KITTIES!!!!! KITTIES KITTIES KITTIES KITTIES KITTIES!!!!!!! KITTIES EVERYWHERE!!! I LOVE KITTIES!!! THE MASTER HOLDING A KITTY!!! ACE HOLDING A KITTY!! KITTIES ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway. This is the episode where the Master is turning into a cheetah person for some reason and there are kitties. There are also people in cheetah suits, they're not as adorable. The Master is getting this beautiful black kitty to teleport people to this barren wasteland of the Cheetah People who then eat the people teleported there, but only if you try to run away from them. They like to play with their food (they are cats, after all). Anyway, I'm reading this fic that goes very deep into the history between the Doctor and the Master and that makes watching this episode all the more interesting.
Oh, um, also? This is the last episode of the classic series. Maybe I shouldn't be watching it... maybe I really should save it for last. But I don't think it acts like the last episode of the classic series, so it won't feel like premature closure, right? Who knows. I'm enjoying it so I'll keep watching.
Well, I finished it. I probably shouldn't have, but I did. The Master was turning into a Cheetah person (whose fucking idea was that?) and some other stuff happened, and there were some great Doctor/Master moments. But the ending line to end all ending lines - as the Doctor and Ace walk off into the fucking sunset:
"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning. Where the seas sleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice. Somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do."
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
The Curse of Fenric
I've decided to go through (again, in no particular order) most if not all of the episodes listed here, barring ones I feel like I need to see other episodes beforehand to fully understand (i.e. Cybermen episodes - I'll get around to the Cybermen eventually). I'm starting with the Curse of Fenric, which promises to be good on the character development front. Plus, I can't get enough of Seven and Ace.
What the... what is Ace wearing? And why? She says she'd rather go rock climbing, and the Doctor says "Not in those clothes!" and laughs kind of maniacally and she kind of goes "Hey!" I'm not sure what's going on with them right now. Hee hee, she calls him the Professor so much she introduces him that way. I hope I haven't missed anything, I've no freaking idea why they're here. And what are these accents??
Aw, he's so like her authoritative father or uncle or babysitter. Cute. Oh, Ace is wearing period clothing I think. That seems like a first. I guess she's the only one who would already draw enough attention for breaking social standards without dressing like a punk. And she's made some friends. Girls! Just went up and said hello!
Hey! Don't stand on the grave! So disrespectful. Aw, man! The crazy old crone is right! She says Maiden's Point is where you can hear girls who lost their souls to evil, or something like that. And from screencaps and such I know she's right. Damn. And I understood that Russian word on the folder! It said "confidential"! And I didn't even need to sound it out or anything!
Hm. Pretty sure those girls are gonna die. The Doctor specifically said "Don't go in the water" and they're all going for a swim. Dead. Ah, and Ace isn't. Yep, they're definitely gonna die. And I think Ace may not know how to swim, because her response to their invitation to swim was "Swimming is stupid". Oh hey, the WWII girls are doing that thing where they drew lines on the backs of their legs to make it look like they were wearing stockings even though no one had stockings.
The Doctor just made a weird noise at Ace. And the Doctor is not dealing well with the presence of a baby. And Ace is pretty evidently damaged. She learns the baby's name is the same as her mother's and immediately hates the poor thing. Heh, he spends a lot of time holding her back from trying to beat the shit out of people.
Woah! Graphics! The letter appearing in the wall - special effects! And the Doctor, well, almost said "Что ты видел?" (What did you see?) but he said it kind of weird. And now he's acting like Ace's irritable tutor. He wants her to notice that these inscriptions they're looking at weren't there that morning, and he keeps prodding her like teachers do. Oh, whatever. Maybe he's missing having spawn now that he's over 953 and everything. Hm, you know they wouldn't even bother acknowledging the sexism of the past because it's inconvenient, seeing as all the companions are girls.
The Doctor is really against mass murder, even (especially?) in the context of war. This English guy wants to kill everyone in Moscow (basically) with this poison gas stuff to end the war. And the way he wants to do it is to rig the computer thing to self destruct when the Russians try to decode the word "love", which will be included in one of their cyphers. The Doctor astutely notes that it's "inhuman".
Those stupid girls are swimming in their jumpers. Woah... let's talk about odd glimpses into the Doctor's life... "Do you have any family yourself?" "...I don't know." "Oh, it's the war isn't it? It must be terrible not knowing." "...yes..."
Yup, the girls have been converted into water monster things. Sirens. They lure people into the water and they get eaten by water monsters. Vampires! They're vampires! They drained the old woman of blood. Vampires are always water monsters, I guess. Eugh, they're grody. Man, I think it's actually raining outside. The mics are picking it up. What a shame for the BBC. Mm... Ace and the Doctor are so cute. Argh! What's happening to Ace? She wanted to make sure the woman and the baby were ok, and then she said she wasn't sure any more that she never wanted to get married. Damn.
