World Cup and Doctor Who

[vilakins]

As usual all the World Cup games are on overnight, but we're getting up to watch the last one of each day which comes on at 6:30am here. We're about to be creamed by Slovakia--and they're the easiest in our group--but I'm not staying up another two hours for that. There's a very good highlight program which we're also watching each evening, and that'll do. Just getting there was amazing for us.

[uses her only vaguely soccer-related icon; sorry, Denmark]

I enjoyed the last Doctor Who ep, The Lodger, for the sheer fun including the Doctor scoring (a goal, of course). The plot about the stranded spaceship made no sense, and a lot of people died, but the Doctor living in a flat was great comedy, and Craig was lovely. And the Doctor speaks cat! I knew there had to be a cat when I saw the cat door. But bonus points for topical soccer. :-D

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[executrix]

I love your icon!

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[vilakins]

Thanks! I've had to explain it to at least one person in the past though.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I too spotted the cat flap and was waiting for the cat :0) I enjoyed it, I like the odd quirky episode like that

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I was a bit worried about the cat in case it was invited in upstairs, but it was only a worrying number of humans who got killed. Odd that no one mentioned all the missing locals. It was heaps of fun apart from that though, and I may have to make an Eleven soccer icon.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

but I'm not staying up another two hours for that

And you would have had to stay up for the full couple of hours.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

So I hear! Wow. But we've got two tough games coming up.

[pet-lunatic.livejournal.com]

I thought the latest Who was great fun :D Completely silly, I agree, but good-natured and entertaining. And I enjoyed the writer taking the pee a little bit out of that oncoming storm stuff, lol.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I didn't go into it expecting much, and it was great. Ha, ancient amateur!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

A tie! And not a 0-0 tie either--who'd a thunk it!! I suppose they'll rest on their laurels now :)

Lodger was a ton of fun--what do regular blokes do? And speaking cat is definitely a plus.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I hope not: the other two teams will be even tougher.

I was a bit worried about the cat, but curiosity didn't kill it. I'll have to watch that and the Vincent ep again. Pity about the high death count though. It didn't really fit with the mood, and no one mentioned lots of missing locals.

Yay, one of my icons!

[samantha-vimes.livejournal.com]

Perhaps because the starship needed for a pilot, someone who wanted to leave, it was choosing loners and/or people who'd been talking a lot about "getting out of this hellhole", and so while some might get reported missing, it wasn't enough to create a sense of mystery and fear?

I figured since we sometimes talk on Wolfma's page, have a few fandoms in common, and got on a big cultural tangent, it would probably make sense for me to friend you. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yes, it could have chosen people by their desire to leave or change their lives. It's still odd though that 17 (or however many it was) people missing didn't make for a huge panic.

Excellent! I've friended you back. I see we have more in common: I do bead work too, and also write--in fact I should be writing my Multiverse stories--and am looking for permanent work too.

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

toocuteicons has world cup icons - mine is one of them. She does have a NZ one, if you're interested. Her comm is members only so you'd have to join.

I remember a few years ago when we used to have to wake up at crazy hours to watch the World Cup games. They weren't showing much on the tv back then so we'd have to go out to restaurants/bars - there was a list of places in the paper that would be open at 4am just to watch the game.

I'm behind on Doctor Who - we just watched the episode with the vampire-fish in Venice.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's invitation only so I won't bother. By the time I get the icon, we'll probably be out.

4am is above and beyond, especially in midwinter! It would be OK for you in summer though. Once a company I worked for organised breakfast and a big screen for the last three games which was great.

That one was a bit underwhelming, though it had lovely Rory. I think the last two are my favourites so far, and next it's the two-part crack-of-doom finale.

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

Do you call it soccer in New Zealand too? Ha. I thought that was just an Americanism.

I agree about the Doctor Who. I overall really liked the episode, even though the ship made no sense and a lot of people died and no one seems to have cared at all--and that the solution was stupid. I get why Craig wanting to stay stopped it, but not why them kissing made it . . . explode. Maybe it'll be better explained someday, since someone was trying to build a TARDIS which is pretty rare.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's soccer in Australia and South Africa too, because rugby is our 'football' (more's the pity). It's short for "association football" BTW, and adding an -er is a very British English thing to do though it's usually -ers, like brekkers or preggers.

Yeah, I didn't get that either. It was almost as bad as human emotion stopping that Dalek bomb. This is why DW is more fantasy than SF to me; there's not a lot of logic. Eleven was so much fun though and really looked like he was enjoying himself. If they hadn't killed so many people (I hoped for most of the ep that they were all still alive) it would have been even better. I'm tempted to make an Eleven soccer icon.

[bramblyhedge.livejournal.com]

The Doctor speaking with the cat was one of the greatest things ever. <3
(And it was such a cuuuuuute kitty, too =^.^=)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I talk to mine and they talk back, but unlike me, the Doctor knows what they're saying. :-)

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I kept wondering whose cat it was. Because Craig showed no interest in it, and it obviously couldn't be from upstairs... I decided his conveniently absent landlord (who I rather expected to be one of the upstairs casualties) must have left it behind.

So all three of the new Doctors have had a cat scene now. There was Eccleston talking to the cat in The Empty Child, and Tennant with the kittens (not to mention Ardal O'Hanlon) in Gridlock, and now Smith and his feline spy. Any others? Surely there will be Doctor-Cat icons.

(Annoyingly, the screencaps (http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/displayimage.php?album=175&pos=361) of this pairing aren't terribly clear, but I think that's just the way it was shot, from Craig's point of view.)

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Best I can do with them...

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Though once they're lightened, the full size (http://pics.livejournal.com/kalypso_v/pic/0017ff4y) shots (http://pics.livejournal.com/kalypso_v/pic/0017ggpy) framed by the door's peephole are rather nice.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Those are good! A very cute Birman.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Which do you think? Fur or TARDIS notice?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! The second, I think, though a 1-pixel black border would be good around the 'notice'.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Comme ca? I thought TARDIS blue might be even better (not that you can really tell it's not black).

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yes! Much better on a white background. :-D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I think there was only the one real flat in the house. I assumed the cat flap was installed for a previous feline tenant, and this cat was just a neighbour taking advantage of an unguarded entrance and being curious. Perhaps the landlord was an early victim as they could hardly fail to notice a new storey. It's odd that no one even commented on all the disappearances.

The Doctor likes cats! A man of taste. :-)