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- Doing work, eating a chicken and cheese tamale, listening to Glenn Miller (yes, really. yes, I'm _that_ nerd. yes, I desperately want to update my swing dance skills now (although I'm not interested in that whole flashy trick thing, in part because I don't want to be the girl and in part because that is not even remotely a fashion in which I'm interested in becoming airborne)). For values of having to do work this would only be better if I could manage it with my feet up on the desk at the same time.

- Things I must do prior to Sicily: get sandals that hide my toes. Remember to pack shoes that aren't sandals for the climbing that fortress thing. Get Euros. Figure out about 800 gluten-related issues. Clean all my fencing gear.

- Watched the beginning of Doctor Who's second season last night.

The Christmas episode was really good in terms of moral issues and wow the new Prime Minister who was so cool so fucked that shit up. I thought the "six words" thing was about as chilling as anything I've ever seen on the show. This Doctor may seem more light-hearted but he also feels a lot more dangerous. That Christmas tree of death was about the stupidest shit I've ever seen though.

Question: Alex. I've seen a ton of fics where he and Jack had something going on briefly at one point. Is that later canon or did a whole bunch of people decide dark hair, good suits and efficiency was somehow Jack's type?

Meanwhile, New Earth upset me despite having the biggest world building hole ever (if these people were grown in vats and then immediately locked in these tanks to have diseases, how the hell did they have language?) Also the Face of Boe thing went nowhere, and if I was watching the episode without the knowledge I already have, I'd be like "what the hell?" and not in a good way. Cat nuns are creepy. And the scene at the end at the party where Cassandra gets told she is beautiful? That was amazing and made me cry. That said, having compassion for Cassandra wasn't really on my list of things to do last night.

- Question of the Day. If it can't kill you is it still a delicacy?. Personally, I think that goes way beyond fish.

Comments

[dskasak.livejournal.com]

Season Two has "Torchwood" as its theme, so I'm curious to see how you react to future episodes. You've already seen "The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit," but there's no real follow-through on those episodes until the current season's "Planet Of The Ood."

Nine seemed to have more outward contempt for humanity and its decisions, which ties nicely into your wounded-animal description of him. While I'm not a creator of fanfic, my own take on Nine is that his own regeneration was due to the Time War. He didn't participate in it; his only-once-seen predecessor, Eight, did. The things that Eight saw and did, such as wiping out his own people, caused enough mental and physical stress that a regeneration was necessary. In the very first episode, "Rose," there's a picture of Nine on the deck of the Titanic, wearing clothing similar to Eight, leading me to believe that he fled the field of battle after transforming, fell to Earth during 1912, then left that to come to present-day London and meet Rose. The italics indicate my own theory, and not established canon.

Ten can be heartless and vindictive and arrogant. The fact that he disguises it with a youthful appearance and pop-culture references makes his actions all that much more jarring and hurtful. I agree that Harriet Jones was set up, but she had to defend her own people, an action that should have made sense to the Doctor, though his petulant comment showed he was upset by either the defiance or lack of deference. Season Three is a bit of a transition for his overall attitude, but I'll stop babbling on that for now.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Can I just say that "The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit" shouldn't be so awesome but TOTALLY is. It's the first thing that made me at all tempted to get into this show, and I think the dialogue in it is just so fine, but largely because Tennant can actually make lines like that work. Because really, they shouldn't.

[iterum.livejournal.com]

Nine SEEMS more dangerously bad-boy on the surface, and I think of his murderous hostility in "Dalek" -- but contrast it with how the Daleks called his bluff re: destroying Earth in "The Parting of the Ways." Despite Ten's considerably stronger affection for humanity, in the same situation, I'm not sure he would have been bluffing.