Doctor Who Christmas Special and Yetis
Dec. 9th, 2012 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carmen_ljSo if Ian McKellen is voicing the Snowmen in this year's Christmas Special MAYBE he and Derek Jacobi could be at next year's Gally and just be on stage the whole time talking to each other. JUST AN IDEA.
I've changed my mind about what episode I want back most in the archives: it's currently The Abominable Snowmen, episode six. Cause it was the MOST MAGICAL END EVER to a Doctor Who story. The Yeti in the Himalayas have turned out to be robots controlled by the Great Intelligence - a standard Doctor Who plot thing where something mythical turns out to be ALIENS DID IT - but right at the very end the intrepid explorer dude who's come to the Himalayas to search for Yetis has found only DEATH AND ALIENS and had his belief in the Yeti CRUELLY DESTROYED. Except then he spots one, a real one. THERE IS MAGIC IN THE WORLD AFTER ALL.
I have been to the Americas and returned safely. I DID NOT get attacked by any Giant Weeping Angels, Statue of Liberty shaped or otherwise, in New York. DISAPPOINTING. I did get a bit of a headache in Times Square. DEATH BY NEON LIGHT, DUDES.
I've changed my mind about what episode I want back most in the archives: it's currently The Abominable Snowmen, episode six. Cause it was the MOST MAGICAL END EVER to a Doctor Who story. The Yeti in the Himalayas have turned out to be robots controlled by the Great Intelligence - a standard Doctor Who plot thing where something mythical turns out to be ALIENS DID IT - but right at the very end the intrepid explorer dude who's come to the Himalayas to search for Yetis has found only DEATH AND ALIENS and had his belief in the Yeti CRUELLY DESTROYED. Except then he spots one, a real one. THERE IS MAGIC IN THE WORLD AFTER ALL.
I have been to the Americas and returned safely. I DID NOT get attacked by any Giant Weeping Angels, Statue of Liberty shaped or otherwise, in New York. DISAPPOINTING. I did get a bit of a headache in Times Square. DEATH BY NEON LIGHT, DUDES.
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Date: 2012-12-09 10:06 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-12-09 11:50 pm (UTC)i agree about Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi being onstage together at a con, but (pipe dream, really) I'd want it to be Chicago TARDIS rather than Gally because that's the con I can go to.
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Date: 2012-12-10 12:15 am (UTC)And glad you are back safe. Also, I watched The Abominable Snowmen on Netflix a couple months back and must agree, it'd be a good serial to have complete.
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Date: 2012-12-10 10:36 am (UTC)I have just two thinks about Ian McKellen being voice of Snowmen. Firstly - please don't say this rules out him playing a role in the programme in vision, which would be even more marvellous. Secondly - now that we've had Jacobi and McKellen, can we please complete the set by having Patrick Stewart at some point?
But yes, them both being together on stage at Gally (or indeed at a Doctor Who con I actually stood a chance in hell of *getting* to...) would indeed be wondrous. But even better if Patrick Stewart was there as well... :-)
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Date: 2012-12-10 03:37 pm (UTC)well that would completely make up for ian mckellan stealing derek jacobi away from
meall of us THIS gally, so yes, i HEARTILY APPROVE OF THIS PLAN.no subject
Date: 2012-12-10 03:38 pm (UTC)