Spoiling You For EVERYTHING
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Just a short little review here on "Midnight" - I thought the episode was fabulous. I was so disappointed with "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead," partly because I felt like those episodes had just a little bit more going on in them than they could handle. I was waiting for this big grand explanation for everything so I could go "brilliant!" and I never got it, not through all the convolutions and virtual existences and data ghosts and doctor moons and whatnot. It was just too much for me and I thought the ending was lame and I thought it wasn't as scary as it should have been.
Midnight was pretty fucking scary, and there were no convolutions required. The beginning reminded me a bit of a fanfic or two or a hundred where the Doctor and his companion go to a vacation planet for sightseeing and relaxing - but that's cool, because I like knowing that the Doctor really does take his companions places like that. I thought the idea that the surface of the planet was completely desolate of life was pretty interesting as well, and I love that Donna is so secure and confident in herself to just decide for herself what she's doing for her vacation-ish time. She wants to sit in the sun. She doesn't need to follow the Doctor's every footstep. It was cool, they could do their own thing.
The Doctor breaking the overwhelming entertainment on the (bus?) thing they were riding in really made me smile - that was so him. That's his thing, that's what he loves, just talking and finding stuff out about ordinary people and thinking they're fascinating. I'm like that. See, I'm like the Doctor :P Except, not super clever or a Time Lord or anything :P And also, I really thought for a minute that when he was talking to Skye and she said her partner was in another galaxy and he said his was in another universe that he was talking about Romana.
DID YOU KNOW I HAVE A PLANT NAMED ROMANA? MORE ON THAT LATER :P
And yes, there goes RTD dropping another little gay thing-y into his show, Skye's partner was a "she," right? RTD has been getting a lot of criticism for his "supporting the gay agenda" or whatever - I think it's fabulous. I think it's really fabulous. Don't make it the point of the show. This ain't an after school special. Just drop it in here and there. I LOVE IT.
Second half of the episode was pure terror - claustrophobia and a panicked crowd are very, very scary things and I love how the one passenger called the Doctor on how he thrives on that kind of stuff - cause he does.
Even though Donna was hardly in the episode at all, I still love her character so much. I love that her and the Doctor had a "tell me about it" conversation when he got back. I mean, of course I love Rose. I don't hold Martha quite as dear as Rose, but I certainly can't deny her awesomeness. But they're both so young. Maybe I feel like the Doctor can connect with Donna on a little bit of a different level, because she's not practically a kid, she's an actual grown up. Like Jack. (Well, now I guess Jack's like a thousand years old or something, so maybe not quite like Jack...)
Whatever. Moving on. That preview with "the doctor is dead" and then Rose appearing had me all wtf.
The beginning of the episode seems to have gotten some flack about inaccuracies in the Chinese cultural stuff? I'm not Chinese, of course, so none of that stuck out to me. Actually, the first thing to pop into my head was "o.0 Serenity? Oh lookit, the Doctor is wearing a brown coat" :P
I was also a tad bit confused about the beetle - I haven't seen the Sarah Jane Adventures and so I didn't recognize what the thing was really and I mistakenly assumed that the thing had been on her back all along, because of the prediction the Roman oracle said about "there's something on your back." Maybe some kind of spoiler/speculation about Donna and the Racnoss and the series finale influenced that misinterpretation, too, possibly.
So, actually, the thing jumped on her after she entered the fortune teller's place? And the fortune teller was in league with the beetle? Have I got it right?
Catherine Tate is so fabulous. I loved her in the Christmas special but I just assuming that she was just playing her regular old obnoxious character, slightly modified to fit the situation. Cause... she was pretty obnoxious, you can't deny that. I had no idea that she had it in her to do more than that. Of course, it's not like I'm an expert on Catherine Tate's previous work - I've seen her Lauren Cooper, of course, and I had this horrible fear that "am I bovvered" was going to end up a running joke through the season. I much prefer the "oh no, we're not together."
I'm really gonna miss her when she leaves. She's exactly what the show needed, and she's exactly what the Doctor needed - she's a mate. A great one.
Anyway - I really like how she went right back to her pre-Doctor self completely convincingly without annoying the hell out of the viewers :P Cause like I said, she was great in the Christmas special but more of that Donna would have driven me up a wall.
ROSE!
Rose was a bit of a bad-ass, wasn't she? Is that what she's like without the Doctor, then, stepping up and taking control? Has she risen the ranks in Torchwood and is now leading some kind of time-traveling world-jumping expedition where she won't tell anyone her name? Is she deliberately becoming more like the Doctor because he's left such a void in her life, or is she just acting like that because it's part of her "job?"
