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naye told me to. Mainly so if anyone asks why I am crazy obsessed with Doctor Who I can point to it and say THERE, THIS IS WHY.
Also, if you're a fan and you're not watching the Dr. Who Confidentials, you probably should be, because they're all sorts of awesome. Not only is it fun to see how the special f/x are done and how scenes are filmed (that kind of stuff has always fascinated me), and it has all these great music videos (it's like they know that pop music would be inappropriate for the show itself, so instead they just stick all the oh-so-apropos songs in the Confidentials) but they've got loads of the writers and directors and actors talking about the show and analyzing the chars. And can I say I am mad in love with Russell T Davies, the man is brilliant and is hereby added to the list of writers who, should ever I meet them in person, I will drop to my knees before. And then, once their guard is down, I will spring up with my fork and knife and devour their brains. And then I too will be a genius! (Other notables include JMS, Neil Gaiman, and Kazuya Minekura. With Minekura-sensei I might eat her drawing hand as well. Oda-sensei is exempt because I believe the crack levels in his brain might be lethal for an ordinary human.)
In cross-fandom news: the thing about watching the Doctor Who specials is that it highlights the trouble with Smallville. I can't imagine the writers of SV showing so much care and understanding of their series, for the characters and the universe. DW is made by fans, people who grew up with the show and love it, are thrilled to be bringing it to a new generation, and you can feel that, watching the show. And the sad thing is, SV could have been like that. Superman is an American icon as Dr. Who is a British icon; there are plenty of differences (DW's canon is far more fixed, for one, despite its diversity) but there are people who love Superman, fanboys and girls who know the comics and are steeped in the myth and could have brought it to life with that kind of devotion. Maybe in the beginning, there were some people like that on SV's team, and they've just given up, I don't know. But it's a shame, to think of what it might've been, if TPTB behind it had cared the way DW's do.
naye told me to. Mainly so if anyone asks why I am crazy obsessed with Doctor Who I can point to it and say THERE, THIS IS WHY. Also, if you're a fan and you're not watching the Dr. Who Confidentials, you probably should be, because they're all sorts of awesome. Not only is it fun to see how the special f/x are done and how scenes are filmed (that kind of stuff has always fascinated me), and it has all these great music videos (it's like they know that pop music would be inappropriate for the show itself, so instead they just stick all the oh-so-apropos songs in the Confidentials) but they've got loads of the writers and directors and actors talking about the show and analyzing the chars. And can I say I am mad in love with Russell T Davies, the man is brilliant and is hereby added to the list of writers who, should ever I meet them in person, I will drop to my knees before. And then, once their guard is down, I will spring up with my fork and knife and devour their brains. And then I too will be a genius! (Other notables include JMS, Neil Gaiman, and Kazuya Minekura. With Minekura-sensei I might eat her drawing hand as well. Oda-sensei is exempt because I believe the crack levels in his brain might be lethal for an ordinary human.)
In cross-fandom news: the thing about watching the Doctor Who specials is that it highlights the trouble with Smallville. I can't imagine the writers of SV showing so much care and understanding of their series, for the characters and the universe. DW is made by fans, people who grew up with the show and love it, are thrilled to be bringing it to a new generation, and you can feel that, watching the show. And the sad thing is, SV could have been like that. Superman is an American icon as Dr. Who is a British icon; there are plenty of differences (DW's canon is far more fixed, for one, despite its diversity) but there are people who love Superman, fanboys and girls who know the comics and are steeped in the myth and could have brought it to life with that kind of devotion. Maybe in the beginning, there were some people like that on SV's team, and they've just given up, I don't know. But it's a shame, to think of what it might've been, if TPTB behind it had cared the way DW's do.
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Date: 2007-06-21 03:48 pm (UTC)Just in case you hadn't noticed my love for it already. (Yay, I got a post!)
It does kind of make me want to take all of Smallville fandom and just hug you, while beating the writers with a stick, though. Because - yes. Smallville really could have been so much more, but. Ouch. That hurts in the bad way, not the good way you hurt when the show is breaking your heart with the characters and the story.
For TV, my pantheon is currently JMS, RTD and Joss Whedon. If I start adding writers and mangaka, it might grow a little, but not very much (but I want to expand it, just so I can include Minekura, who is a worthy goddess of Awesome). He's one of those people that make me happy just by existing, by being who they are and doing what they do. ♥ (You'd have a hard time getting to his brain, though! He's not exactly a small guy. If you've seen him with John Barrowman - who isn't small either - he's at least half a head taller...!)
And it amuses me greatly that you're pimping the Confidentials now, after asking for a choice few to download a few days ago. It's very much fun to
say I TOLD YOU SOshare the love. ♥ I squee over cool behind the scenes stuff - the guys in the Daleks and the people rigging David up over a cliff in the middle of the night and everything, it's fascinating! And the actors and writers having all this love for the show is just really filling and sweet icing on the cake. ♥The vids. Oh, I love the vids. They're so much fun! And they really work like fanvids do - they find songs with fitting lyrics or themes, and then they do a montage. Except they have much easier access to raw materials, and can do fun stuff like keep voices and sound effects in, but leave the background music! Such a great idea. They're all such fanboys (and girls) over there. I love it.
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Date: 2007-06-21 09:41 pm (UTC)Yeah, SV...the unrealized potential is the most frustrating part of so very many frustrating things...
And the Confidentials are very eeee!
yes, yes, you told me so!...really they're best because they're an excuse to see more of the eps, and then rewatch the eps. But the behind-the-scenes stuff is adorable, especially when you have people climbing into Daleks and all. I wanna get in a Dalek! ^^The fanvids are also so very much fun. And help give it such a fann-y feel...(even if the first two songs used in the one for "42" freak me out because they were both used in that Clex FST I mentioned...! very odd coincidence, that... ^^)
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Date: 2007-06-22 08:22 am (UTC)Whoever came up with the idea for the Confidentials deserves a medal, or something! I was using them to pace myself (hah!) as I was going through the series, and it's so much fun to watch them with the episode - but they're also fantastic on their own! I love watching them all pretty much bounce with excitement about how cool it is to be working with Doctor Who. Have you seen the ones for Army of Ghosts/Doomsday? Because that's when they're all going "Daleks vs Cybermen OMG SO COOL!!!!". (And I think that's when Noel - Mickey - climbs into a Dalek because it's there...)
Now I need to rewatch Confidentials, too... I haven't actually watched first season more than once! Well. Parts of it I've watched a lot more than that, but not the rest! So that'll be fun. ^_^
Fandoms that coincide - it means something, I tell you! XD