Most likely one of my last entry on this subject ... I'll be back with random unimportantness soon. Promised. But it has to be said ...

After a good nights sleep things look different? Mmmh ... maybe ... but I came to realize that my problem with the way the series ended isn't the story. I think that was brilliant actually. For a stand alone 5 parter it would have been one of the best things in SciFi.

But the problem is, it wasn't a stand alone thing. It was series 3 of Torchwood and that's why people are so upset. Because these are the people who made Torchwood a sucess, the ones who watched from the very first episode when it was still an obscure little Doctor Who spin off on BBC3, when no one knew what to expect (other than John Barrowman's return and a "more adult" theme) and if it would last at all or go the "K9 and company" way. Yes, at that time it seemed to be a popular opinion that Doctor Who spin offs don't really works because they are missing the Doctor.


So, I'm still pretty conflicted, because on the one hand there's a great story while on the other hand I'm one of these fans from day one ... I understand that RTD wanted to make a big impression (or go out with a big bang if this should be it for Torchwood) and of course the best way to do that is to create something controversial, something that people talk about, something that is almost crashing Twitter. And I also understand that he doesn't want to "suck up" to fans but do what he thinks is the right thing to do.

I think  sucking up to fans is the certain road to the dark side in fact, because you can never please everyone and by pleasing one group you'll upset the other one (Lost fans might remember the early days when there was the whole Kate/Jack vs. Kate/Sawyer thing going on) and it could certainly get in the way of a good story too.

But I can't help but wonder if it couldn't have been done in a slightly different manner, because all the upset fans just leave a bitter taste. Maybe I'm just a terrible harmony freak but I don't like to see people sad.

I don't have time for long Torchwood random thoughts reviews but I couldn't stay away from Day 4 ... watched it on a little Ipod. I guess everyone who's into Torchwood has noticed by now that Day 4 was very controversial due to certain events (more talked about on Twitter than MJ's death last night, btw ... the world is returning to normal ) ... but other than that I actually loved the episode.

The scariest part for me in this episode was, that I found it way too realistic. Not the alien stuff, but that I can imagine how the government would act exactly like that. It's never the stuff that is meant to be creepy that scares me, it's the stuff that makes it so easy to imagine that this could happen somewhere right now.


And since I was avoiding spoilers I had no idea that Nicholas Briggs is in Day 4 and no, surprisingly, this doesn't mean there was a random Dalek attack ...
Dalek: Exterminate!!1!
456: *vomits*
Dalek: "This wasn't in the job description ..."



PS: What's wrong with Twitter tonight? Not available half of the time ... did something important happen that I'm not aware of?

I shouldn't be amused that my mum's luggage was put on the wrong plane or on no plane at all at Heathrow

... however, she always tells me that I have no reason to hate that airport and that my two cases of lost luggage were just bad luck and that this could happen anywhere really. Now, when I told her the same thing she was all "don't go 'I told you so' on me!". Which is usually what I say when she goes "I told you so" on me *rofl*

( Torchwood / COE / Day 2 / write along  )

... ok, that's not actually true, I'm just very very tired of the media hype surounding Michael Jackson's funeral and how the media make it sound like the moon landing combined with the french revolution and the opening of the Berlin wall - all for the price of one.

Which is why I'm making Torchwood MY biggest media event this week. No MJ funeral coverage on 20+ channels for me. Nope. "Children of earth - day 1" rewatching it is for me.

( Torchwood / COE / Day 1 / write along )

On today's list of obscure holidays: International kissing day aaaand Torchwood day (which isn't really a holiday of course ... more of an unofficial fan squee thing)

I hope that Torchwood will pay tribute to this special day with ... say ... Jack making out with Ianto ... or Ianto ... making out with Jack ... or Jack and Ianto making out with an alien. Oh and Gwen, please keep your tongue to yourself, k?



And you know what LJ really needs? A random subject line generator! I was thinking of a script that pics words from your entry and turns them into a subject line. Kind of the same thing that google does with the ads.

Hey, an actual review of the Torchwood audio plays ... well, it's more of a collection of random thoughts, but let's call it review because that sounds so much better.

( Asylum )

( Golden Age )

( The Dead Line )

Also, a "contains adult themes and language" warning on an audio book looks a whole lot like a "may contain nuts" warning on peanut butter. Yes, what they probably do mean is adult themes and adult language, but my first thought when reading that? "Oh, it contains language. What an unusual thing to find on an audio book ... "

Oh, and I almost forgot that promised vampire bit. True Blood of course. I'm starting to like Jessica. I care more about her than I care about Sookie and Recycling Bill combined. Is that an unpopular opinion? (I'm trying hard to get some unpopular fandom opinions, since the Lost fandom has failed me with all that recent Ben love)

- There's still hope for True Blood after all ... last episode didn't have a single recycling vampire ... and no sparkling ones either. Hurray (this "hurray" is for the Eric/Pam scenes) !!!

