I got the ticket!

I posted this on my LJ on the 15th. Still not quite up with the cross-posting thing yet, and I'm generally more comfortable posting on LJ anyway. I'll it out one day.

Frankenstein. I saw Jonny Lee Miller's everything, which was unexpected because I haven't been reading reviews. I saw a bit of Benedict Cumberbatch's chest.

I am really tempted to do it again on a day when Cumberbatch plays the Monster and Miller plays Frenkenstein, and not to see Cumberbatch naked, but rather because Miller's Monster was so wild, and I have never seen Cumberbatch do anything that was not straight-laced and controlled. (Frankenstein only broke once or twice, and he recovered pretty quickly, all things considered. I want to see how Cumberbatch interprets some of the scenes. I imagine his would be really dark.)

The one thing that really bothered me, even though I didn't realize it until later, is that Elizabeth was fridged. Literally, she was killed by the Monster to torture Frankenstein, and even her own merit couldn't save her. I know this predates the term, and it fits the narrative well, but was she raped in the original? I'm pretty sure she wasn't, and then that whole bit was unnecessary. Although well done, I'll give them that.

ANYWAY. I'm incredibly busy this weekend doing things I was supposed to do this week, and then I'm going to Cardiff on Sunday!!! DOCTOR WHO TOUR AND MEETING fiwen1010 IN ONE DAY. THE WORLD CANNOT HANDLE SUCH AWESOMENESS.

So fair warning, I have no idea what my 'net access will be like for a while. In-and-out, I assume.

Cardiff is still awesome.

Ha! I'm posting first, I think! Of course, fiwen1010 might be too busy luxuriating in her hotel room to bother with posting. IN WHICH CASE I HOPE SHE IS HAVING A GOOD TIME.

Anyway, like the crazy person I have become these past few days, I hopped the first bus this morning to Cardiff, where I met fiwen1010 at the bus station. (She had to find me because she wasn't wearing her coat. In all fairness, it was a gorgeous, hot day.) Then we went to Cardiff Castle to meet the Doctor Who tour.

I'm going to be fair, and say that while it was pretty good, and I did see a bunch of things I wouldn't have noticed before (I've been to Llandaff Cathedral, but I didn't know it was a filming site) and I saw a handful of places I might not have seen...it wasn't mind-blowingly amazing. The crowd definitely knew plenty of Who on their own. Highlight being the girl that rattled off a scene from "The Eleventh Hour" by heart. (Also, there were a lot of Americans. Not that I can talk, I guess, but I was surprised.)

The best part was meeting other fans. Because when you tell non-fans that you do this sort of thing, they think you are crazy. Other fans just squee along with you. And even though they weren't all necessarily involved in fandom in the same way as I am, it was still pretty awesome. We all went to a pub afterward with one of the tour guides and chatted for a while, and then he took us on a last whirlwind walk to a bunch of filming locations we didn't see in the tour, and he ended it right by the bus station so I could run back to my bus, for another 3+ hour ride.

CRAZY DAY. TOTALLY WORTH IT.

I have also learned that I just need to move to Cardiff. John Barrowman, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill and other assorted Doctor Who/Torchwood people are known to just wander the streets, like the normal people they are. It's like living in LA, I guess, but so much better.

OH AND I FOUND OUT I'VE BEEN PRONOUNCING RHIANNON WRONG. I GIVE UP ON THIS PRONUNCIATION THING. FROM NOW ON I WILL COMMUNICATE IN MIME, ELABORATE SIGNAGE AND TEXT MESSAGES.