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Jun. 18th, 2007 03:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xparrotWent to The Prestige this afternoon - it just opened in Japan. The bro had highly recommended it, and with that cast and Christopher Nolan at the helm, how could it go wrong? It didn't disappoint. (Also, hee, it begins with a note from the director, "Please do not tell the ending of this film to anyone." Adorable! We live in the age of spoilers...)
Then we came back, showed a friend some SPN, then watched the latest Dr. Who. (Yup, we're all caught up with - the new, not the twenty-whatever seasons before - DW.) And "Utopia" - was that awesome or was it just me?
JAAAACK! JACK JACK JACK ^___^
Okay, now that I got that out of my system - no, wait, not quite out. JAAAACK! Oh, he was awesome. Back and on top of his game, an-y-thing that moves. But the Doctor, the Doctor is something special to him. Over a century later (ah-hah! I was thinking Jack had lived through a good chunk of time on Earth, glad to get confirmation of that) and Captain Jack is rightfully angry at being abandoned, bitter and pissy and...so thrilled to be back. He loves the Doctor so incredibly much.
And the Doctor loves him - not going to try to define the nature of that love, but he loves Jack. The hug, that Rose is alive!! (Oh Em Gee. Oh Tee Three.) And the conversation when Jack is in the reactor (erm, whatever it was?)...oh. Just, oh. "Do you want to die?" And he leans his head against the window, and the "Ja~ck." (I...I can't even squee over how much I love the way he says it, enunciates it. Just. The way he says it.) And Jack - Jack who in Torchwood so desperately needed that special kind of Doctor, the man who perhaps could finally end his tiresome existence - "I thought I did...I don't know." David Tennant and John Barrowman have amazing chemistry and I'm already depressed that we only get two more eps of it.
But anyway! The Doctor! Is back! Okay, the thing is, the last three eps before this - don't get me wrong, they were great. "Human Factor"/"Family of Blood" were just gorgeous and intense and heartbreaking. And "Blink" was so flippin' cool (okay, the weeping angels? totally freaked me out, like, spooked me worse than all of SPN last season, and that's not dissing SPN. And the "quantum lock" was not only the most wicked concept but to call it that, gave me a technobabble hard-on right there).
But the eps were all sadly lacking in the Doctor! HF/FoB had lots of David Tennant being delectably adorable, but John Smith was not the Doctor. And I may be...a little...teeny...weensy...bit madly hopelessly completely in love with the Doctor, and was suffering withdrawal pains. But we have him back now in such fine form. "Hermits United. We meet up every ten years, talk about caves...good fun!" (my gracious, the show is kind enough to name its OT3s for you! How convenient. Not that this is OT3 yet but it could be...)
Martha can actually be really, really funny. Her freak-out about the hand? Hee. And she's very willing to do what needs to be done, even if it's just hitting a button repeatedly (I think this makes sense; as a medical student she's got experience doing boring or gross tasks that are still absolutely necessary. And she's used to deferring to people who know more than her, while not losing confidence in her own abilities or intelligence; she just needs experience, and knows it.) I quite like Martha - I don't love her like Rose yet, but it took me a while to warm to Rose, and Martha hasn't had much chance to shine; I'm looking forward to seeing her get that chance.
Sir Derek Jacobi! as The Master! Eeeeep! I'd heard spoilers that the Master would be coming (err, not that I have much idea who he is beyond the name. But the name, like the Doctor and the Daleks, spreads beyond the bounds of Who-dom to leach into most SF fandom. Unless there's another evil Master wandering about fandom? Wouldn't be surprised.) Anyway, I knew the Master was coming and so when he mentioned the drums in his head I started to suspect what was happening. And that just makes it more tense. Then, when he finally emerges - whee! (Though I felt so sorry for his poor sweetly devoted lab assistant.) Now that is a supervillain! I think I'm in love already. The previews look (forgive me) fantastic.
Incidentally, I desire the soundtrack for season 3 bad - Murray Gold has been kicking all kinds of ass this season. Yes, I am such a sucker for overly bombastic action themes.
Do we really haveta wait a whole week for the next ep? Siiiigh!
Then we came back, showed a friend some SPN, then watched the latest Dr. Who. (Yup, we're all caught up with - the new, not the twenty-whatever seasons before - DW.) And "Utopia" - was that awesome or was it just me?
