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Aug. 7th, 2020 02:13 pm2020 is such a wild year. Sometimes I look at the calendar and think of everything that's happened and it's tiring.
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Since I've been away from Doctor Whow for quite a bit, the all-encompassing negativity and toxicity was just... too much I kind of want to write a little more about the reveal about the timeless child.
I am still honestly baffled at the fandom reaction that thinks Timeless Child reveal makes the Doctor a god, a chosen one, or an immortal.
The Doctor's already an immortal, and not just in the story but because of the function of the show works, the Doctor will never die.
As for being a god and a chosen one... that's the one that baffles me the most. It doesn't change anything about the Doctor, the Doctor is still a renegade, and the Doctor still chose to run away. But for me, as a new Classic Who viewer, I feel like it helps me give context to the Doctor more, and actually Hits Different now.
The post here. ( some snippets and thoughts )
First of all, I have to stand up on my table and clap.
I actually don’t know how this will land for New Who viewers since there was a lot of lore drop there.
I really liked this episode, it had the proper creepiness of a ghost story and good mystery in the center.
( *She* is from somewhere much, *much* stranger. -- The North. )
I find it so hilarious that the reason Thirteen hasn’t been doing emotional talks with other people... is because she’s deliberately trying not to be left one on one with people because she doesn’t know what to say.
( The curve ball in the Judoon )
[January meme] Thoughts on Killjoys
Jan. 27th, 2020 05:49 amThoughts on Killjoys? What fandom do you love to revisit? for aurumcalendula
I really really love Killjoys and I'm forever sad it never became popular in fandom as it should be. I love the complicated dynamics between the characters and I adored the worldbuilding in the first two seasons, especially the politics and religion of that world because it played off nicely with each other, especially the religion. Because it made sense, the Qresh was the main planet and the water levels rose and swallowed up the majority of the other lands, the other people fled, the remaining people became royalty called the Nine Families.
Birthright is based on land ownership and where they're born rather than blood ties, hence the important royals all have "Land" attached to their names. The Trees are rare and became sacred to them and are folded into their religion, "Praise the Trees".
If I think about it, it's really just so elegant which makes me sad they moved away from all of this to pursue more intergalactic storytelling. It took me a while to like the new direction of the show, which involved fewer Killjoys and politics and more outright war.
I do love the whole theme of memory and living on through that legacy, and how Dutch struggled hard for that remembrance.
Most of all I love Dutch a lot because she's strong but flawed, she was raised to be an assassin but the toll of that was something she wore heavily around her shoulders. Also, this is the first show I watched the engaged honestly with abuse and how it's not a cut and dried emotion because Dutch both hated and loved Khlyen, her father.
I love Dutch's stronger than blood relationship with Johnny and eventually, I did come around D'avin (much, much, much later).
This was such a fun cracky show with excellent characters and even better characterizations.
[January meme] - Comfort foods
Jan. 23rd, 2020 09:58 amSomething about food: routines, comfort foods for rose_griffes
My comfort foods are my favorite Filipino dishes, especially now with everything, and my allergies acting up.
I love eating Arroz Caldo, a savory rice porridge, despite the Spanish name its actually similar to a congee. I love Arroz Caldo when I have a cold especially when I load it up with calamansi. Lots of calamansi. It's like a tiny lime but so, so much more sour.
And pork sinigang, think of Tom Yang without the heat. It's very sour and really good hearty meal to eat with rice. Just like with Arroz Caldo it's fantastic if you have a cold or just want a really good home cooked meal.
There's also manggang hilaw with bagoong, green mango with bagoong sauce (shrimp based sauce).
The theme here is, I really love sour foods. Like, a lot.
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Jan. 23rd, 2020 07:44 amDammit, Disney!
I thought I was done with Star Wars! And then this!
It has everything I want! The Epic-ness, the tragedy, the way so many people are fighting so hard in the face of everything else, and the inevitability of fate. And, of course, the music
This is my Star Wars.
I really, really enjoyed this episode! It didn't have any of the messiness and excesses of the last episode, it had just the right amount of cast and proper use of villains! I love Nina Metivier's writing and Nida Manzoor's direction, can we keep this team up forever???
( Fantastical! )
Top three most loved and top three most despised moments in television for the decade? A book that changed your life? for thymejot
My instincts is to go as far back as Buffy only to realize they're not in the decade!
Top 3 Most Loved moments in Television
- The ending of Contingency and Bad Code, I had chills through all the flashback and the revelation that Nathan's death could have been preventable but like a Greek Tragedy, choices and chance meant that he would die.
- Sarah Shahi as Shaw, the whole ending sequence of Relevance, I had chills.
- Not a moment but the whole episode of RAM in Person of Interest, I love circular storytelling and finally getting the full backstory of how everything connected.
I just remembered how much I loved Person of Interest
Top 3 most despised moments in TV
- The moment I realized Olivia Dunham is no longer the protagonist of Fringe
- Carter in Person of Interest dying.
