Doomsday...again
My mother, who is the most awesome mother ever, decided to buy me not just new clothes for work, not just a volume of C. S. Lewis religious writings, but series two of Doctor Who!
The list price is $100, which was way out of my price range, but I got a Borders 30% coupon in my e-mail...which still left it out of my price range. However, my mum decided to be just plain amazing, and she bought it. I'm paying her back for part of it, out of my $30 paycheck on Friday, but still, she's just lovely and amazing.
Julia and I had first watched "The Christmas Invasion" on a crappy Chinese YouTube type site, and it took about two hours to load, and then we watched "New Earth" on Veoh. But on Friday, after coming home at like 10:30, we plopped down and watched three episodes, I think we watched six episodes yesterday, and then the last disc today.
And I bawled like a little girl at the end of the series. I first started crying during the open narration of "Army of Ghosts," but then I was alright until about the last twenty minutes of "Doomsday." And then it just degenerating into flat-out hysterical sobbing.
And yes, I realize that I am, in fact, crying over a cheesy British sci-fi show. But I think there's really so much more to it than that. Billie Piper, Christopher Eccleston, and David Tennant made it into something beyond just a silly program about time travel. Catherine Tate is doing it right now, and yes, I suppose Freema Agyeman did the same last season. It's not that I don't think she's a good actress. It's more that I want to throw a toaster at Martha's head sometimes.
Anyway, I think it's pretty clear the Who team are behind the idea that the story of Rose and the Doctor is, in fact, a romance. It's not the focal point, but it's a joy to see two people reveling in each other and sharing the pure pleasure of walking hand in hand, rolling around in the grass, and making fun of silly rich people. Tennant himself has described the relationship between Rose and the Doctor as being "a love story without the shagging." Russell T. Davies has referred to Rose as the love of the Doctor's life, and he's made it pretty clear, especially in recent interviews, how much he does in fact love these two characters who have found one another. That doesn't mean things will end happily for the Doctor and Rose- what great romances do end happily?- but I hope and hope and hope that things will end properly and rightly for them. And that, perhaps, the Doctor will finish that sentence: "And, I suppose, if I've got one last chance to say it, Rose Tyler..."
Also, if we could just make River Song disappear, that would make the viewers infinitely happy. Me, anyway.
The list price is $100, which was way out of my price range, but I got a Borders 30% coupon in my e-mail...which still left it out of my price range. However, my mum decided to be just plain amazing, and she bought it. I'm paying her back for part of it, out of my $30 paycheck on Friday, but still, she's just lovely and amazing.
Julia and I had first watched "The Christmas Invasion" on a crappy Chinese YouTube type site, and it took about two hours to load, and then we watched "New Earth" on Veoh. But on Friday, after coming home at like 10:30, we plopped down and watched three episodes, I think we watched six episodes yesterday, and then the last disc today.
And I bawled like a little girl at the end of the series. I first started crying during the open narration of "Army of Ghosts," but then I was alright until about the last twenty minutes of "Doomsday." And then it just degenerating into flat-out hysterical sobbing.
And yes, I realize that I am, in fact, crying over a cheesy British sci-fi show. But I think there's really so much more to it than that. Billie Piper, Christopher Eccleston, and David Tennant made it into something beyond just a silly program about time travel. Catherine Tate is doing it right now, and yes, I suppose Freema Agyeman did the same last season. It's not that I don't think she's a good actress. It's more that I want to throw a toaster at Martha's head sometimes.
Anyway, I think it's pretty clear the Who team are behind the idea that the story of Rose and the Doctor is, in fact, a romance. It's not the focal point, but it's a joy to see two people reveling in each other and sharing the pure pleasure of walking hand in hand, rolling around in the grass, and making fun of silly rich people. Tennant himself has described the relationship between Rose and the Doctor as being "a love story without the shagging." Russell T. Davies has referred to Rose as the love of the Doctor's life, and he's made it pretty clear, especially in recent interviews, how much he does in fact love these two characters who have found one another. That doesn't mean things will end happily for the Doctor and Rose- what great romances do end happily?- but I hope and hope and hope that things will end properly and rightly for them. And that, perhaps, the Doctor will finish that sentence: "And, I suppose, if I've got one last chance to say it, Rose Tyler..."
Also, if we could just make River Song disappear, that would make the viewers infinitely happy. Me, anyway.