quick sundries

[rm]

Last night we went to see Cheri which I thought was uneven and minor and at it's best when it was amusing. Good performances, though. Then we had a nice dinner and headed home. Less of an exciting night than we had hoped (we'd had tickets for a party on a boat that got canceled) and I've been just exhausted lately as I recover from this cold, but it was still very nice.

TORCHWOOD HAS (we think) BEEN RENEWED FOR S4 (this is possibly confirmed; this is possibly unconfirmed (see comments). I think it's unconfirmed officially, I think I now have it from a source other than that article (which is unconfirmed) most of us first got it from, so kinda, sorta, maybe, but not quite? ANYWAY). This is scary if we move immediately forward in the timeline, as the show will have to be emotionally responsible in a way it hasn't always been in the past. Ianto and Stephen are both things that have to get acknowledged, probably more than a little, no matter how much Jack compartimentalizes stuff. And I hope the powers that be understand how even something very small and not explored, such as a moment of seeing Jack at Ianto's grave or something, would go a long way to appeasing folks all over the spectrum of reactions to Ianto's death. If S4 takes place further down the timeline -- even if it's still 2010 for the setting -- if it's 5 years or a 100 years later for Jack (an idea which makes a lot of sense to deal with the fact that Barrowman is aging), even if he's done processing those events in an immediate way... the audience is still going to need something there. So who knows what's going to happen. But I for one, who could really use seeing Jack allow himself a moment of grace, am glad it's happening.

From the department of funny, but not okay: I just caught myself in 3/4 profile in the bathroom mirror at work and my hair is all shaggy and grown out and curling right now and I was like "woah, I could totally cosplay Alice." And I could. And it would be eerie. But talk about things from the department of no way on earth. More incentive to get my hair cut before WriterCon. Christ, that was weird.

Am not enjoying the current fluxiness of Dragon*Con schedule, both in terms of where I am needed when and whether it will conflict with stuff I really want to see. And I need to set up some actual meetings this year. It's like everyone has 50% of their schedule and has been told that it's probably wrong -- so it's like trying to read tea leaves to figure out if it's a good schedule or a bad schedule.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

Oi.... yeah. New York is a strange beast anyhow, in terms of our politics and our cluefulness (or, as evidenced by your example, lack there of). One of the things that's so strange is the degree to which there's still this collective injury from what happened here, but so many people moved away after (and then so many more moved in because things got cheaper or they finally saw NYC as American or whatever) that we have the collective injury, but not the collecting healing or awareness. It's very fucked.

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

Anyway, returning to the original topic, I'm not 100% sure that both the 7/7 day for the showing of Day 2 and dating of Ianto's death are necessarily the product of BBC carelessness as opposed to some misguided notion of thematic relevance. I'm normally a cock-up not conspiracy theorist, but they've played silly buggers before with screening dates; for example, Small Worlds went out on 12 November, the day after Remembrance Day, and has an opening scene with scattered khaki-clad dead soldiers in khaki strewn with what we later learn are rose petals but which certainly looked like poppies at first glance, and that certainly gave me a mental "ouch" moment at the time.