JAAAACK! JACK JACK JACK ^___^
Okay, now that I got that out of my system - no, wait, not quite out. JAAAACK! Oh, he was awesome. Back and on top of his game, an-y-thing that moves. But the Doctor, the Doctor is something special to him. Over a century later (ah-hah! I was thinking Jack had lived through a good chunk of time on Earth, glad to get confirmation of that) and Captain Jack is rightfully angry at being abandoned, bitter and pissy and...so thrilled to be back. He loves the Doctor so incredibly much.
And the Doctor loves him - not going to try to define the nature of that love, but he loves Jack. The hug, that Rose is alive!! (Oh Em Gee. Oh Tee Three.) And the conversation when Jack is in the reactor (erm, whatever it was?)...oh. Just, oh. "Do you want to die?" And he leans his head against the window, and the "Ja~ck." (I...I can't even squee over how much I love the way he says it, enunciates it. Just. The way he says it.) And Jack - Jack who in Torchwood so desperately needed that special kind of Doctor, the man who perhaps could finally end his tiresome existence - "I thought I did...I don't know." David Tennant and John Barrowman have amazing chemistry and I'm already depressed that we only get two more eps of it.
But anyway! The Doctor! Is back! Okay, the thing is, the last three eps before this - don't get me wrong, they were great. "Human Factor"/"Family of Blood" were just gorgeous and intense and heartbreaking. And "Blink" was so flippin' cool (okay, the weeping angels? totally freaked me out, like, spooked me worse than all of SPN last season, and that's not dissing SPN. And the "quantum lock" was not only the most wicked concept but to call it that, gave me a technobabble hard-on right there).
But the eps were all sadly lacking in the Doctor! HF/FoB had lots of David Tennant being delectably adorable, but John Smith was not the Doctor. And I may be...a little...teeny...weensy...bit madly hopelessly completely in love with the Doctor, and was suffering withdrawal pains. But we have him back now in such fine form. "Hermits United. We meet up every ten years, talk about caves...good fun!" (my gracious, the show is kind enough to name its OT3s for you! How convenient. Not that this is OT3 yet but it could be...)
Martha can actually be really, really funny. Her freak-out about the hand? Hee. And she's very willing to do what needs to be done, even if it's just hitting a button repeatedly (I think this makes sense; as a medical student she's got experience doing boring or gross tasks that are still absolutely necessary. And she's used to deferring to people who know more than her, while not losing confidence in her own abilities or intelligence; she just needs experience, and knows it.) I quite like Martha - I don't love her like Rose yet, but it took me a while to warm to Rose, and Martha hasn't had much chance to shine; I'm looking forward to seeing her get that chance.
Sir Derek Jacobi! as The Master! Eeeeep! I'd heard spoilers that the Master would be coming (err, not that I have much idea who he is beyond the name. But the name, like the Doctor and the Daleks, spreads beyond the bounds of Who-dom to leach into most SF fandom. Unless there's another evil Master wandering about fandom? Wouldn't be surprised.) Anyway, I knew the Master was coming and so when he mentioned the drums in his head I started to suspect what was happening. And that just makes it more tense. Then, when he finally emerges - whee! (Though I felt so sorry for his poor sweetly devoted lab assistant.) Now that is a supervillain! I think I'm in love already. The previews look (forgive me) fantastic.
Incidentally, I desire the soundtrack for season 3 bad - Murray Gold has been kicking all kinds of ass this season. Yes, I am such a sucker for overly bombastic action themes.
Do we really haveta wait a whole week for the next ep? Siiiigh!
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Date: 2007-06-22 02:32 pm (UTC)You know, whilst I think I agree that in the time war teh Vorlons would have been more on the TimeLord's side, I can't quite picture the Doctor entirely liking them. They are all about order, true, as were the Time Lords. But the Doctor isn't so much about that; it's part of the reason he left his homeworld, after all. The Doctor is actually quite shadow-ish in that he's a force for chaos in the universe. A rightious force, a good force, but a force that brings death in it's wake, none the less.
Not sure the Shadows would really have gone for the Dalkes though. Because for all their genocidal ways, the Daleks want a sort of order in the universe too. Their means and ends are switched round. The Shadows use death as a tool for chaos. They don't truly want to obliterate all races, merely cause friction enough that change and chaos ensues. The Daleks don't want change and choas, they just want oblitteration of all races that are not Daleks. Similar ideas but I'm not sure they're compatable.
Another plot strand for you here; Remember the part on B5 where Ivonova and Marcus were going round trying to get all the old races to help out in teh Shadow War? Well what if one of the races they contacted were the Time Lords? Or an attempt at contacting the Time Lords none the less.