Oh, for goodness sakes

[evilhippo]

A few days ago chocolatemoose gave me a wonderful suggestion that was sure to fix all of my employment problems. Provided that the BBC still uses paper paychecks, and not some kind of direct deposit system, I was to find myself a Russell T. Davies disguise and take his place. After all, the first bit of season 3 was kind of rubbish (with the possible exception of Gridlock, maybe) and the end was just... I can't even put it into words. And now, given this news (linked to a post that links to a casting spoiler) I believe this is clearly the only moral course of action. So, if anyone wants to donate enough for me to get to Wales or whatever, I think I'll set up a paypal account. And as of now, I am looking for someone who can make me a convincing RTD disguise. Any takers? I'll let you work on the series. (I'll even promise to keep Torchwood just as cracky, though I might try to make it not... you know... involve Chris Chibnall's writing.)

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[lisiche.livejournal.com]

I know someone famous in facial reconstruction if you want to go permanent. *rolls around laughing imagining that*

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Hmmm....

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Nope, I can't even handle looking at my own comment without laughing, how would I ever deal with mirrors?

[lisiche.livejournal.com]

*LAUGH* I don't think Petey would have a good time trying to make that face, either.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Well darn. There goes that road on the evil plan route. Plastic mask it is. Or a paper mask... suppose they secretly want to replace him anyway, and would let me get away with it just because of the sheer cheek it'd take to walk in there wearing a paper RTD mask and try to write the show. Hmmm. ^_^

[lisiche.livejournal.com]

Just make a paper bag with a frowny face and spotted cheek.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

::snerk:: I like the way you think. That should be my Halloween costume, if nothing else.

^_^

[chocolatemoose.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha, maybe this explains his atrocious writing - he can't take himself seriously, and thinks that he's living in a fairy-tale?

Re: ^_^

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I blame the fairy tale thing on the "kids show" aspect... but yeah, eesh. Then again, I remember complaining that "The wonder of the human race!" was the theme in every episode for a while. We could go back to that now and I wouldn't mind. No more destroying the world/making the Doctor more emo. The Doctor does not need to be more emo! I mean, this kind of character abuse shouldn't even be legal. I've been mean to a lot of my characters... often far more than necessary, but at least I didn't kill off their secret brothers and permanently separate them from their dear friends and write them badly. Doctor Who is about the alien worlds and time travel! Not the Doctor's vast loneliness and infinite potential for emo.

[chocolatemoose.livejournal.com]

i blame you for hooking me on a show that has since made GODAWFUL decisions in just about everything.
and i blame you for the fact that i will probably continue to forgive it.

i'll give you some drugs to keep rusty nice and complacent, okay?
just... why her? why not sally sparrow? WE LIKE HER MORE!!! can't they hear us?

sighhh.

now, back to battlestar.
which thus far has had nothing but rather superb writing. thank god.
but then, season one of doctor who was nearly flawless as well.

ARG i'm not used to being vested in shows anymore!
::shakes fist::

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just re-watched The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances today. It made me really happy. Even the throwaway lines were wonderful. Goshdarnit. And you can blame me. But in turn, I will blame shichahn, and in turn she can probably blame someone else. (Secretly, though, I'm kind of holding out hope for this whole companion switch... which is probably a sign I should steer clear of future abusive relationships. (-; I mean... BSG, especially with the season three ending, is proof positive that you can make virtually anything work with good writing. Doctor Who just needs to give the better writers more say. RTD clearly has too much on his plate or something.)

I'll warn you now... there are only two or three episodes of BSG that are even remotely close to being bad. All of the rest of them are either pretty awesome, or at least wholly redeemable. Though the mid-seasons are usually full of filler, even that's good (Downloaded, for example, is really cool.) This is why I hated everyone on the floor, because they pestered me into watching it and then I couldn't stop. I ended up watching it for twelve hours straight so I could watch season 3 from the midpoint with everyone else. And next season... I can't wait.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

P.S. You can leave fandom, but fandom doesn't leave you. (-; Even when we're doing our best to stay away...