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Fandom stuff..and Doctor Who's finale
1. So I decided to put up a fandom stocking for the first time ever. I've no idea if it will work. When it goes up...I'll show it. Mainly I want Cyclops fic, but I doubt I'll get any. I gave a lot of fandom options.
Fandoms: BSG, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Star Wars, X-men, MCU, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Killing Eve, Black Panther, Farscape, Hamilton, Kate Daniels Series, Chronicles of Lymond,
'Ships (slash, het, gen, and femslash): Apollo/Starbuck, Doctor River Song/Doctor Who, Daredevil and Jessica Jones, Daredevil/Electra, Eve/Villenelle, Cyclops/Jean, Cyclops and Wolverine, Spangle, Spuffy, Faith/Willow, Crichton/Aeryn, Han/Leia, Han and Luke, Han an Rei, Cyclops and Havok (platonic), Wonder Woman/Batman, Batman and Superman, Loki and Thor, Iron Man and Doctor Strange, Curran/Kate, Barabas/Christopher (Kate Daniels Series), Hugh and Kate (platonic), Julie/Derek (Kate Daniels).
Characters Doctor River Song, Apollo, Starbuck, Aeryn Sun, Buffy, Spike, Willow, Han Solo, Daredevil (Matt Murdoch), Jessica Jones, Eve, Leia, Doctor Who, Lymond, Hamilton, Burr, Crichton, Rory and Amy, Cyclops (Scott Summers), Iron Man, Loki, Doctor Strange, Luke, Logan, Jean Grey, Kitty Pryde,
Fic Likes: family issues - siblings, particularly brothers or brother-sister, star-crossed, AU, gender-bender, romance, comedy snippets,back from the dead, amnesia or memory loss, family bonding,
Fic Dislikes: babyfic, marriage fic, mpreg, rape, real person fic, parody, no one being eaten, no heavy torture fic, torture porn, and no Bangle and no Wolverine/Jean pairings.
Anything Extra: *icons -- particularly strong female characters from MCU and/or Killing Eve.
*Christmas greetings or any holiday greetings are welcome.
* fanvids -- specifically Spuffy, Spangle, BSG, Farscape, Killing Eve, Cyclops, Doctor Song/Doctor Who,
We'll see. It's been a tough couple of months. And I'm dreading next week...for reasons I won't go into. Really wish I could just fall madly in love with someone and be whisked away on an all expense paid trip to Hawaii.
2. Watching another James Marsters Q&A...okay listening to it. This is the November 2018 London one or the October, can't remember which. I like them because he really goes into the process of what doing television is like for an actor.
What I found interesting was he does this spiel about what it is actually like to try to kiss someone on screen. He explains it's a glamour. That the better it looks, the faker it is. So the pretty people on magazines -- don't look like that. (I already knew this -- my sis-in-law's best friend is a Hollywood makeup artist. She does the makeup for people prior to their photo shoots, men and women. She made it clear -- they don't really look like that.)
And a kiss is highly choreographed. Because when you are in a scene with another person, you have to get out of their light. Or shadow. So he has no clue what it is really like to kiss the actors he's kissed. Because they don't really, they have to do it like a robot. The first time he kissed Sara (Buffy), he did 14 takes. She kept telling him to stop acting and just act like a robot so they could go home. He finally got it.
Also stated that when you act on tv, you are like a waiter -- all you do is take it from one place to another. Or a piece of celery.
And...I liked this, he said when they were doing Buffy they were working 18-20 hour days, were exhausted at the end of the day, so didn't really know what each other were like until the reunion -- and thought, oh, you are a really cool person. Whedon was a hard task master -- most directors leave the actors alone and let them do their thing -- to get through the material, but Whedon was a control freak who left millions of notes.
Makes it clear that if you want to be a musician/actor or performing artist -- you are going to be poor. It's highly unlikely you will do well. He lucked out -- sort of like going to Vegas. (He's right about that. I know a lot of very good, unemployed professional actors, musicians and artists who gave finally and chose to do something else. Also various family members, myself included.)
Apparently he didn't get to come back to some parts -- because his manager charges a lot for his services. (I think he began to charge higher after Buffy completed it's run.) Said the most painful thing he did was bleach his hair.
I can see why he was popular with the cast and crew on Buffy during S4 -- he would stay and act his bit off screen -- so the other actors had something to act against. Often when they film close-ups or scenes, they film one actor, then the other one. Which is why it was possible to film say the Giles and Buffy scene in the graveyard during LMPTM, with ASH in one location and SMG in another. Or on different days. Actors don't have to both be present when they are filming a scene. Television really is a smoke and mirrors game.
He said on Buffy, they made the sets smaller to make SMG look bigger, so he looked really tall on Buffy. But on Smallville, he was so short, they had to but him on a runner when he was walking with Tom W. who played Superman. He kept falling off the runner. He's not a big man -- about five foot six if that. I know I saw him in person, on stage once, and I thought...whoa, this guy is tiny. But I already knew about that trick -- one of my actor friends informed me that sets are really tiny. And the smaller you are -- the better.
