11:41 pm - OMFG!!! Expletives in the title, wonderful. But that's all I can really say after having seen this! He's gone completely bonkers!!! And I love it! Even though I feel like an old lady who shouldn't really laugh at that and who hides her amusement behind her hand. I can see the fanfiction community go crazy about this tidbit. So the Doctor does dance :)=)
Okay, trying not to explode with amusement and glee. Calm down self, calm down.
*grins like a maniac* Current Music: doctor who, tv
12:22 pm - The Doctor and Rose... I've finally finished watching Series 2, after dreading the end so much and putting it off for quite some time. Right now I'm in a bit of a fatalistic state of mind, so I finally pushed through the last four eps of that series. It's so obvious on re-watch though, isn't? The Doctor and Rose, they were something special. I'm not versed in old Who, but I'm quite sure that he's never had a companion like her. He was actually teaching her towards the end. Not showing of like he did in series 1, but actually teaching her how to do things around the Tardis and obviously telling her stuff. Like the time that he dropped he'd been a father once before, and obviously some background about the Daleks, and at least some of what happened when she had the time vortex in her. I think her mother was quite right too, about Rose changing and adapting to the Doctor, allthough I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing.
And if some scenes, that were just too familar, too casual didn't give it away already, I think the sentence about the baby did. On first watch I thought he might have thought that she already moved on, but on second watch, I don't think that's the case. It's obviously done to give shippers something, but then it's done in a way, that if you combine what else happened in the episodes before, starting as early as School Reunion, there's really only one way to see it :)
Maybe someday I'll write a long review of Series 2 going from ep to ep and analyzing what goes on in each of them. Probably not, but who knows. I might have a bit of time on my hands in the future. Still rewatching Series 2 is not top on my list, because it's so damn painful in the end. I'll just keep moving through Series 3 now and hope that Series 4 is finally reduced in price so I can buy it. But before that, Christmas. I haven't dreaded or anticipated Christmas like that for a long, long time. That's a good thing by the way. Keeps my mind occupied.
Oh well, time to get off to work, only the afternoon shift today. One day at a time.
10:52 pm - Work Work Work Lately it's been so busy...X_X
My colleague is currently on vacation for three weeks, so I have the office completely to myself. Somehow it feels like I'm doing really well, considering I'm doing the work of two people. I feel productive. But then I see how many hours I clock and realize that either I'm not as productive as I think I am or there is just too much work, really.
Tomorrow morning (6.40am!!!) I'll leave for a schooling in Berlin. It runs the whole weekend. I will be back home in the late afternoon on Sunday. And Monday morning it's back to work. So it's actually two running weeks without sleeping in and working until way past 7pm most days... I feel tired.
Tetley Original, which I recently bought at a Tesco in Poland, is currently saving me from madness. It tastes great with milk and two lumps of sugar.
12:01 am - District 9 Just came out of the cinema and I'm a bit underwhelmed. That's why I hate it when we get releases so late. The hype builds up and then it can't meet expectations. It simply was neither as innovative as it was made out to be nor really entertaining. I can't really see myself re-watching it. There wasn't a single "wow!" moment, only a few cringe-worthy ones (fingernails...). It pretty much seemed to be a social critique not really hidden within an SF shell, without any real moral resolution in the end. I'd say Cloverfield was a tad better, even though it didn't live up to the hype either. Current Mood: blah
11:53 pm - e.r. And in the end... it's not really over. Live continues in the e.r. even if we won't be able to be part of it anymore. I'll miss this sow, even if I've been a bit less than enthusiastic at the beginning of a new season, it always caught me again. I've been crying over it more than with any other series and it had some of the most shocking scenes in all of my TV history. I'd like to mention the helicopter. Twice.
But basically it was about the characters and bringing some of them back over the last season made me realize how much I liked them, even if I did dislike them in the beginning (Carry Weaver comes to mind). This series has been part of my life for years and years, pretty much half of my life, really. It's one of the reasons I started studying medicine (even though I never intended to work in an e.r.) and I kept watching and loving it even after I switched to Japanology. I'll miss it, I really will.
There's Grey's Anatomy now, but I think it's doubtful that it will keep going for as long as e.r. did or go out when it's still on top of it's game. So many series ended when they were so crappy it was painful already. e.r. didn't and I'm thankful for it. Even if interest waned, I think it kept an excellent level of story telling... sigh.
I wonder if Doctor Who will turn into a series that will accompany me for a large part of my life. It does not really fall into the drama category compared to e.r., but it has plenty of open spaces to be filled with additional drama by fans :) Let's see if it can keep up over the following years.
