My Dossier: Very dangerous. Do not handle at all.

Right now, I'm scheduled to be on the following panels:

Torchwood 3

The polarizing effect of Gwen Cooper-Williams

Primeval: where Spy will be asking if ITV has been taken over by suit-wearing monkeys. (My own subtitle)

I may or may not be on the following panels:

The myth of Fandom tolerance (not sure what's happening there, but I'll probably be on this one, but don't want to say for sure, until I get confirmation).

Donna Noble: Still made of awesome (I have a feeling this one may be my fault I'm not on it, if I'm not.)

Either way, whether I'm on five panels or 3, it doesn't really matter. The announcement that Torchwood should be airing the week of July 4th means that my goal of making it the BEST!ATTENDED!POLARIS!PANEL!EVER! is actually a possibility.

Top five reasons I'm looking forward to Polaris this year.

bubbleslayer & seanchaidh. I'll even be on panels with them (and enkanowen )! (I am still trying to convince elysium1996 & Mr. Ely to come north of the border! I'm also hoping takhys might come and bring along lokabrenna -- as there are art contests, lokabrenna!) I am planning to drag everyone to the video room to throw popcorn, randomly at nexstarman , because that would amuse me, as long as
indefatigable42 was in on the plan. My BFF, travellingone will also be there but she'll probably be a lot like snuffalupagus: almost impossible to find, while others insist she just went that way, talking on the headset! bubbleslayer, seanchaidh and myself may need to devise a plan, probably involving mojitos, to kidnap her. (If you're going to Polaris and I haven't mentioned you, remind me so that I can squee appropriately.)

The opening ceremonies: I wrote them and got at least one of my dream casting. I also got to vet the announcers and will be looking for sound. When I post a "where do I find this sound effect" post, I hope people can help!

The Primeval Panel: I expect people to bring their own trees to climb, and stay there, indefinitely. I will also have the 2 foot stuffed dino with me from the opening ceremonies (and no, you don't get to find out what that 2 foot dino is for!)

The Torchwood Panel: see my BEST!ATTENDED!POLARIS!PANEL!EVER! plan.

The Contests: After coming second in the really, really, short writing contest last year (one recipe card in size) I'm inspired to do another one.

I've created a blog to continue recapping all my favourite shows, (http://theoriginalspy.blogspot.com) so come and say hi! I need a banner to go across the top encompassing elements from all the shows - Doctor Who, Torchwood, Primeval, and of  course, Numb3rs. It also needs to feature coffee at some point and I would love for it to have the words "I, Spy" in it (that's the name of the blog)

Thanks!

Let me show you it!

Yay for picking a relative unknown for 11!  I'll be happy not having any preconceived notions.

All right, Doctor Who people, if you're buttering us up for the big surprise that David Morrissey is 11, then you're failing.  First of all, if he is 11, then it's the most telegraphed more, ever.  Seriously, releasing statements from Tennant saying that he supports Morrissey for 11, thenhell, the title of the Christmas special -- you're receiving one epic fail if he truly is "The Next Doctor."  It'll actually be a let down if this is the case.

PS:  I'm still supporting Jack Davenport for 11.  We've had the Doctor who says so little but it's all valuable.  We've had the Doctor who says everything in an attempt to say nothing of meaning -- except it slips out anyway.  Now is the time for practically spastic Doctor, who (pun not intended) is truly alone again and not entirely cool with it.

Since all of my shows are currently taking a break, I'm going to pimp a few of the shows recapped by Recapist that I think are worth the read.  I'm only pimping recaps I've actually read -- but Recapist has a ton of shows to offer.

Of course, I recap Doctor Who, Numb3rs, Primeval and Torchwood (including the radio play!).  If you haven't read them yet, give them a try.  (I will be recapping Dollhouse whenever that filming train wreck makes it into the station.  I hope it'll live up to the hype.) Heck, someone from a site bigger than ours thought the Torchwood recaps were worth trying to plagiarize so I must be doing something right.  Random point: I do have a thing for British Sci-Fi, don't I?  Unfortunately, the icon of awesome that is Sarah Jane Smith, intimidates me too much to take on her part of the Whoniverse.

