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Doctor Who, new episode.

-Rose looks so pretty with that hat! She's still my tv girlfriend, you know. Has been since episode 6.

-My ship is the ship that is The Ship.

-first date! ...Oh my god. I thought they were going to back OFF from the shippyness for a bit, but instead they're running full-tilt into it! And I'm loving it! My ship is the ship that is The Ship!

-new new doctor. oh love.

-"At last I can be revenged on that little----""----I don't like hospitals they give me the creeps." WHAT? DID MY VIDEO JUST SKIP?! NO! HOW IS CASSANDRA ALIVE?!


[[....okay, having my computer spontaneously turn off for half an hour tends to drop my squee levels a bit]]

...wow, Rose's voice sounds so...Cassandra! Go Billie Piper.

GLASSES! ::has XFiles flashback:: GLASSES! Someone out there loves me.


Wow, that's quite a kiss. And just when I thought he was gonna be a dumbfounded puppy look, he pops out with a deadpan "Yep, still got it."

And THAT sent me giggling like nothing else. Of all the possibly speculated replies to such an action, "Yep, still got it," would never have occurred to me. But it's perfect. Perfectly hilarious.

"Search the sub-frames." Aaaaaand just like that, the Doctor knows it's not all Rose inside. Wonder how he'll play it?

Woah. All these pods look like the end of Kakurenbo. Weird.

The way Billie Piper's just hanging out behind the Doctor being all Cassandra-y.... awesomeness. And funny.


"I'm the Doctor, and if you want a higher authority, there isn't one. It stops with me." Whoa, god complex much. I don't remember Nine being this assertive about his "I pwn joo" attitude.

"Wake up and smell the perfume." Piper's acting is just spot on with her voice.


"Give her back to me." Ship. Just sayin'.


"All these parts..." ::sporfle:: I love David Tennant.


This back and forth is great. But... who was it who has hormone-city? Was that Rose's body or the Doctor's?


Pass it on? Okay...what? And...um.... you can't just make a mix stew of medicine.... OH I DON'T CARE I LOVE THIS SHOW. IT'S MAGIC FUTURE DOCTOR SCIENCE AND I DON'T NEED TO UNDERSTAND IT. ...also, I'm happy he's being Doctory again instead of scary.


...interesting ending. I like the idea that Cassandra was a little more compassionate in her earliest life, before time wrecked everything good in her.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

City of Death is one of the ones I've downloaded but not yet seen.


You should check out some of the fan bitching about the First Doctor and his granddaughter, Susan. I guess some people were uncomfortable with Susan being his granddaughter, since that implies he would've had sex at some point in his life. It's asinine, really. How do they think Time Lords are made? An intergalactic stork drops them off on Gallifrey? ::pffft::

I've read stuff about that. Apparently the books have a long-running book-canon that has the doctors being born asexually through some kind of genetic selection process called Looms. I haven't really been interested enough to read them--- in tv canon there's no mention of that, and there's three major things that point to the fact that the doctor is not asexual: 1) his granddaughter, 2) the 1996 movie where the Doctor said his mother was human, 3) the episode The Doctor Dances (title says it loud and clear) and numerous other 2005-2006 series references to sexuality.

I think the kids-show aspects of the older series means that there was just no real need for a love interest, and perpetual lack of love-interest meant audiences thinking the doctor doesn't "dance", so to speak.

The Fifth is your favorite? Which eps should I start with for him?


Thanks for the summary, btw.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

* which is not to say Rose is a love interest per se, because she's not really in the sense that we usually assume someone means when they say "love interest"

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

2) the 1996 movie where the Doctor said his mother was human,

That one is also controversial. Apparently, there's an episode where he reunited with his mother - something with the Fourth Doctor, because it was referenced in "Castrovalva" when the newly regenerated Fifth - his mind scrambled the way Ten's was after his regeneration - asked Adric where his mother was. I want to hunt down the serial prior, to see exactly what happened. Considering Adric mentioned the Doctor had said goodbye to her at the Gateway, I assumed she was a Time Lord. I've no earthly idea what that was about, and I can't find any mention of it in the synopses for the Baker eps I've looked at so far.

