At last! “The Big Bang” is how a season-ender episode should be– fun, poignant, epic, intimate, and without a stupid-arse Emo Doctor Is Emo ending. And… what a great use of wibbly-wobbly timey-whimey! I’m so happy for Rory, and actually liked Amy in the episode! Plus… HOORAY! A MARRIED COUPLE ARE THE COMPANIONS!!!!!!!!! It’s about freaking time.
(Although, I’m sure there will be now all sorts of “marriage agenda” arguments.)
More later in the summer on this topic, I think– once I’m done squeeing, and once I’ve had a chance to formulate my Overall Theory About Why I Hate Amy Sometimes (And Why It’s Only Sometimes).
Knowing fandom like I do, though, I can’t help but wonder how long it will take before:
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Saturday was all about panels for me: being on them, seeing others. I did some panel at 10 a.m. (which was so memorable that I have no idea what it was now), another one (on conventions) at 11 a.m., and Favorite Doctor Who Moments at 4 p.m. I took in the Louise Page slide show at 1 p.m., saw most of Georgia Moffett’s interview, looked in on the Comics-to-Other-Media panel. In the evening, I helped judge workmanship in the Masquerade. I love Masquerades! I’ve been costuming for 30 years this year, for both myself and others, so I have great familiarity with them. (No, please don’t ask what costumes I’ve done lately– I haven’t, other than Valerie’s Halloween outfits. I have a long list of what’s next, once my size stops being an issue.) And then, MORE LOBBYCON! Until 2 a.m.!!!!!!! (Which included a good discussion with fellow CT staff as to how to fit in Moths with the con’s usual evening activities.)
Sunday, more panels for me, starting with the Liars’ Panel at 10 a.m. Everyone on the panel agreed that, in the future, the panel needs to be in the evening, so we can make more dirty jokes and perhaps be more witty. (10 a.m. on Sunday isn’t good for the bon mots.) I also talked about fan films at noon. In between panels, I hung a bit with a college friend and his family, who are local to L.A. The son has become a big Doctor Who fan, so he was having a great time. His little sister, not so much.
Chicks Dig Time Lords had its official launch panel at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. We gave a good panel, the 9 or 12 of us squeezed onto the dais. I found it fairly annoying, though, that in many people’s minds, DW fandom didn’t exist until the Internest, so therefore all of my 1980’s experiences don’t count. This attitude permeated the panelists as well as the audience. I can understand that from a personal-reference standpoint, because, yeah, many fans came aboard during the Wilderness Years or during the New Series, and fandom as they first found it is what they know. But I was feeling that what I had to offer was being discounted because the events happened decades ago. (And, you know, it’s probably just my ego bitching here, not what really went on in the panel.)
After the panel, we had a spontaneous book-signing session in the pre-function space. I signed a number of copies, thereby convincing my friend’s son that I was famous. (Sweet boy!) Afterwards, hung out with people until Closing Ceremonies, then did dinner, then more Lobbycon, and then bed, relatively early at 11 p.m.
Monday, my BFF and I went to Amoeba Records, Downtown Disney, and Pasadena (the last by error, thanks Google Maps!). In the ayem, though, I camped out by the pool in the sun, with a book and a Mountain Dew. Ah, bliss. And then, back to snowy and cold Chicago on Tuesday. The end.
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Note: Blogging at the Con, made of fail! Although, did tweet a little bit. Too busy doing stuff to ruminate. So now I’m reduced to catching up after the fact. And, if you go beyond the “more”, you’ll read all about Friday, some of which was actually written on the Friday of the convention. WOW!
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In theory, I can add a photo from my iPhone to a post written on said device. In reality…. I see that it just adds them at the end of the post, no options for editing. Oh well. Enjoy this photo of Dot the Leopard eating in the hotel bar.
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It’s nearly 10 pm on Thursday night, and for all intents and purposes, the convention has begun. The lobby undulates with Doctor Who fans making their way through the first bottle of both booze and convo. (Not everyone drinks, of course, but there are quite a number of people who drink for two here… or at any con, really.) Although you’d think a con is only as good as it’s programming, the social scene matters equally. Sometimes it’s more important, if there’s not much going on during the day.
I really think that what helped Chicago TARDIS along the first few years was a splendid bar to hang in and around. Once we moved to a hotel sans such a convenient hangout, the con seemed much quieter. Now we have an awesome lobby again, CT is much more bustling. If only we can convince the bar to stay open past 7 p.m. on Thursday night…..
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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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