2 fannish things

[elisi]

We got a trailer and a date for Jodie's last episode:

Watch on YouTube

I am excited for Dhawan. I think he single-handedly has saved the era for me, just through being so amazing. I am hoping that Ace & Tegan will be well-served, but mostly I'm just praying that Chibnall doesn't break anything else before he leaves.

If anyone happens to love Thirteen and Chibnall - I'm happy, they need some love. They just singularly failed to grab me. (I loved writing Thirteen, but that's different.)



But, in more exciting news!!!



It feels like a million years since Good Omens aired... as with most things pre-covid. But goodness, a single poster is poking at emotions that have merely laid dormant, waiting for their moment. Their wings form a heart! The background is nicely grey. The number 2 has both a halo AND a tail. *flail*

I also look forward to spending 9 months speculating on what the blue feather means.

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

That is indeed a great poster design! Also, that tag line...

[elisi]

The tag line, yes! What does it meeeean? (I shall try to wait patiently.)

[promethia_tenk]

I keep pulling the poster up just to look at it. theirwingsareaheart

I need to read, like, all the fic. Immediately.

[elisi]

I keep pulling the poster up just to look at it. theirwingsareaheart


I need to read, like, all the fic. Immediately.
I do not have TIME to read the fic. Not immediately. Woe is me.

[promethia_tenk]

I do not have TIME to read the fic. Not immediately. Woe is me.
We must remedy this deep injustice.

[wolfy_writing]

I love that poster!

[elisi]

It's pure joy and "hidden" meanings. LOOK THEIR WINGS ARE A HEART.

[kazzy_cee]

Totally agree with your comments about Chibnall. I think Jodie got a bit of a confusing character to play but she did her best!

[elisi]

Totally agree with your comments about Chibnall.
It's weird, because he CAN write. He just... didn't. Well, not for most of it.

I think Jodie got a bit of a confusing character to play but she did her best!
It's shame, and all the props to her.

[kerk_hiraeth]

Said to you before now that I really wish; regret terribly actually that Jodie Whittaker didn't have a female; mostly anyway, team during her run, also her run was plagued by all the interruptions of the lockdown etc.

I've liked none of the creative heads of the new show; early on, as I recall, I said to you that whatever RTD has done; no matter how good, wherever there has been another version his, by far, has been the inferior.

He is, without doubt, a creative genius; just one that I would rather stayed away from things I love, even ones he created.

There's a bitter irony in that I feel that way about everything Whedon has done now as well.

Having watched An Adventure in Space and Time (and reactions to it as well) a few dozen times I wish we'd had a modern Verity Lambert in charge so badly it hurts.

kerk

[kerk_hiraeth]

Are there any fans of the original book out there?

Sometimes I'll check things out, but they always turn out to be about the TV series.

I love the main actors, but they are not who I picture when I read the book and ~ in my world ~ their characters are side characters, so I feel very isolated as far as Good Omens is concerned.

Such a fate has befallen me often, but I do love the book, and find even the radio series hard to listen to these days.

kerk

[elisi]

Are there any fans of the original book out there?
I am sure every TV show fan has bought the book and loves it. If anything, it got people reading the book again!

Sometimes I'll check things out, but they always turn out to be about the TV series.
Well books are a bit static in that sense. Although you never know if Gaiman might turn S2 of the show into a novel - he and Pratchett did plot it all out. Mind you, the book has a different tone to the show. Like, you can tell from fic whether it's book-based on show-based just from the characters/tone. Just a few centimeters to the left. :) (I love both.)

I love the main actors, but they are not who I picture when I read the book and ~ in my world ~ their characters are side characters, so I feel very isolated as far as Good Omens is concerned.
I know there are more like you. But please be patient with us, while we go heart-eyes over this delightful show that just walked into our souls and set up shop.

Such a fate has befallen me often, but I do love the book, and find even the radio series hard to listen to these days.
The book is delightful, although - like you with the TV show - I couldn't get the voice actors from the radio series to fit my mental image of the characters.

