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Oct. 29th, 2008 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backup*flops*
Peapod has come and gone, bringing with it walnuts, two cornish game hens, a package of ground chicken, yoghurt, lemons (for lemon curd!), eggs (also for lemon curd!) and dirty rice mix, among other things. My work is done for the evening. I HAVE A COOKIE. Life is okay!
I've more or less finished with 2006, in the journal-uploading process. So that's nice. Only about six more months to upload before I can automate it via the GJ/IJ mirrors, though I'll still have to check those against Googlereader and tag them and such. I should, with any luck, be fully reupped by Christmas.
In other news, yes, I have heard about David Tennant leaving Doctor Who after the 2009 specials. And yes, it does feel a bit like the franchise is falling apart, between the specials-and-then-bolt for Tennant and the Torchwood miniseries absurdity. It is sad to see Tennant go because he is brilliant and because he clearly loves doing the show as much as die-hard fans love watching it.
BUT.
I can see where he's coming from, because you want to have a good run and then get out. I'd have said five years rather than three, especially with the truncated thirteen-episode seasons, but it's his call to make and he's a thinky enough guy, with enough insider information on how the show is going, that I trust his wisdom in making it. So I say unto fandom:
BABY LET'S TALK ABOUT ELEVEN.
I mean, come on, this is what happens, this is Doctor Who! I've never been in on the ground floor of a regeneration before. Get with the gestalt! Man, can you imagine what it was like to see the Doctor regenerate for the very first time? When you didn't know what was going to happen and couldn't concieve of the Doctor regenerating and hadn't got any casting spoilers because Al Gore hadn't invented the internet yet? And if you were there and watching, COME ON, TELL US ABOUT IT, share your stories!
SO ELEVEN, RIGHT. David Hewlett has suggested Eddie Izzard. Someone on fandomsecrets suggested David Hewlett. I think Alan Davis would do well, don't you? He was brilliantly enigmatic in Jonathan Creek. People seemed to like Hugh Laurie when I put him up as the Real Doctor in the Edgar van Scyoc duology.
Let's find some funny-looking mad geeky bastard and throw him in the TARDIS and see what he's made of, yeah?
And for those of you who worry about the whole thirteen regenerations thing, DON'T FRET. I HAVE A CUNNING PLAN.
*re-reads entry*
Yeah, maybe no more cookies for me for now.
Peapod has come and gone, bringing with it walnuts, two cornish game hens, a package of ground chicken, yoghurt, lemons (for lemon curd!), eggs (also for lemon curd!) and dirty rice mix, among other things. My work is done for the evening. I HAVE A COOKIE. Life is okay!
I've more or less finished with 2006, in the journal-uploading process. So that's nice. Only about six more months to upload before I can automate it via the GJ/IJ mirrors, though I'll still have to check those against Googlereader and tag them and such. I should, with any luck, be fully reupped by Christmas.
In other news, yes, I have heard about David Tennant leaving Doctor Who after the 2009 specials. And yes, it does feel a bit like the franchise is falling apart, between the specials-and-then-bolt for Tennant and the Torchwood miniseries absurdity. It is sad to see Tennant go because he is brilliant and because he clearly loves doing the show as much as die-hard fans love watching it.
BUT.
I can see where he's coming from, because you want to have a good run and then get out. I'd have said five years rather than three, especially with the truncated thirteen-episode seasons, but it's his call to make and he's a thinky enough guy, with enough insider information on how the show is going, that I trust his wisdom in making it. So I say unto fandom:
BABY LET'S TALK ABOUT ELEVEN.
I mean, come on, this is what happens, this is Doctor Who! I've never been in on the ground floor of a regeneration before. Get with the gestalt! Man, can you imagine what it was like to see the Doctor regenerate for the very first time? When you didn't know what was going to happen and couldn't concieve of the Doctor regenerating and hadn't got any casting spoilers because Al Gore hadn't invented the internet yet? And if you were there and watching, COME ON, TELL US ABOUT IT, share your stories!
SO ELEVEN, RIGHT. David Hewlett has suggested Eddie Izzard. Someone on fandomsecrets suggested David Hewlett. I think Alan Davis would do well, don't you? He was brilliantly enigmatic in Jonathan Creek. People seemed to like Hugh Laurie when I put him up as the Real Doctor in the Edgar van Scyoc duology.
Let's find some funny-looking mad geeky bastard and throw him in the TARDIS and see what he's made of, yeah?
And for those of you who worry about the whole thirteen regenerations thing, DON'T FRET. I HAVE A CUNNING PLAN.
*re-reads entry*
Yeah, maybe no more cookies for me for now.
