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[chelseagirl]

It's rainy and M. is working brunch shift and I'd really rather curl up and watch my download of Dalek again, but I'm going to church because they're doing a workshop on Living Wills that I think sounds rather important. But I am going to be Very Late.

Doctor Who, how do I love thee? We downloaded Dalek overnight and I was tremendously cruel to M. who was racing to get out the door, and watched it anyway. I love it in so very many ways. Really, the whole idea that Rose's DNA would start to humanize the Dalek and etc. is terribly cliche, but I thought they handled it well -- I found myself caring and not just rolling my eyes as I would have to this plot elsewhere. Eccleston's Doctor -- already sorry that we're nearly halfway through the series and he's not in the next one. Every week I like him more, and since I started out thinking he was terrific . . . Loved his snarking at Adam (?), particularly when he asked him if he was going to throw his A-levels at Insane American Billionaire and when he referred to him as "pretty." Rose reminds me so much of M.'s friends Karen and Amii back in England.

Note to all who are comparing Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to the book and the old UK tv version -- don't forget the *actual* original version, which was the first BBC radio play. Which gave you, among other things, the joy of Simon Jones as Arthur Dent without the bad mechanical Zaphod head that never worked properly. We planned to go yesterday, but M.'s insomnia had flared up his first week of work and he was exhausted, so I made him cook for me instead and we're going next week.

I did see The Interpreter on Thursday, with a friend. An above-average thriller, and we agreed that even though the main character is a white African it was saved from falling entirely into the White Guy Movie pattern (you know, White Guy engages in probably doomed defense of Vibrant NonWhite Culture against Other White Guys, as in Dances With Wolves, Last Samaurai, Cry Freedom, Mississippi Burning; can the Vibrant NonWhite Culture never be allowed by Hollywood to represent itself?) by the character's actually being *from* Africa and identifying as African. Though mostly I was suffering from apartment lust. Nicole Kidman's character lives on Stuyvesant Street near St. Mark's Church, right next to that amazing corner building -- you know the one at the "V" of Stuyvesant and East 10th Streets? I have always been fascinated by that block and wanted to rewrite the movie so that at the end she sublets her apartment to me.

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[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

I have always been fascinated by that block and wanted to rewrite the movie so that at the end she sublets her apartment to me.

After all, she couldn't possibly want to stay there after all she's been through, right? what a great piece of real estate fantasy fic that would be. :-)

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

I think we may have found my perfect 'ship -- me & M. & the perfect big sunny old plaster-walled, french-door having, quiet-downtown-neighborhood-existing apartment. *That* I could squee over. ;-)

[sbgrl.livejournal.com]

We saw Hitchiiker's Guide last night. I found it to be very funny where as G. thought it was a complete waste of two hours. Oh well.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

I could see it going either of those ways -- it's encouraging that you liked it, though. I'm just hoping M. doesn't get all fanboyish and indignant about any changes they might have made.

[sbgrl.livejournal.com]

I've never seen the TV show or heard the radio version so I didn't have that bias.

[silme.livejournal.com]

We're going to see Hitchhiker tomorrow afternoon (bank holiday). A couple of channels over this way are re-running the old TV show (BBC 2 has it on Sundays at 11;20 PM and another channel has it on in the afternoon.)

I remember the radio version. Once upon a time, I had it on tape (self-made tape).

And yes, both of us over here loved the line about Adam throwing his A-levels at the Dalek. ;)

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

M.'s got the old TV version on DVD -- I found it hard to sit through, actually, when we sat down to watch it a couple of year back. He's also got the radio plays on CD -- those I'd like to try again sometime. My tapes, too, had gone the way of all low-fi cassette recordings, years ago.

I do think that whatsisname from the Office is the perfect successor to Simon Jones, though. Let us know what you guys think, yes?