The Doctor is... speaking an incantation that repels the water monster vampire people. And Ace just set off more explosives and the Doctor goes "I'll talk to you later" with this expression of mock anger. And that soldier guy is repelling the vampires with the power of his communist ring! Doctor, what do you mean the Russians are our allies? I mean, for the moment, but you do in fact know what happens after the war. Not that they ever actually posed enough of a real actually threat for this poison thing to be anywhere near justifiable.
Ace says "I can distract the guards" and the Doctor says "How?" and she says "I'm not a little girl" and I go, does she mean...? And then... yes. Yes she does. In a weird, cryptic, I'm not sure it would really work kind of way. Except she maybe just be confusing him, really. she's certainly confusing me. Oooh... he was the one who already had a crush on her.
Aw, man. They got the vicar in the end. I knew they would. This is really intense.
What the...? Woah! Fenric takes the old guy's body and says "We play the contest again, Time Lord. You left me in the shadow dimensions, trapped for seventeen centuries. But now, I've found a body again, and the preparations are complete." I actually gasped. This is so cool!
Um, does Rock-a-bye Baby have a different tune in Britain?
I think that guy just gave Ace a genuine communist badge! Cool, but, huh. I dunno. Ok, the faith (in just about anything) combined with an emblem (ideally) repels the vampires. The guy gave his thing to Ace, so he doesn't have the emblem anymore... but... the sickle and hammer are right on his hat. Like, right there.
Woah... I just realized... I think that baby is Ace's mum. The timing works out, right? She's got the same name and Ace just sent the woman and the baby to go be looked after by her (Ace's) nan in London. I think she just set in motion the events leading to her own birth. And... then she watched two nice girls who'd been turned into vampires melt before her eyes. Nice.
Myerg... it's getting all dark and stuff. True evil, pawns in his game, creating using people, using Ace. Since the baby lived, Ace was born, and since Ace was born, she accidentally gave Fenric the answer to the chess puzzle, and he wins the game. So the wolves of Fenric have released him, or something. And Ace's faith in the Doctor kills the Ancient One (who is a vampire)! AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE! HOLY GOD! EVER SINCE ICEWORLD, WHERE THE DOCTOR FIRST MET HER! SHE WAS A PAWN! AND THE DOCTOR IS BLUFFING, RIGHT? RIGHT???
You see, Ace was a plant by Fenric, who needed her to figure out the puzzle, and for that there needed to be a chess set, and the baby needed to live so Ace could be born. And the Doctor may or may not have figured that out, but in any case he needed Ace to loose her faith in him so the Ancient One wouldn't be crippled by it, because the Ancient One really wanted Fenric dead, because Fenric was the one who caused the Earth to be all poisonous and destroy the world as the Ancient One knew it. So the Doctor said a bunch of mean things about Ace so she would lose her faith and the Ancient One would kill Fenric!
Wow, that was damn good. Damn damn good. That should have been the last episode, I think. Well, after that I don't think I have a choice but to move on to the actual last episode... oooh, should I? Or should I save it??? TELL ME!!
Quotes:
"I can see you've never been handicapped by great intelligence."
What the... what is Ace wearing? And why? She says she'd rather go rock climbing, and the Doctor says "Not in those clothes!" and laughs kind of maniacally and she kind of goes "Hey!" I'm not sure what's going on with them right now. Hee hee, she calls him the Professor so much she introduces him that way. I hope I haven't missed anything, I've no freaking idea why they're here. And what are these accents??
Aw, he's so like her authoritative father or uncle or babysitter. Cute. Oh, Ace is wearing period clothing I think. That seems like a first. I guess she's the only one who would already draw enough attention for breaking social standards without dressing like a punk. And she's made some friends. Girls! Just went up and said hello!
Hey! Don't stand on the grave! So disrespectful. Aw, man! The crazy old crone is right! She says Maiden's Point is where you can hear girls who lost their souls to evil, or something like that. And from screencaps and such I know she's right. Damn. And I understood that Russian word on the folder! It said "confidential"! And I didn't even need to sound it out or anything!
Hm. Pretty sure those girls are gonna die. The Doctor specifically said "Don't go in the water" and they're all going for a swim. Dead. Ah, and Ace isn't. Yep, they're definitely gonna die. And I think Ace may not know how to swim, because her response to their invitation to swim was "Swimming is stupid". Oh hey, the WWII girls are doing that thing where they drew lines on the backs of their legs to make it look like they were wearing stockings even though no one had stockings.