My take? Here's the thing about cameras and mirrors -- they lie. What you see is an illusion, it's not real. Once you figure that out...life is a bit easier to take.
3. Doctor Who Finale
I have to admit I found most of this season rather slow and difficult to get into or follow. I'm not emotionally invested in anyone, really. Sort of like YAZ, but don't know a lot about her. Graham also is fun. But outside of that...meh.
I want to like Jodi Whittacker's Doctor, but frankly she irritates me in the same way that Matt Smith did at the beginning, until he grew on me, and David Capadali. Too frenetic and crazy energy all over the place. I want to tell her to chill.
This episode was okay. It's clear that the writer's were hammering home the theme of solving problems without violence and restraining from doing any lasting harm or killing anyone.
I'll write more later. When it's not 12 midnight and time for me to go to bed, or long past it.
Fandoms: BSG, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Star Wars, X-men, MCU, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Killing Eve, Black Panther, Farscape, Hamilton, Kate Daniels Series, Chronicles of Lymond,
'Ships (slash, het, gen, and femslash): Apollo/Starbuck, Doctor River Song/Doctor Who, Daredevil and Jessica Jones, Daredevil/Electra, Eve/Villenelle, Cyclops/Jean, Cyclops and Wolverine, Spangle, Spuffy, Faith/Willow, Crichton/Aeryn, Han/Leia, Han and Luke, Han an Rei, Cyclops and Havok (platonic), Wonder Woman/Batman, Batman and Superman, Loki and Thor, Iron Man and Doctor Strange, Curran/Kate, Barabas/Christopher (Kate Daniels Series), Hugh and Kate (platonic), Julie/Derek (Kate Daniels).
Characters Doctor River Song, Apollo, Starbuck, Aeryn Sun, Buffy, Spike, Willow, Han Solo, Daredevil (Matt Murdoch), Jessica Jones, Eve, Leia, Doctor Who, Lymond, Hamilton, Burr, Crichton, Rory and Amy, Cyclops (Scott Summers), Iron Man, Loki, Doctor Strange, Luke, Logan, Jean Grey, Kitty Pryde,
Fic Likes: family issues - siblings, particularly brothers or brother-sister, star-crossed, AU, gender-bender, romance, comedy snippets,back from the dead, amnesia or memory loss, family bonding,
Fic Dislikes: babyfic, marriage fic, mpreg, rape, real person fic, parody, no one being eaten, no heavy torture fic, torture porn, and no Bangle and no Wolverine/Jean pairings.
Anything Extra: *icons -- particularly strong female characters from MCU and/or Killing Eve.
*Christmas greetings or any holiday greetings are welcome.
* fanvids -- specifically Spuffy, Spangle, BSG, Farscape, Killing Eve, Cyclops, Doctor Song/Doctor Who,
We'll see. It's been a tough couple of months. And I'm dreading next week...for reasons I won't go into. Really wish I could just fall madly in love with someone and be whisked away on an all expense paid trip to Hawaii.
2. Watching another James Marsters Q&A...okay listening to it. This is the November 2018 London one or the October, can't remember which. I like them because he really goes into the process of what doing television is like for an actor.
What I found interesting was he does this spiel about what it is actually like to try to kiss someone on screen. He explains it's a glamour. That the better it looks, the faker it is. So the pretty people on magazines -- don't look like that. (I already knew this -- my sis-in-law's best friend is a Hollywood makeup artist. She does the makeup for people prior to their photo shoots, men and women. She made it clear -- they don't really look like that.)
And a kiss is highly choreographed. Because when you are in a scene with another person, you have to get out of their light. Or shadow. So he has no clue what it is really like to kiss the actors he's kissed. Because they don't really, they have to do it like a robot. The first time he kissed Sara (Buffy), he did 14 takes. She kept telling him to stop acting and just act like a robot so they could go home. He finally got it.
Also stated that when you act on tv, you are like a waiter -- all you do is take it from one place to another. Or a piece of celery.
And...I liked this, he said when they were doing Buffy they were working 18-20 hour days, were exhausted at the end of the day, so didn't really know what each other were like until the reunion -- and thought, oh, you are a really cool person. Whedon was a hard task master -- most directors leave the actors alone and let them do their thing -- to get through the material, but Whedon was a control freak who left millions of notes.
Makes it clear that if you want to be a musician/actor or performing artist -- you are going to be poor. It's highly unlikely you will do well. He lucked out -- sort of like going to Vegas. (He's right about that. I know a lot of very good, unemployed professional actors, musicians and artists who gave finally and chose to do something else. Also various family members, myself included.)
Apparently he didn't get to come back to some parts -- because his manager charges a lot for his services. (I think he began to charge higher after Buffy completed it's run.) Said the most painful thing he did was bleach his hair.
