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icepixieHaving no interest in any sport involving a ball, I've been ignoring the World Cup hoopla. However, I have heard enough about the vuvuzela controversy to find this LOTR parody absolutely hilarious. :D
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In fic-writing news, I...appear to be writing kid!fic. For the fic in question, a kid was always going to be in the background, but now there have been several straight paragraphs featuring her. Given that the last time I actually interacted with a child under school-age was when I was a small child myself (No, really, I remember the last time. It was 1989. I was five.), this is rather inconvenient. I am having to look up things like, "When do kids start speaking in sentences?" and "When do they get too heavy to pick up?" and "Two-year-olds eat solid food, right?"
There are many, many reasons you never want to ask me to babysit. These are some of them. (Another big one is because my response would probably be along the lines of, "Sorry, I was looking forward to cleaning my bathroom. With a toothbrush. And some spit.")
The other fic torturing me is less a fic than an idea--the "Susan Ivanova, Laura Roslin, and Cordelia Vorkosigan meet up and send bad guys out an airlock (or to some equivalently bad end)" idea I keep wanting to write. Except I'm not really sure how to do such a crossover without a lot of explanatory gobbledy-gook. Maybe they all stumble across the same interdimensional portal and have to kick the ass of someone trying to close it down? Or perhaps the Doctor--Ten, I think--brings them all together somehow, and they kick his ass. (That may have something to do with me just wanting to see Ten get beaten up by someone. Anyone would do.)
Maybe I could just start in medias res with Susan's boot on someone's neck and take it from there, leaving the explanation for how all three of them came to be in the same place to your fertile imaginations.
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In fic-writing news, I...appear to be writing kid!fic. For the fic in question, a kid was always going to be in the background, but now there have been several straight paragraphs featuring her. Given that the last time I actually interacted with a child under school-age was when I was a small child myself (No, really, I remember the last time. It was 1989. I was five.), this is rather inconvenient. I am having to look up things like, "When do kids start speaking in sentences?" and "When do they get too heavy to pick up?" and "Two-year-olds eat solid food, right?"
There are many, many reasons you never want to ask me to babysit. These are some of them. (Another big one is because my response would probably be along the lines of, "Sorry, I was looking forward to cleaning my bathroom. With a toothbrush. And some spit.")
The other fic torturing me is less a fic than an idea--the "Susan Ivanova, Laura Roslin, and Cordelia Vorkosigan meet up and send bad guys out an airlock (or to some equivalently bad end)" idea I keep wanting to write. Except I'm not really sure how to do such a crossover without a lot of explanatory gobbledy-gook. Maybe they all stumble across the same interdimensional portal and have to kick the ass of someone trying to close it down? Or perhaps the Doctor--Ten, I think--brings them all together somehow, and they kick his ass. (That may have something to do with me just wanting to see Ten get beaten up by someone. Anyone would do.)
Maybe I could just start in medias res with Susan's boot on someone's neck and take it from there, leaving the explanation for how all three of them came to be in the same place to your fertile imaginations.
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Date: 2010-06-29 04:07 am (UTC)Sadly, I can hear those.
There was faaaaaail. I'm sick of New Who's "you can get anything you want via wishful thinking!" agenda. Seriously, the world was saved by... thinking of the Doctor. AGAIN. THERE IS ONLY SO MUCH TINKERBELL JESUS I CAN TAKE.
NOOOOOOOOO! Sci-fi should at least TRY to be reality-based!
And there's the Mickey situation all over again, except this time it's subtler, and somehow that makes it crueler, and the whole setup makes an otherwise awesome companion look like a manipulative bitch.
Oh, that sucks. I heard she got married to someone, and they're traveling with the Doctor together, which gave me high hopes that maybe this companion would not fall in love with/be mistaken for the girlfriend of the Doctor.
Also, they offended science with their ludicrous temporal-spatial plots. Despite this being, you know, SCIENCE FICTION.
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being NASA and 10 being the recent Star Trek movie (where they PARACHUTED FROM SPACE), how bad was it?
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Date: 2010-06-29 06:00 am (UTC)Lol, me too! Curse our lifetimes of sensible use of the volume dial!
Sci-fi should at least TRY to be reality-based!
At this point, I don't even care about reality, I just want it to be ACT-based, not "think happy thoughts and wait for things to get better!"-based. That's a sick thing to tell little kids, even in comparison to all the other sick things DW tells little kids.
I heard she got married to someone, and they're traveling with the Doctor together
Yeah, but... Mickey'd. He gets ignored/belittled a lot by both Amy and the Doctor, and he's obviously inferior in every way. Amy's always back and forth amongst "oh yay I love you let's get married like we planned!" and "ummm you're nice but we could always get married laaaaaaterrrrr...." and "wait, fiance? What fiance?" LITERALLY. SHE LITERALLY FORGETS HE EXISTS FOR A FEW EPISODES. HE LITERALLY DOES NOT EXIST FOR A FEW EPISODES. And then she un-erases his existence by... tinkerbell-Jesusing him? After which he "proves his love" by hanging around for TWO MILLENNIA guarding her not-quite-dead body (after which he emerges exactly the same, completely unaffected by, uh, two thousand years of life), and then they get married, but Amy FLIPS OUT during the wedding and stops the proceedings in their tracks because omg, she has to tinkerbell-Jesus the Doctor. And then she blatantly hits on the Doctor. During her rehearsal dinner. In front of her fiance. Who just stands there and goes, "well, yeah."
which gave me high hopes that maybe this companion would not fall in love with/be mistaken for the girlfriend of the Doctor.
