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Post by Riff on Jul 15, 2007 16:11:15 GMT -5
So, the pretty "witch" is the girl who was the star of the first season of "Hex", right? She moved up in the world. ;D Well, the only way was up from there, let's be honest. They made a second season of Hex. Can you believe it? A second season! Or did you mean she'd gone up in her witchy status? ;D
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Post by Queen E on Jul 15, 2007 16:12:25 GMT -5
Heh. "Expelliarmus!" "Good old JK." Doubly funny since David Tennant played Barty Crouch Jr in Goblet of Fire. As a lit geek, I loved the little literary in-jokes throughout. Could have been cheesy, but wasn't. I Agree. That sort of thing can be so intrusive and smug, but there is a light touch in this ep. My biggest complaint was that the witches seemed a bit too pantomime. I wasn't sure about that makeup. The Eighth Doctor audio play "Time of the Daleks" has constant quotations from Shakespeare in the dialogue (The Daleks are trying to remove Shakespeare from time to free themselves from a temporal paradox and... never mind ). This mostly works surprisingly well. I still get shivers hearing the Daleks intone Hamlet's "Tis now the very witching time of night" soliloquy. And I'm man enough to admit it. Hee! I will cast no aspersions in your direction. Was there a handy couch to hide behind?
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Post by Riff on Jul 15, 2007 16:13:46 GMT -5
So, the pretty "witch" is the girl who was the star of the first season of "Hex", right? She moved up in the world. ;D Still putting on hexes. Ack and puppets. Shakespeare puts me in mind of the way Joss Whedon acts.Definitely. Thinking about people, about what makes them tick.
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Post by Riff on Jul 15, 2007 16:18:13 GMT -5
I Agree. That sort of thing can be so intrusive and smug, but there is a light touch in this ep. My biggest complaint was that the witches seemed a bit too pantomime. I wasn't sure about that makeup. The Eighth Doctor audio play "Time of the Daleks" has constant quotations from Shakespeare in the dialogue (The Daleks are trying to remove Shakespeare from time to free themselves from a temporal paradox and... never mind ). This mostly works surprisingly well. I still get shivers hearing the Daleks intone Hamlet's "Tis now the very witching time of night" soliloquy. And I'm man enough to admit it. Hee! I will cast no aspersions in your direction. Was there a handy couch to hide behind? I never ever hid behind a couch. It was a cushion. ;D
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Post by Riff on Jul 15, 2007 16:24:37 GMT -5
Exactly! Oooo - "Death has been waiting for you a very long time." I suspect she's right. It really has. So far, though, he's managed to avoid it. It's hard to see how he can ever die. RTD would never do it, and in every other drama he writes he takes out characters as merrily as Joss. You've probably notived that even in DW he deals with the theme of mortality. The Doctor is the property of too many people, now.
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Post by Riff on Jul 15, 2007 16:26:58 GMT -5
Heh. "Expelliarmus!" "Good old JK." Doubly funny since David Tennant played Barty Crouch Jr in Goblet of Fire. As a lit geek, I loved the little literary in-jokes throughout. Could have been cheesy, but wasn't. **nods** I think because they poked fun of themselves for poking fun in a literary way. ;D Now I come to think about it, you're right. That's exactly how it was done - it was too self-aware to become smug.
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Post by Riff on Jul 15, 2007 16:30:50 GMT -5
Well, I noted it because sometimes they dress up in period clothes and sometimes they don't. I'm not sure I recognize that pattern of it. Maybe it's part of the chameleon circuit. (Oh, god, I'm turning into a Who geek. Heavens forfend.) Oh, don't be so coy. You're eating jelly babies and knitting a scarf right now, arent' you?
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Post by Onjel on Jul 15, 2007 19:16:45 GMT -5
So, the pretty "witch" is the girl who was the star of the first season of "Hex", right? She moved up in the world. ;D Well, the only way was up from there, let's be honest. They made a second season of Hex. Can you believe it? A second season! Or did you mean she'd gone up in her witchy status? ;D Hee! I'd say both, actually. I saw an ad for the second season of "Hex". Was she even in it by that point? I saw three episodes of the first season and I can truly say that it's reputation as awful was richly deserved. I noticed that the dead roommate girlfriend wannabe was in the second season commercial. I'm thinking she was the real protagonist there. I haven't had any interest in checking it out, that's for certain.
