I think my head just exploded...
 

Two of my favourite things combined into one....

The author, Michael Moorcock (you'd have to love him with a name like that, even if his canon of work wasn't amazing), will be writing an original Doctor Who novel for release Christmas 2010.


*skips up and down*

And it's a David Tennant one as well *skips a bit more*.

Sorry, that's a lot of skippng, but I really am awfully excited about this.



[*eta - please, please, when Richard Curtiss directs an episode next year, let it be the Blackadder Curtis and not the Mr Bean Curtiss. or, worse still, the Love Actually Curtiss. Pretty please.)

I can't imagine combining Love Actually with Dr. Who, but I liked Love Actually a lot.

Who wouldn't love a half dozen happy endings in one film?

Just fainted at the idea of the Ten in Blackadder II mode.
Yes I know it won't happen, but I was so in love with Lord Blackadder when I was 15 - I think it affected my choice of men for the next two decades.

Do you think I could sue?

Any thoughts on Water of Mars?
I thought it was an odd hybrid of hide behind the sofa and total angst.
I'm still not entirely sure it worked. In that I don't know if I'll search it out online to watch again. As opposed to the Captain Jack episodes which I watch whenever they are on Watch for example ;)

Interesting.
Interesting.
But I don't like my Dr Who like I like my coffee (dark, bitter... de-caffeinated, but that doesn't quite fit).

I'd prefer to see the Ten go out in a blaze of what he brought to the series: gangly bloke; surprisingly hot; mad smile; energy turned up to 11.
Oh yeah, sorry. I just want to see him shag Captain Jack.

I really liked Water of Mars. The only thing I didn't like was the robot. It was exactly how I like my Doctor, dark and with a sense of legend around the edges. I thought his slide into desperate arrogance was brilliantly done. The way it took all those lovable facets of the doc (his quick thinking, manic energy and sense of humour) and twisted it into something altogether more painful.

Set the ground very nicely for the Tenth's swan song.

Those last few scenes he was more like the Master than himself. In serious danger of turning into the kind if being he's always fought against.

I did find the episode a little uncomfortable, slightly jarring. But I think that was deliberate. There's no acceptance here of death and regeneration. He's fighting it, desperate not to die. And the whole idea of an unchangeable past is coming into question.

Gotta love it. Check out my signature: Terry Bozzio quotes Joseph Campbell!
I've also heard him make Family Guy references, at a Zappa plays Zappa show.

Love Actually was pretty watchable, but Notting Hill was far funnier and a lot less twee, I thought.

I'd recommend the extras on Love Actually? (I'm going to have to seriously backpedal on my last statement). There were some deleted scenes which were hilarious, particularly the one with Emma Thompson accompanying her son to the principal's office for a telling off. The Director's commentary wasn't bad either.

I didn't mind the film so much. Just came across as movie by numbers in large part.

Curtis can do brilliant, wonderful stuff. But he is also capable of getting way too twee.

If Love Actually is twee, then give me more twee. I love happy endings and, like the white queen, I can believe six impossible things before breakfast.

*nods* yeah. I suppose. I just don't want any of that twee getting on the doctor. I think I just don't recognise the Britain he portrays in stuff like that. It looks like the modern age, but it seems to have carried older sensibilities into it. It jars with me somewhat at times, though I still enjoy it.

He's done much better stuff. The one with Bill Nighy as a politician, and a girl he hooks up with at a climate control conference, was brilliant. Can't recall the title.

I definitely agree there. Dr. Who already has its own tone. No need to mess with success.