This Was Intended to Be an All-Encompassing Update Post, but Turned into DW Fangirling

[mllelaurel]

Classic Doctor Who
Got my hands on "Key of Time" and "Caves of Androzani". Short, shallow reactions (which may be followed up by longer, less shallow write-ups, sometime in the future):

1. Romana is love. I know it's Romana II and the Doctor who are said to have all the chemistry, but he and Romana I are pretty damn spiffy as well. And hell, it's good to see the Doctor interacting with an equal.

2. Peri, on the other hand, is not love. Granted, she's not as bad as I feared, at least in CoA. But still nothing to write home about. Particularly in the end, where Five is dying, and whump! There's Peri's boobs taking up half the screen and ruining the serious mood. Admittedly, they're rather nice boobies, but there's a time and a place for that sort of thing. Really now. Also, the accent hurts.

3. Both Four and Five are supremely pettable, as well as providing a great example of how different each regeneration can be.

New Doctor Who
I will not analyze my fear of watching Army of Ghosts and Doomsday... I will not. Probably just don't like the idea of running out of series, all the way till next spring.

Ten is adorable and I like him lots, but he does lose a few points for not liking cats. Nine remains in the lead as My Doctor. This may never change as he was my first Doctor.

Torchwood needs to start yesterday, not somewhere mid-October.

Doctor Who Spinoffs
I've just discovered the joy that is spinoff media. Books and comics and audio dramas, oh my! While basking in obsessive fanish glow, I've come to two major conclusions:

1) Evelyn Smythe is so one of my top choices for companion. You know, if I was the Doctor and thus in any position to pick companions and all. Hey, a girl can dream. But seriously, Evelyn is made of win. Hell, if the companion thing is out, having her as a professor would still rock.

2) Judging by how Turlough is treated in the spinoffs, I will hazard a guess that someone, somewhere grievously misinterpreted a request for Turlough slash. That poor, abused boy. He and Five do have a lovely, snarky dynamic, though.

3. Proof that Rose is a slash fangirl! Bwee!

DW Actors
I'm terribly smug about the fact that I fangirled John Barrowman long before it was the cool thing to do. I always did have a thing for pretty voices, and his singing is to die for. What really caught my attention, then and now, however, was the way he makes the emotion in each song come through almost effortlessly. Now I just wish I still had my recordings of "The Fix", or "Reflections from Broadway". Why can I never find anything, whyyyyy?

Also, there's no way in hell that man is almost fourty. You lie, Wikipedia. You lie.

(Does '40' have a 'u' in it? It looks wrong to me, either way.)

In other news, desire to play with Christopher Eccleston's ears or muss up David Tennant's hair has not abated one bit. Lucky for them I live on the wrong end of the world.

In Conclusion
I'm the sort of newbie fan that would make the oldtimers in this fandom want to keeeel, aren't I? *oddly proud* *also oddly tempted to re-do that numbers/crack pairings meme, with Who characters.

Comments

[yoritomo-reiko.livejournal.com]

Actually, while you do have to wait until next year for new Doctor Who...you only have to wait a month or so for Torchwood!

*coughs and pokes* Hey. Can you use Yahoo messenger at all?

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Yup!

Torchwood needs to start yesterday, not somewhere mid-October.

I don't think I have that one at all.

[yoritomo-reiko.livejournal.com]

How did I manage to miss that line?

Oh. Damn. I thought you did for some reason.

penguingirl84 pointed out a site to matsujo9 that uses java, I think. It's called meebo.com. It's a free site and you can use AIM, Yahoo!, Jabber or GTalk or MSN through it. I haven't tried it myself, but matsujo9 says it's pretty good.

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

It's a short line in a long and silly post? *g*

Unfortunately not.

Neat! I haven't really done any instant messaging lately, but that's bound to change sooner or later. Probably sooner.

[yoritomo-reiko.livejournal.com]

*nods* I know you haven't. I just thought I'd give you a heads up about it, since last I knew you were having trouble with them. *hugs*

[yoritomo-reiko.livejournal.com]

I was wrong. It was acejillian who gave the link to Matsujo9.

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

A thought occurs. You're in Wales, right?

Anywhere near Cardiff?

[yoritomo-reiko.livejournal.com]

Complete opposite side of the country. Caernarfon, in the North.

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Aw. But hey, still closer than me.

[nevacaruso.livejournal.com]

Proof that Rose is a slash fangirl!

I about died at that link. I hope you're not yet tired of hearing me say that Rose is - what, now? - made from awesome. Nine will always be "my" Doctor, too.

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Now that is my Rose. I kinda miss her.

[sephyelysian.livejournal.com]

Random thoughts because I just got off work and I'm fried.

Did you hear that there's going to be a Sarah Jane spin-off?

I agree with what you said about the Romanas...in all ways...even if I really love Four/Sarah like whoa. When he gets all she's my best friend in the Seeds of Doom,I wibbled. So much.

I love Four, Five is all right. Most of that I think comes from someone getting in my face about how awesome Five was and I needed to just acknowledge that. Whatever.

...can it be Christmas now? Please?

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

*nodnods* And I squeed a lot when I heard.

I really love Sarah Jane, and after seeing School Reunion, I would love me some Four/Sarah (or Three/Sarah, or Ten/Sarah). Multishipper? Moi? Also need to watch more stuff with her in it. (Ark in Space was a huge disappointment, as it was intent on Awarding her the Do Nothing Award.)

Yeeeaaah. People getting in my face about anything is a huge turnoff. Even if I start out agreeing with them, it's offputting and counterproductive to their cause.

*seconds that* Or hell, could it at least be October?

[amet.livejournal.com]

Take heart, Torchwood should be out next month and that's good for at least a partial fix (and hey, soon Sarah Jane supposedly gets a sequel so it'll be a triple whammy). XD

…and all I remember about Romana I was the 'call me Fred' thing and that bitchin' coat. It is nice to see Four actually have to defend that ego for once in those eps. (Hopefully I'm making sense, I'm wiped from 9 hours at work.)

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Do you know when Sarah Jane's series is supposed to premier? And yes, Torchwood is perfectly scheduled to keep fans from going nuts. If the folks at BBC are smart, they'll put Sarah Jane Investigates sometime in the winter block.

I want that coat. Dammit. And I nearly died at 'Fred', as I had a teacher who called me that, after I told him I didn't care what he called me (meaning 'Lily', 'Liliya', Lillian', etc. At that point in time, I liked 'Fred' better than all of the above, so everyone was happy.)

You're making perfect sense. *hugs*

[amet.livejournal.com]

It was just confirmed yesterday, so unfortunately no. :x We'll see how smart the BBC is when they get it underway (considering what happened to her last planned spinoff I'll believe it when I see it).

I'm so glad. My 'net time is so much less coherent since I started working. XD

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

What did happen to the last planned spinoff?

[amet.livejournal.com]

It was called something like K9 And Friends and got really great test ratings, but this was right before Who was axed the first go 'round and never made it past a pilot episode. It's part of why people were so stoked when she came back in for an ep, there's kind of an air of the unfinished about Sarah Jane.

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Gotcha! I'm glad the spinoff is getting another chance now. I looked it up on Wikipedia, and it says 'beginning of '07', so I have high hopes for my winter block idea.