Score!
I finally found the solution to my crappy local video store problem in that I cannot find any movies over five years old. It occurred to me that the University Library has DVDs. Hah! So I’ve got a copy of Cry Freedom which should keep me good tonight.
I’ve been watching a lot of Penelope Wilton movies lately because, 1. she rules, and 2. in some fandom therapy. Two weeks after having seen The Christmas Invasion I’m still devastated by what happened to Harriet Jones. She’s my favourite character, she is twenty-five different kinds of awesome and I would have probably made the same decision if I was in her shoes.
I know that what she did was morally reprehensible, but for a start she was right in that The Doctor is not around all the time and it was by sheer luck that The Doctor woke up on time to save the Earth and he didn’t wake up in time to save the lives of two people. With The Doctor being unreliable, humanity has to defend itself and a bloody great big Death Ray is one way to do so. Also, she was entitled to make that decision and not him. The Doctor may be Earth’s self-appointed champion and all that, but she is the democratically elected Prime Minister, if anyone is going to decide how humanity will face the universe it should be her and not The Doctor. By deciding to be rid of her for disagreeing with him (and screw up history in the process) The Doctor is acting like a paternalistic, self-righteous jerk with a god-complex and no respect for the self-determination of a species. And The Doctor totally put her up to it with all that talk of humanity being noticed. Of course she wasn’t going to just shrug that off and decide it’s all good, especially not a person who has witnessed and survived two hostile alien invasions and who has the future security of the planet on her mind.
Really, the better way to do it was have the Sycorax ship blow-up, the Doctor call her a murderer and leave it with the two disagreeing about the matter and him walking away and the audience being left to make their own decision about who to side with. Or have her career in jeopardy because of her actions in shooting down the ship rather than a rumour spread in revenge.
In that vein I watched Match Point yesterday. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is bloody creepy, even creepier than Jude Law. I don’t think it’s the role either because I thought he was pretty creepy in Bend It Like Beckham. Also, Scarlett Johansson kindof bugs me.
I also caught North Country and I really want Niki Caro to direct Half-Blood Prince. She's the director/screenplay writer behind Whale Rider so she has some experience when it comes to tales of destiny and angst.
I’ve been watching a lot of Penelope Wilton movies lately because, 1. she rules, and 2. in some fandom therapy. Two weeks after having seen The Christmas Invasion I’m still devastated by what happened to Harriet Jones. She’s my favourite character, she is twenty-five different kinds of awesome and I would have probably made the same decision if I was in her shoes.
I know that what she did was morally reprehensible, but for a start she was right in that The Doctor is not around all the time and it was by sheer luck that The Doctor woke up on time to save the Earth and he didn’t wake up in time to save the lives of two people. With The Doctor being unreliable, humanity has to defend itself and a bloody great big Death Ray is one way to do so. Also, she was entitled to make that decision and not him. The Doctor may be Earth’s self-appointed champion and all that, but she is the democratically elected Prime Minister, if anyone is going to decide how humanity will face the universe it should be her and not The Doctor. By deciding to be rid of her for disagreeing with him (and screw up history in the process) The Doctor is acting like a paternalistic, self-righteous jerk with a god-complex and no respect for the self-determination of a species. And The Doctor totally put her up to it with all that talk of humanity being noticed. Of course she wasn’t going to just shrug that off and decide it’s all good, especially not a person who has witnessed and survived two hostile alien invasions and who has the future security of the planet on her mind.
Really, the better way to do it was have the Sycorax ship blow-up, the Doctor call her a murderer and leave it with the two disagreeing about the matter and him walking away and the audience being left to make their own decision about who to side with. Or have her career in jeopardy because of her actions in shooting down the ship rather than a rumour spread in revenge.
In that vein I watched Match Point yesterday. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is bloody creepy, even creepier than Jude Law. I don’t think it’s the role either because I thought he was pretty creepy in Bend It Like Beckham. Also, Scarlett Johansson kindof bugs me.
I also caught North Country and I really want Niki Caro to direct Half-Blood Prince. She's the director/screenplay writer behind Whale Rider so she has some experience when it comes to tales of destiny and angst.