Doctor Who: glorious overload
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dangermousieWarning, warning, warning, WARNING.
Watching the last four episodes of Doctor Who's S3 will cause your brain to hyperventilate!
I am seriously bouncing off the walls right now.
I will have tons of meta and lots of screencaps, but for now:
Jack!!!!!!!
THE MASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So insane, so evil, so impossible not to watch, so hopelessly broken (the more I learn about Gallifrey, the less I like it. Who the FUCK makes eight year olds take the kinds of test that drive a sizeable portions of them insane?)
Derek Jacobi and John Simm!
Jack and the Doctor conversations. God, I love the two of them. I want them to travel together. Lovely, lovely Jack, willing to hit anything in sight, whichever gender and species, and so awesome. Mmmmm, I really must watch Totchwood now. But I love their conversations: the hardness and affection and connection. They are much more equals now.
Creepy creepy Lucy! Horrific and pitiable at once.
Bleakness of the villains (I gasped out loud). The thought of this being the ultimate fate of humanity...serious gasps.
The Doctor losing yet again. He was crying, holding the Master in his arms. He was willing to give up travelling to take care of him. He really is a 'Doctor,' isn't he? Wanting to make everyone better. He is so desperately lonely, so in need of 'meaning' (he says he now has someone to take care of). And the Master, refusing to regenerate and dying in his arms. OMG. The two last Time Lords are so broken.
Rose mentions all over the place!!!!! And Jack going to see her a few times when she was growing up, and the Doctor's still very active missage of her and the way he shuts down and shuts out.
The Master has got The Doctor in a CAGE. With a dog bowl. OMG. Seriously, I can only imagine the kind of fic this show gets (loved Martha doing the whole obvious s/m connotations with the name of The Master).
The Doctor freaking out when he finds out who this is and his TARDIS is taken. The desperation.
'I forgive you.' OMG. I got shivers. Shivers. After all of it, after all of it, the Doctor can say that. And how that is the one thing the Doctor wants to say and the one thing the Master is unable to bear.
Doc Tom was hot and awesome. I hope Martha hooks up with him. I loved that she left and the way she left: she's proven herself to herself (I think part of her crush on the Doctor was validation: if he liked her back, she'd be validated, but she knows she doesn't need it now) and she ha admitted to herself he will never love her, never ever open up, the way he did to Rose and even to Jack, the way the Master knows him. And she decided to leave. Which was awesome. Now she has people to care for (her family, reunited). I find it interesting that so many characters in the show are looking for someone to care for, or find their meaning in that. This is literally the Doctor's goal and dream. Martha learns it by the end. Jack doesn't go time travelling with the Doctor because he has his team to take care of. Rose was taking care of her Mum before she met the Doctor and ended up taking care of him. Mickey stays in alternaworld to take care of his grandma, etc etc etc. It all goes round.
Of course, the thing with Martha (I confess to never warming up to her, but at least I stopped disliking her) makes sense. She doesn't need the infatuation. It's not true love, so once she has proven herself, once she found her meaning, there is no point in her staying. In a way, he situation is the mirror reversal of Rose. She started out having this schoolgirl crush, she saw him as some sort of shining prince, after Smith&Jones, someone charming and effortless and amazing and perfect. And she learned slowly, and even then only a bit, that this isn't the case: he is messed up, can be cruel, will never let her in. And that's the thing, she doesn't really know him, he won't let her. So he illusions are somewhat gone, she accepts reality, she has self-worth, she leaves. While with Rose, it's the other way around. She didn't fall for him off the bat: she went along because it would be cool and adventuring, but she saw him from the start as messed up, damaged, and heck, she even saved him in the first ep. (Nine was worse at hiding things and desperate for connection, and Ten let her in because he already knew/loved her and she saved him from guilt and loneliness). No way to go but up from their start of 'Rose.' So for Rose, the prime motivator was always her love for the Doctor. She would stick around no matter what, as long as he still wanted her. But for Martha, it is not like that. She choses her family over Ten (mirror reversal to Rose) because, just like Rose, she choses the most real thing in her life. Only for Rose it's the Doctor. And for Martha, because of everything, including the (lack of) feeling of Ten himself, the most real thing is 'normal' life. I am not sure if I am explaining it well.
JACK IS THE FACE OF BOE. I am in love with this show. Makes so much sense.
Oh Jack. Getting executed all over. Eeek.
Did I mention the Doctor crying?
Because...
OK, I guess I did meta some. But more to come, I swear, my head is buzzing. But not drumming.
Watching the last four episodes of Doctor Who's S3 will cause your brain to hyperventilate!
I am seriously bouncing off the walls right now.
I will have tons of meta and lots of screencaps, but for now:
Jack!!!!!!!
THE MASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So insane, so evil, so impossible not to watch, so hopelessly broken (the more I learn about Gallifrey, the less I like it. Who the FUCK makes eight year olds take the kinds of test that drive a sizeable portions of them insane?)
Derek Jacobi and John Simm!
Jack and the Doctor conversations. God, I love the two of them. I want them to travel together. Lovely, lovely Jack, willing to hit anything in sight, whichever gender and species, and so awesome. Mmmmm, I really must watch Totchwood now. But I love their conversations: the hardness and affection and connection. They are much more equals now.
Creepy creepy Lucy! Horrific and pitiable at once.
Bleakness of the villains (I gasped out loud). The thought of this being the ultimate fate of humanity...serious gasps.
