"That's exactly what an internet lunatic murderer would say!"
Now that my week of crazy-heavy workload is over (complete with a bonus -- a 10-page paper for that group presentation that we forgot about until it was ALMOST too late), I've decided to take it a bit easy today.
I've still got to run to the post office and mail some stuff to Paul. It's President's Day and so it's closed, but I can still drop the package off, which will make sure that it posts first thing tomorrow morning.
But to relax a little bit, I decided to do a bit of knitting and rewatch a bit of Doctor Who. I actually finished the Harebell Fichu in the middle of it, so now it's soaking to be blocked pinned and blocking, and I've turned back to the long-term Aeolian Shawl for my MIL.
Doctor Who, 1x01 "Rose" & 1x02 "The End of the World"
Oh, NINE. You had me at "RUN!" *nostalgic sigh*
One of the things that really struck me, rewatching this, was the immediate sense of the danger that the Doctor's presence brings. I think we sort of forget -- or, at least, I tend to forget -- that the Doctor tends to leave a LOT of death and destruction in his wake. He might not feel it too keenly, his companion might not feel it too keenly, but those people left behind will. (This makes the "EVERYBODY LIVES!" moment in "The Doctor Dances" all the more poignant.) But I think we tend to forget the casualties along the way in the midst of the Doctor and companion celebrating that they're still alive at the end of the show. You start off with that sense at the beginning of "Rose," with Clive, but I know that I tended to lose that sense as you get sucked into the energy and enthusiasm of the show (and of the Doctor).
And so many people get hurt along the way. This is punctuated at certain points, particularly in "Tooth and Claw," "Human Nature"/"Family of Blood," and in the more recent specials (I particularly liked Adelaide's speech along a theme very close to this in "The Waters of Mars," but saving little people versus the rush of saving important people is different, and that'll develop over time.)
Oh, another thing I noticed. I can't believe I never noticed this before, or maybe I forgot about it. That hilarious little scene with Jackie and the Doctor where she's all "there's a strange man in my bedroom and anything could happen" and he's all "um, no" -- at the end of it, once he's brushed her off, her facial expression in reaction is HILARIOUS.
There was something else I was going to point out. OH, right.
I loved the evolution in these two episodes as you learn who the Doctor is, where he's from, and why he's got so much pain inside of him. The parallel to Gallifrey at the end was especially poignant given the last two specials, and given how much of the Doctor's rosy memories of Gallifrey and the Time Lords are of his own choosing, rather than a more accurate picture.
It's always fun to see the initial introduction of characters that have grown over so long a time. Mickey is definitely a character I was happy to see again. He grew so much over the course of the show (a lot of it off-screen). I'm not sure how I feel about the whole Martha/Mickey pairing, but it basically boils down to me not understanding the timeline, because for a while there she was already engaged to some mystery person, and I was totally rooting for Tom Milligan.
I'm not against the concept of Martha/Mickey, but I don't understand how they get from meeting Journey's End when he stays in the original timeline to MARRIED. Maybe he comes in between Tom and Martha and is all like, "he was a hero in the year that wasn't, but I'm pretty awesome RIGHT NOW." I could get behind that. Bonus points for Jack Harkness being a yenta and helping the whole thing along.
(My original reaction posts are here: Rose and The End of the World.)
I've still got to run to the post office and mail some stuff to Paul. It's President's Day and so it's closed, but I can still drop the package off, which will make sure that it posts first thing tomorrow morning.
But to relax a little bit, I decided to do a bit of knitting and rewatch a bit of Doctor Who. I actually finished the Harebell Fichu in the middle of it, so now it's soaking to be blocked pinned and blocking, and I've turned back to the long-term Aeolian Shawl for my MIL.
Doctor Who, 1x01 "Rose" & 1x02 "The End of the World"
Oh, NINE. You had me at "RUN!" *nostalgic sigh*
One of the things that really struck me, rewatching this, was the immediate sense of the danger that the Doctor's presence brings. I think we sort of forget -- or, at least, I tend to forget -- that the Doctor tends to leave a LOT of death and destruction in his wake. He might not feel it too keenly, his companion might not feel it too keenly, but those people left behind will. (This makes the "EVERYBODY LIVES!" moment in "The Doctor Dances" all the more poignant.) But I think we tend to forget the casualties along the way in the midst of the Doctor and companion celebrating that they're still alive at the end of the show. You start off with that sense at the beginning of "Rose," with Clive, but I know that I tended to lose that sense as you get sucked into the energy and enthusiasm of the show (and of the Doctor).
And so many people get hurt along the way. This is punctuated at certain points, particularly in "Tooth and Claw," "Human Nature"/"Family of Blood," and in the more recent specials (I particularly liked Adelaide's speech along a theme very close to this in "The Waters of Mars," but saving little people versus the rush of saving important people is different, and that'll develop over time.)
Oh, another thing I noticed. I can't believe I never noticed this before, or maybe I forgot about it. That hilarious little scene with Jackie and the Doctor where she's all "there's a strange man in my bedroom and anything could happen" and he's all "um, no" -- at the end of it, once he's brushed her off, her facial expression in reaction is HILARIOUS.
There was something else I was going to point out. OH, right.
I loved the evolution in these two episodes as you learn who the Doctor is, where he's from, and why he's got so much pain inside of him. The parallel to Gallifrey at the end was especially poignant given the last two specials, and given how much of the Doctor's rosy memories of Gallifrey and the Time Lords are of his own choosing, rather than a more accurate picture.
It's always fun to see the initial introduction of characters that have grown over so long a time. Mickey is definitely a character I was happy to see again. He grew so much over the course of the show (a lot of it off-screen). I'm not sure how I feel about the whole Martha/Mickey pairing, but it basically boils down to me not understanding the timeline, because for a while there she was already engaged to some mystery person, and I was totally rooting for Tom Milligan.
I'm not against the concept of Martha/Mickey, but I don't understand how they get from meeting Journey's End when he stays in the original timeline to MARRIED. Maybe he comes in between Tom and Martha and is all like, "he was a hero in the year that wasn't, but I'm pretty awesome RIGHT NOW." I could get behind that. Bonus points for Jack Harkness being a yenta and helping the whole thing along.
(My original reaction posts are here: Rose and The End of the World.)