Doctor Who (2006) 2x06

[jmatonak]

I thought for a while Ricky lived and lied, but I'm too devious for my own good.

I liked Mr. Crane, the chief minion guy. I'm not saying he was a "good guy" or even a good person. But he was fun, and I especially liked the "oh no you don't!" when the Super Hypnotic Bluetooth went off.

I liked the final scene with Pete. I even liked seeing the weirdness of it all pop a vital fuse in his brain and cause him to stagger off. That was well acted- he's been a good sport and a "good bloke" through some really excessively weird events, and that last twist visibly wrecks something behind his eyes.

I was a bit surprised Mickey could be allowed to stay behind, but apparently he could.

Can't think of anything I didn't like, except the Doctor and the Lumic Cyber-Controller Thingy only did the first two steps of a familiar argument about imagination. But that's in the vein of not seeing as much as I wanted, so it's no fair to complain. Oh, wait, the exploding Cyberman head sucked. But in a super short scene way, so there's that.

The TV monster looks really cool, although a bit meta. Or, I am overthinking it.



I guess I should dip a toe into the wider fan community as it now exists. But I can already tell that there are going to be pro-Rose and anti-Rose factions, possibly with cute animal names. I don't know if I am up to it.

Comments

[scarlettgirl.livejournal.com]

I loved Mr. Crane. Not as much as Mrs. Moore, but pretty close. Huzzah for awesome secondary characters.

It did look like Mickey was tempted to go with the lie, didn't it? But I think it made the decision a bit more heart wrenching logical at the end. Although it would have been really incredible to have Mickey faking Ricky and having The Doctor know.

As far as fandom....

::sigh::

Rose does seem to be a bit polarizing - across the board. Sane and insane fandom factions alike.

And there is a very large fanpoodle contingent, isn't there?. The wee British girls squeeing very loudly (particularly at time_and_chips can be a bit off-putting but there is some great, shippy, fic posted and every now and then a rather brilliant ::cough:: conversation so I tend to hover.

new_who seems to be a much more grounded community with a mix of old and new skool fans. Even though it's not as big and popular as the shippy comms it is a bit more thoughtful and even-handed.

dwcanon_fodder is fun too but has been quiet as of late. Plus, as a *source* of all things Who - old and new - I can't rec doctorwho_epis enough. Thanks to them I've discovered a passion for Eight - despite the horrid movie.

Off lj Outpost Gallifrey seems to be the place to roll. A lot of ljr's participate in the forums and have chatted up the show's writers more than once. Like I said, everyone ends up at OG eventually. It's the motherboard.

Of course, you probably know a lot of this in which case...delete! delete!

[scarlettgirl.livejournal.com]

Err...that would be doctorwho_eps. Damn coding.

[jmatonak.livejournal.com]

I liked Mrs. Moore, but she didn't surprise me, and in that sense made less of an impression- but she was excellent nonetheless. I might have said something about her if my damn brain could damn work after staying up this damn late to see the ep.

I knew about Outpost, but the other places are news to me, so thank you very much!

Rose does seem to be a bit polarizing - across the board. Sane and insane fandom factions alike.

I like Rose. In both a hubba-hubba way and in a more platonic way. (Although those two things are very, very difficult to disentangle... you know how it is.) And I fear getting sucked into something like the old Spike thread. But the new show is so, so excellent that ultimately I know I'm going to go all fannish over it.

Rose is dreamy. Sigh. (It was a bit odd to watch Confidential this week. Billie Piper has a much more jaundiced view of Rose than I do.)