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speaking of Who - The Seeds of Death.
Which was entertaining, if somewhat long at times (and had foam! I love a good foam chase scene)
I had seen it as a small child, but I didn't remember a lot of it. The Ice Warriors (which should be in season six, Moff, get on that), are sort of, um, unwieldy and cumbersome. It's hard to be frightened of them, though they're very good at carrying out threats to kill.
Seriously, there is a fabulous chase scene with Two, Zoe and Jamie running up and down and forth and back with this poor lone Ice Warrior going laboriously along after them. Comedy gold, I tell you.
There are also two cranky old men who spend most of their time arguing about rockets and efficiency while doing little else. And a worldwide shortage of food! With the T-Mat down, no one can eat. One wonders why there aren't stores of food everywhere (this is before the Dalek invasion, and one can see how easy that wold be for the Daleks, given the, ah, inefficiency of their system).
Shutting down the T-Mat is apparently an easy thing to do (and apparently no one ever thought it would happen. Very peace-loving, the 21st century).
The Doctor also lands in yet another museum. TOTALLY KEEPING SCORE, YO.
Anyway, the episode has, like, ten men and two women with speaking roles. Of course, of the ten men, six of them are dead (I'm not counting Ice Warriors at all, who've always been, well, male) by the end of the serial.
But the two women are Zoe and Gia Kelly, who even manage to pass the Bechdel (and they're not even talking about the Doctor). They are, in fact, two brainy women who bond over science.
So, anyway, can I talk about Gia Kelly, who is the ONLY PERSON on the ENTIRE PLANET who can fix the T-Mat?
It's a ridiculously inefficient system, you guys. What happens if she's off sick and the thing goes down? Tsk.
Technician Kelly is brisk, efficient, brave, a tech wizard, intelligent, and forth-right. She is utterly fabulous and goes about doing her job, danger or no. She also survives to the end where she has to argue with the cantankerous old men about rockets and such.
Meanwhile, Zoe has to talk a man out of his sudden and insane PTSD funk in the middle of an air duct, and then use her own brain to get where they need to go. (I expect they were like SHE WILL BY SYMPATHETIC, but Zoe was mostly like "THIS IS NOT THE TIME, WOMAN UP.")
I am betting there is no Gia Kelly fic, which means I'll have to write it myself. Mostly, I feel the urge to write the scene where, after the long day of saving the world, and arguing the old men to a stand-still with efficiency, she goes home to her wife (is deciding she has a wife falling into a trope? Idk), who's been a bit worried about her, but mostly because the T-Mat was broken (WORLDWIDE), and there was a food shortage. Gia faceplants on their bed and there is some arguing and grumpiness, and then possibly some mockery from Adella.
And now I've got to go put my lunch together and go to work.
I had seen it as a small child, but I didn't remember a lot of it. The Ice Warriors (which should be in season six, Moff, get on that), are sort of, um, unwieldy and cumbersome. It's hard to be frightened of them, though they're very good at carrying out threats to kill.
Seriously, there is a fabulous chase scene with Two, Zoe and Jamie running up and down and forth and back with this poor lone Ice Warrior going laboriously along after them. Comedy gold, I tell you.
There are also two cranky old men who spend most of their time arguing about rockets and efficiency while doing little else. And a worldwide shortage of food! With the T-Mat down, no one can eat. One wonders why there aren't stores of food everywhere (this is before the Dalek invasion, and one can see how easy that wold be for the Daleks, given the, ah, inefficiency of their system).
Shutting down the T-Mat is apparently an easy thing to do (and apparently no one ever thought it would happen. Very peace-loving, the 21st century).
The Doctor also lands in yet another museum. TOTALLY KEEPING SCORE, YO.
Anyway, the episode has, like, ten men and two women with speaking roles. Of course, of the ten men, six of them are dead (I'm not counting Ice Warriors at all, who've always been, well, male) by the end of the serial.
But the two women are Zoe and Gia Kelly, who even manage to pass the Bechdel (and they're not even talking about the Doctor). They are, in fact, two brainy women who bond over science.
So, anyway, can I talk about Gia Kelly, who is the ONLY PERSON on the ENTIRE PLANET who can fix the T-Mat?
It's a ridiculously inefficient system, you guys. What happens if she's off sick and the thing goes down? Tsk.
Technician Kelly is brisk, efficient, brave, a tech wizard, intelligent, and forth-right. She is utterly fabulous and goes about doing her job, danger or no. She also survives to the end where she has to argue with the cantankerous old men about rockets and such.
Meanwhile, Zoe has to talk a man out of his sudden and insane PTSD funk in the middle of an air duct, and then use her own brain to get where they need to go. (I expect they were like SHE WILL BY SYMPATHETIC, but Zoe was mostly like "THIS IS NOT THE TIME, WOMAN UP.")
I am betting there is no Gia Kelly fic, which means I'll have to write it myself. Mostly, I feel the urge to write the scene where, after the long day of saving the world, and arguing the old men to a stand-still with efficiency, she goes home to her wife (is deciding she has a wife falling into a trope? Idk), who's been a bit worried about her, but mostly because the T-Mat was broken (WORLDWIDE), and there was a food shortage. Gia faceplants on their bed and there is some arguing and grumpiness, and then possibly some mockery from Adella.
And now I've got to go put my lunch together and go to work.
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Here's the 1280x800 version: http://pics.livejournal.com/lyssie/pic/000h0b8w
and the 1024x768 size: http://pics.livejournal.com/lyssie/pic/000gza18
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