The Doctor losing yet again. He was crying, holding the Master in his arms. He was willing to give up travelling to take care of him. He really is a 'Doctor,' isn't he? Wanting to make everyone better. He is so desperately lonely, so in need of 'meaning' (he says he now has someone to take care of). And the Master, refusing to regenerate and dying in his arms. OMG. The two last Time Lords are so broken.
Rose mentions all over the place!!!!! And Jack going to see her a few times when she was growing up, and the Doctor's still very active missage of her and the way he shuts down and shuts out.
The Master has got The Doctor in a CAGE. With a dog bowl. OMG. Seriously, I can only imagine the kind of fic this show gets (loved Martha doing the whole obvious s/m connotations with the name of The Master).
The Doctor freaking out when he finds out who this is and his TARDIS is taken. The desperation.
'I forgive you.' OMG. I got shivers. Shivers. After all of it, after all of it, the Doctor can say that. And how that is the one thing the Doctor wants to say and the one thing the Master is unable to bear.
Doc Tom was hot and awesome. I hope Martha hooks up with him. I loved that she left and the way she left: she's proven herself to herself (I think part of her crush on the Doctor was validation: if he liked her back, she'd be validated, but she knows she doesn't need it now) and she ha admitted to herself he will never love her, never ever open up, the way he did to Rose and even to Jack, the way the Master knows him. And she decided to leave. Which was awesome. Now she has people to care for (her family, reunited). I find it interesting that so many characters in the show are looking for someone to care for, or find their meaning in that. This is literally the Doctor's goal and dream. Martha learns it by the end. Jack doesn't go time travelling with the Doctor because he has his team to take care of. Rose was taking care of her Mum before she met the Doctor and ended up taking care of him. Mickey stays in alternaworld to take care of his grandma, etc etc etc. It all goes round.
Of course, the thing with Martha (I confess to never warming up to her, but at least I stopped disliking her) makes sense. She doesn't need the infatuation. It's not true love, so once she has proven herself, once she found her meaning, there is no point in her staying. In a way, he situation is the mirror reversal of Rose. She started out having this schoolgirl crush, she saw him as some sort of shining prince, after Smith&Jones, someone charming and effortless and amazing and perfect. And she learned slowly, and even then only a bit, that this isn't the case: he is messed up, can be cruel, will never let her in. And that's the thing, she doesn't really know him, he won't let her. So he illusions are somewhat gone, she accepts reality, she has self-worth, she leaves. While with Rose, it's the other way around. She didn't fall for him off the bat: she went along because it would be cool and adventuring, but she saw him from the start as messed up, damaged, and heck, she even saved him in the first ep. (Nine was worse at hiding things and desperate for connection, and Ten let her in because he already knew/loved her and she saved him from guilt and loneliness). No way to go but up from their start of 'Rose.' So for Rose, the prime motivator was always her love for the Doctor. She would stick around no matter what, as long as he still wanted her. But for Martha, it is not like that. She choses her family over Ten (mirror reversal to Rose) because, just like Rose, she choses the most real thing in her life. Only for Rose it's the Doctor. And for Martha, because of everything, including the (lack of) feeling of Ten himself, the most real thing is 'normal' life. I am not sure if I am explaining it well.
JACK IS THE FACE OF BOE. I am in love with this show. Makes so much sense.
Oh Jack. Getting executed all over. Eeek.
Did I mention the Doctor crying?
Because...
OK, I guess I did meta some. But more to come, I swear, my head is buzzing. But not drumming.
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Date: 2007-10-26 12:48 pm (UTC)The Face of Boe was an awesome solution - and I love the fact that this way Jack gets to see his dear Doctor (and even Rose!) several times more during the following milennia AND he gets to die with the Doctor by his side. How awesome is that? *mad fangirl squees*
And OMG, go for Torchwood already, will you! :) Jack is soooooo complex and troubled (and funny) and the series is love! (Uhh, sorry, I'm kinda hyperventilating here, too. Ahem.)
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Date: 2007-10-26 01:35 pm (UTC)I loved the face of Boe thing: it would also explain why Boe would want to see the Doctor.
I am getting Torchwood as we speak.
I am addicted to the Whoverse. who would have thought: I saw an old Who ep and kinda laughed at the cheapness of the sets and that was it. And now I am fixated.
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Date: 2007-10-27 07:54 am (UTC)Oh, and of Torchwood. My favourite eps were mostly in the second half of the season and there are a few eps that aren't great. But all in all, watching Jack's character grow and get "more meat to his bones" is very interesting throughout the season. Watch out for the finale, again. Captain Jack Harkness and End of Days were my faves of the season, hands down. There's so much that Jack has to, in lack of a better word, survive.
(And also, I liked the eps Out of Time, They Keep Killing Suzie and ah, well, about three other eps very much.)
Watch out for the guntraining bit... *grin*
And boy, am I glad when I finally get my hands on Torchwood S2! Apparently I was in Cardiff when they were finishing up the shoot (and I must've missed being in the same city with James Marsters by mere days, hngh!), but at that time I didn't know much about Torchwood yet. Although I did meet one of the scriptwriters of the show in London. In a party. Taught him some Finnish. He was probably too drunk to remember it the following day, though. *lol* But he was a funny guy. And I'm friends with a friend of his. :) I know, it's ridiculous, but I get such a kick out of having met a Torchwood scriptwriter. :)
(Oh, and should you later want to browse my opinions of the S1, I posted about them in August, on 18th through 24th, to be exact. Heh.)
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Date: 2007-10-28 03:58 am (UTC)Re: Who. I don't think I want to see the older ones, as I saw one some time ago and didn't care for it, but agree, am so tempted.