singing The Good Ship Venus, because it is probably in aid of a children's charity and televised. BUT.)
Kiera Knightley as Elizabeth Swann - Maid on the Shore
John Simm as Sam Tyler - Life on Mars
Not!Keanu (Anthony Stewart Head or David Bowie for preference) as John Constantine - Too Young To Die
That Bloke as Billy Prior - Through a Long and Sleepless Night
And there will be songs written actually about the characters, sung by their actors:
Jim Carrey as Count Olaf - Shipwrecked
Nathan Fillion as Mal - The Ballad of Serenity
The cast of Firefly - The Man They Call Jayne
The Kid Who Played Lucy in the Narnia Movies - Wunderkind
Alanis Morissette as God - Still
Liv Tyler as Arwen - My Lover's Gone
Johnny, Kiera, Orlando, Geoffrey, Bill Nighy and Keith Richards and anybody else who fancies joining in - Hoist the Colours (with all the shiny verses and Richards guitar solo)
And there would be songs about characters who don't have actors, sung by their singers. Mostly the ones that come to mind are off the Neil Gaiman CD and therefore a bit obscure, but this is my fantasy concert so we will have them anyway. Also someone would have to stand in for King Mob and do London Calling.
It's a highly subjective list of course, having only combinations of fandoms and songs that I know and would personally put together on it. But it amused me.
I may, just possibly, have taken leave of my senses.