And there was that
There seems to have been a theme to my Saturday viewing material.
First of all, Doctor Who:
Creepy, and an interesting character piece for both the new Doctor and Clara, as well as Danny.
Honestly, I'm liking Clara so much more this season. Maybe it's because I feel like she has better chemistry with Capaldi than she did with Matt Smith. I do think they have a very different dynamic than the one she and Smith had, which I never felt really gelled.
I also am loving Danny, and Clara's relationship with him. They really are a couple of awkward people with weird spots, and they just have to get through it.
The episode itself was creepy and surreal, and surprising. I liked seeing this side of the Doctor that really is a pretty dominant part of him, whether it's shown in a playful (10 was always up for this) or slightly more bald-face about it like 12 is turning out to be: that he has to look. That he has to KNOW. Even if it could kill him to do either of those things.
I loved the play on the shortest horror story. ("The last man on earth sat in his house. There was a knock at the door.") I do want to know what the Doctor saw--and I half-suspected that most of what happened in the episode was his dream. Actually, how much was the TARDIS directing things deliberately, to get Clara to help the Doctor? From the point at which she "interfaced" with the TARDIS, I'm wondering how much actually happened in reality.
Will require definite re-watches.
I feel as if Clara doesn't remember everything that's happened to/around her still, and I never know what she does and doesn't know. I need a flowchart.
Also on Saturday, watched a movie called Mr. Jones, which started out as a standard couple-in-peril horror, and then kind of went sideways. I don't want to give anything away, but it's an interesting use of the found footage conceit (and prettier than most), with the idea being a documentarian and his wife (a photographer in her own right) move out to the country for him to ostensibly work on a nature film. After a not quite promising start, they find they have a neighbor who turns out to create odd and infamous sculptures.
On Sunday, there was another movie, Case 39, which was definitely a higher budget with a number of A-listers and recognizable faces (Renee Zellweger, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, and Adrian Lester, off the top of my head). It was a decent horror movie (as noted in one of the extras, it's sort of The Bad Seed meets The Exorcist), but there are a number of "But...why would they just BELIEVE that?" and "Wait, wouldn't you ask X question, if someone said that to you?" moments. Not so much people being stupid as people reacting in a different way to how I would expect people t normally act to serve the plot.
I will say the little girl, Jodelle Ferland, was frighteningly (pardon the expression) good in the role, and also extremely familiar. IMDB informs me she was not only the daughter in Silent Hill she was also Patience Buckner in The Cabin in the Woods. She also had guest spots in so much fannish television (SPN, SGA, SG1, Smallville, etc.), I'd have been ashamed to not find her familiar.
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Baseball was less fun than normal this weekend, but the Mariners are still in contention for a Wild Card spot in the AL, and the As, KC, AND Detroit aren't playing that consistently either, and we're all neck-and-neck (Tigers took the lead in their Division, but they're not ahead by that much). It's one of the few season where it really is anyone's to lose or win. Which is exciting, but since the Ms play every day for the next two weeks, it's a little exhausting, too. (More so for them than me, I realize.)
Still, Go Mariners!
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First of all, Doctor Who:
Creepy, and an interesting character piece for both the new Doctor and Clara, as well as Danny.
Honestly, I'm liking Clara so much more this season. Maybe it's because I feel like she has better chemistry with Capaldi than she did with Matt Smith. I do think they have a very different dynamic than the one she and Smith had, which I never felt really gelled.
I also am loving Danny, and Clara's relationship with him. They really are a couple of awkward people with weird spots, and they just have to get through it.
The episode itself was creepy and surreal, and surprising. I liked seeing this side of the Doctor that really is a pretty dominant part of him, whether it's shown in a playful (10 was always up for this) or slightly more bald-face about it like 12 is turning out to be: that he has to look. That he has to KNOW. Even if it could kill him to do either of those things.
I loved the play on the shortest horror story. ("The last man on earth sat in his house. There was a knock at the door.") I do want to know what the Doctor saw--and I half-suspected that most of what happened in the episode was his dream. Actually, how much was the TARDIS directing things deliberately, to get Clara to help the Doctor? From the point at which she "interfaced" with the TARDIS, I'm wondering how much actually happened in reality.
Will require definite re-watches.
I feel as if Clara doesn't remember everything that's happened to/around her still, and I never know what she does and doesn't know. I need a flowchart.
Also on Saturday, watched a movie called Mr. Jones, which started out as a standard couple-in-peril horror, and then kind of went sideways. I don't want to give anything away, but it's an interesting use of the found footage conceit (and prettier than most), with the idea being a documentarian and his wife (a photographer in her own right) move out to the country for him to ostensibly work on a nature film. After a not quite promising start, they find they have a neighbor who turns out to create odd and infamous sculptures.
On Sunday, there was another movie, Case 39, which was definitely a higher budget with a number of A-listers and recognizable faces (Renee Zellweger, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, and Adrian Lester, off the top of my head). It was a decent horror movie (as noted in one of the extras, it's sort of The Bad Seed meets The Exorcist), but there are a number of "But...why would they just BELIEVE that?" and "Wait, wouldn't you ask X question, if someone said that to you?" moments. Not so much people being stupid as people reacting in a different way to how I would expect people t normally act to serve the plot.
I will say the little girl, Jodelle Ferland, was frighteningly (pardon the expression) good in the role, and also extremely familiar. IMDB informs me she was not only the daughter in Silent Hill she was also Patience Buckner in The Cabin in the Woods. She also had guest spots in so much fannish television (SPN, SGA, SG1, Smallville, etc.), I'd have been ashamed to not find her familiar.
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Baseball was less fun than normal this weekend, but the Mariners are still in contention for a Wild Card spot in the AL, and the As, KC, AND Detroit aren't playing that consistently either, and we're all neck-and-neck (Tigers took the lead in their Division, but they're not ahead by that much). It's one of the few season where it really is anyone's to lose or win. Which is exciting, but since the Ms play every day for the next two weeks, it's a little exhausting, too. (More so for them than me, I realize.)
Still, Go Mariners!
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