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schneefinkAfter tomorrow (or today, I guess) it's Easter holidays and I'll have actual free time \o/ Maybe I can even write some emails and and stories and stuff. (Just kidding, I have four papers to write for university...)
I did almost all of my homework this week, didn't go to bed early enough (I never do), not even today even though Fridays are long. But that's okay because Friday evenings are now "watch Doctor Who with friends" evenings! Yet another world in my head, my poor brain.
I was skeptical after the first few episodes, mainly because I could guess everything that happened in "Rose" and the next two were okay, but then there was "Aliens of London" and "World War Three" and I fell in love with all the characters pretty much at once, for some reason. Rose and the Doctor and Jackie and Mickey and Harriet Jones, and I didn't care how cheesy it was anymore.
"Dalek" was tense and gave good Doctor. "The Long Game" was okay, I liked Rose and what's-his-name and the woman who saves the day. "Father's Day" is great, and then "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances"! They do creepy very, very well. Captain Jack Harkness asdfersdfalsidf, he and Rose and the Doctor make such a fantastic team (see also "Boom Town"), I want to read all the stories about their adventures. And an old acquaintance, 'Margaret' was great.
Then "Bad Wolf", which starts out silly and strange and then becomes creepy, apparently typical of Doctor Who. Consequences, again, and Daleks, and the Doctor and Jack saving themselves and then coming to save Rose. "The Parting of the Ways", Jack <3 with his speech and determination and fighting till the end, and the Doctor sending Rose away and in the end choosing to be a coward, and Rose so desperate to go back even though she doesn't actually know how to help him *hugs them all* And he calls her fantastic, awww. I love how much he cares for her (in an almost obsessed way) and she for him.
The solution did seem rather deus ex machina, especially because I can't believe the Doctor wouldn't have thought of it: if merging with the time vortex can save the world - and it doesn't even kill him, though that wouldn't make much difference - why didn't he do that as soon as it became clear how horrible the other choices are? It doesn't make any sense to me. Oh well, TV plot.
Then "The Christmas Invasion" - the 'pilot fish' didn't make much sense either, but I don't care, we got "Harriet Jones, Prime Minister." \o/ I can totally understand her decision in the end: she just experienced that the Doctor isn't always there to save them, she just saw a third of her planet's population almost die, faced down aliens, and the Doctor told the aliens to tell other attackers about Earth. It's a difficult decision, and maybe she chose wrong, but not without reason. I hope her career somehow survives the Doctor's (admittedly very clever) plan and we get to see her again. (No spoilers!)
The Doctor makes an even more ridiculous knight than John Chrichton. Possibly; it would be a close call. That was surprising *g*
And here we saw the flipside of the enormous trust Rose has in the Doctor: when she thinks he's gone she doesn't have any hope and does nothing. She could - and should - have contacted Harriet Jones about the whereabouts of the Doctor, at least she had some minor information, but she did nothing. I hope that'll be addressed.
Then was "New Earth", and I was convinced they'd pick up Jack. They just left him on the destroyed satellite - with good reason, but I thought they'd go back as soon as possible (i.e. after Christmas Invasion) and get him back. How could they just leave him?! I hope there'll be information on that, too. The rest of that episode was okay. (Me and L.: "Biology doesn't work that way!" "Maybe in the future it does!" "It doesn't make any sense." "You were the one who just explained to K. the difference between 'normal logic' and 'Doctor Who logic', remember?")
Favorite quote:
"Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks 'This could be a little more sonic?'"
"What, you've never been bored?"
Sooo many good quotes in that episode - did I mention how much I love Rose and Jack and the Doctor together? I think I did.
I'm procrastinating on going to bed. This is stupid.
I did almost all of my homework this week, didn't go to bed early enough (I never do), not even today even though Fridays are long. But that's okay because Friday evenings are now "watch Doctor Who with friends" evenings! Yet another world in my head, my poor brain.
I was skeptical after the first few episodes, mainly because I could guess everything that happened in "Rose" and the next two were okay, but then there was "Aliens of London" and "World War Three" and I fell in love with all the characters pretty much at once, for some reason. Rose and the Doctor and Jackie and Mickey and Harriet Jones, and I didn't care how cheesy it was anymore.
"Dalek" was tense and gave good Doctor. "The Long Game" was okay, I liked Rose and what's-his-name and the woman who saves the day. "Father's Day" is great, and then "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances"! They do creepy very, very well. Captain Jack Harkness asdfersdfalsidf, he and Rose and the Doctor make such a fantastic team (see also "Boom Town"), I want to read all the stories about their adventures. And an old acquaintance, 'Margaret' was great.
