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DW: The Twin Dilemma (aka "I AM FUCKING AWESOME!")
There is a Futurama quote that this episode *immediately* makes me think of:
Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry! ~ The Robot Devil
This was so completely over the top, it cracked me up. I can see why people tend to say that Six drove a nail in the coffin of Who. I can just picture poor faithful viewers sitting down in front of their TVs back in 1984 and going into WTFFFFF?? mode.
Oh wiki - you source of my information which I blindly follow, whether true or not. Wiki's telling me that the *concept* of Six was that the Doctor had this hard outer shell, but they'd slowly peel back the layers to reveal a "kind-hearted soul" over the episodes. That concept would be *great* if they were starting with a brand new character instead of a new incarnation. For everything I've seen, the Doctor's always the Doctor, but with each incarnation there's a few-degree shift in personality. However, Six sprinted off with a, "catch me if you can, you bastards!"
So a lot can be attributed to a regeneration gone wonky. At least in this episode. But still. (And people think Ten is bipolar.) The Doctor has SO many "I AM FUCKING AWESOME!" moments, which were really funny at first, but even I started getting sick of them towards the end. I wish I'd thought to make a couple of screen caps, because they are reeeeally "I am FABULOUS" times - I mean, he *says* that. :D He even manages to upstage Peri, so I suppose there was an upside. But...the yelling. I swear every line of dialog ended with an exclamation point in the script.
Oy poodles. This is an episode where you put a hand to your face and ask, "but...don't you at least want your main characters to be *likable?*" Thankfully Six wasn't *this* bad through his whole run, although still an arrogant jackass without much of a lovable side to balance it out. In the later episodes Six really does amuse me because he's just so...so PMSy.
Poor Peri. And the Doctor finally snaps after hearing "it's bigger on the inside!" for the 2,000th time... ;)
Okay, this episode did manage to make me empathize with Peri, since they did convey pretty well how much she could have been screwed over. She *just* joins up with this seemingly normal guy and he suddenly changes and goes nuts, dragging her off to a deserted planet. Highlighted how dependent she was on him. But then she continued to whine, and I began to think that a 1,000 years in a cave might do her some good.
As far as the A plot goes, the whole bug wanting to throw some planets into the sun to hatch his/her/its eggs was nothing to write home about. What confused me though was here you had this *Time Lord* who had to go and steal some Earth children so they could work out the computations. Even if these kids were geniuses, everything I've seen in Who makes me think that they still would be no match for the mind of a Time Lord. So that was my "yes, but..." moment for this episode. And I still like it when the Doctor runs into people he knows.
Oh! Wiki also told me that the cat pin the Doctor put on was supposed to represent something about traveling. Or something. Oh, here. For each subsequent story, the Doctor was to wear a different cat badge to symbolise that he was a "travelling cat of different walks." *nods* Of course! The symbolism is obvious... Wait, what? Okay, I just got giggly at the thought of Jacob at TWoP writing a 20-page essay on the cat pin. :D
Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry! ~ The Robot Devil
This was so completely over the top, it cracked me up. I can see why people tend to say that Six drove a nail in the coffin of Who. I can just picture poor faithful viewers sitting down in front of their TVs back in 1984 and going into WTFFFFF?? mode.
Oh wiki - you source of my information which I blindly follow, whether true or not. Wiki's telling me that the *concept* of Six was that the Doctor had this hard outer shell, but they'd slowly peel back the layers to reveal a "kind-hearted soul" over the episodes. That concept would be *great* if they were starting with a brand new character instead of a new incarnation. For everything I've seen, the Doctor's always the Doctor, but with each incarnation there's a few-degree shift in personality. However, Six sprinted off with a, "catch me if you can, you bastards!"
So a lot can be attributed to a regeneration gone wonky. At least in this episode. But still. (And people think Ten is bipolar.) The Doctor has SO many "I AM FUCKING AWESOME!" moments, which were really funny at first, but even I started getting sick of them towards the end. I wish I'd thought to make a couple of screen caps, because they are reeeeally "I am FABULOUS" times - I mean, he *says* that. :D He even manages to upstage Peri, so I suppose there was an upside. But...the yelling. I swear every line of dialog ended with an exclamation point in the script.
