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meganlynn09I'll try my best with this one.
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better! If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate.
3. Please update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Please include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them five questions.
1) What fandom is closest to your heart?
Oddly enough, I'd have to say Battlestar Galactica, because technically it was the first fandom I was in, and it's been the one I've been in the longest. It was the first I ever tried to icon and it's just something that I can't get away from, no matter if the show is disappointing me or not.
2) If Rose stayed for S3, would you have given her a chance to be what you loved about her in S1?
Yes, because I've wholly convinced myself that Rose was written like that in S2 because Billie was leaving (whether it was a good idea or not is another debate), and I'd like to think I would have still loved Rose. If, however, Rose was written exactly the same and Billie wasn't leaving, I'd be a hell of a lot more scared about S3 than I currently am.
3) Will you watch old school Who?
I've been trying to, but I can't seem to really get the push to do so. I've only seen three stories of the Fifth Doctor.
4) What is your biggest fear?
When I was little, I was terrified of waves, but right now, after what the past year has been like, my biggest fear is losing my parents.
5) What ship will [you] go down with?
Nine/Rose. Most definitely. Second and third place would go to Sheppard/Weir(SGA) and weirdly, Fred/Wesley(Angel).
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kammgirl, I liked them.
I also wanted to pair this up with a little thing about Doctor Who and Me.
Why I'm looking forward to season 3. OMG, Megan's writing a freakin' essay involving DW!
I mention the companion for S3, so other than that SPOILERS up through...probably "The Runaway Bride".
One pattern I've always noticed on shows I watched is that it's almost always a female character I attach myself to. Whether or not I can identify with them never seemed important, it's just what it was.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the first character I adored was Willow, quickly followed by Buffy herself.
Gilmore Girls, Rory because she was so much like me, even though I actually started to watch the show because I loved grumpy Luke.
Angel, I loved Cordelia, but I never really watched the show that much and then I met Fred and I instantly adored her, I don't know what it was about her.
ER, Abby will always be one of my favorite characters ever. She is just such an amazing character and it's fabulous to look at some of her first appearances on the show and watch her now and she how she's grown.
SGA, as you all know, major Elizabeth fan here. Always have been, even when I hardly watched the show.
But there have been shows where I attached myself to a male lead, I love and always will, Wesley from Buffy/Angel, and Lee was what drew me into Battlestar Galactica.
This is what brings me to Doctor Who.
Started watching last March, knowing that Rose was my viewing into the show and yet, as the episodes went by, some of my interest in her character I could feel slipping away from me because I just completely fell for the Doctor, Nine. I loved Rose, and I loved how strong she was and how she fought in PotW, how she had faults, but recognized them and wished she'd done something about it (in S1 at least) but it was the thought of losing the Doctor that was so painful to me in PotW, that makes me cry like a baby everytime I watch that episode.
But I knew that was coming, and I was prepared to go into the new season, ready to embrace the new Doctor because I thought it was ridiculous how people disliked him on sight.
I liked him in "The Christmas Invasion", even though he earned a strike for what he did to Harriet Jones. Hell, I even liked him the first half of the second season.
But I noticed that Rose wasn't the same, the jealous child in "School Reunion" wasn't the same as the women we saw hold her tongue in PotW, no, she didn't turn up till "The Girl in the Fireplace", but then the Doctor didn't seem right in that episode. Sure, I knew he'd do anything to help Reinette, but it seems out of character that he wouldn't reassure Mickey and Rose before he left or get them to safety or SOMETHING.
Whatever it was, by "The Idiot's Lantern", I didn't feel like I was watching the show I once loved and adored. But "The Impossible Planet" won me back. The sublety and the supporting characters just showed me that yeah, this was it! Then "The Satan Pit" aired and my hopes seemed dashed.
My point is, I felt battered by the end of "Doomsday". I didn't cry because Rose was leaving, I cried because the episode was manufactured to pull that reaction from me (IMO). Even through my tears though, I felt a relief that the season was over.
I had hope that maybe some of my dislike for Ten was from his interaction with Rose, which, I'm sorry, I just could never stand the shippyness between the two, it felt so forced to me.
"The Runaway Bride" has given me some hope, from the anvils that the Doctor needs someone to question him, which Rose had stopped doing long ago, to the almost subtlety of the Doctor missing Rose.
I hope I like Martha, I hope she's someone different, and I hope that others can give her a chance too, because no, she's not Rose, no one could replace or be another Rose. But I don't think of Martha as her replacement, just as Rose was not a replacement for any other companion. Martha is someone new that is going to see some fantastic things on a new journey with the Doctor.
So, because of this, my somewhat bitter optimism, I look forward to S3 with only the hope that I enjoy it.
Um...the end.
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better! If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate.
3. Please update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Please include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them five questions.
1) What fandom is closest to your heart?
Oddly enough, I'd have to say Battlestar Galactica, because technically it was the first fandom I was in, and it's been the one I've been in the longest. It was the first I ever tried to icon and it's just something that I can't get away from, no matter if the show is disappointing me or not.
2) If Rose stayed for S3, would you have given her a chance to be what you loved about her in S1?