The Doctor just made a weird noise at Ace. And the Doctor is not dealing well with the presence of a baby. And Ace is pretty evidently damaged. She learns the baby's name is the same as her mother's and immediately hates the poor thing. Heh, he spends a lot of time holding her back from trying to beat the shit out of people.
Woah! Graphics! The letter appearing in the wall - special effects! And the Doctor, well, almost said "Что ты видел?" (What did you see?) but he said it kind of weird. And now he's acting like Ace's irritable tutor. He wants her to notice that these inscriptions they're looking at weren't there that morning, and he keeps prodding her like teachers do. Oh, whatever. Maybe he's missing having spawn now that he's over 953 and everything. Hm, you know they wouldn't even bother acknowledging the sexism of the past because it's inconvenient, seeing as all the companions are girls.
The Doctor is really against mass murder, even (especially?) in the context of war. This English guy wants to kill everyone in Moscow (basically) with this poison gas stuff to end the war. And the way he wants to do it is to rig the computer thing to self destruct when the Russians try to decode the word "love", which will be included in one of their cyphers. The Doctor astutely notes that it's "inhuman".
Those stupid girls are swimming in their jumpers. Woah... let's talk about odd glimpses into the Doctor's life... "Do you have any family yourself?" "...I don't know." "Oh, it's the war isn't it? It must be terrible not knowing." "...yes..."
Yup, the girls have been converted into water monster things. Sirens. They lure people into the water and they get eaten by water monsters. Vampires! They're vampires! They drained the old woman of blood. Vampires are always water monsters, I guess. Eugh, they're grody. Man, I think it's actually raining outside. The mics are picking it up. What a shame for the BBC. Mm... Ace and the Doctor are so cute. Argh! What's happening to Ace? She wanted to make sure the woman and the baby were ok, and then she said she wasn't sure any more that she never wanted to get married. Damn.
The Doctor is... speaking an incantation that repels the water monster vampire people. And Ace just set off more explosives and the Doctor goes "I'll talk to you later" with this expression of mock anger. And that soldier guy is repelling the vampires with the power of his communist ring! Doctor, what do you mean the Russians are our allies? I mean, for the moment, but you do in fact know what happens after the war. Not that they ever actually posed enough of a real actually threat for this poison thing to be anywhere near justifiable.
Ace says "I can distract the guards" and the Doctor says "How?" and she says "I'm not a little girl" and I go, does she mean...? And then... yes. Yes she does. In a weird, cryptic, I'm not sure it would really work kind of way. Except she maybe just be confusing him, really. she's certainly confusing me. Oooh... he was the one who already had a crush on her.
Aw, man. They got the vicar in the end. I knew they would. This is really intense.
What the...? Woah! Fenric takes the old guy's body and says "We play the contest again, Time Lord. You left me in the shadow dimensions, trapped for seventeen centuries. But now, I've found a body again, and the preparations are complete." I actually gasped. This is so cool!
Um, does Rock-a-bye Baby have a different tune in Britain?
I think that guy just gave Ace a genuine communist badge! Cool, but, huh. I dunno. Ok, the faith (in just about anything) combined with an emblem (ideally) repels the vampires. The guy gave his thing to Ace, so he doesn't have the emblem anymore... but... the sickle and hammer are right on his hat. Like, right there.
Woah... I just realized... I think that baby is Ace's mum. The timing works out, right? She's got the same name and Ace just sent the woman and the baby to go be looked after by her (Ace's) nan in London. I think she just set in motion the events leading to her own birth. And... then she watched two nice girls who'd been turned into vampires melt before her eyes. Nice.
Myerg... it's getting all dark and stuff. True evil, pawns in his game, creating using people, using Ace. Since the baby lived, Ace was born, and since Ace was born, she accidentally gave Fenric the answer to the chess puzzle, and he wins the game. So the wolves of Fenric have released him, or something. And Ace's faith in the Doctor kills the Ancient One (who is a vampire)! AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE! HOLY GOD! EVER SINCE ICEWORLD, WHERE THE DOCTOR FIRST MET HER! SHE WAS A PAWN! AND THE DOCTOR IS BLUFFING, RIGHT? RIGHT???
You see, Ace was a plant by Fenric, who needed her to figure out the puzzle, and for that there needed to be a chess set, and the baby needed to live so Ace could be born. And the Doctor may or may not have figured that out, but in any case he needed Ace to loose her faith in him so the Ancient One wouldn't be crippled by it, because the Ancient One really wanted Fenric dead, because Fenric was the one who caused the Earth to be all poisonous and destroy the world as the Ancient One knew it. So the Doctor said a bunch of mean things about Ace so she would lose her faith and the Ancient One would kill Fenric!
Wow, that was damn good. Damn damn good. That should have been the last episode, I think. Well, after that I don't think I have a choice but to move on to the actual last episode... oooh, should I? Or should I save it??? TELL ME!!
