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I'll be in London for the Easter holidays, which will include the chance to see some great British dames - two on the stage (Judi Dench and Helen Mirren) and the rest in real life. :) *waves at ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kathyh, kangeiko and rozk* This unfortunately means no annual Easter Wells post, as they don't have those in England. However, I will try to make up for it with stage reports and possibly some snowy London photos.
Depressingly, every time I visit London I notice more bookstores have closed, so I expect there will be more of that this time, too, but the theatre can always be relied upon. Also, Doctor Who is about to return to the screen, which I'm mostly looking forward to, although the just released webisode prequel made me have this reaction precisely . (Seriously, Moff, three, four times if you count R-as-M in a row is way too often and not clever but unimaginative.) But I had liked the first half of season 7 more than the two previous Moffat seasons (as seasons: s5 and s6 suffered for me from the same "this is a horrible and important thing, but only in arc episodes and otherwise we'll just forget about it" syndrome and some ooc behaviour from the Doctor to make that possible; as far as individual episodes are concerned, both s5 and s6 had some gems, too), and I'm really intrigued by the new companion, so, as I said: I'm mostly looking forward to season 7.5. Something I expect to remain constant: after each episode is broadcast, I'll read positive reviews that will make me wonder why I can't see that wonder of deep storytelling and see a talented, improvised mess instead, and then I'll read bashing reviews which will make me think "hang on, this is really unfair, such and such was great and this and that endearing, and weren't you just looking for stuff to hate?".
Also: I'm only occasionally reading interviews of the DW actors - it depends on the people, i.e. I read and listend to a lot that David Tennant and Catherine Tate did, because they were hilarious together off screen as well, but I never read a single Billie Piper interview and the only one with Karen G. I read was about her role in We'll Take Manhattan, not about DW. But as accident would have it I read a recent one by Jenna-Louise Coleman and in it she mentioned her favourite current show is Breaking Bad. Clearly a woman of taste. :)
kathyh, kangeiko and rozk* This unfortunately means no annual Easter Wells post, as they don't have those in England. However, I will try to make up for it with stage reports and possibly some snowy London photos. Depressingly, every time I visit London I notice more bookstores have closed, so I expect there will be more of that this time, too, but the theatre can always be relied upon. Also, Doctor Who is about to return to the screen, which I'm mostly looking forward to, although the just released webisode prequel made me have this reaction precisely . (Seriously, Moff, three, four times if you count R-as-M in a row is way too often and not clever but unimaginative.) But I had liked the first half of season 7 more than the two previous Moffat seasons (as seasons: s5 and s6 suffered for me from the same "this is a horrible and important thing, but only in arc episodes and otherwise we'll just forget about it" syndrome and some ooc behaviour from the Doctor to make that possible; as far as individual episodes are concerned, both s5 and s6 had some gems, too), and I'm really intrigued by the new companion, so, as I said: I'm mostly looking forward to season 7.5. Something I expect to remain constant: after each episode is broadcast, I'll read positive reviews that will make me wonder why I can't see that wonder of deep storytelling and see a talented, improvised mess instead, and then I'll read bashing reviews which will make me think "hang on, this is really unfair, such and such was great and this and that endearing, and weren't you just looking for stuff to hate?".
Also: I'm only occasionally reading interviews of the DW actors - it depends on the people, i.e. I read and listend to a lot that David Tennant and Catherine Tate did, because they were hilarious together off screen as well, but I never read a single Billie Piper interview and the only one with Karen G. I read was about her role in We'll Take Manhattan, not about DW. But as accident would have it I read a recent one by Jenna-Louise Coleman and in it she mentioned her favourite current show is Breaking Bad. Clearly a woman of taste. :)