More links

[selenak]

...for various fandoms:

Battlestar Galactica:

Cathedrals is an absolutely amazing vid about Three (D'Anna), Laura Roslin and Caprica Six. the vidder has distilled the best of these women's arcs, and the result is beautiful and disturbing.

Damages and BSG:

Speaking of morally ambiguous women: after watching this vid, I checked out the journal and discovered a fascinating post about Damages, comparing Patty Hewes (Glenn Close's character) with BSG's Laura Roslin. As I've only recently discovered Damages myself and could not find any meta about it safe from londonkds who recced it to me to begin with, I was very excited to find such a good post.


and lastly: kathyh linked me to a recent Catherine Tate interview in The Woman's Hour, which you can still download
here. She talks about Under The Blue Sky (the play I'd seen her in in London), Donna and Doctor Who, Tony Blair and the various characters she developed for her show. The interviewer asks refreshingly intelligent questions (for example, re: Under the Blue Sky, what she felt about her character being sexual and getting raped/blackmailed into sex at the end, whether that could be interpreted as her being punished for her sexuality). Of interest for Whovians: asked whether Donna would return at some point, she replied she couldn't say, and if you don't get an outright denial to these type of questions, it of course inspires speculation. (Also, since her answer to why she agreed to do a full season was because she enjoys working with David Tennant so much, I'd say this augurs well for future projects. Damn it, I want them back on my tv screen, can be in completely different roles, but someone needs to write more scripts for them!)

Comments

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

There's a big old half-spoiler/half-rumor mill going around to that effect.

ETA: the only reason I mention is because it IS going around, which is probably why she was asked.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

At this point, I suspect rumours are more wishful thinking, but who knows? We could all be happily surprised. I wouldn't put it past RTD to save a Donna reappearance for his last of the five specials next year before he hands over the show to Moffat. (Reappearance in the sense Sarah Jane did in School Reunion, not in the sense of Donna coming back as a companion, though.)

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I think they are as well, but your scenario has a lot of truth and is why I hesitated a lot to post it to you.

[kathyh]

Oh good, I'm glad you could hear it. I wasn't sure if it was locked to those outside the UK though BBC Radio used not to do that.

The interviewer was Jenni Murray, one of the best and most experienced radio interviewers there is, and Woman's Hour usually manages to provide an interesting listen.

I want them back too :)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I'll look out for Ms. Murray's interviews then, because she really was excellent. Thanks so much for giving me the link!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yesterday's Evening Standard [1] had a pictures of David Tennant accompanied by an "unidentified brunette" taking an evening off from Hamlet to go to see Catherine Tate's stage show.

[1] London's main evening paper.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Fandom was faster than you (http://jo-potter.livejournal.com/78998.html) (and faster than the Evening Standard, though not, sadly, faster than the Daily Mail). He was there with Georgia Moffet, I know. Apparantly dying her hair didn't throw the paparazzi off, sadly, but otoh it's really nice to know that he used his first Hamlet-free evening to watch Catherine Tate's show and brought G.M. along.