Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
Well, and the age question is still up in the air. If Giles was 20 in 1967 (when Disraeli Gears came out) then that's one frame of reference; but if he was 20 in 1973, very different frame of reference. Agreed that, 20 years on, people do mellow and come around to liking good music that was anathema in their youth; whereas 20 years do not always kill one's love for the awful music of one's youth.
Which is why I own a Neneh Cherry album.
I think of Giles as being closer to 40 than to 50 in the first season, but I can't point to a specific reason why, other than that the age difference with Miss Calendar didn't seem to be so broad as to skeeve anyone out, and I didn't see her as being much past 30.
I think of Giles as being closer to 40 than to 50 in the first season,
Agree. When you go back, he's actually pretty young looking. How hold was he really back then? (ASH, obviously.)
ASH was born in 1954, so 43.
ASH was born in 1954
Woo! It was a good year IMO.
I always remember his birthdate because he is exactly 10 years older than me!
ASH was born in 1954, so 43.
Yeah, this is what I was going to say. I know he's 13 years older than I am. Somehow. *cough*
Yesterday, we were leaving my b-i-l's house, and we drove by a Podiatrists office. The doctor's name was "A. H. Giles" and it threw me for a loop.
Anyone else have a fetish thought about that? Just me?
The New Who is incredibly Buffyish throughout - consciously so, the showrunner has said he's shooting for that vibe. Even the lame episodes are lame in the way lame Buffys were; badly done victoriana and humanising villains in a fan-ficcy way.
I didn't think humanising the Dalek was lame; in fact, I thought it was a really good episode, especially given that they didn't humanise him too far, and that they used it to point up the Doctor's alienness. Though the whole DNA-from-Rose thing was a huge plot weakness.
But then, I like fanfic, so you could still be right about it being ficcy. (Am I wrong in reading your comment as using 'fan-ficcy' in a negative sense?) I wouldn't be surprised if RTD doesn't think about writing the show in quite a ficcy way, actually, given that he's a long-time fan and writing based on an extensive canon.
Ahem. Yes, very Buffyish-- in the plot and in, for example the one-liners. And the doomed love affair between an older 'alien' man and a young strong woman, if you can bring yourself to read it as a love affair, which I'm trying desperately not to, and failing...