Oy poodles. This is an episode where you put a hand to your face and ask, "but...don't you at least want your main characters to be *likable?*" Thankfully Six wasn't *this* bad through his whole run, although still an arrogant jackass without much of a lovable side to balance it out. In the later episodes Six really does amuse me because he's just so...so PMSy.
Poor Peri. And the Doctor finally snaps after hearing "it's bigger on the inside!" for the 2,000th time... ;)
Okay, this episode did manage to make me empathize with Peri, since they did convey pretty well how much she could have been screwed over. She *just* joins up with this seemingly normal guy and he suddenly changes and goes nuts, dragging her off to a deserted planet. Highlighted how dependent she was on him. But then she continued to whine, and I began to think that a 1,000 years in a cave might do her some good.
As far as the A plot goes, the whole bug wanting to throw some planets into the sun to hatch his/her/its eggs was nothing to write home about. What confused me though was here you had this *Time Lord* who had to go and steal some Earth children so they could work out the computations. Even if these kids were geniuses, everything I've seen in Who makes me think that they still would be no match for the mind of a Time Lord. So that was my "yes, but..." moment for this episode. And I still like it when the Doctor runs into people he knows.
Oh! Wiki also told me that the cat pin the Doctor put on was supposed to represent something about traveling. Or something. Oh, here. For each subsequent story, the Doctor was to wear a different cat badge to symbolise that he was a "travelling cat of different walks." *nods* Of course! The symbolism is obvious... Wait, what? Okay, I just got giggly at the thought of Jacob at TWoP writing a 20-page essay on the cat pin. :D
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Ooh! Ooh! The celery represents the Zen of Five! :: imagines Jacob going off on that concept ::
I seem to recall having a ginormous WTF??? reaction to this story. Fortunately, that's pretty much all I recall, apart from the regeneration psychosis.
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Oh, I loved when he bullshitted this reason about the celery to Peri (I think it was Peri) when he just dorkily picked it up in Castrovalva and probably just liked it. Because the Doctor is deeply weird. (Well, anyone that gets near celery is weird in my book...)
Ooh! Ooh! The celery represents the Zen of Five! :: imagines Jacob going off on that concept ::
Bwahahahahaha!!
I seem to recall having a ginormous WTF??? reaction to this story. Fortunately, that's pretty much all I recall, apart from the regeneration psychosis.
It's really hard to remember anything *but* the regeneration psychosis, and I just watched this last night. :D
Oh, and the very last line - "I'm the Doctor! Whether you like it or not!" I can picture people being, "Not!" and switching it off. Oh, Doctor Who.
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The celery does not eat me.no subject
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Mostly it's just Friday afternoon, I've been sick half the week, and I'm weird to begin with.
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Yay!
I've been sick half the week,
Awww.
and I'm weird to begin with.
Duh. ;)
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I'm thinking of having Rose ask the Doctor about it in fic, but him just giving some sort of short answer of, "Mainly it's to avoid the ridiculousness of an eighty-year-old suddenly getting the urge to become a rugger."
"Eighty-year-old?"
"You never know."
"Right. I've decided you are no longer allowed to do that whole body switching thing..."
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I'm surprised that there Seven actually made to the screen. After the Six fiasco I thought it would get drown for sure.
What confused me though was here you had this *Time Lord* who had to go and steal some Earth children so they could work out the computations.
Yeah, that was the "Yes, but..." moment for me the first time I saw that. Maybe the Six regeneration was just Not as Smart as the other ones.
For each subsequent story, the Doctor was to wear a different cat badge to symbolise that he was a "travelling cat of different walks.
I remember the gaugy cat pins. Another one of those WTF moments...
These episodes are months away for me. But I still dread some of them...
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It is a wee bit surprising, but it seems like British TV isn't as effected by things like ratings, since they don't have to answer to advertisers.
These episodes are months away for me. But I still dread some of them...
Yeah, this was... Wow.