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Those of you on the barrowmanonline yahell pit o' voles and fail list:

George announced that ADWD was going to be aired on BBC America.

I replied to the list with what I thought was a reasonable discussion topic - ie, what kind of audience they'd think they'd be getting aside from the JB obsessed, since you don't have the personal investment of following it each week and ringing for your favourite - because the competition aired nearly two years ago, the result is done and dusted, and everyone knows Lee won. I've never heard of them re-running pop idol...

George has just emailed me off-list :

( my original response )
And like I said, George emailed me back off-list with this :
( George's response )

Cue me facepalming and replying :

um, yes, that was what I was asking of the list - who they thought would be watching it. i was interested in what the list thought because I've never heard of tv channels re-running the 'vote for your favourite' pop-idol type shows. America's next top model, yes, where the public has no vote, but not the ones where the viewers voted.

....Missing the point much? Considering the list was discussing it to hell and back when it aired....

Understand that we completely blame cidercupcakes for the weather this weekend. Went Borough Market on the saturday morning, where the weather was cool but outlook looked good. Jules arrives at Paddington at 2:45. Weather turns progressively colder and rainier from then on, getting colder and rainier throughout weekend.

Saturday : Camden Market (where I had to be restrained from pretty sundresses, which I do not need, and pouted immensely that the small was the last one of the one I really liked - and of course had to be one of the ones only available in a particular shop rather'n throughout the market) and then making Jules watch Captain Jack Harkness and the first ep of Robin Hood, which I spent mostly apologising for all the terrible quirks of the first ep. Dr Who was simply, ridiculously awesome and Jules wailed at the universe, asking why she did not have any Martha icons. This was rectified whilst she tolerated my addiction to ADWD. In conclusion : Lee is awesome, got to duet with Josh Groban while the other boys went utterly green when he was picked (and also drowning the others out in the group songs), Lewis has improved, and though I love you to pieces, Craig, you're not on the calibre of the others. :hugs: Jules laughed immensely over how weepy the boys are, especially when I was watching the post-exit interviews of Daniel... and my god, the amount that lad talks about Lewis and how much he loves him... Daniel, I'm trying not to slash you. Please don't *do* that. Every other word is 'Lewis'. Further notes, Andrew, when you say in your post-show interviews and other comments that it's very difficult to choose out of the surviving four and that you just don't know who's going to win, you do know everyone's raising the eyebrow of disbelief at you, right?

Sunday : Both of us gradually hauled ourselves out of bed due to colds and headaches and grottiness. Eventually got out of flat and went British Museum to see The New World, which was based on all the watercolours done by John White, who was the artist for one of the first expeditions to the US by the English. (with added shock horror that these actually focused on the anthropological side - trying to get as much detail about cultural stuff as possible into the pictures and clearly portraying individuals - these all formed the basis for a *lot* of the later woodcuts and so on.)

After this, there was more Robin Hood. See Jules go starry-eyed and fall completely head over heels for Djaq and Marion and agree with me that it is awesome to have one of the main fan OTPs actually be an OT3, and that I'm terribly proud of my fandom for not having ship wars over the fact that when it was revealed that two of the boys in one of the main slash pairings liked the new girl. Instead, it went 'OT3, everyone agreed?'. Then Pizza Express.

Monday : Contemplated PotC. Looked at weather, looked at prices. Went 'blegh' and watched more Robin Hood. Explosions, Djaq, and teh gay did terrible things to Jules. :snicker: And then I further exploded her brain by taking her to see Spamalot. Jules did indeed parrot the entirety of the swallow/coconut scene. And it's frankly awesome when Always Look on the Bright Side started, and the cast is backed up by entire audience singing the song softly with them. We also love Patsy.

When got back, made skirt part of the dress for Dale Arden (the cloth still hasn't arrived at work, so I think there's no chance of Jedi robe. Dammit.) and then started watching the first ep of How do you solve a problem like Maria. Which was kind of fascinating due to me not watching it the first time round. Am with Graham Norton on David Ian coming across as slimeball. Also vaguely intrigued by the little glimpses of Connie you see at the auditions - hadn't yet got to the bit with her callback by the time I went to bed last night, but she was interviewed once by Graham at the regionals about how different the audition process was to normal auditions and she was in the background of a couple of shots. Wonder if she'd have caught my eye the first time round, like Lee did. Kinda fun for seeing the differences in how they were doing things like the school and also the selection - I'm amazed that the panel had to see 200 girls in one day for the callbacks, I thought 100 was bad enough for Joseph. David Ian dominating the callbacks. Every other comment is on how attractive the girl is. :shudders:

Result of weekend : JULES, I WANT REGENCY BUFFY/SHARPE. ALSO REGENCY
SHARPE/MAL. YOU OWE ME FOR MAKING THE WEATHER LIKE THIS.

Saw munchkinott in town yesterday pre-Equus, where squee and walking and the astounding ability of Heather to get lost on a straight road was proven. Fortunately, it turns out that Victoria -> Picadilly is a mostly straight line, so Munchie got to shepherd us through.

Possibly the only down point on that day? My wallet got nicked at some point on the way home (since Pizza Express hasn't got it). Stopped the cards, bloody annoyance that is having to go to the bank with statement to get money out. The main problem is the fact that my drivers' licence and things like blood donor card were in there.

Today, me and jamjar went for a constitutional in sunny, sunny and warm Regents' Park. It's like summer. We appear to have completely bypassed spring (what I define as that period where most people wear t-shirt and jeans without the need for a spare jumper) a wee bit early. Today was hot, in that... hmm. I guess the best way to describe is that it was nice, but wasn't one that you could soundtrack with 'Feelin' Good'. In the park, it really really felt like there should be a festival or concert going on in the distance.

Then we came back, ate baklava (Jen told me she's saving it from possibly going stale) and watched S2 Black Books, giggling our heads off.

Watched Dr Who again. It turns out that Uncle Rusty has indeed regained his writing mojo. Kittens!

Any Dream Will Do - good so far. Will be interesting to see more training and so on, which we'll get to see more of as the amount of time given over to performance goes down. I like Lee and Rob and a couple of the others, not too keen on Keith, and Chris C's voice really wasn't strong enough for theatre. Reckon he's a shoe-in for a pop career, though.