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So as I stay up entirely too late to catch Matt Smith on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, I shall write a very geeky post.
First off, I got my Doctor Who Season 5 box set today. Amy and I have already partaken of the outtakes and the cut scenes. Matt Smith is the best kind of weirdo.
Second, Borders is carrying The Brilliant Book, which is the behind-the-scenes and fact-filled geeky book about the above Season Five. It has cut dialog in it. Which, for most of it, I'm going, "Yeah, it's cute, but it does kinda go on too long and/or is unnecessary," but there was one that had me laughing out loud in the bookstore. I'm pretty sure it's from "The Beast Below":
Amy: What's it like in your head?
The Doctor: A great big roller coaster, packed full of geniuses, all going, "WHEEEEE!"
I don't know how, given that I am a Midwestern American single woman under the age of thirty who discovered Who just four years ago, and he is a middle-aged, married-with-kids Scottish man who has loved Who since childhood, but I swear, Moffat sees the Doctor the exactly the same way I do.
And then I'm reading Summer Knight, which is Book Four of the Dresden Files, and I'm not even five chapters in, and Harry is told to investigate the death of a guy named Ronald Reuel. The photo of whom features him with white hair and tweed. And I start laughing in surprise. And I gotta wonder how many other people got that one right off the bat. Nice. (Though now I'm wondering if the reference is, in fact, relevant to the plot.)
Not quite half an hour to go. Did see the clip from last night's show, wherein Craig Ferguson introduces his audience to a Dalek. I gotta know how he got ahold of one of the Davies-era Daleks. Doesn't that, like, require selling one's soul or thereabouts? And I was amused at how Ferguson's accent was a complete mess, probably a result of talking about something so close to his childhood whilst in front of his usual American audience. I've heard John Barrowman do the same when in a room with a Scottish person.
Oh! And another geeky thing: we have a Wii! Amy got a used one. So now there is Netflix on TV, and I am going to have to buy The Legend of Zelda in as many incarnations as I can get my hands on. Aaaaaand there goes my free time. Good grief.
First off, I got my Doctor Who Season 5 box set today. Amy and I have already partaken of the outtakes and the cut scenes. Matt Smith is the best kind of weirdo.
Second, Borders is carrying The Brilliant Book, which is the behind-the-scenes and fact-filled geeky book about the above Season Five. It has cut dialog in it. Which, for most of it, I'm going, "Yeah, it's cute, but it does kinda go on too long and/or is unnecessary," but there was one that had me laughing out loud in the bookstore. I'm pretty sure it's from "The Beast Below":
Amy: What's it like in your head?
The Doctor: A great big roller coaster, packed full of geniuses, all going, "WHEEEEE!"
I don't know how, given that I am a Midwestern American single woman under the age of thirty who discovered Who just four years ago, and he is a middle-aged, married-with-kids Scottish man who has loved Who since childhood, but I swear, Moffat sees the Doctor the exactly the same way I do.
And then I'm reading Summer Knight, which is Book Four of the Dresden Files, and I'm not even five chapters in, and Harry is told to investigate the death of a guy named Ronald Reuel. The photo of whom features him with white hair and tweed. And I start laughing in surprise. And I gotta wonder how many other people got that one right off the bat. Nice. (Though now I'm wondering if the reference is, in fact, relevant to the plot.)
Not quite half an hour to go. Did see the clip from last night's show, wherein Craig Ferguson introduces his audience to a Dalek. I gotta know how he got ahold of one of the Davies-era Daleks. Doesn't that, like, require selling one's soul or thereabouts? And I was amused at how Ferguson's accent was a complete mess, probably a result of talking about something so close to his childhood whilst in front of his usual American audience. I've heard John Barrowman do the same when in a room with a Scottish person.
Oh! And another geeky thing: we have a Wii! Amy got a used one. So now there is Netflix on TV, and I am going to have to buy The Legend of Zelda in as many incarnations as I can get my hands on. Aaaaaand there goes my free time. Good grief.