My BFF, travellingone , who once covered for me with Torchwood, only to find herself enmeshed in the plagiarism issue when the same unnamed site tried to copy her recap, (and she once stole my voice another of my recaps for Doctor Who --  "Midnight") covers Life on Mars (US).  If you've not seen this little show, after a bumpy start, it's actually turning out quite nicely.  Unfortunately, there are big shoes and skinny pants for it to fill when it comes to the UK counterpart.  You can catch up on the show thus far by reading the recaps.  (Plus, she let me play in her sandbox and cover an episode while she was in Paris.)

anniemoon , aka Annie, my former boss at Fandom Talk and lovely all-round person who gave me my first chance at recapping, covers CSI. She's another one who is so good, people literally copy and paste her recaps elsewhere.  (They shouldn't do that, and the foot of Buzznet will come down on their heads.)  She also recaps So You Think You Can Dance, and I'm highly disappointed she didn't cover the Canadian version of it.  She would've had a blast with Nico's fauxhawk.

Ran Cansley recaps her beloved Friday Night Lights.  If you don't know about her love for that show, you haven't even heard of Ran Cansley.   She also covers Survivor and has way more patience for those who inflict themselves with starvation, looking like an idiot and flashing the continent while no one notices (initially), than I ever could.   I haven't watched the show in four years, but I love the recaps.

Gemma is our wittle baby recapper and she's totally taken over Supernatural.  She snarks way beyond her years.  She also covers The Mentalist, and I make a point to stop by her recaps every week.  She and I share a love of Patrick Jane and all his perfect hair goodness.  Gemma's also just started Leverage.  It's a new show (and set of recaps) that needs pimping.

Nova A covers Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and she shares the same frustration with the bloody ellipsis that I do.  I mean a literal bloody ellipsis.

Jane St. Clair has an unfortunate habit of recapping great shows that get cancelled.  Case in point: Pushing Daisies.  The only show not currently suffering this trend is Chuck.  My relief when she took over this show was palpable.  I love me my Chuck Bartowski and the Nerd Herd.

BTW, did you know you can become a fan of The Recapist on Facebook?  Seriously, go become a fan if you like the snark.

Here's a challenge to my F-list: link to a set of recaps on your journal you think people should go and check out.  It can be a show listed here, or something completely different.  Holidays are coming and we all need some laughs to get through the craziness.  Let your F-lists know where the funny is.

Take a look on what the lead story is on Recapist's TV update.

Feel free to go express your devastation.

Definitely should be the title of the story of me writing this recap, not just the episode title. 

Geez, after losing half of the written recap, my computer dying (bad new harddrive) and an extra-long episode, I'm tired.

On the other hand, the recap is up.

After five days of being down, Recapist is finally back up!  This means that people can finally read the recap for "Midnight!"

In my defense, the recap was up on Friday after the airing, just the site was down.  The "Turn Left" recap should be up just after it airs on Friday too, barring any other problems with the site.

Being the good panelist I am, I'm not just rereading my own recaps.  No, I am watching season three, with the commentaries. 

What I've learned is that David Tennant should do commentaries on everything, even if he isn't in it.  I'm constantly laughing at inappropriate moments in the episode.  I think these actually beat the Torchwood Season 1 commentaries and I didn't think that was possible.

Does it still make an impact.

I love doing the Doctor Who recaps, but I get the least amount of feedback on them.  It's sort of depressing.

I'm sorry, fandom.  I tried loving Martha, but the writers kept playing silly-buggers with her character  (though more obviously done to the character of Gwen from Torchwood, Martha is still a victim of it) but it just wasn't possible.

I did though, love her on Torchwood.  Weird, isn't it?