Fandom notes and queries

[raven]

This is going to be a standard fandom post because my real life is over for the time being.

Firstly, I want to revise but may end up watching the Eurovision Song Contest. Why is Europop so compelling? A couple of years ago Becca downloaded the Estonian entry and we were all listening to it for weeks.

Secondly, dwcanon_fodder has only been in existence for twenty-four hours and is already the most useful fic resource in existence. I've spent a happy half-hour reading through the entire thing, and while it occasionally confuses me more than i enlightens me, it's still fun. I particularly like the eight-comment explanation attached to one of my posts of why the Eighth Doctor threatens to shoot himself.

Thirdly, The Empty Child is on tonight, much yay. The BBC have billed it as scariest ever (there was a kerfuffle about the fact it featured cracking skull noises that are apparently too scary for young children) and it has a new character, Captain Jack Harkness, who is the first character in the show's forty-year history to be bi! Yay!

Fourthly, Chemistry revision. Really. Study leave has started and I am not allowed to fail.

Comments

[apestaartje.livejournal.com]

Is Eurovision tonight? I'm boycotting it this year because Belgium didn't get in. Belgium not getting passed the semi final might have something to do with them sending a crap idiot to "sing" but that's what we've been doing since it started. Belgium can't send a good song to the eurosong. That would just be wrong. So very wrong. If everybody sent good songs to Eurosong we couldn't have all the corruption we have.

Thirdly, The Empty Child is on tonight, much yay. The BBC have billed it as scariest ever
I'll have to try to watch that. I'll have to see what my mother's watching and maybe see if I can tape it. BBC1 or BBC2? I can't find it on the bbc website.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Exactly! It's not about good music! It's about pointing and laughing!

Tonight, 6.30pm on BBC1. The website looks really cool: link! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/)

[apestaartje.livejournal.com]

Oooh. I didn't realise The empty child was a DW episode. l thought it was two separate things. I probably won't be able to watch it then. My mother doesn't like that type of thing and I think Flying doctors is on at that time and she watches that. Ah well. I'll have to try and download it sometime.

Oh, wait a minute. 6.30 is 7.30 here. ::checks:: Damn, some animal hospital programme that must be watched.

[bekkypk.livejournal.com]

MUST WATCH TONIGHT.

MUST WATCH...

*dies*

I am dying of newwho deprivation... at least I saw black orchid this morning on uk gold...
xx

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

So did I! Except I had to go to work and missed the end. What happened after the Doctor took the police into the TARDIS?

[bekkypk.livejournal.com]

I've seen it before, but i missed the ending too.
They went in? I forgot that!
*puzzlement*
Um. It's better described by kibble, this one. Its complicated.
xx

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

it has a new character, Captain Jack Harkness, who is the first character in the show's forty-year history to be bi! Yay!

Way to go, BBC!

You simply don't see bi characters on American television. A character is straight, until they suddenly 'turn', then they're gay. And if they show an interest in both genders? They are either 'confused' or 'in denial'.

There was an even an episode of Law & Order: SVU, where they spent an inordinate amount of time trying to sort out whether a murder victim was 'actually gay' or not (he dated both men and women). Even the police psychologist couldn't figure it out, eventually concluding that the man was most likely gay, just that he was also 'clearly confused' (and obviously also living in some kind of bizarro world where there are no bi people).

Anyway, yay BBC! (and new Who tonight, so double yay!)

[amchau.livejournal.com]

He is? Canonically? What's the equivalent of the Dance of Backstory here? The Dance of Bi Jack?

(P.S. have now seen Wormhole X-treme. MetaYay!)

[kowarth.livejournal.com]

ok, the dr takes everyone back to the manor by TARDIS in time to find that lord cranleigh, the disfigured man upstairs has taken nyssa hostage thinkinging she's his fiancee, anne. he takes her onto the roof in a misguided attempt to escape his captivity in the attic.
part of this escape caused a fire that is blocking the return to the attic, stranding them on the burning roof.
t dr shows the real anne to lord cranleigh and he looses it. with no other option the dr scales the outside of the building and rescues nyssa, but the flames engulf george cranleigh and he falls to his death.
the native batman, who had brought george home to cleanse his sins returns home, everyone at the manor is greatful and the dr is presented with a first edition of georges expedition diary "black orchid"
it will appear again in the next episode as thedr finishes it and reccomends it to adric.
but being ep 1 of earthshock, the boy dai get to read it

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Canonically as in Russell T Davies was quoted as saying so, and that it will become much more apparent as the episodes go on.

Your turn to make up a dance!

Also - don't call me tomorrow, as I really really need the sleep (am deader than a dead thing after work today). If you called in the evening I will definitely be around, and I'd look forward to it even in my sleep. :)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Yay BBC! Oh, god, yes. In the last couple of years, I've been in two long-term relationships - one with a guy and the other with a woman. I am not gay. I am not straight. Thank you, BBC.

Okay, evangelism over. It was a great ep.

[amchau.livejournal.com]

Okay-- Sunday evening, with a bit of luck at this end, then. :) And I'll give some thought to the dance. I'm not sure how well it'll come over on the phone, but I'll try anything once.

[pinkishmew.livejournal.com]

He was bi? I guess I didn't notice because in my head everyone is bisexual.. and all boys perv over other boys in my head.

But wow, that's great. Shame he was a smarmy American[-accented-person] though.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

He was, and according to the PTB, this will be more in evidence in subsequent episodes. Did you not see him smack that guy's arse? Hee.

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

Sorry for getting all ranty in your journal. :)

(and, yes, it was a great episode!)

[pinkishmew.livejournal.com]

[flinches at spoilers] Oh well. I just thought he was joking with that guy who assumed he fancied him, and was playing along. But anyway. I still don't like him because he's smug. However, the arse-smacking was very good. :D