tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14352797959888754412024-03-13T04:12:46.945-04:00Thicktown, ThickaniaCrossing into established events is strictly forbidden. Except for Doctor Who.Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-43794590308668031732012-10-22T01:32:00.001-04:002012-10-22T01:32:19.377-04:00Everybody was… kung fu fighting?<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/10/everybody-was-kung-fu-fighting.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>So… </p> <p><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b179/happo_no_giri/monks.jpg" width="545" height="290"></p> <p>This happened. For… funsies, I assume?</p> <p>I’m not gonna lie, I laughed my ass off. Off, completely. Took me like, ten minutes to find it. I mean… They’re <em>kung fu fighting Scottish monks.</em></p> <p><img src="http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae70/missvp/Miscellaneous%20Gifs/tumblr_m5l45jDuWC1r1vwzp_zpsa671a916.gif"></p> <p>Now, despite that bit of ridiculousness, I actually quite enjoyed this episode. Like in the previous series, we have a bona fide historical figure gracing us with their presence, and this time it’s Queen Victoria:</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/normal_Tooth_and_Claw_079.jpg"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>And I am happy to say that she is as awesome (if not more than) Charles Motherfucking Dickens.</p> <p>She’s witty and regal and she will shoot your fucking face off, yo:</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/normal_Tooth_and_Claw_341.jpg"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>I also love that this episode features a werewolf. </p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/normal_Tooth_and_Claw_330.jpg"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>To quote my surrogate father/sexy librarian crush <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Giles">Rupert Giles</a>, “I must admit, I-I-I am intrigued. Werewolves. It's-it's one of the classics!”</p> <p>And at the risk of slight blasphemy, I kind of prefer this werewolf to the ones on <em>Buffy.</em> I had the exact same reaction as the Doctor upon seeing it, as a matter of fact.</p> <p>Speaking of the Doctor… I am now obligated to profess my undying love for all that he is in this episode. Him and Rose, really. They have this new dynamic that’s sorta like the dynamic between Nine/Rose/Jack in the beginning of <em>Boom Town</em>. They’re having fun. They’re <em>giddy</em>, even. Eager for adventure! It’s infectious, really—or it is to <em>me</em>, at least.</p> <p>This episode isn’t much in the way of heavy stuff. There is some talk of the dead, and how frustrating it is that their realm is so far beyond the reach of ours (something I know resonated with the Doctor), but for the most part I think this one’s all about the adventure of it.</p> <p>That is, of course, until Vicky harshes the mellow by scolding the Doctor and Rose (and, by extension, me, since I was having just as much fun as they were) for taking such srs bsns lightly, and exiling them from her kingdom (!).</p> <p>And then she establishes some kind of organization to investigate (and defend the Empire from) Otherworldly Threats present and future and she calls it Torchwood, but that’s probably not important, right? </p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6y3fzkKPM1ru2yklo5_250.gif"><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6y3fzkKPM1ru2yklo6_250.gif"> (<a href="http://dwgifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>… Right.</p> <p>FYI, the Royal Family are totally werewolves. </p> <p>We’ve gone <em>forever</em> without a list. Let’s have one, shall we?</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>The Doctor singing. <img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m99jm1qzQq1r64qrf.gif"></li> <li>The Doctor speaking in (David Tennant’s native) Scottish accent: <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6ttfoxo8S1ru2yklo4_250.gif"><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6ttfoxo8S1ru2yklo5_250.gif"> (<a href="http://dwgifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m89j21sFGU1rrco34.gif"></li> <li>Also: <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6ttfoxo8S1ru2yklo7_250.gif"><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6ttfoxo8S1ru2yklo8_250.gif"> (<a href="http://dwgifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>) </li> <li>There had been <em>six </em>attempts on Queen Victoria’s life?! Are we sure she’s not a Highlander or a vampire? </li> <li>The “I am not amused” running gag is my favorite of all running gags, because Rose thinks <em>exactly </em>like me. You look me in the eye and tell me you wouldn’t try to get a Royal to say “I am not amused.” You totally <em>would</em>, you damned liar.</li> <li>I also love so much that they put money on it. </li> <li>That poor guy in the cage. He suffers from the dreaded gum disease known as <em>GINGIVITIS.</em></li> <li><b>The Doctor</b>: [<i>about the telescope</i>] It's a bit rubbish. How many prisms has it got? Way too many... the magnification's gone right over the top, that's a stupid kind of - <br>[<i>aside to Rose</i>] <br><b>The Doctor</b>: - am I being rude again? <br><b>Rose</b>: Yup. <br><b>The Doctor</b>: But it's pretty! Very... pretty! </li> <li>“You could easily… not be amused.” <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvpdjuxgco1qea60lo1_250.gif"><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvpdjuxgco1qea60lo2_250.gif"> (<a href="http://dunhambishops.tumblr.com/">Source</a>) BEST. RUNNING GAG. EVER.</li> <li>And there goes Rose again, with the befriending of the help. She should set up a shop or something. (Have I mentioned that I love her for this? ‘Cause I totally do.)</li> <li>Also loving that she talks to the guy in the cage and gathers intel. She’s just… growing up so <em>fast!</em></li> <li><b>Father Angelo</b>: We have waited so long for one of your journeys to coincide with the moon. <br><b>Queen Victoria</b>: Then you have waited in vain. After six attempts on my life <br>[<i>she reaches into her clutch-bag and pulls out a pistol, aiming it at him</i>], I am hardly unprepared. <br><b>Father Angelo</b>: Oh, I don't think so, woman. <br><b>Queen Victoria</b>: The correct form of address is “Your Majesty.” <br>[<i>she shoots</i>] </li> <li><b>Sir Robert</b>: It's all my fault. I should have sent you away. I tried to suggest something was wrong... I thought you might notice. Did you think there was nothing strange about my household staff? <br><b>The Doctor</b>: Well, they were bald, athletic, your wife's away... I just thought you were happy! </li> <li><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh23owAkYh1qghoe6o1_500.gif"> (<a href="http://theuntemperedschism.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)<img src="http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae70/missvp/Miscellaneous%20Gifs/tumblr_ln9ka3rhv91qafrh6.gif"></li> <li><strong>Sir Robert</strong>: That creature won't give up, Doctor, and we still don't possess an actual weapon.<br>The Doctor: Oh, your father got all the brains, didn't he?<br>Rose: Being rude again.<br>The Doctor: Good. I meant that one. </li> <li>“You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!”<img src="http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae70/missvp/Firefly/tumblr_lqx8d56K0O1qgthp5o2_250.gif"></li> <li><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m29v1vyDUB1rt1nx9o3_250.gif"><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m29v1vyDUB1rt1nx9o4_250.gif"> (<a href="http://dwgifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</li> <li>The Doctor and Rose are knighted! </li> <li><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrcafkMIGq1qcis04o6_250.gif"><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrcafkMIGq1qcis04o7_250.gif"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</li> <li>That is all.</li></ul> <p>After this, we’re going back to school for <em>School Reunion</em>! I don’t wanna give anything away, but that’s one of my faves for many reasons. Until then!</p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-54408485656828588902012-06-27T21:16:00.001-04:002012-06-27T21:16:41.532-04:00Old friends, new Doctor!<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/06/old-friends-new-doctor.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>Yay, a “body switch” plotline!</p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33qnvLGVz1qc0btfo2_250.gif"></p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m04ykpEh9H1qaq516o3_250.gif" width="245" height="141"> (<a href="http://bsbrock.tumblr.com/">Source</a> of both)</p> <p>I like those almost as much as sword fights!</p> <p>Well… when done reasonably well, anyway. As I guess would be the case with most things… Anyway. We have a new episode to talk about! With a new Doctor! On New Earth!</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/New_Earth_060.jpg" width="525" height="302"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>This is one of those episodes that I don’t know how the fandom receives, and I’m glad of it, because it’s one I like for reasons I will outline in this post. Despite <em>The Christmas Invasion</em>, I consider this episode to be the first full-length treatment we get of the new new Doctor, and I love so much that it also brings back the Face of Boe and Cassandra.</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/New_Earth_084.jpg" width="525" height="302"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>… Have I mentioned that I love Cassandra? And what a good episode for her, too!</p> <p>Okay first? Not fond of the virus zombies. My argument is all science-based, and I know—who am I to bring logic to this discussion, dammit?! I just don’t get how <em>every </em>disease in the universe is communicable by simple touch, or why just a simple mixture of all the medicines would cure it when such a mixture would cause any of a number of reactions that may alter the effect of all the medicines involved, and not always favorably. And just being showered with it cures everything? I just… Okay, I got it all out of my system, I’m fine.</p> <p>Still, this happy Doctor fills me with almost as much joy as Chris’ happy Doctor, so I’ll just focus on that.</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/New_Earth_729.jpg" width="569" height="327"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>I like this Doctor. A lot. I like that he’s sort of like a puppy, bouncing all over the place, and I love that he can go to that angry place that makes me feel small. Not as small as Chris’ Doctor used to make me feel, actually, which is fascinating to me.</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/New_Earth_373.jpg" width="569" height="327"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Nine when he was angry was cold and dark and dangerous. Even when he was shouting, it felt like he was—I don’t know… Calculating just how much you suck as a species? Argh, I hate this language sometimes.</p> <p>Anyway, Ten is… for lack of a better, more accurate word, <em>warmer</em>… in his anger. He’s dangerous in a different way. It feels less… alien? I don’t know, people. </p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq8h2nqsfI1qh0epb.gif"></p> <p>This isn’t my first language. Sorry about the weird detour.</p> <p>And now, let’s talk about Cassandra, shall we?</p> <p>I mentioned before that I love that this episode brings her back (and the Face of Boe, because I just <em>like</em> that thing), and I do <em>so much</em>. Because in many ways, this episode is a parallel of <em>End of the World; </em>we’re being re-introduced to the Doctor, we’re once again in the far future, and we once again have to adjust to changes in the existing world.</p> <p>So we get two characters that we met in <em>EotW</em>, and we get to see how <em>this</em> Doctor interacts with them.</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/New_Earth_380.jpg" width="586" height="337"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/New_Earth_757.jpg" width="591" height="340"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>But Cassandra… Oh, man, Cassandra may be my favorite. At first, she seems not to have changed much at all, trying to use the cat-nuns’ secrets for her own gain, but then with the body-switching and the Doctor’s fine example, she ends up being the co-savior of an entirely new race of human beings. Cassandra does. <em>Cassandra</em>.</p> <p>And it teaches her compassion. Sadly, it also leads her to realize there’s no place in the new world for her anymore, but I don’t think that’s all that bad.</p> <p>The former Cassandra would say that the new world is full of mutant stock and that’s why she doesn’t belong… but this Cassandra…</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/New_Earth_806.jpg" width="596" height="343"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>This Cassandra just knows her time has come. And her last action is to give herself something nice—which is very Cassandra, but also is very poignant, considering everything that’s happened before.</p> <p>She just wants to know that she’s beautiful. And while Old!Cassandra takes that superficially, Chip!Cassandra means it in a different way.</p> <p>Of course Cassandra is beautiful—she helps save humanity. </p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/New_Earth_840.jpg" width="609" height="350"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>…Reluctantly, but still…</p> <p>And the Doctor—the Doctor who once stood coldly by as she died—the Doctor gives her the chance.</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/New_Earth_844.jpg" width="610" height="351"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p> </p> <p>Argh, you guys… MY FEELS.</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5qcxzLUzv1r3zat8.gif" width="163" height="163"></p> <p> </p> <p>Obligatory list. Admit it—you like lists. You think they’re foxy…</p> <ul> <li>You cannot know how much I love that Rose says goodbye to Jackie and Mickey before she gets back on the TARDIS.</li> <li>Things this episode says that I said to myself while watching, part one: <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgg2yeFR61qea60lo1_250.gif"><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgg2yeFR61qea60lo2_250.gif"> (<a href="http://bsbrock.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</li> <li><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m430rliYaN1qeyp1lo1_250.gif"> (<a href="http://bsbrock.tumblr.com/">Source</a>) OTmotherfuckingP, y’all.</li> <li>“Strictly speaking, it's the fifteenth New York since the original. So that makes it New New New New New New... New New New New New New... New New New York.”</li> <li>Cat people. The “not the kind of cat person I am” cat people.</li> <li>LOL @the disinfection. There are gifs of it, but way too many…</li> <li>The Doctor/A Little Shop… OTP</li> <li>“Oh, I don’t know… I like impossible.” That tiny smile. I would have so many of your babies, David, you have <em>no idea</em>.</li> <li>Moisturize me.</li> <li>“It’s like living inside a bouncy castle!”</li> <li>“The same Doctor, with a new face! That <em>hypocrite</em>!”</li> <li>Okay, when Matron Casp says “tender application of science,” it freaks me right the fuck out…</li> <li><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1532qyyx11r02x60o1_r1_500.gif"> (<a href="http://bsbrock.tumblr.com/">Source</a>) …So damn jealous. So, so jealous.</li> <li>Love how the Doctor figures out that it’s not Rose <em>after</em> she snogs the living heck out of him. “Search the subframe,” indeed.</li> <li>Rose <em>would</em> care.</li> <li>Okay, cat-nuns, stop freaking me out. Don’t say “the Flesh is free!” Please?</li> <li>Things this episode says that I said to myself while watching, part two: <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwxxbyaJcs1qjxl1no1_250.gif"><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwxxbyaJcs1qjxl1no2_250.gif"> (<a href="http://bsbrock.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</li> <li>Wait… a “<em>little bit</em> foxy”?! “A little”?!</li> <li>“Go and play with a ball of string.”</li> <li>“You’re <em>completely</em> mad! …I can see why she likes you.”