Fourth Doctor
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petroniaThese are getting longer. Who is even surprised. XD;
The Deadly Assassin: this was one of the first ones I watched, and I was kind of shocked at how good it was. Like it maybe could've done with less clunky exposition but that's the extent of my nitpicking... you know, the Prydonians sound like fanon!Slytherin rather. XD; As in what they could've been if RowlJo had not been Dumb About It. (Hogwarts has reverberated up and down the timeline.) Time Dudes are not very crazed or imperial at this point, but they do have an equivalent to the Parliament Channel (.....to the BBC? that way lies headache). I am afraid to ask why the Castellan has a different accent from everyone else.
Outfit watch: Papier mache headdress action. The Doctor is positively buccaneering, but then he spends quite a lot of time traipsing about in the Matrix jungle. The fact that he comes from a society that thinks heliotrope is an awesome colour for ceremonial dress says a lot.
City of Death: I decided I got this wrong, actually, in that I'm pretty sure you are only a flâneur if a) the landscape you're observing is to some extent your own(ed) context, and b) your wanderings are undirected and open-ended. Oh and c) you are non-interventionist even to the degree of making your presence felt via documentation! The Doctor isn't a flâneur in Paris, he is a tourist, but on a broader interstellar scale he's a flâneur - anyway, that's how he sells it. One supposes one is meant to assume that he and his companions often wander around having a grand old time without intervening in anything whatsoever, just like one is meant to assume Captain Kirk frequently goes on away mission to collect rock samples without anyone tossing spears at the redshirts. Hahahaha, ha.
How did this one end when it was Dirk Gently, again? Oh, Kubla Khan, riiiiiight. (Some other book/series/wacko's job to come up with a extraterrestrial conspiracy-related explanation for why those Doctor Who episodes had to disappear.)
Outfit watch: In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines... Very Lagerfeld-witty. XD Romana is head and shoulders above everyone else thus far, because she annotates her environment, rather than dressing to blend or (more frequently) not conceding to surroundings at all, other than in physical practicality. It makes me think that the personality-constant in the Doctor's sense of style is not dandyism but immutability - the cut of his jib only changes when he changes. But Romana's strategy emphasizes her apartness as surely as his: what is an annotation but external to the text?
The Deadly Assassin: this was one of the first ones I watched, and I was kind of shocked at how good it was. Like it maybe could've done with less clunky exposition but that's the extent of my nitpicking... you know, the Prydonians sound like fanon!Slytherin rather. XD; As in what they could've been if RowlJo had not been Dumb About It. (Hogwarts has reverberated up and down the timeline.) Time Dudes are not very crazed or imperial at this point, but they do have an equivalent to the Parliament Channel (.....to the BBC? that way lies headache). I am afraid to ask why the Castellan has a different accent from everyone else.
Outfit watch: Papier mache headdress action. The Doctor is positively buccaneering, but then he spends quite a lot of time traipsing about in the Matrix jungle. The fact that he comes from a society that thinks heliotrope is an awesome colour for ceremonial dress says a lot.
City of Death: I decided I got this wrong, actually, in that I'm pretty sure you are only a flâneur if a) the landscape you're observing is to some extent your own(ed) context, and b) your wanderings are undirected and open-ended. Oh and c) you are non-interventionist even to the degree of making your presence felt via documentation! The Doctor isn't a flâneur in Paris, he is a tourist, but on a broader interstellar scale he's a flâneur - anyway, that's how he sells it. One supposes one is meant to assume that he and his companions often wander around having a grand old time without intervening in anything whatsoever, just like one is meant to assume Captain Kirk frequently goes on away mission to collect rock samples without anyone tossing spears at the redshirts. Hahahaha, ha.
How did this one end when it was Dirk Gently, again? Oh, Kubla Khan, riiiiiight. (Some other book/series/wacko's job to come up with a extraterrestrial conspiracy-related explanation for why those Doctor Who episodes had to disappear.)
Outfit watch: In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines... Very Lagerfeld-witty. XD Romana is head and shoulders above everyone else thus far, because she annotates her environment, rather than dressing to blend or (more frequently) not conceding to surroundings at all, other than in physical practicality. It makes me think that the personality-constant in the Doctor's sense of style is not dandyism but immutability - the cut of his jib only changes when he changes. But Romana's strategy emphasizes her apartness as surely as his: what is an annotation but external to the text?
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Date: 2010-02-13 12:31 am (UTC)