I picked up this week's TV Guide because it had an actual DVD attached to the cover. The listing for this week's Doctor Who: "Earth goes to war, testing the friendship of the Doctor and Rosie [sic]". Doctor Who may be everything in England, but--Rosie? Oh, and almost nothing about Doctor Who in EW's Summer TV Preview. So, not a lightning rod for media attention here.
Sir? I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.
Zoe ,'Serenity'
Boxed Set, Vol. II: "It's a Cookbook...A Cookbook!!"
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.
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Mikey - Jun 04, 2006 7:12:29 am PDT #8828 of 10001
All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.
WindSparrow - Jun 04, 2006 7:28:07 am PDT #8829 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Simon, I knew the music sounded familiar, and not very Whovian. I liked it, though.
Polter-Cow - Jun 04, 2006 12:51:45 pm PDT #8830 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
While I personally was spoiled ages ago, I have to say I don't appreciate SciFi showing a next week week promo that revealed the Daleks were behind everything 10 minutes before that surprise was revealed at the end of the episode.
That blows! Man. Incidentally, that Dalek reveal is when the Doctor explains the title of "The Long Game," right? I love that. And Debet, one of my favorite moments in the series is the Doctor freaking the fuck out of the Daleks by telling them he has no idea what he's going to do, that is how pissed off he is.
Here's some 2x08 whitefont!
Damn! I really liked it. It was all sci-fi with genre trappings, which really worked for me. Plus, the doomed chick was cute, and Ida was in Spaced, and there was an Indian dude, and it was all creepy with the Satan and the Ood and...yeah, I liked it much more than last week's.
The Toby thing ("Don't turn around. No, don't turn around! If you turn around, I'll kill you. I'm right here behind you...") was wicked fucking creepy. I was trying to think of what I would do in that situation, and I was thinking...maybe I wouldn't turn around. To stay on the safe side.
About three-quarters of the way through the episode, I realized that I didn't really have a clue where the episode was going, and I liked that. I liked that it was so unpredictable. Yes, there were hints that it was quite likely for Satan to rise up somehow, but I didn't know what was going to happen when they reached the core.
And the TARDIS! How will they get it back?? I love how half the dialogue is "That's impossible!" And the Doctor's like, "Um, impossible is bad."
I am unsure how next week's episode is going to turn out, though. The promo makes it look like kind of a generic "being chased by monsters" episode, but I think it will be better.
This was cool! I'm so glad, especially since I felt like I was kind of losing interest this season.
sumi - Jun 04, 2006 4:32:56 pm PDT #8831 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Hmmm, new long promo for Eureka about half an hour into Voodoo Moon.
sumi - Jun 04, 2006 4:45:04 pm PDT #8832 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
BTW, SciFi is promoing the season finale of Doctor Who as if it is happening tonight. Weird, no?
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2006 5:04:05 pm PDT #8833 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, I'll keep an eye out for the new promo.
sumi - Jun 04, 2006 5:35:38 pm PDT #8834 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
There was another short one about quarter past the second hour.
Also, I hadn't realized that this was going to be Zombies of the Corn.
JenP - Jun 04, 2006 5:57:27 pm PDT #8835 of 10001
Who 2.8
That was scary-fun-cool. I would watch a show with just the guest cast, I think.
Thumbs up.
DCJensen - Jun 04, 2006 6:20:17 pm PDT #8836 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Also, I hadn't realized that this was going to be Zombies of the Corn.
My brain immediatly started filking this to "Rider's on the Storm"
Zombies of the Corn
Zombies of the Corn
It's not like you were born
Into this field you're thrown
Like flesh falling off of bone
A tractor feels like home
Zombies of the Corn
There's a zombie on the road
His brain is sharing with a toad....
DebetEsse - Jun 04, 2006 7:20:59 pm PDT #8837 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
And Debet, one of my favorite moments in the series is the Doctor freaking the fuck out of the Daleks by telling them he has no idea what he's going to do, that is how pissed off he is.
LOVE all the themes at work in this season, and this moment was a confluence of several: Protecting Family, What You Do When There's Nothing Left, The Difference (and similarity. Who is the Big Bad Wolf, really?) Between The Doctor and, well, I guess, The Daleks counts as a theme by this point, and How Different the Doctor Is From What He Has Ever Been Before (he would have had a plan, which he would have largely executed on his own)
The contast between Rose/Rose's Mom/Mickey and Rose/The Doctor/Jack, and the different versions of protecting Rose. Rose's Mom takes a supremely passive view, while the Doctor's, while not always super-active, does have an active plan behind it. Okay, maybe not a plan, but, at least A Way.
I want, badly, to know WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN THE TIME WAR!!!