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[skywaterblue]

"Doomsday" was on Sci-fi and as I was waiting for my facial mask to dry and had already gotten my schadenfreude on from it turns out that the National Enquirer may know its shit after all, I decided that was a good use of my time. These are some thoughts:

1. It's totally cheery that the episode ends with DONNA. It makes the last thirty seconds so optimistic. Don't cry, Emo!Ten, Donna's there to be awesome.

2. Hilarious is the Sci Fi channel's bad edits, especially when they cut from Billie Piper ruining her mascara right to a commercial for no-run mascara.

3. I'm gonna spend some time thinking about this again, because the Breaking Dawn Twatlight wank has brought it up fresh for me, but isn't it kind of depressing how much emphasis is put on 'the ordinary people' sometimes? It makes me wonder how many people are out there waiting for a vampire to show up/the TARDIS/to get accepted into Hogwarts instead of trying hard every day to be awesome in the world we get.

(And that's why Lyra Belaqcua kicks everyone's ass, the end.)

Comments

[penguinsane.livejournal.com]

I have Doomsday in my Netflix queue next actually. Overall good y/n?

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

Wait, the new movie with Adrian Lester and Rhona Mitre or the Doctor Who episode?

Because I think the Doctor Who episode is actually one of the better finales. The movie I haven't seen yet, but Cooper rented it and I can ask him.

[penguinsane.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, the movie. I didn't realize there was a Doctor Who ep of the same name. I don't follow that series.

Sorry about that!

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

How bad could the movie be? It has a ton of decent actors.

Anyway, yeah. This post = Doctor Who.

[thedorkygirl.livejournal.com]

You know, I can't argue with the Lyra comment. I thought at first I could, but it's really true that, in the end, she went off to live a normal life and was grateful for it. And also that the "unnormal" part of her life didn't exactly phase her to begin with, ha, because she was so awesome that she went, "And? I'm supposed to be shocked?"

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

Her ending is actually even better than that. Not only is she filled with gratitude, she dedicates her normal life to becoming just as awesome as an adult.

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

instead of trying hard every day to be awesome in the world we get.

Word. Which is probably why I usually find the characters who don't have special powers more interesting than the ones who do.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I have that. Ando on Heroes is basically the only character I still like. This rant is about how I hate when those characters, by the end of the series, have become so massively overpowered as to be ridiculous.

I think I'm trying to justify why I think Rose Tyler is the dumbest whiny cow on the planet though. It isn't because she works in a shop, it's because -- you know, she didn't have to let that define her existence.

[fashionbeast.livejournal.com]

Some observations on current trends in YA fantasy:

JK Rowling had never written before Harry Potter.
Stephanie Meyer had never written before Twilight.

JK Rowling had no idea she was writing fantasy.
Stephanie Meyer has never read a book, watched a movie, or eaten a cereal about vampires.

The success of both authors launched a thousand titles in their wake- "Suddenly" children and teenage girls are into fantasy and vampires.
Only old guard bookstore employees note that in fact kids have always loved fantasy and teenage girls have always read gothic romance, but never before have they been MARKETED agressively.

Both series are celebrated in the press for their "ordinary heroes."
By the end of both series, their respective fandoms were both primarily engaged with secondary characters.

...There's a pattern underneath all of this, but the probable answer depresses me, so I'm quiting while I still have 17 sanity points.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I'd call it the Margaret Atwood Tarantella, but even when Atwood sucks she's a thousand times better than Rowling and Meyer. (Also, poor JK. However unreadable I thought Harry Potter was, it has to burn to be compared to Meyer.)

[kiss-me-cassie.livejournal.com]

This whole post is made of win. :)