I can see why he was popular with the cast and crew on Buffy during S4 -- he would stay and act his bit off screen -- so the other actors had something to act against. Often when they film close-ups or scenes, they film one actor, then the other one. Which is why it was possible to film say the Giles and Buffy scene in the graveyard during LMPTM, with ASH in one location and SMG in another. Or on different days. Actors don't have to both be present when they are filming a scene. Television really is a smoke and mirrors game.
He said on Buffy, they made the sets smaller to make SMG look bigger, so he looked really tall on Buffy. But on Smallville, he was so short, they had to but him on a runner when he was walking with Tom W. who played Superman. He kept falling off the runner. He's not a big man -- about five foot six if that. I know I saw him in person, on stage once, and I thought...whoa, this guy is tiny. But I already knew about that trick -- one of my actor friends informed me that sets are really tiny. And the smaller you are -- the better.
My take? Here's the thing about cameras and mirrors -- they lie. What you see is an illusion, it's not real. Once you figure that out...life is a bit easier to take.
3. Doctor Who Finale
I have to admit I found most of this season rather slow and difficult to get into or follow. I'm not emotionally invested in anyone, really. Sort of like YAZ, but don't know a lot about her. Graham also is fun. But outside of that...meh.
I want to like Jodi Whittacker's Doctor, but frankly she irritates me in the same way that Matt Smith did at the beginning, until he grew on me, and David Capadali. Too frenetic and crazy energy all over the place. I want to tell her to chill.
This episode was okay. It's clear that the writer's were hammering home the theme of solving problems without violence and restraining from doing any lasting harm or killing anyone.
I'll write more later. When it's not 12 midnight and time for me to go to bed, or long past it.
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I think it has a lot to do with how he may feel about television acting. Because I remember after Buffy ended, his price went up. And it was up in the air for a bit whether he'd go over to Angel -- because he was charging more. Keep in mind that Eliza Dushku charged $35,000 an episode for Bull. Marsters was getting paid $1000 an episode when he first started on Buffy in the 1990s. Smallville and SPN probably can only afford up to $10,000 if that.
Now..by an episode -- I mean 12-18 hour days for two weeks, not 8 hour days. Also stunts and putting up with some uncomfortable behavior from the stars. Also, you might have to shave your head, take your shirt off, bleach your hair.
I honestly think he's at a point in his career in which he feels he can choose. (He's worth $5 Million and from his perspective that's a lot.) And Runaways is probably paying well enough. SPN probably didn't offer as good a deal as someone else. I mean we have no idea what he was offered, or what his manager requires.
Or what other projects offered. From our perspective -- SPN may seem to be a better deal than Runaways or Smallville was, but we don't know what it was like on those sets, etc. And he's never going to tell you -- he can't. Hollywood is a small town.
but there’s something about both the Tenth and Thirteenth Doctor that I find irritating and a bit too try hard, whereas Matt Smith felt more natural to me in the role. I’m not sure how to explain it exactly, but I suppose I just get the feeling that they’re too aware of the audience, that they’re trying too hard to come off as goofy and quirky
Yeah, I felt the same way. I did however like the Tenth or Tennant in the later seasons of his run, when he was paired with Martha Jones and Donna, he seemed more comfortable somehow. Also, I liked Capadali in his last season -- honestly, I don't think my problem was with Capadali but with Clara, because once she was replaced with Bill -- or anyone for that matter, I was fine with it.
At any rate -- I understand what your talking about. I was trying to say it above but wasn't quite sure how to convey it. I feel like she's trying too hard, somehow. And I want to tell her -- chill, you're doing fine. I think the role of the Doctor is hard to play because of the fandom and the longevity of it -- and it is a particularly difficult role to take on for a woman, also because of the fandom and it's history and the expectations. I've noticed that with the exception of maybe Eccleston and Capadali...the people who take it over seem to feel a little out of their depth at first...and take a little time to grow into the role.
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I did however like the Tenth or Tennant in the later seasons of his run, when he was paired with Martha Jones and Donna, he seemed more comfortable somehow
I thought that Tennent worked particularly well with older actresses for some reason, I remember really liking his scenes with Jackie, and his dynamic with Donna was so fun to me as well, but I hated how hyper the Tenth Doctor and Rose got together, their mania didn’t feed off one another in a positive way imo. The opening of The Impossible Planet two-parter was the most grating moment to me when they both loudly and smugly laugh in one another’s face at their own private joke :shudders:
And I did like Jodie a lot in the premiere, I felt like she really got a handle on the role early on, but since then (partly because of the writing as well of course), I just don’t feel that she’s brought that much to it. I really find it quite irritating when she has her mouth hanging open, it just feels like such an obvious acting tic to to try and play at the part of being the Doctor for the kiddies in the audience, instead of just being the character, and it was the kind of thing you often saw with Tennent early on as well