Doctor Who::3x01::Smith and Jones
I love YouTube. Seriously. I don't think there's a way to express my extreme love for it. Doctor Who premiere aired in Britain on Saturday. I watched it through YouTube from my comfy chair in Pennsylvania on SUNDAY. Yes, SUNDAY. Thank God for the Internet.
Anyway, le reaction post. With Martha. (With the cut quote stolen from the Catherine Tate/David Tennant sketch because...you know.) LJ, WTF with the malfunction? Spoilers ahoy, like woah.
First off, this episode exceeded and yet kind of met my expectations at the same time. First off, I was feeling a bit ambivalent about Martha because I was new to DW fandom, and Rose was my first companion, just like Nine was my first doctor. But she turned out to be a pretty good character. I was trying not to get preconceived notions about her, but you know how well those badly-laid plans end up working out. Anyway, Martha was very cool. She was witty and intelligent with a dysfunctional family. (Speaking in terms of similarities, she's closer to me than Rose was.)
Actually, the opening scene in the hospital kind of seemed Grey's Anatomy-esque to me, but maybe that was just me.
Apparently, there were a lot of little segues and transitions between this ep and Rose (1x01) and New Earth (2x01). There were a couple dialogue similarities, but the part that really resonated with me in terms of similarity is the end. The part when the Doctor invites Martha to go with him, the disappearing and reappearing in the same place, her running inside and running back out to walk around the TARDIS. I had just watched Rose that day too, so I especially noticed those.
The old lady was creepy. The plasmavore whose weapon was a STRAW? Ew.
The only thing that I didn't really like were the flirting bits scattered throughout. I knew that the kiss was going to be some sort of a cop-out plot device when I saw it in the trailer. It's always the "aliens-made-them-do-it" or "they-were-on-drugs" story. But when he carried Martha, and at the end, when she gave him mouth-to-mouth. Eh. I am a really big Doctor/Rose shipper, so I can't say that I was really entranced by those. (I tend to be kind of stubborn about my ships.) I'm not big on multi-shipping. Even Jack/Rose was a little ick for me.
The end really did it for me. The rest of the ep had met my expectations, but the end definitely exceeded my expectations. He laid it down on the table, about Rose and about how they were "together [in every sense of the term]," and how she wasn't going to be a replacement for her. Martha tried to flirt a little more, but the Doctor kind of shot her down.
I like Martha. She's a likable character. She's funny, curious, independent, strong--all of those things that makes a good companion. But I think that the Doctor really fell in love with Rose, truly, madly, deeply, and all that jazz, and it's hard to forget that. Especially when she's sealed off in an alternate dimension and he can't ever see her. Ever. (Except through fic.) But the little Rose bits are good, because, realistically, rebounding from such an emotional relationship would be difficult. (Whereas if Reinette had been his companion or something, I think that rebounding would have been a viable possibility.)
YAY, they're going to see Shakespeare for next week.
And I am obviously playing around with fic ideas where the TARDIS leads Martha to Rose's room, and Martha's absorption of the Doctor and his traits and previous relationships and all of that.
All in all, RTD knows how to play his fans just right, and not make fickle mistakes to turn all his previous Rose/Doctor shippers away. And I think this season of DW will go off pretty well. (I'm especially excited to see Torchwood, dark, brooding Jack.)
By the by, Never Mind the Buzzcocks could be the funniest game show in existence.
BBC, why must thou enslave me so?
Anyway, le reaction post. With Martha. (With the cut quote stolen from the Catherine Tate/David Tennant sketch because...you know.) LJ, WTF with the malfunction? Spoilers ahoy, like woah.
First off, this episode exceeded and yet kind of met my expectations at the same time. First off, I was feeling a bit ambivalent about Martha because I was new to DW fandom, and Rose was my first companion, just like Nine was my first doctor. But she turned out to be a pretty good character. I was trying not to get preconceived notions about her, but you know how well those badly-laid plans end up working out. Anyway, Martha was very cool. She was witty and intelligent with a dysfunctional family. (Speaking in terms of similarities, she's closer to me than Rose was.)
Actually, the opening scene in the hospital kind of seemed Grey's Anatomy-esque to me, but maybe that was just me.
Apparently, there were a lot of little segues and transitions between this ep and Rose (1x01) and New Earth (2x01). There were a couple dialogue similarities, but the part that really resonated with me in terms of similarity is the end. The part when the Doctor invites Martha to go with him, the disappearing and reappearing in the same place, her running inside and running back out to walk around the TARDIS. I had just watched Rose that day too, so I especially noticed those.
The old lady was creepy. The plasmavore whose weapon was a STRAW? Ew.
The only thing that I didn't really like were the flirting bits scattered throughout. I knew that the kiss was going to be some sort of a cop-out plot device when I saw it in the trailer. It's always the "aliens-made-them-do-it" or "they-were-on-drugs" story. But when he carried Martha, and at the end, when she gave him mouth-to-mouth. Eh. I am a really big Doctor/Rose shipper, so I can't say that I was really entranced by those. (I tend to be kind of stubborn about my ships.) I'm not big on multi-shipping. Even Jack/Rose was a little ick for me.
The end really did it for me. The rest of the ep had met my expectations, but the end definitely exceeded my expectations. He laid it down on the table, about Rose and about how they were "together [in every sense of the term]," and how she wasn't going to be a replacement for her. Martha tried to flirt a little more, but the Doctor kind of shot her down.
I like Martha. She's a likable character. She's funny, curious, independent, strong--all of those things that makes a good companion. But I think that the Doctor really fell in love with Rose, truly, madly, deeply, and all that jazz, and it's hard to forget that. Especially when she's sealed off in an alternate dimension and he can't ever see her. Ever. (Except through fic.) But the little Rose bits are good, because, realistically, rebounding from such an emotional relationship would be difficult. (Whereas if Reinette had been his companion or something, I think that rebounding would have been a viable possibility.)
YAY, they're going to see Shakespeare for next week.
And I am obviously playing around with fic ideas where the TARDIS leads Martha to Rose's room, and Martha's absorption of the Doctor and his traits and previous relationships and all of that.
All in all, RTD knows how to play his fans just right, and not make fickle mistakes to turn all his previous Rose/Doctor shippers away. And I think this season of DW will go off pretty well. (I'm especially excited to see Torchwood, dark, brooding Jack.)
By the by, Never Mind the Buzzcocks could be the funniest game show in existence.
BBC, why must thou enslave me so?