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The first single of the BBC Children of Need album, Got It Covered is now on sale on iTunes and available on Spotify.

The single is a cover by Jodie Whittaker and her cover on Coldplay's Yellow.

Pre-order here

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In Elementary it was The Last Bow here it's the Last Dance. It all boils down to:

I’m going to miss this. )

Michelle Lovretta has definitely earned my trust and I will follow her everywhere.

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I'm jumping all over the place, I know, unfortunately, I can only watch what's available to me. Also, er, I couldn't get past the Web Planet episodes and landed on The Chase. I've always been curious about Ian and Barbara's exit in context.

I didn't know The Chase was the same story where Steven Taylor would start out as a companion!

I've already seen The Meddling Monk so it was fun to get context with how he started.

The Doctor was terrible at goodbyes right from the start but I love that he softened and showed he would miss Barbara and Ian. I love that we got to see them happily going around London.

It's honestly so refreshing after all the epic tragedies of a Companion Leaving episode.

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Claws of Axos was a good story but this one Colony in Space is a story I really enjoyed! It's written by Malcolm Hulke and I find that I really enjoy how he writes the Doctor. Read more... )

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Down to the wire of my last Classic Who watch, until I find other sources. Amazon cut off my access to BritBox, even though I was paying for it. Didn't like I was using VPN to watch -- how the hells am I going to watch otherwise all the way where I am?

I sure as hell am not gonna pay for DVDs!

Anyway!

Inferno" )

As I often do with Classic Who, I'm so surprised to see so many women in season 7, particularly this episode. Competent and awesome women, scientists women in the background. I mean, what happened between this period and the periods where the only woman in the entire season was a Companion?

Terror of the Autons

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My initial in-context reaction to this episode is, it's not as good in quality as a season 7 story but it is more digestible with only four stories in the mix. Seven story episodes are really difficult to sit through IMO.

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The longest YEAAAAAH BOY!

And of course, the only person (aside from her daughter) that she will come out from the cold for is Gibbs!

McGee is going to be understandably angry but I am so excited that Ziva will meet all the new awesome women! Jack, Kasie, and Ellie!

Also, EMOTIONAL CONTINUITY, BABY
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UK Scriptwriters - Chris Chibnall (2015) 

A really interesting interview with Chibnall, spanning his whole career up to Broadchurch

Points of interest )

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Guys.

Killjoys is so good.

Hanna Kamen John is so good. Dutch and Johnny’s relationship whether you view it as romantic or platonic is fantastic. I love how this show juggles characters, how it understands characters and their relationships with each other.

I honestly don’t think I’ve watched a show that handles character dynamics as deft as Killjoys does.

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There's a really nice Doctor Who comic raffle on-going, if anyone's interested:

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I think I figured out why most Doctor Who Human AU doesn’t work for me because the writers sometimes make the Doctor (any Doctor) too nice, when honestly, from the show, Ten as John Smith was a bit of an elitist ass, who didn’t even blink when the bullies asked if they could beat up Tim.

Meanwhile, in two separate media, when the Master either had amnesia or turned Human, they were kind. And yet, despite that it didn’t feel OOC, it’s like this amnesia or Humanification just turned something that was just there and surfaced it.

I mean, One was a dick. It took Barbara and Ian to sort him out and become the Doctor we all know.

The Master being friendly at people they will end up killing has to be genuine at some point. I mean, the Master’s friendly with the Doctor -- the difference is, the Doctor can survive all the things the Master can throw at them.

Don’t know where I’m going with this, except that, er, if Human!Doctor is too nice, I find that I’m thrown out of the story.
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I finished Elementary! I am so sad to see it go -- and I feel like 13 episodes wasn't enough time for the epilogue they set up but it also made me happy just as the last season's episode did.

I love that Sherlock finally hugged Joan.

spoilery thoughts )

I am going to miss Sherlock, Joan, Bell, and Gregson a lot.

Fare thee well show!

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The Doctor Who showrunner wars is still in full swing despite the three Doctor Who showrunners being friends IRL, and some things they’ve done and implemented can all boil down to preference.

I wanted to weigh in with my thoughts on this.

I like some things RTD did in his time in Doctor Who, I am very grateful to him for bringing the show back from the war but I also remember slowly getting disgruntled with his writing.

He is a drama writer, and one of the best; RTD has a way of turning a phrase that just fires up the imagination like:“Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, the Could-Have-Been-King with his army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres.”

He has also written and help re-write my favorite two-parter of Revival!Who Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit, Midnight, Turn Left, and Children of Earth. The problem is as much as he loves both camp (sometimes the results can work, sometimes it doesn’t), RTD’s cynicism does leak through.

He tried to fight against those instincts in Doctor Who but you can see the strain show as he struggled to keep that cynicism away from the show.