So yes, I can turn a sob post about the cancellation of e.r. into one about DW. Did you doubt me? Current Mood: sad
01:07 pm - See you later, Dalek... Maybe you shouldn't name your car (or your computer) after evil beings. It might be tempting fate a little bit too much. Last week my license plate with DALEK1 on it disappeared. I have no idea if it was stolen or if I lost it, but I think it's the former. So if any of you should ever meet someone who has it or claims to have it, kick him/her in the shins from me. Thanks.
The result is that I spent an hour in a police station, paid 20 Euro to get a confirmation of loss from them and now have to buy new license plates for another 20 Euro. Yep, new ones. I paid for my DALEK1 plates but I won't be allowed to use them for a whole year. I'll get normal numbered plates for that time. And after a year I can pay another 20 Euro and then I'll get new license plates with DALEK1 on them.
"Why me?", is what I'd like to say, but that would be frustrating and nothing else. So I'll simply be sad and hope that my little pepper pot will last long enough to be reunited with his license plates.
It somehow brightened my day when I walked towards it an saw the license plate...
11:41 am - Waters of Mars New Comic Con Trailer ... that look on his face after he said "I don't hear anyone knocking, do you"... I am so going to cry that it's not even funny... WAAAAAHHHHH! Current Mood: shocked
10:52 pm - Torchwood - Children of Earth A bit late I know, I just came back from Japan so I missed the original airing but I've been diligently watching it one episode a day except for the last two, which I watched just now.
02:09 am - Once again! I'm off to Japan :) This time I'll head a bit farther south and will visit Ishigaki Island und Iriomote Island. They're pretty much next to Taiwan so it should be hot and wet and the ocean should be just the right temperature. I can't wait! And then there's a wedding of course! So once again it will be a bit busy, but that's okay, I guess :)
11:54 pm - Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen I'm pretty sure there are quite a few people who were suprised how much fun the first Transformers movie was and who are/were looking forward to the new one. Well, unless you want to see 2 hours of Transformers fighting you will be disappointed. The few minutes were there's actually character interacting give you a tiny glimpse of what could have been and what I loved about the first movie, but it all gets drowned out in endless fights. The movie is 150 minutes long. Imagine that! It has around 20-30 minutes character interactiong and the rest, I'm not kidding here, is Transformer fights. So yes, the movie totally bombed for me. Terminator 4 was a masterpiece compared to this. Unless you're a total Transformer geek, this will disappoint. 1* out of 5
07:16 pm - And DALEK1... is the winner :) Going to sign the contract tomorrow. I just hope he'll be nice and won't try to exterminate me or anyone else...
10:22 pm - Thinking of buying a car.... So I've been looking at car ads for the past few days and I'm pretty sure I want a Smart 42, even though it's pretty high maintainance as far as I've found out... I've been looking at cabrios but they seem to be a bit out of my budget range... which is a pitty. They're not really cabrios in my opinion, more like roofless cars, but that's still very nice :) So I found a nice (non-cabrio) Smart in excellent condition with only 25.000km on it and now I have to make a choice.
Here is it:
So should I go with what is probably going to become "DALEK1" or should I wait and see if I can find something like this:
And of course name it "TARDI5"?
My mind tells me to go with the little pepperpot and sign the deal as it's a good one and probably hard to get another like this. My heart tells me to wait and see. But what if the pepperpot is gone and I don't find anything else I like for ages? Also with DALEK1 I'd probably pay the extra (what's a bit of money among friends) and order some golden dots to cover his grey parts so he looks more like his name-sake:
Another thing that is quite important: If I keep looking I'll spend hours and hours looking... time that I could spend a lot better.
It was great :) The singer is such a likable guy and he sounded great live. Whenever they visit little Vienna I'll be sure to see their show. Lots of old and new songs, a perfect mix. And they played "You could be happy"! What surprised me is that everyone was singing along. And here I thought I'm the only one who'd be hoping for that song :)
I've tested my new little Panasonic Lumix FT-1 in it's first live concert and it took wonderful videos. I'm uploading them to YouTube now, but it's tedious. Here's the first song of the concert and the first video that I've every uploaded to YouTube, lol :)
05:14 pm - Will it get better? I've already seen Star Trek twice now and I can't stop thinking about going again either tomorrow or sometime next week! The first time I was so stunned as I didn't expect it to be any good and then it got better and better and just didn't stop! The second time around you could feel that quite a few of the others were already re-watching it as it had a very jovial and campy feel with everyone laughing out loud and some laughing for what seemed like a minute every time Chekov said something :) I think if they'd actually continue playing it like once a week they'd be sold out every single week. Aaahhh... I have to re-watch as many times as possible as long as its running. OMG, what will I do when it runs out and before the DVD is released???? Current Mood: bouncy
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