OMG, HAPPINESS PATROL IS THE BEST. I SHALL COSPLAY IT NEXT YEAR.
Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.
Tara ,'First Date'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
P.M. Marc - Nov 24, 2015 1:54:07 pm PST #9735 of 30003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
EpicTangent - Nov 24, 2015 2:03:14 pm PST #9736 of 30003
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I used to get them Barnes & Noble gift cards, but they got Kindles and don't buy paper books these days
If they have Kindles, Amazon giftcards.
billytea - Nov 24, 2015 2:18:21 pm PST #9737 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I don't remember, I think there's some sort of documentary but I forgot to look. I love the atmospherics of that episode, and the end where Helen is weeping over her horrible dog.
Check it out if you have a spare moment. It's really quite interesting. (It's included with Happiness Patrol because Helen A was famously modelled on Margaret Thatcher.)
My favourite moment in the ep is when the Doctor talks down the sniper. Probably Seven's best dialogue. (My second favourite is when the Kandyman answers the phone with "Kandyman!".)
OMG, HAPPINESS PATROL IS THE BEST. I SHALL COSPLAY IT NEXT YEAR.
It is made for cosplay!
Connie Neil - Nov 24, 2015 2:20:57 pm PST #9738 of 30003
brillig
Seven is my favorite doctor after Four. Seven looks amiable and kind, but there's darkness in him. He can get very ominous. Which is what I like about Four--goofy, all teeth and curls, but then his voice drops (yum) and you hope you're not the one who's made him angry.
shrift - Nov 24, 2015 2:25:05 pm PST #9739 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I have no idea what to get anyone for Christmas and it's making me nuts.
I'll be out of the country most of December so people are getting whatever weird stuff I pick up in my travels, gift cards, or maybe something off their actual Christmas list if they get it to me on time.
JZ - Nov 24, 2015 2:27:14 pm PST #9740 of 30003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Newly-acquired knowledge I did not need but now cannot stop thinking about: Talenti makes peppermint bark gelato.
billytea - Nov 24, 2015 2:34:34 pm PST #9741 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Which is what I like about Four--goofy, all teeth and curls, but then his voice drops (yum) and you hope you're not the one who's made him angry.
Tom Baker (and others) have said frequently in interviews that he communicated the alienness of his Doctor most notably through his emotional reactions. They often tended to be off-kilter compared to a typical human reaction. (Compelling in the Hinchcliffe-era adventures; hilarious in City of Death.) And I love the way he could turn on a dime, in more or less any direction.
I would rank the Doctors, but honestly I think they're all pretty fantastic.
Zenkitty - Nov 24, 2015 2:44:31 pm PST #9742 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Why do people cheerfully ask "Are you all packed?!" How is that not supposed to be stressful? Because the answer is probably, NO OMG I'm not packed yet! And even if I am all packed, why would anyone be asking me that?
Connie Neil - Nov 24, 2015 2:45:19 pm PST #9743 of 30003
brillig
They often tended to be off-kilter compared to a typical human reaction.
"We're completely cut off and are probably about to die!" (big toothy grin)
Yup.
Maria - Nov 24, 2015 2:47:15 pm PST #9744 of 30003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Catching up...
Ginger, I am so glad you had the board and friends close by that were helpful. If need be, I can come down over a weekend to help you with anything you need.
Work~ma and health~ma and let's-not-kill-the-idiots~ma to all that need them.
Travel is going to be crazy over the next two weeks. Why does everyone wait until December to get things done?