05.17.10
Posted in Fandom-Doctor Who, Fandom-Supernatural, geekry at 9:47 pm by TheShire
I watched the final of Supernatural. I’ve heard they have all signed on for another season, but it felt more like a series finale. I also felt, well cheated. I had high hopes I have to admit, big battle, great angst, but in the end it was another ‘I’m the good son, I don’t question Daddy, you’re the bad child, you destroyed the family’ bullshit. It’s like they realised that keeping that theme going with Dean and Sam wasn’t going to work, so they brought in the angels and made it a Michael and Lucifer deal. I never liked the theme when it was about Dean and Sam and their relationship with their father, I felt it made Sam look terribly hypocritical. And except for the scene when Dean basically ripped Gabriel a new one for being a coward when it came to his family, the whole Lucifer as the spoiled brat was irritating.
I liked the subplot about the Impala. I’m not one for big classic cars, but the Impala has always been beautiful and it did feel like a third character. So I did love the story told in terms of the Impala, although I did feel they could have gone further with it. I absolutely loved the holy-fire-molotov-cocktailing of Michael. But besides those things, I was left feeling blah.
I was one of those that instantly thought god when Chuck vanished. I hope I’m wrong, I hope he wasn’t God all the way along. I love Chuck, with a passion, and the idea that he’s been God all the way along is kind of cool, but it creates so many plot holes, so much has to be swept under the carpet for it to work. The amulet never burned in the presence of Chuck. None of the Angels recognised him as God although I accept that might not be a big issue. But Castiel says the names of all the prophets are seared in his mind, so either Chuck’s name is there and Chuck is a person, or Castiel knew early on there was something about Chuck that wasn’t making sense and just ignored it. I also believe the events in The End were real, another reality but not a faked vision created by Zach, like he did in It’s a Terrible Life. So Chuck sticking around once everything was lost seems a little incongruent if he was really god.
Castiel, oh how they broke my heart with him. I loved his initial defeatism. He’s newly human, pain hurts, he has to eat and sleep, he’s used to being all powerful and suddenly that’s gone. He gets that first glimpse at what it took for Sam and Dean to fight and he fails to measure up to that. I loved him stepping up, attacking Michael even though he knew Lucifer would destroy him. I even loved God rebooted him. I’ve always preferred Angel!Cas to human!Cas but loved them both. I could never buy into the idea that Cas would fall like Anna did. Even in his grief at God’s neglect and rejection he still loved his Father. But for him to return to Earth, to just go back to being God’s muppet. I don’t like it. Castiel spent almost 2 years thinking for himself, challenging archaic rules, and questioning God’s choices. Lucifer goes back in the cage, Michael falls in as well, and God reboots him back to Angel goodness and suddenly he’s on team Angel again. Nah, don’t buy it, and hate that they did it.
And what I hate with even more passion that Castiel God’s Muppet, is Dean the Family Man. It was never Dean’s dream to live the normal life. Lisa and the kid (whose name I can’t remember) were never his true love, his ideal. Yes when he first thought the kid was his, it gave him a glimpse of what he might have missed out on, but there was not enough there to hold his interest. Taking him back to Lisa was a cheap trick. It felt like they put the list of Dean’s past girlfriends in a bag and randomly plucked one out. This ordinary life, wife, kid, job and house, that was Sam’s dream, that was the future Sam wanted, and it was almost like Dean forced himself into doing that for Sam’s benefit. Sam couldn’t get it, so Dean would do it for him. If anything it was Dean’s punishment, not his reward.
Onto Doctor Who.
First, I have to say, I hope Amy sleeps in underwear, because if she doesn’t have knickers on under her nightie then the Doctor got a really good, pervy eyeful when she was out in the gulf of space.
There are things I do love, and in a lot of ways its still my Doctor Who. But that doesn’t stop me being critical, in fact I believe my love for the show gives me the right to be critical. I won’t go back over how damn awful the Dalek episode was. I love how the Doctor calls his companion Pond. In the first episode he hated that she changed her name from Amelia to Amy, so perhaps that’s why, either way, I just think its adorable, and speaks of a connection, the relationship between them. I’ve already written about the things I’ve come to like in general, and I am thinking of doing reviews for the episodes screen on NZ tv (so I don’t spoil anyone).
But the main reason for this rant. I hate the sledgehammer approach that’s coming with this series. Now Russell wasn’t someone I thought of as subtle, but damn compared with Steven he was downright cryptic.
