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[carmen_lj]

1. Doctor Who toymakers, WHAT IS THIS?! I don't know what to think about it. On one hand, there is goo and goo is awesome, on the other there's a wee "collect all the parts!" sign where "all the parts" is the decapitated head and disembodied limbs of the Doctor.

2. jigglykat made awesome fanart of Madame Vastra and Jenny. I am going to PESSIMISTICALLY ASSUME they do not yet have their spin-off series. Forshame.

3. People are being Kind Of Scary about the Doctor Who scheduling change or whatever it is, which actually seems to know, cause there appears to be Very Little info. (But that doesn't mean you don't know exactly what those BBC execs are thinking! Of course you do, random Internet person, of course you do.) I saw a tweet from Lizo offa Newsround and then I went to look for more info and ended up in BAD PLACES where I wanted to either hide under my desk or hit my head on it. Here is a clue: the BBC does not work like an American network. Also I sometimes watch Who on iPlayer instead of the telly; this apparently means I'm not a real viewer or something.

5. When the Doctor Who on the telly stopped I really, really wanted more shiny new Who which meant Big Finish. So I listened to some. Which was fine. Except now Erimem has gone and I HATE BIG FINISH. They took the Best of Their Companions from me and I am sad. Though it was quite nice that though I stopped listening cause the stories were getting worryingly consistent in their mehness, this last run, from Son of the Dragon through to the HORRID DEPARTURE OF BELOVED ERIMEM were almost all pretty good. Even the one with bloody Evelyn in it. Bit amused when I thought "gosh, she's really not been very annoying this ep" and it turned out she'd been replaced by an evil shapechanger, heh. Ahem.

Anyway, once I get over my bitterness there, if anyone has any post-The Bride of Peladon recs, that'd be dead nifty.

6. Why is all the telly gone? Doctor Who, The Borgias, and Camelot are finished for the year (omg, Camelot - HOW AWESOME WERE YOU?), Camelot possibly forever, or I've heard no news of a renewal anyway, boooo. And Game of Thrones only has one ep left. Woes.

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[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

...how much can you even do with that toy? o0

The New Who malaise has got me absolutely inhaling audios. And damnit I'm out of unheard ones of interest, I'm going to have to start relistening. Also finishing up the Old Who I haven't seen yet. (TWO TWO STORIES LEFT ZOMG. I'm enjoying The Abominable Snowmen quite a bit. Even with the super-white Tibetan abbot.)

[calapine.livejournal.com]

More than you can do with this one!

Which two, omg?

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

...I can keep that thing handy for the day I want to preserve what remains of my own skin!

The Abominable Snowmen and The Ice Warriors. So, okay, like one and two/thirds stories. I AM EXCITED. It's odd that I'm closer to finishing the burninated Doctor than I am to finishing, like, Four for example.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

...I can keep that thing handy for the day I want to preserve what remains of my own skin!

I may have hurt myself slightly from lols. Dude.

The Abominable Snowmen and The Ice Warriors.

I do have Quite A Bit of love for the Ice Warriors. There's some bits of Victoria that are just lovely and the sciffy is so gloriously sixties with it's attitude to tech and computers.

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

It's my only option! They don't even have a detachable Cassandra so I can yell BOOM and take her out myself. It's a RACK.

I'm sliiiightly nervous about The Ice Warriors 'cause I'm of the Curse of Peladon/Red Dawn-influenced school of "omg I love them they are the best of all aliens," but I am a sucker for lovely Victoria bits.

[ladyvivien.livejournal.com]

CAMELOT! I flailed so hard! AND OH MY SYBIL Y U HAV TO DIE JUST BECAUSE YOU WERE EVIL AND SELF-SACRIFICING?

[calapine.livejournal.com]

I CRIED. I was all "OH OH" when she took the blame and then there were tears at her "I thought she'd come" and then Morgan lying on the grave and then EVEN DEAD Sybil gives her a crazy plan to follow! OH I LOVE THEM SO.

[ladyvivien.livejournal.com]

I ship them so hard! WHY IS THERE NO FIC? I think there's one shippy fic and one friendship-type one and all the unfinished ones on my laptop.

If we have an S2, I damn well want ghost!Sybil!

[pextheunalive.livejournal.com]

Now there's a good use for my celery-less Davison figure. Rip him apart and have him be an half-formed ganger. The best part is, once he is reassembled, the other figures can tell which is the fake because he does not have the Celery. Oh, if only I had the Peri figure to act out this scene with...

Come to think of it, if the goo were a little greenish, I could also reenact Caves of Androzani, sort of...

[calapine.livejournal.com]

I think I have doubles of all the Doctors that aren't PMG. I shall pretend they are all gangers now rather than that I wasted monies on daft action figures when the only way to complete the bloody set was to buy ALL OF THEM AGAIN. Ahem.

Win Some, Lose Some

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Hold on. we Brits haven't yet had 'The Borgias'. 'Game of Thrones' is only on cable/satellite, and 'Bonkalot Camelot' has only just started.

On the other hand we do have the BBC's British Drama' season - and new Torchwood upcoming.

Re: Win Some, Lose Some

[calapine.livejournal.com]

*cough* Yes, that is technically true.

On the other hand we do have the BBC's British Drama' season - and new Torchwood upcoming.

I have been enjoying Case Histories rather more than I thought I would, seeing as I was only really watching it for Isaacs to start with.

[in-the-end.livejournal.com]

I saw the news of Lizo's tweet and I surprisingly, even to myself, didn't have a problem with it. In fact, in my head a split season makes it more likely something super shiny and wonderful will happen in 2013 for the anniversary.

