Trying to get distracted by fannishness

[selenak]

Call The Midwife 2.01. which tackled not one but two extremely skeevy (but alas all too likely) scenarios with which our heroines were confronted and somehow pulled it off without coming across as either sensationalizing or taking the easy way out. Kudos, show.

Colin Morgan won the National Television Award, I hear, for Merlin in Merlin, of course, for which he beat both Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock and Matt Smith was the Doctor. My issues with the overall fifth season aside, he acted his socks off in it as he did through the entire show. (They showed a clip from THE scene in the show finale during the ceremony, which was well chosen but heartrendering all over again. Not to mention spoilery if you haven't watched the fifth season in its entirety yet.) So this makes me very happy indeed. (And okay, also satisfied Merlin beat Sherlock Holmes (BBC edition). Pity he couldn't also have beaten Loki while he was at it, but that wasn't tv.)

Lastly: so J.J.Abrams is directing the next Star Wars film? I spotted "oh noes!" reactions on the internet, but you know, this actually might make me watch it (despite lack of interest in the SW universe post Jedi), if only to find out whether or not he manages to smuggle a giant red ball in the galaxy far, far away. BECAUSE RAMBALDI IS EVERYWHERE. My beloved Arvin Sloane knew it all the time.

Comments

[kellyfaboo]

The Senator who became Emperor is really Arvin Sloane after a few hundred thousand years. Which is why even though he was thrown into the middle of the Death Star which then exploded he'll turn up in the new movie. With the red ball.

[selenak]

Ah, but the Star Wars events take place not just in a galaxy far, far away, but also "a long time ago", and not in the future, so as much as I'd love to see Ron Rifkin taking over...

[gelliaclodiana]

I am 100% behind JJ Abrams directing the next Star Wars film except that one of the things I was looking forward to was taking my son, who will be 7 in 2015, to see it, because that was how old I was in 1977. But if JJ is in charge it might be a little too scary for a 7-year-old.

[selenak]

Well, this is a franchise in which the hero loses his hand courtesy of dad directly after being told about his parentage, so I don't know about added Abrams scariness.:) However, there WILL be lens flares!

[weewarrior]

There is this one planet, quite on the far side of the galaxy, which has always had strong ties to the Force... the inhabitant intelligent species? A people of gentle, giant floating plants that resemble red rubber balls.

[selenak]

You know, I could totally see that. :)

[jesuswasbatman]

According to "wank report" some buttheart Doctor Who and Sherlock fans decided to troll Downton Abbey fandom by spamming their Tumblr tag with Who and Sherlock images.

Only they got the spelling wrong and posted them to a "downtown abbey" tag.

[selenak]

....

*whistles Petula Clark melody that fits*