I wanna see her interact with the Doctor first before I make any more assumptions about how much Rose has changed.
But I would like a blue vinyl jacket also plz, share with me, Billie Piper?
I hope we also get to see her interact with Jack. Nothing is ever going to compare to the Jack/Doctor/Rose dynamic from season one. Nothing. And I loved the Utopia arc because I was so happy to see the Doctor and Jack back together - now I want the Doctor, Rose, and Jack. And I wonder how much she knows about Jack - has she been looking in on our universe from hers, or does she know nothing at all? Does she know he can't die because she's the Bad Wolf?
And that Bad Wolf bit at the end, right down to the TARDIS saying Bad Wolf instead of Police Box, that was just chilling.
I CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT WEEK.
I forgot if I mentioned I went to see The Incredible Hulk. Well I did. See, I heard Tony Stark was in it.
Well, Tony Stark was in it for like thirty seconds at the very end. But the movie itself was delightfully peppered with references to the old Hulk. I love how he says "you won't like me when I'm hungry" in Portugese. I love how she buys him purple pants and he's like, "no." I love how the original actor made a cameo. I love how Stan Lee drank Hulk-ified soda. I love that he really did say "hulk smash."
I LOVE THAT THE HULK DID NOT LOOK LIKE FREAKIN' SHREK and I love that they're laying the groundwork for "The Avengers" although you know what would have made the movie so much cooler?
A SPIDERMAN CAMEO when the hulk and that mutated hulk!soldier were fighting in New York City. He could have just, you know, popped in and gotten knocked right out or something. I mean, come on. It's NYC. That's Spiderman's turf, you'd think he would have showed up.
I have a plant now. It's in my living room window and it's named Romana. Cause I decided to name it, and it seems people tend to name their plants Fred, and the Doctor named Romana Fred, so I thought therefor Romana is a good name for a plant :P
Midnight was pretty fucking scary, and there were no convolutions required. The beginning reminded me a bit of a fanfic or two or a hundred where the Doctor and his companion go to a vacation planet for sightseeing and relaxing - but that's cool, because I like knowing that the Doctor really does take his companions places like that. I thought the idea that the surface of the planet was completely desolate of life was pretty interesting as well, and I love that Donna is so secure and confident in herself to just decide for herself what she's doing for her vacation-ish time. She wants to sit in the sun. She doesn't need to follow the Doctor's every footstep. It was cool, they could do their own thing.
The Doctor breaking the overwhelming entertainment on the (bus?) thing they were riding in really made me smile - that was so him. That's his thing, that's what he loves, just talking and finding stuff out about ordinary people and thinking they're fascinating. I'm like that. See, I'm like the Doctor :P Except, not super clever or a Time Lord or anything :P And also, I really thought for a minute that when he was talking to Skye and she said her partner was in another galaxy and he said his was in another universe that he was talking about Romana.
DID YOU KNOW I HAVE A PLANT NAMED ROMANA? MORE ON THAT LATER :P
And yes, there goes RTD dropping another little gay thing-y into his show, Skye's partner was a "she," right? RTD has been getting a lot of criticism for his "supporting the gay agenda" or whatever - I think it's fabulous. I think it's really fabulous. Don't make it the point of the show. This ain't an after school special. Just drop it in here and there. I LOVE IT.
Second half of the episode was pure terror - claustrophobia and a panicked crowd are very, very scary things and I love how the one passenger called the Doctor on how he thrives on that kind of stuff - cause he does.
Even though Donna was hardly in the episode at all, I still love her character so much. I love that her and the Doctor had a "tell me about it" conversation when he got back. I mean, of course I love Rose. I don't hold Martha quite as dear as Rose, but I certainly can't deny her awesomeness. But they're both so young. Maybe I feel like the Doctor can connect with Donna on a little bit of a different level, because she's not practically a kid, she's an actual grown up. Like Jack. (Well, now I guess Jack's like a thousand years old or something, so maybe not quite like Jack...)
Whatever. Moving on. That preview with "the doctor is dead" and then Rose appearing had me all wtf.
The beginning of the episode seems to have gotten some flack about inaccuracies in the Chinese cultural stuff? I'm not Chinese, of course, so none of that stuck out to me. Actually, the first thing to pop into my head was "o.0 Serenity? Oh lookit, the Doctor is wearing a brown coat" :P
I was also a tad bit confused about the beetle - I haven't seen the Sarah Jane Adventures and so I didn't recognize what the thing was really and I mistakenly assumed that the thing had been on her back all along, because of the prediction the Roman oracle said about "there's something on your back." Maybe some kind of spoiler/speculation about Donna and the Racnoss and the series finale influenced that misinterpretation, too, possibly.