</li> <li><strong>The Face of Boe</strong>: I had grown tired of the Universe, Doctor. But you have taught me to look at it anew.<br>The Doctor: There are legends, you know. Saying that you're millions of years old.<br><strong>The Face of Boe</strong>: Now, that would be impossible.<br>The Doctor: Wouldn't it just. I got the impression there was something you wanted to tell me.<br><strong>The Face of Boe</strong>: A great secret.<br>The Doctor: So the legend says.<br><strong>The Face of Boe</strong>: It can wait.<br>The Doctor: Oh! Does it have to?</li> <li><strong>The Face of Boe</strong>: We shall meet again, Doctor, for the third time—for the last time—and the truth shall be told. Until that day.<br>The Doctor: That is enigmatic. Th—tha—that is <em>textbook</em> enigmatic.</li> <li>“Sweet lord, I’m a walking doodle.”</li> <li>“I mean it: you look <em>so</em> beautiful.” </li> <li>Oh… Chip is her favorite pattern because “he” is the last person to tell her she’s beautiful!<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5qc2bwsef1r3zat8.gif" width="563" height="317"> <img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5qcm1HA9o1r3zat8.gif"> <img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5h46dzLIz1r3zat8.gif"></li></ul> <p> </p> <p>Next, <em>Tooth and Claw.</em></p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-52391163737449296592012-06-16T03:35:00.001-04:002012-06-16T03:35:07.581-04:00Okay, okay… He can stay.<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/06/okay-okay-he-can-stay.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>You may remember my friend, the WTF owl, from my previous post:</p> <p><img src="http://www.lolroflmao.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/The-fuck-is-that-the-fuck-is-this-the-fuck-are-you-Owl.jpg" width="316" height="689"></p> <p>His reactions are basically my reactions to this episode until the end of it, really.</p> <p>It didn’t help that Rose was all panicky and annoying in this one, either. Look, I get that you just saw some freaky shit, Rose, but <em>I </em>just saw some freaky shit, too, and I’m handling it (slightly) better than you.</p> <p>I mean, I miss the Doctor, too, but it’s obvious that the new guy’s sickly and he needs your help. I mean… <em>Jackie</em> gets it:</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/The_Christmas_Invasion_214.jpg" width="397" height="228"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>I get that <em>holy shit scary aliens</em>, but whining about how the Doctor would never abandon everyone to their fate (which? Not even his choice! He’s passed out, not taking a lovely afternoon nap) is Not Helping.</p> <p>Not that I wasn’t frustrated that the Doctor was unconscious for most of the episode, ‘cause I had the same question Jackie had about how deeply the changes went and I was getting no answers.</p> <p>So here’s rundown of my emotions:</p> <ul> <li>worried about the Doctor</li> <li>confused about regeneration</li> <li>happy to see Harriet Jones, Prime Minister</li> <li>annoyed by Rose</li> <li>intimidated by the aliens</li> <li>amused by the characterization of the US president, and Harriet’s response to him</li> <li>love for everything Jackie Tyler chooses to be</li> <li>rushes of affection for Mickey</li> <li>worried about the Doctor</li> <li>worried that there would be an apocalypse (I come from <em>Buffy…</em> I know how those things go)</li> <li>worried about the Doctor</li></ul> <p>I mean… I’m exhausted!</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5mwdkdMGK1r3zat8.gif" width="359" height="179"></p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5fbzhVXb81r3zat8.gif" width="414" height="152"></p> <p> </p> <p>By the way, did I mention that I love Mickey Smith? I love that he’s still comfortable with Rose and is glad to see her, and I wish that a visit from Rose didn’t mean a disruption in normality and that he could just let it be Christmas with his friend, but I just love how he handles everything when it all goes south. </p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/The_Christmas_Invasion_232.jpg" width="444" height="255"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>He offers Rose unquestioning support, and stays upbeat even when he’s clearly dismayed that Rose’s solution to the situation is running away and hiding (not that I’m judging her… I would’ve been in the TARDIS as soon as them sumbitches were on the screen).</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/The_Christmas_Invasion_203.jpg" width="442" height="254"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>…Yeeeeeeeahhh, nope.</p> <p>Oh, and Harriet Jones, Prime Minister! My god, woman, I think I love you almost as much as I love Jackie Tyler.</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/The_Christmas_Invasion_208.jpg" width="454" height="262">(<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>I don’t agree with all her actions in this one, but I do love how calm and forceful she was throughout the entire crisis. And the bit with learning everyone’s name because she remembers never asking the <a href="http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Indra_Ganesh">aide</a>’s name in <em>Aliens of London/World War Three</em>… I just. I can’t. It’s a tiny acknowledgement to the Doctor—he was the one that asked, after all, and it obviously stayed with her—and I wish all things in the world were as precious.</p> <p>And for all my annoyance with her this episode, I like the part where Rose tries to stand up to the Sycorax:</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/The_Christmas_Invasion_436.jpg" width="440" height="253"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>… I also enjoy that “bitch, you <em>sure</em> about this?” look Mickey has in the background.</p> <p>Rose still has a long way to go, though—for all her courage in that instant, she was pretty much forced into it. Remember, her first instinct was to hide. And there is that little tremor in her voice, which pretty much makes it impossible for the Sycorax to take her seriously. Oh, god, I was so scared they would kill her when she was done. I love you for trying, Rose!</p> <p>And then… Oh, and then…</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgqq4qY4xw1qghoe6o1_500.gif" width="508" height="220"> (<a href="http://theuntemperedschism.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>I honestly had no idea what to expect. As I mentioned before, I hadn’t seen the <em>Children in Need</em> special before this, so I didn’t know this man. I was still sort of smarting at the loss of Christopher Eccleston, and I didn’t know if I could trust this… this… English professor? A sorta sexy English professor, but still… Okay, a <em>lot</em> sexy. He is <em>pretty</em>, okay?!</p> <p>But then he started talking, and I… well, I fell in love.</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqebfkt8G71qafrh6.gif"></p> <p>I still missed Chris, but I could get behind this Tennant fellow. He was fun. He was funny. He was rude and not ginger. And he challenged a fucking alien to a fucking swordfight!</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzo9g9NoyC1qcwhkeo1_400.gif"> (<a href="http://doctorwhogifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>I love swordfights more than most things. Behold:</p> <p><img src="http://dana.thedudes.nu/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=53892&g2_serialNumber=1" width="326" height="245"> (<a href="http://dana.thedudes.nu/gallery/index.html">Source</a>)</p> <p><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/princessbride.jpeg" width="325" height="232"></p> <p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjviivYiZXIStRYP-jI-z9nJsTe8YmmCYMVlen-nOfUc_4m9nSmIHZIj4nFdRVLwtKkYhgdpIcvlqvPtx9XNuyocG1Wv0-bB7zSnpXUzbKGHoRQgBZgUzItxVqtsnJWLm-AXvtT6lLtmilS/s1600/shindig405.jpg" width="447" height="251"></p> <p>I just love ‘em! AND! And there’s a <em>Hitchhiker’s </em>reference! I just—look, it’s like someone looked into my brain and pressed all the “make V love this guy” buttons. </p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/The_Christmas_Invasion_484.jpg" width="437" height="252"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>And best of all, he’s absolutely the Doctor… oh, not the <em>same</em>, of course, but similar. He has these hints of coldness and fury that remind me of Nine. </p> <p>And speaking of, I’ve got to the bit that I have to address.</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/The_Christmas_Invasion_717.jpg" width="435" height="250"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Let’s be clear—I do <em>not</em> agree with Harriet Jones’ actions at all. It was murder, and no amount of her asserting that it was defense will make me change my mind. Shooting on a retreating party is indefensible. </p> <p><em>However</em>. I don’t agree with the Doctor’s reaction, either. Granted, Harriet made a huge mistake, but toppling her government because she challenged him (and it <em>was</em> because she challenged him, not because she gave the wrongheaded order to fire) was impulsive and childish. </p> <p><em>You</em> don’t get to make that decision, Doctor, the people do. Worse, it seems to support Harriet’s taunt that the Doctor is just another alien threat, and this makes me feel all sorts of bad.</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpwjggDUyR1qafrh6.png" width="391" height="294"></p> <p>Anyway, since I don’t <em>wanna</em> feel bad, I’d just like to give you a fully-dressed Doctor (yum):</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/The_Christmas_Invasion_765.jpg" width="404" height="234"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>And the requisite list:</p> <ul> <li>Aww, Jackie still gets Rose Christmas presents.</li> <li><b>Rose Tyler</b>: What happened? Is he all right? <br><b>Mickey Smith</b>: I don't know. He just keeled over. But who is he? Where’s the Doctor? <br><b>Rose Tyler</b>: That’s him, right in front of you. That’s the Doctor. <br><b>Jackie Tyler</b>: What'dya mean, ‘that’s the Doctor’? Doctor <em>who</em>? </li> <li>“Anything else he’s got two of?” Ooh, I volunteer to find out!</li> <li>“I can’t even go shopping with you—we get attacked by a brass band.”</li> <li>Uh… who changed the Doctor into his jammies?</li> <li><b>The Doctor</b>: My head! [<i>groans in pain</i>] I'm having a neuron implosion... I need... <br><b>Jackie Tyler</b>: What do you need? <br><b>The Doctor</b>: I need-- <br><b>Jackie</b>: Just say it! <br><b>The Doctor</b>: I need-- <br><b>Jackie</b>: Tell me, tell me, tell me! <br><b>The Doctor</b>: I need-- <br><b>Jackie</b>: Painkillers! <br><b>The Doctor</b>: I need-- <br><b>Jackie</b>: D'you need aspirin? <br><b>The Doctor</b>: I need-- <br><b>Jackie</b>: Codeine? Paracetamol? Oh, I dunno, Pepto-Bismol? <br><b>The Doctor</b>: I need-- <br><b>Jackie</b>: Liquid paraffin? Vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E? <br><b>The Doctor</b>: I need-- <br><b>Jackie</b>: Is it food? Something simple? Bowl of soup! Nice bowl of soup? Soup and a sandwich? Bowl of soup and a little ham sandwich? <br><b>The Doctor</b>: I <em>need </em>you to <em>shut up</em>! <br><b>Jackie</b>: Oooh, he hasn’t changed that much, has he?</li> <li><b>The Doctor</b>: We haven’t got much time. If there’s pilot fish then—hold on, why is there an apple in my dressing gown? <br><b>Jackie</b>: Oh, that’s Howard’s, sorry. <br><b>The Doctor</b>: He keeps apples in his dressing gown? <br><b>Jackie</b>: He gets hungry... <br><b>The Doctor</b>: What, he gets hungry in his sleep? <br><b>Jackie</b>: Sometimes. </li> <li>“There’s an act of Parliament banning my autobiography.”</li> <li>The Doctor’s broken. :(</li> <li>Aw, Jackie’s such a good mum.</li> <li>Torchwood? Who are they when they’re at home?</li> <li>Okay, the people standing on top of buildings are creepy.</li> <li>Sonic BOOM</li> <li>Ha! The aliens do the “yes, we know who you are.”</li> <li>It <em>is</em> very British to have tea in a crisis…</li> <li>Oh, that hug Harriet Jones gives Rose. <3</li> <li>Why would Harriet and Alex understand? They’ve never been inside the TARDIS.</li> <li>“Aww, I wanted to be ginger! I’ve never been ginger. And you, Rose Tyler! Fat lot of good you were. You gave up on me! Oo, that’s rude! Is that the sort of man I am now? Am I rude? Rude and not ginger…”</li> <li><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgsxiaXM4U1qghoe6o1_500.gif" width="458" height="197"> (<a href="http://theuntemperedschism.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</li> <li><b>The Doctor</b>: See, that’s the thing, I’m the Doctor, but beyond that, I—I just don’t know. I literally do not know who I am. It’s all untested. Am I... funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy? [<i>He winks at Rose</i>] Right old misery? Life and soul? Right-handed, left-handed, a gambler, a fighter, a coward, a traitor, a liar, a nervous wreck—I mean, judging by the evidence, I've certainly got a gob. </li> <li>Tasting things—that’s new…</li> <li><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgsxmbWVQP1qghoe6o1_500.gif" width="465" height="200">(<a href="http://theuntemperedschism.tumblr.com/">Source</a>) This is when I knew…</li> <li><strong>Sycorax Leader</strong>: You stand as this world’s champion.<br><strong>The Doctor</strong>: Thank you. I’ve no idea who I am, but you’ve just summed me up.</li> <li>Sword fight!</li> <li>“Not bad for a man in his jim jams. Very Arthur Dent. Now, there was a nice man—Hang on, what have I got in here? A satsuma. Ah, that friend of your mother’s. He does like his snacks, doesn’t he? But doesn’t that just sum up Christmas? You go through all those presents, and right at the end, tucked away in the bottom there’s always one stupid old satsuma. [<em>the Sycorax gets up to attack the Doctor, who then launches the satsuma at a release mechanism] </em>No second chances. I'm that sort of a man.”</li> <li>“By the ancient rights of combat, I forbid you to scavenge here for the rest of time. And when you go back to the stars and tell others of this planet, when you tell them of its riches, its people, its potential, when you talk of the Earth, then make sure that you tell them this...it. Is. Defended.”</li> <li>The Doctor hugs Jackie! There’s proof!<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m01fgvqYSZ1qcwhkeo1_250.gif"> (<a href="http://doctorwhogifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</li> <li>Ack. So disappointed in Harriet. :(</li> <li>I want to get lost in the Doctor’s closet.</li> <li>Well, wouldja look at this shit: <img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/The_Christmas_Invasion_772.jpg" width="460" height="264"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>) Mr. “Don’t Make This Place Domestic” having Christmas dinner with Rose and her family!</li> <li><strong>The Doctor</strong>: It’s the spaceship breaking up in the atmosphere. This isn’t snow. It’s ash.<br>Rose: Okay, not so beautiful.<br><strong>The Doctor</strong>: This is a brand-new planet Earth. No denying the existence of aliens now. Everyone saw it. Everything’s new.<br>Rose: And what about you? What are you going to do next?<br><strong>The Doctor</strong>: Well... back to the TARDIS. Same old life.<br>Rose: On your own?<br><strong>The Doctor</strong>: Why? Don’t you want to come?<br>Rose: Well, yeah.<br><strong>The Doctor</strong>: Do you, though?<br>Rose: Yeah.<br><strong>The Doctor</strong>: Well, I just thought... ‘cause I changed…<br>Rose: Yeah, I thought ‘cause you changed you might not want me anymore.<br><strong>The Doctor</strong>: Oh, I'd love you to come!<br>Rose: Okay!</li> <li>Those two are frickin’ adorable together.</li> <li>“Trouble’s just the bits in between! It’s all waiting out there, Jackie. And it’s brand new to me. All those planets, creatures and horizons—I haven’t seen them yet. Not with these eyes. And it is gonna be... <em>fantastic</em>.”<img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/The_Christmas_Invasion_818.jpg" width="401" height="230"> (<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>) Oh! Oh, thank you for that. Bless you. </li> <li>Christopher, I’ll always love you!