Party pooper LJ!
Oct. 7th, 2012 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartWell, folks, it seems that LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But I still have most of the comments in my inbox, and will re-post the original entry and list the available comments with the simple mentioning of the names, if it's all right with you. If not, tell me, and I'll delete yours.
We won't allow LJ to crash our party!
Original post
Hi folks! *waves*
Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.
So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!
You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.
Cheers!
Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.
Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.
NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.
We won't allow LJ to crash our party!
Original post
Hi folks! *waves*
Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.
So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!
You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.
Cheers!
Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.
Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.
NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.
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(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 11:09 am (UTC)And this should be the 200th comment, unless someone beats me to it! I
was going to raise the First Doctor? question which got mentioned
upthread with Solanpolarn.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 01:04 pm (UTC)As mentioned above Ten was my first Doctor. In Sweden were I grew up Doctor Who wasn't broadcast until after I had moved to Britain in 2006. I knew I was sold on the series at the moment depicted in my icon, when Ten says "You want weapons? We are in a library! Books! Best weapons in the world." This occurs in the second episode of Ten's first season, which is the Queen Victoria in the Highlands episode with the werewolves. I did see the first episode in this series as well and liked it well enough -- I did watch the next episode after all. But that ringing endorsement of books is what won my heart for all time. Of course the fact that they later on did a double episode set in a planet-sized library is just proof that my love and faith was well-placed. :-)
After becoming a fan, I have watched all of Ten's episodes and continue to watch Eleven; I have also caught up on New Doctor Who by watching Nine. Some friends have helped me to see a couple of episodes of Seven, but I haven't got further than that.
to which
Ah, yes, the Victorian werewolf episode. I'd forgotten it had that line. Your icon is brilliant!
Me again, with a new comment: I didn't actually make this icon, but I did go out looking for one of this particular scene and choose the one I liked the best. It seems more people than me liked it enough to think it worthy of an icon. :-)
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 01:05 pm (UTC)That was a great line! :)
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 05:09 pm (UTC)Thank you! So is yours. I do so love cats
and kittens. :-)
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 05:12 pm (UTC)I think lots of people picked that framegrab, but it did appeal to this
cat-owned human :)
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 05:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 06:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 03:32 pm (UTC)Mine was 10 - first ep of the 3rd series BBC America was doing a
marathon, and I got hooked.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 03:33 pm (UTC)It's interesting how many people seem to have missed out on the Hiding
Behind the Sofa experience as children :)
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-08 01:08 pm (UTC)Nah, we just hid behind the sofa for different reasons. mine was a French
series called Belphegor - the Phantom of the Louvre - the old
version, featuring Juliette Gréco, not the new one.
It counted as so scary that we children weren't allowed to watch it at
all, so we had to get glimpses durign the reruns when the adults weren't
at home. In hindsight it couldn't have been so scary, as the reruns were
in the morning, but, well, in the 1960s...
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-09 02:27 pm (UTC)Me:
> I didn't see any of it as a child, as my family didn't have a tv.
> However, I have recently started watching from 1, but not got very far
> yet... 11 is a mixture of good and bad - some of the episodes are great,
> some a appalling, the arc plots are possibly a bit better than 10's but
> still have holes... (I don't understand why the whole series does arc
> plot so badly)
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-09 02:28 pm (UTC)My television watching was hugely curtailed as a child, but I was allowed
to watch BBC children's television. (But not ITV until I was about 15.) I
don't really know why I didn't give Moffat a try, as I liked many of his
episodes. To be honest it might just be that I've almost given up
watching live television altogether. I suppose that holes are inevitable
when one farms out episodes to a large number of writers, but I'm not
sure I understand exactly what Moffat/RTD were doing for their money.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-09 02:29 pm (UTC)> *nods* There seems to be very little good on tv... I don't know - I guess
> Babylon 5 spoiled me for arc plot (in that most things there fit -
> there are a few odds and end s that seem to be dropped but not may) - I
> guess there just needs to be someone in charge who is looking at the big
> picture more than writing episodes...
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-09 02:30 pm (UTC)Babylon Five is yet another thing that I've never seen that
innumerable people have recommended. DS9 didn't do too badly until the
final season when everything was a bit odd & rushed.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-09 02:33 pm (UTC)> Babylon 5 is my favourite tv show - it does an amazing job of arc
> plot, characters (there are so many wonderful characters, including so
> many one episode characters that seem so real and detailing) - in some
> ways it is dated, but in a lot of ways it holds up better than a lot of
> sf shows...
> I haven't seem DS9 properly - I've seen loads of episodes, but not in the
> right order (makes it hard to judge the arc plot) - I should really watch
> it properly :)
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-09 02:34 pm (UTC)Most people I know who rave about B5 also rave about DS9. (There again,
they're mainly B7 fans originally, which is not something one could
recommend for world-building, continuity, or the like.) It's particularly
good for strong women, and it has a number of memorable one-off
characters.
(no subject)
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From:(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 03:55 pm (UTC)Mine is Nine.
I liked Threee and Four moderately well in the few episodes I got to see.
Still want to see some of Five. I absolutely despised Ten, and I must add
that the only episode I swaw with Eleven didn't impress me much.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 03:58 pm (UTC)I've stopped watching. I'm not sure if it's because of Eleven, or because
the show is getting repetitive.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 04:21 pm (UTC)I liked Five as a child -- but Mr EA stopped watching because of him. I
seem to have lost my Nine icon! Aie!
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 07:10 pm (UTC)> Which episode with 11 did you see?
> (I must admit that 11 is my least favourite Doctor of the ones that I've
> seen, but Amy and Rory made up for him most of the time... [spoilers])
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 07:11 pm (UTC)Amy and Rory are indeed fantastic! I love their interactions both with
the Doctor and with each other and the fact that they are in some way
reverse gender stereotypes.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 07:24 pm (UTC)> Very true. (and much more rounded and detailed characters than most of
> the recent companions, and get to be far more equals of the Doctor)
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 07:24 pm (UTC)Oh yes, I got quite fed-up with how Rose and Martha seemed to be defined
by their romantic love/crush for/on the Doctor. I had such high hopes for
Martha too, because in her first episode she was a well-educated, though
and smart young professional woman and that could have been such a good
character to have the Doctor bounce off of.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 06:31 pm (UTC)> My first Doctor was 10 - the final episode of the 2nd season because a
> friend was visiting and wanted to watch it... then was hooked and watched
> some random episodes that were shown on tv, and started watching properly
> with the next season...
(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 06:33 pm (UTC)I had Four & Five as a child, then gave up on Six and missed out entirely
on Seven (& Eight). I was enough of a fan to pick up on the first episode
of the reboot, but I've entirely dropped out now. I got tired of Ten/Rose
& Martha bashing & even more tired of the standalones that ended Ten, and
I've not even seen Eleven in action, despite repeated promptings from
Altariel.