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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[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).

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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.