I finally saw (a bit of) Doctor Who!

[rusty_halo]

I found this photo on AliceinChains.com of the show in Vegas.


Take a closer look.


Stop laughing.

In other news, jaydk and I had a (new) Doctor Who marathon on Saturday night. We started at 7pm and continued until 9:30am. That's fourteen hours of Doctor Who! (There was some food, alcohol, and conversation involved, too.) We watched all of season two (minus a couple of episodes that jaydk said were lame) and the final three episodes of season three. And really, I just have one thought:

David Tennant is so hot!!

I know I should have deep thoughts about themes and characters and moral issues and the loneliness of outliving your friends and the question of what makes us human and the arrogance of assuming godlike powers over others...

but, sorry, I'm still stuck on "David Tennant is so hot!!" and it's going to take me a while to absorb that before my brain can fit any deeper thoughts. Just, his character is a giant geek! So full of manic energy! And he uses it to cover up his deep inner pain!! He's so lonely! Yet so full of enthusiasm about new experiences and adventures!! I love it!

Anyway, jaydk is laughing her ass off at me, because after she left (and I slept for ten hours) I woke up and downloaded all of season three, and caught up so that I've seen every episode with the Tenth Doctor minus the ones we skipped from season two. (I haven't seen any of the first season or any of the old series and I'm still totally clueless about the canon of the show.) I can't help it. I'm a giant geek at heart, too. Plus, that guy is really hot.

I don't know what it is with the geek thing lately. Between him and Stephen Colbert (you have no idea how huge my crush is on Stephen Colbert) my perceptions of hotness are really changing. It used to be all scruff and black leather; now I'm squeeing over skinny dorks!

(And this is why I love fandom and don't want real life people reading my LJ. Because even if you fannish people are laughing at me, you totally know where I'm coming from. Real life people just get that blank-confused-don't-get-it stare, and you have to explain, and they still don't get it, and then you just stop talking about it because it's pointless... whereas here, even if you don't share my squee over this particular thing, you've all experienced fannish squee over something, and know exactly what I'm talking about.)

Oh, and last night I saw the new final cut of "Blade Runner" at the Ziegfeld with a bunch of friends. (The Ziegfeld is a beautiful theater with a HUGE screen.) It was an amazing experience--if you ever have a chance to see "Blade Runner" on a big screen, do. The new version was particularly stunning, so clear and gorgeous that it could've been made this year. I got all teary-eyed watching it; it's almost like a silent film, the way the dialogue is so minimal and so much of the emotion comes from visuals: the cinematography, the set design, and the faces of the actors. Rutger Hauer, in that final scene... just awe-inspiring.

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Comments

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

Yes, David Tennant is hot - and in a totally weird-looking way - like, would he even get to star in a TV show if he started out in the US?
I mean, even Ugly Betty - you can tell she's not really ugly.

And Blade Runner!
My favourite film ever!
Rutger Hauer - you know he wrote his final lines, right?
But I really liked the original cinema version - the non-director's cut with Harrison Ford's voice-over.
The scene where the replicant is running through those plate glass windows getting shot always cuts me up.

[chase820.livejournal.com]

Heh. I had a feeling you might like Mr. Tennant. I squee with you.

The Ziegfield is such a gorgeous theater. I saw Chicago there years ago with a bunch of theatre geeks. One of the best media experiences of my life.

I'm buying the new Blade Runner 4-disc set that comes out in December. Has four different cuts of the film, including the original theatrical release, which I'm rather nostalgic for.

[chase820.livejournal.com]

Also, that was my exact reaction the first time I saw Tennant in Who. The themes are all very well, but my God, that man is hot.

[mylittleburden.livejournal.com]

i recently realized how many of my lj friends who are in the tcr fandom love doctor who.
i started watching and now i'm addicted.

[sailormidori.livejournal.com]

i've only caught one episode of the new doctor who [in fact, my one episode out of any of the incarnations, period], but i must agree: excellent series, and yes, david tennant is adorable.

as is stephen, of course.