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[selenak]

Still catching up with the internet. I see that The Waters of Mars has won the Hugo, which pleases me. It definitely was the best of the year-of-interruption specials, and not just because of the last ten minutes. (Though I still think the DW endeavour by RTD that should have won for best short form was the episode Midnight in season 4, but that

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[timeofchange]

Hahahaha! That is hilarious!

[selenak]

:)

[amenirdis]

The Special Relationship looks really good! Thanks for the preview.

[selenak]

Here's an alternate trailer which also makes it look very good:

(BTW, when Peter Morgan was asked why he didn't conclude his inofficial Blair trilogy - i.e. "The Deal" (Blair and Brown), "The Queen" (Blair and Elizabeth II) and "The Special Relationship" - with Blair and Bush instead of Blair and Clinton, he gave several reasons but the first one was that Clinton was simply a more interesting character to write.)

[zahrawithaz]

the first one was that Clinton was simply a more interesting character to write

I completely believe this. Bush just isn't that interesting, in a character sense, other than the whole playing-dumber-than-he-is shtick. Whereas Clinton is very complicated, and gives you a lot of potential for change of character over the course of your story, which is where the real writing action is. (I can't imagine Bush ever outright criticizing and admitting fault over political decisions he made during his Presidency, as Clinton has with the Haiti rice tariffs, for instance.) Plus he has the more interesting wife.

Seconding thanks for these trailers, and for the paraphrase, which is hilarious.

[selenak]

Having googled reviews, I found one that said while the men are okay, Cherie has the best lines and Hillary steals the picture. :) All agree that the women get lots of screentime, which is good because Cherie was hardly in The Deal, though a bit more in The Queen (where the other lead was a woman, so that was a different balance anyway).

And yes, if as a writer I had to choose whom to write, I'd go for Bill and Hillary, too. (Though I did read American Wife, which was a very interesting novel except in the last third when the Bush equivalent becomes President, because then you can tell the writer has a problem of reconciling the Laura character as he imagines her continuing to support her husband unconditionally

[gehayi]

You don't even NEED slash goggles for that movie. The slashiness is right there!

I'm going to send that trailer to every slash writer I know, because they will crack up. That is canon slash if I've ever seen it!

[selenak]

Morgan clearly 'ships them, yes. :)

[ffutures]

The "blogger who" video linked to from the SJA thing is INCREDIBLY spoilery - I really hope that the last picture with SJ and another character is some sort of photoshop; I don't want the character back, although it does show something else I would really like to see.

[ffutures]

And I suspect you want to see too.

[selenak]

While this makes me very curious, I won't investigate - I'm unspoiled other than for the appearance of the Doctor and Jo!

[airie_fairy]

I wonder what was behind Turn Left being the nomination. Did they put Midnight up for consideration? I can't imagine why they wouldn't have. If there was anything else from that season really, really deserving of being put up, it was Fires of Pompeii. Definitely not Turn Left (which I don't froth at but I definitely consider one of the weaker outings of s4, which had an overall strong first two-thirds before sort of deflating), but I really don't see how after Midnight anything else would even have looked like an option.

Yay for Waters of Mars, though! I definitely approve of that winning.

"I realized I subconsciously expected it to be Ten."

Yesssss. I was totally excited to see the little snippet of Eleven and Sarah, but there was also a little brain static of "hey, you don't look like David--oh, wait

[selenak]

No idea what was put up for consideration, because I so agree with you - Fires of Pompeii before Turn Left, and Midnight before both.

Yesssss. I was totally excited to see the little snippet of Eleven and Sarah, but there was also a little brain static of "hey, you don't look like David--oh, wait."

My brain and your brain were in tune for that. :)

And Jooooooo!