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*dances, a little weakly, because she is tired*
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Time for my monthly Sometimes We Just Need To Rant post! Skip past, people, unless you are bored, in which case go ahead.
Let's start with that first word. Time. God, how much I need time; we all do, time for important things or for not-so-important things, and I'm staring down a graduation date that is now, officially, exactly one month away, and I know that that month will rush by faster than a speeding TARDIS, but there's still so much I need to do in it. Let us continue, then, to the crux of the problem: school. School is going to end. On one hand, that means time, glorious time, but I need to get there first, and in order to get there, I need to use up as much of my time as possible. There's a required senior history project on foreign policy--I chose North Korea, because I am insane--and there are due dates, endless due dates, coming up, and I don't even know everything I need to do with it, and some of it is due tomorrow and. And. I have three hours and ten minutes until I have to go to bed. Time. Always time.
With school comes theatre. With theatre comes rehearsal, which cuts away an hour and a half of time from my day, but today it was a solid two hours, because we need to get things done before Friday but we do not have the time to get them done before Friday and what that meant for today was that I lost a half-hour I could have used to frantically catch up on my internets with, so it's after dinner and I'm still not done with that. Stupid internets, being so big.
So, rehearsal leads to a lack of time, which only compounds the problem of homework not only taking up time itself but also being confusing and complicated, which leads to not having enough time to spend doing other stuff, which leads to: Doctor Who, and the great big stretch of an appropriately time-devouring monster I'm staring down.
I don't know exactly how many episodes there are, and I don't know exactly how many I need to watch, and I don't need to; all I need to know is that there are too many, and I'm not going to be done with them any time soon. Every time I think, "yes! I've familiarized myself with a certain character! I can skip to their last episode, and then I can move on to the next one!", I realize I actually need to watch more of their episodes, and then I realize I need to go back and watch more episodes of another character, and this is why I watched all but one of the Leela episodes instead of just two or three, and why I'm going to watch at least two or three more Delgado!Master episodes instead of just 'Terror of the Autons', and why I had to tear myself away from Two and Jamie--not that that even worked, since 'The Invasion' is lurking on our Netflix list, and be assured, if it was readily available on the internets, I would have watched it by now already. (Instead, it is a reward for me once I finish watching the current disc of Freaks and Geeks. Two more episodes. That's all. But I don't want to watch them, because watching them is using time that could be used for watching Doctor Who. But if I watch them, I can watch more Doctor Who...nyargh.)
So it's going to take a while to finish the entire show, you say. So what? It's not like there's a time limit on this. This is true! There is no time limit at all. However. I have two vids burning in my brain, and I can't stop thinking about them, but--but--they require a familiarity with...you guessed it...the entire show. Up to and including the movie. Every Doctor, every companion, every Master--all of it. And I want to make these vids so, so badly, but I just don't know enough to do that yet, and it's killing me, because there's so much to watch, and I need to watch it fast, but I don't have the time to do either. Time.
(One of the vids, incidentally, only requires Old Who clips for the first, let's see, eight seconds, but no, that includes the movie, and the continuity freak in me will not let me watch that before I watch everything else.)
So what am I going to do? I am going to do my homework, and then, if I am lucky, I am going to watch another part of 'The Mind of Evil', and then I will go to bed, which will be nice. Allons-y!
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So, uh, House!
...hurry up and be next week.
I DON'T WANT TO BE TRAUMATIZED
(I also don't want to be confronted with ships I don't ship, but I probably can't avoid it at this point.)
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Oh god, they've released the trailer for the US version of Life on Mars.
...he's too muscular.
And he doesn't wear the hair nearly as well.
And Colm Meany, I'm sorry, you're trying very hard, but you're no Phillip Glenister.
And the voiceover and the background music just make me wince.
....and is Annie blond?
*sighs and goes back to Doctor Who, which has already gotten over its thankfully brief bit of Americanization and will never suffer from it again*
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Also, did anyone else think Guest Star looked rather like Sally Sparrow? I think she did. And, because I feel like sharing, have a link to a silly little Doctor Who vid. Oh, Ten. You shameless accidental man-whore.
AND ANOTHER ONE. Less of Ten being a shameless accidental man-whore, more of the Master being the star of a Disney movie. No, seriously. Check it out.
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What? Every Doctor Who fan on LJ needs a ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) redscharlach icon or two. I just...happened to like this one, that's all. *coughs* But anyway. Let us get back to:
Adventures in Watching Almost Every Damn Episode of Classic Doctor Who That Is Possible To Find, part four:
And now I'm off to have dinner at the house of some family friends; I think my mom is bringing pie. Mmmmpiiiiie.
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Hey so remember when I said I wasn't going to take a picture of my Master and Doctor action figures in an interesting position? Here's the picture I didn't take, plus a few others, including me omg. You can see my face! And my hair! I rather like my hair. I'm very proud of it.
Right. Homework. Notes on the foreign policy of North Korea. Can I just put "N/A" and get away with it? Probably not.
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Hey, selenak! I saw Julie Be-enz, I saw Julie Be-enz!
...very briefly, because I didn't have enough money for an autograph and she didn't look very happy to be there anyway, but I still saw her.
