Check Out My New Countdowns.

I know, your 6 year old niece could do better.  But hey, at least they are up.  Check out my new countdown widgets.  There they are.  Right there to the right.  Yeah, made ya look.

Colin Farrell Offered Lead Role in Total Recall Remake

If the project goes the route of straight remake of the previous movie, I am not looking forward to it.  Farrell is no Schwarzenegger, at least with where this movie is concerned.  But if they approach the movie as another movie adaptation of Philip K. Dick's short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale", I can definitely  give Farrell a fair chance in making it his own.

T. A. Barron

Had a customer at work today suggest I read T. A. Barron's Lost Years of Merlin series.  Looks good.  I really need to post a list of books so I can keep track of everything I need to read.

Single Father Episode 2

Yes, I watched episode 2.  It was great, but somehow I lost momentum and still haven't watched episode 3 and episode 4.  I have them downloaded, but at this point I will need to start over and watch the first two episodes again.  Maybe I will get to them this weekend.

David_Tennant on Twitter: Release date of DVD of David Tennant's drama Single Father

Yes, but when will it be available for those of us in the States who have to use Region 1 DVDs???

David_Tennant on Twitter: Release date of DVD of David Tennant's drama Single Father

Single Father Episode 1

I was going to wait until all four episodes of the new BBC Drama Single Father had aired before I watched them, seeing as how I would have to get them pirated from YouTube anyway, as I am in Texas.  But I couldn't wait to get my David Tennant fix.  I logged on to YouTube and found the complete episode, and I just finished watching it.

It was so good that within the first 10 minutes I had forgotten that I was a DTFangirl only watching to get her David Tennant fix.  I was fully invested in the lives of the characters.

It was a gut-wrenching, heartbreaking story.  Beautifully written and superbly performed.  I don't usually go for tear-jerkers, but the characters were so real I couldn't take my eyes away.  It told the story of Dave and Rita and their children and what happens after a very tragic traffic accident takes the life of Rita.

The story throws you right into the deep end within the first 5 minutes and from there you just have to tread water to keep going.  Just keep breathing.

I can't wait until next week.

Doctor's Regeneration

I watched Bad Wolf (S01E12), The Parting of Ways (S01E13), and Christmas Invasion (S02E00) again today.  I thought I was watching them to rewatch the Doctor discovering a new self (and watching Tennant begin his captivating journey into the realms of Doctor Who), but I ended up focusing on Eccleston's exit. 

I haven't actually watched any other regenerations except for the new series.  In Series 1, Eccleston captured that same melancholy of ending that Tennant had, although not to the same extreme.  He portrayed that ...sadness at never experiencing the universe in the same way ever again.  Although Tennant is and will forever be MY Doctor, Eccleston was my FIRST Doctor, and I found myself feeling disturbed that Eccleston was going away and this skinny, strange looking Doctor was taking his place and speaking his words.  And I know as I watch Series 2 (again) I will watch Tennant use some of the same mannerisms Eccleston used, but very slowly come into his own passion and his own anger at injustice.

It gives me hope that I may come to love Matt Smith as much as my other Doctors.  But even after a whole series of new episodes that I enjoyed tremendously, I still think who is this strange young man taking my Doctor's place and speaking his words.