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sophia_sol) wrote2011-01-02 09:07 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2011-01-02 09:07 pm
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A Christmas Carol
Not done catching up with f/rlists yet, even skipping over all (...most) of the fic. But I have too many posts I want to make! I was all antsy over my vacation, wanting to be able to TELL THINGS to you, O Beloved Internet! And they're too long to just all get smooshed together into a Things post, but I don't want to spam other people's f/rlists with too many posts, so I'll hold off from the others just yet.
But let me start with Doctor Who.
So! I just watched the latest Doctor Who (and by "just watched" I mean "watched it on the evening of the 25th and wrote this post at that point, and am only just posting it now, over a week later"), and HERE IS MY AS-IT-HAPPENED REACTION TO IT:
1. A leetle reminiscent of Sherlock in the bit where the Doctor deduces why Mr What's-his-face didn't hit the boy....
2. Oh my god the bowtie thing: " I wear it and I don't care; that's why it's cool" -- and then the old version of Mr What's-his face touches HIS bowtie and OMG he totally picked up the bowtie-wearing habit from the Doctor! BWEEHEEEHEE!
3. The Doctor's busy doing his "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" thing with not being able to save the shark, and he says we'd need a fully-functioning life support system to save her. And then Kazran says "You mean like an ice-box? Okay!" And it's just like WHEEE, unexpected response FTW!
4. I loved the bit where Kazran was shouting the security code, as if the Doctor and his young self could hear him through the screen -- because that is so what I do when I am watching tv or movies, telling the characters on screen what they ought to be doing
5. SUCH RIDICULOUS FUN. Sleigh-rides pulled by sharks through the air. Of course.
6. THE TIME BOTH THE DOCTOR AND YOUNG KAZRAN HAD FEZZES. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN MY FACE. SO THRILLED.
7. "Doctor, I think she's going to kiss me" "I think you're right" -- SO AWKWARD. But then it turned out the Doctor actually had decent kissing advice!
8. "As a very old friend once took a very long time to explain, life isn't fair." OHHHH *sadface*
9. And in the NEXT ON: "I'll need [blah blah blah] and a fez." and "I wear a stetson now." (and then River Song shoots the stetson off. OF COURSE!) You have no idea how thrilled I am that they are continuing with this ridiculous joke. IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY.
Okay. So those were my as-it-happened reactions. My conclusion: Great episode, lots of fun, I grinned madly all the way through it and multiple times giggled out loud with glee. ALWAYS a good sign. Totally ridiculous episode, of course, but that's what Christmas specials are supposed to be, and it was grand fun nonetheless. OH DOCTOR WHO I LOVE YOU SO.
Also, very obvious it was a Moffatt episode, what with the interest in timeywimeyness and romance. Just saying.
Also, the doctor got accidentally married to Marilyn Monroe. *dies laughing* It's like an SGA fic, where the main character is in another world with customs they don't understand, and through various misunderstandings and hijinks ends up married! (Except you know me and my insistence that THE DOCTOR IS ASEXUAL DAMNIT. So a completely non-sexy accident is all it'd better be. No AMTDI here, plskthx.)
Also, Amy and Rory got sadly very little to do in this episode, but I loved both of them in all of their few appearances. Amy coming and being all "The Doctor was trying to turn you into a nicer person, but he was trying to do it the nice way" (not an exact quote) and AMY'S THERE TO DO IT THE NOT-NICE WAY. AWESOME. And, as I believe I mentioned earlier in response to the three scenes released earlier, Amy/Rory honeymoon roleplaying FOR THE WIN. That was super adorable.
AND NOW I CANNOT WAIT TILL THE NEXT SERIES. CAN IT BE SOON PLS?
So yes, all of that is what I wrote upon watching the episode. Now, upon coming home today, I talked with Dinah (my engineering housemate who's also a fan of Doctor Who) about it, and we squeed together. But she brought up the fact that the physics of the shark-and-carriage DID NOT MAKE SENSE, and I remembered how that had niggled at me a bit when I watched but then brushed it aside. And as Dinah was trying to explain the exact details of how it didn't make sense, she said it made her want to draw a free-body diagram. So I asked her to draw one for me. It is a thing of beauty. Mostly it works out to: given the force of gravity acting on the carriage, even with the forward force exerted by the shark it should be hanging down below the level of the shark. To keep the carriage moving strictly forward, the shark would have to pull at a slightly upwards angle to counteract the force of gravity. But the images we saw in the episode involved the carriage being directly behind the shark, no angle involved!
Okay, end of minor nitpicky detail.... (no really! I loved the shark-and-carriage! It was just also REALLY REALLY IMPLAUSIBLE!)
But let me start with Doctor Who.
So! I just watched the latest Doctor Who (and by "just watched" I mean "watched it on the evening of the 25th and wrote this post at that point, and am only just posting it now, over a week later"), and HERE IS MY AS-IT-HAPPENED REACTION TO IT:
1. A leetle reminiscent of Sherlock in the bit where the Doctor deduces why Mr What's-his-face didn't hit the boy....
2. Oh my god the bowtie thing: " I wear it and I don't care; that's why it's cool" -- and then the old version of Mr What's-his face touches HIS bowtie and OMG he totally picked up the bowtie-wearing habit from the Doctor! BWEEHEEEHEE!
