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mezzanineview) wrote2008-05-11 10:52 pm
mezzanineview) wrote2008-05-11 10:52 pm
*is cunning*
Happy Mother's Day, everyone, even though it's almost over. Hope everyone had a good day--me, not so much. It's never been one of those days that made very much of a difference since mine's been gone since I was six, but giving flowers and a card to my grandmother is just as nice. In case anyone's wondering, white orchids, purple at the center :3 After we did a little bbq for dinner, I spent the rest of my day backing up all my music and watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, definitely not comparing it to the new one (cuz I love them both) and contemplating just how much the Eighth Doctor's outfit looks like Wonka's XD
And for those of you who don't want to hear me ramble more about Doctor Who, you can skip this part.
Anyways. Spent the last week plus diving into new levels of what could possibly be construed as geekdom or patheticness, having acquired a massive amount of Doctor Who audio adventures by Big Finish. Just the Fifth and Eighth Doctors, though, as I've found I don't particularly care for the Sixth and Seventh. Also because I'll do anything for more Fifth Doctory goodness, and I didn't think the 1996 movie was as bad as the majority of fandom says it is--I quite liked Eight. A lot. The audios give me a chance to explore his character more since, canonically, we only have the movie to go by, but I'm really enjoying getting to know him better. It's immensely enjoyable to have a Doctor who's so different from the current, super angsty Doc (although Ten is tied for my absolute favorite, but Five just might be edging him out D: It all depends on my mood) because Eight has this intense zest for life and takes such pleasure in small things, like a good cup of tea, or having it off with some really dumb aliens, less because he needed to get them off Earth than because he wanted to have a fun time of it with his companion Charley (who is, in fact, made of much win and awesome in her own respect). I've only made it up through the ninth episode, but I'm really digging this very innocent Doctor :D Of course, the tragedy in all this is, presumably, this is the Doctor that ends up having to go to war against the Daleks for the sake of the universe and, as such, commits genocide, destroying two great races and damning himself to a life full of hurt and loneliness, all of this happening before we pick up on the first episode of the new TV series, outfitted with a battered leather jacket an a massive chip on his shoulder.
Plus, the audios are actually done by the actors who portrayed them, so I get more Peter Davison and Paul McGann, both of whom have lovely voices *G*
More Classic Who news: I'm about halfway through my mad project to acquire all the Davison era episodes without having to fork out hundreds of dollars for all the DVDs, so mininova has become my best friend in the whole wide world. All the episodes are available in one .zip file, but the thing is it takes up a whopping 23.23 gigs of memory, and, while that hurts my soul, I'm cunning enough to back up all my music and compress video files I don't use into .zips and burn them onto CD-R discs in order to make room. This also means clearing the majority of my iTunes library, but I can charge my iPod without plugging into my lappy; it just means I won't be getting any new music for a bit, which is alright. Once the dl is complete, I can burn the episodes onto DVD-R, like I do with the new series DW eps, and because my PS3 plays .avi files, I can watch Classic Who on my TV screen, DVD quality, then rebuild my library :D I love me sometimes.
Ah, but as much as I love teh Davison, to the newest episode! I've been commenting on other journals a bit, and I'll reiterate that I'm not quite sure where I stand on this ep. On the one hand, all the war stuff and too-easy explanation for the creation of the Doctor's so-called daughter just makes it feel like the writer went on autopilot, which is sad, because I rather liked his episode last series, The Lazarus Experiment. The plot of this is just clearly designed to be the hook for the emotional hangups we get to see the Doctor being put through, but fuck if I'll turn that down, because Tennant is still a fabulous actor; I could watch him emo all day, to be quite frank XD I still love happyshiny!Doctor best of all, but Gallifrey angst is wunderbar as well. His utter denial to accept responsibility over Jenny, over another of his own race, is fantastically played out, especially in the scene where Donna makes him listen to both Jenny's hearts, a clear sign that she's physically the same, and he just backs away. Just like that. When pressed to explain about his people, he snorts and puts on that wry grin that clearly says You won't understand. You can't understand. and even though he was acting like a git, I couldn't help but feel absolutely terrible for him.
This is made worse by watching him and Jenny actually grow close and seeing her with the same childlike amazement and energy her old man has because the only thought at the forefront of my mind was She is going to die, no two ways about it. I was proven right, of course, but I was still reeling from the death scene and how goddamn UNFAIR it was for the Doctor to, for one thing, have another thing he cared about taken away from him, and secondly, see her die in a way that was eerily similar to the Master's death. Homeboy needs a hug, guys, STAT.
Utterly heartbreaking, and the gun incident that followed never had me convinced he'd do it, not by a long shot. It was almost ruined for me because of the speechifying--every time he gets preachy and holier-than-thou this series, I'm cringing because it's usually not handled well at all. Clumsy writing strikes again; even Tennant couldn't save it, but as soon as he returned to her body and sat down and got his broody face on, I was content to overlook it and the numerous plotholes.
I hope Jenny's "regeneration" gets explained, as there is absolutely no way they're not bringing her back, not with another Gallifreyan in the universe now, and wait a tic. If Jenny's a Time Lady, why can't the Doctor feel her in his head? Like when he felt the presence of the Master after Professor Yana opened the fob watch? I'm going to enjoy watching the writers pull this one off.
And Donna. Donna Donna Donna. Saying she's going to spend the rest of her life traveling with the Doctor is the kiss of death. This fucking sucks, I love Donna, and watching her die is going to hurt just that much more.
