writing, UUC, the 5 doctors and so on

[rivendellrose]

Writing on my giganta-fic for the Tardis Big Bang thingy (65,000 words of fic, because apparently NaNoWriMo isn't enough for me anymore...) is proceeding apace, though I wonder if the fandom will speak to me ever again by the time I finish it. I've got 16,000 words as of last night. ...Only about 50,000 to go! *Dies* I'm delusional! But in a good way! The minimum is actually 20,000 (with no upper limit), which I've almost already hit, and I have no idea where I got the other number. Folks also taking part, can someone confirm I'm not totally batshit?

And the rough draft is due March 16. I think I can manage that without losing my mind and still get this thing to really work. Woohoo!

Went to service at UUC for the first time in a few months yesterday, with zinjadu and maymargaret, and was happy to run into the new couple from our evening discussion group. I'm really starting to feel cozy there, so that pleases me. We've got a big community involvement thing coming up, so I'm excited to see what starts coming out of that in the next few months.

Aaaand, Kendra and I watched part of "The Five Doctors" last night. It's... umm... I love Five? He's so cute. And also the Ainley!Master. And when she's not adorably tiny and surrounded by equally bad acting and special effects, I can't stand the woman who plays Susan. I kept having to walk away when she was on-screen, she irritated me that much. Also, someone on the costume team had a serious grudge against Liz Sladen in this episode - that was literally the most hideous outfit ever. And Pertwee abandoned his lisp! What happened there?

Oh. One other thing. The 4th Doctor bit cut out of the unused footage from "Shada?" Blows my brain. Umm. A big old post-death thank you goes out to Douglas Adams for doing away with any lingering ambiguity about whether or not the Doctor and Romana were screwing like bunnies. Thanks, Adams. I'll never be able to look at that kind of boating with an innocent mind ever again. Also, it is obscenely weird that Tom Baker has a nice butt, and moreso that the camera-man appeared to think it needed to figure prominently throughout this scene. WEIRD, I tell you. ...But I'm not complaining. o_O

...I'll be over here, now, pretending not to be completely deranged. Ahem.

Also, I did some shopping on Saturday and bought a lovely new bag and an awesome pair of boots. Yay for pretty things.

Comments

[minerva-fan.livejournal.com]

Re Lis Sladen's costume in The Five Doctors...was she pregnant, or did she just piss off the costumer royally? And if she was pregnant, what in hell was she doing rolling around the English countryside? (Also, she either had a bad cold or was doing too much cocaine, because her nose was red and runny all the way through.) At least she fared better there than in the 1993 Christmas special, Dimensions in Time. Not only did they shove her in those red-and-white striped overalls (cute in her twenties, not so much cute at just shy of forty), but they gave her a lousy beret? Did she sleep with somebody's husband? Run over a family pet with her car? Because, Lis seems a nice enough woman. Can't imagine who would have such a vendetta against her.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Exactly my question - even if those were maternity clothes, that still seems to me like cruel and unusual punishment to a woman who is extremely diligent and talented at always seeming nice (granted, one can't ever quite discount that possibility with actors, as... well, it's what they're trained to do!), or is genuinely a sweet and funny person. I lean toward the latter, obviously. And a nice person like that should never have to be immortalized in such hideous clothes.

It must be a vendetta of some kind. The costume mistress must really hate Liz. Alas.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I must have been far too young when I saw the Five Doctors, because I don't recall any of that subtext.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Erm. About Tom and Lalla, that is, not about Lis Sladen.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Allow me to summarize, then. Ahem. All of this is happening as the Doctor poles them on a little boat thing that I'm told might be called a "punt" down a river/canal thing somewhere near Cambridge.

Doctor: Blah, blah, primitive things are more fun.
Romana: Weren't we trying to come here for May Week? Oh well, I like fall, too, blah blah pretty poetic stuff about leaves...
Doctor: Something about preferring the boat to (a Tardis? Time Lord ships in general? I was unclear on this, possibly because of the afore-mentioned frequent focus on Baker's butt, which I found distracting...) because you only need, I quote "A strong pair of hands (something presumably the boat), and a pole."

All of this said with Baker's typical unerring (and in this case slightly eery) knack for timing and emphasis. I have no idea how Lalla Ward kept a straight face.