Doctor Who coming in as a good distraction from all the volcano stuff.
I liked this episode it’s not great, and as an Ed Hime script it didn’t live up to expectation. More on those thoughts later.
( If I had a crayon and half a can of SPAM, I can build you from scartch! )
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s!10Twelve for 12 please???? i miss my grumpy space granddad, his lesbian granddaughter, his weird cyborg friend, & his spouse/nemesis/constant pain in the ass for yesokayiknow
The Twelfth Doctor, oh, Twelve. Honestly, I had such a journey loving Twelve. I was immediately on board with him the moment I saw his eyebrows and thundered, "No, sir, all Thirteen!"
I screamed when that moment happened because prior to the The Day of the Doctor I stopped watching the show so I haven't been keeping up with the news, I had no idea Matt Smith was leaving or the next Doctor was cast. So, yes, I was on board and I loved Deep Breath, it felt like such a refreshing change from the things that have alienated me from the Eleventh Doctor... until he became so abrasive, Twelve turned me off and I stopped watching again.
Fast forward to learning about Bill Potts, and contemplated starting back again... Then I watched Husbands of River Song, and I was so charmed by it and I feel addressed the things that put me off the River/Doctor relationship, also Capaldi and King's chemistry just popped.
I decided to do a full rewatch starting with The Time of the Doctor and then found myself going through a journey of really loving Twelve, by the time I reached Heaven Sent, he rose the ranks into number 1. And then Bill happened, and Pearl Mackie is fantastic, she has such fantastic chemistry with Peter Capaldi, and IMO series 10 was when Peter really felt comfortable in the role. He truly felt like the Doctor to me.
Not that he wasn't before, but Twelve's uncertainty about himself really came off and he had to have 'Doctor moments' that made me go, each time, oh! There you are!
But in series 10? That feeling was there from the first second of The Pilot.
And the team has settled in with such fun dynamic, the first few episodes with the focus on Bill Potts were amazing, but alas, as much as I adore and love Missy her story arc intruded on Bill's. In a 12 episode season, there's not enough room for two character development arc so by the time The Lie of the Land happened the emotional focus of the show pulled heavily on Missy's direction.
Still, by the end, I honestly love Twelve and the small family unit he made, it's unfortunate we only had one season with them. I love Thirteen a lot but I felt Twelve and Bill could have done with one more season, but ah, well, such is the wheel of Doctor Who.
Upcoming movies/series/etc you’re excited about? for Anon
Honestly, aside from Doctor Who which is airing now, I don't have a lot of new shows I'm excited to watch, for movies, I think I'm looking forward to Little Women airing here because I've heard good things.
BTW Knives Out deserves all the hype. I can't say more because spoilers but it is an amazing watch.
There's a lot of old shows I'm excited to watch though like Halt and Catch Fire and 12 Monkeys, HCF I've seen the end but I'd love to see the whole show come together and I have heard nothing but good things regarding 12 Monkeys.
Honestly, there are so many new things to watch that I find myself revisiting old favorites because there's a level of comfort and familiarity when I do.
How about... a fandom that you wish you were more invested in (and why you're not) for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I have to think... I think the only thing I can think of, maybe The Expanse but that's only for season 3 where I've stalled because I really couldn't stand one character and he's marring my enjoyment of the show. I know I shouldn't let him because there are so many awesome women on the show but whenever I see his face and trying to be self-righteous I have a strong urge to close the video.
I have to get over that to get to the good parts or fast forward because I know I'm missing a lot.
This is entirely on me, and not a reflection on a really great show.
Top Ten favourite female characters of the last decade and why? for mihrsuri
Sorry, it's late but here are my favorites in the past 10 years.
sharkodactyl explains why I love Sarah alot. "can you believe that an international eugenics factory was brought down by the one thing they never anticipated: a ragged, snarling foster-system punk who just kept throwing herself forward even though she had nothing but her own bare knuckles and sharp teeth."
Katherine Pierce (The Vampire Diaries) - The ultimate survivor, just like Tess Mercer she's very clear on the choices that led to her life. Yes, she's a villain but man does she make getting to know her fun. Honorary mention because her story is still on going, but boy do I love her: Thirteenth Doctor (Doctor Who)
Oh! Well, there are a few, I'd like a crossover with Doctor Who:
I already wrote a Person of Interest and Criminal Minds one, sort of.
