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Happy Easter, y'all!
And, in hope of mking this entry actually brief enough to finish and post, I give you
Right. Lady Christina De Suza. I love her last name, for one thing. Reminds me of that Carlyle film, the Albania in fucking neon one, have you seen it? Lady Christina, Time Ladyesque beautiful thiefperson who speaks French and carries a shovel. It's... quite obvious a lot of fandom will hate her. And yell Mary Sue. And Obnoxio Sue. And whatnot. Honestly, that much unabashed shiny would get on one's nerves with time. Nobody is that flawless. So her flaws would probably be a lot like the Doctor's flaws, since her strengths are obviously a lot like his own, and if she were a constant companion, I'm afraid this would generate a neverending cycle of shiny babbly emo with French quotes. And it'd be one of -those- shows, you know, funny but tiring wiith their cracked shiny and probably I'd just collapse into a morose puddle of Nine-and/or-Donna-mourning goo.
But! No danger of that, since the Doctor did his usual little Nay, we can never be together thingy, which was disappointing but oh so predictable, given that the writers went out of their way to prove Christina was Perfect Companion Material. (Although I guess she lacked the taking-them-nigh-against-his-will thing that Martha also lacked that Rose and Donna had that has a lot to do with yelling undignantly at his twiggy (or possibly Northern leather-clad) arse. Or maybe it had to do with the fact that they both joined him for you-need-someone-and-also-my-life-is-borderline-unbearable reasons rather than eeeee-adventurde reasons, but I digress.)
Now Christina has a red bus (did that bus magically have its roof fixed during the episode?) that flies throughout London and who else smells spinoff? Everyone smells spinoff. Possibly a Torchwood cameo. And eventual Christina/Jenny girlslash. Although I sorta wish she'd turn evil and unite forces with the Master at some point.
... Unless Christina IS the Master. That would be awesome. That would be beyond magnificent. This is my new pet theory. I wonder if she knows it? Or possibly her memories are supressed in some random piece of diamond jewellery. Or those sunglasses. And one day she breaks the sunglasses and All Demonry Breaks Loose. OR POSSIBLY she knows she's the Master and played Ten for the skirt-chasing sucker he is. And she'll TARDISify the red bus and call it Knight Bus just for kicks.
Kay, that's my new pet theory, and in retrospect it raises the episode from 6 to 8+.
Now, moving on from too-obvious-to-be-honest!Christinaness, it was not a bad episode, but it was not too goodd either. I may actually rate it below the Christmas ep. It had its moments - "Well... it's a large estate" was a lovely quote and the crucifix-jokes were sorta cool. And it was sweet. I think this was, like, Ten's faith in humanity being restored, a Midnight Redux of sorts that actually turned out okay, people NOT turning against one another (I loved Nathan comforting whatsherface, Angela, who reminded me of Skye but was not a psychotic problematic voicesnatching alien). I liked all the passangers, really. Well, fortune-telling-but-loved-black-woman was a bit... underwhelming, though I liked her knocking prediction. And the driver's death was sorta abrupt and obviously needed only for plot reasons (ie. Gasp! We haven't a driver! But ragtag ingenuity and sonic screwdriving will save the day!), and it led me to feel at least one more person shall croak, but I was glad nobody did.
The flypeople were ridiculous and shall never be spoken of again, but I liked the stingrays.
Malcolm was brilliant. Saluting soldierlady not so much, and eventually the Doctor will have to meet a soldier who does the right thing and doesn't die immediately afterwards.
Ten was odd. Thin, for one thing. Lonely, for another. "You're my new best friend!" "We're made for each other!", lalalala, I AM ALONE IN MY EMO AND I MISS PEOPLE AND BY PEOPLE I MOSTLY MEAN DONNA, BUT AT THE MOMENT ANYONE WOULD DO, BUT NOT LONG-TERM, OF COURSE, so I like to think of Malcolm as the rebound shag. Hope we'll be seeing more of him. And of Nathan and Berkley, or whatever their names were. And you just now we'll see more Christina, because she'll have to genderswitch, knock four times and be destroyed by Tragically Dying Donna, or something.
Overall, nice ep, but not particularly rewatchable. The next one seems fascinating, I love future-eps and faux-horror and the blinding tragedy of the Doctor finally landing on Mars and nobody teasing him about it. And I hope he'll let go of the I-am-a-lonely-snowflake angst, because it's becoming grating, even after a happy and lite episode like Planet of the Dead.
Also? Tennant's tongue is lovely.