</li></ul> <p>Oh! Before I close this endless post, I just wanted to add one thing: It’s come to my attention that people give Davies a lot of flak for having Christmas Specials that aren’t very Christmas-y. To those people I say</p> <p><img src="http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae70/missvp/120329-224011-2-1.jpg" width="402" height="386"> (Hi, Roarer!)</p> <p>As if there’s not enough sappy Christmas crap clogging up TV already… Sheesh.</p> <p>Okey dokey, next time we meet, it’ll be <em>New Earth</em>!</p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-63302326741956024862012-06-14T01:21:00.001-04:002012-06-14T01:21:42.159-04:00Introducing Number Ten<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/06/introducing-number-ten.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>Now, this post will be dealing with the <em>Children in Need</em> 2005 special, in which we get to briefly meet the Tenth Doctor for the first time. It’s only about six or seven minutes long, so this’ll be a relatively short post, with the longer post being reserved for <em>The Christmas Invasion</em>. That’s coming right after this one, by the way, Goat willing.</p> <p>Now, for those of you not familiar with the special, here it is:</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:5e54c9d6-b2de-4d34-bd18-48d72eb89158" class="wlWriterSmartContent"><div id="ebb0ccd8-4aed-4a32-8959-ae76d74846d1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63bEgDpvLyU" target="_new"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-yV9Jcrayyjo/T9l025oZKUI/AAAAAAAAAGw/uJDtScq-Zzc/video88265711aea1%25255B60%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('ebb0ccd8-4aed-4a32-8959-ae76d74846d1'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/63bEgDpvLyU?hl=en&hd=1\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/63bEgDpvLyU?hl=en&hd=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div><div style="width:448px;clear:both;font-size:.8em">Before bitching about the quality, keep in mind this was for charity… you monster.</div></div> <p>Anyway, I’ve got to confess that I saw this little vignette <em>after</em> <em>The Christmas Invasion</em>, which means that I spent some time during that episode like this:</p> <p><img src="http://www.lolroflmao.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/The-fuck-is-that-the-fuck-is-this-the-fuck-are-you-Owl.jpg" width="305" height="665"></p> <p>But I did come back to this with the benefit of already being in love with Ten.</p> <p>However… I gotta say that my first reaction to Ten was a lot closer to Rose’s reaction in this than it was to her reaction in <em>The Christmas Invasion</em>. You know… denial, anger, bargaining—wait. That’s something else. Sorry.</p> <p>Although… it <em>is</em> pretty close to what Rose does here—first she doesn’t believe it’s the Doctor (I had a little trouble with this myself), then she accuses him of being Slitheen (really, Rose? That body couldn’t even fit <em>half </em>a Slitheen!), and then she asks if he can change back.</p> <p>I know that if I’d seen this directly after <em>Parting of the Ways</em> (or, as it’s known in some circles, <em>Partying of the Ways</em>), I wouldn’t fully believe this is the Doctor, either.</p> <p><img src="http://rpmedia.ask.com/ts?u=/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8b/Children_in_Need_Doctor_Who.jpg/275px-Children_in_Need_Doctor_Who.jpg"></p> <p>I mean… he’s more animated, for one… And there’s the different accent… and he flits from topic to topic like some kind of demented hummingbird.</p> <p>If he’s the Doctor, isn’t he supposed to <em>act</em> like the Doctor?</p> <p>There <em>are </em>some similarities, though—specifically, this scene:</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m37a7j9qP91r3r52io4_250.gif"><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m37a7j9qP91r3r52io5_250.gif"><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m37a7j9qP91r3r52io6_250.gif"> (<a href="http://ohai-mg.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>It not only mirrors that first moment they met, but also the one where he tells her about the Earth revolving. It’s not what he’s saying, really, but the <em>way</em> he’s saying it, if that makes any sense.</p> <p>And the dig at Jackie, which is very Doctorish… </p> <p>I don’t know that I would’ve been convinced by the special, but maybe I would’ve coped a little better with what looked like a drunk Doctor crashing into the Powell Estate and then passing out.</p> <p>Hey, how about a list to slightly lengthen this short post? I like lists. They’re like tiny word armies. Yes, I’m weird, let’s move on:</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Hey, I wonder if that weakness in the Doctor’s wrist will be significant at all?</li> <li>I don’t believe that the Doctor has a mole between his shoulder blades, and I demand visual proof.</li> <li><b>Rose</b>: Can you change back? <br><b>The Doctor</b>: Do you want me to? <br><b>Rose</b>: Yeah. <br><b>The Doctor</b>: Oh. <br><b>Rose</b>: Can you? <br><b>The Doctor</b>: No. </li> <li>His expression after that exchange kinda made me feel guilty for wanting him to change back, too. I’m sorry, David, but I <em>really</em> loved Christopher at the time! Still do, actually.</li> <li>Wait—the Doctor left Jack behind <em>on purpose</em>?!</li> <li>Also, can we take a moment and revel in the yumminess that is David Tennant? No? Well, I’m gonna, so you’re just gonna have to deal:</li></ul> <p><img src="http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn41/sue_denimme/001CiNSpecial00017.jpg" width="481" height="264"></p> <p>Yes. <em>Good.</em></p> <p> </p> <p>Right. <em>The Christmas Invasion</em> coming up, if not tonight, then tomorrow!</p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-31552826192923212472012-06-02T03:04:00.001-04:002012-06-02T03:04:08.244-04:00“The best thing about playing [the Doctor] is that… he cares.”<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/06/best-thing-about-playing-doctor-is-that.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>It’s safe to say that Christopher Eccleston—and his Doctor—are the reason I’m such a big fan of <em>Doctor Who. </em></p> <p>Sure, the writing can be witty and engaging, which I love, and the show has a knack for making me care about side characters, even if they only last an episode (which they almost always do), but the reason <em>Doctor Who</em> is a success for me is the Ninth Doctor. No ifs, ands, or buts.</p> <p>He was given a fantastic backstory that built on a <em>lot</em> of history, most of which I’m <em>still</em> not familiar with, and still Christopher managed to make playing the Doctor seem… effortless.</p> <p><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzqaw6B9M51qiavhzo1_1280.jpg" width="439" height="317"> (<a href="http://fuckyeahninthdoctor.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Nine is very much a product of the mysterious Time War, and in many ways, he is sort of broken. He’s cold and not very emotional—except for his almost desperate optimism, which is just another way of hiding just how close he is to just fucking <em>losing</em> it. We see hints of it in <em>End of the World </em>and <em>The Unquiet Dead</em>… all the way up to <em>Dalek,</em> when just the presence of an old enemy is enough to throw his entire moral system into disarray.</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzk1ohl5u01qm62e6o1_1280.png" width="390" height="224"> (<a href="http://fuckyeahninthdoctor.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p> </p> <p>And then… Then there are the moments when he remembers just how lucky he is—not just to be alive, but to do the things he does, to <em>see</em> the things he does, and sometimes… just sometimes, he gets one <em>really </em>good day.</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls37kjEzDv1r1hdnho1_500.gif" width="426" height="224"> (<a href="http://fuckyeahninthdoctor.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Here we have a man that has lost everything, just everything, and he still manages to appreciate the good stuff. Whether it’s being excited about humankind’s first contact with alien species—official first contact, anyway—to just a friggin’ banana. </p> <p>In <em>Rose </em>he is well and truly alien—he enjoys the human race, saves us when he needs to, but he is very much apart—all about the Big Picture… By <em>Father’s Day</em>, he reveals that he values (even admires!) the most average day-to-day life; regular people doing regular things, achieving regular goals. </p> <p>To the point where in <em>Parting of the Ways</em> he can’t destroy the Earth even if it means a Dalek victory. There’s no missile like there is in <em>World War Three</em>, no standing coldly by as the Last Human rips apart. Just a concession that he’s tired of killing. He doesn’t want his legacy to be one of genocide. He’s done it before, and he just can’t do it again. He cares too much.</p> <p>And what I love most about this is that it <em>makes sense</em>. This same situation wouldn’t play out the same way in a pre-Time War Doctor. Only a Doctor who already knows the costs could do this, only a Doctor who was slowly re-humanizing himself could do this. </p> <p>After all—the Doctor must ask himself—what’s the Big Picture without the Little People? What becomes of a Doctor who becomes a little too much of a Dalek?</p> <p>Now we know where that line is drawn.</p> <p>And now the Doctor becomes a new man.</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgokvrDY8A1qghoe6o1_500.gif">(<a href="http://theuntemperedschism.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>You were, Nine. You really, really were.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Other goodies:</p> <p>For a nice mini-essay comparing One and Nine, see <a href="http://matthewhyde.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-9th-doctor-happy-birthday-christopher-eccleston/">here</a>.</p> <p>For a Nine-oriented Tumblr, see <a href="http://fuckyeahninthdoctor.tumblr.com/">here</a>.</p> <p>And for a nice vid of Christopher Eccleston talking about his work on <em>Doctor Who,</em> see below.</p> <p> </p> <p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:bd050606-af82-4442-b806-5bbfd3f3bc2c" class="wlWriterSmartContent"><div id="86e39e25-cb6c-4247-9f4e-0af51d32e2dc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Gw94jMm2A" target="_new"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Ocifz69tI8w/T8m65RR_i3I/AAAAAAAAAGg/EImNWfMJrLU/video33306a1e371c%25255B85%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('86e39e25-cb6c-4247-9f4e-0af51d32e2dc'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/J2Gw94jMm2A?hl=en&hd=1\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/J2Gw94jMm2A?hl=en&hd=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div><div style="width:448px;clear:both;font-size:.8em">Christopher Eccleston on Doctor Who</div></div></p> <p> </p> <p>See you guys for the Children in Need special and <em>The Christmas Invasion</em>, which are up next.</p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-90058055449411818702012-05-17T20:00:00.001-04:002012-05-17T20:00:59.455-04:00Oh, yeah? Well how about you ex-ter-min-ate YOUR FACE?!<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/05/oh-yeah-well-how-about-you-ex-ter-min.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>Let’s just be honest here: this is through and through the Doctor’s episode. He is just so fucking <em>on</em> during the entire thing.</p> <p><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le7z61XPif1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="509" height="285"> (<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p> CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU OH MY GOD I’M LYING I WOULD FORGIVE YOU ANYTHING IF YOU’D JUST COME BACK TO ME</p> <p>*Ahem*</p> <p>Now, while the climax of this totally-didn’t-even-feel-like-a finale is a bit—well, it’s neat and bow-tied, really, let’s not kid ourselves. Despite that, I think the character beats are just fucking fantastic.</p> <p>Of <em>course</em> the Doctor wouldn’t annihilate the Earth in order to stop the Daleks—been there, done that, have the PTSD. I don’t even know that I fully believed that he would, though his sending Rose away made me wail like a lost child.</p> <p><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgn2imnUSX1qghoe6o1_500.gif" width="507" height="218"> (<a href="http://theuntemperedschism.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Me:</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3y2ppRPIR1r3zat8.gif"> </p> <p>Although, about that—wtf, Doctor. Don’t you ever, <em>ever</em> do that again. It is unbearably sweet of you and really, I can’t help but love you for it, but Rose is a big girl. She can figure out what she wants, even if it puts her in danger. </p> <p>…I’d like to reiterate, however, that I love you to pieces for wanting to both keep her safe and keep your promise to Jackie. Fuck, I don’t know. I only have one heart, and it’s confused as fuck right now. Why don’t we move on to Jack?</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo5e2rO0UF1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="509" height="286"> (<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Oh, my Jack… </p> <p>This is a guy that was introduced four episodes ago—three, if you count <em>The Empty Child</em> and <em>The Doctor Dances</em> as one extra-long episode, which I tend to do—and damned if he’s not already a Big Damn Hero. </p> <p>And this moment:</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0125oMo9o1qaq516o3_250.gif"> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0125oMo9o1qaq516o4_250.gif"> </p> <p>(<a href="http://bsbrock.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Is quite possibly my favorite Jack moment of all time. He changed for the Doctor, and he <em>acknowledges</em> it, and KISS! This show, I swear. </p> <p>I’m not even mentioning his complete faith in the Doctor because I can’t. I just… can’t right now. </p> <p>I remember the first time I saw this episode, when the Daleks had him cornered, I just kept saying “no, no…” under my breath, just hoping something would save him. Actually, now I think about it, I kind of whimpered a lot watching this…</p> <p>And now. I have to, because it’s a big moment for her, and for the Doctor, so…</p> <p><img src="http://images.wikia.com/tardis/images/8/83/DW20051x13PartingOfWays1279.jpg" width="490" height="282"> </p> <p>I’m not gonna gloss over how deus ex it is, because it is. The Daleks had to be stopped, after all, so I’m not cursing Davies’ name for making the ending too “easy.” Frankly, I’m more inclined to forgive a plot being sacrificed in favor of character than I am the other way around. So whatevs. Rose is the Bad Wolf. Sure, why not?</p> <p>What interests me is what gets her there.</p> <p>I’ll admit, I get annoyed with how she treats Jackie and Mickey sometimes, but I <em>know,</em> okay? I know what she’s trying to say, and I understand her frustration when she can’t express it right. From what I’ve seen, Rose gets a lot of flak, and I’m not here to tell anybody how they should feel about her—but I totally understand her. I know what it’s like to feel stuck in a dead-end life, with a shitty job, and I know that no matter how much you love your family and friends and how much they love you, it doesn’t help you feel any less… <em>useless</em>. </p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo5ck3UxHv1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="509" height="287"> (<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>So I get it. She wants to <em>matter.</em> She wants to save the Doctor just as he’s saved her so many times before—and I don’t just mean from actual danger. It’s the “thank you” the Doctor rarely gets and never (there’s an asterisk there, but that comes later) asks for.</p> <p>So she saves him, of course. And Jack. And the world.</p> <p>And the Doctor saves her right back.</p> <p><img src="http://i40.tinypic.com/jsc2kp.jpg"> (<a href="http://doctorwhogifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Now, like I said, I’m relatively new to Who, so I had no idea what regeneration was, or how it worked. I pretty much thought they did that thing where they just substituted actors without mentioning it at all, like on soap operas. So this?