In-Universe crossover: Thirteen meeting Bernice Summerfield, Class, and the kids from Sarah Jane Adventures
January 4th is my birthday so i'm picking that. and i would like to hear anything you have to say about buffy anne summers for queenofattolia
Happy Birthday! queenofattolia!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it's titular heroine, Buffy Anne Summers was very formative for me and to this day I don't think anyone can shake her status as My Forever Girl.
Buffy is given such enormous responsibility and it's just amazing to watch her grow and struggle and win... and sometimes not win, which are also important moments. And God, the excitement of watching season 2 unfold for the very first time and see her struggle through that season and win in the end, with cost.
The first time that Sarah Mclachlan song came on, I started crying. Like, legit crying. Season 1 was fun and I liked the show but oh, season 2... that was a game-changer for me. And Sarah Michelle Gellar was a revelation! I am still sad we didn't get more SMG on TV because she's so GOOD. (Although post-Buffy SMG was weirdly stereotyped in very humorless roles).
I know there are so many other characters who were modeled on Buffy and they're all great and special in their on way, Buffy Summers still holds a very special place in my heart.
And to end it, here is 30 minutes of Buffy being, according to the YouTubes, iconic!
Series 11, all about taking the slow road, gently taking the new audience by the hand and slowly bringing everyone into the fold.
( Just draining the water slides, and the bone lakes, and the rainforest floor. )
Happy New Year and Happy Doctor Who Day!
My relationship with Doctor Who is very much akin to an on again and off again relationship except, I think much less tumultuous than my other TV relationship, Grey's Anatomy.
I started out with Doctor Who in 2005, I was still on livejournal and I've heard rumblings about the show -- I did have vague recollections about a guy with a long scarf and a guy in a beige suit being replayed on the local station when I was a kid. And I've heard about Doctor Who now and again but never actually knew what it was, cue, 2005 and I honestly can't recall what the catalyst was but I decided to look for the show and started watching Rose.
I was I think, 19 at that time, as old a Rose Tyler was and I was immediately taken in but it wasn't until Nine gave the 'turn of the Earth' speech when I bought it. It wasn't a perfect scene. There was the whole 'RTD glow', and the sound mixing was terrible, I could barely hear anything Nine said but how Christopher Eccleston acted in that moment -- yeah, it got me.
And then Parting of the Ways happened and Nine gave his 'Live, Rose, do that for me. Have a fantastic life' Emergency Protocol thing and let me tell you I was a mess. PoTW was RTD's perfect finale that in my head he had never managed to live up to. It was also a perfect regeneration scene. Heartfelt, gracious, and warm. Just enough time for feelings and heart without high strung and over wrought emotions.
What happened next was discovering Big Finish and Classic Doctors via audio. And the up and down nature of my Doctor Who fandom because boy did I struggle with Ten especially when he started believing his press release. And then the succession of Martha and then what happened with Donna, and I kind of lost interest around that point and barely paid any attention to The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead was not my favorite, and Waters of Mars would have been better if there was another special between WoM and End of Time.
EoT btw, I was, well, DONE.
I adored the cameo of Rose and Jackie and the lovely smile but b o y, was End of Time a struggle. I didn't watch series 5 because Ten had left such a bad taste in my mouth. It wasn't until I saw a gif where Eleven arrived in an exploding TARDIS just in the nick, and River going, "And what kind of time do you call this?"
I was hooked again but series 6 was a bumpy ride and I fell off again. I think my most consistent watch of Doctor Who is with Capaldi to Series 11. I also usually catch up on the show with a good binge -- which helped more when it was on Netflix, and then much less none on Amazon Prime -- which unfortunate as of January 1, 2020 is no longer available on Prime Video on streaming.
And brings me back to today -- where we all waited for a year for a new episode! Hopefully it would live amazing and live up to the hype!
Title: DLZ (long winded blues of the never)
Fandom: Doctor Who
Editor: grimorie
Music: DLZ by TV on Radio
Summary: your methods dot the disconnect from all your creeds | there's a straight line from twelve to thirteen
Beta: thanks to mswyrr, my sister, feferiactualpeixes, and dealanexmachina. as usual all mistakes are mine.
Stream: YouTube
Password: play
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queenofattoliarose_griffesjustphoenixrose_griffesaurumcalendulalilacsigilwheatearselenakOne thing I will never get used to with classic Who is how one storyline runs across twelve episodes.
The Mythmakers
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The Daleks Masterplan
But first! Look, a couple of university students recreated the lost Mission to the Unknown episode!
And it looks like a real classic episode!
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