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?

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[phnelt.livejournal.com]

Buffy/Faith, woo! (little woo?) I was actually considering the ramifications for tinfoil Spike, but I mean, he's kinda crazy and it's hard to get yourself hands on transportation that fits in a sewer AND carries your belongings, so he might have still had to drive anwyay.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

true! Spike had very important luggage. Evil luggage. It all makes sense now.

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

Is the luggage itself inherently evil? Or does his presence, what's the word, imbue it with the evil. Is it evil if it's not carrying something of his?

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

now that is a philisophical question for the ages.

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

Don't I know it. I miss Buffy. I sometimes wish that I could go all maudlin drunk and really pine for all of my shows and characters that are gone. Does that make me more than normal weird?

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

see, I never knew Buffy as an open canon. It always had a beginning, a middle, and an end for me. I don't even know how I'm going to feel when shows that I've known as they happened start to end.

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

I'm worried that I'll watch the last episode of SG1 and refuse to come out of my room for a ridiculously long amount of time. I mean, I've been watching it ten years. It's so weird, I never thought about it, but there are very few shows that I've been totally obsessed with that I didn't watch as open canon. Hmm. Must ponder.