The lack of Good Telly has finally got me marathoning watching Fringe. I have the biggest girlie crush on Olivia Dunham, I can't even tell you.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

I have nothing at all the base this on, but my first thought was they were switching to splitting the season in half with it starting in autumn rather than spring.


The lack of Good Telly has finally got me marathoning watching Fringe. I have the biggest girlie crush on Olivia Dunham, I can't even tell you.

I HEAR YA. I should get back to my watch there, yes, I was about halfway though season two when Doctor Who and the fantasy/historicals started.

[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

NGL, as disturbing as that toy is, I kind of want it. I HAVE NO NEED FOR THE TORSO, BRING ME THE DISEMBODIED LIMBS AND HEAD OF ELEVEN IN GOO. I don't even understand WHY they are in parts.

OMG, everyone needs to chill the fuck out about this 2012 nonsense. Do they not remember only a couple of years ago when there was a year of Specials? We survived that, we can survive this.

I'm out of TV to watch too. I was just lamenting this last night. I tried a couple of shows to hold me over in the meantime, but NOTHING IS SATISFYING.

(Thanks for the plug!)

[calapine.livejournal.com]

I want it purely so Tom Baker's swappable head has some company. He lingers alone, rolling around in the desk drawer, alas!

OMG, everyone needs to chill the fuck out about this 2012 nonsense. Do they not remember only a couple of years ago when there was a year of Specials? We survived that, we can survive this.

There was Much Headdesking at all the various and sundry Motivations attributed as to The Why. Also, I was tots oblivious to anyone being, uh, unchilled about it from my actual flist and twitfeed. GOING INTO THE WILD IS SCARY.

(Thanks for the plug!)

Well, it's pretty awesome, y'know.

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

DISARTICULATED MATT SMITH. I'm sorry, that's just funny. It reminds me of a couple years ago when everyone was all ONOES BABY DOCTOR THAT IS NOT TENNANT and (metaphorically) tearing him apart... *weird brain is weeeeiiiird* ;-)

[calapine.livejournal.com]

INDEED. I loled. And then went wtf.

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

That new DW toy BOGGLES MY MIND. Who in their right mind thought it would be a good idea to have children (amongst others) collect dismembered bits of the hero of the show? DISMEMBERMENT IS FUN KIDS!

I NEED a spinoff show involving interspecies victorian lesbians. Considering the chaos at the BBC right now... I won't count on it *weeps*

[calapine.livejournal.com]

I confess, thought I quite like it now, the child me would have thought it was AWESOME.


I NEED a spinoff show involving interspecies victorian lesbians. Considering the chaos at the BBC right now... I won't count on it *weeps*

It doesn't need to be a full show even. I would be totally willing to accept a series of those wee webisodes.

[elisi]

Just v. quickly re. Doctor Who and next year and horrid rumours - the Moff tweeted this so I am slightly reassured.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Aye, I saw. I am just assuming Everything Is Fine, cause, um, I have no idea why.

[eve11]

Ah, I will be conspicuous and self-pimp a post "Bride of Peladon" story: Walks Through Walls. It's Erimem and Six, written for the 2009 Sixathon, so it has mild allusions to some of the Sixth Doctor audios (The Holy Terror, The Wormery, some Six and Charley stuff). It's about Six getting Erimem a new cat, but really it's about Erimem and the Doctor, and why she left and why he doesn't (usually) look back.

[fyrdrakken]

True Blood kicks off the Sunday after GoT's finale, and I have a vague thought that there's one or two other shows that are on cable and about to start a new season. Hmm, checking the schedule, there's Futurama, and Elijah Wood starring opposite a guy in a dog suit (which turns out to be a remake of an Australian series, hmm). Well, between The Daily Show and The Colbert Report continuing to give me four hours of TV to watch most weeks, and my Netflix queue that I haven't had much time to watch in months, and the amount we record off the various educational channels, I'm not expecting to be running out of stuff to watch anytime soon.

[nwhyte]

Nothing to add except that I love Erimem too!

[wishfulaces.livejournal.com]

Er, I wrote Peri/Erimem post-Bride of Peladon. Last year for the femslash ficathon. Because it was BEGGING FOR IT, essentially. (OMG Erimem come baaaaaaack.)

[biichan.livejournal.com]

Erimem is awesomesauce. I too am sad she left.

(I will admit, though, that I haven't listened to much Big Finish this last year, most because playing tabletop gaming has eaten my life since September. However, some of the stuff from last year was actually pretty darn good. I would recommend the Six'n'Jamie trilogy to anybody.)

[sabotabby]

Yes someone else watches The Borgias. It teases me with its shortness. (As does DW—sigh.)

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

But we have True Blood starting up again, and Eureka and Warehouse 13! Those shall tide me over. (BTW, I think you might like Eureka. It took me a bit but I really love it now.)

[fly-to-dawn.livejournal.com]

Erimem is my favourite forever, I am sad that there are no more audios with her and that fandom tends to overlook her :(

(COME BACK CAROLINE MORRIS, COME BAAACK.)

[fannishnonsense]

1. I would have wanted that so much when I was little. *is weird*

2. Yay, Vastra and Jenny! There should totally be a spin-off, or at least more fic. Though at least there's a comm: lizardladylove. That makes me happy.

3. People are silly.

6. OMG, Camelot was amazing. And I only watched it in the first place cause you were going on about how awesome it was, so I suppose I should thank you for that. ;-)

[pextheunalive.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that I read "lizardladylove" in the same voice in my head as Fergie has during My Humps when she talks about her "lovelyladylumps"? Just checking.