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[ratsgoboom]

I was idly checking my RSS feeds when my Television Without Pity one popped up with a retrospective of the fourth series of Doctor Who. It makes sense, seeing as Sci-Fi is airing the big finale (90 minutes! - meaning they cut 5 minutes from it) tonight, that they would want to have some say. So I checked it out, and it was a 21 page essay,

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[eotheod]

*gives you a good luck cookie* I know LOTR can be really daunting, but it's worth it... but I might be a little biased. ;)

I'm interested to see what you have to say about Twilight. I feel like it should be absolute trash but the sheer number of people fangirl it makes me wonder.

[ratsgoboom]

Normally I would have just skipped over Twilight, but, as you said, the number of people who love it made me question it. But I had a friend who became obsessed with the series, but acknowledged how absolutely terrible the books are, so go figure.

Personally, I'm going to fall into the "this book is just shit" category, because, well, it is.

[yoshistar4]

The recap was written by Jacob, who wrote all the other Doctor Who recaps before it was PH'ed (though the forums remain intact). He's always like that, though the philosphy is far more tolerable and even fitting in small, recap-per-episode doses. The site though, it's definitely changed for the worse, especially with all those reality recaps.

I still miss Donna. :(

[bearsintheair]

You know, I adore The Hobbit (it was my favorite book as a kid), but I've never been able to get through the LotR trilogy either. I stopped trying a few years ago.

And as I know you've discovered by now, Twilight is balls.

[ratsgoboom]

I feel better knowing I'm not the only one with LotR issues. I put it down again to hit up Twilight, which is balls. I don't understand what people see in it, but it's got an insane following...

[bearsintheair]

Yeah, I don't get the hype. They're not even well written. And it weirds me out to think that millions of teenage girls (let alone, you know, adults) think it's "soooo romantic" when it's really all possessive and stalkery and sexually repressed.