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For some reason I seem to have lots to say about this show.
Warnings: Mild spoiler for the Confidential, very image heavy.
Rise of the Cybermen
Ten: Um, what are you doing that for?
Mickey: Cause you told me to.
Ten: When was that?
Mickey: Bout half an hour ago.
Um...
You can let go now.
Well how longs it been since I could have stopped?
Ten mintues. Twenty.
Twenty nine.
You just forgot me!
No, no, no, I was just... I was calibrating. I know exactly what I'm doing.
She's dead. The TARDIS is dead.
We fell out of the vortex. Through the void into nothingless. We're in some sort of no place. The silent realm. The lost dimension.
Otherwise known as London.
Ten: So this is London.
Mickey: Yep.
Ten: Your city?
Mickey: That's the one.
Ten: Just as we left it.
Mickey: Bang on.
Ten: And that includes the zeppelins?
Mickey: Okay, so it's London with a big international zeppelin festival.
I love it when Ten is all dramatically fervant and Rose doesn't even listen AT ALL. Not like he's one to talk, Mr. chose to stay with Madame Du Pom Pom.
Parallel world, it's like a gingerbread house!
Mickey: Did that help?
Ten: Yes.
Mickey: Did that hurt?
Ten: Yes.
Mickey: But, I've seen it in comics. People are hopping from one alternative world to another, it's easy.
Ten: Not in the real world.
Love how Mickey mimics the Doctor. I think they both secretly like, and admire things about each other. Not that either of them would easily admit to that.
I don't ship them, I don't. But it really DOES look like they should make out there.
It's a light. Is it? Is that a light? I think that's a light!
Mickey, we've got power!
Ten: It's alive!
Mickey: What is it?
Ten: Nothing. It's tiny. One of those insignificant little power cells that no one ever bothers about and it's clinging on to life. One little ounce of reality tucked away inside.
I just gave away ten years of my life. Worth every second.
Fixed it!
Hee! Look at how pleased they are with themselves.
Rose: They're rich. They got a house and cars and everything they want. But they haven't got me.
I can do what I want.
I just want to see him.
Well you don't know anything about me, do yeah? It's always about Rose, I'm just a spare part.
Go on, then. There's no choice, is there? You can only chase after one of us.
It's never going to be me, is it?
Ten: I never knew.
Rose: You never asked.
Ten: You never said.
Rose: That's Mickey. I suppose we just take him forgranted.
They get it direct. Downloaded right into their heads.
Loved Ten's reaction. He's just so geeky sometimes.
Ten: You lot, you're obsessed. You'd do anything for the latest upgrade.
Rose: Oy, not my lot. Different world, remember.
Ten: Not so far off your world, this place is only parallel.
Mr. Pete Tyler's very well-connected.
I give up.
Ten: And there is one guaranteed way of getting inside.
GREAT. Now I have a waiter fetish. I'm running out of room for new fetishes.
Rose: We could have been anyone.
Ten: Got us in, didn't it?
Rose: We could have been guests. Celebrities.
Sir Doctor and Dane Rose.
Love how much enjoyment Ten gets out of torturing Rose. At least they were both waiters. I don't want to see Rose take a subordinate position to Ten all the time. This way they were equally subordinate.
Ten: According to Lucy, that man over there...
Rose: Who's Lucy?
Maybe Lucy's just a bit thick.
You can't stay. Even if there was some way of telling them.
All these different worlds, not one of them gets it right.
Rose! There's my little girl. Come to mommy!
Sorry.
Hey, Laura, remember how we were talking about how hot Mickey is? THEY HEARD US!
Rickey: We are going to bring you down.
Mickey: From your kitchen?
It's happening again.
It's a living brain jammed inside a cybernetic body. With a heart of steel. All emotions removed.
Rose: Why no emotions?
Ten: Because it hurts.
I can't decide if Ten meant that emotions hurt in general, or that the cybermen are in a state of constant physical pain that an emoting creature wouldn't be able to tolerate. I hope he meant both, because I really like the idea of that second scenario.
That was a FANTASTIC slide.
Yeah, no offense, sweetheart, but who the hell are you?