</p> <p><img src="http://images.wikia.com/tardis/images/9/9c/Jbg.jpg" width="462" height="260"></p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsk0jvRXOK1qd1jdy.gif" width="507" height="285"> (<a href="http://flapperorslapper.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>… Bit of a surprise.</p> <p>So… my Christopher is gone?</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgokvrDY8A1qghoe6o1_500.gif" width="508" height="361"> (<a href="http://theuntemperedschism.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>But…</p> <p><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxk31fQrKc1qaq516o1_500.gif" width="509" height="293"> (<a href="http://bsbrock.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Bu--</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyavptQq821qlj8quo12_r1_250.gif" width="331" height="219"> (<a href="http://bsbrock.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>…</p> <p>…</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3vkpb8Tbp1r3zat8.gif"></p> <p> </p> <p>Here’s your damn list. Leave me to mourn Nine.</p> <ul> <li><b>Daleks</b>: [<i>the Doctor steps out of the TARDIS and bumps into a few Daleks</i>] Exterminate! Exterminate! <br><b>The Doctor</b>: [<i>the Daleks fire wildly at The Doctor but nothing happens</i>] Is that it? Useless. <br><b>The Doctor</b>: [<i>with French pronunciation</i>] Nul points. <br><b>The Doctor</b>: [<i>beckons to Jack and Rose</i>] It's all right. Come on out. That force field can hold back anything. <br><b>Captain Jack Harkness</b>: Almost anything. <br><b>The Doctor</b>: Yes, but I wasn't gonna tell them that, thanks. <br><b>Captain Jack Harkness</b>: Sorry. </li> <li>“You know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek homeworld? The Oncoming Storm. You might have removed all your emotions, but I reckon right down deep in your DNA there's one little spark left. And that's fear. Doesn't it just burn when you face me?”</li> <li><strong>Daleks</strong>: Do not interrupt! Do not interrupt!<br>The Doctor: I think you’re forgetting something. I’m the Doctor, and if there’s one thing I can do, it’s talk. I’ve got give billion languages and you haven’t got one way of stopping me. So if anybody’s gonna shut up, <em><strong>it’s you</strong>!</em></li> <li>I’d be concerned about Daleks finding religion, too. Yikers.</li> <li><b>The Doctor</b>: [<i>hologram, speaking towards the console</i>] This is Emergency Programme One. Rose, now listen, this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing: we must be in danger, and I mean fatal. I'm dead, or about to die any second with no chance of escape. <br><b>Rose Tyler</b>: No! <br><b>The Doctor</b>: And that's okay, I hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doin'. The TARDIS is takin' you home. <br><b>Rose Tyler</b>: I won't let you. <br><b>The Doctor</b>: And I bet you're fussing and moaning now, typical. But hold on, and just listen a bit more. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do: let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it, no one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years, the world will move on, and the box will be buried. And if you wanna remember me, then you can do one thing. That's all, one thing. <br><b>The Doctor</b>: [<i>hologram turns to face Rose, and with a full voice</i>] Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life. <img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m28ijlpImd1r3zat8.gif" width="335" height="261"> <—Me.</li> <li>I see you there, Mickey, hoping that Rose coming back alone means resuming your relationship. Tut.</li> <li>Oh, god, Jackie doesn’t remember Rose at Sarah Clarke’s wedding. </li> <li>By the way—I love you, Jackie.</li> <li><b>Emperor Dalek</b>: Then prove yourself, Doctor. What are you, coward or killer? <br><b>The Doctor</b>: Coward, any day. </li> <li>“I think you need a Doctor.” <em>I</em> NEED A DOCTOR! MY HEAD HURTS, TOO, LOOK: OW!</li> <li>This ending. <img style="border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-sadsmile" alt="Sad smile" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/--K98dRF-kRc/T7WRNdQxEbI/AAAAAAAAAGA/z1fu65WCWWM/wlEmoticon-sadsmile%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800"></li> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:3497f8b4-7ea7-41bb-83a8-98d729d9433a" class="wlWriterSmartContent"><div id="e7872001-d2c6-40f4-bc9c-0c62bef6e7ef" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx3_s2-l67M" target="_new"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-azXUUwu-pmw/T7WRNwII8HI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/vSXeJUdiIVg/videoad1fd1d8cc0e%25255B21%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('e7872001-d2c6-40f4-bc9c-0c62bef6e7ef'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/xx3_s2-l67M?hl=en&hd=1\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/xx3_s2-l67M?hl=en&hd=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div><div style="width:448px;clear:both;font-size:.8em">So effin’ confused, you have no idea.</div></div></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul>DAVID TENNANT!</ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul> <ul></ul></ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>So, okay… After this post, there’ll be a Nine Appreciation Post, followed by reviews of the Children in Need Special and The Christmas Invasion. Stay with me!</p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-48068005524446271462012-05-08T00:34:00.001-04:002012-05-08T00:34:54.444-04:00That one guy totally reminds me of Taye Diggs for some reason…<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/05/that-one-guy-totally-reminds-me-of-taye.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>Well. That shit was disorienting.</p> <p><img src="http://i52.tinypic.com/2wqbrer.jpg"> (<a href="http://doctorwhogifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Actually, you know, there’s not much that I can say about this episode, because it’s part of a two-parter. All that happens is a setup for the next one.</p> <p>However, I do love how the Doctor, Jack, and Rose deal with their situations. It’s funny, because while Rose and the Doctor are so horribly mismatched with their game shows, Jack is just perfect for his:</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lggsr6xw0K1qghoe6o1_r1_500.gif"> (<a href="http://theuntemperedschism.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>I mean… is he perfect or is he perfect? </p> <p>Also something I liked? Lynda with a Y. </p> <p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v17/GuyCrazy1017/Doctor%20Who%20screencaps/1x12lynda.jpg"></p> <p>I mean, she’s not like, <em>mind-blowing</em> or anything, but I liked her. I wanted to protect her, and I was very relieved when the Doctor convinced her to leave with him.</p> <p>Even when she finds out that the Doctor is directly responsible for the shitty world she lives in, she just kind of… accepts it. And somehow, she manages to seem perky even when we find out that everyone is about thisclose to dying for the glory of the Dalek empire.</p> <p>Which… WTF?? The Daleks are back! And they didn’t even have the decency to go save their one stranded bro back in Van Statten’s “I have no idea what I’m doing, but fuck it, I’m rich” museum!</p> <p>Wait… Daleks can time-travel, right? </p> <p>Anyway…</p> <p>More things I liked: </p> <p>I seriously thought Rose was dead. And while I didn’t like the thought of her dead, I liked that the way it showed the Doctor just not being in time to save her. I also was equal parts incredibly sad for and nervously scared of him when he was doing his cold, broody thing.</p> <p>This is now the second time he thinks he’s lost Rose—and it looked pretty definitive, what with the big pile of dust and all—and I thought he would snap and just go Rambo on everyone. </p> <p><img src="http://cdn.shadowproclamation.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Review-Bad-Wolf-622x350-538x218.jpg?4ee508"></p> <p>That is the look of a man about to wreck shit, n’est-ce pas?</p> <p>I also felt a rush of affection for Jack in those scenes, because even though his time as a Companion is short, he felt like he was part of the family, as it were. And it hurt to see him hurt (and so protective of the Doctor!) when he thought Rose was dead. It felt like he loved Rose just as much as I did.</p> <p>And their joy when Jack finds out that she’s alive is the <em>most precious thing in the world</em> to me.</p> <p>You know, I think this episode was also trying to say something about reality TV culture, too, but I didn’t really give a fuck about that because I was too busy enjoying the sheer awesomeness of my boys.</p> <p>And then…</p> <p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:05916f6e-2f5e-4989-889b-e702795e017b" class="wlWriterSmartContent"><div id="be01ad28-eb6b-47e8-887b-8890a01dd317" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fzgjYeb4J8" target="_new"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-rK4w_BeSevo/T6iiagCwv_I/AAAAAAAAAF4/rWPNuNhMliM/video431a8c1a49e8%25255B53%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('be01ad28-eb6b-47e8-887b-8890a01dd317'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/4fzgjYeb4J8?hl=en&hd=1\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/4fzgjYeb4J8?hl=en&hd=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div><div style="width:448px;clear:both;font-size:.8em">Shit done got real.</div></div></p> <p>The Doctor is <em>such</em> a badass.</p> <p>Have a list, you’ve had a long day…</p> <ul> <li>Rose’s opponent in The Weakest Link reminds me so much of Taye Diggs, I don’t even know why…</li> <li>Aw, I wouldn’t mind seeing Kyoto in 1336!</li> <li>Jack, please don’t hide guns in your anus.</li> <li>I don’t like you anymore, British Taye Diggs. >:(</li> <li>“I moisturize.”</li> <li>“The human race, brainless sheep being fed on a diet of— mind you, have you still got that program where three people have to live with a bear?” LOL, the Doctor totally watches reality TV.</li> <li><b>Jack</b>: Hey there! <br><b>Lynda</b>: Hello. <br><b>Jack</b>: Captain Jack Harkness. <br><b>Lynda</b>: Lynda Moss. <br><b>Jack</b>: Nice to meet you, Lynda Moss. <br><b>The Doctor</b>: Do you mind flirting outside? <br><b>Jack</b>: I was just saying hello! <br><b>The Doctor</b>: For you, that's flirting. <br><b>Lynda</b>: I'm not complaining. </li> <li>Wtf, is that judiciary process?!</li> <li>Love that the Doctor and Jack can communicate wordlessly.</li> <li>“Oh, don’t be so thick! Like I was ever gonna shoot.” </li> <li>“Do I look like an ‘out of bounds’ sorta guy?!”</li> <li><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgj93uJSPJ1qghoe6o1_500.gif" width="449" height="193"> (<a href="http://theuntemperedschism.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</li> <li>Davitch Pavale: Use that, it might contain the final numbers. I kept a log of all the unscheduled transmissions. <br><b>Jack: </b>Nice, thanks. Captain Jack Harkness, by the way. <br><b>Davitch Pavale</b>: I'm Davitch Pavale. <br><b>Jack:</b> Nice to meet you, Davitch Pavale. <br><b>The Doctor</b>: There's a time and a place. </li> <li>You know, I thought that guy’s name was spelled “Davidge Pavel,” but I everything I find says different, so…</li></ul> <p> </p> <p>Next time, <em>Parting of the Ways,</em> and the end of Series One!</p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-40153342812695877612012-04-27T23:44:00.001-04:002012-04-27T23:44:58.267-04:00Also known as “the episode where I start liking and respecting Mickey Smith.”<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/04/also-known-as-episode-where-i-start.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>This is also the one in which I hope that the Doctor, Jack, and Rose are together forever, and the one in which I squee because <em>Doctor Who</em> is exploring the implications of the death penalty!</p> <p>I love you people. I really do.</p> <p>First, though, let’s deal with Mickey.</p> <p><img src="http://twilightswarden.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/1-11-boom_town_287.jpg" width="453" height="259"></p> <p>You may have noticed that I occasionally feel the need to remind Rose about Mickey and how he might feel about things, and yes, I know she’s not real and can’t hear me… And neither can he thank me for taking his side as he doesn’t exist, either… And that in fact this entire show isn’t r—you know what? Shut the fuck up and listen. </p> <p>I do this because for a really long time, the show’s been… well, it’s been treating Mickey like Rose has been treating Mickey. It’s one of the things I really don’t like about Rose, really, and it bugs me because I genuinely like her and know that she can be better than that. That she <em>is</em> better than that.</p> <p>At this point, it’s oh, so painfully, <em>awkwardly</em> obvious that Mickey cares about Rose more than she cares about him, at least romantically, and <em>sweet baby Jesus child</em> was it satisfying to see him take her to task for treating him like she does. It was almost meta, because the show’s just as guilty as Rose is of “forgetting” Mickey, too. </p> <p>One thing, though: Mickey’s entire speech was great until he tells her that he’d wait for her if that’s what he’s supposed to do. NO, MICKEY, YOU WERE DOING SO WELL!</p> <p><img src="http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae70/missvp/Miscellaneous%20Gifs/tumblr_lgjv3qFatc1qafrh6.gif" width="170" height="170"></p> <p>Still, it does make Rose think about her EPIC ASSHOLERY, so I suppose it’ll have to do. </p> <p>Now, what else?</p> <p>Oh!</p> <p>I know it made this episode a little slow, but can I say that I <em>adored</em> the entire “is it okay to take someone back to face the death penalty?” thing. </p> <p>It’s no secret that I abhor the death penalty and think it has no place in an advanced society, so throughout this whole thing I just enjoyed watching the Doctor wrestle with this moral conundrum. </p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqapdo1ygA1qlj8quo1_r3_500.jpg" width="491" height="271">(<a href="http://fuckyeahninthdoctor.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>And yes, I admit it’s a thorny problem, because bad people <em>should </em>get punished, and sometimes a relativist view is justified, but… well, let’s put it this way: as Blon points out, the Doctor himself is a killer. He’s not a gleeful killer like Blon and her brothers were, but the fact remains.</p> <p>No one but the most cold-hearted, absolutist bastard would say that the Doctor deserves death for his “crime.” After all, the Doctor has a strong moral center, and he <em>does</em> happen to save the world (and universe!) on occasion, so it can be surmised that he’s “reformed.” But even if he wasn’t reformed, he still wouldn’t deserve death for one extremely simple reason: just because he (theoretically) <em>hasn’t</em>, doesn’t mean he (theoretically) <em>won’t.</em> It doesn’t even matter if he never does reform—just that he’s given the chance to. And giving someone that choice is what makes us better. Makes us <em>human</em>. </p> <p>Blon’s right—killing her doesn’t make our heroes a bit better than her. Not a bit.</p> <p>Fortunately, I think they know it. </p> <p>Also fortunately, they ultimately don’t have to make that choice. </p> <p><img src="http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae70/missvp/20.jpg" width="546" height="312"></p> <p>Smart girl, that TARDIS, giving Blon just what she needs—a fresh start. I mean, ew… but also bravo!</p> <p>And bravo also to Rose for letting Mickey get on with his life. He deserves better.</p> <p>Blimey (I say “blimey,” now… Blimeys are cool), that got serious. How about a list?</p> <ul> <li>Oh, dear god, the farting alien is back. </li> <li><b>Captain Jack Harkness</b>: Aww, sweet, look at these two. How come I never get any of that? <br><b>The Doctor</b>: Buy me a drink first. <br><b>Captain Jack Harkness</b>: You're such hard work. <br><b>The Doctor</b>: But worth it. </li> <li><strong>Mickey</strong>: So what are you doing in Cardiff and who the hell is Jumpin' Jack Flash? I mean, I don't mind you hanging out with big ears up there—<br>The Doctor: Oi!