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May. 21st, 2006 01:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clo_againTired. Chinese food was good. Doctor Who was awesome. RTD's supposed 'gay agenda' was shiny and obvious and happy-making this week, with Jake/Ricky being oh-so-canon and then Mickey feeling the need to tell Jake that "Look I'm not him but would you like to go be gay in Paris together?" I'm paraphrasing here but you know there's subtext and there's text and Mickey was heading off to a happy future with that pretty gay boy from children's TV. It gives me warm fuzzies because Pretty Gay Boy Jake will be better to Mickey than Rose ever was and I kind of have to admit I liked him much more after these last three or so weeks. He deserves happy gay love in Paris bless him. The fact that he pretty much acknowledged my preferred 'ship as canon also warmed the cockles of my heart toward him.
Hah hah, Doctor/Rose, 'tis still the ship even if the writers are giving Ten emo!angst and repression of his feelings in beautiful and inevitably-going-to-explode ways this season. Anyone else notice that the Doctor was once again given the option of leaving his pain behind, this time by changing himself rather than the world and he refused without even having to pause? I'm not sure whether that shows growth in character from his temptation in School Reunion or whether it shows... something. It's gone one am and I've been knee-deep in Victorian Lit for hours, I'm not up to an indepth analysis, not to mention I've only seen it once. Maybe it shows that he thinks that he's just fine nd it's the universe that's screwed up enough to need changing ("I'd say you're a genius but I'm in the room" anyone?) so he'd change the universe but not himself. Hhmm. While all along he's the repressed, emo!pained one latching onto whatever bit of shiny happens to come his way. ... That was cruel. But he does, a little.
His angst over Mrs Moore and the Cyberwoman formerly known as Sally was beautiful though and as someone over on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
time_and_chips pointed out, none of his companions -- except Mrs Moore and I'm still sad she had to be sacrificed for The Greater Good of the Storyline -- understood that they were killing sentient beings in killing the Cybermen and he was dealing with it alone. Poor emo Ten, they're setting him up for a mental breakdown this season and it's going to be sad and painful and fantastic all at once because I love nothing so much as good angst. Only, I hope they make better use of Rose again, she's been something of a complete ditz this season so far. Alright she can be annoying but damn, if she was perfect we'd be up to our necks in people bitching about Mary-Sues. Just-- maybe cut her some slack yeah? She's not exactly the "bint from bintland" as someone labelled her because then she'd hardly be a Companion. Last series she got to be not entirely useless and in this episode she got what, to at least demonstrate her bravery but accomplish a whole load of "getting captured in a completely pointless way". Jackie as a Cyberman did nothing for me in the way of sadness and it's made me realise just how much I couldn't care less about canon!Jackie. Fanon!Jackie I have a soft spot for which sometimes overlaps but not so much this time. Hopefully next week -- and oh, that hilarious brief clip in the spoiler-trailer of them both on some form of bike with stupid glasses and helmets makes me think we might get a continuation of the funny Rose/Doctor friendship moments we saw a slight return to in last week's ep -- there'll be some quality time spent catching up with just the Doctor and Rose and maybe regrouping somewhat from the nuttiness and slight jumping around in characterisation that seems to have been this series so far. I couldn't give a toss about the plot next week as long as we get some character interaction and you know, they don't spend the whole episode talking about how George Bush is a Telebtubby or something of equal daftness.
This spoiler cut was totally meant to be for a one-line-squee about the gayness and now I've gone and rambled. *facepalm* Okay, going to bed now. So much work to do before Wednesday. I did love tonight's episode with the happiness of a thousand squees, or maybe a hundred squees, not getting too over-squeeful. Good, solid stuff with enough moments to keep me happy.
Beeeeeeed.
edit: I shall be around of the sporadic type until Wednesday, same for answering comments. Four more days and I'm freeeeeee for four months so mindeth not my absentness, plz. Or my weird entries bitching about the fact re-reading my notes reminded me of our tutor telling us that father/daughter incest was the most popular type of pornography in the Victorian era. Because EW is all that needs to be said.
Hah hah, Doctor/Rose, 'tis still the ship even if the writers are giving Ten emo!angst and repression of his feelings in beautiful and inevitably-going-to-explode ways this season. Anyone else notice that the Doctor was once again given the option of leaving his pain behind, this time by changing himself rather than the world and he refused without even having to pause? I'm not sure whether that shows growth in character from his temptation in School Reunion or whether it shows... something. It's gone one am and I've been knee-deep in Victorian Lit for hours, I'm not up to an indepth analysis, not to mention I've only seen it once. Maybe it shows that he thinks that he's just fine nd it's the universe that's screwed up enough to need changing ("I'd say you're a genius but I'm in the room" anyone?) so he'd change the universe but not himself. Hhmm. While all along he's the repressed, emo!pained one latching onto whatever bit of shiny happens to come his way. ... That was cruel. But he does, a little.
His angst over Mrs Moore and the Cyberwoman formerly known as Sally was beautiful though and as someone over on
time_and_chips pointed out, none of his companions -- except Mrs Moore and I'm still sad she had to be sacrificed for The Greater Good of the Storyline -- understood that they were killing sentient beings in killing the Cybermen and he was dealing with it alone. Poor emo Ten, they're setting him up for a mental breakdown this season and it's going to be sad and painful and fantastic all at once because I love nothing so much as good angst. Only, I hope they make better use of Rose again, she's been something of a complete ditz this season so far. Alright she can be annoying but damn, if she was perfect we'd be up to our necks in people bitching about Mary-Sues. Just-- maybe cut her some slack yeah? She's not exactly the "bint from bintland" as someone labelled her because then she'd hardly be a Companion. Last series she got to be not entirely useless and in this episode she got what, to at least demonstrate her bravery but accomplish a whole load of "getting captured in a completely pointless way". Jackie as a Cyberman did nothing for me in the way of sadness and it's made me realise just how much I couldn't care less about canon!Jackie. Fanon!Jackie I have a soft spot for which sometimes overlaps but not so much this time. Hopefully next week -- and oh, that hilarious brief clip in the spoiler-trailer of them both on some form of bike with stupid glasses and helmets makes me think we might get a continuation of the funny Rose/Doctor friendship moments we saw a slight return to in last week's ep -- there'll be some quality time spent catching up with just the Doctor and Rose and maybe regrouping somewhat from the nuttiness and slight jumping around in characterisation that seems to have been this series so far. I couldn't give a toss about the plot next week as long as we get some character interaction and you know, they don't spend the whole episode talking about how George Bush is a Telebtubby or something of equal daftness.This spoiler cut was totally meant to be for a one-line-squee about the gayness and now I've gone and rambled. *facepalm* Okay, going to bed now. So much work to do before Wednesday. I did love tonight's episode with the happiness of a thousand squees, or maybe a hundred squees, not getting too over-squeeful. Good, solid stuff with enough moments to keep me happy.
Beeeeeeed.
edit: I shall be around of the sporadic type until Wednesday, same for answering comments. Four more days and I'm freeeeeee for four months so mindeth not my absentness, plz. Or my weird entries bitching about the fact re-reading my notes reminded me of our tutor telling us that father/daughter incest was the most popular type of pornography in the Victorian era. Because EW is all that needs to be said.
