Idiot's Lantern. Or the Telly is Scary
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lesbiassparrowI'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.
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.
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Date: 2006-05-29 02:03 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-05-29 03:22 am (UTC)And as you say they are surely going to be punished for their sins.