You've probably heard of The Secret by now. This is the book (and movie...and documentary about the movie...and companion volumes...) that states that through the 'Law of Attraction' you can get anything you want just by thinking positively about it. Seems like fairly innocuous tripe, doesn't it?

Then you get into the meat of the matter. The Law of ( Read more... )

 OKAY OKAY. SO BASICALLY.

• KATARA'S OPENING MONOLOGUE=HILARIOUSLY INAPPROPRIATE.
• SOMEHOW EVEN THE 'PREVIOUSLY' MANAGED TO BE FUCKWIN EPIC. SOMEHOW.
• MORE FEROCIOUS. IMAGINE STRIKING THROUGH YOUR OPPONENT'S HEART. YOU KNOW HE'S THINKING ABOUT HIS SISTER. AND TIGERDILLO ZOMFG.
• MY GOD THIS IS OFF TO A SLOW START.
• BOSCO GOT NAMECHECKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A good show. Fascinating concept (alternate universe where Elizabeth I had a male heir, leading to Britain becoming a hyperpower based in a New York-like city called Pendragon New Wales that controls the entire Western hemisphere), pretty good execution. The animation is, in general, pretty well-done: the movement is fluid and dynamic-seeming, the ( Read more... )

JESUS CHRIST THAT WAS HILARIOUSLY AWFUL AND RATHER AMAZING AT THE SAME TIME!!

Okay...okay...blow-by-blow.

The good:

• The acting was incredible. Catherine Tate really, really acted here, David Tennant was actually allowed to be the classically-trained actor that he is, and everybody else? Bravo.
• I love Dalek Caan! He ships Doctor/Romana, he betrays ( Read more... )

Because badass things should always have German titles.

The good:

• The entire episode was pretty awexome.
• Harriet Jones! I always thought that what the Doctor did to her was wrong and evil and now we are given some indication of why this is totally accurate. She's a heroine, a warrior, a chessmaster, a martyr...what more could a country want in a ( Read more... )

What are your top picks?

Here are my top ten, in some vague sort of order (and yes, these are meant to be objective, though obviously they'll fail, due to the non-comprehensiveness of my reference pool if nothing else).

Neon Genesis Evangelion
The Simpsons
Seinfeld
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
M*A*S*H*
The Prisoner
Doctor Who (1963)
The Avengers
Get Smart
All ( Read more... )

• Viewing Romeo and Juliet as a great love story.
• Thinking that Ayanami Rei is cute and not creepy when she's clearly both.
• Wanting Kira in Death Note to win because you actually agree with his programme of anonymous mass murder of criminals, not because you're just blown away by how INSANELY HILARIOUS he is.
• Thinking that Martha and/or Romana somehow ' ( Read more... )

Let's talk about our personal kinks for characters, pairings, settings und so weiter!

My character kinks are many and probably fairly well-known at this point:

Female characters who are essentially genderflipped versions of the male lead. Better yet if the male lead has a speciality at which she's noticeably better than him! Examples: Romana (Doctor ( Read more... )

I wonder how I, somebody with mixed Russian-Jewish-Polish-German-Italian-Roma-French-Iranian-Celtic-Anglo-Saxon heritage, would fare in post-nuclear-apocalypse Britain? I mean, I have a Russian surname, a Jewish forename, I look Italian-ish, and I identify most with the Celtic and Roma sides. Meh, I'd probably be killed for being a mongrel.

And I ( Read more... )

I have to confess...

I'm looking forward to the Almighty Companion Extravaganza. Despite everything--despite Rusty's horrible track record with these things, despite the inherent crackiness of the concept, despite the near-inevitability of the Saint Wose worship that was so annoying two years ago--I really hope that it will be a sight to behold.

Yes ( Read more... )