No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?

Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Susan W. - Dec 03, 2007 1:46:51 pm PST #4454 of 28260
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Tennant kinda grew on me with time, but Eccleston pings my personal hot meter a lot harder. I love his accent, and while he's not conventionally handsome in the least he's just so interesting to look at.


Scrappy - Dec 03, 2007 1:52:40 pm PST #4455 of 28260
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I love Tennant. He's all ardent and smart and big eyes.


amych - Dec 03, 2007 1:54:01 pm PST #4456 of 28260
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Eccleston pretty much is my personal hot meter, but Tennant feels more Doctor-y to me. And Rose never did much for me at all as a character. So I was in it for the Eccleston, and then for Ten, and then finally for Ten and Martha.


Laga - Dec 03, 2007 1:54:14 pm PST #4457 of 28260
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Tennant reminds me a lot of Tom Baker, especially the "I am not human" stare. Eccleston has the better outfit and yes his accent is scrummy. I wish we'd gotten more than one season of his Doctor.


Laga - Dec 03, 2007 1:55:34 pm PST #4458 of 28260
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I was so truly-madly-deeply for Rose that I was determined not to like Martha but she won me over in the first episode with her delight at being on the moon overpowering her fear of Being On The Moon!


Kathy A - Dec 03, 2007 2:01:18 pm PST #4459 of 28260
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I love Tennant's fierceness, wrapped up in that geeky wide-eyed exterior. He is most similar to Tom Baker's Doctor in that sense. His viciousness (as seen in what he does to the Family of Blood and even Harriet Jones) really pinged me as an interesting side to the Doctor I don't remember seeing too often in the past. Combine that with the sadness he also has (which Eccleston did so well, but it was a trait that defined #9 IMO, as opposed to just another aspect of #10), and I'd have to put Tennat as possibly my favorite Doctor ever. (Also, the fact that Tennant himself is a lifelong huge Doctor Who geek--I'm all over him!)


erikaj - Dec 03, 2007 2:03:57 pm PST #4460 of 28260
Always Anti-fascist!

Well, yeah, it wasn't sexual for me either, but sort of...coupley, don't you think? Because they've known each other for fifty billion years and Keith always knows that Dan's gonna have a shmutz because he thinks it's not very sportsy to, say, take some tape to the old blazer beforehand. Yes, more sweet than animal passion, for real. But easier to decipher for me than some look that Slasher!Friend goes on about that I missed. In many ways, I think there are folks who take "scoring at home," a bit literally, but I don't think it hurts anyone. But I come from a family where guys never ever touch...maybe at funerals. And these are guys at the epicenter of Guy, right?(although my man Keith has taken some hits of the "lefty, pinko, commie, chicken, faggot" stripe lately, of course. (I don't know what I expected them to do--punch in the arm like they're twelve. I'm still biased about the World of Sports, I suspect.)


Connie Neil - Dec 03, 2007 2:19:37 pm PST #4461 of 28260
brillig

I prefer Eccleston because he seems more tragic, more "I am the last of my kind, wandering the universe alone". The connection with Captain Jack and Rose had more zing for me, because he seemed to need friends more.


brenda m - Dec 03, 2007 2:20:08 pm PST #4462 of 28260
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann picking lint from each other's jackets before going on "Letterman"

Sorkin didn't come up with Dan and Casey out of nowhere, you know.


Kathy A - Dec 03, 2007 2:30:25 pm PST #4463 of 28260
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

The connection with Captain Jack and Rose had more zing for me, because he seemed to need friends more.

This is why his explanation of why he left Jack behind doesn't really ring true for me. He was afraid of Jack's new immortality? I think the Doctor would be able to look past that, especially knowing Jack as well as he does.