less homework = more fangirling

[ladymercury_10]

Everyone keeps telling me it is NO GOOD that I never finished RTD Who, and especially that I never watched any Ninth Doctor episodes.  So last night, light_frost and I watched "Rose" and "The End of the World."  (Since we don't live in the same state, this really means we were on GChat while we were watching them.  She had seen them before, incidentally.)  

Man, I thought Ten was sad, but Nine goes and hangs out at, like, the launching of the Titanic, and his idea of an impressive vacation is taking Rose to see the world blow up.  Rose and Mickey were cute, even though they seemed like they were kind of talking past each other most of the time.  And they looked so young!  Also, weirdly, the special effects were super cheesy, but "Rose" was a much creepier episode to me than many more straightforwardly creepy episodes.  I am not sure if I am more susceptible to cheesy-scary than proper-scary, or if I am just getting more susceptible to being scared by Doctor Who in general. :P

Also in fannish news, I have been trying to get in some more library comics-reading before finals/winter break, so I just finished Robin: Year One, Batgirl: Death Wish, and Batgirl: Year One.  Which, Batgirl: Year One was amazing, and pretty much everything I would want from a comic.  The art was magical, and I really liked the story and how Babs and Dick were written.  It has a lot of mythology references, and allusions to Barbara's future as Oracle and such, and other cool stuff.  It makes me so sad that it's out of print. :(

Did everybody see that fandom_stocking moved to DreamWidth this year?  I haven't finished making my stocking yet, but I am very excited to do so.  Who all is participating?  I want to know where your stockings are. :D

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[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Oh man, RTD likes his season arcs even more than Moffat. He builds his characters (especially the Doctor!) by season, he seeds stuff in the Christmas special and then has it come back to bite the Doctor in the ass in a vicious orgy of poetic justice two season finales later, he takes an offhand line from s1 and reuses it with a HORRIFYING TWIST in s3, and then with an even more horrifying twist in the specials... I like it. A lot. It's the sort of thing where you can totally watch it in whatever order and have fun, but it becomes so much richer when watched chronologically.

(The line to watch out for, btw, is in Dalek: Rose asks "Is that the end of it, then? The Time War?" and Nine responds with a heartbreakingly wry "I'm the only one left. I 'win.' How about that." Both of those are like... the lines that will not die and keep coming back in more and more messed-up ways from various characters.)

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Oh, see, I never got that, because I could catch the stuff they were teasing for individual season finales even with the out-of-order (like "Vote for Saxon" or whatever), but the rest is too subtle. And also, I never finished.

I think I remember Ten saying, "I win," at some point. Would that have been "Waters of Mars?"

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if you watch out of order within a season the storylines are present if kinda jumbled; as soon as you start mixing seasons, though, it loses a lot of its arc-tastic richness.

Ha, yes, Ten is the only one left, but he's not just a survivor, he's the WINNER goddammit, and the laws of time are his and they will obey him, and this is why Nine is actually the closest to well-adjusted of the lot.