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fannish5: Apocalypses (or near misses)
Jun. 6th, 2008 03:48 pmName your five favorite fictional apocalypses (or near misses).
1) Season 4 of Angel: The Series. BTVS did near-apocalypses for many a season finale; so did AtS. My favourite take, not surprising for anyone who knows my preferences, as the way they handled it in season 4, which was two-fold. ( Spoilers for season 4. )
2) Battlestar Galactica: the miniseries which started the new version. The destruction of the twelve colonies save for a few survivors came across as devastingly real. It did a great job of introducing the characters and the thematic shades of grey. So many scenes that stick in your mind: ( and are spoilery. )
3) Babylon 5, season 5: The Fall of Centauri Prime. ( Spoilery tearful ravings. )
4) Doctor Who (season 3/29): Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords. Yes, yes, flaws a plenty, and it would have needed another episode in between set during the Year That Wasn't, but still. ( Heeeere come the drums! )
5) The Kindly Ones, last but one volume of Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman. ( All stories end the same way if you tell them long enough... )
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In other (Doctor Who) news, someone has done us a favour and collected a series of very entertaining (in a good way) Stephen Moffat quotes, here, proving the man's sense of humour about both himself and the series, which bodes well. My favourite is (re: Doctor Dances) "How dare you. We never called the nanogenes 'magic fairy dust', that would've been camp and ridiculous. We called them Tinkerbells!", followed closely by "In my head, the Doctor doesn't have a bloody clue what age he is (how could he, unless he's keeping count on a big chart somewhere) and only picks on 900 cos it sounds good". (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
versaphile has used this in fanfiction!)
Also, the BBC has put up a podcast of Jonathan Ross' latest show, in which he interviews David Tennant. Aside from DT defending King Lear and New Who Cybermen alike (as both were slandered by Mr. Ross as being rubbish), the most interesting thing was a casting spoiler for the next Christmas special which has absolutely nothing to do with any companion or any reccuring character; it was a casting spoiler in the sense that for The Runaway Bride, "Sarah Parish guest stars" would have been. (Sarah Parish played the Empress of the Raccnoss back then.) Still, just to be on the safe side, I'll hide it behind a cut ( and blather there about why it makes me happy ).
1) Season 4 of Angel: The Series. BTVS did near-apocalypses for many a season finale; so did AtS. My favourite take, not surprising for anyone who knows my preferences, as the way they handled it in season 4, which was two-fold. ( Spoilers for season 4. )
2) Battlestar Galactica: the miniseries which started the new version. The destruction of the twelve colonies save for a few survivors came across as devastingly real. It did a great job of introducing the characters and the thematic shades of grey. So many scenes that stick in your mind: ( and are spoilery. )
3) Babylon 5, season 5: The Fall of Centauri Prime. ( Spoilery tearful ravings. )
4) Doctor Who (season 3/29): Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords. Yes, yes, flaws a plenty, and it would have needed another episode in between set during the Year That Wasn't, but still. ( Heeeere come the drums! )
5) The Kindly Ones, last but one volume of Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman. ( All stories end the same way if you tell them long enough... )
***
In other (Doctor Who) news, someone has done us a favour and collected a series of very entertaining (in a good way) Stephen Moffat quotes, here, proving the man's sense of humour about both himself and the series, which bodes well. My favourite is (re: Doctor Dances) "How dare you. We never called the nanogenes 'magic fairy dust', that would've been camp and ridiculous. We called them Tinkerbells!", followed closely by "In my head, the Doctor doesn't have a bloody clue what age he is (how could he, unless he's keeping count on a big chart somewhere) and only picks on 900 cos it sounds good". (
versaphile has used this in fanfiction!) Also, the BBC has put up a podcast of Jonathan Ross' latest show, in which he interviews David Tennant. Aside from DT defending King Lear and New Who Cybermen alike (as both were slandered by Mr. Ross as being rubbish), the most interesting thing was a casting spoiler for the next Christmas special which has absolutely nothing to do with any companion or any reccuring character; it was a casting spoiler in the sense that for The Runaway Bride, "Sarah Parish guest stars" would have been. (Sarah Parish played the Empress of the Raccnoss back then.) Still, just to be on the safe side, I'll hide it behind a cut ( and blather there about why it makes me happy ).