In the first season ‘Bad Wolf’ was so damn subtle and inconsequential for a long time. I heard RTD say that even in the beginning he had no idea what it meant anyway, and it wasn’t meant to be a huge deal, just a little nod to fans who get obsessed by those sort of things. Spotting ‘Bad Wolf’ became almost a game amongst the fans, and it continued well beyond the first season. In the following seasons, ‘Torchwood’ and ‘Saxon’ became the same thing, less original, less subtle, but still kind of fun. Now in the last season, or the four specials, the whole it’s returning and knocking four times premonition thing felt over the top and rather annoying after awhile. It was smacking us over the head with that sledgehammer that the Doctor was going to die.
Now with season five, and the cracks and the silence, its like, enough already. There’s nothing subtle, nothing intriguing about it. Bad Wolf got me inspired, I loved discussing what it meant, hell I even loved trying to work out what it meant after it was all explained. Well explained might not be the exact term. But this, its only about half way through the season and I’m already over it, I just don’t care about the silences coming, I don’t want smacked in the head by, well I can’t even call them hints.
I might be weird… ok I know I’m weird in general, but I mean specifically in relation to television/movie entertainment. I don’t like my stories handed to me, I like to have to work for them. I like to be pushed hard to grasp onto a story. And it may seem odd for me to say I expect that from Doctor Who. I mean it’s technically a show for children and families. But often I got that, I got depth without it being handed to me on a plate. But there hasn’t been that with this show, not yet. Everything has been so signposted. It feels condescended to, like we need it explained to us.
Also I want to say, please don’t turn Rory into the TinDog, don’t do to him what they did with Mickey and make him a big joke, the butt of the joke. I know Mickey eventually found his own place, stood up for himself and stopped being Rose’s buttmonkey. I don’t want Rory going the same way, I want him to be a companion in his own right if he comes along. In the original series there was nothing unusual about having more than one companion along for the ride, and indeed, shock and horror, male companions.
Also I have to say, I miss Russell’s Queer Agenda. I remember him in an interview saying he wanted to just have queer characters placed in his stories, without fanfare, without it being ‘oh my god he’s gay’. It’s actually a wonderful thing to go for, to make queer characters as common place, as ordinary as the straight ones. Queer becomes common place when it is no longer pointed out. Russell was good at that, although he was also working against the idea in society. It was known as his ‘queer agenda’ because people couldn’t or wouldn’t see it as common. It became ‘oh look a gay character’, which defeated the purpose. Being gay, bi, or straight in Russell’s Who World wasn’t the point, it was the character. People bitched because it seemed so shocking, but it wasn’t that long ago that as person of different ethnicity would get people’s attention and horror, then it became ok as long as they were the villain or a waste of humanity. Now we don’t, well most of us don’t instantly think race. When Rose’s boyfriend was black no one commented about Russell’s racial agenda. Although that said Russell’s approach to race issues was nearly as bad as Kripke’s of Supernatural fame, and man there’s so much I could say about how race is portrayed on that series. But yes I do miss the randomly placed queerness that used to be part of Who.
Also last point. Matt Smith can do arrogance and crossness really really well, but he so can’t do angst. I’m glad he’s not eaten up by his angst the way 10 was, but still, a little convincing angst would be nice.
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05.03.10
Posted in Fandom-Doctor Who at 11:40 pm by TheShire
I’ve been struggling with Doctor Who lately. I couldn’t work out if I liked it or not. Which is annoying since you know, I should really be able to make a decision. And yet, there were parts I adored, I loved the new Doctor’s attitude, I love his ha ha laugh, I love his arrogance and well, slightly meanness. I love the new TARDIS, at least the inside of it, not sure about the slight changes to the outside. I like Amy, I like that she’s not, well sweet and socially acceptable. Kiss-a-gram really is ‘child-friendly’ code for stripper. I have loved some of her reactions to the Doctor.
What I haven’t like, I suppose has been some of the plots (or lack thereof). The dalek episode was a waste of time, the Mary-Sue perfection of River made me want to punch something, the rewriting of canon always pisses me off, I get the feeling Steven Moffat is better at writing two-part episodes, because it almost feels like he can’t fit everything into one, so just drops bits without explanation.
It’s Doctor Who, I love it because it’s, well, Doctor Who. But the other side of the coin is I get picky and critical because it’s Doctor Who and I’m, well, I hate the term ‘fan’ but I really am. I also know this season is a big change, there’s nothing left over from the old seasons. New head writer, new producers, new actors, new generation of the Doctor. All the new stuff is going to take a little getting used to, although I think I’m finally letting the new theme tune grow on me.
