New Who 2x01

[sapote]

Seriously, no wonder England has a reputation (in my faith-crazed country) as a secular place. You've got Dr. Who!

No, I'm not trying to really bring the crazy, I'm just saying that he's an incarnated immortal being who cures lepers. Seriously, Russell T. Davies, I might have to dock some athiest points for that.

I mean, one of the reasons I'm falling hard for the Whoverse is that its hero actually makes moral choices I agree with (you would not believe how hard it is to find heroes who I don't think should actually be in jail for war crimes, no wait, you would believe it). I hope a little dose of "he's like Jesus, in a way" doesn't spoil it for me.

I am still suspending judgement on Ten. To be honest, before I started watching, I expected to prefer the later, cuter Who, just like I preferred the later, cuter Ray. I definitely haven't fallen hard for Ten, but he is an adorable, bouncy little fellow. I like his shoes? I am a little annoyed that they ditched the guy with the chemistry right before the body-swapping makeouts, but ::represses Doctor vs. Doctor feelings:: I will enjoy the shiny, dammit.

I am hoping to actually get caught up, because I have never (seriously) watched a show as it happened. I've always watched whole seasons at once, usually from a closed canon. And it would be nice to be able to spread out the squee over a longer period of time, instead of all of it happening over one weekend.

Also: do we just assume there are other rooms in the TARDIS that we never see, or do they exist in a timeless sort of state where they never have to sleep or eat or go to the bathroom?

Comments

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

I was more like, 'black hole! OMG world of yes to the max!' And then I was all, 'ooh, weird alien script that EVEN THE TARDIS cannot translate' (I'm a total sucker for the ancient script stuff). And then it just got more and more awesome. I mean, you had to know the Ood were going bad, but the way it was done and how it was maintained was just so many levels of awesome. It's just. I have THEORIES about black holes, what they can do, how to use the Schwarzfield radius to your advantage, and ditto for the Hawking effect. There is no bad there (unless you yourself have passed the Schwarzfield radius and cannot escape).

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

I was seriously eleven the last time I put thought into black holes, but the first thing I thought was "it's gravitational time dilation! They're not actually in orbit, they just think they are while they're stuck there for all eternity! That sucks."

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

Oh man, teenager for all eternity. That sucks out loud. I don't know, I've just always liked them. They are key to my theory of recharging a ZPM. What episode are you on now?

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

I am so delighted that you have a ZPM charging theory. I have all kinds of theories about John Sheppard and wider cultural archetypes, but I don't have any ZPM theories.

There is a big new squee post up for x08 and x09 on the main lj, and after that, I really couldn't handle any new episodes tonight. Tomorrow, no doubt, I will begin anew. At this rate I will be caught up by next week \o/

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow I'm holding a mini viewing party with my Doctor Who converts to watch the seventh episode. I'm excited for your almost catchupedness. Are your theories about John Sheppard going to make it into a story? If not, I'd love to hear them.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

oh, they're messy and mostly come from the SGA fandom hivemind - the sheepherd and the martyr myth, the hero and the deathwish, that sort of thing. I would be surprised if they're not in most of my stories, but spelling them out is a job for meta.

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

I feel the urge to go meta! meta! the same way that people say chug! in terrible movies and at the parties where I am bored the entire time.