<br><strong>Mickey</strong>: Look in the mirror. But this guy, I don't know…He's kinda—<br>Jack: Handsome?<br><strong>Mickey</strong>: More like cheesy.<br>Jack: Early 21st century slang. Is “cheesy” good or bad?<br><strong>Mickey</strong>: It's bad.<br>Jack: But “bad” means “good,” isn't that right?<br>The Doctor: …Are you saying I'm not handsome?</li> <li>Did I mention that I love Jack, the Doctor, and Rose together? ‘Cause I do. </li> <li><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxb3vsQI0E1qcwhkeo1_400.gif"> (<a href="http://doctorwhogifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>) …I also love Jack, in case that’s not obvious.</li> <li>“I knew we should’ve turned left!”<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0qysxOut81qcwhkeo1_400.gif"> (<a href="http://doctorwhogifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a><strong>)</strong></li> <li><strong><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1mkl7U7gX1qcwhkeo1_400.gif"> (<a href="http://doctorwhogifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>) Jack Harkness</strong>: Doctor, you go face to face, that’ll designate exit 1. I’ll cover exit 2. Rose, exit 3. Mickey Smith, exit 4.<br><strong>The Doctor</strong>: Excuse me. Who’s in charge?<br><strong>Jack Harkness</strong>: Sorry. Awaiting orders, sir.<br><strong>The Doctor:</strong> Right, here’s the plan: Like he said. Nice plan!</li> <li><strong>Secretary</strong>: The Lord Mayor says thank you for popping by. She'd love to have a chat but she's up to her eyes in paperwork. Perhaps if you could make an appointment for next week.<br>The Doctor: … She's climbing out the window, isn't she?<br><strong>Secretary</strong>: Yes, she is.</li> <li><img src="http://i56.tinypic.com/t63wi0.jpg"> (<a href="http://doctorwhogifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</li> <li>“Oh. I sound like a Welshman. God help me, I’ve gone native.”</li> <li>There goes that Bad Wolf shit again.</li> <li>Hm, the Doctor is watching Rose and Mickey go off together…</li> <li>LOL @the Doctor thwarting all of Blon’s attempts at killing him.</li> <li>“You’re pleading for mercy out of a dead woman’s lips.” Which, yeah… good point.</li> <li>Uh… you’ve got no right to be jealous, <em>Rose.</em></li> <li>“You let one of them go, but that’s nothing new. Every now and then a little victim’s spared because she smiled, ‘cause he’s got freckles… ‘Cause they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That’s how you slaughter millions. Because once in awhile—on a whim, if the wind's in the right direction—you happen to be kind.” Uncomfortable now, Doctor. :(</li> <li>Just gotta point out… This Doctor is a big change from <em>End of the World</em> Doctor. That Doctor didn’t even consider giving Cassandra a chance, whereas this one not only hears Blon out, he facilitates a way out for her. *sigh* I fucking love this show.</li></ul> <p> </p> <p>Right. Next week, it’s gonna be a two-parter! Stay tuned for <em>Bad Wolf</em>!</p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-28301662469620736672012-04-18T18:33:00.001-04:002012-06-26T16:08:20.467-04:00Hey, Doc, save the last dance for me!<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/04/hey-doc-save-last-dance-for-me.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>Oh… so <em>many </em>things to love about this episode. Remember scary gas-masked zombies?</p> <p><img src="http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/17500000/1x10-The-Doctor-Dances-doctor-who-17535377-1600-900.jpg" width="516" height="290"></p> <p>Not evil.</p> <p>Creepy small child?</p> <p><img src="http://ravereader.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/dw_emptychild.jpg" width="523" height="295"></p> <p>He’s frickin’ adorable, and also not evil:</p> <p><img src="http://images.wikia.com/tardis/images/8/82/The_Doctor_Dances_493-1-.jpg" width="530" height="305"></p> <p>The things responsible for all the creepiness and the no, thank yous? Not evil! They’re cute little Tinkerbells designed to <em>help</em>. They just wanted to help!</p> <p>By the way, I want nanogenes in my life, please. Nowish would be good. Science, make it so.</p> <p>But all of this pales in the face of a giddy Doctor.</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgc7mqVM4i1qghoe6o1_500.gif">(<a href="http://theuntemperedschism.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Steven Moffat, if I didn’t love you already for nearly flawless writing, I would love you for this. </p> <p>There is no more satisfying moment in my life as a reader or a watcher than seeing a subversion of a trope, or seeing it used well. It’s part of the reason I love <em>Buffy</em> so much. I don’t know what it says about me that I automatically expect people to die in stories like this, but I sort of do? It’s not that I <em>want</em> it to happen, I just have never seen different, and you know what they say about there being no new stories… </p> <p>And then there’s this episode, which basically says</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhf25t1sIe1qafrh6.png"></p> <p>The Doctor, who needs a happy ending way more than my misanthropic soul does, gets it!</p> <p><img src="http://www.historyvortex.org/DoctorDancesPhoto3.jpg" width="400" height="361"></p> <p>Nancy gets her son back, Doctor Constantine is (presumably) a father and grandfather again, that one lady gets an entire leg back, and Jack, my lovely Jack… He gets to be a hero.</p> <p><img src="http://www.kevinpratt.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/14053054.png" width="510" height="293"></p> <p>Say what you will about the Doctor (actually, don’t, because if it’s bad, I will be forced to kill you and I’m too young and pretty to go to prison), it takes a pretty remarkable man—er, Time Lord—to inspire a petty con man to heroism with a few well-placed comments. </p> <p>Also something this episode touches on is Rose trusting Jack before she had any reason to. She tells the Doctor it’s because “he’s like you—only with dating and dancing.” And that’s true, sort of (and pretty close to why <em>I </em>liked Jack straight off the bat, really). </p> <p>But it speaks a little to Rose’s character. I always thought it was obvious that Rose had this HUGE crush on the Doctor because he offered a lot of things Mickey just couldn’t. However, it was <em>also</em> obvious to me that she found him intimidating for the same reasons he was so attractive (not to mention he’s like, 1000). The Doctor doesn’t really do romance or frivolity like that, and here comes Jack with his champagne and his Glenn Miller and his charm and Rose swoons. </p> <p>And the Doctor being insulted that Rose just assumes he doesn’t “dance” is even more adorable, because he hasn’t given much indication that he does in the first place! Then again, we all know what they say about assumptions…</p> <p><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgc9tgtkw01qghoe6o1_500.gif" width="489" height="210">(<a href="http://theuntemperedschism.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>…Look, if loving that guy is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Doctor: I’m really glad that worked. Those would’ve been terrible last words. <li>Rose: When he’s stressed, he likes to insult species. Doctor: Rose, I’m thinking. Rose: Cuts himself shaving, does half an hour on life forms he’s cleverer than. <li>Doctor: Don’t drop the banana. Captain Jack: Why not? Doctor: Good source of potassium. <li>It’s very likely this entire list will be quotes, because there’re so many great ones. <li>Captain Jack: Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, “ooh, this could be a little more sonic”? <li>Rose: Okay, so he’s vanished into thin air. Why is it always the great-looking ones who do that? Doctor: I’m making an effort not to be insulted. <li>Rose: The world doesn’t end ‘cause the Doctor dances. <li>Doctor: We were talking about dancing. Captain Jack: Didn’t look like talking. Rose: Didn’t feel like dancing. <li>Nancy: Tell me, do you think there’s anything left I wouldn’t believe? Rose: We’re time-travelers from the future. Nancy: Mad, you are. <li>Mrs. Harcourt: My leg’s grown back! When I come to ‘ospital, I ‘ad <em>one</em> leg! Doctor Constantine: Well, there is a war on… Is it possible you… miscounted? <li>Rose: Look at you, beamin’ away like you’re Father Christmas! Doctor: Who says I’m not? Red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve. <li>Captain Jack: A little too much vermouth. See if I come here again! <li>DANCE PARTY!</li></ul> <p><img src="http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae70/missvp/Miscellaneous%20Gifs/spidey_dance.gif"></p> <p><img src="http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae70/missvp/Buffyverse%20Gifs/Non-Buffy%20Buffyverse%20Gifs/ANGELDANCE.gif" width="289" height="217"></p> <p><img src="http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae70/missvp/Buffyverse%20Gifs/Non-Buffy%20Buffyverse%20Gifs/tumblr_lnn17wTjP01qj0zho.gif"></p> <p><img src="http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk245/SilentLaws/ShepardDance.gif?t=1301115377"></p> <p><img src="http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae70/missvp/Miscellaneous%20Gifs/tumblr_lhzkqq9ei31qzi80do1_500.gif"></p> <p> </p> <p><em>Boom Town</em> next!</p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-1154251445403155782012-04-16T01:21:00.001-04:002012-04-27T20:54:54.081-04:00As if I wasn’t terrified of small children already…<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/04/as-if-i-wasnt-terrified-of-small.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>You know, before this episode, the thought of a poor little lost child going around asking if random people are its mother <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Are-You-Mother-P-D-Eastman/dp/0394800184">wasn't all that scary to me</a>.</p> <p>And then, Steven Moffat happened.</p> <p>And then this:</p> <p><img src="http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae70/missvp/R.png" width="479" height="316"></p> <p>And then WHAT THE FUCK.</p> <p>And then <img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrztka7FxE1qafrh6.gif" width="432" height="243"> (<a href="http://fuckyeahreactions.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Steven Moffat, <em>what the hell is broken in your brain?!</em></p> <p>At this point, I would like to point out that I first saw this episode somewhere between three and four in the morning. When it was dark. And for some reason I kept hearing breathing noises as if someone was wearing a mask or something. A gas mask, of course, because seriously, fuck you, Moffat.</p> <p>Getting to this two-parter pretty much cemented my love for <em>Doctor Who</em> as a show. I loved it before, but now I also feared it, which… made me love it more? I don’t know. I’m fucked in the head. It’s something I deal with.</p> <p>Oh, but how could I go this long without mentioning Jack?!</p> <p><img src="http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae70/missvp/dw2.jpg" width="282" height="280"></p> <p>Jack is so beautiful to me. If I were to imagine the perfect man, it would be Jack. Jack is allowed to touch all of my parts. In fact, I will name my all my jackets “Jack,” so that when I put them on, I can say that I am snug in Jack’s embrace.</p> <p>Seriously, though… What. A. Great. Character. He’s like the anti-homophobe. I don’t just love that he’s omnisexual, I love that he is so unapologetically, <em>matter-of-factly</em> omnisexual. And so charming! The man can do charm, okay?</p> <p>While I side-eye the hell out of Rose for that “available” thing (<em>available, </em>Rose, <em>REALLY?!</em> Has anybody told Mickey this? Thought. So), I can’t blame her for enjoying Jack.</p> <p><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lck7jja6Ow1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="425" height="240"> (<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Hell, <em>I</em> wanna enjoy Jack. Maybe twice.</p> <p><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq0ga1SJ4S1qafrh6.gif" width="416" height="233">(<a href="http://fuckyeahreactions.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Oh! Also a good thing in this episode? All of Nancy, really.</p> <p><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0m2qNnUQiQ35FfHJwT8E681K-9qzGtqWAmTcK1-EYBiGHCxDVgu13_sNyhyphenhyphenrruSWwk2L8QvWdoqADf4GbHnlU3txOAzhPYU4eVPxihczR84cCUOXCH8GlyGUePkJAgDObAbVg1J5j_aY/s1600/nancy.jpg" width="457" height="257"></p> <p>I like how she commands such an air of respect and motherly affection even while she looks so young, and how she looks after the children because no one else will. And because she lost someone! Just like the Doctor, she takes care of everyone else because she can’t take care of whom she lost. </p> <p>…I—I’m sorry, I have something in my eye.</p> <p>And speaking of minor characters (really, “minor character” is such a relative term in this series) that mirror the Doctor, there is the <em>other</em> doctor: Doctor Constantine. When Doctor Constantine mentions losing his children and grandchildren as a result of the war—but still retaining his identity as a doctor—and the Doctor mentions he “know[s] the feeling,” my heart seized with pain for him—for <em>both</em> of them. </p> <p>… </p> <p>…</p> <p> </p> <p><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://static.tumblr.com/40qiswo/QKolryc6f/wait__wut.gif" width="388" height="278"></p> <p>The Doctor was a father and grandfather?!</p> <p>Oh, but never mind because now it’s time for Moffat to ensure I don’t sleep easily for the rest of my life:</p> <p><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://i44.tinypic.com/2hoy0kz.jpg"> (<a href="http://doctorwhogifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Damn you, sir. Damn you to the darkest pit of—oh, wait. That’s probably where you get your ideas. Sigh.</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>I love that mauve is the universally recognized color for “danger.” <li>“Is it safe?” “Perfectly!” (TARDIS showers them with sparks) “Okay, <em>reasonably</em>—should’ve said “reasonably” there.” <li>Of <em>course</em> Rose is drawn to save a lost kid. <li><img src="http://www.flickfilosopher.com/flickfilos/art/dwdoctorwithcat.gif" width="279" height="224"> The Doctor and a kitty. All things are right with the world. <li>“What's a copper gonna do with you lot, anyway? Arrest you for starving?” <li><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldfj9hII7p1qddj8bo1_500.jpg" width="431" height="243"> (<a href="http://fuckyeahninthdoctor.tumblr.com/">Source</a>) <li>The Doctor knows what it’s like to be the only child left out in the cold. :( <li>Nancy teasing the Doctor about his big nose and ears. <3 <li>“1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like dominoes. Nothing can stop it—nothing. Until one tiny, damp little island says “no.” “No, not here.” A mouse in front of a lion. You’re amazing, the lot of you. Don’t know what you do to Hitler, but you frighten the hell out of me.” This is the best thing ever. <li>Albion Hospital—why does that sound familiar? <li>“Don’t you ever get tired of ‘Doctor’? Doctor <em>who</em>?!” <li>First a navvy, now a U-boat captain. What is <em>wrong</em> with the Doctor’s jumper?! <li>… And people wonder why I hate hospitals.</li></ul> <p> </p> <p>Tomorrow, <em>The Doctor Dances</em>!</p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-58262418567791057442012-04-13T00:05:00.001-04:002012-04-13T00:05:03.166-04:00I have to go give my dad a hug.<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/04/i-have-to-go-give-my-dad-hug.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>I’ll be honest. If I had the same circumstances surrounding me, I can’t promise I wouldn’t act as Rose did in <em>Father’s Day</em>.</p> <p><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m02rz2Swdn1qk8i6eo3_250.jpg" width="381" height="192"> (<a href="http://wibblywobblyfringeystuff.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>… Don’t look at me that way, Doctor.</p> <p><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj4xjxCiXR1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="388" height="221">(<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Please? I mean, you’ve gotta understand, she never knew him!