yes, yes, I'm eternally the last one on the fandom wagon.

[sapote]

I am wondering if I should count watching seven episodes of Dr. Who as a big accomplishment - it's not like it was painful - but given my gnat-sized attention span this week, I'm going to go ahead and say: yay! Check that off the list!

And also, oh my GOD I love Nine and Rose. I am trying to block all awareness that their love is not eternal from my mind. Seriously, I don't know what it is, but somewhere between Christopher Eccleston's enormous ears and Billie Piper's metric ton of eyeliner there is love in my soul. I spend half of every episode just smishing them.

I don't know what it is about their dynamic, but their body language here just hits me in the guh.



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And additionally, just for the pretty.


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Is it just that I started paying attention to this sort of thing, or is Dr. Who (at least S1 to episode 8) really beautifully filmed? Because I was playing with screencaps, and seriously, so many shots were so well-composited that it felt like someone had drawn them.

I'm up to 1x09, The Empty Child, and the episode could seriously be retitled "The One Where Rose Does All Her Thinking With Her Ladyparts", but on the other hand, I am pretty sure that Captain Jack smells fantastic, so it's not really her fault.

I am amused at the fact that Captain Jack's first on-screen line was, essentially, "nice ass". And that most of his early character development is devoted to the fact that Captain Jack is universally pro-ass, indeed. I know the Captain circa Torchwood fairly well, and it is interesting how young dw-era Captain Jack is, and how seriously he takes his early and somewhat nascent angst. Oh, Captain Jack. You really have no idea what canon has in store for you.

I am also enjoying that I am part of a long tradition of people who are really, really curious about how Time Lords reproduce.

ETA: Re: The Doctor Dances: Really? Did a particular OT3 just enter the canon in a big camera-fades-out sort of way? Because y'all were telling me it was canon, and I was not believing you, which shows what I know.

Comments

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

I love Nine/Rose together; they had great chemistry. You may have seen it if for no other reason than I've rec'd it like mad, but there's a lovely little Nine/Rose/Jack vid to Jason Mraz's The Remedy - you can get it here: http://xandrazander.powweb.com/index.php?title=vid_the_remedy_jason_mraz_1&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

No, I hadn't seen that, and it is awesome, so thanks for the rec. Tiny little harddrive = it takes me a while to get to things that aren't on imeem.

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

You see, for me there are not words for my love of Nine and Rose, or Nine/Rose or any possible combination or universe where they exist. I sort of watched The Parting of the Ways before most of the rest of that season, so in a way when I was watching it it just felt infinitely rare and precious, like a fantastic sunset on the prairie where the colours fill the horizon from end to end--like maybe there is a God, and maybe they felt like using the biggest canvas for some finger painting-- and loving it and knowing there's about 12 minutes before it's completely dark.

I don't know how spoiled you are, but I'm assuming you know that there's Martha now. If not, my sincerest apologies. I got spoiled for that and I honestly just froze; I totally was in shock. To this day when I think about the lack of Rose in my Whoverse I get all distressed (which probably says something really bad about how scary obsessive I get, you know, so deep therapy has not touched it?).

I am seriously not kidding. ALL of my friends, only two of which have actually watched Doctor Who, know exactly what I am talking about when I start flailing. I'm pathetically in love with them, that's all there is to it. ps, try to, you know, actually sleep.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

I saw the Empty Child months ago, but starting with and for Captain Jack, it turns out, doesn't give him enough of a context. When I was watching it first I didn't understand the kind of crazed optimism Dr. Who is about, which Jack kind of acts as a foil to. It's also interesting to look at Torchwood with Dr. Who as context - Dr. Who is meant to be all-ages, sure, but it's still really nonviolent, even for an all-ages show.

In short, and analysis aside, yes, I love them rather a lot.

I am aware of the Coming of the Martha, yes. I am hoping she is cool, but I'm not sure how cut out I am for the acceptance of inevitable change that seems to come with Dr. Who. I mean, I could hardly handle it when Buffy graduated high school.

::points proudly to timestamp:: I slept until NINE! I didn't know that was possible.

[lurkmuch.livejournal.com]

EEEE! Eccleston's Doctor was my very first introduction to Doctor Who and I loved it like mad. I was watching it as it aired over there, and watched a tiny new fandom hatch. And yes, that OT3 is totally canon. TOTALLY. *nodnod*. But yes, this is just the cutest show. I like Ten well enough, but god I love Nine. (Beware Parting of the Ways, episode 13. For I am made of stone, and it broke me. Broke, I tell you. It was a year before I could rewatch!!)

The Empty Child I watched at home all alone at 2 am and scared the bejesus out of myself. (To this day, roommates and I will text "Are you my mummy?" to one another late at night.)

And there is some lovely, lovely old fic out there for all permutations of Nine, Jack & Rose. I highly recommend anything by misscam for your Nine/Rose fix. Her master page is here: http://misscam.livejournal.com/221479.html

Also, for some smokin' OT3, check out: Slight Psychic Confessions at http://www.livejournal.com/users/casirafics/105018.html and the New Orleans series http://www.whofic.com/series.php?seriesid=144

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

::does the happy rec dance:: Thank you!

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Luckily, even though gerbal is distinctly anti-Who he deigned to sit near me the first time I watched The Empty Child, because my brother is my default grab-by-the-arm-and-shriek person when tv gets scary. I made it through the second, in-order watching okay, but I knew to watch it at 10 a.m. with the doors locked and the lights on *g*.

I am SO WOORIED about ep 13. And I'm starting to really feel for TW Cap Jack, having some knowledge of him young(er) and happy(ier).

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

is worried spelled that way? No! It's not! ::spams own comments::

[lurkmuch.livejournal.com]

I was warned about The Empty Child by both roommates, who know of my inability to watch anything horror without shrieking and flailing. (S even said "Dude. It is as bad as that One Episode of X-Files with Bugs Of Which We Do Not Speak, and seriously, you should wait until morning.") Had I a couch in my room, I would totally have been hiding behind it.

I'm not kidding when I say I couldn't rewatch ep 13 for like a year, and I watched all the other episodes repeatedly.

And yes, Captain Jack was younger and happier with the Doctor. (I love stories set in the time between Empty Child and Boom Town. So much happiness.)

And now I'm off to re-read a bunch of Ninth Doctor fics I stumbled upon while digging those recs up for you.

[prchung.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I deleted that comment, but it dawned on me that you are catching up. Don't want to spoil anything.

Yeah! Welcome to the Nine/Rose love wagon. Never too late to fall in love with love, which is what those two are. They are this brilliant little anomalous jewel in Doctor Who that will forever be the perfect, eternal love.

I definitely want to see more fic out you. :)

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Thank you for not spoiling me! And oh, I have OTPed like I've never OTPed before before over those two. ::happy sigh:: I am willing to enjoy Ten and Martha, I am, but... oh, Nine/Rose.