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[doyle]

The one day I decide I'm going to do something after work other than get glued to the internets all night, I leave my book at work. I was enjoying that one. It had Four and Nyssa in 13th century Oxford and monks and knights and the scientific method. I will just have to resign myself to one of my other 200-something DW books. (I and my bank balance both wish I was joking)

I'm eking out my Bertha episodes. Bertha, for those unfortunate enough not to have watched lots of British children's television in the Eighties, is a gentle little stop-motion animation thing about a big green machine who can make anything. Like, ooh... money-boxes in the shape of windmills! Meanwhile the factory workers gently pootle around stacking a few boxes here, having a crisis over a stray mouse there, and drinking lots of tea. I can't imagine it was shown anywhere outside the UK, because kids would just have gone "what the shit? This show should be about a dinosaur! Who travels in time! And plays the electric guitar, whoo!"*

HIGNFY people: I've got Best of the Guest Presenters Vol 2. Any particularly good bits I should be looking out for?

I have Lois and Clark on DVD, too, because WH Smith foolishly marked it down to £18.99 (why is TOS still £45 a season, Mr Smith?). It is like my last year of primary school all over again. I was so in love with them. I had a pencil case with Lois and Clark on it. I wrote to Dean Cain and everything. And he replied with a signed card that was in no way a standard thing an underling sent out. In my 10-year-old head this meant we were practically engaged.

* I've just discovered that 'Denver the Last Dinosaur' is on DVD. Blockbuster owns me.

Comments

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Dean Cain was quite the hottie then. Although the last season sucked. (At least it set me up for not being surprised by the last few seasons of the X-files. I had already been burned.)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*racks brains* Was that when they were married? Was there a baby involved at some point? I remember the early stuff really clearly (especially the episode where Lois is marrying Lex and practising her married name and says "Lois Lane-Kent" into the mirror - blub!) but am blanking on the later seasons.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was the married with trying to have a baby which was so awful. And the marriage in and of itself didn't have to be bad, I love married Lous and Clark in the comics.

[m-butterfly.livejournal.com]

I think the problem was they built that show on the sexual tension thing, and it became really obvious that they didn't know what to do if they resolved it. I mean, the shenanigans that went on around their marriage were ridiculous, and totally screamed, "If we just let them get together, what the hell will we do then?"

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

How many times did they almost get married, or Clark broke up with her for her own good, or Lois found out he was Superman and then forgot...?

[m-butterfly.livejournal.com]

There's only one possible answer to that: Too many.

I was a wee die-hard fan, and I remember even I was going, "...first clones, now amnesia? This is getting ridiculous."

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

yes, well, Lois was galactically stupid, after all.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

The old Cheers/Moonlighting problem. If you have no idea about act 2, don't go there.