</p> <p><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj4xijnlgt1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="393" height="224">(<a href="http://wibblywobblyfringeystuff.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>… Okay, I can see you’re upset, and you’ve got some right to be, but let me explain…</p> <p><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m04y5xg8jA1qcwhkeo1_400.gif" width="387" height="218">(<a href="http://doctorwhogifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Uh… Thanks?</p> <p>Up ‘til now, the only reference we’d had to Rose’s father was way back in <em>The Unquiet Dead</em>, when Gwyneth mentioned that Rose had been thinking about him lately.</p> <p>And I honestly didn’t even make that connection until embarrassingly recently. </p> <p>First of all, I hate that Rose has this desire to go see her dad so soon after their having got rid of that tool Adam, and that this all ends up confirming the Doctor’s conceptions about humans being selfish apes. Not in a <em>bad </em>way… I mean, I love that Rose isn’t above being selfish in the first place, that she’s not some angel/saint of virtue who lives on selflessness and charity. In truth, she’d be way unrealistic as a character if the idea had never even crossed her mind. However. I don’t think she’d originally planned to save Pete. I don’t even think that crossed her mind until she saw just how painful it was to actually see him die.</p> <p><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbnm3rxqaG1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="419" height="236">(<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>And I don’t think the Doctor fully believes that she’d been planning this from the start, either. </p> <p>It’s just… That fucktard Adam had <em>just</em> tried to take advantage of the Doctor, and it’s not like the Doctor doesn’t have some prejudices to get over when it comes to humans, not to mention that the Doctor broke some rules to do this, and Rose temporarily telling the universe to fuck off just so that she could have her daddy again is something that is bound to strike a chord with a Doctor <em>who’s lost everyone and everything that ever mattered to him</em> and <em>can’t</em> have that luxury.</p> <p><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lap0s9LGqg1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="440" height="247">(<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Right? I mean, I’m not wrong here. I know.</p> <p>And yet… How can your heart not break when you see this?</p> <p><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luz8ucnOHr1r28rujo2_250.gif" width="320" height="186">(<a href="http://bsbrock.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>I mean, seriously?</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrspquaXHj1qafrh6.gif" width="490" height="196">(<a href="http://fuckyeahreactions.tumblr.com/">Talk about time-eaters</a>)</p> <p>Only the Doctor can have given this to her. Granted, in a somewhat roundabout way, but still… </p> <p>And so this is why their fight kills me. I can see the Doctor’s point of view (destruction of the universe, betrayal of trust, general ape-ish stupidity), but I also can’t fault Rose. The absence of her father has shaped her (just like someone <em>else</em> is shaped by <em>his</em> losses *<em>ahem</em>*), and it’s understandable that she should wonder what his presence would do.</p> <p>You get that, Doctor, don’t you?</p> <p><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ld712gWUxp1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="440" height="248">(<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>I know you do. You do, because when it comes to trying to solve the whole time-eating thing problem, you do everything to avoid having to take Pete away from Rose again. You even sacrifice yourself to avoid it. And I love you for that, Doctor, I really do.</p> <p><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li47smZYVq1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="446" height="246">(<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Now…go and make up with Rose while I write this list.</p> <p><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m04ah6TbAf1qcy27zo8_250.gif" width="286" height="167">(<a href="http://bsbrock.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>I love that Pete’s not what Rose was led to believe he was. He’s flawed, of course, but remarkably self-aware and smart. Pete, this bullet point is dedicated to my love of you.<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lskncxDAMy1qafrh6.gif" width="440" height="188">(<a href="http://fuckyeahreactions.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</li> <li>Oh, the Doctor’s angry. I don’t like it when he’s angry. :(</li> <li>“When we met, I said ‘Travel with me in space.’ You said no. Then I said ‘Time machine.’” No, no, please don’t think this!</li> <li>Oh, Rose, don’t use his loneliness against him! This fight’s making me want to curl up in the fetal position and whimper. :(</li> <li>“I know what you're saying and we're not going there. At no point are we going anywhere near there. You aren't even aware that ‘there’ exists. I don't even want to think about ‘there’ and believe me, neither do you. ‘There’—for you—is like... It's like the Bermuda Triangle.” “Blimey, you know how to flatter a bloke.”</li> <li><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1zhddOUk41qcwhkeo1_400.gif"> (<a href="http://doctorwhogifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)WHAT WHAT THE FUCK WHERE IS THE TARDIS?!</li> <li>Aww, baby Rose!</li> <li>“I’ve waited a long time to say this: Jackie Tyler, <em>do as I say!</em>”</li> <li><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m00wb6S9rY1qaq516o1_250.gif"><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m00wb6S9rY1qaq516o2_250.gif">(<a href="http://bsbrock.tumblr.com/">Source of both</a>)</li> <li>“So if this mate of yours isn't your boyfriend then I have to say I’m glad, because being your dad I’m allowed to say he’s a bit old for you.” Love you, Pete!</li> <li>Oh, wouldja look at that, Mickey was always clingy!</li> <li>“Now, Rose, you’re not gonna bring about the end of the world, are you?”</li> <li>“Just… tell me you’re sorry.” What are these feelings in my heart?!</li> <li>THE DOCTOR GETS EATEN NO WHY</li> <li>I love that Pete figures it out. He’s a smart guy.</li> <li><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m04ah6TbAf1qcy27zo1_250.gif"><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m04ah6TbAf1qcy27zo7_250.gif"> (<a href="http://bsbrock.tumblr.com/">Source, both</a>) Me: <img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m106jtFviS1r3zat8.gif">(<a href="http://fuckyeahreactions.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</li></ul> <p> </p> <p><em>The Empty Child</em> next.</p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-78075092386185819982012-04-07T01:24:00.001-04:002012-04-07T01:24:59.454-04:00It was long, all right…<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/04/it-was-long-all-right.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>Maybe I was supposed to expect that Adam would stay, and that the Doctor and Rose would become the Doctor, Adam, and Rose, but… Nope. Never did. Never <em>wanted</em> it.</p> <p><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leirrpZtla1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="416" height="232">(All pictures from <a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Time Lord Caps</a>, unless otherwise noted.)</p> <p>Adam was just too… ack. Sometimes I wish English had words like Spanish does. I’ll get back to that.</p> <p>As it turns out, I ended up being glad that the bulk of this episode was right back to Rose and the Doctor figuring things out for themselves.</p> <p><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llz414U8T81qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="419" height="235"></p> <p>They’re just… <em>good</em> at it… Y’know?</p> <p>That said… I wasn’t overly impressed by this episode. Especially after the last episode. I mean, okay, maybe I needed a little lightheartedness so that I could process some shit, but still… I just wasn’t too invested in what was happening.</p> <p>Oh, BUT. There were things I liked. First?</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llz48oBneI1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="428" height="241"></p> <p>Simon Pegg. I may or may not have squealed when I recognized him ‘cause I absolutely love him for various reasons. I also liked his <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FauxAffablyEvil">character</a>. He was kind of like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wilkins_%28Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer%29">the Mayor</a>, but not really. </p> <p>Also a thing I liked? How the Doctor sort of coaches Rose at the beginning of the episode.</p> <p><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llz4agcgZI1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="452" height="254"></p> <p>It was just cute.</p> <p>And while Adam himself sucked, he did kind of bring up an issue that I didn’t think of before this episode.</p> <p>The Doctor runs a risk with this system that he has, this Companion business. I mean, let’s face it: humans, we are a selfish, self-interested bunch for the most part. It wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility that someone would want to use the Doctor for selfish gain, and indeed, we see that here, with Adam.</p> <p><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leirgcOp1x1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="460" height="257"></p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkbyqspkkR1qh0epb.gif">(<a href="http://fuckyeahreactions.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>…Adam, you are a stupid douchecake. </p> <p>And finally, a line we get from the Editor himself: “How can you walk through the world and not leave a single footprint?”</p> <p>And it’s (sorta) easy to answer. He doesn’t <em>want </em>to leave a footprint. That is the absolute <em>last</em> thing he wants to do. It’s why he doesn’t do the “tidying up,” why he doesn’t stay in one place for too long. The Doctor’s not interested in putting down roots because he knows how painful it is when they’re torn up.</p> <p>…And I can’t really blame him for that.</p> <p>Right. Time for a list:</p> <ul> <li>“He’s your boyfriend.” “Not anymore.” HEY, DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER MICKEY AT ALL?!</li> <li>“The thing is, Adam, time travel is like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guide book. You've got to throw yourself in, eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers - or is that just me? Stop asking questions. Go and do it!” You keep giving me reasons to love you, Doctor.</li> <li>“Look at me, I’m stupid!”</li> <li>The Face of Boe is pregnant?! How would that even work??</li> <li>There is an interesting parallel between Adam and Rose and their first trips in the TARDIS. Adam clearly fails the test. Big wanker.</li> <li>If <em>that</em>’s where technology is going, I’ll be over here in the secluded cabin with my books and my 26 cats, thanks.</li> <li>“Trouble?” “Oh, yeah.”</li> <li>“All right—I’ll hug anyone!” <3 <3 <3</li> <li>“It’s gonna take a better man than me to get between you two.” Well, yeah, if you’re gonna lie, asshole.</li> <li>The Doctor is obviously a fan of the Socratic method.</li> <li>“Rose, tell her to button it.”</li> <li>Ew. No to the vomitomatic forever, thanks.</li> <li>“You should go back downstairs.” “Tough.”</li> <li>“Is a slave a slave if he doesn’t know he’s a slave?” “Yes.” </li> <li>“You and your boyfriends!”</li> <li>The whole end of this episode is just “hee!” <img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m023kiSP601qeb18yo2_250.png">(<a href="http://fuckyeahninthdoctor.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</li></ul> <p> </p> <p>Next stop, <em>Father’s Day</em>!</p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-83205347028382507442012-04-01T01:17:00.001-04:002012-04-01T01:17:19.385-04:00…This is a children’s show?!<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/04/this-is-childrens-show.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk402873lV1qf0v7f.gif"></p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk40hnm3Yh1qf0v7f.gif"></p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk40ym9FfT1qf0v7f.gif"></p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk41glAo3N1qf0v7f.gif"> (<a href="http://theraggedyedge.tumblr.com/">Source of All</a>)</p> <p>I… Well… You see—What?! How is this a <em>kids</em>’ show?! This is <em>not </em>a criticism, this is praise!</p> <p>I’m just… I’m gobsmacked. I just… Okay, maybe I should start at the beginning.</p> <p>Being new to the whole <em>Doctor Who</em> thing, I was reasonably unfamiliar with a lot of things. I’d <em>heard</em> of Daleks, but I had no idea what they looked like or why the Doctor should be so afraid of them. I really wasn’t expecting a “space dustbin.” </p> <p><img src="http://images.mylot.com/userImages/images/postphotos/1122787.jpg" width="237" height="306"></p> <p>I believe my initial reaction was “that’s <em>it</em>?!” </p> <p>‘Course, that was before it killed a bajillion people. And my eardrums.</p> <p>Still, I liked my introduction to Daleks, especially considering <em>where </em>it happens.</p> <p>But that’s not even what has me so deliciously astonished.</p> <p>It’s generally tough for people to relate to something as old as the Doctor without trying to assign it context. At least, it is for <em>me.</em> I feel that’s the reason we have historians and archeologists, and yes, <em>museums</em>. Which is why I loved so much that we get such a gigantic piece of information regarding the Doctor in this episode, in this particular setting.</p> <p><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llz20qKO0d1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="395" height="222">(<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>I mean, here we are, adjusting to the idea of a modern-day alien museum, and then the Doctor is taken to see the Dalek and he flips the fuck out and it’s like what is <em>up </em>with you, dude? And then OH MY GOD THE DOCTOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LOSS OF HIS PEOPLE AND HIS ENTIRE PLANET WHAT THE FUCK.</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m107zxoWBg1r3zat8.gif"> (<a href="http://fuckyeahreactions.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>And then it’s like… <em>no wonder.</em> No <em>wonder</em> he took Jabe’s death hard. No wonder he was prepared to save the Gelth on such little information, and no wonder he hesitated in <em>World War Three</em> when it meant he might lose Rose. The Doctor’s not just mourning, he’s feeling <em>guilt</em>!</p> <p>This information colors everything that went before! Of <em>course</em> he gets angry when Jackie questions his decision to nuke the shit out of Downing Street with Rose inside it. After losing so much at your own hand, it’s almost insulting that someone should challenge you like that. He’s already sacrificed everything, why not Rose? And still he hesitates. He hesitates because who wants to go through that kind of pain again?</p> <p>I just… Oh, my god, I just wanna <em>hug</em> him.</p> <p>And yet…</p> <p>I’m not even gonna lie, the Doctor scared me quite a bit, too. </p> <p>I’ve mentioned before that Angry Doctor makes me wanna snuggle underneath my covers where it’s safe, and this, well… this was Angry Vengeful Doctor.