OMG, you guys.
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fenellaSo, clearly I should be writing a melodramatic entry about how I am done my undergrad (which, yay!) and I will miss everyone and (most of) everything terribly and how I saw the (undeniably fantastic) Trews a bit back but seriously... Doctor Who.
Why did I only just start watching this now?
David Tennant, The Girl in the Fireplace, random horses on spaceships, Queen Victoria & the Werewolf (pronounciation: "Werewulf"), Douglas Adams plots, Douglas Adams humour (is this just British humour?), tear-jerking moment, alternate universes, Billie Piper, David Tennant and tear-jerking moments in alternate universes, Cyberman vs. Daleks throwdown ("Delete!" "Exterminate!" "Delete!" "Exterminate!"), a fantastically crazy cast who do charity editions of The Weakest Link. SO MUCH CRACK. SO LITTLE TIME.
Long lost brothers (if the trench coat fits!) with bonus points for sister Veronica (see: Tennant, Canada's former Prima Ballerina) or Mountie + TARDIS. Take your pick! You know you want to write me crack!
Neil Gaiman says re: Tennant Hamlet 2.0 (or 3.0, depending if you count Paul Gross' and Geoffrey Tennant's Hamlets as seperate...)
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush...
"To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and... for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?"
... can you imagine Darren Nichols in space? Or New Burbage in the year 3 Billion? Where the actors are all cloned versions of Ellen, Geoffrey, etc.? This is going to be so much fun.
Why did I only just start watching this now?
David Tennant, The Girl in the Fireplace, random horses on spaceships, Queen Victoria & the Werewolf (pronounciation: "Werewulf"), Douglas Adams plots, Douglas Adams humour (is this just British humour?), tear-jerking moment, alternate universes, Billie Piper, David Tennant and tear-jerking moments in alternate universes, Cyberman vs. Daleks throwdown ("Delete!" "Exterminate!" "Delete!" "Exterminate!"), a fantastically crazy cast who do charity editions of The Weakest Link. SO MUCH CRACK. SO LITTLE TIME.
Long lost brothers (if the trench coat fits!) with bonus points for sister Veronica (see: Tennant, Canada's former Prima Ballerina) or Mountie + TARDIS. Take your pick! You know you want to write me crack!
Neil Gaiman says re: Tennant Hamlet 2.0 (or 3.0, depending if you count Paul Gross' and Geoffrey Tennant's Hamlets as seperate...)
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush...
"To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and... for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?"
... can you imagine Darren Nichols in space? Or New Burbage in the year 3 Billion? Where the actors are all cloned versions of Ellen, Geoffrey, etc.? This is going to be so much fun.
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Date: 2008-05-19 04:23 am (UTC)Why, yes. I can!
Darren: "I need-- more black. MORE. BLACK."
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Date: 2008-05-20 08:58 pm (UTC)Darren would find some alien race who adore him for his lack of soul. He'd become ruler and stage crazy plays.
(... I think we just found the director for our hockey opera on ice.)
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Date: 2008-05-21 04:24 am (UTC)Darren: I want this opera to be STIFF. COLD. RIGID. You must skate like marrionettes; like clockwork figures; like silly toy soldiers. I want to expose the mindless, self-destructive relationship between fans and players, the soul-sucking superficiality of the Stanley Cup. I want the audience to see the futility of it all. There must be more craven violence! Less joy! A communal feeling of desperate desolation! All together now...
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Date: 2008-05-22 03:07 am (UTC)A solitary figure on skates, long hair flowing in the wind (see: high-power wind machine) is silhouetted on the ice as the orchestra of percussion and high strings plays a harsh, stilted, twelve-tone overture. There is no frivolity. The overture ends as soon as all twelve tones have been stated.
An elaborate display of pyrotechnics signifies the beginning of the action, flames shooting every which way. The chorus skaters cower in the corners of this oddly pentagonal ice rink. The man in the middle of the ice stand tall and proud. Without emotion.
Smyth, as the man is known, removes his helmet, hurls it across the ice.
SMYTH: (translated from russian)
Defender of the sacred sport,
all things that are good
and true.
We shall prevail,
this team of unsuspected heroes.
Yes, we shall prevaiiiiiil.
How do you like THEM apples?