Doctor Who 4x00 - Voyage of the Damned

[fahye]

You know, that had a good plot and was exciting and all of that fun stuff, but I am still sitting here feeling utterly disgusted about the whole thing. You cannot expect to get away with killing off, in order:

1) The coloured guy
2) The canonically oppressed minority
3) The fat woman
4) The non-fat woman

And nobody else. Three white guys - four counting the Doctor - and THEY all survived.

And that's not even mentioning how pleased the Doctor looked to have a working-class blonde simpering at him again instead of that annoying educated coloured girl with her MAD WORLD-SAVING SKILLS and her habit of snapping in his face. (Okay, that's a little unfair to Astrid, of whom I was very fond, and whose little earnest fetching-of-the-first-aid-kit so that she was tall enough to kiss him I actually found quite cute. Even though I would have preferred there to be less kissing. I KNOW, SHOCK.)

BUT MOSTLY: FUCK *YOU*, RTD. Guess what? You do choose who lives and who dies, and when you make choices like that, it does make you a monster.

Seriously, how did he manage to miss the irony in his own fucking script?

Also: the Doctor will totally extend an invitation to the simpering blonde, but if the old guy asks? I TRAVEL ALONE. You can practically see him thinking shit, what if HE tries to give me mouth-to-mouth? I want Martha back. Or maybe sparkly-Tinkerbell-Astrid*. CLAP YOUR HANDS, KIDDIES.

Okay, stuff I did like:

- The twist re: time periods!
- The fact that all of London buggered off to the country. HAHAH. THAT'S WHAT YOU GET, DOCTOR.
- Astrid, as mentioned. Someone pointed out that her name is an anagram of TARDIS, which I don't think is at all meaningful, but it's amusing anyway.
- The hilarious mish-mash of Earth Christmas traditions. "And then they went to war with the Turkish people! And ATE THOSE TURKEYS! Like SAVAGES!"
- The Host (best. pun. ever.). Thanks to this show I am never trusting anything angel-shaped AS LONG AS I LIVE.
- "Take me to your leader!"
- Some of the uber-serious posing and flying and angry-face-ing was just silly, but I really bought Tennant's portrayal of the "I can do anything!" fury at the end.
- TARDIS in the snoooooooow.

REACTIONS TO S4 TRAILER:

- Oh, Donna, I love you.
- KISSING? FUCK. STOP WITH THE KISSING.
- Tim McInnery! OMG! And Min from Jekyll! Awesome.

And in conclusion: I want the Master back. And Martha. And Jack.

ETA: *kjhdjdhjshSH. I just remembered. That scene in Moulin Rouge! where they all get drunk on absinthe and Kylie Minogue plays the Green Fairy in a Tinkerbell costume. CLEARLY a result of Astrid's blue sparkly bits mating with the TARDIS's yellow sparkly bits and having GREEN SPARKLY KYLIE-MINOGUE-SHAPED BABIES. This is obviously what they wanted us to extrapolate from the whole ASTRID=TARDIS thing, amirite?

More seriously, sparkly-Tinkerbell-Astrid would actually be a very fitting companion for Ten, who has the universe's biggest Peter Pan complex.

Comments

[not-in-denial.livejournal.com]

D:

I haven't seen it yet but I care not about spoilers so I clicked.

MY MINORITY PAIN, IT HURTS. You'd think a fag would know better :/

Also, do not want kissing in Dr Who, kthx.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I know, right? I bitched to my mother and she said something along the lines of, "Well, you know, all he cares about in his real life are guys! So it's not very surprising!"

You should watch it anyway because Kylie Minogue is adorable and Tennant wears a suit and is very hot in it. And I really liked the plot and the scary bits and all of the minor characters, you just need to go into it aware that everyone DIES. Which isn't too hard considering it's the frigging Titanic.

[not-in-denial.livejournal.com]

I appreciate RTD because he's been getting teh ghey some visibility for years now... but your mother is right. And anyway, while he might be giving teh ghey some visibility, he does it all with stereotypes to the point where it doesn't help, it kind of hinders. I don't know many guys who like QAF, for example... it's not much at all like their lives (s'partially why I don't like it either, and also because it's so gay and I'm so queer, they're like different planets). Captain Jack is about the best thing to come out of RTD's attempts at queer activism. And honestly, maybe that makes up for it. I heart Jack. But I kind of hope to god RTD never turns his hand to trannies, or I may have to kill him.

Oh, I will watch it anyway. The Doctor and my boyfriend are my regular menage a trois these days.

[thexpuzzler.livejournal.com]

but if the old guy asks? I TRAVEL ALONE

I picked up on that, but I kind of interpreted it as the whole "I lose everyone I take with me, so why take anyone if they all die on me" kinda thing. You know? Like, the pain in that moment was too big or something.
Not that I think otherwise, the Doctor would have taken old guy *g* But in this situation, I can understand it.
I still wish they'd go with a bit more diversity when it comes to the companions. *sigh*

[minna.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD I KNOW RIGHT. I fucking want to stab that man in the face SERIOUSLY. IT'S JUST. EVERY TIME HE OPENS HIS MOUTH, I WANT TO KILL HIS FACE. AAAH.

like that shit about how WELL YOU KNOW, MARTHA WILL NEVER BE AS GOOD AS ME ROSE. and EVERY STORY BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE WHO AREN'T RELATED IS A LOVE STORY OKAYYY. HIS FAIL, IT STICKS ME PERMANENTLY IN CAPSLOCK.

(for some reason, i confused the name astrid with aphids and spent a good amount of time going WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY, RUSTY D:)

also, it's so bizarre hearing an australian accent amongst all the brits. i was like, AWH YOU'RE SO CUTE, YOUR VOICE IS BROKEN.