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[sab]

Despite real problems with the last four episodes of Doctor Who (the bit where it's just relying on one-liners and Tennant doing his Tennant things and quite possibly actually phoning it in -- though as I said several weeks ago I can't quite tell if it's the writers or Tennant bringing the emo scenery chewing) -- I loved "Midnight." Loved it! Here, mouse over the white for why: The Doctor! Finally realizing his life is CHEAP, and that people aren't always good, and that it is actually quite dangerous for him to travel without a companion, and, again, that he's just a mortal guy whose name, "I'm the Doctor!" can't save him anymore, here in S4. God, Rusty. How did it happen that you impressed me more than Moffet's (incredibly predictable, emo, though clever in concept) two parter?

Here this is a really good blogpost by some UK fanboy named Lawrence Miles who feels the same way I do about season 4.

Oh and since I haven't pimped her, Mary Ann Johnson is my fannish nemesis! except that we're really just fans coexiting in the same fanverse. Anyway, she's a TV critic and blogger who also thinks she'll run off with David Tennant some day... poke around. It's also syndicated at flickfilosopher. Go say hi to Ms. Mary Ann. And let me know if you know her. As she's clearly one of us.

She just started posting fanfic to her blog. So far it's somethign something, part 3/?, that seems to involve the Doctor and an OFC with violet eyes....?

Comments

[selenak.livejournal.com]

As opposed to you, though Lawrence "Mad Larry" Miles is impossible to take seriously these days...

ETA: specifically: any man who bashes Donna, Catherine Tate, and Neil Gaiman in his rants with the theme of "why did Rusty ask Paul, Steven and Rob BUT NOT ME" underlying may have interesting things to say otherwise, but so loses because of the former that I can't appreciate him on the later.

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

The white-text thing only works if someone has a white LJ-background. Mine is blue, so the white text stands out very nicely. XDXD Just an FYI.

[geekturnedvamp.livejournal.com]

I actually roomed with MaryAnn at a convention about twenty years ago, and always wondered what happened to her!

[pene.livejournal.com]

did I tell you they were showing a marathon of Doctor Who on UKTV one day and I was home with a sick Joss. I saw only one Rose episode (where everyone's faces are being eaten by the television in the 1950s), the first Donna episode, the first Martha episode and then a whole lot of Martha episodes like... the Family of Blood and Blink and many others. I hadn't seen any full episodes before so it was lovely and eye opening.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I AM MAKING A NOTE HERE. To tell myself to come back and respond when it's NOT 1:30 am cause this is a great post :D

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I eagerly await your response.... Bring it on!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

am so behind today but...HERE :D

The bit in white? PERFECT. Spot on. SO TRUE. And it really ads in to so many things this season - him being taught, the hard way, that maybe he ISN'T the only one who should make a decision, that others can fix things, etc etc.

Maybe he needs this reminder every so often, and gets it. In between companions. Who knows? There's time in there - hell, he could wander off for decades and flash back to the same moment. But he needed it now.

I am not one of those who thinks he devalues his companions, but he DOES take them for granted at times.