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tardis_stowawayI have decided that the news about Doctor Who having a shortened series in 2012 only makes sense if Moffat needs to free up budget and writing time for the development of a Madame Vastra/Jenny spinoff series. All other possibilities are madness. (Or at least depressing.) Victorian interspecies lesbians who fight crime can make even this sour news palatable.
After the tragic passing of Elisabeth Sladen, the Whoniverse is down a children's show. My concept is that Vastra and Jenny start employing a pack of rascally but adorable street urchins, Baker Street Irregular style. Eventually they adopt the core group of urchins and become a crime-fighting family that happens to be headed by two mommies, one of whom is a lizard. It will be the best show ever.
Meanwhile, you must watch this if you're one of the few people on the Internet who hasn't seen the Grand Rapids Lip Dub, a video wherein the people of Grand Rapids, Michigan responded to being labelled a "dying city" by Newsweek by creating a giant, highly-choreographed lip-synch video to "American Pie." It's got a pillow fight, dancing in the streets, a wedding, kayakers, and more cool stuff I don't want to spoil. It's also quite moving. With the shitty economy and general messed-up state of the world I think we all feel a bit like a generation lost in space, so this celebration of life despite the supposed death of the music (or Grand Rapids, or the world we thought we knew) is really resonant.
After the tragic passing of Elisabeth Sladen, the Whoniverse is down a children's show. My concept is that Vastra and Jenny start employing a pack of rascally but adorable street urchins, Baker Street Irregular style. Eventually they adopt the core group of urchins and become a crime-fighting family that happens to be headed by two mommies, one of whom is a lizard. It will be the best show ever.
Meanwhile, you must watch this if you're one of the few people on the Internet who hasn't seen the Grand Rapids Lip Dub, a video wherein the people of Grand Rapids, Michigan responded to being labelled a "dying city" by Newsweek by creating a giant, highly-choreographed lip-synch video to "American Pie." It's got a pillow fight, dancing in the streets, a wedding, kayakers, and more cool stuff I don't want to spoil. It's also quite moving. With the shitty economy and general messed-up state of the world I think we all feel a bit like a generation lost in space, so this celebration of life despite the supposed death of the music (or Grand Rapids, or the world we thought we knew) is really resonant.
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Date: 2011-06-16 11:46 am (UTC)I'm going to jump on board this idea. LIEK WHOAH.
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Date: 2011-06-17 06:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-16 01:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-17 06:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-16 02:19 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4kvk_hg7t8&feature=feedf
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Date: 2011-06-17 07:02 am (UTC)Even Neil Gaiman thinks there should be a spinoff! He thinks Vastra should take up acting so she can become a Victorian Silurian lesbian thespian.
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Date: 2011-06-17 01:39 pm (UTC)If Neil Gaiman wrote for such a show....there would be much rejoicing in many quarters. :)
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Date: 2011-06-16 03:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-06-17 06:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-17 06:03 am (UTC)Yes! It would be the Show of Awesome! I would so watch.
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Date: 2011-06-17 07:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-17 07:44 am (UTC)