Which brings me to the reason for this episode. I’ve just watched episode 5 and it was fucking brilliant. I loved it, it felt like my Who was back. The doctor was an arrogant bastard, appearing uncaring at times, deeply emotionally attached at other times. He was brilliant. He was confused. He was a bastard and he was a hero. The scene with Amy when he was leaving was perfect. His reaction to her dying was his bastardly best. I love that Amy will think for herself, and will challenge the Doctor not just to do the ‘human’ thing, but also to answer her questions, to be honest with her. I also liked the ending although a lot of my friends hated it. I liked it because she wasn’t all love sick and devoted to the Doctor. It wasn’t about romance.
So yeah, I’m bouncy because I finally feel “Doctor Who is Back”
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04.04.10
Posted in Fandom-Doctor Who, Recovery at 9:28 pm by TheShire
Easter, how crazy it makes me. This time of the year everything goes crazy and fragile. I’ve been barely holding everything in as the outside starts cracking. I hate it, I know why it is there, and I know it won’t last, doesn’t stop me hating it though.
Yesterday I watched the latest episode of Supernatural thinking it would distract me, and what I got was the most angst filled, emotionally draining 40 minutes they have ever made. So to distract myself from the fictional heartbreak, that was meant to distract me from my emotional heartbreak, I found a story online I wanted to read. Half way into it, I found out it was a story about someone trying to heal from being abused within a paedophile ring. Yay me. My attempts to hold myself steady really fucking crashed and burnt.
Today hasn’t been that much better to be honest. I’ve been disjointed and dissociative all day. I’m not really keeping attached to reality very well, the past blurring in with the present, too many people crowded in, or not enough. I’m pretty sure I’m losing time, but with us, lost time is often only for short bursts, so its like life keeps skipping, stuttering, rather than just stopping.
I downloaded the new Dr Who. I loved it, I would probably right more but my brain isn’t really into it. I just, I thought it would be bad, the ads on the tv looked… wrong. So I was fearful. The show itself, well, it got us smiling and relaxed for 2 hours. So that’s more than a blessing at the moment.
Ok can’t write anymore than this, tomorrow I would like to try to write a review of Dr Who. But don’t count on it, or whatever, my brain just won’t work, You know I wonder how I got my degree if this is how my brain was all those years I was studying for it. It’s so fucking disjointed and I keep getting lost in black spots.
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01.03.10
Posted in Fandom-Doctor Who at 8:07 pm by TheShire
I promised coherency, but not sure I’ll manage it. Again, full of spoilers, so you know the drill don’t continue reading if you don’t want to know.
Goodbye Ten, how I did love you, you will always have a place in my heart. I have no idea what I feel about Eleven yet, but anyone that can kiss his own kneecap has to have some things going for him.
God where do I start. So much to say I don’t even know where to begin. So well, all of this will be disjointed as it strikes me.
First, who is the woman? Fuck I’ve read some cracked out theories. The worst one is she’s actually Donna… ummm.. how is Donna going to become a TimeLord and travel back in time without a TARDIS and regenerate when she’s human.. yes she’s got the consciousness of a TimeLord in her but she’s still human. The funniest one is that she’s the Doctor’s mother, ok that alone isn’t funny, but the part that amuses me so much is the person that I read that from first said that she had sex with Wilf and Wilf really was the Doctor’s father. So let me get this right, the Woman had sex while Wilf was running around trying not to die, she then went back in time 900 years just to give birth to the Doctor so that he would be around all this time. It’s cracked. The two theories I have Romana or Susan. I’m going with Susan. I like the idea of her at the beginning and at the end, ok its not really the end but it sort of is since Russell is leaving. Also Romana choose to remain in e-space, although of course she could have returned to fight in the TimeWar I suppose. I suppose I like that it was family there for him, someone that could reach him at the end. Also at the end when Wilf asks who she was the Doctor looks to Donna, who is of course, Wilf’s granddaughter.. anyway, just my theory.
