this week's Doctor Who
Sep. 14th, 2008 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird_ljAbout half an hour before watching Turn Left, I was watching Normal Again.
You know, seeing that many alternate realities being played with so expertly can really do strange things to your brain.
It's strange, because when they started the whole Donna-never-met-the-Doctor thing, I was going "Ooh. It'll be interesting to see what Donna is like without the Doctor - getting to be a PA, and not getting pulled into space on her wedding day..." and it didn't really occur to me that the rest of the world might be different too.
And even when the Doctor died, I still didn't get it for a minute.
But then the body count started - Martha, Sarah Jane, the Titanic, the fat monsters, the cars, (and bees! still with the disappearing bees!), and I just sat there, fascinated, and completely appalled at the same time...
You know, Rose Tyler has gone all hardcore, but so has Donna. I'm not entirely sure which one of them rocks more.
And I do love the fact that, with only two words, she could not only send him a message, but let him know exactly who had sent it and why. That's just awesome...
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Date: 2008-09-14 06:47 pm (UTC)And I do love the fact that, with only two words, she could not only send him a message, but let him know exactly who had sent it and why.
Same here. :)
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Date: 2008-09-14 09:54 pm (UTC)I'm so enjoying this season!
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Date: 2008-09-14 10:58 pm (UTC)She's so unimportant, but she saves the world! Who'da thought.
I was confused by the disappearing hospital, thinking that 'hang on- that was Martha, not Donna!', and kept getting more confused, til it finally dawned on me that it's all because the Doctor is now dead, and he saved all those situations. Some with her, some with Martha.
How very cool.
I don't get the bees reference though?
Rose being able to zoom through time into alternate realities as well as other universes is way cool too. And is it just me, or has she...changed? I thought her teeth looked different, or she looked thinner, or something. Oh, and in the DWC afterwards, gawd Billie looked soooo different! Was it the lack of make-up? If it was, I much prefer her without then, she looked so much nicer!
Two to go, two to go....
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Date: 2008-09-15 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-15 06:54 am (UTC)It's come up quite a few times - when I get my hands on the dvds, I'm going to check.
But Donna's mentioned it at least three times this season. Apparently all the bees have been disappearing.
I'm not entirely sure whether this is a running joke, or has vital plot significance...
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:00 am (UTC)It really is fantastic.
I managed to hold out for a while, and then I happened to see a five second snippet while walking past someone's television. It was set inside 10 Downing Street (British Parliament), and went like this:
The Doctor holds out his hands frantically, to stop all the guards who are about to arrest him. "Wait! The Prime Minister's an alien!"
The guards look at him as if to say Yeah right, mate. Who do you think you're kidding?
The Doctor puts his hands in his pockets and says, "Nah, that's never going to work, is it?"
The guards shake their heads, silently.
The Doctor nods, says "fair enough", and legs it down the corridor...
That scene pretty much got me hooked. :)
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Date: 2008-09-15 11:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-15 11:53 am (UTC)I was gonna recommend surfthechannel.com, but they've removed all their eps, someone must have complained. :-(
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Date: 2008-09-15 11:56 am (UTC)That got me interested enough to want to see more....and now I'm hopelessly hooked...
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Date: 2008-09-15 11:59 am (UTC)Googling it sadly gives me no more info, so I'm guessing they're building up to a major storyline for next season?
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Date: 2008-09-15 09:25 pm (UTC)I will of course, be buying them on dvd eventually, but if you're wanting them sooner, I can recommend the services of the wonderful
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Date: 2008-09-15 09:33 pm (UTC)Now I just need a cable cord for the tv..
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Date: 2008-09-15 10:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-15 10:59 pm (UTC)But, I has all the others still! And the little DWC that come after. So, in two weeks' time, two tapes can wing their way to other people, no probs... :-)
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Date: 2008-09-15 11:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-16 12:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-16 02:08 am (UTC)Hey, I have no idea how to make pretty icons, and was getting bored with my non-inventive one...did I do this one right? ish?
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Date: 2008-09-16 02:17 am (UTC)As another person with almost no idea about icons (I made my default in powerpoint...), let me recommend these three communities as good places to pick up icons from people who know what they're doing.
Weekly or daily newsletters are where I've picked up most of mine...
From Laney
Date: 2008-09-16 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-16 04:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-16 10:55 am (UTC)How's about this one? :-D
(it looks better before it gets shrinkeded in LJ- makes it a bit fuzzy?)
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Date: 2008-09-16 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-16 11:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-16 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-16 09:54 pm (UTC)Too funny.
Not many men can carry off a decorative vegetable, y'know.
Aww, you don't like my icecream icon? *pout*
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Date: 2008-09-19 03:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-19 03:42 am (UTC)From Laney
Date: 2008-09-22 12:40 pm (UTC)I've just been trawling youtube for The Curse of Fatal Death. It's funny (not that I've seen all of it).
And have you also seen the following things?
- Catherine Tate and David Tennant in an English class (Comic Relief - she's doing one of her characters from the Catherine Tate show)
- 'Tony Blair' regenerating into David Tennant (Dead Ringers)
- David Tennant as a Gorgeous Assistant (Dead Ringers)
They're worth a look...
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Date: 2008-09-22 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-26 07:38 am (UTC)voila! Tony Blair = DT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXUEpgZvckk
Can't find the other one, soz. Unless Anonymous person means this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4dUQgIaXGg Weiiiird. Love him, but that man just doesn't look good in drag, sorry. ;-)