- 3 beers in the fridge and that's it. Such a classic. Of course it doesn't make sense to buy food during the week with both me and Marco eating at work or on the way to/from work at the moment. But still. Could have been a little less cliche.

- Oh look, a recycling vampire, how did he end up in here?

eh, back to the scheduled program ...

- So, the first "Michael Jackson is alive" news are popping up, with proper conspiracy theories and all. However, the truth is that while he isn't really alive he has indeed joined El ... I mean Bubba (ten points if you get the reference).

- Also, it's been like half a week without any totally ridiculous Doctor Who news. What's wrong with people working for the Sun and Co.? Oh, right, they have been asked to work on these Michael Jackson conspiracy theories.


And on a personal note, the Kieler Woche was awesome as usual. Because while I don't care much about shinny cars shiny boats always get me excited. Too bad that they are way more expensive than shiny cars.

- vampires and recycling just don't go together and should never ever be put together again. Please note this down, writers, script writers, fanfiction writers, painters, viders ... and whoever else might feel tempted to go there. Don't. Just. DON'T.

- yiha, we've got a casting show for politicians now too ... and I don't need to look at the gramatical errors in the title to know that it is made of fail. And talking casting shows, I still haven't managed to take a look at the casting show where one girl can win a part in "New Moon" ... her first and most likely last part in a Hollywood movie.

- dinner: iced latte and a bowl of cherries. I love summer, even if it's only scheduled for a day. That's what they say on the news anyway.

- I finally fixed that contextual pop-up thingy on my journal. These blue links annoyed me to no end. Well, not so much the links, more the fact that I couldn't seem to find out how to change the colour. No I'm not an obsessed control freak, why? *lol*

We went to one of these "pick your own strawberries" places this morning. Yummy. Of course, you have to try "a few" while picking them to make sure they, eh, taste like strawberries and stuff, so I didn't bother with lunch ... my whole car smells like strawberries now, in fact, I smell like strawberries too (the cats find that a bit suspicious) and so does the kitchen, where strawberries are waiting to be turned into cocktails tonight.



Oh, and this news: "Matt Smith will battle The Daleks in his first 'Doctor Who' episode (...)"?!

Let's join me in a Darth Vader moment and say "NOOOoooOOooooooOOOOOOo!11!!!1!"
Or even better, how about a Samuel Jackson moment? "“Enough is enough, I've had it with these mother fucking Daleks in this mother fucking universe ... and any other universe there is, for that matter!!"

Last night's dream could have been hilarious ... I was in a Twilight production of Romeo and Juliet and Edward!Romeo had his own theme, that was played whenever he showed up. Pretty much like Darth Vader's imperial march, only more, you know, sparkly sounding.

And that was it. My brain really fails, because that's all I remember of what could have been the most hilarious dream I had in months.

I just came across a piece of news on a Twilight com about how the director of Twilight wants to do a Hamlet film and said: "You will understand everything without having a copy of Shakespeare for Dummies with you."

I'm not sure what's more irritating. The fact that she thinks "Hey, I've done Twilight, now I'm totally qualified to direct Shakespeare!" or that she thinks the target audience of her movie will be people who are obviously too stupid to understand Shakespeare.

... at least for us in Germany :)

Here's a piece of random news: Red Bull / Coke actually contains Coke (as in cocaine) ... and you would have to drink like 100000 liters to get high, but would die on the way from coffeine overdose *lol*

I read about a Twitter TV show and thought how much fun it would be to act in that and also to write it if you limit the actors to 140 characters per line ... and then it turns out to be some stupid "reality" show. What a waste of something that could be really funny.

And talking Twitter and random news (from Germany) - apparently some politicians involved in the counting of votes put the results of last weekends presidential elections on Twitter half an hour before the result was officialy announced. See? It's not only teenagers who think AFTER they put something on the internet ...


Going to see my dad and maybe maybe maybe visit the new Beatles museum on the way.

Whenever I log into a photobucket account they come up with a new pop-up ... do you want a background? ... do you want to make a slideshow ... do you want to print that 100x100 icon on a T-shirt? ... 

I'm starting to wonder if they have been secretly taken over by Microsoft, because this starts to remind me a lot of this guy:


Also, someone said they'd know a com for Star Trek icons? Can't remember who it was ... yeah, getting older ... anyho, since I got these ready and am about to upload them it would be nice if you could link me :)

Edit: And I just can't find a link to log out of this account ... aaaaagh ... I really need sleep *lol*

I have just removed a few journals and communities that have been dead for over a year and I don't expect them to suddenly come alive again.