Quotes:
"I can see you've never been handicapped by great intelligence."
Friday, June 18, 2010
Remembrance of the Daleks
Back to Seven and Ace. I like her haircut. Well, not a haircut, but a french braid all the way along her head, looks a little like a mohawk from certain angles. She's so cool. It's a little bit of a shame she's with the most polite and intellectually curious and engaged Doctor. They're not a perfect match. But it is funny. And Ace keeps meeting cool people. Like that Asian girl and this guy in the cafe. They just had a conversation about how many pence are in a shilling and such, and it went entirely over my head. I don't know if it means she's from the future or the past or it's a parallel Earth or she's just been away for a while.
Oh ho ho!!! The inverted colours PLUS seeing the bones effects! The Dalek death ray improved over the years. I didn't realize they could do that effect before the new series.
Oooh, the Doctor is angry. He shakes his head and grumbles "Humans..." when the captain refuses to take his advice on how to deal with Daleks. Hey, two nitro nine bombs destroyed a Dalek's metal casing. That seems unlikely. Oh god, Ace and the Doctor driving reminds me of my parents. That's the one situation in which they argue and it's awful. Right here, no not right, left? You said left, no I said right!
Oooh... they're in 1963. I guess the currency changed...? Man, the Doctor is pretty down on humans right now. And Ace just pronounced "omega" as "OMega".
AAHH!!! IT'S DAVROS!!! Wowie! Ok. Anyway, the Doctor said something like "Humans - your ability for self deception is only matched by your ingenuity when trying to destroy yourselves." Seven is a severely elitist man, rolling his "r"s like that.
Ok, there we go. This Dalek just rose up in the air to get up some stairs. I guess they had to wait until the special effects could handle levitation until they put Daleks in situations with stairs.
So I've just got to the second installment of this story, and you know something? I really like the part of the theme tune that's in a major key. Hey, this Dalek is kind of white and gold in theme. Woah, and he's more emphatic than I've ever heard a Dalek, like he's really upset about it. Ok, those rolled "r"s are starting to bug me a little bit. He is so angry... I'm beginning to understand the state of mind that might have lead him to destroying his entire race. I'll have to see the movie and see what Eight is like.
A black guy!!! Look! Right there! It's a black guy, look at him! And he's... I knew it! He played Geoffrey, Will Smith's butler in Fresh Prince! Oh, that is fucking weird right there... and he's doing some kind of accent. The actor was born in the Caribbean, so maybe it's that. Oh, he did say something about cane cutting and Kingston, so that makes sense.
So... the Doctor went back in time to do... something with some casket that is voice operated and has a smoke machine inside it and HOLY CRAP IT LEVITATES. I don't know what on Earth is happening. Ok, everyone is saying "OMega". Maybe it's a British thing. Now, what's the Hand of Omega? Oh, well it was made by Omega, who I think shows up in an episode with Five that I started and never finished because I didn't know what was going on. I should go back and watch that at some point. He's a Time Lord apparently. That's an awfully small gravestone.
Now Ace is staying at a boarding house with that guy's mum. If this show were on cable there would've been some sexing by now. And hey, the Doctor just - did Ace just call that guy a homo? People keep treating her like a girl, poor Ace. Anyway, the Doctor upgraded her bat. The bat was reminding me of Earthbound enough already.
Gee, I've never seen the Doctor this irritable. He does get pretty testy when Daleks are involved and people don't understand the severity of the situation.
Oooh, it certainly is the '60s. Ace just found a sign in the window of the boarding house that said "No coloureds" (she took it down). I'm pleased with how distressed she was.
I am having some sort of phantom ad problem with Dailymotion. I start the video and a couple seconds in (about half of the time) the audio of an ad begins, but I can't see it and I can't find anything to turn off or kill. Very frustrating.
Man, these Daleks are pretty easily killed. I guess they figured they weren't that scary like that for the new series. You need to divide their atoms to kill 'em now. Although they did have the advantage of pincers. Well, actually, there are two different kinds of Dalek in this episode. Some are just kind of blobby and some have limbs and pincers and stuff. Interesting.
Ok, who the hell is this little girl with the creepy little kid music following her around?
Emperor Dalek sounds like he's having a heart attack. I mean it, he sounds like he's really pushing himself to grind out these lines and it's causing him pain.
The Doctor is acting weird. I really like Seven, kind of because I don't like him. It's hard to explain. He's funny sometimes, brilliant sometimes, but mostly just kind of this weird combination of exasperated and curious. Hey, Omega laid the groundwork for Rassilon. Dick. Hmm... I guess this Hand of Omega thing... is how the Daleks get enough time travel power for the Time War to be as deadly as it was. The Doctor wants them to get the Hand of Omega, though. I can't for the life of me think why. Ok, what is with this vaguely inspirational '80s power ballad type soundtrack? Ech.