Yes, I was at Emerald City Comicon, and I didn't actually do much there besides briefly see Julie Benz and grab a few books (the new Courtney Crumrin collection--damn, they certainly took their time with that one--and a couple Wondermark books; Malki! himself was there, and he was very sweet and self-effacing) and a Master action figure--ahahah, it is horrible, and it only comes with the laser screwdriver, but I had to get it. Alas, I didn't have enough money to get Jack (in his Empty Child attire) or the Weeping Angel, and I would've liked to get K-9, but he only came with a Rose I already had...when are they going to make a Donna figure? They need to make a Donna figure. And a Sarah Jane figure. And a Jack figure in something other than his Empty Child attire, although I suppose that would be a Torchwood figure.
You know, I'm far too interested in things that I never use for anything other than decorative purposes. I know that other people have it far worse--I confine my madness to Doctor Who, for the most part--but it's still a bit odd to realize that I've just spent $50 on action figures. (Not today. Today was only $12. Last year at Comicon proper, however...)
I am not going to put my Ten and Master figures in a compromising position. I am not. That would be crude. But if I did, Martha, Rose, and the TARDIS would get to watch. It's only fair.
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HEY LOOK I'M TALKING ABOUT HEROES AGAIN, THE WORLD AS I KNOW IT HAS BEEN IRREVOCABLY SHATTERED
We have promo, people! Very vague, nothing-we-didn't-already-know promo, but hey!
Also, 3 HOUR PREMIERE WHAT. That could either be very, very cool or very, very overwrought. *crosses fingers that the writers are merely trying to make up for the lack from last season* Either way, I'm glad I won't be watching it on a high school schedule, because I might be able to actually stay up late enough to watch it. Unless it starts at 7. But anyway. 3 HOUR PREMIERE WHAT.
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Adventures in Watching Almost Every Damn Episode of Classic Doctor Who That Is Possible To Find, part three, in no particular order, because I can't really remember what the order was:
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Great coincidences of the world, episode 205,673,042: a really great multi-Doctor multi-Companion DW vid makes me put serious thought into using this other song to do something similar (mostly about the overarching theme of the Doctor's relationships with all of his Companions, seriously, all of them, I'm...probably going to need to dig deep for some of the clips), only I never actually knew the band that created or the title of the song I'd use, so I finally look it up, and it was by the same guys who did the first vid.
I guess they just really like Doctor Who.
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So it occurred to me that, for someone going to art school in a few months, I don't actually, y'know, draw much.
And then I looked at my desktop wallpaper and I thought about the sort of thing that would be fun to draw and I came up with this, for which I cannot be blamed one whit.
Preview:
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So this is the part where I admit that I've read Twilight and didn't have any objections to it (look, it's kind of nice to see a vampire romance novel that doesn't actually have any sex in it, okay?) and am sort of looking forward to the movie.
That being said, the trailer, while very pretty and having lovely music, is totally put together wrong. I like what they did with the jump-cut car accident, but they should have put that last--well, next to last; they should have the "how old are you?" bit actually last, they should have at least tried to not make it completely obvious from the beginning. And I wouldn't have put the "she's not one of us!" bit in there at all. Too obvious, too cliche. (Yes, I realize I'm saying this about Twilight. Shut up.) What they should have done was start slow, maybe the bit with him watching her, the "I'm not scared of you" bit--oooh, if they filmed the bit where, er, whatsisface, the Native American kid, warned Bella about Edward, that would've made a good second or third clip. Alas, the bit with the deer, while quite cool, just seemed a bit random. And honestly, when I see "guy attacking a deer", I think "werewolf!", not "vampire!". (Although that may be a bit of Being Human sneaking back into my subconscious. Man, I can't wait for that to start up again.)
You know, I am probably the only person who is more het up about this than about the actual movie. *g*
(Also, damn, but they did a good job making the Cullens look pale. The moody eyes were probably a bit much, though.)
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Three minutes into 'The Dominators' (and boy, isn't that an interesting title), and I feel I am morally obligated to share this line with you: "Well, here we are, everyone! The Island of Death!"
It's not actually the Doctor saying it, but the guy still sounds so cheerful.
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Hey, you know what we need right now? POINTLESS MEMES.
Comment with the name of one of my stories and I'll 1) upload a song that I associate with it and 2) give an explanation as to why I associate the song with it. Warning: reasons may not be very good ones.
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Adventures in Watching Almost Every Damn Episode of Classic Doctor Who That Is Possible To Find, part two:
In related news, it seems Jamie was actually the longest-lasting Companion the Doctor's ever had, excluding the Brig--and IMDB lists him for 115 episodes, which is rather impressive, even given that that's counting each part as an individual episode. My boy was a mainstay, yo. Except the vast majority of those episodes are lost to the world. I swear to god, I ever get a time machine, I'm going back to right before that fire and nabbing all of the tapes. It's not like there'd be a paradox or anything! They'd be gone anyway!
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I also watched Waitress with the fam, and it's very sweet, and Nathan Fillion is also very sweet, and between it and Pushing Daisies I suspect I am developing a pie fetish, and it's very weird to see someone on screen you know was murdered not long after filming that. Adrienne Shelley is just so...well, sweet. Life is weird. So it goes.
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