I've lost track of how long ago I promised a post about what it's like to live in a world full of security classifications and what TV (particularly RTD) gets wrong and right. Finally, I'm writing it.

( Washington DC is the world's biggest company town. )

One of my buttons got pushed at Writercon - the reputed Whedon quote (now apparently echoed by RTD) that he doesn't give the audience what it wants, he gives it what it needs ( Read more... )

Most of rant cut and possibly triggering: ( You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means. )

Urged on by a conversation at tempestsarekind's, I present my meta on why Bridget Jones is possibly the nastiest insult to Elizabeth Bennet - and the readership - that could ever have been foisted on the public ( Read more... )

The good news - Dad is off the cane already! He only takes it for when he'll be on his feet for a while, but otherwise he can walk unassisted and can drive again. (That last being particularly important to him.)

ETA: My review for The Prosecution Rests is up on Reviewing the EvidenceETA 2: Thank you to whoever nominated "Naughty or Nice" for a ( Read more... )

For the 3 people on the flist that haven't already seen the gathering wank, some bint with the not-at-all-pretentious penname of "Lady Sybilla" has decided to write an unauthorized sequel to the Twilight series called Russet Moon. Which would be fine if she kept it on the net or underground. But no! She's found a publisher (herself) and appears ( Read more... )

When you've typed the same comment half a dozen times, it's time to top post.

So many people are irritated, angry, and/or hurt from something or other that was said on the anon meme (box_in_the_box has an unlocked post on the subject). And all I can think of, every time it comes up, is "of course an anon meme is throwing up nastiness; what's going to stop ( Read more... )

WD: lj user="neadods"> has a href="http://neadods.livejournal.com/760274.html">Racism in Who post #4,735,009

Top-posted half because I have readers lizbee doesn't and half because I'm laying the groundwork for the "Isms" panel at ChicagoTARDIS.

So. lizbee posts a bingo card that sums up the ( Read more... )

The number of people who are absolutely convinced that "there will only be three more Doctors" are making me crazy.

No, the BBC is not obligated to cancel a show because of a 20-year-old plot point. Anybody who thinks that they would even consider the concept for a nanosecond is delusional at bestNo, it won't be "uncanonical" to blow that plot ( Read more... )

In which Nea gets a few things off her chest, having read them a few times too often.

1) There have been 10 actors playing the Doctor over 44 years. Old Who had a regeneration 3 years in and kept running; New Who had a regeneration 13 episodes in and has kept running.

Take the clue regarding the cosmic importance of any actor vs. the franchise ( Read more... )