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Might as well use my 500th poast to say I loved the Doctor Who finale which let's say is as surprising to me as it is anyone else.
That kiss. Oh god. That kiss was the kiss. I can forgive the whole of 'The Wedding of River Song' for that kiss. Something about Doctor/River reaches down into my fangirl soul and touches the bits that don't get touched often, which were forged in the fires of 90s X Files fandom. What I used to call 'heartache' which was the whole yearning for your ship to sail more than you can stand. Something that I first got addicted to 15 years ago can still make me weak and I am, as is trendy to say, nearly 30. (and then quickly preface with 'not really nearly thirty')
I need to go read fanfic now. Some things will never change.
We saw Star Trek Into Darkness last night/this morning. We got a free poster!
Afterwards man, I was just tired. I enjoyed it. I've been thinking about it. Here are my thoughts.
The 23rd century has some really awful haircuts
It was a thoroughly enjoyable movie. Definitely see it.
Wrath of Khan will always be a 'better' movie but it doesn't mean this isn't thoroughly enjoyable.
Things that were really good about it were mostly the things I was dreading - Carol Marcus, Cumberkhan.
Carol Marcus is a bamf and I love her. That ridiculous scream from the trailer was in anything an understatement in context.
Cumberkhan, look honestly I did not care, I feel I know so much casting gossip about the movie that I understand why the decision was made to cast Cumberbatch even if its 'problematic' or whatevs. If I remember correctly they had a Khan, and then they pulled out like a week before filming? So basically imagine that Cumberkhan is the understudy. I'm not his biggest fan but hey, he looked good, he had terrible 23rd century hair but it was at least black, his voice is good for me, and I enjoyed his villain acting. I've also not been on tumblr for over 2 weeks so sorry I'm not suitable outraged I'm also ill.
Loved Scotty, but that's a given. Love a comedy run.
So my only beef with the film was the fucking Wrath of Khan death scene redo, and even then it was so honestly emotional it puffed wind into my shipper sails for the rest of the year. Like fuck they are such boys just kiss kinda shipper ridiculousness. Like I kinda wish they were only going to do 2 films and have a divergent timeline thing be that this time Kirk dies, but its decades before the Genesis device is developed so he really dies and its all emotional but its also a film and not fic.
Spock's enormous KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN was better than the original in delivery, but less likely to be an iconic gif. Also more OOC but like I said I DONT CARE.
Spock's emotions though jesus if anything was going to make me cry it was his wobbly lip. I didn't cry but I think that was because I was so overtired and overcaffienated I couldn't summon the moisture.
Jumping back, I enjoyed all the romcom stuff. I sighed and giggled over all the comic relief and adorable moments. I loved all the side characters, I loved that they continued Young Kirk being Young and Stupid and Horny because he is 10 years from being Shatner.
I also loved Uhura because yeah she's a badass and her absolute annoyance, irritation and anger at Spock was REFRESHING because when someone sacrifices himself damn right their girlfriends and Kirks should be pissed.
Oh actually one thing that bugged me is that they said towards the end that the gravity was failing when it was obviously the Inertial Dampeners that were hence the flying around, jeez guys.
My favourite moment in the entire film though was ALL THE LENSFLARES THEY WERE AMAZING SOMETIMES YOU COULDNT TELL WHAT WAS GOING ON IT WAS SO FUCKING SHINY IT WAS AMAZING.
Generally though it was really enjoyable. My desires were 98% lensflares, 2% homoeroticism and 0% Cumberkhan. Instead it was like, 70% lensflares, 20% homoeroticism and 10% Cumberkhan so you know by balance of probabilities its 90% fine.
Next time I want MORE DIPLOMACY, FEWER EXPLOSIONS.
ALL IN ALL if this is how the 'bad' Star Trek movies will be from now on count your fucky stars. GRADE: B. Enjoyable, will watch on Film4 every time its on.
But its not worth seeing in IMAX or 3D so save yourself a tenner.
Sometimes I feel Steven Moffat is like looking into our collective fandom future.
This is a man who has had pet Doctor Who theories his whole life. Remember the whole 'humanity gets the word Doctor from The Doctor' bullshit, and how people found the old Usenet post from the mid-90s where he espoused that theory? You know Moffat has a pet theory for the name of the Doctor, and god knows we are going to hear it. Its probably there on usenet somewhere, or the internet archive on the old Gallifrey forums.
I think if there was a letter in a vault in the BBC somewhere that had a detailed thing about what The Doctor's name was and that it was actually important I think it would be less irritating, less sad. Less inevitable.
Its statistically likely that someone from modern fandom is going to make it, TV wise, in the next 20 years. They'll possibly even make it in that they reboot something we love, that they loved, that LJ or Tumblr loved. It'd be like me rebooting Sherlock in 20 years time and making Mycroft be Moriarty's man behind the man in a stunning triple bluff. Or rebooting Merlin and making Uther and Morgana have creepy sex. Just because its your pet theory you've loved and hoarded for years upon years in the most secret and tender part of your heart/locked journal/anon meme doesn't mean its right. Sometimes its hard to get perspective, you're so convinced that things should turn out that way. Even if they're on a kid's show and too dark for it, even if they make sense only in a literal fever dream, sometimes an idea take hold and will not let go.
This is the reason fanfiction exists, of course. Its the outlet valve for all this bullshit. This is also the big difference between RTD and Moffat. I'm not hugely nostalgic for RTD era; I don't think I can forgive him for what he did to Donna, narratively, and there was a little too much of the fart humour about his plots, but he kept The Doctor at arm's length for most of the time (Ten's death notwithstanding) and let us revel in the companions. While Moff era, I feel I know too much about Eleven. And to flimsily back up my idea RTD wrote fic, in the form of a Virgin New Adventures novel (those novels ARE fic, and they're massively enjoyable like fic is supposed to be). And well, there was Torchwood, but the least we say about that the better.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that Moffat is like me if someone gave me power and told me I was amazing for years and then gave me the keys to the metaphorical Bentley and then I decided to BE THAT GUY. Basically.
(I'm really tired, this has been a very long week)
1. canon
2. modern AU
3. coffee shop (or other shop) AU
4. office AU
5. apocalypse/dystopia AU
6. established relationship
7. angst
8. fluff
9. hurt/comfort
10. high school/university AU
11. PWP
12. kink
13. epic...
So I went for a quiet drink and BBQ at my friends' house at 3pm, expecting to have a nice time and be home by 10. Instead I'm doing jagerbombs in a karaoke bar and belting out Adele til 2AM whilst a gang of boys take turns to punch each other in the nuts and the birthday boy yells TEN MORE JAGERBOMBS at the waitress every 10 minutes.
It ended with a rousing choir edition of 'You Raise Me Up' of course the Westlife version.
Other things: got trapped in the middle of a literal 'right wing oneupmanship contest', smoked 6 cigarettes, met a hot Canadian, failed to pull the hot Canadian as someone punched him in the nuts, failed to pull other hot man for same reason, literally cockblocking.
There was some talk about how making a Raffles anthology would be the coolest thing ever. How it would be published and other details have not been worked out, but right now we’re basically checking the interest in the fandom.
Would you be willing to contribute with a story or an illustration or just help out putting the thing together?
Please let us know if you’re interested, feel free to come with ideas and suggestions and help spread the word!
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