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celticdragonfly) wrote2005-08-18 10:56 pm
celticdragonfly) wrote2005-08-18 10:56 pm
The Doctor
So thanks to Gerry, we've been sloooowly getting to see the current Dr. Who stuff, now and then, in the evenings after the little ones have gone to bed. We're not done with the season yet, but getting close.
Okay, mostly I like this Doctor. And mostly I like Rose. Not that I think I'd get along with her or such, but she's interesting.
I'm actually mostly annoyed by the ep I just watched, Bad Wolf. But to be fair I'll go back over several recent ones.
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. Hm, they are liking two-parters this season, aren't they, we apparently have several. This was SOOOO creepy, we stopped watching it almost to the end of Empty Child because it was just getting to me too much. Decided to start it again the next night when all the creepiness and scary music would have had a chance to fade from my system. Well-done creepiness. Yeek, gas masks are sinister and eerie. Must have been TERRIBLE to have to come face-to-face with people wearing them back then, on top of all the scariness of the Blitz. I did figure out the mechanism of what'd gone wrong partway through, although that didn't spoil it for me. The go-to-your-room bit was amusing, Karl was laughing hysterically at the part about "I'm glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words." So, that's Captain Jack, yeah, I'd heard various types online talking about him. "Charming con man" is NOT a type likely to endear himself to me, so I'm viewing this suspiciously.
Boom Town - oh yeah, that rubbed my face in just how Welsh my family is. (for those that don't know but may be curious - so,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bkseiver, did you click on the LJ-cut? - villainess is an alien who's using the body/appearance/voice of a Welshwoman, the lone survivor of a batch of villains from a previous ep who were all taking over bodies of MPs and occasional policemen and such) It is creepy having the Nasty be someone who looks and sounds like she could be closely related to me.
Heh. Cardiff, south Wales, an area I think of as not as dear to my heart, it's north Wales that I loved. Right. Until the plot starts discussing the the planned destruction of Cardiff Castle, and Karl finds me whimpering next to him in shock.
Bad Wolf - okay, basing an ep on various popular TV shows loses my interest REALLY quick. Bleah. And am I the only one out there who got REALLY tired of the Daleks after, oh, the first few minutes of the first time I ever saw them, WAYYYY back when? And, asselenite pointed out, the Daleks as long-term careful manipulators of human history? Nah, I don't buy it either. Gah, the Daleks annoy me. Superpowerful and apparently STUPID. And half a million more of them, even though they were wiped out.
Actually that whole Time War "both sides all wiped out except for the Doctor" thing annoys me. Okay, these were TIMELORDS. Presumably lots of them traveled in time. So even if there was some catastrophic mass battle wiping them out, even if that battle was in the past compared to, say, Rose's personal timeline, surely there ought to be all kinds of encounters with others of the Doctor's kind, here and there, that happen to be earlier on the individuals' timelines than this battle?
Some detailed Doctor Who fan who knows amazing details about the Doctor and his people will probably now demolish me.
Anyway, there was still interesting character stuff in Bad Wolf, watching the Doctor's reactions, getting more amused by Captain Jack. Okay, Captain Jack is amusing me despite myself. Lynda, not so much. Coming along? What, is he going to have a whole crowd now? Well, we'll see.
Pity this Doctor isn't sticking around. I don't know if Captain Jack is or not, I am not up to date on what's going on in realtime on the Doctor Who front, I live under a rock too much for that. I could ask on ORAC, if I felt like it, but I don't bother.
Okay, mostly I like this Doctor. And mostly I like Rose. Not that I think I'd get along with her or such, but she's interesting.
I'm actually mostly annoyed by the ep I just watched, Bad Wolf. But to be fair I'll go back over several recent ones.
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. Hm, they are liking two-parters this season, aren't they, we apparently have several. This was SOOOO creepy, we stopped watching it almost to the end of Empty Child because it was just getting to me too much. Decided to start it again the next night when all the creepiness and scary music would have had a chance to fade from my system. Well-done creepiness. Yeek, gas masks are sinister and eerie. Must have been TERRIBLE to have to come face-to-face with people wearing them back then, on top of all the scariness of the Blitz. I did figure out the mechanism of what'd gone wrong partway through, although that didn't spoil it for me. The go-to-your-room bit was amusing, Karl was laughing hysterically at the part about "I'm glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words." So, that's Captain Jack, yeah, I'd heard various types online talking about him. "Charming con man" is NOT a type likely to endear himself to me, so I'm viewing this suspiciously.
Boom Town - oh yeah, that rubbed my face in just how Welsh my family is. (for those that don't know but may be curious - so,
bkseiver, did you click on the LJ-cut? - villainess is an alien who's using the body/appearance/voice of a Welshwoman, the lone survivor of a batch of villains from a previous ep who were all taking over bodies of MPs and occasional policemen and such) It is creepy having the Nasty be someone who looks and sounds like she could be closely related to me. Heh. Cardiff, south Wales, an area I think of as not as dear to my heart, it's north Wales that I loved. Right. Until the plot starts discussing the the planned destruction of Cardiff Castle, and Karl finds me whimpering next to him in shock.
Bad Wolf - okay, basing an ep on various popular TV shows loses my interest REALLY quick. Bleah. And am I the only one out there who got REALLY tired of the Daleks after, oh, the first few minutes of the first time I ever saw them, WAYYYY back when? And, as
selenite pointed out, the Daleks as long-term careful manipulators of human history? Nah, I don't buy it either. Gah, the Daleks annoy me. Superpowerful and apparently STUPID. And half a million more of them, even though they were wiped out. Actually that whole Time War "both sides all wiped out except for the Doctor" thing annoys me. Okay, these were TIMELORDS. Presumably lots of them traveled in time. So even if there was some catastrophic mass battle wiping them out, even if that battle was in the past compared to, say, Rose's personal timeline, surely there ought to be all kinds of encounters with others of the Doctor's kind, here and there, that happen to be earlier on the individuals' timelines than this battle?
Some detailed Doctor Who fan who knows amazing details about the Doctor and his people will probably now demolish me.
Anyway, there was still interesting character stuff in Bad Wolf, watching the Doctor's reactions, getting more amused by Captain Jack. Okay, Captain Jack is amusing me despite myself. Lynda, not so much. Coming along? What, is he going to have a whole crowd now? Well, we'll see.
Pity this Doctor isn't sticking around. I don't know if Captain Jack is or not, I am not up to date on what's going on in realtime on the Doctor Who front, I live under a rock too much for that. I could ask on ORAC, if I felt like it, but I don't bother.