Wilf and the Doctor. Fuck, it was, emotionally wrecking. They were wonderful together, they were perfect. Wilf crying breaks my heart, Wilf’s trust and love of the Doctor, but his anger at the Doctor choosing not killing over saving the world. The last part was underplayed to perfection. Wilf wasn’t Martha who hated the Doctor for not killing the Master, he just couldn’t understand, couldn’t see why it was even a choice. The ‘proud to be your dad’ stuff, gawd, and in the end telling the Doctor to go, to leave him that he’d had a good life. See, I still really don’t have enough coherence to explain it, to put into words what I felt. And in the end, it was Wilf that knocked four times, Wilf that foretold the Doctor’s death. I had a fear after Water’s of Mars that the Doctor would die in a terrible way, that it wouldn’t be noble and heoric, like Nine’s death. I pictured the worst case scenerio of him going out bitter and in violence. Sure he wasn’t happy about it, and it was very angsty, but he died saving Wilf, he gave his life so one person, a person he loved, could live. It couldn’t have been better.
The Doctor with the gun. Ok I get emotional watching my Doctor Who, and anyone that reads these things knows how much this silly little programme effects me, but I am not the type that talks to the screen when watching things, usually I snort at people that do. So it’s time to fess up. When he was swinging from the High President to the Master, the gun clicking, the desperation, I was literally sitting with my hand over my mouth saying “don’t do it, it will destroy you, god don’t do it.” The Doctor has killed people, been responsible for so many deaths, he admits that to Wilf, even saying he’s got so clever he can manipulate people into taking their own lives, but there is something about him firing a gun and killing someone. He is “the man that never would” and the relief when he didn’t was palpable for me. The dual ‘get out the way’ were well balanced, and the Master, still insane, still a bad bastard saving him, maybe for his own need for revenge was a perfect end.
Ok so the Doctor and the Master, yes as I said in the Part One review, I do follow my slasher’s heart and say they are or at least once were in love. The conversation in the beginning with the Doctor trying to reach him. I’ve seen the Doctor trying to plead and beg, this was different, he was trying to reach him, to find a way through the madness. And god that slasher heart exploded with the lines “I don’t know what I’d be without that noise.” “I wonder what I’d be without you.” He was insane, and brilliant, and evil, but there were glimpses of the man, of the man that the Doctor once knew, the man that used to run through the grasses of Gallifrey.
And the Master dreaming of possessing the TimeLord society instead of the human one brought up clearly that the Master wasn’t there at the end, that he ran before it got bad. It also explains the angst and pain of the Doctor, because he was, he saw the madness that once was his people, he tries to remember what they once were because what they became was too painful to him. He ended the Time War not just because of what would happen to all of time and space if he didn’t, but to stop his own people from becoming the worst villains of all time. And somehow, unlike the Master he could walk away from that with some level of dignity and compassion. The Doctor is such a damaged soul.
His goodbyes:
Martha and Mickey. Oh god I loved what happened to them. I loved the hardarsed kick butt life they seem to have. I love they got married, to me Tom was, well, too convenient, but also slightly stalkery of Martha, she had all this knowledge of him, her love for him was about him saving her life, but he wasn’t that man, that man never existed, so it sort of squicked me a little. Her and Mickey, they could be equals, they could truly know each other.
Jack. The little sarcastic part of me pictured thousands of fans crying out in disgust, Jack had to grieve forever for poor woobly Ianto, never get over his death and pine forever. But with that one little note he was given permission to move on, to know there’s still fun to be had. And Jack does seem to have a thing for the dorky looking, at least with his men.. Algy, The Doctor, Ianto, and now Alonso.
The mention of Donna’s father at the funeral, it was such a sweet touch, since the actor that played him, that was suppose to continue in season 4, got sick and died. It was a gentle sweet mention.
Some of the Best lines (one of the reason I love my show)
Master: He loves playing with Earth girls.
Calling Donna his “best friend”
Doctor: You could be so wonderful, you’re a genius, you’re stone cold brilliant, you are…but you could be beautiful. We could travel the stars. It would be my honour.
Wilf: “God Bless the Cactuses!”
Doctor: “That’s Cacti!”
Cactus: “That’s racist!”
Doctor: Worst. Rescue. Ever.
Wilf: But he never carries guns, he doesn’t do…Who are you?
Woman: I was lost, so very long ago
Wilf: he he… I’m an astronaut
Wilf: 900 years, we must look like insects to you
Doctor: I think you look like giants….
Doctor: I’d be proud … if you were my dad.”
Doctor: It’s not like I’m an innocent, I’ve taken lives. But I got worse, I got clever, manipulated people into taking their own. Sometimes I think a TimeLord lives too long.
Wilf: I’m sorry look just leave me…
Doctor: ok right then I will because you had to go in there didn’t you, you had to go and get stuck, oh yes, that’s who you are Wilfred, you were always this, waiting for me all this time.
