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

Comments

[goreplz.livejournal.com]

jdifsajl; The Ninth Doctor is my favorite doctor! The shows are super campy but he was amazing, I really enjoy his acting and portrayal of the Doctor post Time War. Nine is great. :)

[giallarhorn.livejournal.com]

TEN IS NINE TRYING TO GET BETTER. And then Eleven is the Doctor looking back at Ten and deciding to just give up and move himself as far away from it as possible. But Nine is pretty much the catalyst for everything depressing and self hating and guilt ridden that the Doctor does. Ten's depressing in a much more human way, because he's that much more emotional but Nine gahhhh. Nine is just so broken and cold and scarred by the war that's fresh in his mind (you get the implication when you see him in Rose, he's just regenerated, or I did since he didn't even know what he looked like yet) and it defines him so much in that he did commit the genocide of two races and it just really haunts him and it's so incredible of how he changes from the person who sees humans as stupid apes and this completely self loathing person to where he ends up and Rose is just fantastic

SORRY FOR THE WORD VOMIT. I HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS ON NINE.

Rose was really creepy, in part because walking mannequins that's creepy.

[mysticalchild_isis]

I have so much love for Nine. He will forever be my favorite doctor, and that season of Who also makes up my favorite Whovian arc.

[aoife-hime.livejournal.com]

I love Nine! I was rather sad he only was around for one series. Doesn't hurt that I'm also partial to Northern accents :) Though I'm astonished you haven't seen any of Nine's episodes yet (save for the ones you just watched, of course). How did that happen??

I agree that "Rose" is a pretty creepy episode, which is great because that's just the way I like my Dr. Who episodes.

[karlamartinova.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I still miss him, he had much more angst than all the new Doctors, probably the reason I loved him the most, also its wonderful to watch how Rose changed him :)

[amathela.livejournal.com]

Batgirl: Year One being out of print is so sad. (As is Nightwing: Year One - I read it, enjoyed it, and promptly despaired of finding it for under $75. Ugh.)

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

(Hi, I am lj-surfing and creeping on two-week-old posts apparently... sorry if I'm being a bother!)

Oh, Nine. On the one hand, yes, it is hilarious that anyone can be more fucked-up than Ten, on the other hand... Nine is at least honest about how fucked-up he is, and sometimes I think all of Ten's trouble comes from trying to pretend he's okay (and at least 50% of Eleven's trouble comes from trying to be less of a self-righteous wallowing-in-his-own-martyrdom jerk than Ten). Nine at least knows more-or-less where 'well-adjusted' is, enough for him to wave and flash it a shit-eating grin as it flies past him.

Also ajskdl;jsadf s1. So many underrated creepy episodes (bring tissues and a sofa to hide behind for 'Father's Day'). And s1 is pretty much RTD at his best, except the parts where it is RTD at his worst in terms of cringe-inducing parodies of pop culture, but shhh, we ignore those because Nine and Rose and Time War and Daleks and Bad Wolf and the thirteen-hanky salute that is the finale.