Amy is traumatically fixated upon, but not in love with, the Doctor, and somehow that led her to try to have sex with him the night before her wedding. She is constantly mistaken for his girlfriend, while her actual fiance is mistaken for her brother, or her servant.
ARG. It kills me because Amy is so awesome in so very many ways, but her degrading treatment of Rory makes it really difficult for me to like her and to want her to not get eaten by monsters.
Star Trek movie (where they PARACHUTED FROM SPACE)
Bwahah!
how bad was it?
The science was so bad as to be unintelligible, not to mention all the "uhhhh we can fix this plot hole by...wishing!" travesties. I'd call it an 11, because at least in the Star Trek movie they made a vague gesture at science. This was just made-up words and leprechauns.
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Date: 2010-06-29 03:46 pm (UTC)Perhaps the New Who writers are secret communists? "The
stateDoctor will take care of everything!"That's a sick thing to tell little kids, even in comparison to all the other sick things DW tells little kids.
Like "being reduced to a talking paving stone is just as good as being kept alive!"?
LITERALLY. SHE LITERALLY FORGETS HE EXISTS FOR A FEW EPISODES. HE LITERALLY DOES NOT EXIST FOR A FEW EPISODES.
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
And then she un-erases his existence by... tinkerbell-Jesusing him?
Does she actually have to clap her hands?
After which he "proves his love" by hanging around for TWO MILLENNIA guarding her not-quite-dead body (after which he emerges exactly the same, completely unaffected by, uh, two thousand years of life)
D: D: D:
And then she blatantly hits on the Doctor. During her rehearsal dinner. In front of her fiance. Who just stands there and goes, "well, yeah."
...I'm going to assume they've made one of those deals where you get five or ten people your spouse won't mind if you sleep with, no questions asked. Or possibly the Rory wants to sleep with the Doctor as well.
Amy is traumatically fixated upon, but not in love with, the Doctor, and somehow that led her to try to have sex with him the night before her wedding.
*HEADDESK*
She is constantly mistaken for his girlfriend, while her actual fiance is mistaken for her brother, or her servant.
*DOUBLE HEADDESK*
ARG. It kills me because Amy is so awesome in so very many ways, but her degrading treatment of Rory makes it really difficult for me to like her and to want her to not get eaten by monsters.
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The science was so bad as to be unintelligible, not to mention all the "uhhhh we can fix this plot hole by...wishing!" travesties. I'd call it an 11, because at least in the Star Trek movie they made a vague gesture at science. This was just made-up words and leprechauns.
Perhaps in addition to collecting spare change for a script supervisor for Bones, we should raise money for science courses for Teh Moff?
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Date: 2010-06-30 04:40 am (UTC)"Now get back in line, clap your hands, and say, 'I DO believe in bread, I do I do!'"
Like "being reduced to a talking paving stone is just as good as being kept alive!"?
As is the "getting stored half-alive in a stay-at-home-mom fantasy on a giant hard drive!"!
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
No kidding.
Does she actually have to clap her hands?
There's a lot of jumping on tables and shouting of his name and looking mentally ill in front of all her family and friends and in-laws. It's kinda awkward. But at least there's no glowing or floating this time.
...I'm going to assume they've made one of those deals where you get five or ten people your spouse won't mind if you sleep with, no questions asked.
Bwah! I'd heard it was three. You're so liberal. : D
Or possibly the Rory wants to sleep with the Doctor as well.
...that would be a more respectful scenario, actually. I could go for that.
The giant sexism!fail has gotten so much better since RTD, and yet... there is still atrocity.
Perhaps in addition to collecting spare change for a script supervisor for Bones, we should raise money for science courses for Teh Moff?
Just a couple! A physics course or two!
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Date: 2010-06-30 04:33 pm (UTC)"Look, the Doctor is making five loaves into enough to feed five thousand!"
As is the "getting stored half-alive in a stay-at-home-mom fantasy on a giant hard drive!"!
Just like that!
There's a lot of jumping on tables and shouting of his name and looking mentally ill in front of all her family and friends and in-laws. It's kinda awkward. But at least there's no glowing or floating this time.
Progress?
Bwah! I'd heard it was three. You're so liberal. : D
I've heard as many as fifteen. But I was working in academia for the past two years--bastion of liberality, even here!
...that would be a more respectful scenario, actually. I could go for that.
The Doctor will turn your marriage polygamous if you stay long enough!
The giant sexism!fail has gotten so much better since RTD, and yet... there is still atrocity.
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