Because this is what I do, every time, every day, every second. This.

[elisi]

DoWntime has come through again, and how:

BIT OF ADRENALINE, DASH OF OUTRAGE: Our Thoughts on “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos” and Series 11 Wrap-Up — Part 1/2

BIT OF ADRENALINE, DASH OF OUTRAGE: Our Thoughts on “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos” and Series 11 Wrap-Up — Part 2/2

(They go through EVERYTHING: the characters, the villain, Themes and Motifs, Diversity and Representation, Marketing, Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics and The Discourse Problem. If you want to know what I think, just read those posts.)

Alternatively, here is the shorter version, as propergoffick put it here (spoilers in post!):

'And you get this Doctor who you know in your soul votes Lib Dem, recycles, and gets properly annoyed about what Nigel Farage said in the paper the other day, but doesn't do anything about huge systemic problems. She fixes the very specific problem in front of her and leaves well alone. J. K. Rowling in space and time.'

ETA: I *want* Thirteen to be wonderful and amazing and her companions to have fabulous depth and for there to be story-arcs and something to sink my teeth into. But there isn't.


In other news, I have almost finished S22 and may write up some thoughts on that! Six is my darling and I luff him to pieces. ♥

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

It has some clips from S23, but it's not spoilery - v short and fun. A bit old and blurry actually, but a Babelcolour one.

[elisi]

Cool cool cool. THANK YOU.

[thisbluespirit]

You'll see why I linked it re. the above when you get to it!

[elisi]

Ha! Yes, that was perfect. :D :D :D

[thisbluespirit]

:-D

[elisi]

BEST coat. (Also my daughter has one.)

[thisbluespirit]

Clearly she is also fabulous!

[elisi]

100%

And I have photographic evidence.

[thisbluespirit]

The photos don't seem to have come over with the import? (They're just showing as image locked to me.)

[elisi]

Hmmm. I'll investigate.

ETA: Should work now!

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! They're wonderful pics! I still couldn't see them, but then I wondered if they were hosted on LJ and it was because I'd got logged out, and logged back in and there they were. (But anyone without an LJ account won't, not this side, presumably.)

[elisi]

Hmmm. I just made them available to all. *pokes the internet* That's just weird.

Anyway, glad you could see them, and it was a good, good day. :)

ETA: I went looking for Peri (or rather Peri/Six) icons because... I unaccountably found myself, well, shipping them. This is very strange. Not in a romantic sense (because, um, Six!) but give me two characters who argue all the time and... well. That's my kryptonite.

Anyway, then found this icon, so wanted to say thank you. Fandom provides for everything. :)

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, well, I'm logged in again now, so it's hard to say. But, yeah, it looked like an excellent day. And once the pics were there I could see whether or not you meant Hattie Holly or the original Holly (and was glad to see it was Hattie).

but give me two characters who argue all the time and... well.

I sympathise. I don't ship Doctor/Companion very much (and am unsure where I want it to go when I do), but if I do it's either something mixed up and intense but fun like Twelve/Clara and Eight/Charley, but my main one is Five/Tegan... because everybody knows what it means when you argue like that in the 1980s! I sort of ship Peri/Six on the same basis sometimes, but not as much. Because, as you say, Six.

[elisi]

But, yeah, it looked like an excellent day.
It really was! :)

And once the pics were there I could see whether or not you meant Hattie Holly or the original Holly (and was glad to see it was Hattie).
We have sort-of been re-watching Red Dwarf and I love the fact that Holly just changes, but the character stays the same. :)

I sympathise. I don't ship Doctor/Companion very much (and am unsure where I want it to go when I do)
I really don't ship Doctor/companion (partly out of principle, partly out of inclination), although I often love the friendship (like say, Eleven & Amy, or Seven & Ace), and then out of the blue, it happens. OBVIOUSLY it can never go anywhere, but once I have finished Six's run I may commit fic. This whole Classic show watching is... discombobulating.

[thisbluespirit]

This whole Classic show watching is... discombobulating.

Well, it wouldn't be Doctor Who otherwise, would it? ;-)

(Discombobulate, btw, is, or was, apparently Sylvester's favourite word, so very appropriate!)

and I love the fact that Holly just changes, but the character stays the same.

I love Holly. And that, yes.

[elisi]

Well, it wouldn't be Doctor Who otherwise, would it? ;-)
Good point. Also a point AGAINST S11 which was just sort of there...

Discombobulate, btw, is, or was, apparently Sylvester's favourite word, so very appropriate!
I love that.