[kerk_hiraeth]

Not totally connected, but totally connected at the same time...

On Wednesday I was given the most wonderful gift by the owners of Adventure Into Books, the Independent Bookshop in Blairgowrie, the biography of Terry Pratchett; hope to one day get to meet Neil Gaiman and get him to sign it for me.

Think I will treasure that book almost as much as the three I thought I had lost a few weeks back.

Kerk

[sea_thoughts]

I love the book. And the radio adaptation that the BBC did a few years ago with both Terry and Neil doing cameo roles.

[a_phoenixdragon]

Eeeee!!! SO EXCITED!!

*DANCES*

*SQUISHES YOU*

[elisi]

It's actually happening...

[sea_thoughts]

God, I hope Jodie has a good final episode. I feel like she's definitely the Sixth Doctor of the new era.

[promethia_tenk]

Ooooof. You know what? You're right.

Big Finish better get on that, stat.

[elisi]

... The stories might be better quality! (Although that wouldn't be hard.) Ranted about 13 vs 6 below, if you want to enjoy me being grumpy.

[sea_thoughts]

I genuinely cannot wait to see Big Finish's take on Thirteen. And Yaz. And Ryan, if Tosin wants to come back.

[elisi]

God, I hope Jodie has a good final episode.
Me too. Or at least a decent one.

I feel like she's definitely the Sixth Doctor of the new era.
Hmm. She's sort of the opposite? Six was pointy and difficult, whereas Thirteen is too nice.

The thing is, I love Six. And I would happile rewatch any episode of his era over most of Thirteen's (Timelash here I come!!). And then I started trying to imagine Six in Kerblam! and omg. I don't know if he'd have burned the place to the ground or simply left in disgust. ('Humans! I despair! A computer sent a cry for help, you just allowed everyone to be treated worse than cattle! Good day to you, learn some humanity before you call on me again!')

ETA: omg that could be an amazing project - rewrite Kerblam! with all the different Doctors and see how they would tackle it.

[promethia_tenk]

Personality-wise, yes, they're polar opposites, but in terms of being the Doctors of their respective eras most thoroughly mis-served by the writing, they are the same. And, come to think of it, the fundamental sin may be the same as well: misreading the Doctor's character too far from the mean, albeit in opposite directions.

ETA: omg that could be an amazing project - rewrite Kerblam! with all the different Doctors and see how they would tackle it.
*whistles* If anybody can do it, it's you. I'm sure it would be cathartic.

[sea_thoughts]

Hmm. She's sort of the opposite? Six was pointy and difficult, whereas Thirteen is too nice.

I didn't mean character-wise. They're complete opposites in that sense. I meant in the sense that there has been a lot of behind the scenes turmoil affecting the Thirteenth Doctor's run (some of it unavoidable), the BBC has been cutting the budget when it should be spending more on DW (as Moffat pointed out), and a lot of the writing has been "meh" to "poor" to the point that many people just stopped watching or, as in your case, completely disengaged from the show on a fandom level. Despite all the excitement that surrounded her casting, Team Chibnall completely wasted the goodwill that people had towards Jodie and we never got back to that.

I started trying to imagine Six in Kerblam! and omg. I don't know if he'd have burned the place to the ground or simply left in disgust.

God, I would love to see someone rewrite that episode with Six... or Nine... or even Twelve. One of the Doctors who'd really rip it apart, anyway.

[verdande_mi]

I should get my hands on what I have not seen of Jodie in Doctor Who! I think the trailer looks fun.

I will probably see Good Omens, but I am not a big, big fan.

[elisi]

I should get my hands on what I have not seen of Jodie in Doctor Who! I think the trailer looks fun.
Not sure what you have watched, but Flux was (in parts) excellent.

I will probably see Good Omens, but I am not a big, big fan.
Alas I will probably be obsessing over this poster for the next 6 months. (Happily so.) :)