I like the episode, I like Martha, & love the Doctor. Happy making ep at last! And some badfic mock
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My LJ time has been rather limited of late, apologies.
In other news, I saw a Doctor Who S3 ep I really liked!
I decided to take the flist advice and skip the second part of the stupid NY two parter and watched 'Lazarus Experiment' instead and I liked it. A lot. The Doctor was geeky and scattered and just awesome, with his understanding that immortality is not desired but a curse, when he talks what i's like to outlive everyone you love, to be left behind, to lose all you care about and be alone (when he is talking to Lazarus). And I so love his passionate decency (my favorite quality about him), how angry he gets because Lazarus thinks some people are worth nothing, aren't as good or great as others. His whole behavior in this ep is shot through with his experience with Rose and with his travels in the last two seasons (I am sure other experiences, too, but am talking about most immediate ones). Rose was living proof that yes, someone might be ordinary, a shopgirl, and rise to the heights of saving the world. Twice. Or think of that maid in the Dickens ep. A nobody who sacrificed everything. Etc etc. The Doctor's world is full of ordinary people doing the extraordinary, so notion that they are dispensable are anathema to him.
Oh, and shock of shocks, I liked Martha. Seriously. I don't love her, or anything, but she doesn't bore me any more. They finally gave her some color, some character: we saw her family, her fear, her bravery, her longing for the Doctor and disappointment that she is nothing more for him than a nice passenger he can easily leave behind. She wants more, and she is so full of a schoolgirl crush, and on the latter, I got to say, she just needs to read 'he is just not that into you.' The most he is capable of is treating her as some sort of a nice, capable, not too close chum (which is the status she earns by the end of the ep). He is lonely, and Martha is good in a crisis and a pleasant travelling companion. But that is all. The Doctor doesn't open much anyhow, but the experience with Rose only exacerbated it. He was vulnerable after the Time War, he opened up to Rose and became even more vulnerable (if you are a shipper like me, you'll say he fell in love with her) and we all saw Doomsday. He's going to lock his feelings away into a big big lockbox for quite a while. I mean, no matter what, Martha is cursed to be the rebound girl.
But yeah, I like her, though want her to stop freaking moping.
And I just realized why Ten wears trainers with his suits. It's because he runs so damn much ;)
I like all the Harold Saxon hints.
Here are some screencaps from the ep, largely focusing on awesomeness that is the face of David Tennant. And there are Lord Peter comparisons :P
Martha's room is kinda messy:
Saying bye:
Demento cap 1:
Love the grin:
Mmmmm. Black tie:
Reacting to a Bond comparison, heeee:
Party:
LOL. 'I am meeting a scary mother' face:
Demento cap 2:
Talking to Lazarus:
Demento cap 3:
This I really like. Dapper and with a touch of insanity:
Quoting Elliot. You know, for some reason the Doctor comes across as so very British in this ep. I can't explan, but he does and it's adorable:
My favorite scene, confrontation with Lazarus in the Cathedral, about what it means to be human, and about the value of immortality, and lives of others. He is angry and so full of conviction and humanity (yeah, odd word to use about an alien, whatever):
Demento cap 4:
And this is just hot:
The man with the plan. I don't know, for some reason, after this ep, even though he is too young and his hair is wrong, I can picture DT as Lord Peter. I don't know he just has the same vibe. The Doctor is how Lord Peter would be if he was an immortal alien, down to fast speech and hidden shell shock and compassion for the guilty party which yet won't stop him from doing what he thinks is right.
Martha and her sister. Double the siblings, double the prettiness? They are a very pretty family. Oddly, while in one sense it makes me love to look at them, in another it makes me disassociate because they aren't just pretty in a 'girl on the street' sense, they are stunning and thus feel less real to me. I mean, I know girls who look like Rose or Donna, just as I know guys who look the same type of attractive as Eccleston or Tennant. Attractive but not stunning, and it is all in their character. I don't know anyone who looks as gorgeous as the Jones sisters, and haven't seen anyone like that outside TV or ads, so it automatically labels them (to me) as 'not quite real,' same way a lot of movie people come across, look wise:
Looking at the dead Lazarus:
Interestingly (and completely understandably), such a contrast to the constant touchy-feeliness of S2 with Rose, Ten is very very isolated and not into bodily contact in S3. But sometimes it happens even now, as it does here. Martha certainly earned herself a hug. I love how the hugs are different from hugs with Rose because the relationship underpinning the hugs is so very different.I do feel bad for Martha. She can't help but hope, and it's so completely hopeless. We've all been there: a kind, clever, compassionate and totally inaccessible guy is the super catnip.
Anyway, this is very pretty, like something from a cool 40s movie:
Oh, this cap is totally to die for:
And so is this:
I love it when the Doctor grins:
In other news, I was perusing the big Doctor Who fanfic archive (Teaspoon and an Open Mind). I am pleased to learn that:
a. Threesomes clearly rock the world. Who knew that Doctor/Rose/Jack is the new Holy Trinity. Hmmm.
b. The Doctor could repopulate the galaxy with his offspring. He has kids with Rose, with Martha, with every other companion (male and female), random passerby, and arguably tree stumps. Considering Gallifreyans are supposed to not be randying it up all over the place, is he making up for lost time?
c. Purple hair is so in for companions. Or long names or sparkly nails. We have been spared Unicorns though.
d. If I read the word 'soulmate' again, I am liable to kill someone. I thought that word got all used up by the Buffy fandom, anyway (yes, I ship Buffy/Angel, yes, I ship Doctor/Rose, yes, I think this word should be banned forever).