- Any moment the writers of Grey's Anatomy makes characater do something stupid or killing half the cast and then I have to break-up with the show again.
A Book that changed my life
I wouldn't say it changed my life but its formative to me was: The Riddlemaster Trilogy by Patricia McKillip where the heroes spent significant time apart from each other growing and learning and still loving each other. It had such an impact on me, and blew me away that a couple didn't need to be in the same continent or even staying together joined to the hip to love each other.
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Jan. 16th, 2020 08:24 amFavorite moment for each Doctor in this decade? for justphoenix
Oh, this is interesting, let me think, this decade so... that's 2010's... that's Ten (End of Time), Eleventh Doctor, Twelfth Doctor, and Thirteenth Doctor.
Tenth Doctor happens in End of Time, not my favorite two-parter, but I loved the moment when Ten visits Martha, Mickey, and Rose. Rose, in particular, because I thought I'd never see her again, and that was such a lovely grace note to end it with.
Eleventh Doctor: I went back and forth on this, and I ended up on Vincent and the Doctor, because of this:
Amy: So you were right. No new paintings. We didn't make a difference at all.
Eleventh Doctor: I wouldn't say that. The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. Hey. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things. And, if you look carefully, maybe we did indeed make a couple of little changes.
Twelfth Doctor: There are two moments, the speech he made to the Masters:
No! No! When I say no, you turn back around! (catches up with them) Hey! I'm going to be dead in a few hours, so before I go, let's have this out, you and me, once and for all. Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because-- because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun and God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do, because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do, so I'm going to do it. And I will stand here doing it till it kills me. You're going to die too, some day. How will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand, is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Maybe we can help, a little. Why not, just at the end, just be kind?
But of course, the number 1 moment for me with Twelve, is in Heaven Sent:
There’s this Emperor who asks this shepherd’s boy, “How many seconds in eternity?” And the shepherd’s boy says, “There’s this mountain of pure diamond, and it takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it. Every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain, and when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.” You might think that’s a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that’s a hell of a bird.
Thirteenth Doctor: For Thirteen, I don't think she's had her moment yet, also I don't think speechifying is her thing. There is a momenet in It Takes You Away, I felt was very Doctor-y:
From the Solitract, yes. Don't know if it survived. But it won't be coming back here. Shame. Made a new friend, a whole conscious universe, then I had to say goodbye.
Thirteenth Doctor of course :P for braddersbangerz
Thirteen! I love her the moment I saw her, she worked for me really fast, I love the feeling I got in The Woman Who Fell to Earth where it felt like she had to paraphrase American Gods she's fighting for the sheer joy of it, for the fuckin' holy delight of it.
The thing about Thirteen is she was born amidst contrasts, the Doctor was actually contemplating death before they changed their minds last minute, this is a last-minute reprieve life. She wants to be joyful and new this time around and she's grabbing every instance of joy she can find but she's also actually depressed. She's being hopeful with all her being because if she lets go for one second she'll sink into a quicksand of despair, just like what happened in The Ghost Monument.
She pinned all her hopes on finding the TARDIS, and for everything to be fixed once she gets her TARDIS back that when she reached her destination and didn't find it -- everything went crashing all around her. She also didn't tell the team a lot about herself because she never intended to travel with any of them, it was the TARDIS that decided to keep the Humans for the Doctor until the Doctor became attached to them.
Still, the pattern of behavior has set in with the Doctor, she didn't tell them a lot about herself other than surface level because she never intended for them to stay. And when the team decided they wanted to stay, I think the Doctor made a conscious decision to just not say anything about her life.
She looks open and carefree, but she's actually closed off. She doesn't answer any personal questions about herself because as missmarthanightingale put it:
ok but the doctor really has been going “due to various traumatic events, including the betrayal of my entire species followed up by that of my oldest friend, i will from now on refuse to acknowledge anything about my past beyond surface details”
I think that's a decent summation of where Thirteen's head at, and what's becoming more apparent since series 11, is that Thirteen shares Twelve's aversion to touch, but this time she's smart about it by not broadcasting it to anyone, since the last time they did, it seemed to encourage people rather than discourage people from coming into contact with him. Also, I feel like her touch telepathy is more sensitive this time around. (Again, I feel the text in series 12 is highly encouraging of that reading).
She's had a whole year (give or take a few more months in between) off from any kind of trauma and this year explodes into TRAUMA, BIG TRAUMA.
( spoilers for Doctor Who 12x02 events )
And now she's back to a lot of internalized anger, and I won't be surprised if she pulled out the psychic paper and just like with Twelve it would be full of swearing.
Thirteen's going to be in it for a while, and she's been dealing with it on a low simmer going on boil. On the other hand, it's so fun to watch the Doctor being 100% Sparkling Gallifreyan Sass. I can't wait to watch where all this is going tbh.