So, actually, the thing jumped on her after she entered the fortune teller's place? And the fortune teller was in league with the beetle? Have I got it right?
Catherine Tate is so fabulous. I loved her in the Christmas special but I just assuming that she was just playing her regular old obnoxious character, slightly modified to fit the situation. Cause... she was pretty obnoxious, you can't deny that. I had no idea that she had it in her to do more than that. Of course, it's not like I'm an expert on Catherine Tate's previous work - I've seen her Lauren Cooper, of course, and I had this horrible fear that "am I bovvered" was going to end up a running joke through the season. I much prefer the "oh no, we're not together."
I'm really gonna miss her when she leaves. She's exactly what the show needed, and she's exactly what the Doctor needed - she's a mate. A great one.
Anyway - I really like how she went right back to her pre-Doctor self completely convincingly without annoying the hell out of the viewers :P Cause like I said, she was great in the Christmas special but more of that Donna would have driven me up a wall.
ROSE!
Rose was a bit of a bad-ass, wasn't she? Is that what she's like without the Doctor, then, stepping up and taking control? Has she risen the ranks in Torchwood and is now leading some kind of time-traveling world-jumping expedition where she won't tell anyone her name? Is she deliberately becoming more like the Doctor because he's left such a void in her life, or is she just acting like that because it's part of her "job?"
I wanna see her interact with the Doctor first before I make any more assumptions about how much Rose has changed.
But I would like a blue vinyl jacket also plz, share with me, Billie Piper?
I hope we also get to see her interact with Jack. Nothing is ever going to compare to the Jack/Doctor/Rose dynamic from season one. Nothing. And I loved the Utopia arc because I was so happy to see the Doctor and Jack back together - now I want the Doctor, Rose, and Jack. And I wonder how much she knows about Jack - has she been looking in on our universe from hers, or does she know nothing at all? Does she know he can't die because she's the Bad Wolf?
And that Bad Wolf bit at the end, right down to the TARDIS saying Bad Wolf instead of Police Box, that was just chilling.
I CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT WEEK.
I forgot if I mentioned I went to see The Incredible Hulk. Well I did. See, I heard Tony Stark was in it.
Well, Tony Stark was in it for like thirty seconds at the very end. But the movie itself was delightfully peppered with references to the old Hulk. I love how he says "you won't like me when I'm hungry" in Portugese. I love how she buys him purple pants and he's like, "no." I love how the original actor made a cameo. I love how Stan Lee drank Hulk-ified soda. I love that he really did say "hulk smash."
I LOVE THAT THE HULK DID NOT LOOK LIKE FREAKIN' SHREK and I love that they're laying the groundwork for "The Avengers" although you know what would have made the movie so much cooler?
A SPIDERMAN CAMEO when the hulk and that mutated hulk!soldier were fighting in New York City. He could have just, you know, popped in and gotten knocked right out or something. I mean, come on. It's NYC. That's Spiderman's turf, you'd think he would have showed up.
I have a plant now. It's in my living room window and it's named Romana. Cause I decided to name it, and it seems people tend to name their plants Fred, and the Doctor named Romana Fred, so I thought therefor Romana is a good name for a plant :P
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Date: 2008-06-22 06:45 pm (UTC)It's just kanji inaccuracies and it sort of bugs me people are making a big deal out of it. Go to Japan, China, Korea, etc and see what happens when they do stuff in English. You get stuff like this (http://www.engrish.com). And no one cares. In fact, people think it's funny. People screw up languages that aren't their own, even in big budget things (I mean it's nothing new to Who either- there was the screwed up Norwegian for Bad Wolf bay) and I think it's really ballsy (in not a good way) to call racism because of it. /rant. XD
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Date: 2008-06-22 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-06-22 07:53 pm (UTC)EXACTLY what I was thinking. :))
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Date: 2008-06-23 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-22 11:52 pm (UTC)WORD! I love that he does that, it makes my day.
The beginning of the episode seems to have gotten some flack about inaccuracies in the Chinese cultural stuff?
I understand that, but can't they let it pass because it's NOT on Earth? So maybe the language is a little different.
At least he frelling TRIED and didn't just cheat by putting it in English and saying the TARDIS had translated it.
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Date: 2008-06-23 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-23 04:17 am (UTC)lol
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Date: 2008-06-23 07:19 pm (UTC)Also the purple pants made me laugh way more than they should have.
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Date: 2008-06-24 04:20 am (UTC)