My LJ time has been rather limited of late, apologies.
In other news, I saw a Doctor Who S3 ep I really liked!
I decided to take the flist advice and skip the second part of the stupid NY two parter and watched 'Lazarus Experiment' instead and I liked it. A lot. The Doctor was geeky and scattered and just awesome, with his understanding that immortality is not desired but a curse, when he talks what i's like to outlive everyone you love, to be left behind, to lose all you care about and be alone (when he is talking to Lazarus). And I so love his passionate decency (my favorite quality about him), how angry he gets because Lazarus thinks some people are worth nothing, aren't as good or great as others. His whole behavior in this ep is shot through with his experience with Rose and with his travels in the last two seasons (I am sure other experiences, too, but am talking about most immediate ones). Rose was living proof that yes, someone might be ordinary, a shopgirl, and rise to the heights of saving the world. Twice. Or think of that maid in the Dickens ep. A nobody who sacrificed everything. Etc etc. The Doctor's world is full of ordinary people doing the extraordinary, so notion that they are dispensable are anathema to him.
Oh, and shock of shocks, I liked Martha. Seriously. I don't love her, or anything, but she doesn't bore me any more. They finally gave her some color, some character: we saw her family, her fear, her bravery, her longing for the Doctor and disappointment that she is nothing more for him than a nice passenger he can easily leave behind. She wants more, and she is so full of a schoolgirl crush, and on the latter, I got to say, she just needs to read 'he is just not that into you.' The most he is capable of is treating her as some sort of a nice, capable, not too close chum (which is the status she earns by the end of the ep). He is lonely, and Martha is good in a crisis and a pleasant travelling companion. But that is all. The Doctor doesn't open much anyhow, but the experience with Rose only exacerbated it. He was vulnerable after the Time War, he opened up to Rose and became even more vulnerable (if you are a shipper like me, you'll say he fell in love with her) and we all saw Doomsday. He's going to lock his feelings away into a big big lockbox for quite a while. I mean, no matter what, Martha is cursed to be the rebound girl.
But yeah, I like her, though want her to stop freaking moping.
And I just realized why Ten wears trainers with his suits. It's because he runs so damn much ;)
I like all the Harold Saxon hints.
Here are some screencaps from the ep, largely focusing on awesomeness that is the face of David Tennant. And there are Lord Peter comparisons :P
Martha's room is kinda messy:
Saying bye:
Demento cap 1:
Love the grin:
Mmmmm. Black tie:
Reacting to a Bond comparison, heeee:
Party:
LOL. 'I am meeting a scary mother' face:
Demento cap 2:
Talking to Lazarus:
Demento cap 3:
This I really like. Dapper and with a touch of insanity:
Quoting Elliot. You know, for some reason the Doctor comes across as so very British in this ep. I can't explan, but he does and it's adorable:
My favorite scene, confrontation with Lazarus in the Cathedral, about what it means to be human, and about the value of immortality, and lives of others. He is angry and so full of conviction and humanity (yeah, odd word to use about an alien, whatever):
Demento cap 4:
And this is just hot:
The man with the plan. I don't know, for some reason, after this ep, even though he is too young and his hair is wrong, I can picture DT as Lord Peter. I don't know he just has the same vibe. The Doctor is how Lord Peter would be if he was an immortal alien, down to fast speech and hidden shell shock and compassion for the guilty party which yet won't stop him from doing what he thinks is right.
Martha and her sister. Double the siblings, double the prettiness? They are a very pretty family. Oddly, while in one sense it makes me love to look at them, in another it makes me disassociate because they aren't just pretty in a 'girl on the street' sense, they are stunning and thus feel less real to me. I mean, I know girls who look like Rose or Donna, just as I know guys who look the same type of attractive as Eccleston or Tennant. Attractive but not stunning, and it is all in their character. I don't know anyone who looks as gorgeous as the Jones sisters, and haven't seen anyone like that outside TV or ads, so it automatically labels them (to me) as 'not quite real,' same way a lot of movie people come across, look wise:
Looking at the dead Lazarus:
Interestingly (and completely understandably), such a contrast to the constant touchy-feeliness of S2 with Rose, Ten is very very isolated and not into bodily contact in S3. But sometimes it happens even now, as it does here. Martha certainly earned herself a hug. I love how the hugs are different from hugs with Rose because the relationship underpinning the hugs is so very different.I do feel bad for Martha. She can't help but hope, and it's so completely hopeless. We've all been there: a kind, clever, compassionate and totally inaccessible guy is the super catnip.
Anyway, this is very pretty, like something from a cool 40s movie:
Oh, this cap is totally to die for:
And so is this:
I love it when the Doctor grins:
In other news, I was perusing the big Doctor Who fanfic archive (Teaspoon and an Open Mind). I am pleased to learn that:
a. Threesomes clearly rock the world. Who knew that Doctor/Rose/Jack is the new Holy Trinity. Hmmm.
b. The Doctor could repopulate the galaxy with his offspring. He has kids with Rose, with Martha, with every other companion (male and female), random passerby, and arguably tree stumps. Considering Gallifreyans are supposed to not be randying it up all over the place, is he making up for lost time?
c. Purple hair is so in for companions. Or long names or sparkly nails. We have been spared Unicorns though.
d. If I read the word 'soulmate' again, I am liable to kill someone. I thought that word got all used up by the Buffy fandom, anyway (yes, I ship Buffy/Angel, yes, I ship Doctor/Rose, yes, I think this word should be banned forever).