Happy, Merry, Joyous, Blessed

[Jan]

Had been stranded in Hotel Hell, yet again (loooooong story), but at the last moment I cat sat for friends. Brought my Roku box, and between Christmas Eve and Christmas night I marathoned the rest of Jeremiah!

Well??! Hie thee over to the Jeremiah forum and tell us what you thought!

Jan

[Marsden]

My #1 Geek Wish for the new year is any form of new JMS penned content that takes place in the B5 'verse.

I like that wish, I hope it comes true.

[Chipmunk]

Just want to wish each and every one of you the very best of whatever holidays you might happen to celebrate.

I'm trying to promulgate the term "Ferengi Tide", as an ironical yet Geeky protest of both the consumptive consumerism and bullying form of political correctness that are hammering away at what is supposed to be a joyous holiday.

(ooops - post run-on-sentence pause to breath in)

On a bright note, I had the best Christmas I've had in half a decade.

Had been stranded in Hotel Hell, yet again (loooooong story), but at the last moment I cat sat for friends. Brought my Roku box, and between Christmas Eve and Christmas night I marathoned the rest of Jeremiah!

First bird I saw Christmas morning was a two-winged, non-spiral-diving Bald Eagle, which seemed like an excellent continuation to the JMS theme started the evening before.
Spent most of Christmas day in Deep Coding Mode on my anti-spam engine... yet again, a B5-y / Ranger-y way to have a good time.

Plus, major crazy cat stuff, so I even had some Buddy like content.


Thanks everyone for being my primary source for science fiction news!
Keep it coming.

My #1 Geek Wish for the new year is any form of new JMS penned content that takes place in the B5 'verse.

My #1 jelly-world wish is that we don't get a President Clark one year from now. :cring:
(... and if we do get him, don't blame me, last week I voted for River Tam's crazy many-times-over great-grandfather.)

[DeMonk]

Wishing all my friends on the board a Happy New Year. And to those I don't know too.

Thank you! And a healthy, joyous year to all of you too.

[glindros]

Wishing all my friends on the board a Happy New Year. And to those I don't know too.

[Jonas]

I think they said he was rescued...
As far as alien invasions just being the "set-up". It really is interesting. A lot of shows, games, whatever, suffer from what's called "power creep" and "Complication creep". It's unavoidable because in order to keep the excitement up, you have to either make something more powerful or more complicated than before. With the rich history of Doctor Who, it's almost impossible to make something more powerful at this point without bringing back all of the timelords, so we're stuck with complication creep. It's starting to be detriment to the show, and they do need to do something to reset expectations at some point. I think that's a lot of why people have something down on Matt Smith as doctor, that it's more the complication creep factor in the plot going on than it is his performance. It also forces them to rely on the show being a comedy.

I think Doctor Who has been suffering that for some time now. Especially since the big-ass invasions don't seem to leave behind a lot in the way of memories, and a couple of days after their planet was almost destroyed by <insert alien threat here> or <insert alien phenomenon here> appeared in their sky or <insert alien power here> took over their minds/bodies/children, everyone on Earth is all like "Aliens? What? Of course I don't believe in aliens!"

After a while, that makes the alien threat of the week seem a little less dangerous than usual.

[SmileOfTheShadow]

I liked the Dr Who Christmas special. My only concern was what happened to Anderson, they didn't mention him again. Was he rescued?

Another thing that bothers me is that I don't get to see those little "prequels" that they've been making for some of the episodes lately, there was supposed to be one for this one showing the Doctor on the ship causing the destruction.

I think it's interesting how the series has progressed to the point where the alien threat to Earth isn't the plot anymore, it's just a macguffin to get the story started. As if the Doctor defending Earth is such a given so let's not spend any time on it as he's always defeating the "alien invasion" of the week. This can be good but also seems to put you in a place where there really isn't any threat at all and there really isn't much suspense or "tension". I understand that no one is really going to destroy Earth in an episode but it seems like it isn't even possible anymore, like they used to have a shot at it but now why bother. I'm really looking forward to next season. Of course, when you only actually watch 2 shows that are currenly broadcast (not old ones on dvd) you do look forward to them. (My other show is Futurama, nothing else is of interest to me on TV now)

I think they said he was rescued...

I also haven't seen the prequels, just discovering that they've been made. It's kinda annoying >< I just want to watch the show not have to work to find important details that were left out of it.

As far as alien invasions just being the "set-up". It really is interesting. A lot of shows, games, whatever, suffer from what's called "power creep" and "Complication creep". It's unavoidable because in order to keep the excitement up, you have to either make something more powerful or more complicated than before. With the rich history of Doctor Who, it's almost impossible to make something more powerful at this point without bringing back all of the timelords, so we're stuck with complication creep. It's starting to be detriment to the show, and they do need to do something to reset expectations at some point. I think that's a lot of why people have something down on Matt Smith as doctor, that it's more the complication creep factor in the plot going on than it is his performance. It also forces them to rely on the show being a comedy.

[Marsden]

I liked the Dr Who Christmas special. My only concern was what happened to Anderson, they didn't mention him again. Was he rescued?

Another thing that bothers me is that I don't get to see those little "prequels" that they've been making for some of the episodes lately, there was supposed to be one for this one showing the Doctor on the ship causing the destruction.

I think it's interesting how the series has progressed to the point where the alien threat to Earth isn't the plot anymore, it's just a macguffin to get the story started. As if the Doctor defending Earth is such a given so let's not spend any time on it as he's always defeating the "alien invasion" of the week. This can be good but also seems to put you in a place where there really isn't any threat at all and there really isn't much suspense or "tension". I understand that no one is really going to destroy Earth in an episode but it seems like it isn't even possible anymore, like they used to have a shot at it but now why bother. I'm really looking forward to next season. Of course, when you only actually watch 2 shows that are currenly broadcast (not old ones on dvd) you do look forward to them. (My other show is Futurama, nothing else is of interest to me on TV now)

[DaveNarn]

Thanks Jan, the only thing I lacked this year was a Vorlon for the top of my Koshmas tree.

Check-out my Christmas photos

[Jan]

I liked it a lot. It did what a Christmas special should do - leave one feeling good and it also had some decent character progression from the Mom going from ditsy to determined to the Doctor finding his closest friends to be with at Christmas.

I haven't cared much for the current Doctor, especially this season, but the last couple of episodes have redeemed him some in my eyes.

Jan

[Jonas]

So, in important Christmas matters...what'd everyone think of The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe?

I disliked it. Felt like 1940s Italian/German propaganda to me - the wartime mother who protects her children at all costs, her whole life defined by nothing except being a walking womb (no sense of wonder at seeing another world, no morals when dealing with other people, just the obsession with her children and husband). The forest creatures were awesome visually, and even though I dislike Amy I was touched at the end, but as a whole... no, thank you.

I did recently watch the previous Christmas special which, while flawed, was much more moving and original.

[SmileOfTheShadow]

So, in important Christmas matters...what'd everyone think of The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe?

[Jonas]

Merry Christmas, everyone!

[babylonlurker]

Merry Christmas to all of you !

- or - if you like Happy <insert name of Winter Solstice celebration here>

Hope all will be well for 2012 for all of you

- and 2012 will end , I am pretty sure the world will go on ;-)

[glindros]

Happy holidays to everyone too.

I look forward to Jan's next 1000 posts. She is a such a rich source of information and insights. She has expanded my appreciation of B5 and is really fun to have an exchange with.

That being said, I'm going to call it a night and wait for a man with a white beard to show up at my house who, more than likely, did not write 110 episodes of my favorite show.