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

[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.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

I am so looking forward to Seven, and everyone seems to glow about Ace.

I've actually yet to see most of the Doctors in any episodes, although there was an anomalous instance back in about 1999 where I saw one of the classic episodes and was quite intrigued (I think it was Four, but the memory is pretty vague). And then I could never figure out when it was on and never saw it again..

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Interesting you say that about Ace : at the time of first broadcast, there was definitely a feeling that Ace was trying FAR too hard for cool, in that slightly lame manner of a 'cool kid' whose dialogue was all written by 40 year olds - and was generally quite embarrassing. (Not Bonnie Langford levels of embarrassing, but still)

But this is probably the kind of thing that improves as time goes by and the audience no longer notices she is using slang that is 3 years out of date and wearing clothes that are too young for her. :-D

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Hah, I could see where that issue would kind of be mitigated over time.