Waters of Maaaaaaaaaaaaaars
Finally settled down and watched Waters of Mars - I'd actually downloaded it when it came out, but between the big network cutover, and wanting to watch it with Torasin, hadn't had time to sit down and peep until tonight.
Awesome. But was anyone else thinking "YAY! We're back to Sylvester" ? srsly. Methinks RTD delved deep into Benny/7th conversations from the NAs for large chunks of that ending.
RTD was nicely tempered by Phil Ford and it actually came of mostly dark instead of mostly cheese, as he so often does. Of course, he'll probably blow the crapometer when it comes to End of Time. I was cringing at the "depends on how clever the water is" - IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FUCKING CLEVER IT IS, IF SOMETHING IS AIRTIGHT SEALED AND LOCKED, WATER CANNOT GET IN OR OUT, GOD DAMMIT. Not to mention most stations would hold the airtight seal by varying pressures. And um, flaming bits of stuff everywhere on the planet surface? May look pretty, but isn't Mars' atmosphere mostly carbon dioxide?
And please, the air pressure flying about dragging them all about scene? Might look pretty, but Mars is 7/10ths Earth atmosphere. You wouldn't get a pressure differential large enough to suck people sideways, god dammit. It's prone to storms, but if that were the case, the Doctor would be doing his own personal re-enactment of the Wizard of Oz
.......
...I may be a nerd.
ICE WARRIORS. FWEEE! Although Ancient Martian sounded an awful lot like Drunk Glasweigan TBH.
10th has gone batshit. Torasin remarked that at this point, by the time we hit the finale the Master is gonna be the good guy (I'm sorry, the spoiler slipped out to him a few months back). I'm not too sure he's wrong. I think that at the crux, 10th will actually welcome death. He's spiralling further and further out of control, delving into his own insanity. And he knows it.
On a lighter note, bwahahaha, torasin was on the top of his game when it came to Snark this ep.
"What's the bet RTD wrote this while on the receiving end of a cumshot?"
"I'm loving the fact that this whole thing is about water and the character's name is Adelaide" (For non-Aussies, the tap water in Adelaide is rather hard, and notorious for being utter shite. Hence the insult "Your mother drinks tap water in Adelaide")
And on the scene with Andy and Tarak sprayin' like firehoses to seep through the roof: "IT'S FRANK!"
I just about fell off the fucking couch howling :D
(note for the confused: Frank was a mate who did much what those two characters did to our backyard on Hallowe'en after two bottles of red wine and a shitload of vodka on a mostly empty stomach)
Oh, and Ryttu3k? That "And so nice to see an Australian character with an actual NON-EXAGGERATED Australian accent" is Peter Fucking O'Brien. Yannow, from Blue Heelers? Underbelly? Water Rats? Flying Doctors? Pretty much every single bloody TV show we've ever produced down here? *doink*
Awesome. But was anyone else thinking "YAY! We're back to Sylvester" ? srsly. Methinks RTD delved deep into Benny/7th conversations from the NAs for large chunks of that ending.
RTD was nicely tempered by Phil Ford and it actually came of mostly dark instead of mostly cheese, as he so often does. Of course, he'll probably blow the crapometer when it comes to End of Time. I was cringing at the "depends on how clever the water is" - IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FUCKING CLEVER IT IS, IF SOMETHING IS AIRTIGHT SEALED AND LOCKED, WATER CANNOT GET IN OR OUT, GOD DAMMIT. Not to mention most stations would hold the airtight seal by varying pressures. And um, flaming bits of stuff everywhere on the planet surface? May look pretty, but isn't Mars' atmosphere mostly carbon dioxide?
And please, the air pressure flying about dragging them all about scene? Might look pretty, but Mars is 7/10ths Earth atmosphere. You wouldn't get a pressure differential large enough to suck people sideways, god dammit. It's prone to storms, but if that were the case, the Doctor would be doing his own personal re-enactment of the Wizard of Oz
.......
...I may be a nerd.
ICE WARRIORS. FWEEE! Although Ancient Martian sounded an awful lot like Drunk Glasweigan TBH.
10th has gone batshit. Torasin remarked that at this point, by the time we hit the finale the Master is gonna be the good guy (I'm sorry, the spoiler slipped out to him a few months back). I'm not too sure he's wrong. I think that at the crux, 10th will actually welcome death. He's spiralling further and further out of control, delving into his own insanity. And he knows it.
On a lighter note, bwahahaha, torasin was on the top of his game when it came to Snark this ep.
"What's the bet RTD wrote this while on the receiving end of a cumshot?"
"I'm loving the fact that this whole thing is about water and the character's name is Adelaide" (For non-Aussies, the tap water in Adelaide is rather hard, and notorious for being utter shite. Hence the insult "Your mother drinks tap water in Adelaide")
And on the scene with Andy and Tarak sprayin' like firehoses to seep through the roof: "IT'S FRANK!"
I just about fell off the fucking couch howling :D
(note for the confused: Frank was a mate who did much what those two characters did to our backyard on Hallowe'en after two bottles of red wine and a shitload of vodka on a mostly empty stomach)
Oh, and Ryttu3k? That "And so nice to see an Australian character with an actual NON-EXAGGERATED Australian accent" is Peter Fucking O'Brien. Yannow, from Blue Heelers? Underbelly? Water Rats? Flying Doctors? Pretty much every single bloody TV show we've ever produced down here? *doink*