And, in hope of mking this entry actually brief enough to finish and post, I give you
Right. Lady Christina De Suza. I love her last name, for one thing. Reminds me of that Carlyle film, the Albania in fucking neon one, have you seen it? Lady Christina, Time Ladyesque beautiful thiefperson who speaks French and carries a shovel. It's... quite obvious a lot of fandom will hate her. And yell Mary Sue. And Obnoxio Sue. And whatnot. Honestly, that much unabashed shiny would get on one's nerves with time. Nobody is that flawless. So her flaws would probably be a lot like the Doctor's flaws, since her strengths are obviously a lot like his own, and if she were a constant companion, I'm afraid this would generate a neverending cycle of shiny babbly emo with French quotes. And it'd be one of -those- shows, you know, funny but tiring wiith their cracked shiny and probably I'd just collapse into a morose puddle of Nine-and/or-Donna-mourning goo.
But! No danger of that, since the Doctor did his usual little Nay, we can never be together thingy, which was disappointing but oh so predictable, given that the writers went out of their way to prove Christina was Perfect Companion Material. (Although I guess she lacked the taking-them-nigh-against-his-will thing that Martha also lacked that Rose and Donna had that has a lot to do with yelling undignantly at his twiggy (or possibly Northern leather-clad) arse. Or maybe it had to do with the fact that they both joined him for you-need-someone-and-also-my-life-is-borderline-unbearable reasons rather than eeeee-adventurde reasons, but I digress.)
Now Christina has a red bus (did that bus magically have its roof fixed during the episode?) that flies throughout London and who else smells spinoff? Everyone smells spinoff. Possibly a Torchwood cameo. And eventual Christina/Jenny girlslash. Although I sorta wish she'd turn evil and unite forces with the Master at some point.
... Unless Christina IS the Master. That would be awesome. That would be beyond magnificent. This is my new pet theory. I wonder if she knows it? Or possibly her memories are supressed in some random piece of diamond jewellery. Or those sunglasses. And one day she breaks the sunglasses and All Demonry Breaks Loose. OR POSSIBLY she knows she's the Master and played Ten for the skirt-chasing sucker he is. And she'll TARDISify the red bus and call it Knight Bus just for kicks.
Kay, that's my new pet theory, and in retrospect it raises the episode from 6 to 8+.
Now, moving on from too-obvious-to-be-honest!Christinaness, it was not a bad episode, but it was not too goodd either. I may actually rate it below the Christmas ep. It had its moments - "Well... it's a large estate" was a lovely quote and the crucifix-jokes were sorta cool. And it was sweet. I think this was, like, Ten's faith in humanity being restored, a Midnight Redux of sorts that actually turned out okay, people NOT turning against one another (I loved Nathan comforting whatsherface, Angela, who reminded me of Skye but was not a psychotic problematic voicesnatching alien). I liked all the passangers, really. Well, fortune-telling-but-loved-black-woman was a bit... underwhelming, though I liked her knocking prediction. And the driver's death was sorta abrupt and obviously needed only for plot reasons (ie. Gasp! We haven't a driver! But ragtag ingenuity and sonic screwdriving will save the day!), and it led me to feel at least one more person shall croak, but I was glad nobody did.
The flypeople were ridiculous and shall never be spoken of again, but I liked the stingrays.
Malcolm was brilliant. Saluting soldierlady not so much, and eventually the Doctor will have to meet a soldier who does the right thing and doesn't die immediately afterwards.
Ten was odd. Thin, for one thing. Lonely, for another. "You're my new best friend!" "We're made for each other!", lalalala, I AM ALONE IN MY EMO AND I MISS PEOPLE AND BY PEOPLE I MOSTLY MEAN DONNA, BUT AT THE MOMENT ANYONE WOULD DO, BUT NOT LONG-TERM, OF COURSE, so I like to think of Malcolm as the rebound shag. Hope we'll be seeing more of him. And of Nathan and Berkley, or whatever their names were. And you just now we'll see more Christina, because she'll have to genderswitch, knock four times and be destroyed by Tragically Dying Donna, or something.
Overall, nice ep, but not particularly rewatchable. The next one seems fascinating, I love future-eps and faux-horror and the blinding tragedy of the Doctor finally landing on Mars and nobody teasing him about it. And I hope he'll let go of the I-am-a-lonely-snowflake angst, because it's becoming grating, even after a happy and lite episode like Planet of the Dead.
Also? Tennant's tongue is lovely.