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lizbeeHOW AWESOME WAS "THE WEDDING OF SARAH JANE SMITH"? I laughed, I cried, I lusted over David Tennant a bit.
If Clyde doesn't wind up a companion in season six or seven, I shall cry. I SHALL CRY BUCKETS. He has saved the world loads of times, and he's absorbed a whole lot of artron energy! And the Doctor thinks he's great. Give them a couple of years, and Clyde and Rani can be the first boyfriend/girlfriend TARDIS companions since Polly and Ben. (Luke can make recurring appearances, but honestly I don't think Tommy Knight's up to it.) They can hang out with Eleven and Amy. Clyde can bring K9. It'll be great!
This was great, especially since it didn't make out that Sarah Jane had no life without the Doctor and/or any other man, but at the same time didn't retcon any fics where the Doctor is secretly shagging Sarah. Well, aside from the bit where he hasn't met the other kids, or been in the attic before.
Seriously, even without the Doctor, this would have been a great episode. The Doctor hardly even did anything, just pushed the others and put himself in the right places at the right times. That should have been annoying, but so much of this franchise has been about how humanity is worthless without the Doctor, it's really great to see the world being saved by a middle-aged couple and a trio of teenagers. And a robot dog.
And fortunately, Lis Sladen actually did a good job with the acting this week. She's lovely, but terribly uneven, so I was a bit worried. But no, it was MARVELLOUS. I wish the Whoniverse was like this all the time.
After that, I was in the mood for some more Who, and I have a whole bunch of unwatched DVDs from work's sale earlier this year. "Tomb of the Cybermen" was still shrinkwrapped!
I've watched three out of four episodes -- three is like, the perfect amount for my attention span, which is inconvenient but bearable -- and it's mostly made of win. Victoria is, um, bearable, and Jamie is lovely. The guest stars are all good, and the Cybermen are (of course) utterly terrifying. I don't know why it is that Cybermen are only scary in monochrome, but there it is. Their sing-song voices help (no offence to Nick Briggs).
Of course, the downside is that the portrayal of Toberman is pretty much Made of Racefail. Well, no, there are lots of ways it could fail more, but really: when thefirst second black man in the series is mostly silent, occasionally inarticulate, possessed of brutish strength and little else, you've got some fail. And he's going to sacrifice himself, setting up a pattern that New Who would adopt with abandon.
I sort of give them a pass for his lack of dialogue -- the character was originally intended to be deaf, and his hearing aid was to foreshadow his conversion to a Cyberman. Because disability!fail is so much better than race!fail. The Cybermen are pretty problematic in general, but usually the classic Cybermen played up the Escape From Emotions; it's with the new versions that the Escape From Physical Imperfection has been played up. On the whole, Toberman's just one of those bits where the show is very much of its time.
On the upside, TROUGHTON. He is marvellous. I love him so. The show was rubbish after it went into colour.
If Clyde doesn't wind up a companion in season six or seven, I shall cry. I SHALL CRY BUCKETS. He has saved the world loads of times, and he's absorbed a whole lot of artron energy! And the Doctor thinks he's great. Give them a couple of years, and Clyde and Rani can be the first boyfriend/girlfriend TARDIS companions since Polly and Ben. (Luke can make recurring appearances, but honestly I don't think Tommy Knight's up to it.) They can hang out with Eleven and Amy. Clyde can bring K9. It'll be great!
This was great, especially since it didn't make out that Sarah Jane had no life without the Doctor and/or any other man, but at the same time didn't retcon any fics where the Doctor is secretly shagging Sarah. Well, aside from the bit where he hasn't met the other kids, or been in the attic before.
Seriously, even without the Doctor, this would have been a great episode. The Doctor hardly even did anything, just pushed the others and put himself in the right places at the right times. That should have been annoying, but so much of this franchise has been about how humanity is worthless without the Doctor, it's really great to see the world being saved by a middle-aged couple and a trio of teenagers. And a robot dog.
And fortunately, Lis Sladen actually did a good job with the acting this week. She's lovely, but terribly uneven, so I was a bit worried. But no, it was MARVELLOUS. I wish the Whoniverse was like this all the time.
After that, I was in the mood for some more Who, and I have a whole bunch of unwatched DVDs from work's sale earlier this year. "Tomb of the Cybermen" was still shrinkwrapped!
I've watched three out of four episodes -- three is like, the perfect amount for my attention span, which is inconvenient but bearable -- and it's mostly made of win. Victoria is, um, bearable, and Jamie is lovely. The guest stars are all good, and the Cybermen are (of course) utterly terrifying. I don't know why it is that Cybermen are only scary in monochrome, but there it is. Their sing-song voices help (no offence to Nick Briggs).
Of course, the downside is that the portrayal of Toberman is pretty much Made of Racefail. Well, no, there are lots of ways it could fail more, but really: when the
I sort of give them a pass for his lack of dialogue -- the character was originally intended to be deaf, and his hearing aid was to foreshadow his conversion to a Cyberman. Because disability!fail is so much better than race!fail. The Cybermen are pretty problematic in general, but usually the classic Cybermen played up the Escape From Emotions; it's with the new versions that the Escape From Physical Imperfection has been played up. On the whole, Toberman's just one of those bits where the show is very much of its time.
On the upside, TROUGHTON. He is marvellous. I love him so. The show was rubbish after it went into colour.
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Date: 2009-10-31 12:56 pm (UTC)\0/
Well, aside from the bit where he hasn't met the other kids, or been in the attic before.
Neither kids nor Mr Smith welcome on booty calls.