I'm not obsessed. It's just a hobby. I CAN STOP ANYTIME I WANT. : comments.
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
||||
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
|
11
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
|
18
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
22
|
23
|
24
|
|
25
|
26 |
27
|
28
|
29
|
30
|
31
|
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
I have an icon of the "metal breakdown" moment, too. #2 on the three best things about Tomb (about which there were a lot of good things).
#1: Victoria being remarkable. Everybody kept calling her helpless, and then I see this, my first proper episode of her, and she blatantly throws attempts to direct her around back in the faces of authority, steals somebody's gun and uses it, shows herself to be perfectly able to take part in the life-saving and saves her "OMG WTF" fright until afterward, and the only real scream she has is just to distract somebody, not because she's scared.
#3: Those little googly-eyed potato cybermats are adorable.
And I noticed the thing about the Doctor rigging the tomb so any innocent person could get electrocuted. See, this is why I think the Doctor isn't inherently a pacifist and I find it easy to believe when he gets really scary.
GENESIS:
Sarah is possibly the most frequent screamer of all the companions I've seen (and I've seen most of them). Which flies in the face of the "helpless screamer" cliche, because...LOL Sarah helpless that's FUNNY.
Davros makes me CRY. He is so beautifully terrifying. Even that Evil Speech wasn't remotely corny to me in his case because DAVROS MAKES ME CRY.
Four/Sarah/Harry is my favorite TARDIS team.
Tom is, like...always attractive. He was in the shiny thing, yes, but it kinda showed off his figure, plus you could see his hair and he did the snarling in pain face with being electrocuted and that's really all you need.
I get his whole "something good" comment, because, well, history abhors a vacuum. Everything has a wide array of different results. If he'd managed to destroy the Daleks...who knows? THAT could've caused untold damage. (That said, you should watch Resurrection of the Daleks if you haven't and see where it picks up from Genesis.)
EIGHT MOVIE:
Haven't seen the Eight movie yet, but I've seen the clip of that moment Seven gets shot and the way he jerks back alone breaks my heart. (Four got a lame death, too. Fell off a tower? Seriously? The only thing that saved that from being completely stupid was the angst brought to it by the fact that the Master was accidentally responsible.)
He kicked...uh, he...the Doctor gets an adrenaline rush immediately post-regeneration? Hell if I know. But the bull I just made up could be considered to be consistent with post-regeneration scenes from the series.
I'm with my friend's interpretation of the "half-human" line that he made it up to mess with the person he was talking to.
Attempting to reply in order...
-I was a big fan of Victoria's screaming used to distract her captors. Rather ingenious of her, I thought, and it nicely subverted what we might expect from her since she appears so delicate. I have to say, maybe I just caught her in a good serial, but I'm quite fond of Victoria now. I hope there are more serials with her that didn't get burninated.
-The googly eyes on the Cybermats really, really reminded me of Pet Rocks. Which meant it was a touch harder to take them seriously, but...oh well.
-Oh, I believe it when the Doctor has a scary moment. :D I mean, even the 'non-violent' Doctors could be ruthless when they had to be. It's one of the things that make his character so intriguing.
Genesis:
-So with you on Davros. With almost any other villian I can think of, that speech would have sounded a little off to me, but it was just perfect for Davros. That scene gave me chills because it was just so good. And really, I know Terry Molloy is supposed to be the definitive Davros, but it's going to be hard to top Michael Wisher for me. :)
-Oh, good, I'm not alone. *phew* Really, I love The Scarf, I do, but I also like any time we get a reminder that Four has a neck. XD
Also, further forays into the Four era have informed me that I could listen to Tom Baker talk all day. About anything. < /shameful confession>
-Looking at the "something good" comment from an outsider's perspective, I can see your point (that something good comes out of everything), but in the context of the episode it seems a little too upbeat considering that the Doctor, Harry, and Sarah Jane have just watched the Daleks slaughter everyone in the bunker. I understand the sentiment, but the actual statement feels jarring.
-Consider Resurrection next on my too-watch list.
Movie:
-I guess it's not strictly necessary that you see the movie, since I'm guessing most of the books and audio dramas for Eight are better (haven't heard them, so I couldn't tell you). But it seems a shame to miss it, since the movie is completely full of crack.
And watching Seven die hurt, dammit. More than death/regeneration scenes usually do. Because...I mean...it was so meaningless. It wasn't as if he got hurt in an adventure or something; he just got killed by guys with guns who couldn't care less who he was.
*sniffle*
-Your interpretation of the post-regeneration thing is easily as good as whatever the creators could come up with, so...I'll go with that.
-And while I could pass off the Doctor's line as a joke, the trouble comes in when the Master 'confirms' it via the Eye of Harmony (yeah...I don't know either). The Doctor isn't even there when he says it.
So, for the sake of my own sanity, I'm going with 'botched Chameleon Arch transformation' or 'clever, clever scheme of Seven's for just such an occasion'. My canon does not have a half-human Doctor. *pouts*
Re: Attempting to reply in order...
Those and the first half of Evil of the Daleks (her first episode, she barely appears in the first half, though) are all I've managed to find of her, though. I read summaries for the second half of EotD.
Resurrection Davros pretty much made me piss myself in terror as well, but Genesis was peak Davros creepiness. I think it's because the makeup looked more real, too.
OMG YES. That man's voice is on my interests list. *drools* I'm fine with Shada being incomplete if only because he did the linking narration (in character!) and it was so very delicious. (And you should look for The Pescatons on youtube, a Four/Sarah audio from pre-Big Finish. Tom narrates that in character as well.) So, yeah. Not shameful at all. I actually lose track of what's going on sometimes because I'm too busy reveling in the Voice.
Yeah, we'll just ignore the human business. *thumbs up*
Re: Attempting to reply in order...
Re: Attempting to reply in order...
...okay. I'm sold. For some reason, I love it when one of the companions smacks the Doctor one, or even when they just try to. I am officially a Victoria fan now.
*scribbles down titles* Pescatons - got it. And it's on YouTube! I am always a fan of getting stuff for free.
Now what exactly is the linking narration? I know that most of Shada wasn't filmed, but is the narration just a straight reading of the script or an explanation of what would have happened had filming continued?
Re: Attempting to reply in order...
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=matt43832
Re: Attempting to reply in order...
Also, I didn't put this in the last comment, but OMG. I looked up "Evil of the Daleks" on the BBC site and OMG. There's totally a breakup scene between Two and Jamie. Jamie even says "We're finished".
I love this show.
Re: Attempting to reply in order...
Yeah, barring I think two viewings via netflix stream and two on veoh, I have watched nearly 90 Who serials, almost entirely on youtube. So...that option's very much there. =D
Re: Attempting to reply in order...
I have watched nearly 90 Who serials, almost entirely on youtube.
My broke-college-student budget is grateful for this. :) I've found Netflix has a pretty decent selection of the DVDs, though, so sponging of my Netflix-using friends works too.