Another reason to love David Tennant

[kalleah]

I am belatedly watching the Confidential that David directed, and I just had a tremendous moment of squee.  (Okay.  It wasn't actually the only moment of squee, but it's an important one.)

In discussing scary/thrilling monsters in Who history, David said he hadn't really been scared, except for one part in The Deadly Assassin, where the Doctor clears away some sand to reveal ... an evil laughing clown!  David said he was properly scared at that bit.

God bless the man.  He's certainly got the right impressions of clowns, those sneaky bastards.

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[hergrace.livejournal.com]

*eep* Clowns!? *urge to run away*

Yes, he's certainly not alone. I find clowns to be incredibly creepy. And that one in "Deadly Assassin" nearly did me in. Of course, the whole dream-feel of that sequence was totally unnerving.

Which reminds me -- love ur icon.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

airelin made it for me upon request. Hee.

Clowns are way creepy. ::shudders::

[http://users.livejournal.com/riddler_/]

The clown is also on the Blink homepage. http://th-esaurus.livejournal.com/561169.html

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

AAHHHH! That's creepy. Heh.

[karenor.livejournal.com]

i could NOT figure out why there was a creepy clown on the Blink homepage! Is it meant to be the clown from the classic ep, then?

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

OMG, that is so not funny. It's one thing to blatantly have creepy clowns around and another one to subconsciously sneak them in. ::shudders::

[starlightmoonla.livejournal.com]

Clowns are indeed scary! *shivers*

I haven't seen the Deadly Assassin episode so it may be something to check out. My first clown is scary moment on TV came from one of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes where the characters were living their worst nightmare. Of course the second moment, that I remembered was during Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban movie when the students are trying to eliminate a Boggart.

Yeah, tv reinforces the idea that clowns are scary.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

... that's because CLOWNS ARE SCARY.

[sensiblecat.livejournal.com]

I loved the Blue Peter bit. There was some technician's strike, and Blue Peter had to broadcast from the DW set. His dad called him downstairs and he was very upset to find it wasn't an extra episode of Doctor Who.

Can't you just see him with his quivering upper lip and puppy dog eyes?

[jvgymnast.livejournal.com]

I think that one was Moffat's story, wasn't it? Still cute, though.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

Can't you just see him with his quivering upper lip and puppy dog eyes?

That was Moffat, but David probably had the same reaction. He probably got his own way a lot as a wee tyke.

[hydref.livejournal.com]

I remember that episdoe of Blue Peter, how old am I!

Clowns have always creeped me out, so I had to laugh and sympathise with DT on that. My worst childhood party nightmare was a clown making balloon animals - I hate the noise balloons make when they're rubbed together *shudders at the memory*

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

My worst childhood party nightmare was a clown making balloon animals

Mine? We went to the circus and my poor, misguided parents (thinking they were arranging for a treat for small me) finagled the clown into taking me for a ride around the ring in his tiny clown car. ::shudders::

I was trapped in a small car with a clown. There's two phobias explained for you right there.

[gentle-blessing.livejournal.com]

I have a fear of clowns from the movie It. Being older now and knowing that Tim Curry played the clown has lessened the fear of the movie version(because I just imagine Pennywise in fishnets and high heels and can't stop giggling)but I'm not too proud to run screaming if the creepy, smiley bastards get too close.

DT is *SO* not alone on that one. *shudder*

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

Considering how much I actually like Tim Curry, especially when he's in fishnets and killer heels, Pennywise just doesn't seem that scary any more.

See, that doesn't work for me, unfortunately, because I read the book first. I had a mental image of Pennywise long before I saw Tim Curry.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

NEver again will clowns creep me out- because the image is now forever BRANDED in my mind's eye...
Clown... In Fishnets, high heels- and a corset.
BWAHAHAHAAAAA!!!

[gentle-blessing.livejournal.com]

I aim to make the masses giggle with clown-fishnet-fetishy...er...well, I wouldn't call that goodness, exactly.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of friends who don't get the whole aversion to clowns and kid me about being freaked out by Stephen King. All I have to say: he based Pennywise on a true story, I'm sure. :)

[littlezink.livejournal.com]

I am scarred for life by Stephen King's It. *shudders*

[theyellow-daisy.livejournal.com]

David was SO squee worthy during the whole confidential. He's such a fan boy and it was so much fun watching him for 45 minutes geek out. Not to mention when he was in the restaurant with RTD in Cardiff, he looked delicious!

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

David was SO squee worthy during the whole confidential.

He just looked so happy through the whole thing. It's always good to see someone doing something that they obviously love.

[platypus]

The Deadly Assassin scared the crap out of me when I was a kid, and I don't even remember the clown moment. Hell, that freaked me out just from the Confidential clip. The other bit that really scared me as a kid was the evil plastic household objects in one of the Auton episodes. PLASTIC FLOWERS KILL.

The OGers were talking about a moment in the Confidential where David said he'd "miss" the show -- I was listening for it and never heard him say such a thing. (And, honestly, if he were leaving, that's not how you'd find out about it; if he did say it, I'm sure he meant it in a more general sense.)

I was too distracted by the amazing changing sideburns and occasional glimpse of chest hair to retain much, though.

[gentle-blessing.livejournal.com]

That button up shirt was almost too much to resist when they were sitting in the grass. *melt*

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

OK, the blue button up (especially with the grass right there) reminded me of him as Brendan Block in Secret Smile, so there was a teeny bit of creepy there. Not that it's a bad thing.

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

I was too distracted by the amazing changing sideburns and occasional glimpse of chest hair to retain much, though.

This Confidential was good to us, wasn't it? So much pretty.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

My scariest childhood television moment? It's an odd one. January Q. Irontail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Q._Irontail) in the stop-motion Here Comes Peter Cottontail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_Peter_Cottontail). My dad still kids me about running out of the room every time Irontail made an appearance, and I'm 32 now.

I was too distracted by the amazing changing sideburns and occasional glimpse of chest hair to retain much, though.

He is distracting, isn't he?

[sideways.livejournal.com]

Indeed. *shivers* Hate clowns.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

Clowns are just not right. There's something entirely sneaky about them.

[wasanifu.livejournal.com]

If they ever incorporate evil clowns (again?) I will die. Oh, Imagine Blink but with clowns. Crap, just scared myself for the night now.

I miss the confindentials and can't download. No Tennanty goodness for me. Darn being a teenage wage slave, 20 hours in two days is practicaly slave labour.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

Oh, Imagine Blink but with clowns.

::hides under bed::

Do I have to???

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

What a little muffin he is.

That's going in my list of favorite phrases, right along with the one I'm currently hung up on, "dumb as a bag of hammers." (I am not in any way directing that expression at anyone in particular, but isn't it just so expressive? Hee.)

Anyway, yes, love David. He just seems like such a nice guy. The fact that he's ridiculously sexy is cake.