Adventures in OldSchool: "Dragonfire"
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lizbeeI watched "Dragonfire" this evening, for the first time since 1989. It wasn't the first Doctor Who serial I ever watched (that was "Paradise Towers"), but it was the first to make a profound impression on my juvenile psyche. Mostly because of this scene:
Oh, Ace. Romana might be my favourite, but there's no denying you were the best companion the series has produced so far. Only Donna has come close to matching you. <3 <3 <3
REASONS WHY ACE IS AMAZING, ROUND #48,393:
Monster: *approaches*
Mel: *screams*
Ace: *looks faintly disbelieving*
(Sorry for the poor quality of caps; my copy is a VHS rip.)
People will try and tell you that the McCoy years were a bit shit. This is a lie. Those people are just jealous because their favourite Doctors didn't distract guards by engaging in a philosophical discussion ripe with existentialist and semiotic in-jokes. As so:
(Actually, that might be a slight exaggeration. I have this feeling that Four, at least, was wont to do so, especially when Douglas Adams was script-editing. But when Douglas Adams does it, it's puerile undergraduate humour. When Andrew Cartmel does it, it's ... well, good. Probably. SHUT UP, I AM TRYING TO THINK LIKE JOHN NATHAN TURNER. IT HURTS! Anyway, Seven does it with post-modernity.)
There is a space ship with fluffy dice.
"'Sup, dawg. I heard you like cliffhangers. So I put a cliffhanger in your cliffhanger so you can hang off a cliff while you hang off a cliff."
When I say that a small part of me still wishes I had this dress, I hope you'll understand that I was seven when I first saw it.
You know what's creepy, though? The production team knew, even if they never went so far as to put it in the script, that Ace lost her virginity to Glitz at the age of <16. And yet he addresses her as "sprog". Glitz is creepy, y'all. I bet Mel cuts his nads off.
AND NOW, A MEME!peace_bloom asked me to discuss some icons:
I like all of Henry VIII's wives (except Jane Seymour -- no, I don't know why, she just annoys me), but Katharine Parr is my favourite. She was the first Queen of England to become a published author, and encouraged Princess Elizabeth's intellectual pursuits. She was sensible and clever, and survived a plot to dethrone her -- not to mention Henry himself. Unfortunately, her next husband (whom she loved very much) was a douchebag who tried to seduce Elizabeth. Katharine died in childbirth. It's what you might call a monumental waste.
piecesofalice made this remark while we were watching "Warriors on the Cheap of the Deep". Five's era is pretty beige. It was the eighties, after all. Beige broken up by big bright colours (Tegan's eyeshadow, usually).
I like to joke a lot about Fivey being beige in personality, but he's actually quite complex. Any decade now, I'll forgive him for not being Four.
This was made byderogative. It's the most beautiful icon I have -- the colours are marvellous, and she looks imperious and a little sad, and very beautiful.
This is from a Warren Ellis comic called Nextwave. It only ran for twelve issues, and covers the, er, dubious adventures of a team of second-rate Marvel superheroes. Ellis says: "It’s an absolute distillation of the superhero genre. No plot lines, characters, emotions, nothing whatsoever. It’s people posing in the street for no good reason. It is people getting kicked, and then exploding. It is a pure comic book, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. And afterwards, they will explode."
Anyway, my icon is a line from Dirk Anger, who is in no way a parody of Nick Fury. He is over ninety years old, and once beat Winston Churchill in a hula hoop contest. His psychological problems include misogyny, bulimia, alcoholism, nicotine addiction, depression, sadism, and a fixation on a flowery house dress that may have belonged to his mother (who may or may not have been Andrea Dworkin.)
When he finally kills himself, he is resurrected as a zombie.
Someone said this on a messageboard, and it tickled my sense of humour. I like to use it during very earnest ship debates.
