Last night Prime played the two parter season finale of Dr Who season 4 back to back. OMGOMGOMG!!! It was so exciting, I spent 2 hrs 20mins bouncing off the freaking walls!
I feel a bit cheated in that I didn't get the original experience of having to wait a week to find out what happened with the regeneration. Instead, I and my fellow Kiwi Whovians only had to wait the duration of an ad break. Not nearly enough suspense.
I am aware that there were plot holes big enough to drive a truck through, but who cares? I'm certainly not going to dwell on them. It's the feel of the story, the silly excitement, that did it for me. That pure, unbridled craziness which is what I love best about the new Dr Who.
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Sakura-tinted glasses
Okay, I've just got home, it's midnight, I have things to do before I go to bed and I have to go to the immigration bureau tomorrow, but there is something I have just got to tell you. It was embarrassing at the time, but now I find it awfully funny. It's one of those 'only in Japan' things.
Some background: Recently I have downloaded the first few episodes of the 2006 season of Dr Who*. Since I think the tenth Doctor is a bit of alright, I have a picture of him coming out of the tardis on my desktop.
This evening I had a farewell party with my eikaiwa students. Mid-way through my party I took out my computer to show everyone the pictures I took at Nakajimadai on the weekend. My computer's a bit slow at the moment (it's been a while since I last defragged it) so the people sitting next to me got a good look at David Tennant as my computer booted up. "Handsome man!" they said. Okay, that's not so weird, but then they said "Is he your boyfriend?" "No," I protested. But then some other people started gravitating towards me to see why I had brought my computer out. "Ooh, is that your boyfriend?"
"No, no, it's the Doctor."
"Is that your boyfriend?"
"No, no," I wish "No!"
It's not as if it was a snapshot picture or anything. It was a proper desktop image adapted from a screencap and available on the official Doctor Who webpage. Where else in the world would people look at such a picture and assume it depicted someones boyfriend?
Although I admit I'm awfully flattered that they think I'm a good enough catch to possibly have a boyfriend who looks like that.
*I am totally unapologetic about the fact that I download TV shows from the internet. If I were in an English speaking country right now, I'd get to watch those programmes on TV for free, so what's the bloody difference? Movies, however, are different. I rent them from the video store, because I can and because I would have to in New Zealand too.
Some background: Recently I have downloaded the first few episodes of the 2006 season of Dr Who*. Since I think the tenth Doctor is a bit of alright, I have a picture of him coming out of the tardis on my desktop.
This evening I had a farewell party with my eikaiwa students. Mid-way through my party I took out my computer to show everyone the pictures I took at Nakajimadai on the weekend. My computer's a bit slow at the moment (it's been a while since I last defragged it) so the people sitting next to me got a good look at David Tennant as my computer booted up. "Handsome man!" they said. Okay, that's not so weird, but then they said "Is he your boyfriend?" "No," I protested. But then some other people started gravitating towards me to see why I had brought my computer out. "Ooh, is that your boyfriend?"
"No, no, it's the Doctor."
"Is that your boyfriend?"
"No, no," I wish "No!"
It's not as if it was a snapshot picture or anything. It was a proper desktop image adapted from a screencap and available on the official Doctor Who webpage. Where else in the world would people look at such a picture and assume it depicted someones boyfriend?
Although I admit I'm awfully flattered that they think I'm a good enough catch to possibly have a boyfriend who looks like that.
*I am totally unapologetic about the fact that I download TV shows from the internet. If I were in an English speaking country right now, I'd get to watch those programmes on TV for free, so what's the bloody difference? Movies, however, are different. I rent them from the video store, because I can and because I would have to in New Zealand too.
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