The Strange and the Charm: Some of the Quirks (and Quarks) I Loved in "The Sound of Drums"

[researchgrrrl]

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[jaydeyn_sitari]

I ♥ your brain. Seriously. That's the perfect and most sexass analogy for those three ever. Beautiful. :)

Me? I was all squee and Hey! That voice is familiar! Reporter chick = Harriet Jones, y/n? Little balls of bad = Gelth y/n?

Also? The order I saw the Master in (I'm not counting Crispy!Master and Eric Thompson here) Anthony Ainley -> Roger Delgado -> John Simm? I'm doomed.. please send help. :)

:)
Jaydeyn

[mireille719]

Reporter chick = Harriet Jones, y/n?

N. Definitely not Penelope Wilton. Can't remember who, but it was not her.

Little balls of bad = Gelth y/n?

Y. One of the voice actors was the one who did the Gelth.

[jaydeyn_sitari]

Oh yeah, there's an idea... *looks at cast list* Oh bother, it's Nichola McAuliffe according to that. Bugger. She just... it could've been her in disguise! A wig, some prosthetics/cool alien tech. Darn. I loved that theory.

And thanks, I thought that the girly voice was familiar. Hurrah! I bet the balls of bad aren't actually the Gelth though.

Hee! Loved this so much..

:)
Jaydeyn

[mireille719]

Considering that RTD got rather disgruntled when people thought there might be some connection between Gwyneth ("The Unquiet Dead") and Torchwood's Gwen (you know, because they're played by the same actress, have similar names, and live/work on the Rift in Cardiff--SILLY reasons like that), it's probably just, "oh, she does good voice work, use her again."

But it would be so awesome if that were not the case.

[dotfic]

You had me until "half-integer spin" *g*

Seriously, though, your meta here pretty much hits the nail on the head of why I'm squeeing over all this.

Cannot meta, though. All day my brain's been stuck with MASTER BAD, JOHN AND DAVID AND JOHN PRETTY.

[researchgrrrl]

I honestly didn't know I had any meta lurking under the surface about this. This started out as a handful of thoughts on the episode that suddenly blorped out into the random-ass metaphor. (Of course, I just wrote a scene with what may now be my new favorite punchline in one of my stories EVER based on these thoughts and, like, I'm probably going to be the only one giggling her ass off again and again during it. I am ridiculously fine with that, though.)

Master is the best kind of bad. He's terrifying and hilarious and perfectly matched with the Doctor. Meanwhile, John and David and John are all inhumanly pretty. (I also think Freema's a babe and I plan to do some more squeeing about her character next week.) This show is so much fun because it's such fantastic character-driven crack.

[mireille719]

Seriously, I am willing to accept that the people who say the plot is not the most sensible one ever may have a point, but... who cares? The character stuff is what's so fantabulous here.

And yes to all the Master-Doctor-Jack bits here, except, you know, without the physics stuff. *g*

Let's see, all possible pairings are canonically endorsed by the show and I endorse the show for that.

Definitely. Because you could tell me that the next episode featured a Lucy Saxon/Master/Doctor/Martha/Jack/random-people-passing-by-in-the-hallway orgy, and the *only* reason I would find that implausible is that it's going out at 7:05 PM on a Saturday.

[researchgrrrl]

Oh, I am so completely not riding this ride for the plot. This was all about the characterizations. I meant to rattle on about Martha a bit, but what the hell. I expect to be cheering insanely for and about her next week.

I'm loving the way this show has forced me to shift gears on how I look at the characters. In SPN, it's been all about the myths and the monsters to frame the Winchesters. Now I get frame things in terms of astrophysics and p-chem. And now that I'm not actually doing chemistry stuff? It's actually FUN to do. I love getting to learn more about the Doctor through the bizarre, fucked-up relationships he has. I also love that we get textual slash and subtextual smut on the screen. (Seriously? I would be so down with some Master/Lucy porn written from her POV because that is some gloriously twisted fun just beneath the surface.)

a Lucy Saxon/Master/Doctor/Martha/Jack/random-people-passing-by-in-the-hallway orgySee, I needed a show like this. I can't do that "squint-and-you-see-it" stuff or even coy writing

[sparks_for_sale]

Seriously? I would be so down with some Master/Lucy porn written from her POV because that is some gloriously twisted fun just beneath the surface.

here's a really good one. (I should warn that it's NSFW, but porn usually is.)

p.s. hi! I don't think I've commented here before -- I came for the SPN, mainly, but DW is currently my greatest love. (and as a physics major, I understand and completely love your Doctor/Jack/Master analogy!)

[researchgrrrl]

Well, hi! Great to meet you and not just because you bring Master/Lucy pr0n. (I just left fb. That was great fun.) SPN's totally the fandom of my heart, but DW seems to have called dibs on a few other body parts

[eccentricpirate]

I don't completely understand the quantum stuff, but it makes me happy anyways. The song was called Voodoo Child by Rogue Traders.
I pretty much agree with everything you said in this post, though I think you forgot how awesome it is that the Doctor is just like "hey, let's take apart all the electronics and make some awesome gadget out of the compiled remenants of all of them".
'scuse me I think I have to go watch the world end again, because it really was an awesome moment, especially with the Master's companion.

[researchgrrrl]

I knew it was some Europop song but I didn't know the artist. That was the perfect song for that scene. Just too fun.

And you're right about how awesome the Doctor is for being the ultimate geek, what with being able to salvage any random twiddly bits and turn them into totally badass tools that are such fabulously low-budget props. I mean, seriously. Three keys dangling from lengths of twine. That's my kind of science right there, yo. :D

Lucy was fantastic. She was running on pure lust around him. (What the hell kind of pheromones do those Time Lords put out, anyway?) I loved her crazy-cuddly-quivering little happy dance. She was just perfect as a companion for an evil Time Lord because you could see how exactly she mirrored the other companions.

[out_there]

I knew it was some Europop song but I didn't know the artist

Technically, it's AustralianPop. It was a big hit over here (a year back? Maybe two?) so I was thrilled by the pure APPROPRIATENESS of it starting up with "And here it comes, the sound of drums..."

Plus, it's a fantastic song. So danceable. And has been playing on repeat on my work computer all morning. *bops away*

As for the rest of your entry, I agree completely. Apart from the quantum stuff, which kinda lost me.

[jaydeyn_sitari]

Here come the drums

Just, you know, in case anyone wanted seven versions of the song.

Yay Rogue Traders! :)

:)
Jaydeyn

[researchgrrrl]

AWESOME. Thank you! *ganks the music to end the world by*

[jaydeyn_sitari]

Hee! Free for all...

And OMG (watching again) the US Pres is such a Bushan Asshat. *g* Ooh, red lined cloack... nice job.

:D
Jaydeyn

[researchgrrrl]

After dling the file (thank you again!), I discovered I had an eighth version of the song on my computer already. It was apparently from a SPN mix I'd tried awhile back. You want it? Because, you know, seven versions might not be enough. :D