Doctor Who Cheesorama

[lesbiassparrow]

I am watching the TV movie from 1996 which is filled with awesome cheesiness ('You can call me...master' followed by glowing green eyes. Wonderful stuff).   Yes, Grace did kill Seven, but she didn't mean to.  Poor woman, I bet it traumatized her endlessly.   

ETA: Oh, I'd forgotten the windmill arm acting!  Paul McGann got in some great moves there.   

ETA 2: Do they ever explain anywhere why the Doctor has a sudden fondness for living in a psuedo-Gothic cathedral?  Other than a sudden church fetish, that is. 

ETA 3: The master coming down the steps is so very excellent.  All lovely posing and hugging of the wee boy he has picked up. It is so very wrong and somehow so very right at the same time. 

ETA at this point I am no longer counting: Why does the theme music of the TV movie sound like the bastard child of the original theme by way of a Nazi marching band? Why?  


And regarding fanfic for X-men universe (there is no connection here, but just go with it) - why would anyone want to imagine Wolverine writing a poem?  I bet he'd shred anyone who ever came within 50 feet  of him even bearing a poetry book.  Also I encountered baby fic; that is so many shades of wrong.  Why must babies pervade everything, including the lives of semi-feral mutants?*

*not that I hate babies or anything: they just have a time and a place. 

Comments

[luftballoons.livejournal.com]

Wolverine is not writing poetry. He Sexes You Up with his EYES.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Hee!

I can't imagine Wolverine not clawing anyone to death for trying to introduce him to poetry. Who sees him and things thinks 'budding poet.'

[chelseagirl47.livejournal.com]

Totally OT (except I so have to get ahold of the McGann movie -- I quite liked him despite the badness of the movie and am tempted to start on his audiobooks) -- a few weeks backed you mentioned you were working on a Sarah Jane/Rose piece, and I just wondered if that was out yet? (Also that you'd read some good other ones -- I've read two by neadods and one by doylesb4 which were all lovely but wouldn't mind finding more . . . )

BTW, I did write the Sarah Jane meets Jackie scene I promised -- and thought it tremendously mediocre, so I'm hoping inspiration and ideas for revision will strike at some point.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Agh! Owe you beta!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Do not beta that one! I have changed it so that it is not so terribly awful - will send you the later version when I have poked it a bit more.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I wrote the piece but it was horrible, so it is sitting on computer until it gets better. I've read some good pieces lately as well, which have made me feel very overwrought. I read a good one by Lilith_morgana as well.

And I sympathise about the writing. I look forward to reading it when inspiration strikes.

McGann does the best he can with some pretty awful stuff, I think. And a tendency to overacting is typical of Who, anyway. And the Tardis looks great. Apart from that there isn't a lot to be said for it.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I looked up how much it would cost me to get a DVD, looked at the reviews, shuddered, and moved on.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

There may have been some ahemming. I'll buy anything for Who really if it's available but as this one isn't out on region 1 anymore....

[jenavira.livejournal.com]

Dammit, now I have to watch the movie again. *sigh* You know you miss Eight badly when you have to watch the movie.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Hee! I have to say rewatching the movie made me a lot more tolerant of any and all writing in Who. There is not much down from this plot.

Though Paul McGann does the best with what he's given. And he is very Doctory at the right moments.

[jenavira.livejournal.com]

That's what's so tragic. I love Eight dearly, and Paul McGann makes a wonderful Doctor, but I have to wait until I've got someone well and truly hooked on Who to show them his one, solitary bit of film.

Dammit, I want a Three Doctors episode next season.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

but I have to wait until I've got someone well and truly hooked on Who to show them his one, solitary bit of film.

I don't think it's that bad! (\Or at least there's worse out there in terms of pulling people in - he's not bad looking, at least, and there's money spent on the Tardis.

I won't tell you the worst Who reaction I ever happened to be near, or which Doctor it involved. Because I am still traumatized by the laughter and mockery.

[jenavira.livejournal.com]

That's true...really, I don't know why I feel that way, because the movie was one of my first Who experiences and look at me now. Perhaps I'm just paranoid.

I have yet to have a really bad reaction -- okay, other than my own to Creature from the Pit. But I think that's universal.

[melata-fic.livejournal.com]

Babies footnote is so true. *sigh*

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

babies are nice. they just shouldn't be written into everything.

[melata-fic.livejournal.com]

Exactly. There are some scenarios where babies just don't work.