3. The Doctor's busy doing his "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" thing with not being able to save the shark, and he says we'd need a fully-functioning life support system to save her. And then Kazran says "You mean like an ice-box? Okay!" And it's just like WHEEE, unexpected response FTW!
4. I loved the bit where Kazran was shouting the security code, as if the Doctor and his young self could hear him through the screen -- because that is so what I do when I am watching tv or movies, telling the characters on screen what they ought to be doing
5. SUCH RIDICULOUS FUN. Sleigh-rides pulled by sharks through the air. Of course.
6. THE TIME BOTH THE DOCTOR AND YOUNG KAZRAN HAD FEZZES. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN MY FACE. SO THRILLED.
7. "Doctor, I think she's going to kiss me" "I think you're right" -- SO AWKWARD. But then it turned out the Doctor actually had decent kissing advice!
8. "As a very old friend once took a very long time to explain, life isn't fair." OHHHH *sadface*
9. And in the NEXT ON: "I'll need [blah blah blah] and a fez." and "I wear a stetson now." (and then River Song shoots the stetson off. OF COURSE!) You have no idea how thrilled I am that they are continuing with this ridiculous joke. IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY.
Okay. So those were my as-it-happened reactions. My conclusion: Great episode, lots of fun, I grinned madly all the way through it and multiple times giggled out loud with glee. ALWAYS a good sign. Totally ridiculous episode, of course, but that's what Christmas specials are supposed to be, and it was grand fun nonetheless. OH DOCTOR WHO I LOVE YOU SO.
Also, very obvious it was a Moffatt episode, what with the interest in timeywimeyness and romance. Just saying.
Also, the doctor got accidentally married to Marilyn Monroe. *dies laughing* It's like an SGA fic, where the main character is in another world with customs they don't understand, and through various misunderstandings and hijinks ends up married! (Except you know me and my insistence that THE DOCTOR IS ASEXUAL DAMNIT. So a completely non-sexy accident is all it'd better be. No AMTDI here, plskthx.)
Also, Amy and Rory got sadly very little to do in this episode, but I loved both of them in all of their few appearances. Amy coming and being all "The Doctor was trying to turn you into a nicer person, but he was trying to do it the nice way" (not an exact quote) and AMY'S THERE TO DO IT THE NOT-NICE WAY. AWESOME. And, as I believe I mentioned earlier in response to the three scenes released earlier, Amy/Rory honeymoon roleplaying FOR THE WIN. That was super adorable.
AND NOW I CANNOT WAIT TILL THE NEXT SERIES. CAN IT BE SOON PLS?
So yes, all of that is what I wrote upon watching the episode. Now, upon coming home today, I talked with Dinah (my engineering housemate who's also a fan of Doctor Who) about it, and we squeed together. But she brought up the fact that the physics of the shark-and-carriage DID NOT MAKE SENSE, and I remembered how that had niggled at me a bit when I watched but then brushed it aside. And as Dinah was trying to explain the exact details of how it didn't make sense, she said it made her want to draw a free-body diagram. So I asked her to draw one for me. It is a thing of beauty. Mostly it works out to: given the force of gravity acting on the carriage, even with the forward force exerted by the shark it should be hanging down below the level of the shark. To keep the carriage moving strictly forward, the shark would have to pull at a slightly upwards angle to counteract the force of gravity. But the images we saw in the episode involved the carriage being directly behind the shark, no angle involved!
Okay, end of minor nitpicky detail.... (no really! I loved the shark-and-carriage! It was just also REALLY REALLY IMPLAUSIBLE!)
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Ahahaha. What I love most about this show is the moments where you suddenly wake up from being completely entranced and involved and go "Wait, what? What's even going on? There's a freaking shark-drawn carriage in the sky! What logical sequence of events could have led to this?" and then you reassure yourself that there was one, even if it made no sense, and go back to being all slack-jawed and heart-eyed.
At least, that's what I do...
Oh, and I thought of you and your "THE DOCTOR IS ASEXUAL DAMNIT" at the kissing-advice part! Because he's all like "EH WHAT? I LIKE DESIGNING SCREWDRIVERS!"
I REALLY LIKE THIS HEADGEAR FASHIONISTA THING :D
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The line about designing sonic screwdrivers made me very happy! Also MWAHAHA I am infecting your brain!
The doctor is a fashionista of awesome in so many ways and always has been. And hats are cool! I am very glad he so clearly knows this *grin*
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Remember, I'm now suffering through Season 3 of SGA (I PRETTY MUCH HATE ALL THE CHARACTERS, BUT ESPECIALLY BECKETT AND WEIR, OMG I HATE THEM) after enduring 8 seasons of SG1, pretty much only because I won't let myself read "Written by the Victors" until I've finished SGA. That's the kind of large canon phobia we're dealing with.
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