Little Doctor Who prattling

[huinare]

- New Who: Ponds' departure.  That's pretty much what I thought would happen after seeing the preview capping the prior episode.  Which makes me wish I had blogged my hypothesis beforehand, so that I could now point to the entry as evidence and say "see, interwebs, I called it."  I'm probably not the only one who saw that coming though.

- Classic Who: I am still dilly-dallying through the first season (1963).  Fortunately for me, given I didn't prefer the first few plot arcs (each of which spans 2 to 6 ~25-min episodes), I've found I'm really enjoying the arcs starting with "Keys of Marinus."   I finished "The Aztecs" a couple days ago and loved it, though it's probably riddled with historical inaccuracies; the visuals were gorgeous, the issues regarding human sacrifice were fascinating, and I loved the secondary characters.  On that note, "How to Make Cocoa," a DVD extra hosted by badly-animated Tlotoxl and Tonila.  I love those guys.

- On an unrelated note, "Sarcastaball."  XD  South Park may be crude, but it's almost never not clever.

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, I cannot really love classic Who. I can see that Matt Smith is to some extent being set to hark back to William Hartnell's interpretation, which is all very well and geeky and makes me suspect that there may be tentative plans to wrap the whole thing up in some sort of Ouroboros kind of way... but that characterisation doesn't *quite* do it for me.

I quite liked the Ponds last stand, specially the GIANT ANGEL, but... I don't think you should really be able to get rid of characters by losing them in time, when it's a timetravel show.

OK, so 1938 Manhatten is a fixed point in space and time. Fair enough. But I had this niggling voice in my head that says 'well just pick them up in 1939 then!' which would not shut up and let me just enjoy the spectacle. Stupid head-voice.

[imighthaveknown.livejournal.com]

I kinda thought they'd somehow end up raising Melody anyway, but I guess not. That would probably create some kind of massive paradox, seeing as there would essentially be no River Song.

[independence1776]

I want to watch Classic Who someday. I've seen at least one episode (not serial) from every Doctor save Five and Six. I have seen all of Seven and Ace's run, though. Ace is awesome.