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[clo_again]

Doctor Who last night killed me in all the best ways. Last week, when I laid out what I wanted for this week's episode? It's as if they'd *listened* to me. It was shippy perfectness, nothing groundbreaking, some good lines, some great interaction. Shinyness.

Oh god, the Doctor/Rose was back with avengence in this episode. There were echoes of School Reunion in his "Know her? She's..." trailed off line, letting us fill in whatever we think he's about to say. Some people have bitched about his shout-y-ness in this episode again but it's just part of Tennant's Doctor for me, like jelly babies were Fourth's and that thing with the celery I've heard about was one of the others. I did contemplate it being because he's getting on in years now -- to put it lightly -- and old people are crankier but that's mostly me having fun. ;) I loved that he got so angry about Rose, because that's the Doctor we *saw* back at the beginning of this series. It's *continuity*, something which has been seriously lacking in the last, oh, three episodes stickthatinyourpipeandsmokeitGirlintheFireplacelovers. There were also comments that he wouldn't have let her go off on her own so soon after last week but I absolutely adored that part because it shows them working as a team; he can't be constantly running after his Companion if he wants to save the world, she's got to be able to go off on her own every once in a while and in this episode she proved that she IS SMART AND NOT A BINT FROM BINTLAND. Not that I'm in any way smug about that. No. (I've come a long way from the girl who totally overreacted when I first heard Billie Piper was in the new Doctor Who. The words "OH THAT'S JUST RUINED IT" may have been heard. Hm. How things change.)

It really did prove the problem with this season though. This episode could've come after Tooth and Claw without anyone blinking an eyelid. In fact, it probably would've fit continuity better coming there. I don't care how much some people loved Girl in the Fireplace as an episode -- as I've said before, I hated it on the basis of how it was put together, the directing, the writing, the very basic structure of it regardless of who the Doctor was snogging, Rose or Reinette -- it simply didn't fit what had come before it in any way. Take it out of the equation and this entire series works much better overall. I know there are different writers every week, I know it must be hard to keep continuity but a note in last month's copy of SFX mentioned Rose's continuity sheet had a note on what *underwear* she was supposed to be wearing (black thong over something, wasn't paying that much attention ;) ). If they can keep track of something that no one sees, how can they not keep track of characterisation and interaction? I'm not demanding Buffy because even that could get tedious if you missed an episode and had no idea what was going on but tiny, tiny *references*, even just continuity in how the Doctor and Rose react to each other. Otherwise all you've got is a series of shorts, written by different people, with no relation to each other. You may as well take thirteen fanfic ficlets written by different people who've never read the others and film them as a series. It's daft.

Thankfully, Confidential made me squee with promises of it being "just the Doctor and Rose" for the rest of this series. :) That gives me hope that we'll be back to what we had last series, with episodes actually making sense in order and continuity in character interation. Plus, shippyness which makes me happy even if other people might not be so pleased. I doubt they'll take it to the 'logical conclusion' and so they shouldn't because Making Things Canon inevitably renders the whole thing dull as dishwater but as long as there's a basis, I'll be happy for ever. ^_^



Mmm. I think I just ranted a bit. Or rambled. Something.

Buying a car magazine -- I was surrounded by huge, muscled guys by the car section of the magazines in 'Smiths. I had to go away and look at the art stuff until I could make myself stop laughing -- yesterday gave me a tentative car for That Thing kindoftrouble Is Making Me Write, the Porsche 997 GT3. Hamster loves Porsches, it's new, it fits the vague outline I have. (Not to mention I think I love Porsches more than anything else. ^_^) I did learn that I am not and will never be a car nut, given that I first read MPG as 'MPREG' and went "WTFCARMAGAZINE?!" Seriously, car stuff is horribly complicated. I'm reading the articles and most of it just goes right over my head. The things I do for fic. *eye roll*

I really should get dressed sometime today.

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[dukedee.livejournal.com]

Which car mag?

And none of it's that complicated. Look at the intelligence of a lot of spanner monkeys. You just have to really take an interest.

[clo.livejournal.com]

*grins* Evo. In the end I closed my eyes and picked the first one my hand landed on because there were too many. How come you get twenty million car magazines and we get one tennis one? ;)

It really is complicated! At least when you're like me and haven't a clue what anything actually is. Plus they abbreviate everything and I'm sitting here going "So what does PASM mean again?" I think I could learn but it'd take me a while. :)

[dukedee.livejournal.com]

You need a proper magazine like Fast Ford, Performance Ford, Retro Cars or Redline.

What does PASM mean? I haven't a clue.

And how many top tennis players are out there compared to how many cars there are? It's just a numbers game.

[clo.livejournal.com]

I looked at the Ford ones but I was really looking for a specific supercar one. I need one that'll basically tell me about new supercars more than an actual good car mag. ;) Doesn't Redline have the mostly-naked women draped over cars and such? Was trying to avoid anything with breasts being flashed every few pages. ;)

Porsche Active Suspension something-or-other I think. Crazy abbreviations, though I guess reading PASM is better than reading 'Porsche Active yada-yada' every few lines. :)

... This is true but still. Millions of car magazines! They could at least give one more to us tennis nuts.

[dukedee.livejournal.com]

Redline is that sort of mag, but not nearly as bad as Max Power or Fast Car, and the journalism is a heck of a lot better.