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sff: Saturday Night is all right for fighting edition? idek
I am still not used to this whole "Doctor Who is on Saturdays" thing. I don't know why--maybe because it's so early? I remember when it was on at 10pm at night. I liked 10pm as an airing time.
Doctor Who 7x11 'Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS'
I find myself with little to say about this episode. I liked parts of it, but I felt it was a real cop-out to have the ending unravel the history that came before it.
I also wonder if this could be considered to be the origin of the TARDIS exploding in Big Bang.
The episode suffered from not having more Esher in it--like, there's a poster, with stairways all over the place, so I was looking forward to the Labyrinth in the TARDIS and... nothing. Sigh.
Then there's the 'creatures'. Why were they trying to kill them/chase them? That made no sense whatsoever. They added pretty much nothing to the whole episode, except to put in pointless "chase the companion/make her scream" shit.
ALSO. The LIBRARY. I would like it, and I'm sort of intensely pissed-off that we will never see it again and Clara doesn't even know she was there.
Orphan Black 1x5 'Conditions of Existence'
I am so confused and terrified and thrilled about this show.
Every week there's a new facet to this whole thing, and now I'm wondering if there's more than one faction--who is running Helena, and are they linked to the people taking EEGs of Beth/Sarah?
Also, as much of a straight-laced annoyance as she is, I sort of love Alison and her reaction to everything. She's almost the normal one, caught in this world of ridiculousness. Keeping it together the way she is is, well, impressive. Even if her husband is watching her the way Paul was watching Beth (and why are they watching them all?)
Is this some sort of extended social experiment in seeing their reactions and coping mechanisms when faced with increasing levels of bullshit, fucked-upedness and paranoia?
Also, Beth just kills me. She's dead and so much of what's happening is being affected by her death and the things she learned in life. The repercussions of her discovering Paul's perfidy are just beautiful.
Further, and I've said this before, I love how it's Sarah and Alison and Cosima, and their relationships and lives that are driving this show. The mystery is underlying everything, but it's their interaction with it that brings it to life. In a lot of other shows, we'd be subjected to Paul and the other dude having conversations all the time, we'd follow Alison's husband in some significant fashion -- THEY would be the point of view characters.
Everyone else is just hangers-on.
Ok, except Felix. <3
(also, Cosima now has a girlfriend, I can't believe I was right in assuming she was a lesbian)
and oh god, I just thought of this: did Mrs. S steal Sarah from them/hide her away? Because her reaction to Sarah's questions was to lie through her teeth. She knows SOMETHING, though I'm not sure what. Unless she's watching over Kira because the clones aren't supposed to be biologically viable--Alison thought Kira was adopted, but she's not.
(and holy shit am I glad that asshole Vic isn't the Kira's father. I am SO with Alison on that)
This whole waiting between weeks is going to kill me, eventually.
Motive 1x10. 'Fallen Angel'. A solid episode, though I sort of got bored at parts. Maybe not enough Angie snark? idek. Also, Dr. Betty in her heels, unf. (also, two women discussing the cause of death/science should not be hot, and yet, I just want them to finish talking about the corpse and then go make out in a closet or something.)
Doctor Who 7x11 'Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS'
I find myself with little to say about this episode. I liked parts of it, but I felt it was a real cop-out to have the ending unravel the history that came before it.
I also wonder if this could be considered to be the origin of the TARDIS exploding in Big Bang.
The episode suffered from not having more Esher in it--like, there's a poster, with stairways all over the place, so I was looking forward to the Labyrinth in the TARDIS and... nothing. Sigh.
Then there's the 'creatures'. Why were they trying to kill them/chase them? That made no sense whatsoever. They added pretty much nothing to the whole episode, except to put in pointless "chase the companion/make her scream" shit.
ALSO. The LIBRARY. I would like it, and I'm sort of intensely pissed-off that we will never see it again and Clara doesn't even know she was there.
Orphan Black 1x5 'Conditions of Existence'
I am so confused and terrified and thrilled about this show.
Every week there's a new facet to this whole thing, and now I'm wondering if there's more than one faction--who is running Helena, and are they linked to the people taking EEGs of Beth/Sarah?
Also, as much of a straight-laced annoyance as she is, I sort of love Alison and her reaction to everything. She's almost the normal one, caught in this world of ridiculousness. Keeping it together the way she is is, well, impressive. Even if her husband is watching her the way Paul was watching Beth (and why are they watching them all?)
Is this some sort of extended social experiment in seeing their reactions and coping mechanisms when faced with increasing levels of bullshit, fucked-upedness and paranoia?
Also, Beth just kills me. She's dead and so much of what's happening is being affected by her death and the things she learned in life. The repercussions of her discovering Paul's perfidy are just beautiful.
Further, and I've said this before, I love how it's Sarah and Alison and Cosima, and their relationships and lives that are driving this show. The mystery is underlying everything, but it's their interaction with it that brings it to life. In a lot of other shows, we'd be subjected to Paul and the other dude having conversations all the time, we'd follow Alison's husband in some significant fashion -- THEY would be the point of view characters.
Everyone else is just hangers-on.
Ok, except Felix. <3
(also, Cosima now has a girlfriend, I can't believe I was right in assuming she was a lesbian)
and oh god, I just thought of this: did Mrs. S steal Sarah from them/hide her away? Because her reaction to Sarah's questions was to lie through her teeth. She knows SOMETHING, though I'm not sure what. Unless she's watching over Kira because the clones aren't supposed to be biologically viable--Alison thought Kira was adopted, but she's not.
(and holy shit am I glad that asshole Vic isn't the Kira's father. I am SO with Alison on that)
This whole waiting between weeks is going to kill me, eventually.
Motive 1x10. 'Fallen Angel'. A solid episode, though I sort of got bored at parts. Maybe not enough Angie snark? idek. Also, Dr. Betty in her heels, unf. (also, two women discussing the cause of death/science should not be hot, and yet, I just want them to finish talking about the corpse and then go make out in a closet or something.)
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But Orphan Black...LOVE. I actually think this latest episode is the one that took my 'this is cool/I dig it' feelings to 'yespleasemoreandcanweskiptheweekinbetween?!'
I adore Alison. And ITA that she's the 'normal' one in their little clone-group. I also adore Sarah and Beth but I think Cosima might be my favorite? I just really love the way she geeks out about things and Sarah just cuts her off because she doesn't have time for that :)
I want to be excited by Cosima's new girlfriend but I'm worried that maybe she's the 'monitor' who is meant to be watching Cosima? It could be that other guy she works with but they seem to be planting the monitors as love interests/partners so perhaps this lady was brought in when they realized Cosima wasn't going to fall for her male co-worker? I really hope not because Cosima's flirtation with her was adorable :)
I do wonder how much Mrs. S knows. And I'm really curious about what makes Sarah so unique in that she's the only one who can have biological children.
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I love all the girls, but Cosima is my favourite, because she's the scientist and also because she's the one I find the sexiest. *is shallow* I loved her scene with Delphine and I hope she's not here to watch over Cosima. Also, I was glad to see the morgue guy back, he and Felix are cute together.