Through a mirror, darkly

[danceswithwords]

LJ has eaten every comment I tried to make today up until an hour ago. Not just thrown the stupid database error that you can recover from by hitting the browser back button and trying to post the comment again; irrevocably eaten. NOT ON, LJ.

Let's see if it will let me post this.

Comments

[laurashapiro]

That blog entry about TW is both hilarious and *dead on*. Except for one particular episode that you should see. But seriously: *dead on*.

Re the Master's current incarnation, my feeling is that Simm's reading works so well in part because it is such a clear demonstration of Ten's own mania, enthusiasm for humanity, and hubris. He's not the other side of the coin -- even that implies too much distance between them. He's not even Ten's dark mirror. He *is* Ten, just a different flavor of crazy.

[asta77]

I was nodding my head vigorously in agreement with the TW write up and the responses. I did like 'They Keep Killing Suzie', but the rest of the series (what I saw of it) was not good. And when will writers learn that drugging women and having sex with them is not funny, it's rape.

[danceswithwords]

Oh for crying out loud, did the Torchwood writers go to the SGA school of writing "wacky" "hijinks"?

[asta77]

Yep, they sure did. 'Wacky' hijinks, date rape, it's all the same to them. What perhaps made it worse on Torchwood is that the rapist in question is a series regular and one of the 'heroes'. Sigh.

[danceswithwords]

That blog entry about TW is both hilarious and *dead on*.

The comments were pretty enlightening too, and also hilarious. (There seems to be much more colorful British idiom to express "that sucked" than what we possess on this side of the pond.)

He *is* Ten, just a different flavor of crazy.

I'm actually sort of leaning towards it being the same flavor of crazy, channeled through a different personality. I like the idea that part of the kinship the Doctor feels is that same unmooring experience at the age of eight.

I need Doctor Who icons, clearly.

[laurashapiro]

Ooh, I hadn't seen the comments. "Can't write for toffee" is good (although as a fan of many RTD shows, I have to disagree), but I particularly like "the slightly desperate feeling of 6 form drama students trying put on a sexually risqué revue". Hee!

And you may be right that it's the same flavor of crazy. I kind of think the personalities are the same, too, it's just that one of them is evil and the other...is beige, but thinks he's good.

Have you seen nostalgia_lj's write-up of the phone sex conversation? Genius.