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rabid1stSo, first off, I have been looking at people in the Harry Potter films (not the stars but the supporting actors) and other places for a likely Doctor for the big screen. Joseph P, always works for me...but what about Joseph Fiennes? He certainly has the big-screen pedigree for it and a look that could work, too. Also, he might be affordable, because he's not as well known as Johnny Depp or his brother. I would like him to go more like his Camelot Merlin than his Shakespeare though.
Secondly, Supernatural this week? WOW!
The fandom keeps bleating on about how the show doesn't work anymore. But that was one of the best episodes ever. Dean and Dick...? Gave me chills, because it was tinged with all sorts of undercurrents. Sure, Dean was just showing bravado. There's a definite feeling now that the boys are finally over-matched. But then, just for a second there, Dick got worried. And I loved it. I loved how he showed the barest shadow of a reaction to Dean's "...or you're just stupid." BTW, how about that actor who is playing Dick? Is that James Patrick Stuart? I think it is. And I love the way he can convey so much with a very slight shift of inner emotion. Like when he smiled so brightly about being a shark that you could almost see his leviathan teeth. Or when he was talking with the doctor that was "bibbed" and seemed so very cheerful, yet, deadly. That takes talent.
Someone should definitely do a Dick video. But the fandom is busy belly-aching about last season and the loss of Cas. Never mind that Cas was a dead end character if he didn't change out of his angel suit. I don't even think Cas is really gone, he's still felt in the show. Dean is still reeling. And Bobby? Bobby...Bobby...Bobby...
Bobby dying breaks my heart. But it is a beautiful sort of heartbreak if it is handled like this. There is so very much that RTD and JW and Moff could learn from watching Supernatural. Heartbreak can be life affirming and wonderful. If it has love and purpose to it. If it isn't just about showing off how cool you are as a writer. AKA how out of touch with your characters you are. Killing someone off for art, because "everyone dies" or "killing someone teaches the audience a lesson" or alternatively, in the case of RTD, sparing people so that you can nullify all they stand for in life, is not cool. My worry is that melodramatic asshats have jaded the viewing audience so much that the audience can no longer appreciate a good death like this one. But my brief foray into fandom last night, did seem to show people dealing with the pain with appropriate reactions. This was a great death. And, well, this is SPN, death doesn't have to stick. But even knowing THAT...I cried buckets.
And we learned so much about Bobby. In fact, we learned so much that I still think we might not have the blood bath ending that everyone is suspecting. We might just have a Moff style ending, where the entire season is rewritten. I am generally against that sort of thing, but it hasn't been used, yet, on SPN, so it could work. This would bring back...Cas and Bobby. But Cas might go back to heaven with no memory of what happened, or to serve out his time as a punishment. Still, better than being fish food, I imagine. Of course, now I think on it, the Titanic episode used timey-wimey tricks, didn't it?
Still, I suspect something along the line of God in the Machine, because I think the only way to deal with the Leviathans is going to be locking them up again. Since they can't die, but they can be contained. And I do think Bobby might be a ghost, especially if his body disappears from the morgue. I can see Dick taking it hostage so the guys can't salt and burn it. Heck, I can see Dick eating it so it can't be salted and burned.
Ghost Bobby could be quite fun for a bit. Unlike Cas he wouldn't be able to do much of anything, but he might be able to tell the guys what those numbers mean. And I think knowing that they need his help, he might have decided to stay. He wouldn't be a vengeful spirit at first. And I'm sure if anyone could figure out how to go later, summon a Reaper again, whatever...it is our heroes. So, my vote is for Ghost Bobby in the New Year, trying to get through to those 2 idjits before the world unravels.
Oh, and I almost forgot, I am a keen critic of product placement. Psych does it best, in my view. I hate House and Bones and their chats in the car about car features. Even if I do like House or Park going, "Nobody cares about your car!" when it happens. And even, also, believing that Bones or Booth might really wax rhapsodic about car features. But I must say the product nudge that SPN did for Chuck Norris on World of Warcraft...was fantastic. Just as I was asking myself if I really believed that the 6 million people in World of Warcraft lived because Chuck Norris lets them...there are Sam and Dean arguing about Chuck Norris beating the crap out of Jet Li. It was so great that it didn't bother me even a little bit. And, also, I almost believed it was accidental. I don't, but it could have been. That's some stellar writing chops, in my less than humble opinion. But product placement that is written obviously into a script, still sucks big time and I keep a list so I don't buy anything advertised that way.
Well, anything except Dunkin Donuts Delicious Coffee...because Gus is right, it is the best coffee in the world.
EDIT TO SAY That I think Bobby is going to chose GHOST and the boys won't be able to salt and burn his body because Dick will have signed over his organs to the organ donor guy. Or simply had the organ donor guy replaced by one of his Leviathan spawn and so Bobby's kidneys and heart and such will live on in other people...and so his ghost will live on, too.
Secondly, Supernatural this week? WOW!
