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Watched Smile Time last night
The girls LOVED it. And it's really very much 'The Buffy verse does Doctor Who'.
('Doctor Who is how we warn our children that there are people in the world who want to eat them.' Steven Moffat)
Of course it's more grownup, but so many of the ingredients are the same - the children being targeted, the puppets being evil, all the stuff about storytelling being used (and misused) and the stories (songs) within the story being important plot points, the magic, the transformations, and - of course - all the silly humour. They found EVERYTHING with puppet!Angel hilarious.
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And, since it fits right in, go read Mitt Romney Fired Big Bird. I still can't get over that particular pledge - what's next? Stealing candy from kids in order to help fund war? (Random comment I remember from Radio 4 this lunchtime. Sandy Toksvik: "Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. Mitt Romney was assembled on the Death Star.")
(Am busy trying to get all my DW meta thoughts in order. There will be a LONG post at some point. Oh yes.)
ETA: Oh oh oh! Meant to share this last week, but forgot. If you want to know how we view Mittens from across the ocean (and are interested in his apparent lack of basic knowledge of the world! To be honest, that part is kinda worrying), watch this. Also hysterically funny:
('Doctor Who is how we warn our children that there are people in the world who want to eat them.' Steven Moffat)
Of course it's more grownup, but so many of the ingredients are the same - the children being targeted, the puppets being evil, all the stuff about storytelling being used (and misused) and the stories (songs) within the story being important plot points, the magic, the transformations, and - of course - all the silly humour. They found EVERYTHING with puppet!Angel hilarious.
~~~
And, since it fits right in, go read Mitt Romney Fired Big Bird. I still can't get over that particular pledge - what's next? Stealing candy from kids in order to help fund war? (Random comment I remember from Radio 4 this lunchtime. Sandy Toksvik: "Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. Mitt Romney was assembled on the Death Star.")
(Am busy trying to get all my DW meta thoughts in order. There will be a LONG post at some point. Oh yes.)
ETA: Oh oh oh! Meant to share this last week, but forgot. If you want to know how we view Mittens from across the ocean (and are interested in his apparent lack of basic knowledge of the world! To be honest, that part is kinda worrying), watch this. Also hysterically funny:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19854465
Ray.
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(And OK, so the BNP are card-carrying racists, but they're not going to win any elections. In the US the lunatic fringe has taken over a whole party... On the flipside, they also have people like Obama, where we have... Ed Miliband.)
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It seriously like only 0.012% of the budget. Also- there's the fact that the moderator of the debate is a PBS worker. IIRC.
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It'd be funny, if he wasn't actually serious.
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Yeah. And then you've got people, like my Conservative mom, who think that sooooo much money goes towards PBS alone. It's ridiculous.
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And it doesn't help that the Republicans lie through their teeth...