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I have gotten Q addicted to VMars, which is...nice, but also means that we spend a lot of valuable research time lounging on the couch with tea while she convinces me that it can't hurt to watch just ONE more episode...
My health psychology assignment is 400 words too long and it's not even finished yet, so I am resorting to the time-honoured method of denial-through-TV before I return to it.
And now, I need to squeal and wave my hands around for a moment and then make a stab at semi-serious meta discussion.
OMG. THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN.
I love this episode more than almost any episode of anything. Mickey was fantastic ("Oh God. I'm the metal dog."). Sarah Jane was fantastic. Rose was hilarious and then briefly irritating and then hilarious again. The Doctor wore glasses and wandered around being nerd-sexy. Anthony Stewart Head was the villain-of-the-week.
Most importantly: COMPANION CATFIGHT AND SUBSEQUENT GIRLY BONDING.
"Does he still do that thing where he strokes bits of the TARDIS?"
I LOVE THIS SHOW.
I have also realised, in a stroke of stunning intelligence, that the Steven Moffat who wrote the Empty Child/Doctor Dances two-parter in S1 is the same Steven Moffat who wrote all of the scripts for Coupling, which explains why those two episodes were so awesome. Illogically, he also wrote The Girl in the Fireplace, which I really disliked. Granted, most of that was due to my finding Reinette to be extremely irritating. I didn't object to her existence as per se, and I was all for the random costume drama concept that the episode had so much fun with, the dialogue and the way the actress delivered it just really grated on my nerves.
It did have that wonderful exchange -
"What's a horse doing on a spaceship?"
"What's seventeeth-century France doing on a spaceship, Mickey? Get some perspective."
In conclusion: the Tenth Doctor is completely nutty and also a manwhore. I think I'm starting to see where the general fangirly ZOMG, NINE WOULD NEVER HAVE DONE THAT TO ROSE outcry stems from.
Because dude, Nine would not have let Mickey come along, Mickey would have interfered with his angst. Ten seems to be perpetually on the verge of either tearing off his clothes and inviting everyone he encounters to join with him in some kind of dance/orgy/celebration of insanity, or pressing a button and laughing maniacally as they all get sucked out into the vacuum of time and space.
He's so volatile. So unstable. I want to write something that explores how the Nine->Ten transition worked and how the memories interact with the residual personality and the new personality. But then, I also want to write a Nine-Jack-Rose crossover with House, and I also want to have another week of holidays, and I also wanta pony to be able to afford a haircut, but that's life. Suckitup.
What I want right now, however, is a cup of jasmine tea and a slice of chocolate cake, and I think I can just about manage that.
My health psychology assignment is 400 words too long and it's not even finished yet, so I am resorting to the time-honoured method of denial-through-TV before I return to it.
And now, I need to squeal and wave my hands around for a moment and then make a stab at semi-serious meta discussion.
OMG. THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN.
I love this episode more than almost any episode of anything. Mickey was fantastic ("Oh God. I'm the metal dog."). Sarah Jane was fantastic. Rose was hilarious and then briefly irritating and then hilarious again. The Doctor wore glasses and wandered around being nerd-sexy. Anthony Stewart Head was the villain-of-the-week.
Most importantly: COMPANION CATFIGHT AND SUBSEQUENT GIRLY BONDING.
"Does he still do that thing where he strokes bits of the TARDIS?"
I LOVE THIS SHOW.
I have also realised, in a stroke of stunning intelligence, that the Steven Moffat who wrote the Empty Child/Doctor Dances two-parter in S1 is the same Steven Moffat who wrote all of the scripts for Coupling, which explains why those two episodes were so awesome. Illogically, he also wrote The Girl in the Fireplace, which I really disliked. Granted, most of that was due to my finding Reinette to be extremely irritating. I didn't object to her existence as per se, and I was all for the random costume drama concept that the episode had so much fun with, the dialogue and the way the actress delivered it just really grated on my nerves.
It did have that wonderful exchange -
"What's a horse doing on a spaceship?"
"What's seventeeth-century France doing on a spaceship, Mickey? Get some perspective."
In conclusion: the Tenth Doctor is completely nutty and also a manwhore. I think I'm starting to see where the general fangirly ZOMG, NINE WOULD NEVER HAVE DONE THAT TO ROSE outcry stems from.
Because dude, Nine would not have let Mickey come along, Mickey would have interfered with his angst. Ten seems to be perpetually on the verge of either tearing off his clothes and inviting everyone he encounters to join with him in some kind of dance/orgy/celebration of insanity, or pressing a button and laughing maniacally as they all get sucked out into the vacuum of time and space.
He's so volatile. So unstable. I want to write something that explores how the Nine->Ten transition worked and how the memories interact with the residual personality and the new personality. But then, I also want to write a Nine-Jack-Rose crossover with House, and I also want to have another week of holidays, and I also want
What I want right now, however, is a cup of jasmine tea and a slice of chocolate cake, and I think I can just about manage that.
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