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Jun. 17th, 2006 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolI have an awful lot of things to write about at the moment; formal dinners and punting and sunshine, oh my! - but I just don't have the time, not right now. I'm hoping to scribe it all up tomorrow, but we'll see.
Anyway, our story starts with me having spent the day on the Cam, looking a baby swans and ducks and A BABY OTTER OH MY GOD SO CUTE. We turned around soon afterwards and zoomed back (well, Simon did; I'm entertainingly incompetent) and threw ourselves into the TV room.
Sort of wish I hadn't bothered. Spoilers for future bits in Doctor Who and the episode just shown! Seriously, though, what was all that about? IT IS LIKE THEY ARE PREPARING US FOR LIFE WITHOUT ROSE. Maybe that's it? They're distracting us from the episode with the news? There was a big honking set up for that right there, though. I missed a little of it, though, because of the noisy people in the room. Grrr. Etc.
Here's the thing I'm going to say now: I am fully aware that a small child designed the monster for this week. Good for either him or her, and I wish I had your talent for design, but seriously, if he or she is reading this? I'm sorry, THEY RUINED IT.
Okay, let me see. Well, firstly, I loved the interaction between LINDA. (LInDA?) They are, well, fangirls. It reminded me of meeting other nearby fans after talking on the internet for a while, and that was really lovely, and the set up was nice too. Also, I have Shirley Henderson love which I'm sorry, I can't help having. I would have liked to know more of the backstories, too, but I understand that there's not enough time. Elton was very, very likeable (I like the ELO!) which I think saved this episode from how truly bad it could have been. Incidentally, was I the only one getting flashbacks of "Storyteller" from BTVS? Just the way the episode was set up, anyway...
(Sorry to interrupt; outside the window, some BLOODY AWFUL THEATRE GROUP are performing Tales From Ovid. It is distracting and very bad.)
I did like Jackie in this. She made me laugh, and it was so sad to see how much Rose leaving has affected her. I felt the squee from certain sections of fandom (wish I'd watched it with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spockette) and oh, the love. I also liked Rose turning up and defending her Mum... yeah, now she cares... AND SHIRLEY HENDERSON LIKES JACKIE'S BREASTS. This is probably important.
Doctor. Oh, Doctor. Where for art thou, Doctor? Took him 39 minutes to turn up, not including the first section. I understand why, obviously, but I pay a licence fee for Doctor Who. No spectacles again, I see. Curses.
Right. Let's get the anger out of the way. I HATE BLOODY PETER KAY. I HATE HIM WITH THE FIERY PASSION OF A THOUSAND SUNS. I was designed not to like this one, but THE DAMNED MAN. Everyone quotes ALL THE TIME and yes, it's vaguely funny, and hell, I laughed at bloody bloody Amarillo a little bit too but THERE IS ONLY SO MUCH I CAN TAKE OF THE MAN. It's the QUOTING, you see. And the fact that when I don't concentrate, my accent can slip to be a little bit like his and ARGH DAMN HIM. I found his performance vaguely funny, but he was so obviously the special guest star (unlike Shirley Henderson, who is wonderful in everything she does) that he wasn't acting, he was being Peter Kay trying to act. And that sucked a lot for me. I'm sorry. I was very unimpressed and it really took down the episode for me. Why, might I ask, did he get more Northern when he was evil? THE BBC IS OPPRESSING ME AGAIN.
*breathes* And I'm calm. I think that's a personal thing.
Anyway. It was okay, but I'm really not very impressed. Bah. Next week looks... interesting. We shall see.
~Hathy_Col~
Anyway, our story starts with me having spent the day on the Cam, looking a baby swans and ducks and A BABY OTTER OH MY GOD SO CUTE. We turned around soon afterwards and zoomed back (well, Simon did; I'm entertainingly incompetent) and threw ourselves into the TV room.
Sort of wish I hadn't bothered. Spoilers for future bits in Doctor Who and the episode just shown! Seriously, though, what was all that about? IT IS LIKE THEY ARE PREPARING US FOR LIFE WITHOUT ROSE. Maybe that's it? They're distracting us from the episode with the news? There was a big honking set up for that right there, though. I missed a little of it, though, because of the noisy people in the room. Grrr. Etc.
Here's the thing I'm going to say now: I am fully aware that a small child designed the monster for this week. Good for either him or her, and I wish I had your talent for design, but seriously, if he or she is reading this? I'm sorry, THEY RUINED IT.
Okay, let me see. Well, firstly, I loved the interaction between LINDA. (LInDA?) They are, well, fangirls. It reminded me of meeting other nearby fans after talking on the internet for a while, and that was really lovely, and the set up was nice too. Also, I have Shirley Henderson love which I'm sorry, I can't help having. I would have liked to know more of the backstories, too, but I understand that there's not enough time. Elton was very, very likeable (I like the ELO!) which I think saved this episode from how truly bad it could have been. Incidentally, was I the only one getting flashbacks of "Storyteller" from BTVS? Just the way the episode was set up, anyway...
(Sorry to interrupt; outside the window, some BLOODY AWFUL THEATRE GROUP are performing Tales From Ovid. It is distracting and very bad.)
I did like Jackie in this. She made me laugh, and it was so sad to see how much Rose leaving has affected her. I felt the squee from certain sections of fandom (wish I'd watched it with
spockette) and oh, the love. I also liked Rose turning up and defending her Mum... yeah, now she cares... AND SHIRLEY HENDERSON LIKES JACKIE'S BREASTS. This is probably important.Doctor. Oh, Doctor. Where for art thou, Doctor? Took him 39 minutes to turn up, not including the first section. I understand why, obviously, but I pay a licence fee for Doctor Who. No spectacles again, I see. Curses.
Right. Let's get the anger out of the way. I HATE BLOODY PETER KAY. I HATE HIM WITH THE FIERY PASSION OF A THOUSAND SUNS. I was designed not to like this one, but THE DAMNED MAN. Everyone quotes ALL THE TIME and yes, it's vaguely funny, and hell, I laughed at bloody bloody Amarillo a little bit too but THERE IS ONLY SO MUCH I CAN TAKE OF THE MAN. It's the QUOTING, you see. And the fact that when I don't concentrate, my accent can slip to be a little bit like his and ARGH DAMN HIM. I found his performance vaguely funny, but he was so obviously the special guest star (unlike Shirley Henderson, who is wonderful in everything she does) that he wasn't acting, he was being Peter Kay trying to act. And that sucked a lot for me. I'm sorry. I was very unimpressed and it really took down the episode for me. Why, might I ask, did he get more Northern when he was evil? THE BBC IS OPPRESSING ME AGAIN.
*breathes* And I'm calm. I think that's a personal thing.
Anyway. It was okay, but I'm really not very impressed. Bah. Next week looks... interesting. We shall see.
~Hathy_Col~
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Date: 2006-06-17 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-18 08:36 am (UTC)Hah, that Ovid thing is what we got flyers for the other day. *g*
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Date: 2006-06-18 10:14 pm (UTC)