Oh, yes, I know, I know, I haven’t been bothered to even watch “Planet of the Dead” yet, let along review it. I’m not all that keen on watching Tennant’s Doctor now that I know he’s leaving. Just get on with it, will you?
Still, I saw the new Star Trek film today, mostly because I knew that, if I didn’t, I would never ever want to see it because of the hype. Hype turns me off, you see. Even though everything I had read about the film (or seen in the trailers) made me want to vent my spleen all over the Internest, I figured I still owed the franchise a chance. I’ve been a Trekkie for a third of a century now, ever since I was 12. (I was that most scary of fen, the Teenage Trekkie™!) I was in the Star Trektennial Fan Club, the Leonard Nimoy Association of Fans, I watched endless repeats, read endless novels and tie-in books, and was all about the Original Series back when it was the Only Series. So… yeah. I have some Trek cred, I do. And even though I was convinced that the film would suck so hard it would create its own black hole, I plopped my $5.50 down and settled in for the 11:30 a.m. screening.
I am surprised to be able to report that it didn’t suck.
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Having recently returned from attending my 21st out-of-state Doctor Who convention, it’s only fitting that I now blog about my first one. The Virgin Tour, as it were! (And two years before Madonna’s, too!)
In other words, yes, it’s that time again, to hop in the TARDIS and pop back to July of 1983, when Teenage!Jenn hit the road with a busload of like-minded fen to check out Panopticon West 1983 in the wilds of Columbus, Ohio. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by JennAK as Secret History of DW Fandom at 5:57 pm
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Yanno, I don’t really have much to say at all about this story. Perhaps its because I watched it while recovering from a particularly nasty bout of stomach flu. More likely, it’s because the past month’s wankage re the Eleventh Doctor has annoyed me to the point where I don’t give a flying flapdoodle about anything related to the new series. In any case, here’s what little I can come up with regarding the story:
So, yeah, the teaser was brilliant, especially the continuous 360° pan around the Doctor, and the “allons-y” in tandem. I liked Jackson’s storyline– how he thought he was the Doctor, and how he became as heroic as the Doctor at the end. I also liked how a woman yet again resisted Cyberconversion. (Oh, hello, Yvonne, is your memory that short?) And the giant Godzilla Cyberman rising along the Thames was amusing, too. It wasn’t a very serious episode, and it was more uplifting than the previous Christmas special (”Voyage of the Damned,” and, yes, short term memory is the first to go!). In short, some good, bombastic RTD all around.
As I was watching it, I was thinking that I will really miss David Tennant as the Doctor. A month (give or take) later, though– I just don’t want to know. I find I have no interest in the 2009 specials, because he’s going, and they’re all going to be over-the-top and filled with stunt casting and shit (hello, Michelle Williams!), just because they’re specials.
So, yeah, this review wasn’t a review at all. I can only hope that attending Gallifrey next month will revive my spirits and thus make my reviews of the Specials much less snarky. It seems that every 10 years or so, though, I get “off” fandom for awhile– i.e. it gets just too sucky for me to want to deal with. The end of the decade plays havoc with my Time Lord Geekiness.
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Kroll help me, this is late. I got too caught up in all the Matt Smith wankage– and then too disgusted by it– to properly think in DW terms for several weeks. Thus the late appearance of this companion to the Year In Wank.
And now, because at this point, no one cares, here are the Doctor Who related things that made me happy in 2008:
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I was only able to keep up my resolve four hours.
My initial reaction?
This is an outrage!!!!!!
I have been in Doctor Who fandom longer than Matt Smith has been alive. Disgusting.
It can only mean that we’re going to get an even younger person playing the companion, and it will indeed become 90210 In Space. (But hopefully the original version, not the current regeneration airing on the CW.)
Never heard of the guy. Not impressed by the photos– looks all Emo Vampire-y to me, and that’s my least fave kind of thing. (Hope he keeps the longer hair though, because I like the Doctor with longer hair.) Not at all enthused.
I am totally going to have to be won over, preferably within the first five minutes of the regeneration. (Since that’s what happened w/ TENnant for me, and since hopefully Moffatt will be writing the regeneration, or at least heavily advising on it, it shouldn’t be a problem. Unless of course Mr Smith is as made of as much suck as the publicity photos imply.)
(Sultry, Emo looks are all very well and good, but there’s nothing particularly Time Lord-y about them….)
How long will it take, I wonder, for some arse to say, “Oh, he’s worked with Billie Piper again, I’m sure he’ll be happy to work with her on Doctor Who, too.”
All in all, I’m feeling kinda let-down about the whole thing.
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I’m squeaking in under the wire, I know, with this entry. The 2009 wank has already begun, thanks to the BBC announcing they were revealing The Eleventh Doctor today. Nevertheless, I present you with the Top Wanks of the Year.
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Yeah, I know, lots to catch up on, especially since the 2009 wank has already begun in earnest. Still, had to share this brilliant quote from some poor deluded soul over on LJ:
“Can I please ask that anyone posting on the eleventh doctor tomorrow do it from behind a cut. I think ma[n]y of us want it to be a surprise after the regeneration.”
BRUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oooh! I wet ‘um!
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Took less than 24 hours for a rabid batshipper to say “Oh, but he can still come back as the human!Doctor, and bring Rose along with him!!! YAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
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Wank, wank, wank goes the fandom
Ringing loud like a bell
Sigh, sigh, sigh go the old fen
’cause we know the feeling so well
So, it’s official, David Tennant is bailing on Doctor Who after the 2009 specials. Color me surprised– NOT! Sure, it would have been nice to have him stay through at least a bit of the Moffat era, but oh well. I am disappointed, but also excited about what a new actor can bring to the part. I trust in the Moffat-nator to pick someone who is both hunky and can act.
What I’m already hating, though, is all the wailing and nashing of teeth regarding Tennant’s departure.
It’s not like I didn’t see this coming. The way many new fen obsess over the Tenth Doctor, of course they’d all be in shock and full of angst etc. when the announcement finally came. But… now we have to deal with some 18 months of “oh, who’s going to be the new doctor” and “oh, I don’t think HE will be a good Doctor, why was he cast” and “oh, how is Ten going to regenerate” and “Oh, that’s an awful way to regenerate” and “Oh, I hope Rose comes back one last time to be with Her Doctor as He dies.” Eighteen months is a freaking long time, if you ask me! It’s more than enough time for the entire fandom to become hermaphrodites with the amount of wankage that will occur!
Let’s take a look at the above wankage, shall we, and find a bit of comfort in each?
- Oh, who’s going to be the new Doctor? Some U.K. male, probably Caucasian, between the ages of 33-42. Perhaps not well-known, but a competent actor and probably good-looking, too, to keep all those girl!fans who think of nothing but the Doctor’s dishy-ness happy. I don’t see us getting another Sylvester McCoy!
- Oh, I don’t think HE will be a good Doctor, why was he cast? People said the same thing about Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Christopher Eccleston, and David Tennant.
- Oh, how is Ten going to regenerate? Probably very well, if the transition from Nine to Ten is any indication.
- Oh, that’s an awful way to regenerate! Yeah, but it can’t be any worse than Six tripping over an invisible crack in the TARDIS floor and turning into Seven. Sheesh!
- Oh, I hope Rose comes back one last time to be with Her Doctor as He dies. This freaking better not happen, or I will hop a plane to Cardiff and take RTD to task personally. Still, at least we already have an indication that Moffat doesn’t like the Clingy Girlfriend, so at least it would be the very last time we see that chavvy bint!
Oh, all right, that wasn’t very inspirational, was it? May Kroll have mercy on our souls between now and Easter 2010!
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