The inability to separate character from actor happens with people who attend stage plays, too. I've had friends who are actively avoided or booed at in public situations after they've played a particularly nasty character. I think it's the fact that an emotional response gets triggered, and seeing the actor in a different setting can still recall that response. Of course, acting on the response is what separates the fidiots from the normal people.

On rewatch of Dr. Who's Blink, I still don't get exactly how the weeping angels will stay frozen forever, but I don't really mind. The drama held up very well, and it was nice not to be so scared.

Of course, acting on the response is what separates the fidiots from the normal people.

This, exactly.

I know I've sais this before, but after I saw Martin Sheen as a pedophile in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane when I was about eleven, I've had a very hard time watching him in anything else, because he really creeped me out.

If I saw him on the street, though? Not a word. If I was introduced? I would politely shake his hand. I'm sure he's a perfectly nice person.

I just don't get how that disconnect -- the acting on it part -- happens more than, like, once in a blue moon.

ita, it doesn't work if someone moves a single one of them, but if you look at the orientation, each statue is being looked at by another statue (sometimes more than one). Because they are being looked at, they remain stone, and because they remain stone, they can't move out of a line of sight. You have to accept that their stony glares count as stone-inducing glares, but that was already set up when the Doctor explained the "weeping" pose.

PC, shouldn't turning the light off accomplish the same thing, though? And it will happen.

Dr. Who: Maybe the statues have really good night vision?

Well, they did opt to turn out lights in their final attack, so perhaps. But the same thing goes for a couple of drop cloths. Lalala! Doesn't matter. Lovely ep.

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Things aren't looking very bright for The Dresden Files:

The network was supposed to decide last week whether or not to give "The Dresden Files" a second season, and as time wears on, things are looking a little bleak for the show.

"SciFi mostly responds to their own internal marketing studies, several of which they've already done on the show," executive producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe told fans on author Jim Butcher's official Web site. "Their research hasn't said what we've been hoping for, unfortunately."

Does Sci-Fi make sure to actually talk to sci-fi fans? It seems like an obvious question, but judging from their programming decisions...