WAAUUGGHHH!!!! THAT'S NOT DAVROS!! THAT'S THE LITTLE GIRL WEARING A HELMET! MY MIND HAS BEEN BLOWN.
Wow, I just realized how much I've already written for this episode. I'll give it a little break. Hee hee, the Doctor just did another magic trick. And Phil Collins seems to be on his way, judging by the music. Dude, the guy just asked Ace out in the middle of a Dalek invasion. And then... revealed himself to be a spy for the Daleks? Old Who is confusing. Hee hee hee!!! That Dalek looks chubby! That's hilarious. Jeeze, calm down, Emperor Dalek, you're gonna burst something. Get a hold of yourself.
Ok, HOW OLD IS THE DOCTOR? He just said the words "It's easy, when you have 900 years of experience", but at the end of Flesh and Stone he says he's 907 years old. I refuse to believe that there were fewer than seven years between Seven and Eleven, and that the Doctor has been rewiring electrical equipment since before he was seven. Also, Emperor Dalek looks like a mushroom.
Oh, Emperor Dalek is Davros. He looks weird. Firstly, his mouth moves when he talks now, which I'm pretty sure it didn't before, and he's covered in wires and stuff. The Doctor is really upsetting Davros. Well done, dude. I mean, Davros is pretty irritable, to be honest. He certainly gave the Daleks his manner.
Woah! Skaro just vaporized! The Hand of Omega malfunctioned and vaporized Skaro. Then it came back and destroyed the mothership, but not before Davros begged for mercy and the Doctor sneered in response. Woah, those are some weak stairs. Hmm, the Doctor just destroyed a Dalek with the same technique that made the one in Dalek (New Who) kill itself. No superiors, no inferiors, no purpose.
Ok, 136 episodes to go. I will stick to good or important ones until I know I've done all of them before I go on to ones that are neither.
Quotes:
"Lack of food makes me hungry, you know!"
"Ace! Give me some of the nitro nine that you're not carrying."
"Can you drive?" "Why?" "Good, I thought so."
"You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies."
"With respect group captain, your career is magnificently irrelevant."
"Ace, you're hurt!" "I had an argument with the window."
"What did you do to it?" "I shorted it out. Daleks are such boring conversationalists."
*interrupting Davros* "... all powerful, crush the lesser races, conquer the galaxy, unimaginable power, unlimited rice pudding, etcetera, etcetera!"
Oh ho ho!!! The inverted colours PLUS seeing the bones effects! The Dalek death ray improved over the years. I didn't realize they could do that effect before the new series.
Oooh, the Doctor is angry. He shakes his head and grumbles "Humans..." when the captain refuses to take his advice on how to deal with Daleks. Hey, two nitro nine bombs destroyed a Dalek's metal casing. That seems unlikely. Oh god, Ace and the Doctor driving reminds me of my parents. That's the one situation in which they argue and it's awful. Right here, no not right, left? You said left, no I said right!
Oooh... they're in 1963. I guess the currency changed...? Man, the Doctor is pretty down on humans right now. And Ace just pronounced "omega" as "OMega".
AAHH!!! IT'S DAVROS!!! Wowie! Ok. Anyway, the Doctor said something like "Humans - your ability for self deception is only matched by your ingenuity when trying to destroy yourselves." Seven is a severely elitist man, rolling his "r"s like that.
Ok, there we go. This Dalek just rose up in the air to get up some stairs. I guess they had to wait until the special effects could handle levitation until they put Daleks in situations with stairs.
So I've just got to the second installment of this story, and you know something? I really like the part of the theme tune that's in a major key. Hey, this Dalek is kind of white and gold in theme. Woah, and he's more emphatic than I've ever heard a Dalek, like he's really upset about it. Ok, those rolled "r"s are starting to bug me a little bit. He is so angry... I'm beginning to understand the state of mind that might have lead him to destroying his entire race. I'll have to see the movie and see what Eight is like.
A black guy!!! Look! Right there! It's a black guy, look at him! And he's... I knew it! He played Geoffrey, Will Smith's butler in Fresh Prince! Oh, that is fucking weird right there... and he's doing some kind of accent. The actor was born in the Caribbean, so maybe it's that. Oh, he did say something about cane cutting and Kingston, so that makes sense.
So... the Doctor went back in time to do... something with some casket that is voice operated and has a smoke machine inside it and HOLY CRAP IT LEVITATES. I don't know what on Earth is happening. Ok, everyone is saying "OMega". Maybe it's a British thing. Now, what's the Hand of Omega? Oh, well it was made by Omega, who I think shows up in an episode with Five that I started and never finished because I didn't know what was going on. I should go back and watch that at some point. He's a Time Lord apparently. That's an awfully small gravestone.