So, the ones I have removed shouldn't even notice that they were removed - but as always, if I made a mistake and removed someone who's still active ... I'm very sorry for that, I will of course add you back, it's nothing personal and so on ... I was just meaning to do a little clean out to have a better overview.


Bonne nuit :)

Everyone around me seems to watch the original Star Trek episodes at the moment ... I feel like a real geek because I watched them all a couple of times already (as I said somewhere before, they used to be on some privat channel like, all the time). Btw, if you should watch on DVD (as oposed to ... elsewhere ;-) ) take a look at the extras, the bloopers with a laughing Spock are so weird.

I think I'll be a rebel and watch Star WARS. Ha!


Oh, and tenth Doctor in Sarah Jane Adventures?! ... eeeh ... while I really like the Doctor I really can't stand Sarah Jane Adventures ... is this some kind of plan to make people like me watch that show?


Anyhooooo ...
Happy Towel Day! :D

Why is it, that whenever someone becomes famous for mostly doing stupid stuff on TV (you know, in shows like Big Brother ...) you'll find some fans of them saying stuff like "(s)he's one of us"?

Helloohoooo? Speak for yourself please. If you consider yourself stupid and need someone equaly stupid to identify with to make you feel better or whatever that's fine. I won't judge ... ok, I will ... but the point is, I don't get it why people are idolized for basically being dumb idiots. And I also don't get why others consider themselves to be dumb idiots (otherwise they wouldn't say "one of US") and do nothing about it.

Or maybe I'm just the only one to not see the "one of us" connection and need to look into the details for changing species.


Oh, and they elected a new president today (well, they re-elected to old one) and the guy who announced the results has certainly never seen a casting show, because there was zero suspense there. He announced the winner first! No dramatic pause or anything either! Well, we will also elect a new government this year (the German president is head of state but not head of government) and there should be a bit more suspense there.

Aaaaand ... I started making Star Trek icons. I'm really getting back in the icon making mood. Is there a Star Trek icon com? I bet there is ...




*totally stolen from Heroes. Back in the old days, when Heroes was still a great show *sigh*

So, Germany is celebrating its 60th birthday while Livejournal is celebrating its 10th birthday. How these birthdays are related? Not at all, as far as I'm aware of anyway.

I sorted over 50 books out, however, most of them are going to book trading - which means I'll get other books in return.

I don't give a crap about casting shows, however, I'm positively surprised to read that "Germany's next topmodel" let a black girl win this year and not just allow her to be on the show for political correctness ... the way it usually works with these shows.


Also, is it a) pathetic or b) very pathetic to walk by a Mc Donalds, notice the ad for their free movie magazine in a window and turn around to walk in and get one ... because it has a Star Trek cover. I was also far too happy to find a little article about Doctor Who in there (apparently season 2 is out on DVDs in Germany now), because I've never read anything about this show in a German magazine before.

Good one :)

Ok, so "take place in space" does not equal Science Fiction, right? That does exclude a lot of stuff if you think about it. There are so many movies and also TV shows of course, that are set in the future on earth - which is rapidly becoming an alternative reality. A date around 2000 used to be quite popular with Science Fiction writers, now that we have actually reached that date I always find it a bit odd to watch Science Fiction that takes place in what's now the past. Or they are just set in the present but they are still considered Science Fiction on some level (X-files, Torchwood ...)

Now, what's left ... in somewhat chronological order:


Captain Future. Obviously for kids and obviously 80s (look at his New Romantic hair. He could have been in Duran Duran *lol*), was on TV when I was a kid and I loved it before I even knew what Science Fiction was.

( ... then came ... )

Eh, before this gets any more geeky ... although, is that even possible, since I just confessed to liking Captain Future? ... anyhoooo ...

*walks off to sort more books out*

Just dropping in quickly to post my opinion on Lost ... please tell me what your thoughts on the finale are ...

( Die, Kate, die )
Also, when is Lost coming back?! I really really need to look into new shows when I'm back, because there's nothing at all on my schedule at the moment.

If you are German and (like me) pretty clueless about the Elections in the European Union - the Wahl-o-mat is the place to go. You have to answer some questions that will then be compared to the programs of the different parties and you'll get a detailed result to see what parties would be your best match, or you can check how well the party scored that you wanted to vote for.

Anyho - and this is where my subject line starts to make sense - the party that turned out to be my best match is called "Piratenpartei Deutschland", short "Piraten" which translates to - yes, that's right, you've guessed it - pirates! *rofl*