</p> <p><img src="http://i42.tinypic.com/28spylv.jpg"></p> <p>No. Please? </p> <p>I mean, he even gets a gun! I don’t know this Doctor. This Doctor frightens me. And frankly, that’s kind of <em>really fucking awesome</em>. </p> <p>Meanwhile, Rose spends some time flirting with Adam (uh, hey Rose… Remember Mickey?):</p> <p><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lopujwdLGp1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="383" height="215">(<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>And then she gets to meet the Dalek herself, and it’s great, because when she meets it, it’s broken. It’s something deserving of sympathy and compassion, even considering its probable history of killing indiscriminately—which Rose obviously doesn’t know. </p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lopui6xJXL1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="376" height="211"> (<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Of course, it sucked when the Doctor turned out to be right and the Dalek used Rose for its own ends, but hey… turns out that Rose changed the Dalek, too. I was honestly expecting for this episode to have a semi-happy ending. The Dalek would start to redeem itself, the Doctor would come to terms with his actions, and everyone would skip merrily into the TARDIS on their way to a new adventure. </p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmpfj6rjab1qclt3z.gif">(<a href="http://fuckyeahreactions.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>I’m an idiot, basically. First of all, I let my assumptions get the best of me (kids’ show = happy ending), and second of all, there is nothing to even suggest that this would end in such a trite way. I mean, I like sci-fi. I watch a lot, really. When does a robot questioning its purpose <em>ever</em> end well in sci-fi? </p> <p>Answer? Never, you dope.</p> <p>This episode covered a <em>lot</em> of ground. It saw the Doctor become the “bad” guy ( “…you would make a good Dalek.” Fucking <em>ouch, </em>dude), and as such, it changed my entire perspective on who this guy is, and why he is how he is.</p> <p>The Doctor gets tortured by more than that prick Henry Van Statten. His own feelings of vengeance nearly turned him into the monster he was fighting, and it forced him to check himself, basically.</p> <p>Two hearts means there’s just an extra one to break. :(</p> <p>Anyway, I ramble and I’m not even sure any of this made any sense, so here’s a list. Enjoy:</p> <ul> <li>“I’m getting old.”</li> <li>“Metaltron” is a stupid name, Van Statten. Also, your teeth are weird.</li> <li>Seriously, this episode had a huge body count. Did I hear 200 some-odd people?</li> <li>Oh! Shout-out to kinda awesome women characters, small though their roles may be: DiMaggio and Goddard.</li> <li>Rose’s “last” words are to reassure the Doctor. :(</li> <li>“What use are emotions if you will not save the woman you love?” Wait—what?!</li> <li>“What about you, Doctor? What the hell are <em>you</em> changing into?” :( :(</li> <li>“Oh, Rose… They’re all dead.” MY HEART</li> <li>“Rose, he’s a bit pretty.” Yay, teasing Doctor. I feel comfortable with him. Let’s keep him, yes?</li></ul> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-27419557703402142612012-03-26T22:25:00.001-04:002012-03-26T22:25:54.152-04:00Raxacoricofallapatorius!<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/03/raxacoricofallapatorius.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>And yes, saying that made me feel better than learning how to say “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” when I was ten.</p> <p>…My pleasures are simple.</p> <p>Now. You’ll be pleased to know that I enjoyed this episode more than the last, even though the Slitheen were still around being flatulently sinister. And sort of… cute?</p> <p><img src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/medialibrary/s1/images/1024/s1_05_wal_03.jpg?size=1024&promo=/doctorwho/medialibrary/s1/images/main-promo/s1_05_wal_03.jpg&purpose=Computer%20wallpaper&summary=In%20their%20true%20form.&info=&tag_file_id=s1_05_wal_03" width="338" height="253"> (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/">I will spend forever here, if you let me</a>)</p> <p>Well, “cute” in the way that baby dolls are cute; not really, and creepy besides. </p> <p>Anyway, moving on. The reason I like this episode is sort of connected to the bits I liked about the previous episode. Where <em>Aliens of London </em>was about getting Rose and the Doctor to think about what they <em>have</em> done, <em>World War Three</em> forces them (the Doctor, especially) to think about what they <em>will </em>do. </p> <p>Jackie (seriously, there can never be an end to the love I bear Jackie) confronts the Doctor with questions he can’t easily answer. </p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le7z4axr1O1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="389" height="218"> (<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Truth is, he <em>can’t</em> guarantee Rose’s safety, any more than he can guarantee that the world will be puppies and rainbows until the end of time. We know that; Jackie knows that; the Doctor knows that… But Rose doesn’t seem to know that. Even after what he told her after coming back from the End of the World. </p> <p>He’s been pretty upfront, I’ll admit…He <em>did</em> say it was dangerous, and that it’s dangerous a <em>lot</em> of the time. But apparently, Rose needs a rider: that he can’t always protect her, or that sometimes, he won’t even be able to (I know, I know—Spoilers!).</p> <p>Also, this episode gives me two things I will cherish forever: Broody Doctor (although, after <em>Buffy</em> and <em>Angel</em>, the bar for “broody” is set pretty high), and Rose not even hesitating at the thought of dying to save the world.</p> <p><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj4wchTw3U1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="418" height="238"> (<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>She has faults, I’ll admit, but <em>I love Rose</em> <em>and you can’t take that away from me. </em>And you know? If I were to ship it (which I do, but shush), I think this would be the exact moment where the Doctor said “huh.”</p> <p><img src="http://cdn.thatssotrue.com/2012/2/24/thatssotrue_1791_1330123760.gif" width="272" height="178"></p> <p>In the end, I’m allowed to stay happy because Rose, the Doctor, <em>and</em> Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North all live! I don’t even know if a missile like that would mean pieces of them all over London in real life, and I <em>don’t care</em> because I wanted them all to live and they did!</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m103v4IP981r3zat8.gif"></p> <p>You know, now that I think of it, there are <em>three</em> things I will cherish forever:</p> <p><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le7z1lSagx1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="409" height="228"> (<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Now that we have all of that out of the way, I think this must be said:</p> <p>SHAME ON YOU, DOCTOR! <em>SHAME</em>! </p> <p>You <em>so </em>manipulated Rose just then, what with your plasma storm in the Horsehead Nebula and making it sound kind of like a rollercoaster and actually, I’d kinda love to see what that’s like but that is NOT THE POINT. It seems you’re just as good at finding and using Rose’s weakness against her as you are the Slitheen.</p> <p>You can’t see me, but I’m making my annoyed face at you right now.</p> <p>And Rose, stupid girl, you fall for it!</p> <p>I am <em>watching</em> both of you.</p> <p><img src="http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs7/3260398_o.gif"></p> <p>Hmph. </p> <p>List time!</p> <ul> <li>“I think you’ll find the Prime Minister is an alien in disguise… That’s never gonna work, is it?” “No.” “Fair enough.”</li> <li>LOL @ Harriet Jones’ indignation about being called old and stale.</li> <li>“Harriet Jones, I like you.” Me, too!</li> <li>“Installed in 1991, 3 inches of steel lining every single wall. They'll never get in.” <br>“But how do we get out?” <br> [<i>nods</i>] “Ah.”</li> <li>I love that the Doctor asks for the secretary’s name. The <a href="http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Who_Wiki">Tardis Index File</a> tells me it was “Indra Ganesh.”</li> <li>“Mickey the Idiot—I may choke before I finish this sentence, but… I need you.” </li> <li>“You kiss this man?” Snarky Doctor is the best Doctor. Y/y?</li> <li>“I could save this world but lose you.” Look, if I’m not meant to ship it, then stop giving me ammunition!</li> <li>Aw, Jackie’s willing to accept the Doctor for Rose’s sake.</li> <li>“Um… my mother’s cooking.” “Good! Put her on a slow heat and let it simmer.”</li> <li>THE DOCTOR INVITES MICKEY! I know I don’t really like Mickey yet, but this is great! I also love that the Doctor covers for Mickey.</li> <li>Jackie bargaining so that Rose will stay. :(</li> <li>Jackie counting ten seconds. :( :(</li></ul> <p> </p> <p><em>Dalek</em> next!</p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-89936032599505953092012-03-26T01:24:00.001-04:002012-03-26T01:24:34.603-04:00Oh, yay. Fart jokes.<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/03/oh-yay-fart-jokes.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>Yeah, lemme go on record as not being thrilled about the antagonists of this episode.</p> <p>Look, I can take camp and cheese. Some of my <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118276/">favorite</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112230/">shows</a> feature helpings of both. We’re okay with that. But it turns out farting aliens are my limit.</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m107se5Kr71r3zat8.gif"></p> <p>And it’s not that I didn’t laugh once or twice, it’s just that… Dude. <em>Farting aliens</em>. </p> <p>That said, there <em>were</em> things I liked. </p> <p>Jackie. </p> <p><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llz87giqbO1qetwwko1_500.jpg"> (<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Jackie Tyler, I adore you. I am <em>so fucking glad</em> we came back to London because I wanted the consequences of Rose just swanning off with the Doctor to be addressed, especially from the point of view of the people left behind.</p> <p><img src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167881648l/27523.jpg"></p> <p>… Not <em>that</em> kind of “left behind.”</p> <p>I also liked that rather than the whole time machine thing being exploited (as I thought it would be when the Doctor said “12 hours”), Rose had to deal with the consequences of being gone for an entire year.</p> <p>I mean, we’ve been pretty cavalier about this whole “traveling” business, but come on… Rose has to realize that it’s quite possible that any one of these trips will go wrong. Like “stuck forever somewhere” wrong, and she hasn’t even bothered to say goodbye to her mother. And sure, she’s got the super-phone or whatever, but phone calls are just not gonna cut it. Especially if you’re dodging questions and lying about where (or when!) you are. Just… No, Rose. No. You sit down and you deal with this.</p> <p><img src="http://pubsecrets.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/scold.gif" width="263" height="337"></p> <p>Oh, and <em>you, </em>Doctor!</p> <p><img src="http://i42.tinypic.com/24vqquw.jpg" width="274" height="158"> (<a href="http://doctorwhogifs.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</p> <p>You can’t just go abducting teenage women without so much as a by-your-leave! This isn’t the sixties, you know!</p> <p>Oh, and while I’m not too fond of Mickey yet, it’s oh, so very shitty that he was looked at with suspicion the entire time Rose was gone. It makes sense, since he’s (technically) the boyfriend, and he <em>was</em> the last to see Rose before her “disappearance.” But still. Ouch, you know?</p> <p>And that’s not the only thing. I mean, the guy obviously loves Rose. To not only have to deal with a police investigation, but the fact that you saw your girlfriend leave with some other dude and stay gone for a year, well… </p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzmc8zLe501r3zat8.gif" width="481" height="227"></p> <p> </p> <p>And on top of that, the Doctor is<em> rude</em> to him! I have my theories about why, but they’re not exactly confirmed yet, so I’ll hold off on that for now…</p> <p>Hey, how about a list? Lists are cool.</p> <ul> <li>“When you say ‘companion,’ is this a sexual relationship?” <img src="http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_full_width_scaled/hash/15/0f/jaynestown118_3.jpg" width="362" height="204"></li> <li>“Nine hundred years of time and space, and I’ve never been slapped by anyone’s mother.” <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc2bntGbuf1qetwwko1_500.jpg" width="358" height="207"> (<a href="http://timelordcaps.tumblr.com/">Source</a>)</li> <li>“Every conversation with you just goes mental. And there's no one else I can talk to. I've seen all that stuff up there, the <em>size</em> of it, and I can't say a word. Aliens and spaceships and things... and I'm the only person on planet Earth that knows they exist.” <br>[<i>At that moment, a large spaceship flies overhead, crashing into Big Ben and landing in the Thames</i>] </li> <li>The Doctor’s so excited!</li> <li>I love the impromptu gathering while the Doctor tries to watch TV.</li> <li>Harriet Jones. I adore Harriet Jones. I love that she keeps introducing herself, I love that she’s persistent, and I love that she’s the one who first sees the aliens.</li> <li>The Doctor gives Rose a TARDIS key!</li> <li>“Defense plan delta”? Why is the Doctor talking military?</li> <li>Aww, piggy. :(</li> <li>“Don’t you <em>dare</em> make this place domestic!” Hmm.</li> <li>“You <em>think</em> you know your own name? How stupid are you?” Tut, Doctor!</li> <li>Oh. The Doctor’s worked for UNIT. That explains that “delta” business.</li> <li>“Take me to your leader.” I LOVE YOU DOCTOR!</li> <li>So 10 Downing Street is like the White House, right?</li> <li>“Excuse me, do you mind not farting while I’m saving the world?”</li> <li>Hey! No trying to kill the Doctor!</li></ul> <p> </p> <p><em>World War Three</em> up next (possibly tomorrow)!</p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-36769716921254946462012-03-21T15:31:00.001-04:002012-03-21T15:31:01.680-04:00CHARLES MOTHERFUCKING DICKENS<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/03/charles-motherfucking-dickens.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>That’s right, this episode has CHARLES MOTHERFUCKING DICKENS in it. </p> <p><img src="http://www.doctorwhoreviews.co.uk/2005-03_files/The%20Unquiet%20Dead%20(6).jpg" width="452" height="258"></p> <p>Oh, and? The Doctor is a fanboy! Few things give me pleasure as much as this gives me pleasure.</p> <p>That said, while this episode is entertaining enough, it took me a couple of tries to like it as I do now. </p> <p>Cardiff just isn’t that interesting. Well, it didn’t used to be interesting—now I’ve made it a life goal to go there someday. Yes, I’m a dork. We’ve established this, we are moving on.</p> <p>The thing I like most about this episode (besides Charles Motherfucking Dickens, that is) is that Rose and the Doctor clash over how to deal with the situation at hand (which is dead people walking ‘cause there are aliens inside them, of <em>course</em>) and it totally makes sense that they should, and neither of them is wrong!</p> <p>Well, not until we find out that the Gelth are lying liars full of lies. </p> <p><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/lynchnut/unquiet.jpg" width="415" height="289"></p> <p>NO. NO, I AM FINE THANK YOU.</p> <p>*ahem*</p> <p>The Doctor just lost his entire planet, and all his people—presumably family, too. I totally get why he’d want to save the Gelth at all costs. Especially since they lost their home in the same war he lost his. I don’t think Rose fully understands this, and hell, how could she? </p> <p>But she does have a point. There’s something fundamentally squicky about using dead people like this. I don’t believe in souls or anything like that, but I can put myself in the shoes of the stiffs’ loved ones. The very reason we have funerals and burials and cremation ceremonies is for closure. </p> <p>…Not for the dead people, they’re dead and have more closure than they can handle, but us. The living need these things in order to start the process of moving on. It’s a very <em>human</em> thing to do. </p> <p>But say you have a funeral, you’re all ready to begin the process of starting over and oh, look! There’s grandma, screeching and glowing blue, walking purposefully toward you in the square. <img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu6mcqrB6O1qafrh6.gif"></p> <p>Now you not only have to deal with Nana being “alive,” you have to deal with her being some sort of glow-worm monster.