Keep it in your pants, Rose. At least until the life or death scenario is over.
To be continued?!?
OVERALL: The thing about this show, for me, is that I don't really care where they go or what happens to them. Of course it's fantastic when that aspect of the show excites me, but mostly I just really like the characters no matter what the setting. I just want to be a voyeur and listen in on all their converstaions. I want to follow them around the Tardis for days without ever setting foot outside (which, given that it's the TARDIS and all, they probably never do). I want to be on the inside of every joke about the incompetance of Rose's species, and catch every secret glance of affection the Doctor throws her way. I want Mickey as my BFF and Jackie as my mom. I think this makes me prone to like the show whether it's at it's best or not, which I don't think it was this time around. And so I find myself caught between insatiable show lust and a nagging sense that it's not actually living up to my expectations.
SOMETIMES I JUST WANT TO SMACK TEN: In the last few episodes we've seen Ten act downright mean to both Rose and Mickey. And I'm not talking about his decision to adandon them for Madame Du Pompadore. I'm talking about the little things, like the general disregard with which he treated Rose last week. And the Mickey-is-useless jokes, which are hilarious, but at the same time hurtful when you consider that Mickey does feel useless. There's a part of me that cringes whenever this happens because I just want to adore Ten, but there's another part of me that loves being angry with him. Ten is not just the fairy tale hero. He's the boy who doesn't just leave the toilet seat up but has a lengthy explanation as to why his behaviour is excusable. He's the boy who doesn't think things through, who lives with his foot in his mouth, who's egotistical, and impatient, hot-tempered, and stubborn. But for some reason his flaws only make him more appealing to me. Possibly because I love considering how firey he and Rose would be in a romantic relationship (thank god for fanfic!). Possibly because he's also the boy who's incredible dorky, and youthful, and sweet, and funny, and lonely, and eager to please, and in love with every last spec of the universe. He's INFURIATING that way.
THE TARDIS IS DEAD: LOVED the scene with Rose and Mickey and Ten hanging out in the TARDIS. When Ten's trying not to laugh before telling Mickey he can let go of the button he does this nose-flaring thing, and I didn't even know I had a fetish for that! But I do! I loved the TARDIS breaking down and I was disappointed it wasn't a bigger part of the plot. I wanted the whole episode to be about the death of the TARDIS. Then again, I wanted Lost to be Robinson Crusoe-ish, so I'm clearly not the intended audience.
ROSE: At first I was really bothered by the issue of Rose wanting to stay in this other dimension. She's already faced her inability to be with her dad through time travel. Not that it wouldn't still be hard to see him, but it was done so well before I do wish they'd have left well enough alone. But then I started thinking about the theme of upgrading, and I decided it wasn't so much that Rose wanted to stay as it was that she couldn't bare the idea that her parents were better off without her. Then again, there's a very good chance that's not what the writers meant AT ALL, and I'm the greatest fanwanker ever. After all, I still don't buy that Ten loved Madame Du Pompadore more than anyone else he's ever met, and I never will.
THE CYBERMEN: In the Confidential everyone kept going on about how scary the Cybermen are, but I just didn't see it AT ALL. Not half as scary as the Clockwork man under the bed. And without the fear of the Cybermen most of the drama of the episode was lost on me. Also? I listened to some of the commentary and the director was going ON AND ON about how creative it was that they looked Art Deco, and they did look very pretty, but it's not like that's an original idea. GOD. That commentary really made me hate the director. They were also heavily compared to the Daleks, and as much as the Daleks annoyed me, I found them much scary than the Cybermen as well. I guess it's hard to top the first time you ever see the Doctor truly afraid. I'm hoping I'll feel a greater sense of fear next week.
MICKEY: ADORED Mickey in this episode. There's just one problem with that. They're making him extra loveable just so that they can put his life in peril. That is NOT acceptable. Mickey is NOT allowed to die. He's allowed to be the hero, and earn the love and respect of Rose and Ten, BUT NO DEATH. Rickey can die. That's what's going to happen. Rickey will die. Not Mickey. Right? RIGHT.
IN CONCLUSION: Looking forward to next week. Still can't get enough of Tennant. CANNOT WAIT for Russel T Davies to write another episode.
