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[elisi]

So, finished S14 of Classic Who, meaning I am 3/7 of the way through the Fourth Doctor. (He is endless and forever...) And just sometimes you come across stuff that, well. Let me illustrate:


THIRTEENTH DOCTOR: What are you doing?
RYAN: Fighting back.
THIRTEENTH DOCTOR: No. Guns, never use 'em.

Never? Really Doctor? Never?? I mean, the show is littered with examples, but this one is just a corker:

DOCTOR: Professor, you don't happen to have an elephant gun, do you?
LITEFOOT: Elephants? Why on Earth do you want an elephant gun?
DOCTOR: We're about to embark on a very dangerous mission.
LITEFOOT: Well, I've a Chinese fowling piece if that's any good. Used for duck, mainly.

LOOK AT IT:



To be fair, he wants it for shooting giant rats, but still... That gun is almost as big as him!!!

OTOH



Mind you, someone (on a podcast I think. Verity maybe?) observed that it's not that the Doctor doesn't USE weapons, the point is that he isn't *armed*. Which is a nice and important distinction.


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What else? Oh yes, we watched The Great Gatsby last night (the Baz Luhrman version), which was pretty much exactly what I expected, but I like the more-is-more aesthetic and how every frame is just exquisite and over saturated, so it's a thumbs up for me.

This trailer has been one of my favourite things for a long time, and the movie is pretty much exactly that. And ye gods, the power of money (old and new) hasn't changed at all...

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Finally, a very silly MCU tweet:

i asked my roommate to name all of the marvel characters, she’s seen a good number of the movies but still doesn’t know anybody’s names and she said she feels like a failure pic.twitter.com/PPf3H7dzqi

— jessie || spoilers (@holygroundharry) May 3, 2019

(No Endgame spoilers.)

Comments

[elisi]

Niiice. Although every. single. scene with Five just makes me want to hug him all over again. Four is so nonchalant, but Five picking up a gun means business and MY HEART. (I want to watch Five again now, which I can't, because I still have four seasons of Four to go...)

Sorry, that was a tangent. Yes, the Doctor with a gun. It happens. Quite often.

ETA: Realised I forgot to say how delightful the vid is. THANK YOU.

[juniperphoenix]

You're welcome! :)

I should skip ahead and watch some Five. I've been slowly working my way through Three, whom I like, but I got bogged down in the middle of the interminable "The Mutants."

[elisi]

but I got bogged down in the middle of the interminable "The Mutants."
I hear ya. Unless you can do some ironing or knitting or something whilst watching? Just to help get you through it?