"The! Loch Ness! MONSTER!"

[icepixie]

Hee. "Terror of the Zygons" is soooo cheesy, but so much fun. And I'm only halfway through. Love the monster that's barely half a step up from the old black and white Godzilla movie.

Is Huckle supposed to be American, or Scottish with an accent that got blown very off-course?

"The Armageddon Factor" also showed up from Netflix today. Hey, it's both Romanas! Sort of! But not really! The ending was a bit...anticlimactic, but oh well. And it was totally not written near the height of the Cold War. NOT AT ALL. *coughcoughmutualassuredestructioncough*

ETA: Aw, according to the commentary, Mary Tamm's a Harry Potter fan. Hee!

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Why are Charley and the Doctor arguing about architectural styles in this fic I'm trying desperately to finish that has NOTHING TO DO with architecture? Why has Frank Lloyd Wrong entered into it? Why do I have the Doctor actually calling him "Frank Lloyd Wrong"? *facepalm* (Although you know Eight would be all, "Dude, your houses are boring. Give them a few arches, or a turret somewhere, or some decorative trim!")

Still soliciting a beta for it, BTW. Preferably someone who can cut out the overly twee bits, but anyone who's good at noticing my sentences of excessiveness would be grand.

Comments

[alto2.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched "The Armageddon Factor" in ages, but I do recall it scaring the crap out of me when I was young and impressionable (and easily scared by the ideas on DW even if the monsters themselves were a bit crap). Loved it, though I was rather creeped out by the idea of Romana modeling herself after Astra.

I'd be happy to give your fic a look as long as it's not going to spoil me for anything past "Chimes of Midnight," since that's as far as I am through the audios. Let me know.

[icepixie]

I still don't really find the old Whos scary. I think you need to see them at a more impressionable age for that kind of thing to work. ;)

I read a lovely fic, neither title or author of which I can remember, dammit, where the Doctor confronted Romana about why she'd taken Astra's form, and she said basically that it was in atonement for the princess's death; "a life for a life," as it were. Of course, Astra doesn't die at the end, but I guess Romana doesn't know that? Shaky canon or not, it's lovely. I wish I could remember who wrote it!

I'd be happy to give your fic a look as long as it's not going to spoil me for anything past "Chimes of Midnight," since that's as far as I am through the audios. Let me know.

Ooooh, fantastic. Sadly, it does reference the big emotional moment in Neverland, and there's a throwaway reference to Time of the Daleks, although it doesn't spoil the resolution of the plot.

If you're still interested, I'd love you to do it, but I definitely don't want to spoil you!

[alto2.livejournal.com]

I think you need to see them at a more impressionable age for that kind of thing to work. ;)

Quite possibly, though, again, the reason I still find the Cybermen terrifying (especially this most recent bunch) is because of the idea behind them, much more so than the actual visuals. And I'll confess that Sutekh still scared me when watching PoM last week, but that's probably also because he scared the living shit out of me when I was a kid as much as the idea of a creature like that existing.

Alas, I don't want to spoil myself, either, so I guess I will pass on the fic :( Maybe I'll be more caught up next time!

[icepixie]

Alas, I don't want to spoil myself, either, so I guess I will pass on the fic :( Maybe I'll be more caught up next time!

No worries. I'll ask around on zagreuswaits when I get closer to finishing it. (I've got at least a thousand words left before it's done, which translates to probably two or three days for me, plus whatever time I need to revise it on my own.)

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Astra's "death": There's some feeling in fandom that we didn't quite see the truth at the end, that Astra couldn't have been turned back into a person and was hidden again as part of the key in some new part of the galaxy. Not a theory I subscribe to, of course, being too much of an optimist. But that's the idea among some fans. :?P

[icepixie]

So basically, these people are saying, "Let's ignore everything we see at the end, wheee!" *raises eyebrow* *rolls eyes* Although I suppose we don't technically see her shifting from key to person again, but I think that probably had more to do with budget concerns than anything else.

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Yes, well...fanboys are a funny lot, Whovians even more so. *snerk*

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Am I shallow to just say I love Mary Tamm's outfit in Armageddon Factor?

Oh, and Drax amuses me quite a bit. *snerk*

[icepixie]

Am I shallow to just say I love Mary Tamm's outfit in Armageddon Factor?

Not at all. I love it too. :)

Got your e-mail about the DW vid--and that's one I totally downloaded as soon as she put it up. *g* Love the bit with Charley! Have you seen her vid to Great Big Sea's "Ordinary Day"? Fabby.

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Ordinary Day: YES! Love that one! It's how I found the other, actually. *g*