![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
>:(
I HAD A POST ABOUT EoT AND LJ ATE IT!!!! (We - well mostly the Cherub - watched it at lunchtime.)
Impish Girl on Ten's rant after the four knocks (I transcribed it word for word):
"If I was ever a Doctor or a Companion I wouldn't want to end my time like that - with a fit and a paddy."
Mostly my post was about how MISERABLE the Doctor is throughout. It can understand WHY (and I like EoT), but it's a bit of a drag. (Esp in the light of S6. But I have meta brewing on the whole thing, so I shall leave that part alone for now.) Plus the plot makes even less sense than I remember. I mean... stuff just happens. It's amazing, really, particularly all the stuff with the Doctor's mother. It makes NO SENSE. But it's sweet, so I don't really mind. I just marvel.
Finally, then Darcy's reaction to "This song is ending. But the story never ends" never fails to entertain, because he physically recoils from the screen and flails as if to ward off great evil. He obviously manages to wipe it from his mind every time he sees it, but then he has to cope with hearing it anew, and the horribleness of it always gets to him. *is amused*
Anyway, then there is DARLING ELEVENTY and happiness and joy and Geronimoooo! <3
(Just realised that what EoT needed was Spike (or River, since she is the Spike of the 'verse) to stand around and go 'Drama queen!' and/or 'Dear God, you're hard work young!' at all of Ten's histrionics.)
Impish Girl on Ten's rant after the four knocks (I transcribed it word for word):
"If I was ever a Doctor or a Companion I wouldn't want to end my time like that - with a fit and a paddy."
Mostly my post was about how MISERABLE the Doctor is throughout. It can understand WHY (and I like EoT), but it's a bit of a drag. (Esp in the light of S6. But I have meta brewing on the whole thing, so I shall leave that part alone for now.) Plus the plot makes even less sense than I remember. I mean... stuff just happens. It's amazing, really, particularly all the stuff with the Doctor's mother. It makes NO SENSE. But it's sweet, so I don't really mind. I just marvel.
Finally, then Darcy's reaction to "This song is ending. But the story never ends" never fails to entertain, because he physically recoils from the screen and flails as if to ward off great evil. He obviously manages to wipe it from his mind every time he sees it, but then he has to cope with hearing it anew, and the horribleness of it always gets to him. *is amused*
Anyway, then there is DARLING ELEVENTY and happiness and joy and Geronimoooo! <3
(Just realised that what EoT needed was Spike (or River, since she is the Spike of the 'verse) to stand around and go 'Drama queen!' and/or 'Dear God, you're hard work young!' at all of Ten's histrionics.)
no subject
*eyes LJ suspiciously*
LOL! I think it's possible that EoT is one of my favorite Davies scripts because by then my brain had given up and stopped noticing these things for my own good.
I know Moffat is over-elaborate, but EoT... Stuff happens just because it happens. I mean, what's the deal with the Doctor's mother talking to Wilf? How does she do it? WHY? How do the Naismith's know about the Master returning? Why is Wilf the only one who can remember the dreams? Why does Rassilon narrate, and from what point in his personal timeline does he do so? I just... It's not MD levels of bad (the continuity is fine), it's just a lot of random stuff tied together. *shakes head and tells self to focus on the Doctor/Master* (Also the EPIC EPIC ANGST is sort of undercut by the fact that... he's not really DYING, y'know? He's going to be FINE. It's such a storm in a teacup. But then Ten always ate up ALL his drama-flakes.)
This is a reasonable reaction. I am feeling slightly twitchy just reading that line. There is nothing funny about any of this.
Oh come on. If actual angels had appeared at that point and helped the Doctor on his final STRUGGLING walk I wouldn't have been the least surprised. It's so OTT that it's almost collapsing from lack of oxygen.
I love when he makes that thinking very hard face and looks like a character out of Wallace and Gromit.
MORE CHEESE GROMIT?
no subject
All excellent questions that I'm pretty sure have no answer. Actually, it might be fun to compare to that little Eleventy skit that the grade schoolers wrote. Which was similar in its making no sense but then also funny.
(Also the EPIC EPIC ANGST is sort of undercut by the fact that... he's not really DYING, y'know? He's going to be FINE. It's such a storm in a teacup. But then Ten always ate up ALL his drama-flakes.)
Still does not bother me as badly in EoT as it does elsewhere. Probably because you know it will stop soon.
If actual angels had appeared at that point and helped the Doctor on his final STRUGGLING walk I wouldn't have been the least surprised.
See, he wasted them on Voyage of the Damned.
MORE CHEESE GROMIT?
HE'S FORGOTTEN THE CRACKERS!
no subject
Even Rusty, in one of the commentaries, talked about how Rassilon just stands there while Ten points his gun one way and the other. If he'd just killed him (what with having that nifty glove at his disposal), he could have won ten times over...
