Keep randomly watching Doctor Who
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petroniaThis stuff is really easy to watch, which is rare. I think because the episodes are so short? I finish a serial and write a paragraph of notes on the outfits. The entry's long enough to need splitting up. XD; I've stuck them in chronological order, although I certainly don't watch in any sort of chronological order - skipping around, semi-intentionally avoiding huge continuity fests.
Spearhead from Space: I spared a thought for JoJo, so sue me... Liz Shaw and the Brig do a nice proto-Mulder-and-Scully bit. You know, I kept expecting someone to say something sexist and awful to her, but no one did. This is good. XD;; She wore a minidress, but everyone really did at the time, no?
The thing about Liz Shaw is that I feel like she never actually... gets it? Like, she thought UNIT was a crock of nonsense until the Doctor showed up, and then she was okay with being there, because she got along with him like houses on fire. But it wasn't a "I met an alien today, my mind is blown by the paradigm shift this entailed," more a "I met an alien today, he was a brilliant yet wacky foreign scientist." He wasn't able to take her to look at a nebula, I guess. XD;
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Outfit watch: one of these days the Doctor will regenerate in or near a hospital and won't find anything to wear but scrubs. One of these days.
Terror of the Autons: plastic dudes again! What was the canon explanation for their '05 attempt? Why come back for more punishment? I need to rewatch. =_= Totally fell for Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart when he was like "OK, how about you tell the cute blonde you don't want her around, this I hafta see." The Master's TARDIS lacks consistent branding, although one is meant to visually parse the action as "stealing spark plugs from the Master's camper van": it's always a feature with Doctor Who, never a bug.
I was confused during the last two minutes of the Master's plan. So far I have never not been confused during the last two minutes of the Master's plan (any era).
Outfit watch: while googling Romana pics I turned up this book that called the Master's suit "Cardinesque". Jo's paisley/bolero numbers aren't bad but what is up with her hair.
The Mind of Evil: Equity transparently short on Mandarin speakers (my dad went to England in 1982 and no one he met had ever seen a commie Chinese mainlander); would not have expected the script to hang a lampshade onnit though. BRB writing eye-searing fanfiction in which the Doctor meets Chairman Mao, what is this I don't even.** Why does the Master pretend to care about nuclear proliferation. How'd he score the limo. Are they just dicking with us unevolved apes now. Why am I asking these questions.
It's weird how this story takes place on, like, two separate planes of reality. There's A) this sort of quite absorbing terrestrial action-y plot with prison breaks and WMDs and special forces, like a Sean Connery movie, and B) in which I had the nagging, amusing, and infuriating feeling that the Doctor could've ground A) to a halt by giving the freaking safeword. FFS take it to somewhere uninhabited. The one absolutely unintended moment was when the evil alien brain got loose, which was admittedly ridic.
I'm starting to really like Jo; she reminds me of... Mista XD... someone like that, one of those characters who have a serene interior life unruffled by cognizance of their own badassery or ditziness alike. Nothing for the Keller Machine to get hold of, as the Doctor observed. Non-judgmental, easy to talk to. You can see the Brigadier's brain breaking at times but there's nothing in Jo to break, and I mean that in a good way.
Outfit watch: nice eyeshadow work there, Communist cadre lady.
** Suspect the Doctor actually goes to China all the time - there's a First Doctor serial with Marco Polo I would've wanted to watch, if it hadn't been one of the annoyingly lost ones. During my teenaged Douglas Adams period I wrote a short story where Marco Polo gets taken off-planet by an alien who crash-lands in the canal outside his house. He becomes a film producer (interstellar equivalent) and comes back to Earth centuries later in order to scout location shoots in Venice.
Spearhead from Space: I spared a thought for JoJo, so sue me... Liz Shaw and the Brig do a nice proto-Mulder-and-Scully bit. You know, I kept expecting someone to say something sexist and awful to her, but no one did. This is good. XD;; She wore a minidress, but everyone really did at the time, no?
The thing about Liz Shaw is that I feel like she never actually... gets it? Like, she thought UNIT was a crock of nonsense until the Doctor showed up, and then she was okay with being there, because she got along with him like houses on fire. But it wasn't a "I met an alien today, my mind is blown by the paradigm shift this entailed," more a "I met an alien today, he was a brilliant yet wacky foreign scientist." He wasn't able to take her to look at a nebula, I guess. XD;
Outfit watch: one of these days the Doctor will regenerate in or near a hospital and won't find anything to wear but scrubs. One of these days.
Terror of the Autons: plastic dudes again! What was the canon explanation for their '05 attempt? Why come back for more punishment? I need to rewatch. =_= Totally fell for Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart when he was like "OK, how about you tell the cute blonde you don't want her around, this I hafta see." The Master's TARDIS lacks consistent branding, although one is meant to visually parse the action as "stealing spark plugs from the Master's camper van": it's always a feature with Doctor Who, never a bug.
I was confused during the last two minutes of the Master's plan. So far I have never not been confused during the last two minutes of the Master's plan (any era).
Outfit watch: while googling Romana pics I turned up this book that called the Master's suit "Cardinesque". Jo's paisley/bolero numbers aren't bad but what is up with her hair.
The Mind of Evil: Equity transparently short on Mandarin speakers (my dad went to England in 1982 and no one he met had ever seen a commie Chinese mainlander); would not have expected the script to hang a lampshade onnit though. BRB writing eye-searing fanfiction in which the Doctor meets Chairman Mao, what is this I don't even.** Why does the Master pretend to care about nuclear proliferation. How'd he score the limo. Are they just dicking with us unevolved apes now. Why am I asking these questions.
It's weird how this story takes place on, like, two separate planes of reality. There's A) this sort of quite absorbing terrestrial action-y plot with prison breaks and WMDs and special forces, like a Sean Connery movie, and B) in which I had the nagging, amusing, and infuriating feeling that the Doctor could've ground A) to a halt by giving the freaking safeword. FFS take it to somewhere uninhabited. The one absolutely unintended moment was when the evil alien brain got loose, which was admittedly ridic.
I'm starting to really like Jo; she reminds me of... Mista XD... someone like that, one of those characters who have a serene interior life unruffled by cognizance of their own badassery or ditziness alike. Nothing for the Keller Machine to get hold of, as the Doctor observed. Non-judgmental, easy to talk to. You can see the Brigadier's brain breaking at times but there's nothing in Jo to break, and I mean that in a good way.
Outfit watch: nice eyeshadow work there, Communist cadre lady.
** Suspect the Doctor actually goes to China all the time - there's a First Doctor serial with Marco Polo I would've wanted to watch, if it hadn't been one of the annoyingly lost ones. During my teenaged Douglas Adams period I wrote a short story where Marco Polo gets taken off-planet by an alien who crash-lands in the canal outside his house. He becomes a film producer (interstellar equivalent) and comes back to Earth centuries later in order to scout location shoots in Venice.
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always a feature, never a bug
Date: 2010-02-10 06:07 pm (UTC)Re: always a feature, never a bug
Date: 2010-02-10 10:15 pm (UTC)There're all the little things with regard to passing decades, also. Like at one point a cell phone started persistently ringing, and I was like "But... they didn't exist back then..." and it turned out to be A MENACING NOISE MADE BY AN ALIEN ENERGY CELL.