December already?

[dbskyler]

I am once again doing the WIP challenge at writethisfanfic this month, and the good news is I forced myself to work on the story last night. The bad news is, I took out more words than I put in, so I am starting off with a negative word count. Hopefully I'll be making up for that by this weekend. Which reminds me, we don't know the December fic_rush weekend yet, do we? I think I'm going to need it again to pull me out of this hole I keep putting myself into.

Not doing Yuletide, but I did hang up a stocking at fandom_stocking. It seems like a fun community, although it does feel a little awkward to advertise my stocking -- like I'm shilling for gifts or something. However, since there are umpteen gazillion stockings, I will go ahead and point mine out for any of you who are so inclined as to stop by: my stocking is here.

I've been going through the extras on the S5 boxset, and so far I am disappointed by the commentaries and the video diaries. Although it was slightly amusing to see the in-vision commentary for Time of Angels and notice the amazing amount of awkwardness between Steven Moffat and Karen Gillan. Can we please get David Tennant back in there, just for a commentary or two? Or Colin Baker? I bet he'd have some great things to say. So would Peter Davison. In fact, I think I'm going to have to go re-rent Arc of Infinity to remind myself of what a good commentary sounds like.

Hope everyone's December is going well so far, and to those of you who celebrate, happy Hanukkah!

Comments

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

It was mostly made in the '90s? Then why does Lynda's hair look like that? And why is everyone dressed like it's the mid-'80s?

Oh well, maybe I just fail at decade identification. Anyway, it was still far more serious and adult than I was expecting. It reminds me of SJA, actually -- it's obviously targeted to a young audience, but like that show it doesn't talk down to its audience, and it's genuinely good.

My one big complaint with the show is Spike's accent. Yes, I'm being boring again and complaining about a fake American accent, but it's kind of up there with Peri's accent in how grating it is. I keep wanting to say "No, no, don't do that. Don't."

I was wondering which series I should buy, if I decide to take the plunge. (Or which one I should start off with, anyway.) I don't think I can afford to buy more than one DVD for now. Would you recommend S2? Or one of the others?

[thisbluespirit]

We looked like that in the 90s! :-) I had scrunchies and baggy t-shirts and culottes something like some of Lynda's. And that's Julia Sawalha's hair - it curls like that naturally.

:lol: Oh, dear - poor Dexter Fletcher! They were all cast and everything, and the producer (who was American), decided it would be great if Spike was also American... so he had to attempt the accent at the last minute. He gets marginally better as he goes along, but it was a bit random to say the least. (There are some sly jokes about it along the way, to help you!) He went off to America in rl after this, and learned to do the accent properly, but too late for Press Gang.

Hmm. I don't know - It does help to watch them in order, especially with S1 and 2. I would kind of suggest 1 and 2, but that's not helpful, I realise. I like S3 a lot, and the show does change a bit at that point, so you could go for that. On the other hand, there are only 6 episodes per season in the last three series, so if you want quantity, you need S1 or 2 (they have 12 eps each). ETA: Actually, go for S1 - you get all the setting up at the start, David Collings as the head (and he doesn't appear again till S5), Adrian Edmonson doing a guest spot, and Colin as a pink rabbit.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm misremembering, but those look a lot more like clothes we used to wear in the '80s than the '90s. Of course, it could also be geographic differences? Anyway, from the opening scene I was immediately thinking we were in the mid to late '80s. I guess if it started in '89, though, I was only a few years off!

Poor Dexter indeed. His American accent is better than David Tennant's, if that's any consolation. ; )

[thisbluespirit]

Yeah, I was thinking that after I posted. I can think of US shows I'd seen years ago that I'd assumed were really old, and it turned out, they were pretty much contemporary with when I was watching them. I think things cross the Atlantic much sooner these days than they used to. An dthe first bits were 1989, so it was still the 1980s!

It is, I think! :lol: (And Colin never believes Spike's from America anyway... He thinks he's from Birmingham.)