Fannish things

[elisi]

My flist informs me that Festivids is live. :) From a swift glance, I think I can safely say that Everything Everywhere All At Once is the most popular choice (and quite rightly so).

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Another petition, this time for the NHS:

Immediate action by Government to address crisis in NHS

ETA: Well this is uncomfortably accurate...

Watch on YouTube

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ETA2: On the BBC now:

Forgotten Heroes of the Covid Front Line
Catherine Burns meets NHS workers who are living with long Covid and struggling to return to work. They now face the prospect of having to retire early or even being sacked.

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We watched the first episode of Andor last night. It was... okay? Considering that we had to pay for Disney+ we should keep watching, or it'll be the most expensive TV episode we've ever watched. *g* Of course everyone's been raving about it, so I shall 'look to like, if looking liking move'. It certainly looks beautiful.

(I also need to finish watching the Fourth Doctor, although I'm now in Season 18 and the quality has magically improved and Tom Baker is ACTING OMG, rather than just doing a Doctor bit.)

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

I'm very fond of S18! Definitely more going on in lots of ways, than the preceding season, even if that had some fun stuff as well.

[elisi]

The previous two seasons took me, um, 2 years to get through? With Full Circle I was literally trying to watch the final episode before going to work, and being sad because I only managed to about 5 minutes. Four definitely lived too long. *g* (Although that fact is part of what makes S18 so much more chewy.)

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, Four takes a lot of going through when you're being chronological! I love him and I love all his eras in different ways, but my DW rewatches tend to go... 1960s, start the 1970s and give up and eventually go back to An Unearthly Child to start again. (It's a long decade in DW!! and my faves are the 60s and the 80s.) XD

But, yeah, and pretty much everything from Full Circle on has a lot of stuff going on - you've re-achieved CHristopher H Bidmead! (You were watching it sort of in order in era, but backwards by Doctor, yes? )

[elisi]

Yes, Four takes a lot of going through when you're being chronological!
He is endless and forever. ;) And yeah, he is very good, but there is SO MUCH.

my DW rewatches tend to go... 1960s, start the 1970s and give up and eventually go back to An Unearthly Child to start again.
LOL. I have watched the first few One episodes and they are lovely indeed.

But, yeah, and pretty much everything from Full Circle on has a lot of stuff going on - you've re-achieved CHristopher H Bidmead!
Very true! Good things come to those who wait, or something like that.

(You were watching it sort of in order in era, but backwards by Doctor, yes?)
Yes I am. I am impressed you remember!

[promethia_tenk]

I have watched the first few One episodes and they are lovely indeed.
You don't even understand yet. But one day you will . . . *sigh*

I NEED TO STOP.

/that fan

[elisi]

I still remember your quiet horror at the prospect at possibly simply becoming A Doctor Who Fan. ^_^

[promethia_tenk]

I don't think that was ever a point of horror for me? Maybe I'm misremembering. I did think it was a distinct possibility that I would not like Chibnall's Who (having already not liked RTD's) and then I would have to conclude that I was a Moffat fan and not a Doctor Who fan.

But we fixed that issue by mainlining the Classic show in the interim!

That said, Doctor Who fans are the worst and I am heartily ashamed.

[elisi]

I don't think that was ever a point of horror for me? Maybe I'm misremembering.
It was tongue-in-cheek, but there was a definite worry. *g*

But we fixed that issue by mainlining the Classic show in the interim!
Rather. Waaaay down the rabbit hole.

That said, Doctor Who fans are the worst and I am heartily ashamed.
You're still a way off having a fullsize Dalek in your hallway.

[promethia_tenk]

You're still a way off having a fullsize Dalek in your hallway.
No dalek, but I do have all the obstinate opinions, which is far worse *g*

[elisi]

Genuine LOL

[thisbluespirit]

I have watched the first few One episodes and they are lovely indeed.
You don't even understand yet. But one day you will . . . *sigh*

Awwww. <3

[promethia_tenk]

Since I don't have kids, I finished all of Classic Who years ago now, and I am ashamed to say that I have been plaguing her with how much I cannot wait for her to get to the rest of it.

But, like, I'm in physical pain over here. My favorite part of what she has left is ALL OF IT. Well, expect any time Three went into space. But all the rest of it was amazeballs.