Warnings: Mild spoiler for the Confidential, very image heavy.
Rise of the Cybermen
Ten: Um, what are you doing that for?
Mickey: Cause you told me to.
Ten: When was that?
Mickey: Bout half an hour ago.
Um...
You can let go now.
Well how longs it been since I could have stopped?
Ten mintues. Twenty.
Twenty nine.
You just forgot me!
No, no, no, I was just... I was calibrating. I know exactly what I'm doing.
She's dead. The TARDIS is dead.
We fell out of the vortex. Through the void into nothingless. We're in some sort of no place. The silent realm. The lost dimension.
Otherwise known as London.
Ten: So this is London.
Mickey: Yep.
Ten: Your city?
Mickey: That's the one.
Ten: Just as we left it.
Mickey: Bang on.
Ten: And that includes the zeppelins?
Mickey: Okay, so it's London with a big international zeppelin festival.
I love it when Ten is all dramatically fervant and Rose doesn't even listen AT ALL. Not like he's one to talk, Mr. chose to stay with Madame Du Pom Pom.
Parallel world, it's like a gingerbread house!
Mickey: Did that help?
Ten: Yes.
Mickey: Did that hurt?
Ten: Yes.
Mickey: But, I've seen it in comics. People are hopping from one alternative world to another, it's easy.
Ten: Not in the real world.
Love how Mickey mimics the Doctor. I think they both secretly like, and admire things about each other. Not that either of them would easily admit to that.
I don't ship them, I don't. But it really DOES look like they should make out there.
It's a light. Is it? Is that a light? I think that's a light!
Mickey, we've got power!
Ten: It's alive!
Mickey: What is it?
Ten: Nothing. It's tiny. One of those insignificant little power cells that no one ever bothers about and it's clinging on to life. One little ounce of reality tucked away inside.
I just gave away ten years of my life. Worth every second.
Fixed it!
Hee! Look at how pleased they are with themselves.
Rose: They're rich. They got a house and cars and everything they want. But they haven't got me.
I can do what I want.
I just want to see him.
Well you don't know anything about me, do yeah? It's always about Rose, I'm just a spare part.
Go on, then. There's no choice, is there? You can only chase after one of us.
It's never going to be me, is it?
Ten: I never knew.
Rose: You never asked.
Ten: You never said.
Rose: That's Mickey. I suppose we just take him forgranted.
They get it direct. Downloaded right into their heads.
Loved Ten's reaction. He's just so geeky sometimes.
Ten: You lot, you're obsessed. You'd do anything for the latest upgrade.
Rose: Oy, not my lot. Different world, remember.
Ten: Not so far off your world, this place is only parallel.
Mr. Pete Tyler's very well-connected.
I give up.
Ten: And there is one guaranteed way of getting inside.
GREAT. Now I have a waiter fetish. I'm running out of room for new fetishes.
Rose: We could have been anyone.
Ten: Got us in, didn't it?
Rose: We could have been guests. Celebrities.
Sir Doctor and Dane Rose.
Love how much enjoyment Ten gets out of torturing Rose. At least they were both waiters. I don't want to see Rose take a subordinate position to Ten all the time. This way they were equally subordinate.
Ten: According to Lucy, that man over there...
Rose: Who's Lucy?
Maybe Lucy's just a bit thick.
You can't stay. Even if there was some way of telling them.
All these different worlds, not one of them gets it right.
Rose! There's my little girl. Come to mommy!
Sorry.
Hey, Laura, remember how we were talking about how hot Mickey is? THEY HEARD US!
Rickey: We are going to bring you down.
Mickey: From your kitchen?
It's happening again.
It's a living brain jammed inside a cybernetic body. With a heart of steel. All emotions removed.
Rose: Why no emotions?
Ten: Because it hurts.
I can't decide if Ten meant that emotions hurt in general, or that the cybermen are in a state of constant physical pain that an emoting creature wouldn't be able to tolerate. I hope he meant both, because I really like the idea of that second scenario.
That was a FANTASTIC slide.
Yeah, no offense, sweetheart, but who the hell are you?
Keep it in your pants, Rose. At least until the life or death scenario is over.
