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In the end he should not have been surprised.
All that time and effort wasted and for what? Another mess to clean up, another argument to mediate. In the end everyone has their limit.
In the end.

In the end it was his friend, his brother, his adversary at his side, his doom, his compass. The Master fought the Doctor across time and space as he had once been promised, across everything, for everything.
Everything ends.
But Koscheii never truly thought he would be the one to end it.

So, New Doctor Who. AT LAST! *dances for joy*

I have to say, Cleopatra I may be - and I have yet to watch the last part of End to Time - but I am really growing to like Eleven. Is he attractive? Does he look like Angel with his vamp make-up on? Who knows?! I change my mind depending on how the light hits him.

The Weeping Angels...nice to see them again, the creepy buggers. And, uh, episodes to not watch in the dark - Time of the Angels.

River Song has shown up again. *rolls eyes* I really hate her. I hate her smug little smirks and her insinuations. If Sarah-Jane wasn't good enough for the Doctor then you aren't, you cheap little bottle-blonde tramp!

So, being a fan and somewhat creative, my mind went on a side-mission and found a way to make me adore her.

In my mind, she is Romana. Seriously, hear me out. If the Master could survive the Time War by being Fob Watched, so could some other people. Now, suppose the Watch got damaged before she could open it. Say that she has partial memories of being Romanadvoratrelunda but is trapped in a human body. Considering she can fly the TARDIS better than the Doctor, this is the only explaination I am prepared to accept.

Say that she can remember travelling with him, but not the why. That she remembers being a Time Lord, but without recalling her training. Her Presidency but not the Time War.

If that was true then there is no way the Doctor would abandon her. And considering the not-quite-implications between Romana and the Doctor...well...Amy could be right about the wife thing. And it would be totally screwy and mental and completely timey-wimey.

And mostly because if this is not true then I will THROTTLE her like the smug little pain in the arse she is.

So, I downloaded VideoPad. It. Is. FANTASTIC!

It's like Final Cut Pro in its most basic form, it's better than AVID (not hard) and it's FREE!

It even RENDERS faster than AVID.

*huggles*

If it wasn't 2 am I'd be dancing in happy circles. The state of my room also impairs that movement too...

Hey everyone, how's your projects coming?

Ah...I'm using Caligari for mine. Those of you who don't know it...prepare for gushing and what will amount to a trailer. Uh...not gonna give the ending away and, yeah, I'm spoilering for a 90 year old film, aware. Thanks.

So, brace yourselves for the film that started the German Expressionistic period and that is STILL the best, up there with M and Metropolis and The Man Who Smiled and I'm gonna be quiet now. Comic Book fans, CONRAD VEIDT! If you get it, marry me!!!

I'm essentially using this as a test to see how much of my attention I can devote to my audience at one time so...polished it might not be. Still, have fun ya'll!

Mark Fryers (Writer, Sound Technician) put our film, Where's Robin? on YouTube so, anyone who's interested, watch it here.

It's a 5 minute short film written by Mark Fryers and directed by Tyson Ibele, produced by Simon Scorey and edited by Seanne (Me!) with Arthur Chan taking the Director of Photography's cap and made for Victoria Universty of Wellington's Film Production class earlier this year.

Interesting fact: our main location (the old hospital) was also used by Peter Jackson in The Lovely Bones.

I've been putting off reviewing this for a few days, god knows why, but here goes.

OK, District 9, simplish premise: aliens arrived nearly 30 years ago and were moved into a slum in Joburg. The SA government plans to relocate them to District 10 and things go horribly wrong...

The racism parallels are very blatant, especially at the beginning, and the 'abortion' scene is particularly anvilicious. I have no idea why the Nigerians have subtitles unless it is to draw further parallels with the aliens but it's a bit...weird. They're not really needed. Because of the 'in-your-face' racism line the main character is really hard to identify with, to the point where I wasn't cheerng for him but rather on the verge of screaming 'If you don't fix that I'm gonna climb in there and END YOU, you PRICK!' So we're talking redemption rather than heroics, which is a nice change from many action films. The switch between doco and omni-cam is a bit...weird at times as well. And the alien weaponry 'popping' people is incongruously amusing at dramatic moments.

Bad stuff, that is all. It's a fantastic film that has a relatively fresh take on the alien invasion narrative and combines SciFi's 'what-if'ness with social commentary on a scale not really seen since RoboCop. The acting isn't oscar worthy in the same way that the acting in Serenity wasn't, it's not an insult and the actors inhabit their characters well. The story moves along pretty fast for the supposed 3 days it takes but that's forgivable hand-wavy meh.

Christoper Johnson, oh Christopher. The ultimate woobie. He is just utter love. I dare you not to feel sorry for him with the thing in the room with people shooting. It'll make sense when you see it, I swear.

The short version: flaws it has but they are negligible. This is a brilliant movie and pretty much a must see for anyone with spare moment.

So...what's the probability that I could pull off a Zombie Apocalypse video in the style of the Repo! backstories? Huh, huh?

In other news, my GOD mac mouses SUCK!

The first media assignment is done. Remind me to kill myself when I have the time.

The maternal unit is in Christchurch (YES!! *dances*) and I have the house. Unfortunately, the water mains have broken which SUCKS! Because you have to go outside and turn it on and off manually - this is a bitch when one needs to pee at 4am.

Wellingtonians - Gandhi got LEI'D! I have pictures...like I could resist THAT!

Black cigarettes have been procured, this is why Vivian St is occasionally awesome.

Shazz0r, if you're reading, the guy next to me is playing Mafia Wars.

Supposed to be working...la la la la!

Really watching Gargoyles...la la la la!

I FINALLY have the hang of Quartz. It's sending me in a tailspin, I understand what they were trying to do when they designed it and it's brilliant if you know how to use it. It's just the knowing how to use it that's the problem. So I have the basics down now and it's all good and I like that it's made for the finicky stuff...it's just that it's made so that you can't use it unless you already know how and when you add a video or pic it doesn't keep the dimensions so you have to go and find them and input them manually.

Which is a bit daft and Apple all over really.

This is me, saying that not everything Apple sucks. Just their OS.