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tenlittlebullets) wrote2011-12-04 02:12 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2011-12-04 02:12 pm
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MOAR WHO
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srevans and I have spent all weekend hanging out, drinking wine, and watching Classic Who: The Five Doctors, Terror of the Autons, Mind of Evil, Claws of Axos, and Curse of Fenric. Since I am full of poor life choices, I will probably make a brief trip into town to get food and then sit right back down with Colony in Space and The Daemons, because fuck it, if you find yourself with enough attention span to get through a bunch of Three serials in a row, why the hell not marathon Delgado's entire first season?
Thoughts:
- Terrance Dicks can go eat a bag of his namesake. I am beginning to think Robot must've been ghostwritten because it had decent writing and Sarah Jane being clever and useful and blowing off all the dudes trying to tell her to keep out of the way; every other thing I've seen/read that this guy has penned, including Five Doctors, would at best be in the 65th percentile of mediocre fanfiction, and companions exist to scream and twist their ankles and beg the Doctor to help them. Five Doctors is lots of fun, mostly for the premise, but it's also like every crap stereotype of classic Who packed into two hours of camp.
- You know how fandom sometimes tells you things and you don't quite believe them? Like people saying that the classic Masters are just as obviously 100% heterosexual and un-slashy as Simm. I did not quite believe fandom when they told me Delgado's first season consisted entirely of sexual tension and Three being a complete and utter dick to him, but it's true. Shame on me for my lack of faith in fandom's word. (Other things I should've taken fandom's word on: Delgado!Master is made of sex. Things I am not generally attracted to include beardy dudes, dudes 35+ years older than me, and non-pretty-boy dudes in general, and yet Delgado!Master? I would hit that so hard the shock waves could level a major city.)
- Seven and Ace! I also recently watched Remembrance of the Daleks, which is completely flawless in every single way and Ace is everything my ten-year-old self wanted to be when I grew up. Like seriously, was I channelling her? As for Curse of Fenric, I am definitely going to have to rewatch it; it brings a lot of really, really interesting elements together in unexpected ways, but it doesn't quite connect enough dots for me to get what it's aiming for the first time around, and I kept waiting for the moment when everything would get tied together and it never came. In any case it is pretty fantastic--dangerous undercurrents indeed.
srevans and I have spent all weekend hanging out, drinking wine, and watching Classic Who: The Five Doctors, Terror of the Autons, Mind of Evil, Claws of Axos, and Curse of Fenric. Since I am full of poor life choices, I will probably make a brief trip into town to get food and then sit right back down with Colony in Space and The Daemons, because fuck it, if you find yourself with enough attention span to get through a bunch of Three serials in a row, why the hell not marathon Delgado's entire first season?Thoughts:
- Terrance Dicks can go eat a bag of his namesake. I am beginning to think Robot must've been ghostwritten because it had decent writing and Sarah Jane being clever and useful and blowing off all the dudes trying to tell her to keep out of the way; every other thing I've seen/read that this guy has penned, including Five Doctors, would at best be in the 65th percentile of mediocre fanfiction, and companions exist to scream and twist their ankles and beg the Doctor to help them. Five Doctors is lots of fun, mostly for the premise, but it's also like every crap stereotype of classic Who packed into two hours of camp.
- You know how fandom sometimes tells you things and you don't quite believe them? Like people saying that the classic Masters are just as obviously 100% heterosexual and un-slashy as Simm. I did not quite believe fandom when they told me Delgado's first season consisted entirely of sexual tension and Three being a complete and utter dick to him, but it's true. Shame on me for my lack of faith in fandom's word. (Other things I should've taken fandom's word on: Delgado!Master is made of sex. Things I am not generally attracted to include beardy dudes, dudes 35+ years older than me, and non-pretty-boy dudes in general, and yet Delgado!Master? I would hit that so hard the shock waves could level a major city.)
- Seven and Ace! I also recently watched Remembrance of the Daleks, which is completely flawless in every single way and Ace is everything my ten-year-old self wanted to be when I grew up. Like seriously, was I channelling her? As for Curse of Fenric, I am definitely going to have to rewatch it; it brings a lot of really, really interesting elements together in unexpected ways, but it doesn't quite connect enough dots for me to get what it's aiming for the first time around, and I kept waiting for the moment when everything would get tied together and it never came. In any case it is pretty fantastic--dangerous undercurrents indeed.