</p> <p>…Maybe it’s just easier for Rose to see it that way.</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lua0a2itRV1qafrh6.gif" width="419" height="236"> </p> <p>There’s also Gwyneth. Sure, Gwyneth ends up volunteering, but the Doctor was looking at her as a means to an end for a minute there, and that way lies badness. Not that Rose did any better, what with the condescension (<em>love</em> that Gwyneth calls her out on that, by the way). So the Doctor has a habit of making the decisions he feels are best for everyone, and Rose forgets that in pushing back against that arrogance, she’s <em>also</em> forgetting that other people that are <em>not her</em> get a say.</p> <p>And the most surprising thing: the Doctor ends up making a mistake. The Doctor is <em>capable</em> of making a mistake! And I can’t even blame him for it, poor thing. I like that he recognizes it, and he sort of apologizes to Rose! For making a mistake he can’t be blamed for making! What?! Oh, Doctor, sweetheart… I—I’m speechless and sad. </p> <p>And then—if I’m not mistaken—there’s this thing where they’re both grateful to each other (<em>my heart</em>) and then CHARLES MOTHERFUCKING DICKENS IN LIKE A BOSS TO SAVE THE DAY.</p> <p><img src="http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae70/missvp/01.jpg" width="452" height="290"></p> <p>Look, I don’t know what Charles Dickens was really like—obviously—but in my mind, he will forever be this. </p> <p>And then… Gwyneth’s gone. </p> <p><img src="http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110422183910/tardis/images/4/4a/Gwyneth.jpg" width="506" height="291"></p> <p>I should be mad for being made to care about someone and then having them die senselessly (shades of Joss Whedon), but it was… sweet. That may be the wrong word. What I mean to say is that it hurt, but I was proud of (dead?) her for saving the world. She sacrificed herself twice to do so <em>on her own terms</em>, and it seems I kinda like that in a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118276/">woman</a>. </p> <p>I… wasn’t expecting any of this at all. Here’s a list, I gotta think for a while:</p> <ul> <li>I was wondering how they’d deal with Rose’s modern dress in past times. The TARDIS has walk-in closets full of period dress? DOCTOR, I AM FREE AND WILL BRING YOU JOY AND SASS! <li>“You look beautiful! Considering.” Whee! And hey! <li>CHARLES MOTHERFUCKING DICKENS <li>Points for use of the word “phantasmagoria.” <li>*scream* “That’s more like it!” Hehe. <li>“Navvy”? Look, British people, stop making up words I don’t know. <li>“The dead don’t die on schedule!” Charlie, you are awesome. <li>By the way, love that Charles Dickens is a skeptic. Hearts forever. <li>Is this gonna be a habit of Rose’s; befriending the help? <li>Why is Rose thinking more about her father lately? <li>“I love a happy medium.” That smile—Doctor, how can I <em>not</em> love you? <li>“Time can be rewritten”? I thought that was a no-no. Hmm. <li>“She saved the world. A servant girl. No one will ever know.” <em>We’ll</em> know, Rose… We’ll know. <li>“My books, Doctor… Do they last?” Aww! I wanna kiss Dickens on the cheek. <li>It feels strange wanting someone not to die who’s <em>already</em> been dead for ages. What are you <em>doing</em> to me, <em>Doctor Who</em>?!</li></ul> <p> </p> <p>Next up: <em>Aliens of London</em>!</p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-21492310285142159222012-03-18T00:42:00.001-04:002012-03-18T00:42:35.313-04:00… And I feel fine!<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/03/and-i-feel-fine.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>Okay, so I’ve been mostly sheltered from <em>Who</em> fandom, so I have no idea if this is a majority or a minority opinion: I love this episode. I think it is a perfect first adventure for Rose, and I think it gives me just enough information about the Doctor to keep me hooked. Good job, er… who wrote this? Davies? Good job, Davies.</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrso22ToJx1qafrh6.gif"></p> <p>Firstly, I like that the inherent strangeness of this entire situation isn’t allowed to pass unremarked. This entire episode is basically Rose acclimatizing and in that way, it’s kind of like <em>Rose</em>. </p> <p>However, in <em>Rose</em>, we were recognizably <em>on Earth.</em> There was <em>one </em>alien, and it was—well, I don’t wanna say easy to get used to, but… it kinda was. </p> <p>Doctor says, “alien,” and we’re like, “cool. Alien.”</p> <p>But this… this was a <em>procession</em> of aliens. A veritable <em>cavalcade.</em> A <em>cortège</em>, if you will. </p> <p>And yeah, it takes getting used to. Well, it takes getting used to for Rose. The Doctor’s done this before, he’s all “air from my lungs” and shit. Speaking of… is that—That’s the Doctor flirting! With a walking tree! The Doctor <em>flirts</em>?!</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzxqjqCCfU1qdbdo6.gif"></p> <p>Anyway. Rose not only has to deal with the destruction of her home planet being treated as a gala event, but she also has to deal with the people surrounding her being things so far from her frame of reference that <em>she’s</em> alien. And so it’s no surprise that she <em>feels</em> alienated. Especially if the Doctor won’t just tell her who he is, as maybe a comfort? A point of reference? </p> <p>She gets that from Raffalo instead, in one of my favorite scenes of the episode.</p> <p><img src="http://cobolhacker3.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/raffalo.jpg" width="532" height="306"></p> <p>Rose is obviously relieved that such mundane things as bureaucrats, maintenance, and plumbers exist that she’s able to begin settling in.</p> <p>However. Talking to Raffalo also makes her realize that besides him being an alien and his having a space-and-time traveling machine, she knows nothing about the Doctor. Like, at all. So—and I love her forever for this—she confronts him. And she doesn’t back down! Well, not until she realizes that pissing off the man(?) with the car keys is maybe not such a good idea.</p> <p>I also like this episode from the Doctor’s point of view. I like that he’s unable to understand how even a kindness like allowing Rose to talk to her mother can emphasize the sheer otherness of the situation to Rose. I like that he doesn’t understand that even if it’s benevolent, <em>altering someone’s mind</em> kinda requires a permission slip. And this is something I love about Nine. He can make you feel like he’s “normal,” and then you’re reminded he’s an alien. Christopher Eccleston, <em>why did you leave me?!</em></p> <p>I also love his scenes with Jabe. Especially when she expresses sympathy for… god, WHAT? WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU, DOCTOR?! I WILL HOLD YOU!</p> <p><img src="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/End_of_the_World_247.JPG" width="524" height="301">(<a href="http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/">Source</a>)</p> <p>Oh! But! This is the episode where I <em>did</em> hear “Time Lord,” and understood it to mean that’s who the Doctor is. First of all, love the name. Second, who are the Time Lords and where are they from and why is the Doctor all sad to be reminded of who he is?? </p> <p>So anyway, after all the hoopla and all the excitement, we get two more of my favorite scenes:</p> <p><img src="http://cchronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/endoftheworld11-e1277273354620.png"></p> <p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgslW-4S4ez9QM-EcwDbqOzbw-hMIMGIyruy1LHLoFdeXktHq1hP-dsHrh5fOjEDVWPqo4UlP8xrfWbO2x5TxZQ4xK8zMfKrDc_Zo62wFeZjQEBaAHADKMlNXnMIhBV_5eo4X5ywpOa2RIJ/s1600/doctor+who+a+day+matt+holsman+end+of+the+world+chips.jpg" width="499" height="287"></p> <p>His experience with Jabe softened the Doctor to the point where he tells Rose about the loss of his planet and his people. How it <em>burned like the Earth</em>. So… does the Doctor taking Rose to the End of the World mean that subconsciously he wants to connect? To establish a shared point of reference? To… <em>relate</em> to Rose? </p> <p>…Oh, my god—the Doctor is lonely!</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0lp8aJqX81r3zat8.gif" width="285" height="215"></p> <p>But despite that (and this why I will love <em>him</em> forever), he gives Rose a choice. He doesn’t ignore her feelings for his own convenience and ease. And Doctor? <em>Exact</em> moment I fell in love with you. Just FYI.</p> <p>Let’s do a list. I’ve gone too long in this review without a list:</p> <ul> <li>“You think you’re so impressive.” “I <em>am</em> so impressive!” LOL, he’s like a kid!</li> <li>Every time I see the title of this episode, it reminds me of <em>The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.</em> Douglas Adams, I love you!</li> <li>Love the Steward.</li> <li>“He’s <em>blue.</em>” “Yeah.” “Okay.”</li> <li>The names of the aliens are awesome names. I have trouble choosing a favorite, but I think I like “Face of Boe” best.</li> <li>I know I avoided mentioning the actual plot in the review, but… the “last human” is a… uh… Help me out here, Rose:<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmsc74BTIh1qhcapw.png">(<a href="http://innergeekspeak.wordpress.com/">Source</a>)</li> <li>And a jukebox! That plays <em>Tainted Love</em>! And Britney!</li> <li>I liked Raffalo. :( </li> <li>Can I just say? I love the Doctor’s and Rose’s dynamic together. The teasing, the fighting, everything.</li> <li>Although… the Doctor angry? <img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m11uq5FTul1r3zat8.gif" width="416" height="171"></li> <li>Cassandra was born a boy! <3</li> <li>Why the <em>hell</em> is there even an option to have the sun filter descend?!</li> <li>“The Adherents of the Repeated Meme… <em>J’accuse!</em>” I… kinda love Cassandra?</li> <li>She’s a bigot, though. :(</li></ul> <p> </p> <p>One last thing: even after all they were put through by Cassandra, Rose asks the Doctor to help her. I thought that said a lot about Rose’s character. I also thought it said a lot about the Doctor’s character that he <em>didn’t </em>help Cassandra. </p> <p>I NEED TO LEARN YOU SOME MORE, DOCTOR WHO.</p> <p> </p> <p>Next up: <em>The Unquiet Dead.</em></p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-47073237813504521792012-03-11T01:02:00.001-05:002012-03-11T01:02:59.258-05:00Hello, Doctor.<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/03/hello-doctor.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p>Well! We’re here. Here we are. At the beginning of our journey. I actually have no idea how to start this. Except…</p> <p>Can we talk about how delightful Christopher Eccleston is as the Doctor? I mean, I’m a nu-Whovian, so I have no idea if he draws on older Doctors, but I think he captured it perfectly.</p> <p>He’s funny, but not in a kiddy way, and he has this way of seeming ageless without seeming <em>old.</em> I don’t know, it’s hard to explain without something to compare it to, so I guess I’ll pick this back up when we meet Ten later on. Still. Let it be said that Nine made me fall in love with the Doctor.</p> <p>Now. On to the episode itself. First of all, I liked that it’s centered on Rose rather than the Doctor. As someone new to <em>Doctor Who,</em> I was expecting to be bombarded with all this mythology and all these inside jokes that I would just not be familiar with, so I really appreciated that the show made an effort to put me in a place where I’m discovering things just as Rose is. </p> <p>I mean, I had no idea the Doctor was an alien. That was brand-new information. I also had no idea that the TARDIS was a space/timeship and that it was bigger on the inside. I straight-up thought that he traveled in a tiny box, all smooshed up like in an airplane bathroom. Haha, I’m kinda dumb.</p> <p>All in all, I think this episode was good for what is was: Exposition Central. The humor worked for me, as did the character introductions, and overall, it made me want to keep watching. Like I said… Success!</p> <p>And now, for lists!</p> <p>Things I liked:</p> <ul> <li>“Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!”</li> <li>Jackie. I love Jackie. Can we have more Jackie?</li> <li>“Ha. We’re talking millions.”</li> <li>“Hmm. That won’t last. He’s gay and she’s an alien.” Doctor, I <3 you!</li> <li>Fast-paced dialogue? Always a favorite. Fast-paced dialogue in British accents? ORGASMIC.</li> <li>“You’re full of it!” “Sort of, yeah.”</li> <li>Okay, I liked Clive. I liked the juxtaposition; conspiracy nut, yet totally normal husband and father. Dead now, though. :(</li> <li>“Lots of planets have a North!”</li> <li>Love that it took the Doctor forever to realize what Rose was trying to tell him. Super-smart, yet a little slow.</li> <li>That tiny look of disappointment when Rose turns down the Doctor is really telling, and I love it to pieces. Already this show is not what I was expecting! Yay, surprises!</li></ul> <p>Things I noticed:</p> <ul> <li>The shop is giving Rose “airs and graces”? Wtf are “airs and graces”? Is it like a special bonus on your paycheck?</li> <li>That photo of the Doctor at Kennedy’s assassination is the worst. Photoshop. Ever.</li> <li>All this hullabaloo, it’s… well, it’s all kinda public, no?</li> <li>The Doctor has hints of dismissiveness when it comes to humans. First with Mickey, and then when he addresses the Nestene Consciousness and calls humans “stupid little people.” Not a condemnation, just… something I noticed.</li> <li>“Time Lord” is the only thing we understand the Nestene Consciousness say. I missed it the first time, but I heard it this time. </li></ul> <p>Oh, and can I just say? I work in a shop. One with dummies in it. The creepy kind with heads and no faces. Moving dummies? No forever, thank you. Especially if they all come with that gun thing in their hands. Just. Let’s never go there again, please? Thank you in advance.</p> <p> </p> <p>Stay tuned for <em>The End of the World.</em></p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435279795988875441.post-40397902912193612382012-03-02T01:35:00.001-05:002012-03-02T01:42:04.222-05:00Please allow me to introduce this blog: it’s a man of wealth and—No, wait.<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://thickthicketythickface.blogspot.com/2012/03/please-allow-me-to-introduce-this-blog.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><p> </p> <p><font size="3">Uh, hi. If you’re reading this, you’re probably my friend and/or feel sorry for me, which… Thanks! It’s appreciated, and you are suitably awesome. You may also love <em>Doctor Who</em> as I do, and that is also awesome. Allow me to offer you this cupcake:</font></p> <p><img src="http://thelastarcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/263185_10150310773061214_291960621213_9417466_6898885_n-290x290.jpg" width="318" height="318"></p> <p><font size="3">So… why <em>Doctor Who?</em></font></p> <p><font size="3">Well, a couple of reasons: (1) Why not?! and (2) Because it’s fun. </font></p> <p><font size="3">But why <em>Doctor Who</em> for <em>me</em>? Well… I find immortal things endlessly fascinating. And the term “immortal” seems to apply to both this show and its title character, so I am endlessly fascinated times two.</font></p> <p><font size="3">It intrigues me because there are so many things you can do to something/one that doesn’t die, and there are equally as many things you can have that something/one become in order to explore the human condition.</font></p> <p><font size="3">It shouldn’t be a secret—living forever sucks. It has to. It is inevitable for a forever-life to suck. Wellllll, unless you live in Happy Unicorn Rainbow Puppy Land, and I don’t believe we’ve visited that one yet…</font></p> <p><font size="3">So I wanna see what <em>Doctor Who</em> does with my endless fascination, and what it does with the Doctor’s sucky forever-life (generalizing atrociously here; it’s not <em>always</em> sucky, but spoilers!). And this blog is gonna let me share that with you, gentle reader, and also satisfy my vanity. It’s insatiable, my vanity is…</font></p> <p><font size="3">In short, welcome! And ALLONS-Y!</font></p> <p><font size="3"></font></p> Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672868860164723191noreply@blogger.com4