Now Ace is staying at a boarding house with that guy's mum. If this show were on cable there would've been some sexing by now. And hey, the Doctor just - did Ace just call that guy a homo? People keep treating her like a girl, poor Ace. Anyway, the Doctor upgraded her bat. The bat was reminding me of Earthbound enough already.
Gee, I've never seen the Doctor this irritable. He does get pretty testy when Daleks are involved and people don't understand the severity of the situation.
Oooh, it certainly is the '60s. Ace just found a sign in the window of the boarding house that said "No coloureds" (she took it down). I'm pleased with how distressed she was.
I am having some sort of phantom ad problem with Dailymotion. I start the video and a couple seconds in (about half of the time) the audio of an ad begins, but I can't see it and I can't find anything to turn off or kill. Very frustrating.
Man, these Daleks are pretty easily killed. I guess they figured they weren't that scary like that for the new series. You need to divide their atoms to kill 'em now. Although they did have the advantage of pincers. Well, actually, there are two different kinds of Dalek in this episode. Some are just kind of blobby and some have limbs and pincers and stuff. Interesting.
Ok, who the hell is this little girl with the creepy little kid music following her around?
Emperor Dalek sounds like he's having a heart attack. I mean it, he sounds like he's really pushing himself to grind out these lines and it's causing him pain.
The Doctor is acting weird. I really like Seven, kind of because I don't like him. It's hard to explain. He's funny sometimes, brilliant sometimes, but mostly just kind of this weird combination of exasperated and curious. Hey, Omega laid the groundwork for Rassilon. Dick. Hmm... I guess this Hand of Omega thing... is how the Daleks get enough time travel power for the Time War to be as deadly as it was. The Doctor wants them to get the Hand of Omega, though. I can't for the life of me think why. Ok, what is with this vaguely inspirational '80s power ballad type soundtrack? Ech.
WAAUUGGHHH!!!! THAT'S NOT DAVROS!! THAT'S THE LITTLE GIRL WEARING A HELMET! MY MIND HAS BEEN BLOWN.
Wow, I just realized how much I've already written for this episode. I'll give it a little break. Hee hee, the Doctor just did another magic trick. And Phil Collins seems to be on his way, judging by the music. Dude, the guy just asked Ace out in the middle of a Dalek invasion. And then... revealed himself to be a spy for the Daleks? Old Who is confusing. Hee hee hee!!! That Dalek looks chubby! That's hilarious. Jeeze, calm down, Emperor Dalek, you're gonna burst something. Get a hold of yourself.
Ok, HOW OLD IS THE DOCTOR? He just said the words "It's easy, when you have 900 years of experience", but at the end of Flesh and Stone he says he's 907 years old. I refuse to believe that there were fewer than seven years between Seven and Eleven, and that the Doctor has been rewiring electrical equipment since before he was seven. Also, Emperor Dalek looks like a mushroom.
Oh, Emperor Dalek is Davros. He looks weird. Firstly, his mouth moves when he talks now, which I'm pretty sure it didn't before, and he's covered in wires and stuff. The Doctor is really upsetting Davros. Well done, dude. I mean, Davros is pretty irritable, to be honest. He certainly gave the Daleks his manner.
Woah! Skaro just vaporized! The Hand of Omega malfunctioned and vaporized Skaro. Then it came back and destroyed the mothership, but not before Davros begged for mercy and the Doctor sneered in response. Woah, those are some weak stairs. Hmm, the Doctor just destroyed a Dalek with the same technique that made the one in Dalek (New Who) kill itself. No superiors, no inferiors, no purpose.
Ok, 136 episodes to go. I will stick to good or important ones until I know I've done all of them before I go on to ones that are neither.
Quotes:
"Lack of food makes me hungry, you know!"
"Ace! Give me some of the nitro nine that you're not carrying."
"Can you drive?" "Why?" "Good, I thought so."
"You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies."
"With respect group captain, your career is magnificently irrelevant."
"Ace, you're hurt!" "I had an argument with the window."
"What did you do to it?" "I shorted it out. Daleks are such boring conversationalists."
*interrupting Davros* "... all powerful, crush the lesser races, conquer the galaxy, unimaginable power, unlimited rice pudding, etcetera, etcetera!"
