Five Things Make A Post! (Cookie Monster, SHAZAM & The Spoiler, Fringe, Doctor Who, My Job)

[beccatoria]

1. OH MY GOD YOU GUYS THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING EVER! It's slightly more amazing if you are familiar with Tom Waits, but it's still awesome, regardless:

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I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO UNSEE IT. I love Tom Waits, but from now on, it will always be Cookie Monster singing

Comments

[gonzo21]

Yeah, the Doctor Who finale just didn't make sense. There was no clever plot twist to explain it all away. It just... stuff happened, and it was the Tesselecta. The end. Meh.

Sympathies about the job though, uber suckage. :(

*hugs*

[beccatoria]

Yeah, that's what got me really. I honestly believed that when the season opener told us "it's not a trick or a clone, he's really dead," that he somehow really would be. "Lolz, the Doctor always lies!" is...I dunno. I feel a bit tricked and not in the "oh, you clever bastard that was awesome," way I did after last season. Like I said I'm not ragefully angry or anything, there were fun moments and stuff it just left me a bit...meh.

Thanks for the sympathies on the job. It does suck rather a lot, but I'm trying to focus on all those days when I hated it and didn't want to go in in the morning. ;)

Now I just have to hope that the NI Fund pays out and that I'm right about the scheme that will give me £1500 to do some training because then maybe I can get the qualifications to get a better job (audio typing related - I'm good at it, but no qualifications to prove that).

*hugs*

[gonzo21]

Yes. I honestly believed it too, they went to such lengths to demonstrate to us that was really really the doctor and he was really really dead. I feel tricked by it too. And let down.

The myth of the infallability of The Moff has been shattered.

And it turned out that the ongoing storyline stuff this season was all very highly Meh. And the best bits were a couple of the stand-alones.

There were some right shockers though this season. Some really truly horrible episodes.

[mymatedave]

Commiserations on the job front, I only have my job right now because the council is on a hiring freeze and currently my position is secure. While the finale Who didn't really add up, it was barmy fun.

[beccatoria]

Thanks, it does suck, but hopefully I'll find something else, if not something better. ;) I'm glad to hear that your position is secure though - one of the things I'll miss about my job was that pay and holiday etc. were on the Council's scale so it wasn't like they were screwing me over on it.

Yeah, that sort of what I meant about the finale when I said that I just can't think about it without it all falling apart? And unfortunately I have a brain that cannot stop picking things apart. It's like a puppy with a chew toy! But I appreciate that there's the barmy fun aspect to the whole thing.

[daybreak777]

Tonight's episode of Fringe was awesome! And I wasn't even paying that much attention but I enjoyed it so much. I think because Peter is not there. It's like suddenly Fringe is SO MUCH FUN. With geeky Linc whose a nice companion for Olivia. Olivia is so awesome. Astrid is IN THE FIELD. I don't want it to change, Becca!

And sometimes there are double Olivias! *squees* Every ep without Peter is so much better and the women rock. I could just say that every week. I don't care about the plot if it could just be this. :-)

I am sorry about your job but glad you are getting a holiday. You totally deserve a break!

[beccatoria]

Yes! I just watched it and it's great! I don't want it to change either! Linc is lovely and so much better a fit for Olivia! Maybe if we just close our eyes and ignore him, he won't come back? *sigh*

Yeah the job thing sucks, but I agree, it's nice to be getting a holiday. And at least I'll be staying with friends and family so I won't be paying for a hotel or anything. :)

[skipthedemon]

My sympathy on the looking for a job front.

I'm still not sure about what River remembers, and yeah, that's a stumbling block, but here's my take on a couple of things:

1) On her killing not the Doctor - she did. In Let's Kill Hitler, she did, and while she 'fixed' that, I can completely see her having a shit ton of guilt about it. Just like Amy has guilt about killing Madam K in a whole other timeline that didn't stick. The intent to kill was still there. That's part of why she was so childishly stubborn in the finale I think. She'd given so much up to fix that wrong act and for what? To be used again, because of Madam K's spite. And I think that was part if not all of the reason she was forced into the suit. Madam K was offended her creation tried to assert her own will

[beccatoria]

Yay, thanks for your take! :)

1) Yeah, I definitely get that that is going to be a point that River has a lot of feelings about and a lot of guilt. That said, she makes it up to him and saves him in a way that is pretty spectacularly selfless and involves her giving up all her future lives in exchange for his, and she then goes on to live her life, get her PhD, etc., without any kind of urge to hand herself in and serve life for his death. That's the stumbling block for me - not so much the guilt at having "killed" him (which I grant, we could assign her lines in the Angels episodes to recalling their first encounter, not Lake Silencio, though I still think it feels slightly off, it's less so), but the way she's then happy to spend potentially the rest of her life in prison for a crime she didn't commit. I know she breaks out whenever she likes, and I love that, but I always kind of felt she stayed out of some obligation to at least partially do things "by the rules". I guess we'll eventually find out the truth behind her

Heyyyyyy

[hmpf]

This is probably a bad moment to start trolling your LJ, what with you internet-less and stuff, but I'm on sick leave and feeling this whole load of love for PEOPLE and I figured I should put that love to some use by actually, y'know, catching up with some (people, that is). So, naturally enough, I'm starting with you. I'm randomly starting here because of commiseration on job-loss etc. Though it's been a few months for you, so the pain isn't as fresh, I imagine. I'm currently in the process of losing mine, though I may be able to hold onto it for a while by staying in sick-leave limbo (provided my doctor keeps agreeing that I'm sick).

Oh, also, your crossover idea here sounds absolutely fascinating, even though I don't even know the characters. But yeah, the dynamic sounds great.

Also, I'm with you on the DW finale.

And I still need to get into Fringe. Hm.