To be continued?!?
OVERALL: The thing about this show, for me, is that I don't really care where they go or what happens to them. Of course it's fantastic when that aspect of the show excites me, but mostly I just really like the characters no matter what the setting. I just want to be a voyeur and listen in on all their converstaions. I want to follow them around the Tardis for days without ever setting foot outside (which, given that it's the TARDIS and all, they probably never do). I want to be on the inside of every joke about the incompetance of Rose's species, and catch every secret glance of affection the Doctor throws her way. I want Mickey as my BFF and Jackie as my mom. I think this makes me prone to like the show whether it's at it's best or not, which I don't think it was this time around. And so I find myself caught between insatiable show lust and a nagging sense that it's not actually living up to my expectations.
SOMETIMES I JUST WANT TO SMACK TEN: In the last few episodes we've seen Ten act downright mean to both Rose and Mickey. And I'm not talking about his decision to adandon them for Madame Du Pompadore. I'm talking about the little things, like the general disregard with which he treated Rose last week. And the Mickey-is-useless jokes, which are hilarious, but at the same time hurtful when you consider that Mickey does feel useless. There's a part of me that cringes whenever this happens because I just want to adore Ten, but there's another part of me that loves being angry with him. Ten is not just the fairy tale hero. He's the boy who doesn't just leave the toilet seat up but has a lengthy explanation as to why his behaviour is excusable. He's the boy who doesn't think things through, who lives with his foot in his mouth, who's egotistical, and impatient, hot-tempered, and stubborn. But for some reason his flaws only make him more appealing to me. Possibly because I love considering how firey he and Rose would be in a romantic relationship (thank god for fanfic!). Possibly because he's also the boy who's incredible dorky, and youthful, and sweet, and funny, and lonely, and eager to please, and in love with every last spec of the universe. He's INFURIATING that way.
THE TARDIS IS DEAD: LOVED the scene with Rose and Mickey and Ten hanging out in the TARDIS. When Ten's trying not to laugh before telling Mickey he can let go of the button he does this nose-flaring thing, and I didn't even know I had a fetish for that! But I do! I loved the TARDIS breaking down and I was disappointed it wasn't a bigger part of the plot. I wanted the whole episode to be about the death of the TARDIS. Then again, I wanted Lost to be Robinson Crusoe-ish, so I'm clearly not the intended audience.
ROSE: At first I was really bothered by the issue of Rose wanting to stay in this other dimension. She's already faced her inability to be with her dad through time travel. Not that it wouldn't still be hard to see him, but it was done so well before I do wish they'd have left well enough alone. But then I started thinking about the theme of upgrading, and I decided it wasn't so much that Rose wanted to stay as it was that she couldn't bare the idea that her parents were better off without her. Then again, there's a very good chance that's not what the writers meant AT ALL, and I'm the greatest fanwanker ever. After all, I still don't buy that Ten loved Madame Du Pompadore more than anyone else he's ever met, and I never will.
THE CYBERMEN: In the Confidential everyone kept going on about how scary the Cybermen are, but I just didn't see it AT ALL. Not half as scary as the Clockwork man under the bed. And without the fear of the Cybermen most of the drama of the episode was lost on me. Also? I listened to some of the commentary and the director was going ON AND ON about how creative it was that they looked Art Deco, and they did look very pretty, but it's not like that's an original idea. GOD. That commentary really made me hate the director. They were also heavily compared to the Daleks, and as much as the Daleks annoyed me, I found them much scary than the Cybermen as well. I guess it's hard to top the first time you ever see the Doctor truly afraid. I'm hoping I'll feel a greater sense of fear next week.
MICKEY: ADORED Mickey in this episode. There's just one problem with that. They're making him extra loveable just so that they can put his life in peril. That is NOT acceptable. Mickey is NOT allowed to die. He's allowed to be the hero, and earn the love and respect of Rose and Ten, BUT NO DEATH. Rickey can die. That's what's going to happen. Rickey will die. Not Mickey. Right? RIGHT.
IN CONCLUSION: Looking forward to next week. Still can't get enough of Tennant. CANNOT WAIT for Russel T Davies to write another episode.