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I spent several hours yesterday trying to find a WordPress plugin that will automatically generate a daily digest of stuff I post on Tumblr. It might be that Tumblr is too new. Dunno. Anyway, I found one plugin that will auto-generate a daily digest, but the lines in the digest didn’t actually link to the Tumblr posts, so. Yeah, that was a waste of time. Anyhoo.
I find myself writing “anyhoo” lately. Maybe it’s time for that one to come back.
Yes, I admit I did immediately think the Fringe woman will improve her
accent. I just also wondered why they didn't let her be an expat.
I've never seen Doctor Who. I know, smack me.
No smacking. I don't even know why I got super obsessed with the new Doctor Who (but I have gone back to the Dark Ages of Doctor Who, and my last dose of the first Doctor has left me afraid of touching the old series again for a bit). It was probably the idea of Christopher Eccleston smiling that got me to watch because it sounded like such a strange idea.
You know what we're missing in Fringe? That touch of Greg Grunberg. Surely, Heroes would let him leave for a day so that he could walk by a camera on the set of Fringe. If he were to appear, things would be fixed, and maybe we'd watch the show for reasons beyond Joshua Jackson.
Ooh. Then it would be all Dawson's Creek and Felicity, all over again!
Also, Fringe is missing more than Mr. Grunberg. A solid concept that doesn't scream so glaringly of the X-Files mashed up with Alias would be a very, very excellent start.
Okay, I think it's fair to say the following:
Fringe = Boredom
I don't even really know how the show ended tonight. I think the grain in my wood button distracted me.
Okay, I think it's fair to say the following:
Fringe = Boredom
I don't even really know how the show ended tonight. I think the grain in my wood button distracted me.
Note on fake American accents: The lady on Fringe isn't that bad, and I would bet that she'll get better. The Aussies can usually wrangle accents into their control, and I don't know why they tend to be so good at it in general…
And on Hugh Laurie: I remember reading a thing when House came out that Bryan Singer commented that he wanted a “real American guy” for the part and when he saw Laurie's audition, he said something like “that's the sort of guy, a real American guy.” And when I read that, Bryan and I were no longer bestest friends, because honestly, he should have known that Hugh is one of the best British comedic actors. It's the same sort of pain I feel when I realize that all of the times I see “Palin”, they aren't referring to Michael Palin…
And then there's the issue of the Americans who spend too much time in England. Watch any new Doctor Who episode with an American in the cast, or Foyle's War, or some miniseries. The Americans sound less American than the Brits pretending to be American. It's as if they were told that it wasn't clear enough that the character is American, so they create this hyper-American accent that makes me want to scream. It makes us all sound irritating as hell. And that might also explain why when I was in New Zealand, I was complimented on my soft accent. I didn't get it at the time, but after watching too much British television, I began to understand.
Oh, and a Gary Oldman bender should always include The Professional.