The fandom keeps bleating on about how the show doesn't work anymore. But that was one of the best episodes ever. Dean and Dick...? Gave me chills, because it was tinged with all sorts of undercurrents. Sure, Dean was just showing bravado. There's a definite feeling now that the boys are finally over-matched. But then, just for a second there, Dick got worried. And I loved it. I loved how he showed the barest shadow of a reaction to Dean's "...or you're just stupid." BTW, how about that actor who is playing Dick? Is that James Patrick Stuart? I think it is. And I love the way he can convey so much with a very slight shift of inner emotion. Like when he smiled so brightly about being a shark that you could almost see his leviathan teeth. Or when he was talking with the doctor that was "bibbed" and seemed so very cheerful, yet, deadly. That takes talent.
Someone should definitely do a Dick video. But the fandom is busy belly-aching about last season and the loss of Cas. Never mind that Cas was a dead end character if he didn't change out of his angel suit. I don't even think Cas is really gone, he's still felt in the show. Dean is still reeling. And Bobby? Bobby...Bobby...Bobby...
Bobby dying breaks my heart. But it is a beautiful sort of heartbreak if it is handled like this. There is so very much that RTD and JW and Moff could learn from watching Supernatural. Heartbreak can be life affirming and wonderful. If it has love and purpose to it. If it isn't just about showing off how cool you are as a writer. AKA how out of touch with your characters you are. Killing someone off for art, because "everyone dies" or "killing someone teaches the audience a lesson" or alternatively, in the case of RTD, sparing people so that you can nullify all they stand for in life, is not cool. My worry is that melodramatic asshats have jaded the viewing audience so much that the audience can no longer appreciate a good death like this one. But my brief foray into fandom last night, did seem to show people dealing with the pain with appropriate reactions. This was a great death. And, well, this is SPN, death doesn't have to stick. But even knowing THAT...I cried buckets.
And we learned so much about Bobby. In fact, we learned so much that I still think we might not have the blood bath ending that everyone is suspecting. We might just have a Moff style ending, where the entire season is rewritten. I am generally against that sort of thing, but it hasn't been used, yet, on SPN, so it could work. This would bring back...Cas and Bobby. But Cas might go back to heaven with no memory of what happened, or to serve out his time as a punishment. Still, better than being fish food, I imagine. Of course, now I think on it, the Titanic episode used timey-wimey tricks, didn't it?
Still, I suspect something along the line of God in the Machine, because I think the only way to deal with the Leviathans is going to be locking them up again. Since they can't die, but they can be contained. And I do think Bobby might be a ghost, especially if his body disappears from the morgue. I can see Dick taking it hostage so the guys can't salt and burn it. Heck, I can see Dick eating it so it can't be salted and burned.
Ghost Bobby could be quite fun for a bit. Unlike Cas he wouldn't be able to do much of anything, but he might be able to tell the guys what those numbers mean. And I think knowing that they need his help, he might have decided to stay. He wouldn't be a vengeful spirit at first. And I'm sure if anyone could figure out how to go later, summon a Reaper again, whatever...it is our heroes. So, my vote is for Ghost Bobby in the New Year, trying to get through to those 2 idjits before the world unravels.
Oh, and I almost forgot, I am a keen critic of product placement. Psych does it best, in my view. I hate House and Bones and their chats in the car about car features. Even if I do like House or Park going, "Nobody cares about your car!" when it happens. And even, also, believing that Bones or Booth might really wax rhapsodic about car features. But I must say the product nudge that SPN did for Chuck Norris on World of Warcraft...was fantastic. Just as I was asking myself if I really believed that the 6 million people in World of Warcraft lived because Chuck Norris lets them...there are Sam and Dean arguing about Chuck Norris beating the crap out of Jet Li. It was so great that it didn't bother me even a little bit. And, also, I almost believed it was accidental. I don't, but it could have been. That's some stellar writing chops, in my less than humble opinion. But product placement that is written obviously into a script, still sucks big time and I keep a list so I don't buy anything advertised that way.
Well, anything except Dunkin Donuts Delicious Coffee...because Gus is right, it is the best coffee in the world.
EDIT TO SAY That I think Bobby is going to chose GHOST and the boys won't be able to salt and burn his body because Dick will have signed over his organs to the organ donor guy. Or simply had the organ donor guy replaced by one of his Leviathan spawn and so Bobby's kidneys and heart and such will live on in other people...and so his ghost will live on, too.
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Date: 2011-12-04 10:32 pm (UTC)But anyway the film director has already announced he will use no TV Doctor...so Matt and David are both out in the cold now. Though, if you ask me, the best TV Doctor for the big screen might be Chris. Though, of course, he had cut all ties.
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Date: 2011-12-06 01:29 pm (UTC)http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/06/30/starz-cancels-camelot/97061/
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Date: 2011-12-06 01:33 pm (UTC)http://twitter.com/#!/steven_moffat/status/142509085982601216
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