a crack pipe by any other name would smell just as sweet.
Oh, SHOW. My thoughts totally aren't any more coherent today but I'm not falling over in a pile of drunken giggling invective, so that's something.
Now I'm more like this sort of giggling mess.
-I hope Lucy lived. I thought she was pretty awesome. She probably died and will never be mentioned again though. Sigh.
-Hi, Master. I hear you eat hobos now. How nice. The crazy guy that came into my office Thursday and started threatening us with violence so we had to call security acted a bit like you're acting. So that'll be a fun thought if the crazy guy ever comes back.
-So basically Minnie the Arse-Groping Menace and the Bridge Club of Awesome are my new favorite people. I'm pretty sure they all get on the senior bus and tell their families they're going to the pub and go wreak havoc around town, chuck stones at kids, and nobody ever says anything because they look old and harmless. Minnie probably has outrageous drama. Also Ten: "LOL! I just married and banged Queen Elizabeth, isn't that-- OHMYGAWD THIS WOMAN IS GRABBING MY BUM WHAT IS THIS, WILF I BLAME YOU."
-The coffeeshop scene with the Doctor and Wilf. Loved it. When I was watching it, though, all I could think was that this scene is fic. It's really something any of us could or would write- just a quiet moment of dialogue between two characters, looking at where they are emotionally and why. This sort of thing is often left for people like us to write, because it slows down the action too much in a show or movie, but I'm really glad it was included. I'm glad that Wilf could look at the Doctor and recognize all the struggles he's going through, and say "You need Donna."
-However, I don't know what to say about how Ten views regeneration. Presumably if that's really how it is, all the other Doctors know and have felt that too. And they still walked fairly bravely and certainly into their deaths (which the exception of Seven, who sauntered out of the TARDIS and got gunned down by Asian gangsters with machine guns. But you can't win 'em all.) And if he really feels like a completely different person than the one that died each regeneration, that's kind of a slap in the face to all the companions that were there before and after and sometimes responsible for keeping the friendship going. Humph.
-Ninaninanina! I love her. I love her as a cactus or anything else she may turn out to be in any other show, see how I'm totally not spoiling anybody who NEEDS TO GO WATCH BEING HUMAN RIGHT NOW IF THEY HAVEN'T ALREADY, OKAY?
-Also it is kind of cool how the aliens aren't SUPER EVIL VILLAINS.
-The slashtastic scene with the Doctor and Master foreheading it up gave me a lot of sympathy for the Master. *cue Rolling Stones to start playing here... pause for irony at "Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste..."* He's had this thing in his head for so long and everyone thinks it's just him, being crazy. And finally, finally, the Doctor admits that it's really there. I honestly nearly started crying, at that.
You know my chronic migraines? I've been there, feeling this thing in my head and having one doctor after another look at me like I'm just a problem that doesn't have a fix because whatever I'm talking about is just in my head; that I'm just looking for drugs; that it's just me, being crazy or being female. And all the time I want to shout that no, something is causing this, there has to be a reason I feel like this all the time, even when I'm secretly afraid that maybe it is just me being crazy, or too sensitive, or maybe everyone feels this and I'm such a bitch that I have to complain about it, or that I'm lazy and looking for excuses to sleep so much and not get enough done and try to do anything to distract me from the throbbing aching fog in my head that keeps beating me down, all the time.
(Of course, presumably post-JE Donna has been dealing with lots of headaches and blank spots in her memory where people and conversations should be, and a lot of disappointment she doesn't know what to do with. That is pretty much exactly what I'm living with all the time. I have more than a bit of sympathy to go around in this ep.)
Yeah, Master: the relief, despair, anger you have there at someone acknowledging your drumbeats at last? I get it.
-The Joshua dude and his daughter. Ummmmm. I feel like they're the creepy sort of fundamentalists that go to Purity Balls and it turns out that Daddy's the monster in the closet at night. Eeep.
-DONNADONNADONNA. I'm glad she is getting back her memories and hope that she doesn't promptly die next week. ALSO SYLVIA HAS GOTTEN WHAT WAS COMING TO HER AND IT IS REDONKULOUS. (I guess Donna didn't change because she's still a bit of Time Lord despite everything?)
-I swear we've seen this MacGuffin plot before. In The Empty Child/Doctor Dances there was a cell-repairing medical device that took an imprint from a damaged person and then fulfilled its programming to inflict that imprint on every human. Now we have a cell-repairing medical device that takes an imprint off a very damaged person and converts that program on every human. Nanobots, Stargate, whatever.
-The Time Lords are back and douchetastic. I thought RTD said he wasn't bringing them back because he didn't like them. I thought he also said he didn't like the Master, though, and here he is sucking his dick, so I guess whatever?
-LOOK DRUNK!SHELDON IS COMMENTING ON THE EPISODE OVER AT sheldon_penny . YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO SEE THIS.