Wilf: No really just leave me I’m an old man Doctor, I’ve had my time.
Doctor: Well exactly look at you, not remotely important, but me, I could do so much more, so much more! But this is what I get. My reward, but it’s not fair! I’ve lived too long.
Wilf: No no, please don’t, no please.
Doctor: Wilfred, it’s my honour.
Doctor: She’s smiling, as if today wasn’t bad enough
Mickey: this is no place for a married woman
Martha: well you shouldn’t have married me
Doctor: Was she happy, in the end
Verity: Yes, yes she was. Were you?
Donna: That’s because you are a peach… furry skin, stone inside, going off
Doctor: 2005, tell you what, I bet you’re going to have a really great year
Doctor: I don’t want to go
I’d like to leave that there because as a last line, that broke my heart.
Ok, now the bits I didn’t like. Most of the reviews I read were negative, and yeah I agree, as far as plot goes there wasn’t a hell of a lot, and I do think they glossed over a few little plot holes, like how hell the diamond escaped the Time Lock. And it did seem that Russell had been watching far too much Star Wars, with Gallifrey looking like a combination of the Death Star and the Empire Parliament, let alone that the Spikey People seemed to be flying the Millennium Falcon, but all in all, I didn’t give a damn.
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Posted in Fandom-Doctor Who at 5:12 pm by TheShire
oh my god, oh my god, oh my fucking god.
I will write something as soon as I can form coherent thoughts.. for now.. fucking amazing covers it.
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12.27.09
Posted in Fandom-Doctor Who at 2:53 pm by TheShire
The End of Time Part 1. Ok anyone reading this that doesn’t want to be spoiled don’t read anymore.
I had a number of fears about these episodes, and to be honest a few of them are still in place. That said, I loved it. I was surprised how much I did love it actually.
The Master’s resurrection, didn’t worry me like I thought it was. In the season 3 finale, he talked aobut the time lords resurrecting him to fight the Time War, so it has been stated in canon that a dead time lord can be resurrected, and it makes sense that the Master would have left instructions for that, in the hope some group of nut bags will follow it.
Oh before I forget, I want to kiss Russell for his description of Christmas in the beginning, I warmed my little pagan heart.
The Doctor on the Ood planet. I didn’t like him. He wasn’t the Doctor Victorious of Waters of Mars, but his humour was, I don’t know, a little cruel and mean spirited. I put it down to him still trying to find his way back from the darkness, but when the show started it worried me because I thought that was going to be the norm. I love the Master’s dark and twisted humour, but the somehow the Doctor just made me cringe, and not in a good way.
Ok the Master. I don’t know how to explain it, no one does manic, insane, haunted and evil quite like John Simm. Just as Tennant has become my favourite Doctor, Simm is now my favourite Master. Yes I know a lot of people prefer the more controlled evilness of past Masters, but Simm for me has captured my heart. Speaking of which, oh my little slasher heart is all a flutter. The scene in the wasteland where they start by reminiscing about life on Gallifrey to the point they share the sound of drums. It was exquisite, it was crazy and heartbreaking. It spoke of love once there that had become so twisted, and in the end remains twisted and damaged. And I swear at one point I was so sure he was going to kiss the Doctor.
And what can I say about the Master in bondage and collared that doesn’t make me sound like a pervert? Well not much because the only responses I can come up with is oh my god, and drooling on the keyboard. And then, a world full of Masters, Masters in dresses and highheels. I’ve never had a crossdressing kink, but man it was just so good.
Wilf, what can I say again, I used to think Donna is my favourite companion, and yes as series length companions go, she is, but Wilf, there is just something so right about him, so perfect (but not in a too perfect way). The scene in the cafe with the Doctor was just perfectly pitched for me. There was a sad humour there, Tennant’s performance of the Doctor’s grief and angst was spot on. Wilf’s complete love for Donna hasn’t changed. Oh and the comment about how he sees her looking sad sometimes, like she’ll stop and get this sad look in her eyes that she can’t understand. And the Doctor telling him that regeneration is just like death, that everything he is dies and some other bloke gets to saunter off….. Fuck. (and yes I’ll admit I teared up through that whole scene)
Bits that worry me. The hint that the Doctor can actually die. Everyone is feeling safe because 11 has been casted, but I keep hearing rumours that the Doctor dies and a whole new different time lord takes his place. I swear I will be so pissed, probably to the extent of stopping watching if that happens.
