A Slice Of Life.

[theweaselking]

torrain: I want to go see The Dark Is Rising.

Me: .... why?

torrain: Ian McShane and Christopher Eccleston!

Me: Seeing that movie for Eccleston is like going to see Transformers because you love Hugo Weaving, or watching Blink because you need your fix of Martha Jones.

torrain: Alternately, I could stay home with you and watch Hugh Laurie play Whack-A-Mole with diagnostics. Wheee, thud, I guess that wasn't it! Look, another one! Thud!

Me: Oh, come on, like YOU'D get "Anthrax AND Leprosy" on the first try

Comments

[calysto.livejournal.com]

I've never heard the serial ineptitude of House explained more brilliantly.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You know, your comment led to me having a realisation: the reason everyone puts up with House jumping to conclusions and being wrong three times per episode is something we see hinted at in his clinic work. He's wrong three times and then fixes the problems that stump everyone else. In his normal routine, he's immediately right in every way. This puts his correct answers at about 99.5%, and that 0.5% stumped everyone else, too.

Which makes the show make a bit more sense.

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

Friends do NOT let friends see The Seeker. EVER EVER EVER.

[georgiamagnolia.livejournal.com]

I loved the book series that the movie is based on and I am already well aware that the movie is going to be full of fail. But it will also be full of Ian McShane, and that is enough for me to spend way too much money to go see him on a really big screen. Yum. And you know, if not that, I would just be home wasting my life on copshows and LJ, so what is the difference, right?

[siouxsyn.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you just have to suck up your childhood in favour of porn of the moment.

Yet another childhood memory now sexualised by Mr Eccleston.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

That's kind of how I feel about the new Who.

And David Tennant isn't helping matters, either.

NOT HELPING, I say.

Mmm, David Tennant.

[siouxsyn.livejournal.com]

Mind you in our own childish ways we were all probably in love with Tom Baker. Unfortunately we grew up, and he's still Tom Baker. But I'm still in love <3

http://tombakersays.com/

Hee Tom Baker luuurve machine.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

*looks at IMDB*

Why are there people cast as security guards and a fight promoter? This is not boding well.

*is sad*

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

Wait for it...

...

Waaaaaait for it....

....

IT'S NOT LUPUS

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I'm most of the way through Season 1, and while he's talked about lupus repeatedly *and* even diagnosed it once, never once has he said "It's not lupus" or "It's NEVER lupus".

I'm feeling cheated.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

OMG You've Spoilerzed the Last Episode for Me!

(It might help to know that writing that sentence caused me near-physical pain.)

(Also, yes, I'd rather watch Hugh Laurie say "It's not lupus" with different inflections for 45 minutes straight than to attempt The Seeker.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

"Anthrax AND Leprosy" is from season 1, actually.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I knew it rang a bell.

When I have time I might rewatch S1. That was some fun.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

You didn't like Blink?

(I kind of want to see The Dark is Rising for similar reasons, but fortunately I have Deadwood and Doctor Who on DVD, which will satisfy my fix. Oh Lovejoy, we hardly knew ye...)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I liked Blink quite a bit, but seeing Blink solely to get your Martha fix is, uh, nonproductive, since she only has, like 3 lines and 40 seconds of screen time - like seeing Transformers for Hugo Weaving.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see what you mean.

I suspect the best part of Eccleston's appearance in The Seeker is in the movie trailer, come to that.

(Btw, I really will get back to you shortly about that book; I had a deadline this past Monday and I'm still recovering.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No worries, thanks.