...and breathe

[alexsarll]

Friday: an excellent night at Black Plastic, which augstone has already written up pretty much perfectly, but then locked. Bah. A dreamlike quality to events, right from the start where I walked past the venue three times in spite of having been there before. More space than at the Star, which I know is always more of a benefit for the crowd than for the promoters, but nor did it feel empty - and crucially, of the people who were there, emphatically unlike the Star, they were all the right sort. I approve.
Saturday: out to Epping for one of the more rural Tubewalks, complete with bunnies, a friendly horse and a huge amount of butterflies. Plus, a peculiar gate, my first nettling of the year (symptoms totally eradicated by the quick application of Vaseline Intensive Care, so that's one to remember) and a fun time walking around the Theydon Bois perimeter defences. Also, did you know there are cattle grids to stop cows walking on to the the M25? Which is handy, but no obstacle to a Tubewalker (in your face, cows), so I went down and briefly stood on the M25, just because. In the evening I was planning to have a quiet night in, or maybe just the one. Or two. Or oh no, not gin too.
Sunday: a very pleasant day, but one which ended early on account of my being dead.

So, I'm assuming we've all seen the eleventh Doctor's outfit and the new companion's name now (Amy Pond? Between this and River Song, does this mean we can also expect him to meet Veronica Lake in the next historical?). But, were we all aware that Tom Baker is finally reprising the role of the Fourth Doctor in a new run of audios by Paul Magrs? And in Who related news, Sherlock Holmes (a fictional creation of Arthur Conan Doyle's inspired by his meeting with the Fourth Doctor, as well as a real person with whom the Seventh teamed up - don't ask) is getting a new TV series written by Who's Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. Only problem being, it stars the rather bland Benedict Cumberbatch and will be "remaking Holmes as a “dynamic superhero” figure" - apparently the exact same take as the forthcoming Robert Downey Jr film, but with a vastly less charismatic lead and presumably a far smaller budget. Wouldn't a more distinctive approach be a better idea?

Comments

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I'm better now.

My first thought was 'Maximo Park' but I am still repeating to myself that I trust Moffat implicitly and everything will be fine. And Karen Gillan is indeed rather pretty.

[xandratheblue.livejournal.com]

Well, at least that's got to be better than Catherine Tate who was annoying and not worth perving on.

It's not Maximon Park, it's *whisper it* deepest darkest Hoxton wear!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

But then half of the aliens in the series' history would also look quite at home in Hoxton. Especially the Movellans. (http://imdoctorwho.blogspot.com/2009/03/movellans.html)

I never considered Catherine Tate totty, but she did become considerably less annoying as the series progressed. I just hope RTD doesn't bring her back for the finale as that would totally invalidate everything done with her over the course of her season.

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

Catherine Tate was amazing in the last few episodes, I was genuinely devisated by what occured.

Am a bit concerned about RTD, he's got it in him to completely fvck everything ever up.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Likewise (on both points). But if RTD is unable to resist temptation to bring back Rose, Donna, the Slitheen et al, it will at least be made more bearable by knowing that Moffat will have the sense to move on and never, ever refer to such a clusterfvck again.