My biggest fear has always been Gallifrey returning. That somehow the Time War will be rewritten, and Gallifrey and the TimeLords will return. I have had fears of that since the Fires of Pompeii when the Seer said ‘she is returning’, although people said that was about Rose, and then when the Doctor was given the prophecy about ‘it returns’ I knew somehow Gallifrey would play a part. I loved what I saw in this episode, and the hints I got from the ‘sneak preview’ I saw. I love the evilness that shows through with the Time Lords. They aren’t heroes, they were never the ‘good guys’. The Doctor was the rebel, he ran away because he wouldn’t play by their rules, he was made head Chancellor in an attempt to keep him under control, and banished to earth when they couldn’t control him. In many ways the Master is more like the TimeLords of Gallifrey than the Doctor ever was. So I loved seeing that cold cruelty being shown. What I fear is they will return, that the Doctor won’t be alone. The Time War is such a big canon moment, a part that I loved because of the effect it has had on the Doctor. I loved the description in the sneak preview of how savage the war is, because the Doctor and all he loved had to live through that, and all but him had to die to stop it. I just pray that isn’t rewritten in the end.
It’s a week until the last part, and the end of Ten. In that time I will bounce about the awesomeness of the episode and try not to fear for the future of my show.
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11.30.09
Posted in Fandom-Doctor Who at 12:41 pm by TheShire
So my Doctor Who review. I’ve been putting it off because I still don’t know how I feel about it.
It played last night on tv, but of course I saw it about a day after it showed in the UK, so last night was my second viewing.
My first response, the first 40minutes, it’s a rather boring episode. There were good parts, it’s Doctor Who so there are always good parts, but in general it was slow and didn’t get the freaky factor it could have. I think now, because the writers knew where they were heading they got slack on the build up, the actual story of the water of mars was secondary, and therefore sort of got lost. It could have been really scary and thrilling, but as I said, in the end, it was rather forgettable.
And then came the last 20 minutes. Oh my god, I’m still in a tizzy over it. The Doctor went dark, well actually the Doctor has always been dark, but the darkness took the forefront, pushing away the other aspects of the Doctor. I liked it, don’t get me wrong, I like that the Doctor is a dark man, they don’t call him the Oncoming Storm for nothing. But what the Doctor is for me is a dark man that wants good, that fights against his darkness.
I think one of the aspects of this is showing how much the Doctor needs a companion. They keep him connected to his humanity. Ok, I know the word isn’t humanity, because the Doctor isn’t human, but its those aspects of him that people would label humanity, his honour, his respect for life, his sense of duty. He lost that for a while, and all he was was a powerful timelord, all he could see was his power. He got lost in his power, and arrogance and for a while he became the Master.
I need him to be able to step back. I need my Doctor to still be the Doctor. I need him to be dark and scary, but still striving to be good. I don’t want someone that arrogantly believes he is a God. In Waters of Mars he spoke in almost a contempt filled way about the ‘little people’ he saved. That’s not my Doctor, my Doctor is the one that in Father’s Day spoke with such admiration about the wonders of being an ordinary person.
Was Adelaide’s suicide enough to make him step back? There was a hint that it was, but can it be so easy to step back from the arrogance of power, I’m not so sure. I know Ten leaves at the end of this season, (the poor actor has been beaten up so bad filming the 4 seasons), but does he die like Nine did, with honour and love, or does the darkness and arrogance push him towards death.
I loved Adelaide, I loved that she was the older woman, strong and stroppy. She didn’t play nice, she wasn’t some cloying fan of the Doctor. She stood up to him a number of times, not just in the perfection of her reaction to the Doctor at the end. But she was also a good person, she was hard but not cold.
I also love the gay references that Russell puts into his episodes. I know so many make negative comments about Russell’s gay agenda, and yes its definitely there. But I personally think, at least in Doctor Who he does it well. It’s never a big deal, there’s never the flashing sign going GAY GAY GAY. A character will just mention a same sex relationship like they would any relationship. It is actually a good way to say, hey homosexuality is a part of life, it isn’t different or special.
I’ve heard some terrible rumours of where Doctor Who will go after this. There is a reason some incidents in time are set, they can’t be changed. What effects will the Doctor changing this one create. One rumour is the Time War will be undone. Now if they don’t that I’ll be so pissed, the Time War is time-locked, it shouldn’t be able to be touched. One rumour I heard was it was undone, and when the Doctor dies in this one, he actually dies, and the so called 11th Doctor is actually a whole different Time Lord. Now I think if they do that I’m going to stop watching. But I also think that it is unlikely to happen.
