Braindump

[ionlylurkhere]

Things I was tempted to spam you about in the last week or so, all in one handy post.

1. I know it's deeply tedious to LJ about having trouble getting onto LJ, but the servers are significantly less robust since the move, y/y?
   
2. I liked the remake of Terry Nation's One Other Good Idea Survivors, myself.

Comments

[neadods]

I have always hated Nine's inability to take the tough choice, which is pretty much his defining character trait

I loved that. It was such a refreshing change from the Doctor always knowing what he was up to, always having a plan up his sleeve, and always being right. Having lost all of that was an excellent indicator of just how badly he'd been damaged by the Time War and his isolation.

And frankly, I wish they'd kept a little of that rather than having Ten be both completely convinced of his own superiority and never, EVER dealing with the consequences of his own actions, even when the consequences of his own actions are Very Very Bad for himself and the people around him. (He has only himself and Rose to blame for everything Torchwood did, up to and including Rose's exile to another universe. He encouraged her to treat Queen Victoria poorly and so did he - and a century later, by george, she found a way to make her exile from Britain stick, at least for one of them