[masakochan]

You don't even understand yet. But one day you will . . . *sigh*

Yes.. one day she will come back! Until then there must be no regrets understand. x]

[promethia_tenk]

It'll happen . . .

[thisbluespirit]

Yes I am. I am impressed you remember!

LOL, it is a pretty unique approach between you and promethia_tenk that I could never forget! XD I'm very glad you found one that worked for you, though. That is all that matters.

[elisi]

Promethia did it properly of course. I'm just weird. *g*

One more episode and I'm through - and then comes Three!

[promethia_tenk]

I contest this characterization of me. I think I watched Seven, Four, Five, Six, Three, Two (only the parts that exist), One (both existing and not existing), and Two again (both existing and non existing). In no way is that 'proper.'

[elisi]

I have zero recollection of this, but then considering the state of my mind I'm amazed that I remember what I did yesterday.

Very well, we shall both be improper. ;)

[enevarim]

“That will be nice. Like the lovers in that Stroheim film, we’ll go and sit on the sewer.”

(Gaudy Night fans may be even worse than Doctor Who fans, only there are far fewer of us, so the world doesn't know that yet?)

Four was my first Doctor, bar the single episode of The Time Monster I walked in on my dad watching when I was … two or three? (Which much later I worked out must have been episode 3, because, well, Doctor Who fans.)

[elisi]

(Gaudy Night fans may be even worse than Doctor Who fans, only there are far fewer of us, so the world doesn't know that yet?)
LOL! And surely we are more erudite...

Four was my first Doctor, bar the single episode of The Time Monster I walked in on my dad watching when I was … two or three? (Which much later I worked out must have been episode 3, because, well, Doctor Who fans.)
And I didn't even know the show existed until I came to the UK.

[promethia_tenk]

you've re-achieved CHristopher H Bidmead!
LOL @ this wording. It really do feel that way, tho. I have made it through the wilderness and arrived again at Bidmead and all is well.

[elisi]

I like the idea of later Four being wilderness years.

[promethia_tenk]

Are they not? They go on forever, Tom Baker is obviously in a delirious haze, and there are disco minotaurs. Honestly anything could have happened for a bit there.

[elisi]

You're making me chuckle, thank you!

[trepkos]

Tom Baker is the best, after Tennant.

[elisi]

By what metric? *g* (My heart will always belong to Eleven, my darling Mad Man with a box.)

[trepkos]

My personal metric, I guess!

[elisi]

^_^

My favourite quote about Doctor Who is this one:

'Watch enough Doctor Who and your favourite character becomes the Doctor and your favourite Doctor becomes the Doctor.'

Which is very true, but I think we all have 'our' Doctor(s) even so. <3

[yourlibrarian]

The first two episodes of Andor are rather slow paced, but things will pick up, rather substantially at different points. They're laying a lot of groundwork.

[elisi]

Cool, I presumed as much since everyone raves about it. :)

[a_phoenixdragon]

The Fourth was my fav, but I was a kiddo and in love with the whole idea - he was also technically my first Doctor, so I have a bad habit of handwaving the first couple of years, lol!

UGH. Kill the Poor. Yup. Always the go to answer - for centuries.

*HUGS*

[elisi]

The Fourth was my fav, but I was a kiddo and in love with the whole idea - he was also technically my first Doctor, so I have a bad habit of handwaving the first couple of years, lol!
Nothing beats your first Doctor!! Also I was fine through the first couple of years, it was S16 and 17 that did me in. ;) But I am THISCLOSE to being done.

UGH. Kill the Poor. Yup. Always the go to answer - for centuries.
It's way too apt...

[kazzy_cee]

I got half way through Andor and I was so bored. My youngest son says I should finish it as it gets better but I’m not sure I have the patience.

I think the issue I have with all these prequels is that there’s no jeopardy- you know they are going to survive. I hated Obi Wan for the same reason.

[elisi]

I got half way through Andor and I was so bored. My youngest son says I should finish it as it gets better but I’m not sure I have the patience.
LOL. I'll see how I get on. It's very nicely made, but I hope it picks up...

I think the issue I have with all these prequels is that there’s no jeopardy- you know they are going to survive. I hated Obi Wan for the same reason.
That is a good point. I've not watched any others, because I've never been that invested in Star Wars. Well I love the movies, and adored TLJ, but never been interested in the wider verse.