Universe Weeps [ＴＶ]
David Tennant (the 10th Doctor Who) の婚約についてのニュース…
このタイトルのつけ方って何なんだ！
Keep it in the Time Lord family: David Tennant to marry Georgia Moffett... daughter of ex-Doctor Who Peter Davison
Who's that girl? The Doctor is to marry his 'daughter'
Doctor to Marry His Own Daughter, Create Rift in Time and Space
The Tenth Doctor to Wed His Young Female Clone
David Tennant pops the question to his "daughter"
Doctor Who's David Tennant Engaged, Damn It
David Tennant: Former `Doctor Who` Engaged, Universe Weeps
(all links collected by Bender)
最近、DoctorとMasterの共演を見てた。RTDの脚本が相変わらずひどいんですが、腐女子としてはけっこう満足した（>_<）。ちなみに、S03E13に使ったScissor Sistersの「I Can't Decide」にも一耳惚れしたね～
このタイトルのつけ方って何なんだ！
Keep it in the Time Lord family: David Tennant to marry Georgia Moffett... daughter of ex-Doctor Who Peter Davison
Who's that girl? The Doctor is to marry his 'daughter'
Doctor to Marry His Own Daughter, Create Rift in Time and Space
The Tenth Doctor to Wed His Young Female Clone
David Tennant pops the question to his "daughter"
Doctor Who's David Tennant Engaged, Damn It
David Tennant: Former `Doctor Who` Engaged, Universe Weeps
(all links collected by Bender)
最近、DoctorとMasterの共演を見てた。RTDの脚本が相変わらずひどいんですが、腐女子としてはけっこう満足した（>_<）。ちなみに、S03E13に使ったScissor Sistersの「I Can't Decide」にも一耳惚れしたね～
タグ：Doctor Who
Doctor Who S4 [ＴＶ]
ドクター・フー
watching Doctor Who S4 now. loved Catherine Tate Show. but here, she's like all the other doctor girls screaming YOU MUST SAVE THEM!!! all around the universe. just want the doctor to give her a slap and say 'why, fuck them', or maybe 'am i bovvered' would do better. Russell T. Davies's script, no wonder. but then again i've never watched the earlier seasons, perhaps women (or 'mates'? now i do expect the doctor to have a male mate, since everyone can see the rise of BL on this planet) are supposed to be so to the doctor.
well anyway she's way better than Billie Piper. and the doctor is so heartbreakingly delicious~ (*>_<*)
hope i can try to enjoy some more episodes.
タグ：Doctor_Who
sim-com [ＴＶ]
Simon Amstell, Larry David and the rise of the 'sim-com'
words: sitcom, sim-com, clone-show, Jekyll-and-"Jekyll" effect, a corridor of uncertainty, striptease
quotes:
"From Simon Amstell to Steve Coogan to Trinny and Susannah, today's stars simply play exaggerated versions of themselves. Does it count as acting? Mark Lawson on the 'sim-com'"
"Such projects are the latest echoes in Britain of an essentially American phenomenon: the sim-com or clone-show, in which a comedian plays a character who would be able to board a flight using the actor's passport. The market leaders are Seinfeld (NBC, 1990-98) – in which Jerry Seinfeld portrayed a New York comedian under his own name – and Curb Your Enthusiasm, produced by HBO since 1999, in which the co-creator of Seinfeld, Larry David, offers a hopefully exaggerated take on his own personality and life."
"Those two shows clearly influenced Amstell's Grandma's House. They are also part of a wider trend towards self-referential fiction, which includes Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's Extras, with Hollywood stars spoofing themselves, and the forthcoming movie I'm Still Here, where Joaquin Phoenix, billed as himself in a film described as a documentary, apparently renounces acting to become a weird, bearded rapper."
"Is it clever or arrogant – postmodernist or lazy – to stay quite so close to home in the creation of a role?"
"Most such projects are aiming for a Jekyll-and-"Jekyll" effect, in which the viewers aren't sure if they're watching the real person or a dramatic persona. Whereas in Extras it is generally clear that Ian McKellen, Kate Winslet and the others are playing vicious spins on their images – although Les Dennis's appearance in that series sometimes seemed to be exposing a genuine streak of self-disgust – these sim-coms deliberately operate in, to borrow a cricketing expression from Geoffrey Boycott, a corridor of uncertainty."