Then "Bad Wolf", which starts out silly and strange and then becomes creepy, apparently typical of Doctor Who. Consequences, again, and Daleks, and the Doctor and Jack saving themselves and then coming to save Rose. "The Parting of the Ways", Jack <3 with his speech and determination and fighting till the end, and the Doctor sending Rose away and in the end choosing to be a coward, and Rose so desperate to go back even though she doesn't actually know how to help him *hugs them all* And he calls her fantastic, awww. I love how much he cares for her (in an almost obsessed way) and she for him.
The solution did seem rather deus ex machina, especially because I can't believe the Doctor wouldn't have thought of it: if merging with the time vortex can save the world - and it doesn't even kill him, though that wouldn't make much difference - why didn't he do that as soon as it became clear how horrible the other choices are? It doesn't make any sense to me. Oh well, TV plot.
Then "The Christmas Invasion" - the 'pilot fish' didn't make much sense either, but I don't care, we got "Harriet Jones, Prime Minister." \o/ I can totally understand her decision in the end: she just experienced that the Doctor isn't always there to save them, she just saw a third of her planet's population almost die, faced down aliens, and the Doctor told the aliens to tell other attackers about Earth. It's a difficult decision, and maybe she chose wrong, but not without reason. I hope her career somehow survives the Doctor's (admittedly very clever) plan and we get to see her again. (No spoilers!)
The Doctor makes an even more ridiculous knight than John Chrichton. Possibly; it would be a close call. That was surprising *g*
And here we saw the flipside of the enormous trust Rose has in the Doctor: when she thinks he's gone she doesn't have any hope and does nothing. She could - and should - have contacted Harriet Jones about the whereabouts of the Doctor, at least she had some minor information, but she did nothing. I hope that'll be addressed.
Then was "New Earth", and I was convinced they'd pick up Jack. They just left him on the destroyed satellite - with good reason, but I thought they'd go back as soon as possible (i.e. after Christmas Invasion) and get him back. How could they just leave him?! I hope there'll be information on that, too. The rest of that episode was okay. (Me and L.: "Biology doesn't work that way!" "Maybe in the future it does!" "It doesn't make any sense." "You were the one who just explained to K. the difference between 'normal logic' and 'Doctor Who logic', remember?")
Favorite quote:
"Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks 'This could be a little more sonic?'"
"What, you've never been bored?"
Sooo many good quotes in that episode - did I mention how much I love Rose and Jack and the Doctor together? I think I did.
I'm procrastinating on going to bed. This is stupid.
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Date: 2012-03-30 05:01 pm (UTC)but i did think the end with leaving Jack behind was weird. And I certainly like Nine, just not as much as I like Ten (let alone Eleven) In the true spirit of Who, I watched the seasons backward, starting with season 5.
Anyhoo, glad another fan is being born :)
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Date: 2012-03-31 02:14 pm (UTC)L. promised me that leaving Jack behind would be explained, but he didn't say when, and no spoilers. *waits impatiently*
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Date: 2012-03-31 03:05 pm (UTC)We can debate companions when you've caught up :)
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Date: 2012-03-31 03:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-30 06:15 pm (UTC)You have been converted! My evil plan was successful!
(Glad you enjoyed the show. Now, go to bed.)
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Date: 2012-03-31 02:36 pm (UTC)Party! Evil plans seem much less evil if there's a party. Now you know why I'm behind on replying to you, sorry about that. (The timeline for Parker's story is much more convoluted than I thought ^^)
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Date: 2012-03-31 08:02 pm (UTC)Hold that thought, you'll need it.
I still have the flowchart somewhere, or I could make a new one if you wanted me to. (Well, yes, that would be the point of time-travel, convoluting things.)
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Date: 2012-04-01 09:50 pm (UTC)I still have that flowchart you sent me, thanks. The time travel seems less convoluted than the a!team and their con...
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Date: 2012-04-04 07:15 pm (UTC)I've never watched The Sarah Jane Adventures, is it any good?
Ever since we strated plotting this out I have gained great respect for the writers of Leverage, because how do they do it, seriously?
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Date: 2012-04-05 01:45 am (UTC)I just finished the first season of The Sarah Jane Adventures and I enjoyed it very much. You might not like it if you don't like children as characters at all or if you prefer darker and serious SF.
Well, if it was easy, writers wouldn't get paid much. ;-)
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Date: 2012-04-06 04:24 pm (UTC)True. Btw have you listened to the Leverage 10 podcast (http://weprovideleverage.podbean.com/)? It's made the people who make Leverage.
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Date: 2012-04-06 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-06 05:16 pm (UTC)