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so what you gonna do...
Yesterday was spent watching various odd bits of TV.
1. Doctor Who 'Amy's Choice'. AHAHAHAH. I am finding myself more and more relaxed and gleeful about this series. I haven't felt this way since I watched the pirated copy of Rose before it was finished in post production. (sadly, the next three episodes killed my carefree glee for newskool) I sincerely hope that the production team will continue to make me feel glee.
2. St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold. OMG. Words cannot describe this movie, not without incoherent flailing. Basically. Girls rule. And David Tennant is ridiculously hilarious. And I'm fairly sure Colin Firth is enjoying the hell out of himself.
3. A Movie With Me in It. Black comedy at its finest, with very good performances all round.
4. Delta and the Bannermen. I keep forgetting that I have an indecent amount of love for Mel. Sure, she screams a bit much (they've weaned her of that in the audios), but she is quite lovely. And this episode is pretty hilarious and tops despite the genocide and deaths. However, anyone who believes Delta would fit one of Mel's dresses isn't very bright. That's like expecting Claudia Black to wear Chiana's costume. ALSO. Ray is so awesome, I demand fic where she and the Vincent sneak aboard the TARDIS.
5. (yes, I did binge on oldskool) Terror of the Vervoids. Finally. I kept putting off watching it, despite the cravings. I find it a little more tedious than I once did. But I think that's because the mystery murder aspect is dragged on too long and makes little sense, once the killer is revealed. I was pleased, though, as the dvd is much clearer on the audio and I heard things that I hadn't heard before/were too muffled by 20-year-old VHS tape to understand. Like the Vervoids basically decrying humanity for our tendency to kill one another. <3
6. The Ultimate Foe. God, it's been ages. Still sort of brilliant and weird and Gallifrey is evil and twisted (I love the Ravalox=Earth thing to bits). Also, Madame Inquisitor > everyone else. And Popplewick! And the Brickyard! And Mel. <3 (and Glitz being ridiculously slimy and opportunistic, awww)
7. I was gleeful about the oldskool I watched, it was so full of women doing things. Like SAVING THE DOCTORand the universe with their pluckiness. Because companions never did that, y'know. */sarcasm*
Delta had Mel, Ray and Delta
Vervoids had Janet the stewardess, Dr. Lasky, Mel, and the grand Inquisitor.
Ultimate Foe had Mel and the grand Inquisitor.
8. I need to reboot, as I feel the urge to make icons and photoshop is not behaving.
1. Doctor Who 'Amy's Choice'. AHAHAHAH. I am finding myself more and more relaxed and gleeful about this series. I haven't felt this way since I watched the pirated copy of Rose before it was finished in post production. (sadly, the next three episodes killed my carefree glee for newskool) I sincerely hope that the production team will continue to make me feel glee.
2. St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold. OMG. Words cannot describe this movie, not without incoherent flailing. Basically. Girls rule. And David Tennant is ridiculously hilarious. And I'm fairly sure Colin Firth is enjoying the hell out of himself.
3. A Movie With Me in It. Black comedy at its finest, with very good performances all round.
4. Delta and the Bannermen. I keep forgetting that I have an indecent amount of love for Mel. Sure, she screams a bit much (they've weaned her of that in the audios), but she is quite lovely. And this episode is pretty hilarious and tops despite the genocide and deaths. However, anyone who believes Delta would fit one of Mel's dresses isn't very bright. That's like expecting Claudia Black to wear Chiana's costume. ALSO. Ray is so awesome, I demand fic where she and the Vincent sneak aboard the TARDIS.
5. (yes, I did binge on oldskool) Terror of the Vervoids. Finally. I kept putting off watching it, despite the cravings. I find it a little more tedious than I once did. But I think that's because the mystery murder aspect is dragged on too long and makes little sense, once the killer is revealed. I was pleased, though, as the dvd is much clearer on the audio and I heard things that I hadn't heard before/were too muffled by 20-year-old VHS tape to understand. Like the Vervoids basically decrying humanity for our tendency to kill one another. <3
6. The Ultimate Foe. God, it's been ages. Still sort of brilliant and weird and Gallifrey is evil and twisted (I love the Ravalox=Earth thing to bits). Also, Madame Inquisitor > everyone else. And Popplewick! And the Brickyard! And Mel. <3 (and Glitz being ridiculously slimy and opportunistic, awww)
7. I was gleeful about the oldskool I watched, it was so full of women doing things. Like SAVING THE DOCTOR
Delta had Mel, Ray and Delta
Vervoids had Janet the stewardess, Dr. Lasky, Mel, and the grand Inquisitor.
Ultimate Foe had Mel and the grand Inquisitor.
8. I need to reboot, as I feel the urge to make icons and photoshop is not behaving.
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Delta and the Bannermen is such delicious crack. I love it so.
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(a) Like Catherine Tate, Bonnie Langford was widely known as an annoying comedy character, and an annoying child character besides. So that started her in the hole with British viewers.
(b) The writers were not always so good at merging their original conception of the character (eidetic-memory computer whiz) with Bonnie's energy, even though there was no reason they couldn't go together. So she came off inconsistent to a lot of people.
(c) The screaming, which is always the first thing people cite, but is really kind of a dumb reason to hate her.
I do have to giggle the anecdote in Sophie Aldred's book about her first day on set, when Bonnie apologized in advance just before they called action, then let fly basically right in Sophie's ear.
It's also hard to agree with the "inconsistent" thing when she was consistently both pragmatic and optimistic (take that, followers of "cynicism=depth") and consistently took not an ounce of shit from Doctor.
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(but that's in only two episodes!)
Poor Sophie!
I find the screaming annoying as it's Mel's reaction to everything. She gets better as time goes on, though. And I'm pretty sure she's not very screamy in the audios, so.
But she is kind and incessantly cheerful, plucky and brilliant. And saves him, like three times an episode.
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The majority of your audience can always be counted on to fail to see past previous impressions, which makes me nuts.
No wonder the Doctor wants to be ginger. Ginger companions are made of win. (With Turlough being arguably the exception that proves the rule.)
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Ray totally deserves fic.
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I do find it interesting that, as the Doctor moves forward in incarnations, he seems to get younger each time. Hartnell seemed the oldest, and the latest is clearly the youngest.
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Oh, Turlough. <3
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And while I did love Leela, she did have the distressing tendency of getting stuck and needing a rescue (she also saved the Doctor right back, though).
Though, really, the companions were there to scream and cause Trouble, but then again, it wasn't exactly like it was 2010, and women weren't expected to do more than look pretty and get the boys watching. *shrug*
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*zooms*
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