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Post by Lola m on Jul 15, 2007 19:20:30 GMT -5
Hee! I will cast no aspersions in your direction. Was there a handy couch to hide behind? I never ever hid behind a couch. It was a cushion. ;D **snicker smirk** Ahem. Why certainly, we never doubted you for a moment.
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Post by Lola m on Jul 15, 2007 19:23:00 GMT -5
Maybe it's part of the chameleon circuit. (Oh, god, I'm turning into a Who geek. Heavens forfend.) Oh, don't be so coy. You're eating jelly babies and knitting a scarf right now, arent' you? Ahem. Not that I'm anyone to talk. **hides ticket stub from first fan-geek convention I ever attended, at age 20-something, which was a Dr Who event because the actress who played Leela was appearing** ;D
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Post by Onjel on Jul 15, 2007 21:41:32 GMT -5
I suspect she's right. It really has. So far, though, he's managed to avoid it. It's hard to see how he can ever die. RTD would never do it, and in every other drama he writes he takes out characters as merrily as Joss. You've probably notived that even in DW he deals with the theme of mortality. The Doctor is the property of too many people, now. He surely does belong to too many. So was Buffy and Joss killed her. Brought her back, though. At a steep price, but still. . .. That is sort of touched on with The Doctor, courtesy of his ability to regenerate, but. . ..
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Post by Queen E on Jul 16, 2007 12:58:02 GMT -5
Maybe it's part of the chameleon circuit. (Oh, god, I'm turning into a Who geek. Heavens forfend.) Oh, don't be so coy. You're eating jelly babies and knitting a scarf right now, arent' you? D'oh! Busted.
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Post by Riff on Jul 16, 2007 17:11:39 GMT -5
Well, the only way was up from there, let's be honest. They made a second season of Hex. Can you believe it? A second season! Or did you mean she'd gone up in her witchy status? ;D Hee! I'd say both, actually. I saw an ad for the second season of "Hex". Was she even in it by that point? I saw three episodes of the first season and I can truly say that it's reputation as awful was richly deserved. I noticed that the dead roommate girlfriend wannabe was in the second season commercial. I'm thinking she was the real protagonist there. I haven't had any interest in checking it out, that's for certain. I saw the DVD box set going incredibly cheap in a supermarket, and made the terrible mistake of buying it. So, yes, I watched the entire first season of Hex. They're all in the second season and there's someone new as well, I think. A second season of Hex. That makes me practically lose the will to live.
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Post by Riff on Jul 16, 2007 17:19:30 GMT -5
I never ever hid behind a couch. It was a cushion. ;D **snicker smirk** Ahem. Why certainly, we never doubted you for a moment. *waxes lyrical* Of course, when I was a lad, all Doctor Who stories were serials (four parters, six parters) with cliffhangers at the ends of episodes. At a very young age I worked out that the really scary stuff would be at the end of an episode, and during the recap at the start of the next episode. Solution? Cover one's head with a cushion at the start and end of each episode! The only thing is that I must have missed all the scariest monsters, because the ones during the rest of each episode, that I got to see, just looked like people wearing spray-painted egg boxes. ;D
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Post by Riff on Jul 16, 2007 17:26:07 GMT -5
Oh, don't be so coy. You're eating jelly babies and knitting a scarf right now, arent' you? Ahem. Not that I'm anyone to talk. **hides ticket stub from first fan-geek convention I ever attended, at age 20-something, which was a Dr Who event because the actress who played Leela was appearing** ;D Louise Jameson? Not that I'm a fanboy at all. I mean, I have a sonic screwdriver, but Erin bought me it. It just sits in a drawer. I never play with it while I'm watching DW. This never, ever happens.
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