French Rugby...

I got this link from minotaurs.

Sometimes I quite like sports.

Torchwood article...

I am reduced to reading spoilers, I am so desperate for more about Torchwood.

So I read this interview with Barrowman. We know about the revelation at the end of Doctor Who series 3. I thought we did know the date Jack returned to Earth - perhaps we just thought we did.

Love his comments ( about... )

Torchwood and Doctor Who...

Funny how our fannish reactions change. slodwick asked about pairings we liked. Now, any time before "The Last of the Time Lords", I'd have said my favourite pairing in fandom currently was Captain Jack Harkness and the Doctor, no question, no hesitation.

But then I found I was having trouble conceptualizing that or writing it. It's as if they... broke my pairing. Destroyed my concept of it. I didn't think that was even possible. No wonder I'm still scrambling to get my post-series-3 bearings.

And everyone else seems to be squeeing about the Master, but he's part of my mixed and troubled reactions. I'm sorting it all out in my head and it's getting easier, but not as it was. I think all I need to do is get a mental handle on it and write a fic that makes it all work for me. Really, that's all.

Meanwhile... I'm still flinching. A little.

Which is why I've refocussed on Torchwood and away from Doctor Who till I get oriented again.

Harry Potter and the Movies that Wasn't...

I went today to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in a real live movie theatre, and it was a fiasco.

There was something wrong with the projection equipment - first the sound messed up (twice) and then the film stopped. Twice. And then they couldn't get it started again, explaining that it would be at least half an hour till the movie resumed and we'd end up missing a section anyway. We got passes to see it again.

I'm thinking of going on Saturday.

We got as far as the scene where Luna Lovegood is telling Harry about her mother.

This time round, it bothered me a little that many the characters look as if they are adults pretending to be younger than they are.