Actually, it might be fun to compare to that little Eleventy skit that the grade schoolers wrote. Which was similar in its making no sense but then also funny.
*snerk*
Still does not bother me as badly in EoT as it does elsewhere. Probably because you know it will stop soon.
Oh yes. And even at the time, when I was TERRIBLY SAD that Ten was leaving, I was hurrying him on, telling him to just get on with it and die already, because quite frankly I just wanted to put him out of his misery, y'know?
See, he wasted them on Voyage of the Damned.
Ah but they were rather brilliant there, carrying him up to heaven. I mean the bridge...
HE'S FORGOTTEN THE CRACKERS!
But does he LIKE crackers?
no subject
Lol--and that is why I like Rusty. And, just as a rule of storytelling, the number one reason the good guys ever win is that their enemies are even bigger idiots than they are.
Oh yes. And even at the time, when I was TERRIBLY SAD that Ten was leaving, I was hurrying him on, telling him to just get on with it and die already, because quite frankly I just wanted to put him out of his misery, y'know?
Of course.
Actually, I put off watching EoT for months because I'd grown so sick of the season four/specials ~angst and every single thing I'd read on LJ was talking about how horrible EoT was. The actual episode proved kinda anti-climactic compared to fandom's take on it *g*
Ah but they were rather brilliant there, carrying him up to heaven. I mean the bridge...
I can't tell you how long I've been waiting for the perfect opportunity to use this:
But does he LIKE crackers?
WHO KNOWS! But he's forgotten something! Also, he does go to the moon later . . .
no subject
Same here. :)
And, just as a rule of storytelling, the number one reason the good guys ever win is that their enemies are even bigger idiots than they are.
Long live the idiots?
Actually, I put off watching EoT for months because I'd grown so sick of the season four/specials ~angst and every single thing I'd read on LJ was talking about how horrible EoT was. The actual episode proved kinda anti-climactic compared to fandom's take on it *g*
Heeeeee! And you see, this is why I'm so good at ignoring the anti-Moff brigade. I was very fond of EoT, yet I knew I was in a TINY minority. (I don't need stuff like plot or logic. Esp not with the heaps of shippiness around...)
I can't tell you how long I've been waiting for the perfect opportunity to use this:
It is certainly perfect. But what's it from?
WHO KNOWS! But he's forgotten something! Also, he does go to the moon later . . .
Someone should write a story where Eleven meets the mad robot fridge thing they find.
no subject
: P
I was very fond of EoT, yet I knew I was in a TINY minority. (I don't need stuff like plot or logic. Esp not with the heaps of shippiness around...
Basically one of my favorite fannish rants ever (about the threatened death of one of my favorite characters ever) culminates with "Fuck story logic, I need Laura Roslin!" I had to agree. We were not disappointed on either count (though generally I held BSG to a higher standard than that /sheepish).
It is certainly perfect. But what's it from?
Lucille Bluth, from Arrested Development. Perfection in the form of drunken, self-absorbed contempt ; )
Someone should write a story where Eleven meets the mad robot fridge thing they find.
=DDDD <3 <3 Although perhaps something not easily conveyed just in writing?
no subject
Oh I know how you feel. I'd give... ANYTHING to get Ianto back. Even though all logic and story-truth tells me that he ought to stay dead... If RTD decided to resurrect him I'd be dancing with joy and never recover. Fuck Story Logic indeed. (To me, Ianto WAS Torchwood. So when he died, the show died too...)
Lucille Bluth, from Arrested Development. Perfection in the form of drunken, self-absorbed contempt ; )
Ah, that'd be why I recognised her. I've watched the odd bit, just enough to know the very, very basics.
=DDDD <3 <3 Although perhaps something not easily conveyed just in writing?
Probably not...
no subject
Well, if it's any consolation, by the end of BSG I found myself wishing that Roslin had died earlier and thus been saved what she and the show both became. Which, I seem to recall you expressing something similar w/r/t MD.
no subject
no subject
I remember particularly disliking the embarrassing, gratuitous Obama references, too.
no subject
Did you see these two images that I made for another bit of meta btw? ;)
no subject
...I would probably go to hell if I fanvidded Ten's man!pain to Renaissance sacred music, wouldn't I?
(Edited because I cannot remember names, ever.)
no subject
Yay, I am happy to have helped. (However coincidentally.)
...I would probably go to hell if I fanvidded Ten's man!pain to Renaissance sacred music, wouldn't I?
Weeelll... I'm pretty sure God has a brilliant sense of humour (and I say that as a Catholic!), but his followers tend to be more unforgiving. However, it wouldn't be the first time (not QUITE what you're proposing, but on the same theme):
Agnus Dei by
(Adore this vid btw.)
ETA: For a truly mind-bending experience, however, you should then immediately watch Eleven is Cool. ;)