Dr. Who, Meta, Miscellanea, and Memetics

Okay, it's actually today today. Saturday. So that's good and all.

Spent the day listening to Dr. Who audiobooks, and I'm now ready to have Tennant's mpreg babies.

His Rose impersonation seemed a little off, didn't quite capture her spunk, and his Doctor was curiously understated compared to the way he plays him on TV, but he nailed Jackie and Mickey. Is that because they have more distinctive accents? And some of the other voices were just amazing. And hearing him switch between the Scottish accent (for narration) and the English one (for the Doctor) was so much fun.

And the dialogue given to the Doctor by the book writers was so perfect. It was as if you could hear the Doctor saying it. Well, you could hear the Doctor saying it, which was the beauty of it all.

Listening to the Doctor Who/Treaure Island fusion and comparing it to fanfic was particularly interesting especially since the debt to Robert Louis Stevenson wasn't disclaimed.

Speaking of the Tenth Doctor, let me say I'm overall satisfied with the way "Doomsday" panned out. I agree with all the opinions of the people on my flist. This includes the people who hated, those who loved it, and those in between--I agree with you all.

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I recognize that it's the nature of Who that ( slightly spoilerish about something everyone knows now anyway )

but I like shows with continuity and continuing story arcs so I hope we will continue to see some of the recurring cast. I'd especially like to see Harriet Jones again. In some ways, my concern is similar to my concerns about the directions Veronica Mars will be going next season. (I better get to see Madison Sinclair again. Preferably as much as we saw her in the first two seasons, but short of making her a vampire I don't know how to make that work.)

Memes that have been going around my flist, the first of which being answered in excruciating detail (includes visited countries, visited states, and combat card):

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.  ("I miss my girlfriend" is sort of a mental catchphrase for me. Then again, I have a lot of mental catchphrases, inluding "What day is it?" "What's for dinner?" "Where am I going?" and "Clothing is discouraged but not forbidden." They're just random lines that pop into my head when I'm not really thinking about anything.)	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.  (I watch more than I used to, though, between Who and Veronica Mars and random other things.)	✓ I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.  (Glasses are hot.)	× I love to play video games.	× I've tried marijuana.
× I've watched porn movies.  (I still remember the time in high school when, after class, I found what I can only assume was a pornographic video. When Brother Jim, the Dean of Students, walked by I immediately flagged him down and informed him of what happened, and he destroyed the video in front of me.)	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.  (I've had no past relationships. Unless you count various relationships that weren't.)	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
× I curse sometimes.  (My expletives include "WTF?" "Zut alors!" and "Expletive!" I've never said the F-word. This might surprise those of you whom have only read my fic--I do NOT talk/think the way my characters talk/think.)	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.  (I really feel like I should, though. And that I should have a cigarette lighter at all times even though I don't speak. After all, I was a Boy Scout once.)

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