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.

3 days...3 audiobooks

So in three days I have listened to three Doctor Who audio books.  The Day of the Troll, The Resurrection Casket, and The Stone Rose.  All of them were awesome.  I think I enjoyed The Resurrection Casket the most.  It is strange though.  Although they were very well written and very engaging, I felt almost as if they were runners up in a contest to see if they could make the show.  I guess since I love the TV program so much that anything not the show may feel that way. 

I am glad to report however that I would have enjoyed the stories just as much even if David Tennant had not been reading them.  His lovely voice was just the icing on the cake that satisfied my Doctor Who addiction.

Now unfortunately I am back to scouring the internet for anything with DT's voice.  I could just listen to him for hours and hours.  I don't have far to look though.  He is currently home from New Mexico after filming Fright Night, and he is promoting his role in the new BBC drama Single Father.  So there is a weeks worth of TV and radio interview for me to find and watch.  And he should be co-hosting the Christian O'Connell Breakfast show on AbsoluteRadio in the coming weeks as well.  That is always a riot.  I can't wait.

Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket

Just started the BBC Audio book, The Resurrection Casket by Justin Richards. Read by David Tennant. I have only listened to the first 10 minutes, but I am already just tickled Tardis blue (that's preferable to pink in this case).

Pirates and Steampunk and Doctor Who.

The Vampire Menace

The Fall: Book 2 of the Strain Trilogy by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan is out, but I really want to reread the first one before diving into the second. It kind of makes me want to wait until the third one is out and read all of them at once. Or I should say, listen to them. Ron Perlman narrated the first book and is said to be narrating the second as well.  I guess I shall leave a proper review for when I have refreshed my memory.  I remember it was slow in places for me, but I hear the second one is a much more intense and a faster read.

All in all, I actually liked The Passage by Justin Cronin better, but that does not diminish my enthusiasm for the Strain Trilogy.  Both The Strain and The Passage approach vampirism as a viral menace rather than supernatural in nature.

I am soon to read Let Me In by John Ajvide Lindqvist.  I am also soon to read The Chalice, Book One of the Vampire Relics by Tracy A. Evans. 

DINKY

Double Income, No Kids Yet. It is a BBC Radio sitcom which aired from 2001-2003. I just finished listening to all 3 series of 6 episodes each and it was fantastic. My coworkers and other random strangers who witnessed me listening on my iPod thought me quite disturbed as I would burst into laughter for no obvious reason. The reason was the wonderful dialogue and the superb writing of David Spicer.

Of course, I discovered this radio show while trying to hunt down any audiobooks or recordings of David Tennant. I could listen to that man's voice all day long. David Tennant voices the character of Daniel. The sitcom revolves around the couple, Daniel and Lucy, who are one of the only couples left in a circle of friends and family who are without child.

The show is funny, heartfelt, and gripping. I found it very difficult to stop listening. I highly reccommend it.