Yes, because I've wholly convinced myself that Rose was written like that in S2 because Billie was leaving (whether it was a good idea or not is another debate), and I'd like to think I would have still loved Rose. If, however, Rose was written exactly the same and Billie wasn't leaving, I'd be a hell of a lot more scared about S3 than I currently am.
3) Will you watch old school Who?
I've been trying to, but I can't seem to really get the push to do so. I've only seen three stories of the Fifth Doctor.
4) What is your biggest fear?
When I was little, I was terrified of waves, but right now, after what the past year has been like, my biggest fear is losing my parents.
5) What ship will [you] go down with?
Nine/Rose. Most definitely. Second and third place would go to Sheppard/Weir(SGA) and weirdly, Fred/Wesley(Angel).
Thank you for the questions,
kammgirl, I liked them.I also wanted to pair this up with a little thing about Doctor Who and Me.
Why I'm looking forward to season 3. OMG, Megan's writing a freakin' essay involving DW!
I mention the companion for S3, so other than that SPOILERS up through...probably "The Runaway Bride".
One pattern I've always noticed on shows I watched is that it's almost always a female character I attach myself to. Whether or not I can identify with them never seemed important, it's just what it was.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the first character I adored was Willow, quickly followed by Buffy herself.
Gilmore Girls, Rory because she was so much like me, even though I actually started to watch the show because I loved grumpy Luke.
Angel, I loved Cordelia, but I never really watched the show that much and then I met Fred and I instantly adored her, I don't know what it was about her.
ER, Abby will always be one of my favorite characters ever. She is just such an amazing character and it's fabulous to look at some of her first appearances on the show and watch her now and she how she's grown.
SGA, as you all know, major Elizabeth fan here. Always have been, even when I hardly watched the show.
But there have been shows where I attached myself to a male lead, I love and always will, Wesley from Buffy/Angel, and Lee was what drew me into Battlestar Galactica.
This is what brings me to Doctor Who.
Started watching last March, knowing that Rose was my viewing into the show and yet, as the episodes went by, some of my interest in her character I could feel slipping away from me because I just completely fell for the Doctor, Nine. I loved Rose, and I loved how strong she was and how she fought in PotW, how she had faults, but recognized them and wished she'd done something about it (in S1 at least) but it was the thought of losing the Doctor that was so painful to me in PotW, that makes me cry like a baby everytime I watch that episode.
But I knew that was coming, and I was prepared to go into the new season, ready to embrace the new Doctor because I thought it was ridiculous how people disliked him on sight.
I liked him in "The Christmas Invasion", even though he earned a strike for what he did to Harriet Jones. Hell, I even liked him the first half of the second season.
But I noticed that Rose wasn't the same, the jealous child in "School Reunion" wasn't the same as the women we saw hold her tongue in PotW, no, she didn't turn up till "The Girl in the Fireplace", but then the Doctor didn't seem right in that episode. Sure, I knew he'd do anything to help Reinette, but it seems out of character that he wouldn't reassure Mickey and Rose before he left or get them to safety or SOMETHING.
Whatever it was, by "The Idiot's Lantern", I didn't feel like I was watching the show I once loved and adored. But "The Impossible Planet" won me back. The sublety and the supporting characters just showed me that yeah, this was it! Then "The Satan Pit" aired and my hopes seemed dashed.
My point is, I felt battered by the end of "Doomsday". I didn't cry because Rose was leaving, I cried because the episode was manufactured to pull that reaction from me (IMO). Even through my tears though, I felt a relief that the season was over.
I had hope that maybe some of my dislike for Ten was from his interaction with Rose, which, I'm sorry, I just could never stand the shippyness between the two, it felt so forced to me.
"The Runaway Bride" has given me some hope, from the anvils that the Doctor needs someone to question him, which Rose had stopped doing long ago, to the almost subtlety of the Doctor missing Rose.
I hope I like Martha, I hope she's someone different, and I hope that others can give her a chance too, because no, she's not Rose, no one could replace or be another Rose. But I don't think of Martha as her replacement, just as Rose was not a replacement for any other companion. Martha is someone new that is going to see some fantastic things on a new journey with the Doctor.
So, because of this, my somewhat bitter optimism, I look forward to S3 with only the hope that I enjoy it.
Um...the end.
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Date: 2007-03-01 12:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-01 02:14 am (UTC)*hugs tight*
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Date: 2007-03-01 06:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-01 07:26 pm (UTC)Your essay's interesting =), made me think about what I think/hope about S3 - I think, overall, as long as the stories are good, I'll quite like it, but I'm finding it hard to work up much enthusiasm for it, as out of the Doctors I've watched, 10 is my least favourite. Depending on what Martha's like, though, S3 /could/ be really good...or could also not. =/
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Date: 2007-03-01 07:33 pm (UTC)Hmm...let's see...
1. Who is your favorite Doctor, why and what's your favorite story(episode/s) involving them?
2. What city/country are you dying to visit?
3. What's your favorite book and what's it about?
4. Who's your favorite character from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
5. Do you like to write in your freetime, and if so, what do you like to write?
The best I could do!
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Date: 2007-03-01 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-01 08:56 pm (UTC)