Idiot's Lantern. Or the Telly is Scary

[lesbiassparrow]

I'm not sure what it is, but I think I grow madly tolerant of everything in my advancing years.  While I still (and probably always will) have lingering Nine longing, I quite like this season so far.  But I am now officially the only person on LJ who wants David Tennant to lick nothing ever again.   I would pay good money for this.  

The Tardis continues its inability to ever land in the right place or right time. Except when the plot wants it to.  Or if the right place is somewhere it is cheap to film.  If I were Rose I'd start complaining that so far the Doctor has promised her Naples and America and delivered on neither.  Though he is doing an excellent job of finding Cardiff every time. I think either his mum was a Cardiff native or the Tardis has a police box it's shagging there. 

There's no mention of Mickey being off fighting the good fight.  As there wasn't of Reinette after the Doctor got his heart stomped on good there.  I assume that we are supposed to assume that months or something pass between episodes, months in which the Doctor was all emo in his room and wrote long epic poems to Pompadour's breasts and Mrs. Moore's gadgets and came up with increasingly inventive reasons why he couldn't go back in time to see her, even if only for a quick snog and a chat about how very lonely his childhood was. I suspect Rose spends those months regretting not playing 'interrogate the prisoner' with Mickey quite a bit and wondering if the Tardis recorded any of it for research purposes.  But it would be nice if at some point in a future episode they referenced these people.  Just a quick 'Oh Pompadour/Mrs Moore/Mickey I'm sorry you're not with us now!' would do. 

Back to this one: I liked the evil telly monster and Maureen Lipman did some excellent manic and nasty laughter as she tried to ruin the Queen's coronation.  Do aliens have no patriotism? 

And also an episode in which the Doctor and Rose were a team without being at all cliquey or dismissive of other people.  And they actually seemed to do stuff more because they cared about people having their faces sucked off than because it was the fun thing to do.   And there was quiet angry Doctor and loud angry Doctor.  I think I prefer the quiet one, but someone pointed out to me that the shouty one might play better to kids which I understand.  

And on that note I've been trying to think if I were a kid which of the episodes this year I would have liked best and I think it would have been:  
1. Tooth and Claw (ninja monks, werewolf and making fun of old lady in frumpy dress for the win), 
2. New Earth (zombies!  Cat nuns!)  
3, Cybermen. (Robot Army of DEATH!)
4. This one (Points for evil telly monster, but lost points for wanting to see Elvis.  I would have rolled my eyes.
5 Girl in the Fireplace (this depends on how old I was: Under 12 I'd have liked the Clockwork people and the horse but been bored senseless by the snogging bits.    Over that I probably would have liked the dresses a lot and though I wouldn't have had a clue who Pompadour was, I would have craved her frocks. And thought she was wonderfully pretty and felt sad when she was sad).

I was not the most thoughtful of children. 

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

"or the Tardis has a police box it's shagging there. "

The mind boggles...

And I'm with you quite a bit re: loving this ep.

As for their cliquiness, I have no doubt it's going to start biting them in the ass.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I didn't mind the cliquiness in some of the episodes (New Earth and T&C) but in others...

And as you say they are surely going to be punished for their sins.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with Age of Steel? Or are you counting the two together?

I was happy because Rose did things and helped and was smart. Yea, Intelligent!Rose! How have I missed you this season! Note that she actually solved the problem before the Doctor, but unfortunately got face-sucked.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I was counting the two Cybermen episodes together. The list is also not how I'd rate the episodes now (GiTF would rate higher for the prettiness factor but as a kid I know I wouldn't have appreciated that at all. Unless they were blowing it up).

And hurrah for Intellengent!Rose. Who apparently was punished for that by having her face sucked off, but you can't have everything.

[cryptile.livejournal.com]

I assume that we are supposed to assume that months or something pass between episodes, months in which the Doctor was all emo in his room and wrote long epic poems to Pompadour's breasts and Mrs. Moore's gadgets and came up with increasingly inventive reasons why he couldn't go back in time to see her, even if only for a quick snog and a chat about how very lonely his childhood was. I suspect Rose spends those months regretting not playing 'interrogate the prisoner' with Mickey quite a bit and wondering if the Tardis recorded any of it for research purposes.

Hee! Oh, if these TARDIS walls could speak . . . ew. Actually, better if they didn't. Speaking of which:

I think either his mum was a Cardiff native or the Tardis has a police box it's shagging there.

The TARDIS materialized around a real police box in Logopolis, so technically it/her signifigant other is by a road somewhere in 1980's England. OMG ITS CANON

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

The TARDIS materialized around a real police box in Logopolis, so technically it/her signifigant other is by a road somewhere in 1980's England. OMG ITS CANON.

The Tardis is such a slut. She has been cheating on the Doctor with random police boxes...but then he's hardly faithful to her. Fecker left her behind for Pompadour! I bet he's given her abandonment issues and that's why she died in Rise of the Cybermen.

[lilith-morgana.livejournal.com]

I think I prefer the quiet one, but someone pointed out to me that the shouty one might play better to kids which I understand.

Man, I hate being in fandoms where canon is intended for bloody KIDS. It has never done anything good for the HP fandom either. ;)

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Those damned kids! Always needing their shows written to appeal to them. :-)

[eve11]

or the Tardis has a police box it's shagging there.

bwa!!!! That made me cackle :)

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I bet the Tardis has little Tardis babies stashed away in Cardiff, the fruit of her illicit affair.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I haven't watched this episode yet, but -HMM..

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I mean my Dr. Who obsession does a little downhill recently .. :(

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Oh dear! I don't find myself as absorbed in this series as the last one (but then I mainlined the last one in a weekend after I got the precious, precious DVDs and it had CE), but I don't think it's bad. I just think they need really to have better connections between the episodes especially as they've laid on some very big interpersonal themes: leaving old companions, leaving behind French women you love, leaving behind old boyfriends whom you care about, etc., and then just leapt on from the. I guess the theme is 'leaving' but it doesn't seem to hit home for either of the characters.