butterfly | Various: Doctor Who, Harry Potter, and a couple of personal notes (Reply)

Doctor Who: I'm so glad that

oh_she_knows exist. The amount of hatred in a lot of DW fandom for Rosefen is so overwhelming spiteful and bitter that it's nice to have places to go where there isn't any nastiness (I've always managed to avoid the most poisonous of fandom wars before -- I joined Stargate fandom after the Daniel-Sam wars were pretty much over and started watching due South after the Ray wars had calmed down, and I was a Buffy/Xander 'shipper in BtVS, so missed the Angel-Spike wars as well -- so this is my first real experience with this sort of thing).

And everything, right now, swirls back to the knowledge that Rose is coming home. Rose is coming back. It makes sense, which is the best part. S3 is the perfect set-up for a return for Rose in S4 -- the reminders and the way that as the episodes continued on, I missed her (and her influence on the Doctor) more rather than less. Each episode made her importance clearer and clearer.

Being in any place that hates Rose or wishes that she wouldn't return would be as counterproductive for me as staying at TWoP while S6 of Buffy was airing turned out to be (TWoP hated that season, fairly uniformly, while I embraced it as being a television show that understood how depression works). When feelings about a situation differ that strongly, spending time in a stronghold of negativity only creates frustration and anger. Especially when the other side is determined to make everyone else as bitter as they are.

Harry Potter: I finally watched the Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix movies. I'd been avoiding them because of the Ferret Scene. Which, in the book, always makes me want to cry and throw my copy at the wall (have not yet done this). It was actually much less painful to watch in the movie -- because of the seclusion, because it's so much more clear that Moody's off, or maybe because they don't play Draco as being quite as devastated afterwards (he's clearly scared, but less so than he seemed in the book). And this movie does, indeed, have David Tennant (which didn't mean a thing to me when the movie first came out) and he's... really hot.

And OotP was more enjoyable than the book. The substitution of Cho for Marietta really worked. It gave the 'betrayal' more depth and also left hope of forgiveness and understanding, which were utterly missing from the book. Plus, the scenes that made Hermione and the Trio look like assholes were all excised. All the stuff that pisses me off in the book was missing from the movie. And the revelation of Ginny's powerful magic came across much more naturally in the movie.

I've completed making my holiday plans and will able to spend a day each with my dad (and the family he married into) and my mom (and her side of our family). I've also planned to see three movies this month (as gifts to myself and