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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.
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.
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Date: 2006-09-15 03:16 am (UTC)…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.)
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Date: 2006-09-15 03:28 am (UTC)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*
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Date: 2006-09-16 03:35 am (UTC)I'm so glad. My 'net time is so much less coherent since I started working. XD
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Date: 2006-09-16 04:34 am (UTC)no subject
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