Fictitious Endeavours

Yeah, I know I'm seriously skipping around now and I've gone from rewatch to actual first time watch. Oh, well, sorry, not sorry. Like the Doctor I have trouble being linear.



Spyfall  Parts 1 & 2

So I do enjoy Thirteen. She's random, and rambly and unhinged and in general very Doctor-y.

Part 1

I appreciated the cheesy James bond references. Maybe if you were a James bond fan you might find them fun/annoying. I'm very much not a fan so I liked the send up.

Despite the fact that a lot happens in the first ep, it feels like it moves very leisurely through the story telling. So in a way, It feels very old skool Who with a slower story that takes it's time and leaves you with a cliffhanger.

The Master reveal was good. He's back to full tilt bonkers and I enjoyed that. Whereas Missy was almost (almost) stable, this Master is completely, gloriously unhinged.

Part 2

Now this ep is a ride.  The time jumping, the call back to Sim Master with the companions being forced into hiding, the unexpectedly villainous human accomplice.

And they even managed to squeeze in a "notable women in history" tour. Lol

And the Morse Code heartbeats was just good.


The Stats:

Companion trauma:  zapped to another universe and chucked to Australia

Well - I meant to post, but today was a DAY (it's Fall after all, and Fall is cursed in my world)

So it's pushing midnight, and I have STUFF TO DO all weekend week month IDEK.  Ask me next week.  

But in my overtired derangement I plan to rant smugly about how all us crazies writing about the Fourteenth Doctor in our made up Fourteen-verse* have now been weirdly vindicated and  - what's the opposite of Jossed? - IDK but whatever it is THAT.

**wanders off cackling manically**


*one_more_run 

So I'm gonna wrap up a month of silly posts with my silliest fandom.

Marble racing.  It got a boost during lockdown because of John Oliver, but ha, I was watching it way before then thanks to YT deciding so you like domino knockdowns? Then watch these marbles loser.

And, I mean, it was totally right. ( And yes, I did say domino knock-down vids. But to be fair as a kid  I was using my domino sets to to knock down more than I ever used them to play. )


So I'll take you back to the early days when Greg Woods first started with his commentary.  He started out as fan and ended up an integral part of the channel.  It's all much more polished and pro now, but there's something charming about the early vids.



And since I mentioned it, if you want dominoes watch Hevesh5 and Flippycat.

So Wednesday Adams, Girl Detective is a thing now?

I've only seen parts a few eps as DH is watching, but I'll probably end up watching later.   Even though, I baffled at how creepy child/teen Wednesday has become a thing. 

It occurred to that it's almost more fanon that canon at this point.  The original strips don't really lend themselves to that and the first adaption in the TV show was everything the movies aren't.  From what I've seen, it's basically the only sitcom of that time period where the parents are actually competent without being a walking cliche, the parents actually like each other and family isn't all about "what will the neighbors think."

I guess it just annoys me how the newer versions took a warm, happy family and made them just another goth cliche.  

I mean this ep is one of my favorites and it's pretty much the opposite of Wednesday-as-creepy-child-trope.

So spent my Black Friday at the comic book store and found my mom's xmas gift right away.





I mean come on, No brainer.  I would prefer a non-Mirror-Mirror verse Spock, but he's still cute.  But Kirk's chair?  Awesome.

SO. It all started with our xmas light string. It sparked when we plugged it in. E-waste it is then. No big loss. It's very old, originally incandescent C9s that we've been replacing with LED C9s as they burn out. We then had to go searching for 25-50 bulbs C9 LED strings to replace our dead raingutter set, one (25) bulb or both sets (50 bulb). DH searched around town today, but no one had them. Plenty of LEDs no, C9s. (We have so many replacement bulbs).

So I thought I'd search at Big Lots since they've been frantically emailing about their xmas decorations. And I found the C9 string right away. Win. Then I thought I would check if they have any Star Wars mugs this year. (Nevermind my cupboard is bursting with Star Wars - and non-Star Wars- mugs. Can never have too many SW mugs. Right?) Trouble is, I just searched Star Wars and I found...


( clicky click )

Doctor Who: So I watched the Key to Time series and took basically no notes. And it's been long enough I can't just write about them well.  So I guess I have to rewatch the rewatch. (Again, bad at rewatching.)  I just... don't enjoy Key to Time.  Maybe I could skip and come back to it. It's not like I've been doing this rewatch in another other than chaotic.  I'll give it some thought.

Romcoms: I half joked about doing a romcom watch and posting my quibbles and rants and trope stats.  Well. The universe seems to have spoken? This morning I got an email from HBO Max telling me all about all the romcoms they have to watch.  (Well, like 5 of them.  And only I had heard of.  Frankly, I think they were pushing the definition of "romcom" to the breaking point.)  So I might just have to do it.  Just because it might be funny.

Did some non specific fanish stuff today.   Spent some time on, Tumblr and Discord, caught up on my Youtube queue.

So my fandom share is Watcher.  Founded by the Ghoul Boys of Buzzfeed fame.

Namely Puppet History  and Ghost Files.  But mostly Puppet History.  You think it's a silly little history game show and then you find out it's a silly history game with MYTHOLOGY. 

Seriously, just watch it.

 

So- Ticketmaster finally proved how garbage it is, AG want to investigate and Switfties are going to war.   Twitter is death spiraling and every trending hashtag is some variation of RIPTwitter.

Twitter feels very familiar **cough**LJ**cough**  but even crazy faster.  And LJ was so much more niche and insular and no one understood it.  Now it's like, now who's crying?  I can't help feeling Musk did this on purpose like some sort of Illuminati/oligarch conspiracy theory plot to ruin a large scale protest mecca.   Who's to day. It sounds like some truth is stranger than fiction spy novel level stuff.

No, not really. But I have found a couple new shows to watch. 

I was loafing around on HBO Max today and found a British show called Ghosts.  (Apparently there's an American version that's almost a carbon copy except the ghosts are historical to the Americas rather than UK.  But it's locked down on CBS so eh, whatever.)   I've watched about 4 eps so far and it's entertaining enough.  Funny,  but not hysterically.  Silly without being OTT (so far.)  There's three seasons online, so I still have a lot of eps to watch.

I didn't mean to start a second show today, but when I exited Ghosts,  Los Espookies,  came up on the suggested list.  I'd meant to check that one out, so I clicked on it to watch a few minutes.  Two episodes later....  Yeah, kinda hooked.  It's deeply weird; occupying a space somewhere between farce and magical realism. 
 
So I'll probably continue to watch both (but, not planning to join any new fandoms. Today.)