ginger beer does not seem to have much of a shelf life

[vanitashaze]

Re: The Unicorn and the Wasp...

According to redscarlach, this is the first episode they filmed with Catherine Tate, and it really shows - not just the snappy dialogue typical to Doctor Who, but a lot of good physical comedy. I quite liked it, really, and LOL'd at the ginger beer commentI did have one bone of contention, though: the death of Roger, which

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[futuresoon]

Well, there was that pair of old ladies in Gridlock. And...have there actually been any non-regular gay couples in the Whoniverse, besides them? Unless we're counting Tosh and Mary, I suppose, but Mary's inevitable demise was less "because she's gay" and more "because she's sleeping with a regular", which is honestly more the kiss of death than anything else. Perhaps literally.

For other shows--House once had a pair of lesbians on it, and they both survived, though the state of their relationship was a little up in the air.

*is now running through every New Who episode she can think of in her head, because she is bored and wants to prove some point or another* Lessee, Algy and Jack in The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances...and then, you know, I don't think there were any others. But! I also scanned for straight couples, and, whups, they don't seem to have a very high survival rate either: the married couple in Rose, and then there weren't any couples until Algy and Jack--except, wait, Pete and Jackie in Father's Day--and then the guy and the Indian girl in Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways, of course there's Reinette, the other two members of LINDA who hook up and both die in Love and Monsters (although, fair's fair, the main couple does survive...mostly), the two members of Torchwood London in Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, Donna and whatsisface in Runaway Bride...okay, then we get the old ladies in Gridlock as survivors, and Tallulah and Laszlo, but then we move onto The Lazarus Experiment where Lazarus kills his old lady girlfriend, and the married couple in 42, then the Doctor breaks up with Joan, and then Sally Sparrow and whatsisface manage to survive, but Lucy kills the Master, and there's the couple in Voyage of the Damned. My god, I've spent far too much time thinking about this. *goes to do something far more sensible, like read the rest of the internets*

[vanitashaze]

Revised thesis[ 1], then: couples don't have much of a shelf life in dramallama-shows.

...And have I ever told you how much I love that icon? Because, um, yeah. Reminds me of our production of B&tB.

[ 1] There is far too much social activism going around lately. It's like, let's hang Obama signs, flamethrow the Capital, criticize television shows! And so forth.

[futuresoon]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a television show in possession of a couple must be in want of a death scene. *nods*

(I love that icon too, but I can never remember where I actually got it from...I suspect it is just One of Those Things.)