Right then. Back to work and fic-writing. (How on earth am I going to work in my Donna/Gene fic with all of this, I wonder?)
Now I'm more like this sort of giggling mess.
-I hope Lucy lived. I thought she was pretty awesome. She probably died and will never be mentioned again though. Sigh.
-Hi, Master. I hear you eat hobos now. How nice. The crazy guy that came into my office Thursday and started threatening us with violence so we had to call security acted a bit like you're acting. So that'll be a fun thought if the crazy guy ever comes back.
-So basically Minnie the Arse-Groping Menace and the Bridge Club of Awesome are my new favorite people. I'm pretty sure they all get on the senior bus and tell their families they're going to the pub and go wreak havoc around town, chuck stones at kids, and nobody ever says anything because they look old and harmless. Minnie probably has outrageous drama. Also Ten: "LOL! I just married and banged Queen Elizabeth, isn't that-- OHMYGAWD THIS WOMAN IS GRABBING MY BUM WHAT IS THIS, WILF I BLAME YOU."
-The coffeeshop scene with the Doctor and Wilf. Loved it. When I was watching it, though, all I could think was that this scene is fic. It's really something any of us could or would write- just a quiet moment of dialogue between two characters, looking at where they are emotionally and why. This sort of thing is often left for people like us to write, because it slows down the action too much in a show or movie, but I'm really glad it was included. I'm glad that Wilf could look at the Doctor and recognize all the struggles he's going through, and say "You need Donna."
-However, I don't know what to say about how Ten views regeneration. Presumably if that's really how it is, all the other Doctors know and have felt that too. And they still walked fairly bravely and certainly into their deaths (which the exception of Seven, who sauntered out of the TARDIS and got gunned down by Asian gangsters with machine guns. But you can't win 'em all.) And if he really feels like a completely different person than the one that died each regeneration, that's kind of a slap in the face to all the companions that were there before and after and sometimes responsible for keeping the friendship going. Humph.
-Ninaninanina! I love her. I love her as a cactus or anything else she may turn out to be in any other show, see how I'm totally not spoiling anybody who NEEDS TO GO WATCH BEING HUMAN RIGHT NOW IF THEY HAVEN'T ALREADY, OKAY?
-Also it is kind of cool how the aliens aren't SUPER EVIL VILLAINS.
-The slashtastic scene with the Doctor and Master foreheading it up gave me a lot of sympathy for the Master. *cue Rolling Stones to start playing here... pause for irony at "Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste..."* He's had this thing in his head for so long and everyone thinks it's just him, being crazy. And finally, finally, the Doctor admits that it's really there. I honestly nearly started crying, at that.
You know my chronic migraines? I've been there, feeling this thing in my head and having one doctor after another look at me like I'm just a problem that doesn't have a fix because whatever I'm talking about is just in my head; that I'm just looking for drugs; that it's just me, being crazy or being female. And all the time I want to shout that no, something is causing this, there has to be a reason I feel like this all the time, even when I'm secretly afraid that maybe it is just me being crazy, or too sensitive, or maybe everyone feels this and I'm such a bitch that I have to complain about it, or that I'm lazy and looking for excuses to sleep so much and not get enough done and try to do anything to distract me from the throbbing aching fog in my head that keeps beating me down, all the time.
(Of course, presumably post-JE Donna has been dealing with lots of headaches and blank spots in her memory where people and conversations should be, and a lot of disappointment she doesn't know what to do with. That is pretty much exactly what I'm living with all the time. I have more than a bit of sympathy to go around in this ep.)
Yeah, Master: the relief, despair, anger you have there at someone acknowledging your drumbeats at last? I get it.
-The Joshua dude and his daughter. Ummmmm. I feel like they're the creepy sort of fundamentalists that go to Purity Balls and it turns out that Daddy's the monster in the closet at night. Eeep.
-DONNADONNADONNA. I'm glad she is getting back her memories and hope that she doesn't promptly die next week. ALSO SYLVIA HAS GOTTEN WHAT WAS COMING TO HER AND IT IS REDONKULOUS. (I guess Donna didn't change because she's still a bit of Time Lord despite everything?)
-I swear we've seen this MacGuffin plot before. In The Empty Child/Doctor Dances there was a cell-repairing medical device that took an imprint from a damaged person and then fulfilled its programming to inflict that imprint on every human. Now we have a cell-repairing medical device that takes an imprint off a very damaged person and converts that program on every human. Nanobots, Stargate, whatever.
-The Time Lords are back and douchetastic. I thought RTD said he wasn't bringing them back because he didn't like them. I thought he also said he didn't like the Master, though, and here he is sucking his dick, so I guess whatever?
-LOOK DRUNK!SHELDON IS COMMENTING ON THE EPISODE OVER AT sheldon_penny . YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO SEE THIS.
Right then. Back to work and fic-writing. (How on earth am I going to work in my Donna/Gene fic with all of this, I wonder?)