A cold day...

[fajrdrako]

Suddenly today it turned wintry. golden_hinde said she saw snowflakes falling. I can believe it. I don't think the temperature went above 0C all day.

So this evening I watched Numb3rs with maaseru. Watching it again (for the first time in a couple of years) reminded me both of what I did and didn't like about the show. First of all, it was very predictable. Less than five minutes into the show I said to maaseru, "Do you think the kidnap victim is behind it all?" "Looks that way," she said, and so it was.

Second, it was all very superficial. In the episode, one of the protagonists broke up with his girlfriend. A more... colourless scene I can't imagine. And they were the characters I liked. I found Larry Fleinhardt's speech patterns very annoying.

I still like the show's motif of using math to solve situational problems, but I'm just not convinced by it.

And then I watched "Time Crash", the Doctor Who mini-episode that just aired for the Children in Need special today. A nice surprise: it was written by Steven Moffat, my favourite Doctor Who writer by far.

An even nicer surprise is that I totally loved it. It revived my Doctor-love that had hiccupped after "The Last of the Time Lords". It made me smile. It made me all sentimental not only about the show but about eras of the show I never even watched. I never saw Peter Davison as the Doctor before, and here I was, loving him. And the celery. And the jokes. (Especially the 'beard' joke.) Wibbley wobbley timey-wimey. Crickety cricket stuff. Butterfingers. Desktop theme. Not to mention, "Big emergency, universe goes bang in five minutes, but - brilliant!"

And the cloister bell. I don't even get it and I loved it.

It did a lot - and I can't even explain why - to soothe my mixed feelings about Ten. It was Ten at his silliest - and why do I like that so much, when I don't like other heroes being silly? It's one of the mysteries of the time-space continuum.

Aaah, that happy feeling of fannishness being stoked.

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Time Crash Behind-The-Scenes

[raissad.livejournal.com]

Here's a Behind-The-Scenes Featurette:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9L0ch0r4pQ

Re: Time Crash Behind-The-Scenes

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

That was delightful. Totally charming.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Sorry. Didn't mean to push any hot buttons. I don't like mine nudged at, either.

I don't think of geek as a derogatory term, which probably helps. And I'm not exactly socially ept myself, so I tend to be more forgiving of ineptness that's unintentionally thoughtless. I don't pick up on subtleties well at all, and I tend to draw the line of "and this is none of your business" at a nonstandard place (farther out than most people, apparently), without being able to articulate myself well enough to tell them so without putting my foot in my mouth.

I liked Enrique. He meant so well, and tried so hard [g].

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Didn't mean to push any hot buttons. I don't like mine nudged at, either.

Oh, I don't mind. But it slightly took me by surprise.

Enrique had the advantage of setting an interesting plot in motion!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

He did. I liked him for himself, too. And the accent Grover Gardner gives him in the audio version is hilarious.

I think one of the reasons I like Enrique is that he reminds me of Beaker. Anyone who reminds me of Beaker can't be all bad...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

If Enrique reminded me of Beaker... that would make all the difference.

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

It did a lot - and I can't even explain why - to soothe my mixed feelings about Ten. It was Ten at his silliest - and why do I like that so much, when I don't like other heroes being silly?

could Ten's sillyness be (one of) his superpowers? Intertwined with a way he had to persuede people. Being very silly but extremely earnest at the same time.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

He certainly has a talent for a kind of endearing silliness. It's where he shines, though I like the occasional moments of anger as well.