Getting Schooled
Sep. 19th, 2010 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tasty_kate Some of you may already know that I have only seen the latest season of Doctor Who with the Eleventh Doctor. I've done a bunch of research on Doctor Who and have a pretty good grasp on its history but have only seen a handful of episodes here and there from BBC American reruns or the stray episode from an seedy back alley website.
My mother, for a good many years now, has consistently watched TV on Saturdays for one hour. It's about the only time she does watch TV. She did Star Trek, Rome, and Farscape. Just as she was wrapping up with Farscape, my Dad suggested that the next series they tackle was NuWho. And so now she's started, two Saturdays ago with Rose. Which means I've started, as well.
Yesterday was The End of the World which I have only seen bits of before. I feel it was a much better episode than the first one. I thought the mannequins were lame (don't hate me!). hahaha Rose had some shining moments in there, particularly at the end where she was grieving how this beautiful planet, her planet, was being blown to smithereens and no one was watching. Then the Doctor losing his temper when she was pushing him on who he was, where he was from... I felt like it was giving you a good look at who this Doctor was and what to expect.
I'm going to take the episodes slowly, one week at a time like Mom is, even though that's going to be a huge effort. Something's gotta keep me going through this absence of Doctor Who, right? : )
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Date: 2010-09-20 08:47 am (UTC)The mannequins *were* a bit on the lame side but then again they were a call-back to classic Who, which sort of helped with the setting out the stall of what they're doing.
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Date: 2010-09-20 12:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-20 01:29 pm (UTC)((Little Voice In My Head)): Tahnee, please shut up now, and stop spoiling the poor girl's Doctor Who experiances by going into Star Trek. Oh, look you've got me doing it as well. Tahnee, girl, JUST SHUT UP!!
I really can't help myself.
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Date: 2010-09-20 05:07 pm (UTC)Susan seems like a promising aspect... maybe I should try and give her a try. :p
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Date: 2010-09-20 12:14 pm (UTC)And Martha. Martha is awesome too.
Honestly, Rose can get stuck in her little... actually, no, spoilers.
Anways, no spoilers, just look forward to Captain Jack Harkness' first appearnce in The Empty Child and Martha Jones' first appearance (technically in Doomsday but that was her cousin, Adeola) in Smith and Jones.
I totally get your "taking it one week at a time" thing, though I failed at that. "Rose" first, I thought and then had a Doctor Who overload in one Sunday. Gosh. It is possible to have a Doctor Who overload. Hard, but possible.
One thing, for Season One, because you are watching Season One with Christoper Eccleston and Billie Piper, right?
Watch out for Bad Wolf throughout the season. It'll just appear like "the cracks in time and space" did in Season Five.
(BTW, my icon is of Jack and Martha -squee-)
Enjoy your Who Fest and sorry for the essay :D
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Date: 2010-09-20 12:24 pm (UTC)No such thing as a Doctor Who overload.
I'll keep an eye out for Bad Wolf, though I already have an idea of what Bad Wolf is... or will be... Baaah, I'm so bad at this. hahaha Kate, just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride and quit spoiling it for yourself.
And don't apologize for your comment- it was great! :D
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Date: 2010-09-20 01:35 pm (UTC)It's where you've watched so many episodes in one shot and you're trying to process all the infomation and it feels like your head is really full and you're really, really tired and you just feel like screaming at everyone who even mentions Doctor Who.
Then the next morning it's fine. It's like being drunk on Doctor Who.
I'm crazy, yeah? Yeah...
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Date: 2010-09-20 05:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-20 04:16 pm (UTC)Watching slowly can be fun. I'm re-watching Series 5 with the hubby, right now...very, very slowly.
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Date: 2010-09-20 05:11 pm (UTC)By the way, LOVING your silly Doctor face icon. <3
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Date: 2010-09-20 06:00 pm (UTC)I know. My reading habit is HORRIBLE, but I excuse it by saying a) I'm a writer, so it helps me see how the author gets from point a to point b. b) I get seriously upset when characters die, so it helps me pick and choose when to read a book.
(But, it's all talk, probably.) BTW, if the book is any good, knowing the end doesn't make a lick of difference in how much I enjoy the story. ;)
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Date: 2010-09-21 12:07 pm (UTC)That's a good reasoning. I'm sure my other friends who do the exact same thing as you rationalize their behavior the same way. ;)
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Date: 2010-09-21 03:15 pm (UTC)...er...though I did read the Epilogue when it made its scandalous pre-book appearance online. When I saw that the fab four made it, I told myself to count my blessings and suffer the deaths. And, lemmetellyou, I still feel pretty hacked off about a few of those deaths, but it doesn't stop me from loving the books. (REMUS AND TONKS WHY??????) :)
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Date: 2010-09-21 03:38 pm (UTC)If I had a HP icon, I'd use it. Instead, I give you another goofy Doctor icon.
(FRED, WHY?!?!?! [I'm an identical twin so that one hit particularly hard]) :(
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Date: 2010-09-21 03:43 pm (UTC)(ZOMG, if Amy dies for real, I will breathe fire...)
I don't have many of my HP icons left... (For some reason half of my icons are from Avatar, the cartoon, and I've never been a part of that fandom. I just find Sokka hilarious...)