Relatedly, I read in a few places there's a theory that Rose is the Doctor's mother. Um. That's just weird on too many levels.

Also, there's a huge question mark on how much the other mediums - books, etc. - have bearing on the canon of the actual show. Most series' which spawn as much media as DW have the same kind of deal.

I think the kids-show aspects of the older series means that there was just no real need for a love interest, and perpetual lack of love-interest meant audiences thinking the doctor doesn't "dance", so to speak.

That's true, too. It's rather strange to reconcile the "new" version against the "old" version. I'm loving both of them, though. If the new series chooses to take that route to the fullest extent, that's their right. I'll keep watching, unless the relationship detracts from the plot of the series, i.e. it's more about them rather than the whole. It's part of the reason I become so paranoid about relationships on shows - such as House - I'd hate to see what I started watching it for get lost in all of the drama.

The Fifth is your favorite? Which eps should I start with for him?

Of the old school? Definitely. I'd start right off with his introduction, "Castrovalva". It gives you a chance to get to know his companions - Tegan, Nyssa and Adric, plus see the old Master - before getting into the rest of his adventures. I frickin' adore Tegan. She says what she wants and doesn't wait to be saved. Nyssa and Adric are humanoid aliens, so they're a bit more on The Doctor's wavelength (understanding almost as much as he does about the universe, etc.), but Tegan managed to pilot the TARDIS after only reading the onboard instruction manual. Props to the human!

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

That one is also controversial.

I've read the various theories on it, and I'd be more of the mind of ignoring it except that in interviews Russel Davies (the current producer) said that they're treating the movie as canon. They don't go into it in any more detail, so I look at it and shrug "Mmmm...okay then." What's canon is canon, until new canon says otherwise.

Also, there's a huge question mark on how much the other mediums - books, etc. - have bearing on the canon of the actual show. Most series' which spawn as much media as DW have the same kind of deal.

From everything I've read, nothing in the books is treated as canon---at least from a series writing standpoint. They might lift little things (Doctor's nicknames, for instance) from the books or make references, but the books and radio shows are not canon for writing the series. They're going purely off what aired on tv. They have to, because some stuff in the books directly contradicts stuff on the show, or other books. For instance, Gallifrey was destroyed in a totally different way in the 8th Doctor books.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I've read the various theories on it, and I'd be more of the mind of ignoring it except that in interviews Russel Davies (the current producer) said that they're treating the movie as canon. They don't go into it in any more detail, so I look at it and shrug "Mmmm...okay then." What's canon is canon, until new canon says otherwise.

Thinking on it, that would make sense. The '96 movie was to be the springboard for a new DW series. So long as it doesn't get too weird, I can keep an open mind about it. I'm sort of hoping someone else from the Time Lord society managed to survive - much like the Dalek from the "Dalek" episode - giving the universe at least one other member of his race. stormysprite and I were theorizing that might be what Boe plans to reveal to the Doctor when the time is right. That he didn't destroy every single Time Lord.

I'm having the urge to write some era crossover fiction ... in a Five Doctors Ten-meets-previous-selves kind of way. Just thought I'd put that out there.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I've heard that speculation about Boe as well. In a way I hope not, or at least not for another season or two... I am still attached to the drama of the idea that he's the last. Maybe the 11th Doctor can find a long lost cuz? But I'd keep it as it is for a while.


Write it! I had a plot bunny once for Rose meeting Eight while wandering around on a planet, pre-Nine/Ten-regeneration. Never got around to writing it. I read a great Eighth/Ninth crossover fic one time, but I can't remember where.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

If we don't see Boe again this season or eventually in a later season, I wouldn't mind if that's what the message was. I rather like the idea he's all alone for now. Once he finds a place for himself, it'd be cool to see a curve ball like that happen. Especially if they pull the Master out. Put someone totally cool in the role, suave with the evil. Oh, if only Alan Rickman or Gary Oldman would do it. I'd pay them! Seriously! Because, really, if there's gonna be another Time Lord, it should be the Doctor's long-time nemesis.