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Either Moff is a mad genius (which he is), or he rewatched a few Fifth Doctor serials before his first series as showrunner began.

Or the universe is playing a massive trick on him.



Also, look at this dapper motherfucker right here.



As much as I've done some complaining about the recent Harry Potter films, and how I felt like I had to force myself through about the last half of the seventh book, the party posts surrounding Deathly Hallows part 1 are doing a number on me and I'm getting insanely nostalgic and a bit teary :( The final nail is going into the coffin of the HP franchise forever (unless JKR decides to dig it up at some point, but I'm pretty sure that's only when she's finished swimming in her money piles, SCrooge McDuck style~) and I'll be left with my dvds and well-thumbed copies of the books and Twilight as The Next Harry Potter oh god save us D:


I was never part of the fandom while it was in its heyday, so I was never around for shipping wank or the legendary theories (Ron is Dumbledore, apparently), but in a way I'm happy for that because I haven't got anything to taint my memories of walking around my school with my nose stuck in Goblet of Fire, or spending every waking moment reading them. That and I guess I was dumb and didn't get that Ron and Hermione loved each other until someone told me (pre book seven), but there you go.


So rereading is in order, I think :)

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harry potter changed my liiiife oh my goddd. not even kidding. with age & hindsight, i have the presence of mind to judge the books somewhat objectively & see that there are huge moments of fail & suck & lame stupidity, & the last book was basically a mess of wtfery & ridiculous plotlines & a total lack of vindication or redemption for any of the characters what ought to have been redeemed, BUT the lifetime i have spent growing attached to those books & the funtimes of fandom (plus the ability to take the BASIS of the universe & the BASIS of the characters & rewrite them into something way better than JK managed in the end - because let's face it, the woman's got a crazygood imagination, but pacing & general narrative are kind of not actually her strong points) mean that in spite of all the complaining, i am so fucking invested in that series because it was basically the starting point of my ENTIRE LIFE. (woah run-on sentence, much.)

harry potter introduced me to the concept of fandom & the whole fucking internet thing that eats my life away now. it brought forums & communities & most importantly, fanfiction & fanart that i'd never done before & totally gave me practice at being arty/creative. i joined sites & messageboards & made friends who stayed with me & migrated fandoms with me & with whom i met up on several occasions which is always awesome.

& harry potter introduced me to the slash & the gay & discussions of feminist representation & all kinds of kinks i'd never even thought of & was part of my "woah shit i'm a queer" realisation & one particular crossover fic with velvet goldmine made me want to watch the film & then I DID & i fell in love with bowie & roxy music & that film made me check out placebo & then BAM the whole rest of my life was written.

pretty much. sooo yeah. sorry for the splurgey ramble. but like you, the upcoming deathly hallows (which is gonna be shitttt like the rest of the movies but i'm seeing it anyway because, uh, why would i miss it, & also i am DYING to see what they make of the harry/draco room of requirement bursting into flames scene) has made me all nostalgic & really fucking - idk, weird about HP coming to an end, finally, considering the impact it's had on my life.

... this could've been an entry in my own journal. but there you go. i'm saying it to you.

ps, i've been in france on holiday this week & one day when my sister was asleep all afternoon i sat on the couch with my ipod & watched all three episodes of doctor who with david tennant & john simm. & not gonna lie, i was pretty into it. i mean, i still think doctor who is kind of silly. like it's all a bit camp & sci-fi which is hardly my thing, & the treatment of time & space is not totally in line with what makes sense in my head - & some of the lines are a bit ridiculous, & i just can't work out what kind of audience the show is aimed it & if it's supposed to be scary or serious or funny or WHAT (buttt i get easily confused in my reactions, so it's mostly just me & my head being thick) but. the point is i got totally sucked in & all handflappy when exciting things happened & all "oh NO" when bad things happened & john barrowman made me lol with his HI THAR I'M AMERICAN LET ME FLIRT WITH YOU ways & i just pretty much enjoyed it over all.

there. i thought you ought to know. i shall now fuck off.

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Ellie, never ever stop with your rambly epic comments :)


I think when I started reading them, wayyy back in the seventh grade (so, like, twelve years old okay), I just read it for the pure enjoyment of being immersed in a world that I had quickly fallen in love with, alongside characters I could relate to (Hermione, the annoying nit who knows everything and only had a handful of friends = something I very much was back in middle school), and had no idea how to objectively ascertain that, yeah, Harry was PMSing a BIT too long in OotP and wait, was I supposed to cry when Sirius died? Oh. Like, it wasn't till I was older that I could measure writerly merit and figure out why I didn't cry, so all I had was my enjoyment and I still grew up through the books. The finally-aware-of-an-outside-world kind of grew up. And fuck, I was taught about discrimination and shit with the way Lupin and Hermione were treated and that kind of stuff sticks with you.

HP messageboards were my first contact with the internet too, oh jeez XD Mostly I remember insane theories on Mugglenet and huge ass fanfic archives oh man it's all coming back to me and how I wanted a pair of glasses like Harry's, lol.

I don't know if it would surprise anyone if I said my first reaction to slash & concepts other than heteronormative pairings was a big DNW--we all know how that turned out XD What can I say, I was young. The whole idea of two guys or two chicks together was a completely foreign thing to me; I didn't get Harry/Draco shippers or Lupin/Sirius or anything before that moment, so I feel like I missed a huge chunk of the fandom? Or I wasn't as accepting as I am now. I didn't know what fandom WAS then, even reading up theories on fansites.

As meh as the movies have been (except for PoA, imo, I fucking LOVED PoA's film), I'm tearing up every time I see stills from Deathly Hallows, and I have mad, nigh unexplained affection for Daniel Radcliffe's crazy ass and I hope he goes on to do awesome films and do more stage and play a drag queen like he wants to. It's a very sad time for me, because with the end of these movies I feel like I'm losing the last bit of my childhood. So yeah.


fucking lol, Ellie, the insanity is why it's awesome XD Okay, really though, the original target audience starting in the 2005 series was probably early teens and up, but like the classic series (circa 1963-1989) it's still sweet enough for older people to watch. But, okay, here, the way then-showrunner Russell T. Davies writes is crack, camp & high drama (what a contrast), so it's a mix of entertaining and being a bit too high concept for the lower age range. That particular series finale you watched is one of his more maligned solutions to the Doctor's conundrum, because he takes a cracking start ("Utopia" & "The Sound of Drums") and squanders it ("The Last of the Time Lords") on the deification of the Doctor. Now, to kids, they'll see all the SFX and sparkly tinkerbell Doctor and go starry eyed, and the rest of us will go wtf. Then you'll see the Master dying in his boyfriend's the Doctor's arms and kids wouldn't understand why the Doctor is crying over the villain, but adults would be able to grasp it. It's imbalanced, but enjoyable nonetheless, imo, and seeing John Barrowman kinkily chained between two pillars does not hurt :P

Uh, did I help you sort it out? O__o I got a bit wordy...

But yes, I'm happy that you were receptive to it ^__^ It may not be the best introduction to DW, but, uh, at last there was hilarity and drama and outrageous sexual tension, non?