One last note, the whole build up of Martha being a stronger character is utterly destroyed when she's sobbing her eyes out, in an overwhelmingly fake fashion, over a fish. Honestly. Get on the ball, writers.
I wish I had a real brother, the kind that actually cared and used me for anything more than something for him to hurt for his amusement.
Go see Iron Man. It's fucking amazing.
And for those of you who don't want to hear me ramble more about Doctor Who, you can skip this part.
Anyways. Spent the last week plus diving into new levels of what could possibly be construed as geekdom or patheticness, having acquired a massive amount of Doctor Who audio adventures by Big Finish. Just the Fifth and Eighth Doctors, though, as I've found I don't particularly care for the Sixth and Seventh. Also because I'll do anything for more Fifth Doctory goodness, and I didn't think the 1996 movie was as bad as the majority of fandom says it is--I quite liked Eight. A lot. The audios give me a chance to explore his character more since, canonically, we only have the movie to go by, but I'm really enjoying getting to know him better. It's immensely enjoyable to have a Doctor who's so different from the current, super angsty Doc (although Ten is tied for my absolute favorite, but Five just might be edging him out D: It all depends on my mood) because Eight has this intense zest for life and takes such pleasure in small things, like a good cup of tea, or having it off with some really dumb aliens, less because he needed to get them off Earth than because he wanted to have a fun time of it with his companion Charley (who is, in fact, made of much win and awesome in her own respect). I've only made it up through the ninth episode, but I'm really digging this very innocent Doctor :D Of course, the tragedy in all this is, presumably, this is the Doctor that ends up having to go to war against the Daleks for the sake of the universe and, as such, commits genocide, destroying two great races and damning himself to a life full of hurt and loneliness, all of this happening before we pick up on the first episode of the new TV series, outfitted with a battered leather jacket an a massive chip on his shoulder.
Plus, the audios are actually done by the actors who portrayed them, so I get more Peter Davison and Paul McGann, both of whom have lovely voices *G*
More Classic Who news: I'm about halfway through my mad project to acquire all the Davison era episodes without having to fork out hundreds of dollars for all the DVDs, so mininova has become my best friend in the whole wide world. All the episodes are available in one .zip file, but the thing is it takes up a whopping 23.23 gigs of memory, and, while that hurts my soul, I'm cunning enough to back up all my music and compress video files I don't use into .zips and burn them onto CD-R discs in order to make room. This also means clearing the majority of my iTunes library, but I can charge my iPod without plugging into my lappy; it just means I won't be getting any new music for a bit, which is alright. Once the dl is complete, I can burn the episodes onto DVD-R, like I do with the new series DW eps, and because my PS3 plays .avi files, I can watch Classic Who on my TV screen, DVD quality, then rebuild my library :D I love me sometimes.
Ah, but as much as I love teh Davison, to the newest episode! I've been commenting on other journals a bit, and I'll reiterate that I'm not quite sure where I stand on this ep. On the one hand, all the war stuff and too-easy explanation for the creation of the Doctor's so-called daughter just makes it feel like the writer went on autopilot, which is sad, because I rather liked his episode last series, The Lazarus Experiment. The plot of this is just clearly designed to be the hook for the emotional hangups we get to see the Doctor being put through, but fuck if I'll turn that down, because Tennant is still a fabulous actor; I could watch him emo all day, to be quite frank XD I still love happyshiny!Doctor best of all, but Gallifrey angst is wunderbar as well. His utter denial to accept responsibility over Jenny, over another of his own race, is fantastically played out, especially in the scene where Donna makes him listen to both Jenny's hearts, a clear sign that she's physically the same, and he just backs away. Just like that. When pressed to explain about his people, he snorts and puts on that wry grin that clearly says You won't understand. You can't understand. and even though he was acting like a git, I couldn't help but feel absolutely terrible for him.
This is made worse by watching him and Jenny actually grow close and seeing her with the same childlike amazement and energy her old man has because the only thought at the forefront of my mind was She is going to die, no two ways about it. I was proven right, of course, but I was still reeling from the death scene and how goddamn UNFAIR it was for the Doctor to, for one thing, have another thing he cared about taken away from him, and secondly, see her die in a way that was eerily similar to the Master's death. Homeboy needs a hug, guys, STAT.
Utterly heartbreaking, and the gun incident that followed never had me convinced he'd do it, not by a long shot. It was almost ruined for me because of the speechifying--every time he gets preachy and holier-than-thou this series, I'm cringing because it's usually not handled well at all. Clumsy writing strikes again; even Tennant couldn't save it, but as soon as he returned to her body and sat down and got his broody face on, I was content to overlook it and the numerous plotholes.
I hope Jenny's "regeneration" gets explained, as there is absolutely no way they're not bringing her back, not with another Gallifreyan in the universe now, and wait a tic. If Jenny's a Time Lady, why can't the Doctor feel her in his head? Like when he felt the presence of the Master after Professor Yana opened the fob watch? I'm going to enjoy watching the writers pull this one off.
And Donna. Donna Donna Donna. Saying she's going to spend the rest of her life traveling with the Doctor is the kiss of death. This fucking sucks, I love Donna, and watching her die is going to hurt just that much more.
One last note, the whole build up of Martha being a stronger character is utterly destroyed when she's sobbing her eyes out, in an overwhelmingly fake fashion, over a fish. Honestly. Get on the ball, writers.
I wish I had a real brother, the kind that actually cared and used me for anything more than something for him to hurt for his amusement.
Go see Iron Man. It's fucking amazing.