more DT

On Friday i managed to not watch any David Tennant until 9 p.m. or later; this is partially because i went snowboarding and to a baby shower, but still!  Thursday night i watched Einstein and Eddington:  it was weird to think of a Quaker as gay, let alone DT.  Both title roles were superbly acted (probably the most normal role i've ever seen Serkis--best known as Gollum--play, to be honest).  As it turns out, Eddington was actually gay from what i have been able to discover.  Sexuality aside, i was very happy with their depiction of Eddington as a man that combined his faith with science (Newton was also similar in his beliefs).  i did not like that Einstein was having an affair (i wouldn't have taken her back, either), but of course that's a matter of history.  Overall, this movie was excellent.

Other viewing over the past few days:

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Absolutely horrible:  DT plays a crazy artist (and i don't mean that in a good way).  The entire show wasn't really working for me, poor plot, poor humor, and more than a little disturbing.

People Like Us
Absolutely hilarious!  The narrator, of course, was the funniest part, but DT is in this a great deal as he's the main person the mockumentary was being made about.

two Friday Night Project appearances
So, uh, i guess DT is not afraid to kiss other men.  i'm so envious of the girl that got to run her hands through his hair!  i'm not really impressed with this show because it's very lewd.

Foyle's War
He's hardly in this, and i was actually a bit bored at first (which is disappointing, as i've heard this show is good), but that's not to say that he isn't good in the role.  See, Theo is another pacifist during the war (sound familliar?) but he's really mad because his fellow pacifist friend committed suicide after being denied the right to not fight in the war and being abused by the police.  This is the earliest example i have seen to date of his bitter anger (that can be seen in Doctor Who), but this anger doesn't seem as righteous, he's struggling with a murderous rage that goes against what he believes in, and it's kind of scary but not in the way that he has been in other films.  idk, he didn't have a lot to work with, but of course he nails it, in fact i feel he's more convincing at this than he was in Secret Smile, which somehow wasn't quite working for me.  i think he was holding back too much in that, actually.  Anyways, by the end of the show, he decides to go into the military because he realizes that he wanted to murder in revenge, but that isn't who he wants to be, but he knows now that he is capable of killing.  He doesn't believe that war is the best option, but that at least fighting in war would be fighting for the right things.  The good news is, he didn't commit the crime!  Sophia Myles is also in this, she's excellent.

Labour Party ad
DT is hardly in it (there's a flash of Patrick Stewart near the end as well).  i was surprised by some of the things said in the ad, and looked up some more info on Wikipedia, only to discover that Tony Blair is a member of the Labour Party.  Margaret Thatcher was part of the Conservative party, but both parties seem to be fairly centrist and some of the issues that would be considered to be conservative here in the U.S. are supported by Labour and some of the things considered to be liberal here are supported by the Tories (as the Conservative party members are sometimes called apparently).  So just because i was raised conservative does not guarantee that i would choose to vote Conservative were i a citizen of the UK.  i also discovered that Labour is not all that socialist anymore, that there's a third party for that, but even they seem more centrist than the U.S.'s Democratic party seems to be at the moment.  Of course i'm no expert, but it was eye opening.

Personally, my policy is to vote for the person who runs a fair campaign and believes most similarly to the way i do (from what i can determine), regardless of their party affiliation.  For example, about eight years ago a Republican candidate was running a dirty campaign here in CO, which she freely admitted, but she was willing to do anything to win and pay the fines later on.  i would have voted for her opponent had i been in her district, and he was a catholic that sounded slightly more conservative than most Democrats.  As it was, i live in another district and voted for Josh Penry, but him and his opponent had both agreed to run a clean race, and did so.  Buscher (the Democrat that won over the dirty Republican) didn't turn out to be as centrist as he sounded, either.  Anyways, enough with the politics, and let's just suffice to say that if i ever have to vote in the UK i'll have a lot of research to do just to figure out who believes in what!