My highly productive day
Aug. 10th, 2009 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethWatched Enterprise. Unmemorable. The bit I remember 4 hours later is when someone accuses the British guy of liking getting shot at and he says he likes the part where he gets to shoot back.
Watched Bring it On. Bouncy! With Buffy actresses. I skipped the bit where the plot reached total humiliation stage, cause predictable and squirmy. I like all the acrobatic bits. And I feel there's a point past which one should not watch high school movies for the bikini car wash bits. Still, happily femslashy and much less irritating than many high school movies.
Lastly watched Downtime, a not-quite-Doctor-Who film which was filmed at the UEA. So I'm sitting there quite distracted by 'that's a good shot, but if they go around the corner- yes, like that! Cool! Now show the ziggurats! oh, that's a bit of a waste of a ziggurat. It's not like you could get ziggurats many places else. And why have a fake pyramid lid when you've got a real ziggurat? And...' well, you get the idea. I want to film around the UEA. But I'd like to make it look better. It looked okay, but it can look really alien sometimes. Using it to look like a university seems like a bit of a waste really.
Also I got distracted by trying to figure out if they were saying that Victoria who travelled with the Doctor used her inherited funds to build the UEA. Or whatever they were calling it. But then I figured every sign that said the name of the new 'university' was a print out and they were only using the computer rooms really, so clearly they just hired the place in the holidays. Otherwise that's a lot of inheriting.
So there was Victoria, and there was the Brigadier, and there was Sarah Jane. Sadly only Victoria and the Brigadier had a coherent storyline and reason for being there. Sarah Jane basically could have been left out and changed nothing. In fact several of her lines were literal repeats of what someone else was doing. And her part in saving the world at the end was to go and try and do something that someone else was going and trying and doing already. Looked a bit like they'd writ a story, then found they couldplay work with Sarah Jane, and then. I can't evaluate the Victoria storyline for how it fits anything before, but it made sense from the bits she said here. Out of her time, not feeling she fits in, gets tricked by a fake father. As you do. And then the Brigadier story had a whole fathers thing going on too. But he's not fake. Just was never there. And then he finds he has a grandson and it's all cute and stuff.
And now with that in character interview on the DVD it's all tied in with the audios and confusing the status of canon even further.
The Yeti were not scary. The web is scary. The silver balls are creepy. The Yeti are just... well they were killing a whole bunch of UNIT Soldiers (on chancellery drive) and they still weren't scary. So that doesn't help.
But it was an okay story.
So that was my highly productive afternoon. Makes one feel a useful part of society.
*sigh*
Right, the arduous decision making process once again, figuring out if I should watch Doctor Who or... pretty much more Doctor Who, come to think. My interests, they have narrowed. It's cause there's so much Doctor Who and you can switch around eras and find some for most occasions.
So on the one hand I have this 'watch something you wouldn't usually watch' project so I can see how scripts work that aren't science fiction and then I watch more Doctor Who.
Summer of win, clearly.
Watched Bring it On. Bouncy! With Buffy actresses. I skipped the bit where the plot reached total humiliation stage, cause predictable and squirmy. I like all the acrobatic bits. And I feel there's a point past which one should not watch high school movies for the bikini car wash bits. Still, happily femslashy and much less irritating than many high school movies.
Lastly watched Downtime, a not-quite-Doctor-Who film which was filmed at the UEA. So I'm sitting there quite distracted by 'that's a good shot, but if they go around the corner- yes, like that! Cool! Now show the ziggurats! oh, that's a bit of a waste of a ziggurat. It's not like you could get ziggurats many places else. And why have a fake pyramid lid when you've got a real ziggurat? And...' well, you get the idea. I want to film around the UEA. But I'd like to make it look better. It looked okay, but it can look really alien sometimes. Using it to look like a university seems like a bit of a waste really.
Also I got distracted by trying to figure out if they were saying that Victoria who travelled with the Doctor used her inherited funds to build the UEA. Or whatever they were calling it. But then I figured every sign that said the name of the new 'university' was a print out and they were only using the computer rooms really, so clearly they just hired the place in the holidays. Otherwise that's a lot of inheriting.
So there was Victoria, and there was the Brigadier, and there was Sarah Jane. Sadly only Victoria and the Brigadier had a coherent storyline and reason for being there. Sarah Jane basically could have been left out and changed nothing. In fact several of her lines were literal repeats of what someone else was doing. And her part in saving the world at the end was to go and try and do something that someone else was going and trying and doing already. Looked a bit like they'd writ a story, then found they could
And now with that in character interview on the DVD it's all tied in with the audios and confusing the status of canon even further.
The Yeti were not scary. The web is scary. The silver balls are creepy. The Yeti are just... well they were killing a whole bunch of UNIT Soldiers (on chancellery drive) and they still weren't scary. So that doesn't help.
But it was an okay story.
So that was my highly productive afternoon. Makes one feel a useful part of society.
*sigh*
Right, the arduous decision making process once again, figuring out if I should watch Doctor Who or... pretty much more Doctor Who, come to think. My interests, they have narrowed. It's cause there's so much Doctor Who and you can switch around eras and find some for most occasions.
So on the one hand I have this 'watch something you wouldn't usually watch' project so I can see how scripts work that aren't science fiction and then I watch more Doctor Who.
Summer of win, clearly.
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Date: 2009-08-10 08:02 pm (UTC)And with a choice of watching Doctor Who or Doctor Who, I think you should probably watch... er... Doctor Who. Yeah, that one sound good to me. *nods*
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Date: 2009-08-10 08:07 pm (UTC)and, part of the romance? Guy meets guy. at least in a hints and subtext way. lots of use of calling someone gay as an insult countered by showing the stupid thereof. while still being funny. is win.
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Date: 2009-08-10 08:11 pm (UTC)