That said, the preview shows the Master is coming back. Now a big part of that is me being excited. I hated they killed off the Master, the Master shouldn’t die. He should lose but always escape. But he died, and then was set alight on a funeral pyre, so I am really wondering how they deal with that without the whole magical button no it didn’t really happen solution.
Last point… Donna and Wilf are coming back.. god am I bouncy about that.
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04.07.08
Posted in Fandom-Doctor Who at 8:25 pm by TheShire
Getting spammed like crazy.. bastards
don’t know how to hide this behind a cut, so if your a Who fan and haven’t seen it there are spoilers all over the place
Ok because I am such a fan geek and have been squee-ing like crazy, here’s my doctor who review. Spoilers galore in case you haven’t seen it.
Really not sure what I think of the new theme tune, its still enough Doctor who to not upset me, but its just not as good.
Oh look there he is, brown coat and all, although not wearing my favourite red sneakers.
Ok Donna, first scene and I love her… love the whole mirroring thing with the Doctor.
Now I know I shouldn’t, but god, if only those pills actually worked, I wouldn’t mind giving birth to fat creatures if they didn’t just kill you, one kilo a night.
Health and Safety.. film department, god I’m chuckling, but then I’m weird that way.
When I heard Donna was coming back, I was worried because she was a bit thick in Runaway Bride, loved her spirit but not her stupidity, it seems they have shown her grow, into someone strong and intelligent, keeping her good qualities, but no longer someone who has no idea of anything but pop-culture and trashy mags.
OK telephone woman hitting on the doctor, and his adorable awkwardness. And I so love his face when he has to go back to ask for the print out. Its that cheeky adorable geekyness about him.
He knows something is going on, and it seems so does Donna. Cat flaps, although nod to old episodes, and the whole “I’ve met Cat people and you’re nothing like them.” Yes I am now back in geeky Doctor who fan mode.
Necklace, does it make fat creatures come forth, is Donna doing it by playing with the capsule? Must be.
Oh look, dinky Doctor gadget, I love it that all his gadgets look so hand made and a little on the held together by string and spit.
Adipose are so damn cute, I want one. They are just adorable and since unlike the hints they aren’t evil take over the world fat creatures, I really do want one.
Oh intense Doctor with gadget, oops gadget not working, so yes, smack it about, not like shiny science fiction, this stuff if it isn’t working you smack it until it does.. just like us regular folk.
Ok for the record so I have said it, the Doctor is just so damn cute.
Ok, another dysfunctional family, not sure I like that, but then I know how Donna must be like, her mother going off, rubbishing her life and that whole tuning out thing.
OH Gramps, it’s the guy from Voyage of the Damned, god I love him. I love the relationship between him and Donna, its perfect, you can see the love between them. I love that he knows, but doesn’t know, that he’s aware things are going on, but that Donna won’t tell him. I also hope that they stay true to this, that she isn’t after him because she’s in love, but because he showed her there is more to life. I love that her Grandfather encourages her to keep looking, keep searching. I so hope he comes back into the show.
Aww, sad Doctor, realising he’s alone in the TARDIS, that there is no one to talk to, and just stands there, in silence, in the emptiness of it all. The Doctor shouldn’t be alone, it’s a recurring theme but yes its so true.
God they must hate that he keeps blowing the lock on that same door *chuckle*
9 hours hiding in a closet.. is that subtext there Doctor, trying to tell us you miss Jack.. ok, maybe that’s just my wishful thinking.
I figured there would be someone else in there, just didn’t think it would be the annoying journalist woman. No idea why I didn’t like her, but I really didn’t.
This is probably the best scene in the whole episode, when they see each other through the windows, on each side of the building. The whole conversation in lip reading and miming. The Doctor says “hell” but then since you don’t hear it I suppose it doesn’t count as swearing. Although Martha said Doctor Who’s first “bloody” last season. They are adorable together, the chemistry is so obvious. And the ending with the “we interrupting you” god I almost snorted my coffee. This is what I want from the Doctor and his companion, what was missing from Martha, the fun, they glee, the snark. None of that unrequited love that annoyed me with Martha.
And the comment, oh the same suit, don’t you ever change, *snort*
I am so in love with Donna, she’s not brilliant or smart, but she doesn’t let it stop her, her ideas might not work, the spanner to break the window for instance, but she keeps thinking, keeps trying.
