You know, I haven't watched it yet, but since I am not afraid of spoilers, I clicked anyway and YAY I am glad I did because OMG your post, it fills me with glee and squee without even having watched the episode YAY!
I have seriously fallen, head over heels, in love with this season. Not a little bit of reserved 'not bad' or 'liked these bits' but actual infatuation and hyper and fucking love with it so far. It just. Makes me happy.
And I'm glad you clicked and got glee from having read it!
Yay! It's awesome! I think I have a natural reaction to squee! It makes me squee, too! Yay! I'm all happy and bouncy now because you're so happy about the episode! GLEE! Glee, I tell you! And squee! Yay!
It's all about the characters - the rest is just fun window dressing and an excuse to show me more about them. For me. Obviously.
AND YES! OMG YES. I loved him having to make the decision and I loved her shoving at him and him shoving back and the talk of how he sees the universe and talk of Gallifrey and him having to make the decisions and her just. Yeah. Her wanting to go with him, because she likes him and she wants to be there and around him.
It's. She's a grown up. She didn't get swept up. She's not accidenetly there, or there by default. She WANTS to be there, and she wants to stay there and her reaction to almost being sacrificed? I had Sarah-Jane flashbacks and it was a PRETTY fucking thing. Because she's not of course, she's Donna, but just 'Oh, you've got to be kidding' and.
omg omg omg. Donna is love- so much love and adoration. She's just. Gah. The crying and the hands on his so he wasn't doing it alone, it wasn't all him, but still asking to save someone, just one person, just stop for a moment and. Love.
And seeing the universe and time what can be, what must, and what never can be. III<3
London's daughter kept making me think of this but of poem
Deep with the first dead lies London's daughter, Robed in the long friends, The grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother, Secret by the unmourning water Of the riding Thames. After the first death, there is no other.
Wow, for like the first time since new Who has come out, someone has made me think I might really enjoy some of it. And squee is normally so offputting to me.
Unrelated, mostly: in case you hadn't seen the thing he was talking about, I thought I might pass this link your way.
Well, selling it on the facts of the series is so much different than "zomg random squee", which is what I don't like. Not that you do that--I was just realizing the other day that I'd seen so much random squee that I had gotten burned out on the idea of going back and seeing Who (and Torchwood) from the beginning.
I think I've been oversold on new Whoverse canon generally. Old Who is love, but it's not perfect and anything based on it is going to have Planet of Evil in its ancestry just as much as Genesis of the Daleks. But the idea that we can get back to a lot of the things I loved about old Who (serious + crack - shippiness) made me smile. Thank you.
Yeah, I can totally, totally understand that. And, to be frank, it's so easy to get over-saturated. I know I resisted TW and Who for ages because I'd gotten sick of it, before I'd even watched it. When I did watch it I loved it, but that doesn't negate my 'yep, don't want to talk about it all the time' or ability to get fed up with the talk/babble/squee and just have to walk the hell away.
And YES. This really, also, made my husband go "...it's like Old Who." He even made hand of fear cracks at one point and it just. It's nice. And you're so very welcome.
I love the new dynamic and think that Tennant & Tate rock. Witty banter and great chemistry, fabulous special effects and great sets and costumes - yes.
Eh, I'm an old school fan. I love Pyramids of Mars. I. Don't expect the story to be plausible or accurate. In fact I prefer it to be that kind of cracked out strange.
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And I'm glad you clicked and got glee from having read it!
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*jumps around madly in a very bouncy way* ♥
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AND YES! OMG YES. I loved him having to make the decision and I loved her shoving at him and him shoving back and the talk of how he sees the universe and talk of Gallifrey and him having to make the decisions and her just. Yeah. Her wanting to go with him, because she likes him and she wants to be there and around him.
It's. She's a grown up. She didn't get swept up. She's not accidenetly there, or there by default. She WANTS to be there, and she wants to stay there and her reaction to almost being sacrificed? I had Sarah-Jane flashbacks and it was a PRETTY fucking thing. Because she's not of course, she's Donna, but just 'Oh, you've got to be kidding' and.
Yeah. Love. So. Much. Love.
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And seeing the universe and time what can be, what must, and what never can be.
III<3
London's daughter kept making me think of this but of poem
Deep with the first dead lies London's daughter,
Robed in the long friends,
The grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother,
Secret by the unmourning water
Of the riding Thames.
After the first death, there is no other.
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and right.
and OMG yes. Donna is love. So much love. I am LOVING this season so far.
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Unrelated, mostly: in case you hadn't seen the thing he was talking about, I thought I might pass this link your way.
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Wow, that sounds like something - thanks for the link.
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I think I've been oversold on new Whoverse canon generally. Old Who is love, but it's not perfect and anything based on it is going to have Planet of Evil in its ancestry just as much as Genesis of the Daleks. But the idea that we can get back to a lot of the things I loved about old Who (serious + crack - shippiness) made me smile. Thank you.
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And YES. This really, also, made my husband go "...it's like Old Who." He even made hand of fear cracks at one point and it just. It's nice. And you're so very welcome.
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It's story that's letting them down in my book.
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