All my friends are here and all my friends are drunk

[alexsarll]

If I'm honest, I spent some of the early part of 'The Family of Blood' not being that impressed. But then I realised...it's deliberate that John Smith was being so hopeless. Like Martha said, he's rubbish as a human. Like the Family said, 'human' and 'idiot' are the same thing, aren't they? I basically spent the second half in tears, even when I was also laughing. Best Who ever? Well, best TV Who ever, possibly. Joint with 'The Doctor Dances', maybe.

Good Stay Beautiful also, even if the buses on the way over were diverted (which is acceptable) and lying about the extent of the diversion on the shelters (which is not). Those fibre-optic countdowns - there is no excuse, ever, for them to say buses are coming to a stop when they are not. And whoever set up the system such that they do should have their own severed head announcing the truth at bus stops instead. Anyway, got there in the end, and was still sufficiently buzzing from Who not to have been put in a bad mood by it. Though I do wonder if I should go back to the Wicked model of straight-edging SB, as a night which doesn't need alcohol to get the appropriate...shimmer.

"Truth about Kyoto: huge profits, little carbon saved". Corruption in UN and EU projects? Well there's a surprise.

If only any goth clubs had £50 million to spare, Damien Hirst's diamond-encrusted platinum skull would surely be the best discoball ever.

Comments

[worldofagwu.livejournal.com]

maybe dr who being rubbish as a human = a tribute to all his fans who are also rubbish at being human...? ( - i'm ingluding myself here )

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

That's one way of looking at it, but for me it's more that, with the decline of religion and myth in any worthwhile form, nowadays only fans of 'genre' entertainment are aware of quite how many models there are for forms of life vastly preferable to humanity. Everyone else labours under the (horrific? reassuring?) impression that humanity's as good as it gets...

[worldofagwu.livejournal.com]

it's "funny" to think of ppl looking round at everything that's going on in the world & saying: "this is as goob as it gets" ( - & even worse, meaning it )

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

"The optimist loudly proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears he is right."
Good old James Branch Cabell.