Oh good catch, he’s such a hero, or just incredibly lucky.
Question if all the windows are deadlock sealed, how did he get it open.
Snarky comment about journalist, can you tell Dr Who gets a lot of tabloid attention.
Doctor might still be all emo, and thank god because I like emo doctor, but I like he’s showing that whole lack of social norms. And we are back to the dynamic of Donna and Doctor, I suppose it helps they know each other from the Runaway Bride, there is no need to do the whole introduction thing, they can just go straight into being a team. And there is the whole one chance Doctor, I like the darkness in him as much as the emo and the cheekyness. And he went straight from threatening, to cheekyness even with a grin.
Running out of locations to shoot I see, corridor the same as the Rachnoss’ lair. Ok, shouldn’t be that bitchy.
Shadow Proclamation, it exists, another nod back to continuity and all that. As a fan I love that stuff, love that its there without it being a big deal, new people don’t get lost but nerdy geeks like me really get a buzz.
Aww poor Doctor, his guilt over Martha, his feelings that he destroyed her life, and she’s better off without him. And Donna, and how hard it really is to live a better life when you’re alone, when you don’t have someone to help you change. She had all these good intentions but found stepping out of the rut was so hard. I’m glad it was like that, that it showed just how much the Doctor is instrumental to change, but that changing is actually hard to achieve, it takes more than wanting. Even though it shows Donna as having changed, and grown, it wasn’t easy, it wasn’t as simple as she thought it would be.
Now I shouldn’t laugh, they are little babies, but the squishing noise as the taxi ran over the Adipose just made me giggle, squished fat babies. Now I can see how everyone brought into them being evil, until you see the little one skipping, then its back to aww, so cute.
Frantic Doctor trying to save a million people, and then he can’t do it, he gets even more frantic, the whole guilt of deaths on his shoulders. The panic, the desperation and then Donna just holding the solution in front of him, and the slow smile turning into a grin. I love it, love that the Doctor might have all the answers but he also often needs help.
Love the acknowledgment that the Doctor went cold and unfeeling killing the Rachnoss children, but then, they were different, the Rachnoss would have eaten the world, these are just cute fat babies going home. “I’m waving at fat” *snicker*
And the Doctor tries to save the evil Nanny woman. He seems to have gotten a little bit of his mercy back, or maybe its just after so many deaths he doesn’t want more to happen. The Doctor to me, always had so much compassion for others, he may not give second chances, and there is a darkness in him, but he is also a man that wants to save the worlds and all their people if he can.
Donna still not aware that the Doctor isn’t sure about taking her. He tries to talk her out of it, to warn her about the risks. He doesn’t want to hurt her. He doesn’t want to be fawned over or even idolised. He just wants a mate, a friend. And ok, he looks rather bewildered by Donna at times. And this is why it works, Donna isn’t a kid. Ok RTD made a slight mistake saying he liked it that Donna was older than the Doctor, after all the Doctor is over 900 years (a lot over in my opinion). With Rose, she was still a teenager, still not sure of herself, and to me there was love their between them in the end, but it started almost fatherly, and with Martha they got lost in the unrequited love. For a number of reason the relationship often seemed too one sided. Now I know its the Doctor, he’s brilliant, smart, brave, better, but what I missed from season one was how much Rose used to agrue with him, used to challenge him. I get the feelign that will be there with Donna, I see her driving him crazy at times, but she’s bolshy, she doesn’t sit back and be the gushing one. Even in this episode its her that demands to know what happened, that challenges the evil!Nanny. This companion is no wilting flower or lovesick woman. Have I said how much I love Donna
I heard Rose was coming back, but no one it seems knew she’s make an appearance in the first episode. But there’s something wrong. I can feel it. She looks so old and sad, almost damaged. There is something behind it I can feel, there is going to be some terrible heartbreak in the Rose returning to the Doctor arch and it scares me a little. Alright scares might be a bit strong. I’ve heard rumours someone dies in this season, and Rose almost looks sick. She isn’t meant to jump through dimensions, so maybe its killing her. Whatever it is, the look of Rose was just devastating, she looked old and sad, and the Doomsday music in the background. I just know they are setting me up to be devastated.
Donna’s grandfather is happy for her. The first family member of the three companions to say, go on girl, get out there, have a wonderful time, live, explore, be happy.
Next episode. Eeeee. Also the volcano day comment, see, the doctor does really love Jack *chuckle* ok again wishful thinking.
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