So I guess Richard Curtis' film About Time is due to come out soon (time-travel romcom), so the Guardian put together a list of "top 10 time-travelers" that led to the following YouTube link for an entire series, Goodnight, Sweetheart, about a man who pops back and forth between his present and the WW2 era, to...cheat on his wife in the past, I ( Read more... )

Er. I appear to have tripped and committed meta.

On Moffat, Misogyny, and Children’s Stories

“The Leopard of Little Breezes yawned up and farther off from the rooftops of Omaha, Nebraska, to which September did not even wave good-bye. One ought not to judge her: All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can ( Read more... )

I have nothing to say about this episode except:

( barely even a spoiler )

My mother has BBC America. So guess who's been watching S3 Doctor Who episodes every day like an idiot? Yeah, that'd be me. I just...I can't resist Martha, you know? Every time an episode starts, I'm all, "okay, I'll just watch until the bit where she..." But then I know there's another bit coming that I love--some sarcastic remark, some geeky ( Read more... )

It occurred to me, on a tour around the internet, that because I never properly posted about "Vampires of Venice," I never did a proper Rory love-post. This is not that post, but it's a start.

You all have probably already seen this comic:
The Rory Cycle

( any excuse to babble about Rory. And a little about Matt Smith )

Well, that was gleefully ridiculous!

Also, the Eleventh Doctor is indeed rubbish as a human, but in an entirely different way. And he tries so hard, bless him.

Incidentally, the actress playing Sophie was one of the Miss Steeles in the recent Sense and Sensibility miniseries. Amusingly, I could hear the accent in my head every time I looked at ( Read more... )

I was having a conversation with thepresidentrix the other day about "Gridlock," among other things, and it reminded me that there are some Doctor Who episodes that I love all out of proportion to their actual quality as episodes, because they work for me as meta. (Which is not to say that they are bad, necessarily; it's just that I love them for reasons other ( Read more... )

One oft-repeated fandom comment that will instantly bring out the claws and the stabbing eye-pain: "Martha should have been so cool, I thought she was going to be so cool and intelligent and everything, and then she just fell in love with the Doctor."

Do I really have to say it? Being in love with someone does not make you unintelligent. It does ( Read more... )

So I've now read enough about the second part of "The End of Time," and have seen enough clips, to think I would be better off if I just skipped the rest of it, because I'm already just angry about what I've seen. It's just--

( I love how RTD proves that I actually *did* have expectations, by managing to disappoint ones I didn't know I had )

Thanks to various comment threads (I love my flist!), I'm thinking about the Tenth Doctor and why I find him particularly frustrating in certain respects, and yet another thing that irks me about the end of season 4. The other jumping-off point for thinking about this is the very end of "Planet of the Dead," but it's not about that, really (no ( Read more... )