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Battlefield
Could the young black female Brigadier seem any less interested in the events happening around her? Anyway. The Doctor is getting angry and a bit dark. This episode comes right after the Greatest Show in the Galaxy, so there's nothing I'm missing, I don't think. But the first time you see the Doctor and Ace in this episode he seems unbelievably irritated with her. Maybe he just doesn't like her that much, but I don't think that's it. I think maybe it's that the Doctor is beginning to realize and appreciate how old he is, and he doesn't feel like he needs such a youthful, enthusiastic companion. Of course, he does warm up a bit in. Maybe he was shaken by having to regurgitate eggs for his very life in the previous episode. And we see some definite responsible old man characteristics coming through when he sternly tells Ace not to order any booze. Anyway, he is getting a bit grim, I think. Though I don't think nine, ten, or eleven would ever say the words "One of these days we're going to have a nice long talk. About acceptable safety standards."
Now, onto the story. I think I may have misunderstood the Arthur legend in a couple of places. This is confusing. More importantly, the Doctor is Merlin at some point, possibly in an alternate universe. But it is suggested that it really is his own future, what with the letter he leaves for himself in Arthur's helmet. Although, it is also confusing because it's just confusing. There's some evil guy who thinks he's the shit, then there's his mom in a solid metal top, and Ace pulled the sword from the stone, there's some blond knight bothering the young brigadier, and there's some magic and evil and a flying green snake-dragon. And the young brigadier is kickass.
Holy god, the Doctor just did a Jedi mind trick... I mean he really really did. Watch it! It's exactly what he did!
You get a report from the hotel where Ace and the cool Asian chick are hanging out waiting to be attacked by an evil sorceress and the report says "Night has fallen" and you say you'll "deal with it later"? Are you kidding? That is so obviously significant.
Well, whatever. This episode is not one of my favourites. I mean it's ok, but it's really not very memorable. And the young brigadier's thing with the blonde guy is funny. And I do not appreciate the stripping blue lizard monster. I mean really, ripping off his shirt like a Chippendales dancer.
ACE JUST SAID GERONIMO!!! Neat. I mean, not that the Doctor heard it or anything, but I think it was funny.
Can I just write out the Doctor's speech about nuclear weapons, while keeping in mind what he did to end the Time War:
"Death, falling from the sky? Blind, random, anywhere, any time? No one is safe, no one is innocent. Machines of death, Morgaine, stringing from above, of light brighter than the sun. Not a war between armies, or a war between nations, but just death, death gone mad! A child looks up into the sky, his eyes turn to cinders. No more tears, only ashes. Is this honour? Is this war? Are these the weapons you would use?!"
And I swear the "you" at the end there sounded a lot like a "we".
Well, the Brigadier was alright in the end and he went back to Doris and lived happily ever after. Another happy ending...
Thoughts:
Look! An Asian!
The knight people look ridiculous. And they fight like the Black Knight. Except for the ray guns, of course.
By the way, what is that Russian guy doing in UNIT?
I feel like blind people probably aren't universally psychic in the real world.
Yay, it's the Brigadier!
The Brigadier says "I don't care if it's the king"... but they didn't have a king, did they? They hadn't had one since 1952, had they?
That blonde guy looks uncomfortably familiar...
And I fear for the Brigadier's life, now that he's promised his wife he'll come back safe.
Some people really need to work on their evil laughs. Mordred, for example.
The green flying snake thing looks quite a bit like Prisoner Zero.
Oh god, Mordred, really. Stop laughing. Really do.
Oh, god! Morgaine needs to stop laughing too!
Hey! Ghostbusters technology!
Favourite Quotes:
"How can he be the same man if his appearance and personality have changed?"
"He gets upset when I talk about explosives."
"Yes! Remember Bayden and my mighty arc!"
"Your wife? With your aspect, it is well that she is blind! Ha ha ha ha!"
"I cannot break the enchantment." "But I... am..." <- I swear, that's what I heard.
"Who said anything about chess? I'm playing poker!" *Ace comes through the portal and knocks down Morgaine* "And I've got an Ace up my sleeve!"
A wonderful clip
Now, onto the story. I think I may have misunderstood the Arthur legend in a couple of places. This is confusing. More importantly, the Doctor is Merlin at some point, possibly in an alternate universe. But it is suggested that it really is his own future, what with the letter he leaves for himself in Arthur's helmet. Although, it is also confusing because it's just confusing. There's some evil guy who thinks he's the shit, then there's his mom in a solid metal top, and Ace pulled the sword from the stone, there's some blond knight bothering the young brigadier, and there's some magic and evil and a flying green snake-dragon. And the young brigadier is kickass.
Holy god, the Doctor just did a Jedi mind trick... I mean he really really did. Watch it! It's exactly what he did!
You get a report from the hotel where Ace and the cool Asian chick are hanging out waiting to be attacked by an evil sorceress and the report says "Night has fallen" and you say you'll "deal with it later"? Are you kidding? That is so obviously significant.
