Maybe I'm just temporarily burnt out on fandom or something

[drakyndra]

Erm, for no adequately explained reason - and this is my brain I am unable to explain the rationality of right here, which may be a problem for me - I have not as yet seen the most recent Doctor Who episode.

I mean, I have in it my possession. Pretty much everything I have heard about it seems rather good. It sounds like the sort of thing I'd like. I had plenty of time to watch it this afternoon.

And yet, I can't bring myself to watch it.

WTF, brain?

_{...I probably won't get to watch it for a while, either, given this is a busy week in terms of Uni work.}

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[koshiroryuu.livejournal.com]

I'm only just now even trying to get a copy. I'm down to the last dregs of my Who squee after most of it got gone sometime last month or so (I blame those two Torchwood episodes that I loathed, especially "Adrift" although I won't bore you with my angry meta on why) and as I had a particularly bad weekend in many many ways, I've found that I care even less at the moment than I did before. What partly_bouncy was saying up above makes a hell of a lot of sense to me, actually, because when the world sucks, I want to watch something uplifting, something that makes me feel good, and while Old Who and SJA can do that for me, New Who and Torchwood and all their dodgy subtext and horrible issues and incredibly frustrating crap just can't, and therefore I'm finding it extremely difficult to get enthusiastic, I think.

Although I'm told that Donna's breasts are quite magnificent this episode, so that may sway me into watching it. My daughter still hasn't bothered with the first one; when we sat down to watch it together, she had a choice between "Partners in Crime" and "Pirate Planet" and she chose "Pirate Planet". She does not appear to have regretted this in the least. I can't say that I blame her, since "Pirate Planet" is fantastic cheesy love with extra cheese on top, and also Romana I.

(Sorry for the edits. I'm trying to make that one part a little less upsetting to people who might be upset about that sort of thing being said in public. Sigh.)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I think that's it: When one has fandom burn-out, it doesn't work so well. Because fandom's supposed to be the place you want to escape to not escape from.

The fact that this episode, though supposedly good, is also supposedly... not that cheery doesn't help, either. There are times when I feel like good, thoughtful sad stuff. Fannish burnout does not inspire this, though.

So instead I am thinking about Uni work, and watching Animated Batman and reading Dresden Files.

[koshiroryuu.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite done being distracted by Hot Fuzz yet. It has gunfire! And explosions! And more gunfire! And massive amounts of completely on-purpose gay subtext! But there needs to be more fanfic for it. I'm currently trying to work out a Doctor Who crossover involving Four, because he's always fun.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Hot Fuzz is insanely incredibly awesome. I don't have any desire to get into the fandom, but I cannot deny the awesomeness of it.

[koshiroryuu.livejournal.com]

No one can deny the awesomeness of it! No one! But I only sort of poke around on the outskirts of the fandom and attempt to write the odd fic here and there, I don't even post my stuff to the main comm, and I only really read fic by people I know or that's been recced by people I know. And in that fandom, "people I know" basically means "phosfate".

If you ever want to read any really good fic for it, though, her stuff is brilliant. And her artwork, too. It's love.