From the Pigeon books by Mo Willems. The Pigeon, for anyone who isn't familiar with this work of towering genius, is a bird with dreams and ambitions. He wants to drive a bus, to eat a hot dog without sharing, to stay up late and have a puppy. Because he is a simple pigeon in an unfair world, he is not allowed to do any of those things. Look, you can make him a hot dog!
Oh, Ace. Romana might be my favourite, but there's no denying you were the best companion the series has produced so far. Only Donna has come close to matching you. <3 <3 <3
REASONS WHY ACE IS AMAZING, ROUND #48,393:
Monster: *approaches*
Mel: *screams*
Ace: *looks faintly disbelieving*
(Sorry for the poor quality of caps; my copy is a VHS rip.)
People will try and tell you that the McCoy years were a bit shit. This is a lie. Those people are just jealous because their favourite Doctors didn't distract guards by engaging in a philosophical discussion ripe with existentialist and semiotic in-jokes. As so:
(Actually, that might be a slight exaggeration. I have this feeling that Four, at least, was wont to do so, especially when Douglas Adams was script-editing. But when Douglas Adams does it, it's puerile undergraduate humour. When Andrew Cartmel does it, it's ... well, good. Probably. SHUT UP, I AM TRYING TO THINK LIKE JOHN NATHAN TURNER. IT HURTS! Anyway, Seven does it with post-modernity.)
There is a space ship with fluffy dice.
"'Sup, dawg. I heard you like cliffhangers. So I put a cliffhanger in your cliffhanger so you can hang off a cliff while you hang off a cliff."
When I say that a small part of me still wishes I had this dress, I hope you'll understand that I was seven when I first saw it.
You know what's creepy, though? The production team knew, even if they never went so far as to put it in the script, that Ace lost her virginity to Glitz at the age of <16. And yet he addresses her as "sprog". Glitz is creepy, y'all. I bet Mel cuts his nads off.
AND NOW, A MEME!
peace_bloom asked me to discuss some icons:I like all of Henry VIII's wives (except Jane Seymour -- no, I don't know why, she just annoys me), but Katharine Parr is my favourite. She was the first Queen of England to become a published author, and encouraged Princess Elizabeth's intellectual pursuits. She was sensible and clever, and survived a plot to dethrone her -- not to mention Henry himself. Unfortunately, her next husband (whom she loved very much) was a douchebag who tried to seduce Elizabeth. Katharine died in childbirth. It's what you might call a monumental waste.
piecesofalice made this remark while we were watching "Warriors I like to joke a lot about Fivey being beige in personality, but he's actually quite complex. Any decade now, I'll forgive him for not being Four.
This was made by
derogative. It's the most beautiful icon I have -- the colours are marvellous, and she looks imperious and a little sad, and very beautiful. This is from a Warren Ellis comic called Nextwave. It only ran for twelve issues, and covers the, er, dubious adventures of a team of second-rate Marvel superheroes. Ellis says: "It’s an absolute distillation of the superhero genre. No plot lines, characters, emotions, nothing whatsoever. It’s people posing in the street for no good reason. It is people getting kicked, and then exploding. It is a pure comic book, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. And afterwards, they will explode."
Anyway, my icon is a line from Dirk Anger, who is in no way a parody of Nick Fury. He is over ninety years old, and once beat Winston Churchill in a hula hoop contest. His psychological problems include misogyny, bulimia, alcoholism, nicotine addiction, depression, sadism, and a fixation on a flowery house dress that may have belonged to his mother (who may or may not have been Andrea Dworkin.)
When he finally kills himself, he is resurrected as a zombie.
Someone said this on a messageboard, and it tickled my sense of humour. I like to use it during very earnest ship debates.
From the Pigeon books by Mo Willems. The Pigeon, for anyone who isn't familiar with this work of towering genius, is a bird with dreams and ambitions. He wants to drive a bus, to eat a hot dog without sharing, to stay up late and have a puppy. Because he is a simple pigeon in an unfair world, he is not allowed to do any of those things. Look, you can make him a hot dog!
