{"id":9534,"date":"2006-06-13T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T14:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/06\/13\/doctors-dungeons-and-dragons.html"},"modified":"2006-06-13T07:30:56","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T14:30:56","slug":"doctors_dungeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/13\/doctors_dungeon.html","title":{"rendered":"Doctors, Dungeons and Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watched the series (“season” in American) finale of Doctor Who<\/a><\/em>, featuring the farewell of Christopher Eccleston and arrival of David Tennant as the Doctor.<\/p>\n

Bittersweet, as a big, suitably epic climactic episode, revealing some, though not all, of the machinations that have gone on this series, complete with sacrifice and heroism and death and destruction and redemption and …<\/p>\n

Well, great stuff. <\/p>\n

The only problem I had with the series was that, with a limited number of episodes (what was it, 13?), and some of those being two-parters or direct plot links to previous eps, it all felt like it built to a climax too quickly, too straightforwardly. A big plot that lasts too little a time becomes cheapened by so doing. That said, the idea of shorter stories but an overarching arc, worked well.<\/p>\n

As to the change, I will seriously miss Eccleston. But my biggest question now is, when does Series 2 start airing here in the States?<\/p>\n

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On the other hand, I hope folks will forgive me for getting Katherine hooked on the Dungeons & Dragons<\/a> <\/em>cartoon. <\/p>\n

Running in the evil that was the 1980s cartoon era, D&D<\/em> was goofy, stupid, and a horrible waste of time, but I was riveted to it because, well, it was a fantasy cartoon, and it involved D&D. So what if I was a college grad? So what if the powers were stupid (and never ever ever <\/em>used offensively, to hurt someone)? So what if the episodes were hackneyed and the few bits of “arc” were cliched even then? It was a fantasy cartoon about D&D<\/em>, fergoshsakes. I’d have watched something five times worse (and probably did).<\/p>\n

Anyway, I spotted it in the DVR menu while looking for something else, and I started recording it on a whim. And Katherine just loves <\/em>it. Go figure.<\/p>\n

Mark Evanier, one of the series “developers,” has some fine creator insights<\/a> into the show (including why the team had that PitA Eric along with them). And then there’s the rumored “Final Episode” of the series<\/a>, written by show scriptwriter Michael Reeves, but never actually produced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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