A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
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Romana was very useful indeed. But then she was a Time Lord. (Not Time Lady; don't ask me why.)
I'm really really loving the current Who: bitter and sweet and funny and heartbreaking. And I loved Rose's epiphany so much ("I don't have any A levels and I don't have any future ...
but I do have gymnastics, and I won a bronze!")
Rose is so great a character because she's working-class in a dead-end job, and yet she's bright and perceptive and you can see what a waste society at large is making of her talents. I also love that the new Whoverse is multicultural.
I just Netflixed the Jon Pertwee "Carnival of the Animals", and it was wonderful as a standalone. We have all of the Key to Time eps because the whole family is sick; I find Tom Baker palls pretty quickly. He's a bit self-consciously quirky.
You know, if you'd told me just two years ago that I'd be watching and enjoying both
Battlestar Galactica
and
Dr. Who,
I'd have looked at you very funnily indeed!
Thanks for the recap Kathy. I'm um acquiring Doctor Who One seasons 1-4 now to take a look for historical purposes.
I also love that the new Whoverse is multicultural.
ITA. I also liked Mickey's reaction to the conspiracy theorist's nice middle-class neighborhood, and the looks that he as a young black man was getting from the residents--it explained to me why he didn't start yelling for help when he got eaten by the garbage bin.
Five-minute Doctor Who. [link]
Here's Luck has a new DueSouth vid out. It's really lovely. Get it here:
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Rose is the first human female companion that I have seen who did not scream more than I would.
I'm pretty certain I'd scream more than Leela did. Didn't it take some alien beastie biting her in the head to finally make her cry out?
I love Rose and her mother and realize if they were casting those roles over here they would have been stick figures.
Also, for those who have seen the full run is the
reference in
"Rose" the
graffitto of a barking dog in the
alley behind
restaurant where Rose first enters the TARDIS
? Because I re-watched my disk and couldn't
see or hear any more apparant reference. I heard the blah-blah "big giant spoiler scenario" comment in
the second episode.
