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For me timelady_watson picked...
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[1] supernatural; carry on wayward sons (shinyhappicons
I was wanting a cool-looking SPN icon with the Chevy Impala and loved this the second I found it. I like the representation of the "two vagabonds walking the earth like cowboys all over America" formula of the show.
[2] doctor who; rose & jack (bunnyicons)
Loooove this episode, and I love the relationship between Rose and Jack, as short-lived as their time traveling together was. The subtle way the Doctor/Rose/Jack dynamic played out is a perfect example to me of how a love triangle can exist between characters without being some kind of forced and trite point of drama or tension between parties who should be able to trust each other (something I end up trying to explain in so many discussions about the possibilities of Spock/Uhura/Kirk or Aang/Katara/Zuko, but...alas). Anyway, who wouldn't want to dance to Glenn Miller right in front of Big Ben?
[3] sherlock; sherlock/john awkward (kasienka_nikki)
How can you not keep an icon of this moment handy? LMAO. Watson's face when he looks away from Sherlock here is so priceless, it's the most hilarious scene in the whole show so far.
[4] avatar; sokka (sharp_pastels)
Sokka is the mf-ing man. Needed an icon of him looking badass with a sword. I'm not very picky about my AtLA icons because the awesomeness can speak for itself in simple images, LOL.
[5] skins; cook/effy (epiclullaby)
I actually prefer Effy with Freddie (and Cook with...Naomi, sort of, in a doomed and never-gonna-happen way). But I just liked this icon when I saw it because they look pretty together.
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Because I always seem to get really behind on Doctor Who, I hadn't finished the very end of Series 5 for a while and I just watched the last two episodes + the Christmas special. The finale was great if I didn't think about it too hard and just enjoyed the ride (I mostly enjoyed the final ten minutes or so and that it was probably the first episode throughout which I never particularly regretted River's presence). But..."A Christmas Carol"! OMG was it good. I think it's definitely the best Christmas special of the new series (and this is coming from someone who actually likes "The Runaway Bride," heheh), and it's probably tied with "The Eleventh Hour" as my favorite episode with the new cast so far.
So, I guess I never reviewed any of Series 5 as I started watching it, so I should maybe state for the record that with all the changes to the show it's still continued to win me over, even if all the right elements aren't always totally there. I've come to love Eleven and love Amy. Way back when I first found out they were going with another pretty young firecracker kind of character for the new companion, I was kind of worried she would be too much like Rose. With this show I guess it's easy to worry that pretty much everything has already been done and it'll start to seem repetitious. But I was really pleased to find that Amy is a very different character from any of the former companions and her relationship to the Doctor also feels very new and unique, especially because of the way they meet the first times which is just too brilliant.
So I have still really been enjoying the show...generally. I mean, even a weak episode of DW is still a bunch of fun, though it's always worrisome whenever you start to feel a possible pattern of weak episodes, and I think this series overall is the same kind of mixed bag that Series 3 was. Some of my very favorite eps like "Smith and Jones" and "Blink" are in S3, but it also has a lot of them that I never feel inclined to rewatch, and it's about the same with S5.
I think this finale might have been the first time when the culmination and explanation of a season-long story arc got a little too complicated. The vaguely-defined idea of cracks through all of space and time isn't something you're supposed to be able to totally understand, obviously, but there were random details brought into it that almost seemed to rely too much on the "Just buy that it makes perfect sense to the Doctor and go with it" guideline. Idk, it might be easier to follow with another viewing. The details given through the whole season do hold together pretty well while building up to a few pretty cool surprises in the end. But I did wonder, if Amy's parents had been erased from existence and she couldn't even say what happened to them, why did she remember in the first episode how her mother used to cut faces into apples for her? And if the Doctor was temporarily erased from existence after the many times he's saved Earth, how was anybody still around to see Amy walk down the aisle? Unless maybe the whole world had become a temporary anomaly that would have disappeared if Amy hadn't remembered him back into existence or something...Whatever. LOL.
One thing I've especially enjoyed since the start of S5 is how much the production value has improved, and this was especially impressive in "A Christmas Carol." The design and visuals in this episode had such a cinematic and moody quality and reminded me of the look of City of Lost Children or something. If you compare it to "Rose," this series has gone from looking like some cheap kids' show that maybe could have been made in America in the 80's to something so big in scope and production it's like nothing at all that's made for television here. The show generally has more of a style than ever before. But it's not as if it's just automatically gotten better by having a bigger budget. When before the writing relied more on brilliance in simplicity, now they're free to come up with some really wildly imaginative stories that can be visually realized on a greater level. Simple episodes like "Midnight" which took place in the same small shuttle almost the whole time are great in their way, and there was nothing wrong with DW being a totally cheesy-looking show before, but it's also nice to be able to see these worlds like the setting of "The Beast Below" created with such detail.
Freaking love this...
That's two shows I love that apparently have episodes involving the Old West coming up. Hell. Yes.
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Oh my God, this footage from the Sherlock Holmes sequel...Why am I not the least bit surprised they'd go there? LOLOLOL. I'd say "It's like something out of fanfic" but a whole lot of the first movie you could say was almost like that anyway.
* Make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose.
* Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
* This will create a never ending cycle of icon glee
For me timelady_watson picked...
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[1] supernatural; carry on wayward sons (shinyhappicons
I was wanting a cool-looking SPN icon with the Chevy Impala and loved this the second I found it. I like the representation of the "two vagabonds walking the earth like cowboys all over America" formula of the show.
[2] doctor who; rose & jack (bunnyicons)
Loooove this episode, and I love the relationship between Rose and Jack, as short-lived as their time traveling together was. The subtle way the Doctor/Rose/Jack dynamic played out is a perfect example to me of how a love triangle can exist between characters without being some kind of forced and trite point of drama or tension between parties who should be able to trust each other (something I end up trying to explain in so many discussions about the possibilities of Spock/Uhura/Kirk or Aang/Katara/Zuko, but...alas). Anyway, who wouldn't want to dance to Glenn Miller right in front of Big Ben?
[3] sherlock; sherlock/john awkward (kasienka_nikki)
How can you not keep an icon of this moment handy? LMAO. Watson's face when he looks away from Sherlock here is so priceless, it's the most hilarious scene in the whole show so far.
[4] avatar; sokka (sharp_pastels)
Sokka is the mf-ing man. Needed an icon of him looking badass with a sword. I'm not very picky about my AtLA icons because the awesomeness can speak for itself in simple images, LOL.
[5] skins; cook/effy (epiclullaby)
I actually prefer Effy with Freddie (and Cook with...Naomi, sort of, in a doomed and never-gonna-happen way). But I just liked this icon when I saw it because they look pretty together.
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Because I always seem to get really behind on Doctor Who, I hadn't finished the very end of Series 5 for a while and I just watched the last two episodes + the Christmas special. The finale was great if I didn't think about it too hard and just enjoyed the ride (I mostly enjoyed the final ten minutes or so and that it was probably the first episode throughout which I never particularly regretted River's presence). But..."A Christmas Carol"! OMG was it good. I think it's definitely the best Christmas special of the new series (and this is coming from someone who actually likes "The Runaway Bride," heheh), and it's probably tied with "The Eleventh Hour" as my favorite episode with the new cast so far.
So, I guess I never reviewed any of Series 5 as I started watching it, so I should maybe state for the record that with all the changes to the show it's still continued to win me over, even if all the right elements aren't always totally there. I've come to love Eleven and love Amy. Way back when I first found out they were going with another pretty young firecracker kind of character for the new companion, I was kind of worried she would be too much like Rose. With this show I guess it's easy to worry that pretty much everything has already been done and it'll start to seem repetitious. But I was really pleased to find that Amy is a very different character from any of the former companions and her relationship to the Doctor also feels very new and unique, especially because of the way they meet the first times which is just too brilliant.
So I have still really been enjoying the show...generally. I mean, even a weak episode of DW is still a bunch of fun, though it's always worrisome whenever you start to feel a possible pattern of weak episodes, and I think this series overall is the same kind of mixed bag that Series 3 was. Some of my very favorite eps like "Smith and Jones" and "Blink" are in S3, but it also has a lot of them that I never feel inclined to rewatch, and it's about the same with S5.
I think this finale might have been the first time when the culmination and explanation of a season-long story arc got a little too complicated. The vaguely-defined idea of cracks through all of space and time isn't something you're supposed to be able to totally understand, obviously, but there were random details brought into it that almost seemed to rely too much on the "Just buy that it makes perfect sense to the Doctor and go with it" guideline. Idk, it might be easier to follow with another viewing. The details given through the whole season do hold together pretty well while building up to a few pretty cool surprises in the end. But I did wonder, if Amy's parents had been erased from existence and she couldn't even say what happened to them, why did she remember in the first episode how her mother used to cut faces into apples for her? And if the Doctor was temporarily erased from existence after the many times he's saved Earth, how was anybody still around to see Amy walk down the aisle? Unless maybe the whole world had become a temporary anomaly that would have disappeared if Amy hadn't remembered him back into existence or something...Whatever. LOL.
One thing I've especially enjoyed since the start of S5 is how much the production value has improved, and this was especially impressive in "A Christmas Carol." The design and visuals in this episode had such a cinematic and moody quality and reminded me of the look of City of Lost Children or something. If you compare it to "Rose," this series has gone from looking like some cheap kids' show that maybe could have been made in America in the 80's to something so big in scope and production it's like nothing at all that's made for television here. The show generally has more of a style than ever before. But it's not as if it's just automatically gotten better by having a bigger budget. When before the writing relied more on brilliance in simplicity, now they're free to come up with some really wildly imaginative stories that can be visually realized on a greater level. Simple episodes like "Midnight" which took place in the same small shuttle almost the whole time are great in their way, and there was nothing wrong with DW being a totally cheesy-looking show before, but it's also nice to be able to see these worlds like the setting of "The Beast Below" created with such detail.
Freaking love this...
Click to viewThat's two shows I love that apparently have episodes involving the Old West coming up. Hell. Yes.
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Oh my God, this footage from the Sherlock Holmes sequel...Why am I not the least bit surprised they'd go there? LOLOLOL. I'd say "It's like something out of fanfic" but a whole lot of the first movie you could say was almost like that anyway.