Various Fannish Bits
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fangrrl_squeesTime Agency fanfic of doom has reached the highly annoying stage of 'ticking along nicely, while tearing itself apart'.
I really like the premise, and the characters and some of the plots I've jotted, but there's some gaping bloody great things wrong with it and I don't know if I'm smart enough to fix them.
Still, as mentioned before, I've got a great setup for a tabletop RPG, if nothing else - but I'd rather not settle for that.
Brain is fizzing on other ideas, but they're even more frivolous and wasteful of time. To hell with them.
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I finished listening to Orbis - quite silly, but also fairly amusing. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the gender-transitioning sentient clams featured in the story. Humorous, yes, but vaguely offensive, too - or am I being oversensitive? The not-at-all subtle PMT joke was definitely annoying, though.
I see the eighth Doctor is having memory issues again. It's amazing he's got any mind left after all he's been through. I wonder if the amnesia/not-remembering-Lucie is really going to matter across the series, or if it's a we'll ignore it until we've run out of ideas sort of plot point.
Anyone out there listened to the rest of the series? Is it worth buying? $9/eps to download is a bargain, but money being what it is, I'm twitchy about making a purchase if it's going to, erm, suck.
I still think Lucie rocks, though. Just sayin'.
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Speaking of twitchy, yes, I know that Torchwood's "third series" looms and, yes, I'm annoyed about BBCA playing silly buggers with the airing dates. But, honestly? I haven't finished watching S2, yet...
It started out as "I'll save those eps for an afternoon when I want a treat" and then became "I don't know if I really want to end this series yet, it's been such good fun" and finally "Oh, yeah. I'll get around to that one of these days..."
It's odd. I really liked Torchwood's second season and think it's an order of magnitude better than the previous one but... I can't seem to find the motivation to finish the bloody thing. Given how all my Torchwood fan friends have told me "OMG! You'll love the story!" (because of the historical costuming, I s'pose) my reluctance rather baffles me.
I really like the premise, and the characters and some of the plots I've jotted, but there's some gaping bloody great things wrong with it and I don't know if I'm smart enough to fix them.
Still, as mentioned before, I've got a great setup for a tabletop RPG, if nothing else - but I'd rather not settle for that.
Brain is fizzing on other ideas, but they're even more frivolous and wasteful of time. To hell with them.
***
I finished listening to Orbis - quite silly, but also fairly amusing. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the gender-transitioning sentient clams featured in the story. Humorous, yes, but vaguely offensive, too - or am I being oversensitive? The not-at-all subtle PMT joke was definitely annoying, though.
I see the eighth Doctor is having memory issues again. It's amazing he's got any mind left after all he's been through. I wonder if the amnesia/not-remembering-Lucie is really going to matter across the series, or if it's a we'll ignore it until we've run out of ideas sort of plot point.
Anyone out there listened to the rest of the series? Is it worth buying? $9/eps to download is a bargain, but money being what it is, I'm twitchy about making a purchase if it's going to, erm, suck.
I still think Lucie rocks, though. Just sayin'.
***
Speaking of twitchy, yes, I know that Torchwood's "third series" looms and, yes, I'm annoyed about BBCA playing silly buggers with the airing dates. But, honestly? I haven't finished watching S2, yet...
It started out as "I'll save those eps for an afternoon when I want a treat" and then became "I don't know if I really want to end this series yet, it's been such good fun" and finally "Oh, yeah. I'll get around to that one of these days..."
It's odd. I really liked Torchwood's second season and think it's an order of magnitude better than the previous one but... I can't seem to find the motivation to finish the bloody thing. Given how all my Torchwood fan friends have told me "OMG! You'll love the story!" (because of the historical costuming, I s'pose) my reluctance rather baffles me.
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Date: 2009-07-06 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-06 05:58 pm (UTC)(aside: I managed to remain unspoiled about a certain character's death at the end of S2 clear until they showed it in a retrospective at SD ComicCon. I later heard that I was probably the ONLY person in a theater of a couple of thousand who didn't know but STILL, way to blow a spoiler, BBCA!)
S3 looks very, very silly indeed. And that's okay, I like silly. We all need a little silliness in our lives.
But between me, thee and the intertubes, I'll be surprised if they make another series after this one...
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Date: 2009-07-06 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-06 06:24 pm (UTC)After all, I really liked Queer As Folk and Casanova...
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