Well, whatever. This episode is not one of my favourites. I mean it's ok, but it's really not very memorable. And the young brigadier's thing with the blonde guy is funny. And I do not appreciate the stripping blue lizard monster. I mean really, ripping off his shirt like a Chippendales dancer.
ACE JUST SAID GERONIMO!!! Neat. I mean, not that the Doctor heard it or anything, but I think it was funny.
Can I just write out the Doctor's speech about nuclear weapons, while keeping in mind what he did to end the Time War:
"Death, falling from the sky? Blind, random, anywhere, any time? No one is safe, no one is innocent. Machines of death, Morgaine, stringing from above, of light brighter than the sun. Not a war between armies, or a war between nations, but just death, death gone mad! A child looks up into the sky, his eyes turn to cinders. No more tears, only ashes. Is this honour? Is this war? Are these the weapons you would use?!"
And I swear the "you" at the end there sounded a lot like a "we".
Well, the Brigadier was alright in the end and he went back to Doris and lived happily ever after. Another happy ending...
Thoughts:
Look! An Asian!
The knight people look ridiculous. And they fight like the Black Knight. Except for the ray guns, of course.
By the way, what is that Russian guy doing in UNIT?
I feel like blind people probably aren't universally psychic in the real world.
Yay, it's the Brigadier!
The Brigadier says "I don't care if it's the king"... but they didn't have a king, did they? They hadn't had one since 1952, had they?
That blonde guy looks uncomfortably familiar...
And I fear for the Brigadier's life, now that he's promised his wife he'll come back safe.
Some people really need to work on their evil laughs. Mordred, for example.
The green flying snake thing looks quite a bit like Prisoner Zero.
Oh god, Mordred, really. Stop laughing. Really do.
Oh, god! Morgaine needs to stop laughing too!
Hey! Ghostbusters technology!
Favourite Quotes:
"How can he be the same man if his appearance and personality have changed?"
"He gets upset when I talk about explosives."
"Yes! Remember Bayden and my mighty arc!"
"Your wife? With your aspect, it is well that she is blind! Ha ha ha ha!"
"I cannot break the enchantment." "But I... am..." <- I swear, that's what I heard.
"Who said anything about chess? I'm playing poker!" *Ace comes through the portal and knocks down Morgaine* "And I've got an Ace up my sleeve!"
A wonderful clip
Thursday, June 10, 2010
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Awesome! I loved it! In spite of the rapping! I loved this episode for several reasons.
1. It was one of those episodes that managed to make you think what was going on was terribly important, even though it actually only affected a relatively small group of people. I mean, the Gods of Ragnarok are pretty sinister, but they were basically just terrorizing one group of ex-hippies and anyone who was dumb enough to wander into their circus. You cared so much about what was going on, it felt desperately important, even though it really wasn't.
2. It had some of the good elements of a New Who special, mostly in that you met a lot of really cool characters you're never going to see again (Mags, Bell Boy, King Pin/Deadbeat).
3. It had scary, evil clowns, which may not seem at first like a good thing, but I'm glad they portrayed clowns that way. Horrible creatures.
4. It had Ace!
5. It had the Doctor doing MAGIC TRICKS!!!
6. The dilema of whether or not the original hippies who founded the circus were right in thinking that they could make something that was just for fun that could last in peace like they envisioned. Obviously it didn't work out that way in this case, but the question is whether they were stupid for thinking it could.
I actually watched this episode before Full Circle, but I also watched it before I started this blog, and I couldn't resist writing about it since I love it so much. That's why this response comes so soon after the one for Full Circle.
On a side note, I just realized there was someone working on the show called Jeff Jeffery.
1. It was one of those episodes that managed to make you think what was going on was terribly important, even though it actually only affected a relatively small group of people. I mean, the Gods of Ragnarok are pretty sinister, but they were basically just terrorizing one group of ex-hippies and anyone who was dumb enough to wander into their circus. You cared so much about what was going on, it felt desperately important, even though it really wasn't.
2. It had some of the good elements of a New Who special, mostly in that you met a lot of really cool characters you're never going to see again (Mags, Bell Boy, King Pin/Deadbeat).
3. It had scary, evil clowns, which may not seem at first like a good thing, but I'm glad they portrayed clowns that way. Horrible creatures.
4. It had Ace!
5. It had the Doctor doing MAGIC TRICKS!!!
6. The dilema of whether or not the original hippies who founded the circus were right in thinking that they could make something that was just for fun that could last in peace like they envisioned. Obviously it didn't work out that way in this case, but the question is whether they were stupid for thinking it could.
I actually watched this episode before Full Circle, but I also watched it before I started this blog, and I couldn't resist writing about it since I love it so much. That's why this response comes so soon after the one for Full Circle.
On a side note, I just realized there was someone working on the show called Jeff Jeffery.
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