"In Trinny and Susannah: What They Did Next, the makeover mavens are indulging in a game of bluff. The viewer assumes that the scenes in which they are slatternly and angry with each other off-screen are a joke, but is it just possible that there are elements of genuine confession amid the jokey pretence? Similarly, the makers of I'm Still Here seem to have encouraged ambiguity about whether the film is the reason for, or simply recording, Phoenix's bizarre transformation."
"From behind these masks that may or may not be their own faces, the performers can play teasing games. When "Simon Amstell" in Grandma's House keeps insisting that he is desperate to leave BBC2's Never Mind the Buzzcocks, neither the viewer nor the channel executives can be entirely sure that this is not a genuine feeling in the form of a gag rather than the more usual phonecall from the agent. Similarly, if Phoenix harbours frustrated musical ambitions, how much cleverer to express them in a project that can later be recategorised as irony than to release an album and risk humiliation."
"Such tactics can be attributed to two dominant phenomena in modern culture: increasing interest in the private lives of celebrities and the rise of reality TV."
"The popularity of the sim-com is encouraged by – and further encourages – such confusion."
"And with so many magazines, TV shows and websites devoted to the question of what famous people might be like in real life – a prurient fascination that in turn exerts pressure on celebrities to tweet or submit to Osbournes-style at-home TV shows – it's unsurprising that some of the objects of this interest should choose to turn the striptease into work. To the reader of Heat or viewer of Entertainment Tonight, sim-coms say: you think that's me; well, who is this?"
words: sitcom, sim-com, clone-show, Jekyll-and-"Jekyll" effect, a corridor of uncertainty, striptease
quotes:
"From Simon Amstell to Steve Coogan to Trinny and Susannah, today's stars simply play exaggerated versions of themselves. Does it count as acting? Mark Lawson on the 'sim-com'"
"Such projects are the latest echoes in Britain of an essentially American phenomenon: the sim-com or clone-show, in which a comedian plays a character who would be able to board a flight using the actor's passport. The market leaders are Seinfeld (NBC, 1990-98) – in which Jerry Seinfeld portrayed a New York comedian under his own name – and Curb Your Enthusiasm, produced by HBO since 1999, in which the co-creator of Seinfeld, Larry David, offers a hopefully exaggerated take on his own personality and life."
"Those two shows clearly influenced Amstell's Grandma's House. They are also part of a wider trend towards self-referential fiction, which includes Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's Extras, with Hollywood stars spoofing themselves, and the forthcoming movie I'm Still Here, where Joaquin Phoenix, billed as himself in a film described as a documentary, apparently renounces acting to become a weird, bearded rapper."
"Is it clever or arrogant – postmodernist or lazy – to stay quite so close to home in the creation of a role?"
"Most such projects are aiming for a Jekyll-and-"Jekyll" effect, in which the viewers aren't sure if they're watching the real person or a dramatic persona. Whereas in Extras it is generally clear that Ian McKellen, Kate Winslet and the others are playing vicious spins on their images – although Les Dennis's appearance in that series sometimes seemed to be exposing a genuine streak of self-disgust – these sim-coms deliberately operate in, to borrow a cricketing expression from Geoffrey Boycott, a corridor of uncertainty."
"In Trinny and Susannah: What They Did Next, the makeover mavens are indulging in a game of bluff. The viewer assumes that the scenes in which they are slatternly and angry with each other off-screen are a joke, but is it just possible that there are elements of genuine confession amid the jokey pretence? Similarly, the makers of I'm Still Here seem to have encouraged ambiguity about whether the film is the reason for, or simply recording, Phoenix's bizarre transformation."
"From behind these masks that may or may not be their own faces, the performers can play teasing games. When "Simon Amstell" in Grandma's House keeps insisting that he is desperate to leave BBC2's Never Mind the Buzzcocks, neither the viewer nor the channel executives can be entirely sure that this is not a genuine feeling in the form of a gag rather than the more usual phonecall from the agent. Similarly, if Phoenix harbours frustrated musical ambitions, how much cleverer to express them in a project that can later be recategorised as irony than to release an album and risk humiliation."
"Such tactics can be attributed to two dominant phenomena in modern culture: increasing interest in the private lives of celebrities and the rise of reality TV."
"The popularity of the sim-com is encouraged by – and further encourages – such confusion."
"And with so many magazines, TV shows and websites devoted to the question of what famous people might be like in real life – a prurient fascination that in turn exerts pressure on celebrities to tweet or submit to Osbournes-style at-home TV shows – it's unsurprising that some of the objects of this interest should choose to turn the striptease into work. To the reader of Heat or viewer of Entertainment Tonight, sim-coms say: you think that's me; well, who is this?"
