Didn't see this thread so I assume it's new (there might be one in the SF/F section, but this is for Doctor Who):
Once again, Doctor Who dominates the Dramatic Presentation - Short Form category in this year's Hugo nominations.
To absolutely no one's surprise, Neil Gaiman's The Doctor's Wife has been nominated. It has competition from Tom McRae's The Girl Who Waited and Steven Moffat's A Good Man Goes to War. Love all three episodes, but I personally think they might as well give Gaiman the Hugo now and save the wait till the fall (though that said I would not be upset to see th brilliant Girl Who Waited get the award.
Unfortunately, whoever sets the nominations for the Hugos still hasn't learned the lesson from the embarrassment of awarding a Hugo for this category to a gag acceptance speech "Gollum" made during the MTV Movie Awards back in 01 or 02. Because they've not only nominated an acceptance speech again, but they've nominated one from LAST YEAR'S HUGOS (I didn't even know the show was ever televised). Sigh. They want the awards taken seriously and then they pull s*it like that. (It's for something called The Drink Tank. You got me.) Rounding out the nominations is, for some reason, an episode of Community. I don't know that show - is it actually sci-fi? I thought it was just a quirky sitcom a la Arrested Development. If they're going to start nominating sitcoms then where's The Big Bang Theory? That said, I remember how the Saturn Awards decreed that the original CSI series was science fiction so who knows what qualifies as SF/F these days. If you'll check the list, you'll see the Hugo nominators played a fast one and made Game of Thrones a Long Form nomination rather than trying to shoehorn single episodes into the Short Form category (surprised they didn't think of doing that with nuBSG).
Oh well. it's not a big deal because presumably DW will take it, except the danger exists of a split vote (which I believe is why Gollum won), especially with 3 strong nominations from one show. Please god, if a split vote happens, at least let Community get it rather than some bulls*it nomination for an acceptance speech...
http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2012-hugo-awards/
Alex
Once again, Doctor Who dominates the Dramatic Presentation - Short Form category in this year's Hugo nominations.
To absolutely no one's surprise, Neil Gaiman's The Doctor's Wife has been nominated. It has competition from Tom McRae's The Girl Who Waited and Steven Moffat's A Good Man Goes to War. Love all three episodes, but I personally think they might as well give Gaiman the Hugo now and save the wait till the fall (though that said I would not be upset to see th brilliant Girl Who Waited get the award.
Unfortunately, whoever sets the nominations for the Hugos still hasn't learned the lesson from the embarrassment of awarding a Hugo for this category to a gag acceptance speech "Gollum" made during the MTV Movie Awards back in 01 or 02. Because they've not only nominated an acceptance speech again, but they've nominated one from LAST YEAR'S HUGOS (I didn't even know the show was ever televised). Sigh. They want the awards taken seriously and then they pull s*it like that. (It's for something called The Drink Tank. You got me.) Rounding out the nominations is, for some reason, an episode of Community. I don't know that show - is it actually sci-fi? I thought it was just a quirky sitcom a la Arrested Development. If they're going to start nominating sitcoms then where's The Big Bang Theory? That said, I remember how the Saturn Awards decreed that the original CSI series was science fiction so who knows what qualifies as SF/F these days. If you'll check the list, you'll see the Hugo nominators played a fast one and made Game of Thrones a Long Form nomination rather than trying to shoehorn single episodes into the Short Form category (surprised they didn't think of doing that with nuBSG).
Oh well. it's not a big deal because presumably DW will take it, except the danger exists of a split vote (which I believe is why Gollum won), especially with 3 strong nominations from one show. Please god, if a split vote happens, at least let Community get it rather than some bulls*it nomination for an acceptance speech...
http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2012-hugo-awards/
Alex
