Eeee!

City of Death, the latest Doctor Who disc to come to me via Netflix, might be my favorite thing since salt and vinegar chips. I popped it in and was immediately taken with the dialogue. The old-skool Who mostly sets up for the Doctor to make some snarky comment or a silly face here and there, but this one was rat-a-tat-tat with the zingers, and not only from the Doctor.

I watched it through wondering if, maybe, 'cause he was script editor, Douglas Adams had anything to do with the plethora of dry-satire wisecracks and insanity that went on. At the end, I checked the special features which had an "information text" option, put it on and watched. Sure enough, Adams rewrote entirely a previous script that had to be redone because of shooting/budget problems. Heee! This fills me with as much glee as I get reading Hitchhiker's and Who crossover stuff with none of the shame because it's real! Not fanfic! Woo!

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My God, it shouldn't be legal for me to be this bored out of my skull on a day when I actually do have work to do. The thing is, the bits I have to do have looooong stretches of not having anything to do. And, the capper, I can't even do things I could do to pass the time because the stupid post-doc left a mess and I'm not cleaning it up. He's taking care of it in a couple of hours, or so I was promised.

I go to lunch in the next hour, so we'll see. By the way, if you watch Heroes at all, this link may disturb you but it definitely won't surprise you (credit where credit is due: I stole that from linaerys. Really? Adrian Pasdar is magnificent, but he needs not to play a character with living relatives in any show ever. Because he walks around and just goes, "Make sex with me. Now," with his eyeballs to everyone he looks at, and that's just not okay when he has to, for plot reasons, look at his brother a lot. Don't even get me started on the inappropriate touching. That's overtly creepy but could be construed as touch-reassurance, like when you make a better impression on someone by shaking their hand and clasping their arm at the same time (more touch, more intimacy and openness). You cannot mistake the looks he throws off. His lips say "SCOWLY SCOWL GRRR!!!" His eyes say, "If I gave you half the chance, you 'd suck my cock and be grateful for it even as I kicked you off."

::drools:: yessir...

Bzuh?

They're making anotherremake of Invasion of the Body-Snatchers and this is to star Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig?

While I support Nicole Kidman playing to type as an alien, I cannot support this. First off, the original was fine. Second, the remake wasn't bad either (what little I remember of it). Third off, there have already been two remakes (apparently, Andrew McCarthy was in one; glad I missed that).

I could get behind this is Craig were playing the part Kevin McCarthy played in the original. The part calls basically guy with devilish, undeniable charm (check), calm self-assuredness without tipping into arrogance (check!), and who can then convey haggard but determined survivor as the world (sweeeeeet). It looks like the alien is going to be the main character, alas. Worse, it looks like the answer to The Invasion is to borrow a page from the book of Earth 2. What good's that without Clancy Motherfucking Brown? Weakest part of that show, you ask me...

The good news is that I was not deceived. I saw Craig and Kidman on a magazine together and I'd assumed it was for the His Dark Materials trilogy of movies. For a second, I got worried that it was actually for this one. Not so, they are both going to be in that (see, she does well to play creepy-ass characters, and Mrs. Coulter's a great one!). Also, my theory of "there are only 100 British actors ever" holds true as it seems that familiar faces abound in both movies according to the IMDB. I do like the casting for Serafina Pekkala, though; Eva Green has got a good face for a witch (I mean that in the best way, really!).

Looking at pictures for The Golden Compass also gives me a raging case of beardwhorishness (deepredbelle, that is the most wonderful term ever) because Daniel Craig is wearing it so well. That, and, erm, well, okay he's in a vest, too, see...