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Nov. 16th, 2009 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadydaveSo, Big Grandmother strikes again!
Have some cool links:
- Have you ever thought, "Gosh, I want to make some pizza dough, but all I have is flour, baking powder, and beer"? Well, fear not!
- This article had me at the title: 'New Moon' Exclusive: Which of Robert Pattinson's co-stars does he find the most difficult? His hair.
"I sound so stupid, but in a lot of ways the hair is 75 percent of my performance." -- Explains a lot, really.
- Detailed and amusing re-caps/commentary on the first 6 books of WoT. Extremely convenient if you want to read the new book, but haven't read the rest of the series, uh, 4 years, and now have no idea who anyone is, where they are, or what they're doing.
- ETA: My friend Melissa (who you may recognize as "random girl in that one dance scene in The Village") is in a contest to get a Doritos commercial aired at the Superbowl! It's actually pretty funny, so you should go watch it (make sure you hit "skip intro"). And then you should view it daily, since it only tracks which computers view it one day at a time, and she needs 1500 views.
- ETA ETA: Pride and Prejudice and Emoticons
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
So, ten minutes into the episode, I went "Oh, I know what's going to happen. The base blew up, so there's no way Earth would know what REALLY happened -- clearly the Doctor's going to save (mostly) everyone and drop them off at a different point of time and space, where they won't affect causality!"
...
Or the super-genius could NOT think of this perfectly reasonable plan (or mention it and techno-babble away a dismissal) and we can have an angst-ridden plothole fest, instead. Whichever.
- However, I did like Captain Adelaide and her space-going, history-making lady descendants. It was a nice contrast to the gender!FAIL in "The Next Doctor".
- I also liked that they actually ADDRESSED Ten's lurking god-complex, even if it came in the form of an anvil-shaped ton of swiss cheese. To paraphrase a comment I left somewhere earlier, when the Time Lords were running everything, the Doctor was free to rebel and help all the people who'd otherwise slip through the cracks. Now, he's finally asking "Well, what if I just FIXED all the cracks, then we wouldn't have these problems!", except that way lies accidentally super-gluing causality to his fingers. I think Adelaide's death managed to drive it home that this incident at least was a BAD PLAN, but who knows if he's actually learned his lesson.
- Also, I think he just might have just gone crazy at the end there. (Or crazier, I guess.) That would definitely make for some interesting Christmas specials.
- The water-zombies were pretty creepy, but I think more time could have been devoted to them instead of slow motion shots of things burning on the surface of Mars which, incidentally, does not have enough atmosphere for things to burn. Also, their spaz-dance transformation sequence was TOTALLY RIDICULOUS and made me start singing "Thriller".
- My reaction to the Doctor souping up Gadget: "Put your helmets on, we'll be reaching speeds of THREE!" My reaction to Gadget's flaming tire-tracks: "Does this mean it can time travel when they hit 88 mph?"
- So, the Doctor's near-infinite knowledge of time and space comes from an online BBC newsfeed in his head?
- You know what would have been an even cooler idea? "Doctor Who: The Water Ice of Mars", wherein the Doctor battles a sinister alien threat transmitted through the astronauts' dessert.
Have some cool links:
- Have you ever thought, "Gosh, I want to make some pizza dough, but all I have is flour, baking powder, and beer"? Well, fear not!
- This article had me at the title: 'New Moon' Exclusive: Which of Robert Pattinson's co-stars does he find the most difficult? His hair.
"I sound so stupid, but in a lot of ways the hair is 75 percent of my performance." -- Explains a lot, really.
- Detailed and amusing re-caps/commentary on the first 6 books of WoT. Extremely convenient if you want to read the new book, but haven't read the rest of the series, uh, 4 years, and now have no idea who anyone is, where they are, or what they're doing.
- ETA: My friend Melissa (who you may recognize as "random girl in that one dance scene in The Village") is in a contest to get a Doritos commercial aired at the Superbowl! It's actually pretty funny, so you should go watch it (make sure you hit "skip intro"). And then you should view it daily, since it only tracks which computers view it one day at a time, and she needs 1500 views.
- ETA ETA: Pride and Prejudice and Emoticons
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
So, ten minutes into the episode, I went "Oh, I know what's going to happen. The base blew up, so there's no way Earth would know what REALLY happened -- clearly the Doctor's going to save (mostly) everyone and drop them off at a different point of time and space, where they won't affect causality!"
...
Or the super-genius could NOT think of this perfectly reasonable plan (or mention it and techno-babble away a dismissal) and we can have an angst-ridden plothole fest, instead. Whichever.
- However, I did like Captain Adelaide and her space-going, history-making lady descendants. It was a nice contrast to the gender!FAIL in "The Next Doctor".
- I also liked that they actually ADDRESSED Ten's lurking god-complex, even if it came in the form of an anvil-shaped ton of swiss cheese. To paraphrase a comment I left somewhere earlier, when the Time Lords were running everything, the Doctor was free to rebel and help all the people who'd otherwise slip through the cracks. Now, he's finally asking "Well, what if I just FIXED all the cracks, then we wouldn't have these problems!", except that way lies accidentally super-gluing causality to his fingers. I think Adelaide's death managed to drive it home that this incident at least was a BAD PLAN, but who knows if he's actually learned his lesson.
- Also, I think he just might have just gone crazy at the end there. (Or crazier, I guess.) That would definitely make for some interesting Christmas specials.
- The water-zombies were pretty creepy, but I think more time could have been devoted to them instead of slow motion shots of things burning on the surface of Mars which, incidentally, does not have enough atmosphere for things to burn. Also, their spaz-dance transformation sequence was TOTALLY RIDICULOUS and made me start singing "Thriller".
- My reaction to the Doctor souping up Gadget: "Put your helmets on, we'll be reaching speeds of THREE!" My reaction to Gadget's flaming tire-tracks: "Does this mean it can time travel when they hit 88 mph?"
- So, the Doctor's near-infinite knowledge of time and space comes from an online BBC newsfeed in his head?
- You know what would have been an even cooler idea? "Doctor Who: The Water Ice of Mars", wherein the Doctor battles a sinister alien threat transmitted through the astronauts' dessert.