I'm sorry, dad. You know I would never have tried to save River's life if I had known there was a dinner party at risk.

Simon ,'Safe'


Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon  

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Juliebird - Jul 10, 2008 4:18:03 pm PDT #3465 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

serial.

Eureka!

What a great little skit! Colin can't really Sing sing, and he started out all quiet, and then when he's dragging Zoe away from Idiot Boy, the Talking singing is just awesome, and then the way he ends it with "my neighbor" is just so... Colin. Salli was fabulous, as was Jordan. The whole skit was great, and inspired. LOVE!

And, and, and . . . Henry?!!!! Why and how? Don't really care. HENRY!


amych - Jul 10, 2008 4:30:05 pm PDT #3466 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Also, on rewatch, I didn't realize how physical David Tennant is!

I caught it from the first (but admittedly, he had a very large sword in his hand for a good bit of his first Xmas special, which tends to grab my focus just a little.)

I loved CE's Doctor, no doubt about it. But Tennant has had this... this ... manic ... THING from the first moment. That's very Doctor, in a loopy, wild way that CE only rarely was. And always on the edge of annoying, but rarely going over (for me, anyway; I know others feel otherwise). It's as if he never quite got over that huge hit of regenerating stuff and you can still see little gold sparks popping out of his fingers.

(But, yeah, some fucking cheese in the plots. Oh, RTD.)

(edited for verb tense logic)


Juliebird - Jul 10, 2008 4:39:45 pm PDT #3467 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I have to say that I totally accepted Ten(nant) as the new Doctor, but he did get a little too manic and high-pitched for my liking in some instances, but that seems to have gone away. I really need to rewatch his earlier eps to see if I just got used to him, or if he did indeed tone down.

Loved/Love both Doctors, and I still think that the first Christmas Special was brilliant in introducing a new actor to the role and a new Doctor to Rose. What better way to gain our sympathy than to have him in jim-jams and comatose and practically in a hurt-comfort fic before he went all awespome on our asses?


SailAweigh - Jul 10, 2008 4:42:10 pm PDT #3468 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

awespome

I read that as awespwn and thought, "that's a cool new word!" Then I realized it was a typo.


amych - Jul 10, 2008 4:44:29 pm PDT #3469 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

practically in a hurt-comfort fic

With a nice comforting cuppa tea and everything!


Juliebird - Jul 10, 2008 4:48:44 pm PDT #3470 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Ten is the spawn of awesome! He is awespawn! Erm, I need to go to bed now.


victor infante - Jul 10, 2008 5:38:46 pm PDT #3471 of 30001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

BSG: Just got up to "Collaborators" in Season Three. Dear God, I'm going to be upset when I run out of episodes.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 10, 2008 5:50:20 pm PDT #3472 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Oh dear lord, that Eureka promo is made of AWESOME!!! Go singing, dancing CFerg!!!


Vortex - Jul 10, 2008 6:30:09 pm PDT #3473 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Four is really my first doctor, and Ten evokes him in the exaggerated facial expressions and mania.


Theresa - Jul 10, 2008 7:00:18 pm PDT #3474 of 30001
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"

I made it through DW 2x13 tonight. ::sob:: She said she would stay with him forever?! I didn't believe her at the time, but I'm not any less sad. Also some guy walked by in the background of Torchwood at the beginning of 2x12 wearing a suit and a pink shirt. I was secretly hoping for Ianto.

I will say at this point in the series I am getting my hate on for Mickey. I'm tired of listening to him whine about being the tin dog.

i'll just say...yes.

Ha! I think that's where I started to like him. But he gets much better in the next few episodes.

tiggy and P-C, okay, I take it back. Mickey is made of Awesome. He's awespwn. And with self confidence, he suddenly became hot too. That is probably included in the definition of awespwn though.