There’s also the part where his frequent joke targets are middle-aged women. And TBH, I was tired of Ten’s God Complex (“I am the final authority!”) and how the narrative rarely calls him out on it. Unlike Nine, he started to believe his own press and the press of other people

I wasn’t keen on the way he joked about appearances of women above thirty, and tbh, I was tired of Ten’s God Complex (“I am the final authority.”) and how the narrative refused to call him out on it.

Ten believing his own press could have been interesting if the narrative didn’t think he was right. For example, The Water of Marscould have been interesting but I thought WoM resolved Ten’s Time Lord Victorious moment far too soon and easily.

I thought they could have explored more about the ‘Time Lord Victorious’ moment for at least another episode, or have The End of Time comment on it.

Apart from series 1, all of RTD’s series finales were heart-wrenching; each finale I ended up feeling like I was going twenty rounds against a meat grinder.

It was why I loved and will continue to love series 5 and how refreshingly happy the ending was.

No one was trapped in another dimension! No one had to single-handedly stop an apocalypse and have their family enslaved, or mind-wiped.

In the scheme of things, I think in certain aspects, Moffat’s storytelling style is more in line with my tastes. The fairytale seasons. Even Twelve becomes a fairytale Doctor, and I wager that his arc in series 8 is remembering the joy and becoming the fairytale Doctor again.

Another reason why I love series 5, coming directly from Ten’s Lonely God thing, was that a lot of people called out the Doctor on their God Complex and made their self-loathing a lot more text. I also loved the fairy tale aspect of his seasons.

But like with RTD not everything Moffat’s done is my favorite, there were some stories that had missteps, and one of those missteps was Moffat trying to out clever himself. Credit to him for swinging for the fences but he also started to spread himself too thin working on two shows, and the seams showed.

One of the criticisms about Moffat’s writing is character work, and he had no interest in the Companions’ families.

I’m in the middle. I have issues but also (especially after rewatching) I was more forgiving, as an example, in the end, I didn’t care as much about the state of Amy’s parents.

No, that’s wrong, I did care.

I cared the first time I watched Angels Take Manhattan, I cared so much that when Amy and Rory disappeared I was so angry because all I could think about was Amy’s parents and Brian (Rory’s dad). I cared to the point that it was one of the reasons why I stopped watching.

On subsequent rewatches, I’ve reconciled with the idea that Companion families and family dynamics (the Companion’s parents) aren’t something Moffat was interested in. It took Chibnall to give Rory a dad (interesting that parent-child dynamic is really something Chibnall is drawn to).

Honestly, if family dynamics isn’t something he is interested in, that’s fair. Also, Amy’s parent’s weren’t a factor since series 6 and Amy’s parents might have well fallen back into the Crack for all we know.

Rewatching also helped me come to terms with some narrative choices I wasn’t fond of. Binge (re)watch tended to sand down any rough parts and I find rewatching can help me hold the shape of a story more.

Still, it took a while to realize Eleven acting big and bombastic was deliberate. Moffat needed Eleven to be big and loud, and full of himself so he can also go crashing down. It falls in line with what River describes the Doctor she knew: “Now my Doctor, I’ve seen whole armies turn and run away. And he’d just swagger off back to his Tardis and open the doors with a snap of his fingers.”

One of the things I wasn’t satisfied with Moffat’s writing (and there were plenty) was how series 6 dealt with child loss. Or, how s6 initially didn’t deal with child loss. The writing would eventually address it, and most prominently in The Wedding of River Song in a fantastically chilling scene between Amy and Kovarian.

But even then I felt it wasn’t enough. Emotional continuity during this time was very low.

This brings me to River. I loved her the moment she stepped on screen in Silence in the Library but my love for her character cooled because of series 6. My theory is Moffat wrote himself into a corner trying to out grand series 5.

For those taking notes at home, I watched Doctor Who sporadically during series 7 and then stopped watching at Angels Take Manhattan. I stopped watching until Day of the Doctor happened.

DotD reignited my love for *Doctor Who! So much so that I went back and binged series 7.

I liked s7 well enough except for how Amy and Rory left, that still sticks in my craw. I would have been okay if the Ponds left at the end of the Power of Three. Unfortunately, for Revival!Who, there’s an expectation now that Leaving Stories should be hard and tragic, and breaks your heart. I don’t always need grand leaving stories.

It was why Clara choosing not to travel with the Doctor at the end of Death in Heaven felt refreshing.

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Catching up with Elementary -- Are Joan and Sherlock really going to go up against a less morally stable Person of Interest type of Big Bad?

I mean, a system used to predict crimes?

But instead of just stopping the people and leaving the police to handle them Reichenbach's group kills them. Although I suppose now I know how Sherlock would react both to Team Machine and the Machine itself!

I have a feeling if Sherlock met Team Machine, Harold, John, and Shaw (especially if Carter was still around) could win Sherlock and Joan over. For one, Team Machine is more subtle, for two, while John and Shaw were former government assassins Harold is expressly against murder.

This is actually interesting and fodder for my stalled Person of Interest/Elementary fic.

OMG no, they’re not Team Machine, they’re Samaritan!

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