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

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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.



(1x07)

And additionally, just for the pretty.


(1x05)

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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.

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[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.

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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.