( The curve ball in the Judoon )
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! )
[January meme]
Jan. 16th, 2020 08:24 amFavorite moment for each Doctor in this decade? for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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! )
( Overall thoughts )
[January Meme] - About the Twelfth Doctor
Jan. 13th, 2020 06:21 ams!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.
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. )
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.
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... )
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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Aug. 29th, 2019 07:58 amUK Scriptwriters - Chris Chibnall (2015)
A really interesting interview with Chibnall, spanning his whole career up to Broadchurch.
Glasses are cool
Sep. 15th, 2011 03:01 pmRinger
That was... not good.
Ioan was hot as ever but SMG was, um. Why does she keep getting humorless roles post-Buffy? It doesn't work for her, IMO. It only worked in Buffy because we see her become someone serious but with flashes of humor and the stakes were world ending high.
Maybe if this was more about the evil twin it would be more fun but the 'good' twin is so humorless and I dunno. It doesn't work for me especially as a CW show.
New Girl
I was looking forward to this especially since I thought y'know she was the new Liz Lemon (aka someone like me! sort of). But the comedy didn't work for me, I'll give it three episodes and then decide.
But that's two new shows that disappointed me, I hope the other shows hold up better.
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Doctor Who - The Girl Who Waited
Oh, that was so sad. Ponds!
( more spoilery thoughts and speculations )
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Aug. 29th, 2011 09:08 pmBut.
There is a but.
I just can't seem to find the words.
Then I found this post and the collage of feelings felt like the words that kept escaping me and, just.
allchildren: doctor who feelings collage
