...ugh, don't remind me. Of course, I can understand how that side of Doctor Who (very common in the RTD days) appeals to people who grew up loving Doctor Who, but as someone who grew up only tangentially aware that Doctor Who existed I find it completely unpalatable.
"No need for support in zero gravity!"
"But...isn't there gravity in these ships? I mean we seem to be---"
"I SAID NO NEED!"
"But...isn't there gravity in these ships? I mean we seem to be---"
"I SAID NO NEED!"
I have to say, although I actually like the style of music that plays over top here, it just doesn't fit. A few days ago when a friend of mine linked to this video on Facebook, I took a minute and swapped in the first song that came to mind that *did* fit (a bit of a snide choice, even, since the same artist often does glitchier, more electronic music) and it confirmed for me that the music selection here was sub-optimal.
Yeah, a friend of mine on Facebook posted it a few days ago, and most of the other friends who commented had the same opinion, so actually I threw a track from The Flashbulb on top to see if it'd play better: [keithzg.ca] There's a bit of a joke in it, in that The Flashbulb sometimes does very similar music to the original video music, but the music just really doesn't fit at all (my way of being a bit snide about the choice).
Yet we live in a world where neither the 17th Precinct or Virtuality (which was, I thought, really rather awesome; hard-sci-fi on TV? Pinch me, for surely I dream. Plus I'm a sucker for the bait-and-switch of killing off the obvious hero character captain, and replacing him with the previously supporting-seeming character with ambiguous morals and motives) get the greenlight at much more modest budgets, but Terra Nova . . . sigh. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm Pro-Terra Nova just because it's still way, way more interesting than another CSI clone or, saints preserve us, more "reality" TV. But it's quite solidly the least that science fiction television can accomplish.
It probably says something about me that, upon seeing that picture, my first thought was along the lines of "huh, that looks like a weird controller design, is that just some odd silly fantasy controller or am I clueless for not knowing?" My second thought was slightly less nerdy, but I will express it in the nerdiest way possible: the relative placement of that controller is sub-optimal (in fact, it is arguably misaligned).
Wait, Rachel Lefevre is in this show? Dammit. There's no justice in the world (even if apparently there's a heaven?). By all rights, she should be a main character in some brilliant and unique new show, but nope, she's stuck acting in nonsense like this, and Victor Fresco . . . well, IMDB is listing him as an Executive Producer on 1 episode of "Man Up". No justice, I say, no justice. (In a fair world, of course, Better Off Ted would have gotten six seasons and a movie.)
You're not punk, and I'm telling everyone!
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Obvious troll is obvious.
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Obvious troll is obvious.
I feel like this is one of those shows that the earlier episodes actually seem better in retrospect, because having seen later episodes so much more makes sense and the earlier plots often seem so essential with the benefit of foresight. And not to spoil too much, but in episode 14 something happens that in any other show would have to take place in the season finale. Instead, there's 6 more episodes of increasing chaos and bloodshed, culminating in a rather bonkers season finale. The pace of that finale never quite lets go, either; the second season premiere hits the ground running at full speed still, and rarely does the show let up after that.
The difference is that Moffat isn't necessarily in undying, unrequited love with Alex Kingston. RTD, on the other hand, is hopelessly and unrepentantly infatuated with John Barrowman, and it has constantly affected his judgement.
Heh, on that count you may indeed be right.
"Walter identifies with Aaron's isolation and his need for magic mushrooms..." oh ho ho, I see what you did there.
Hmmm I dunno. The Sixers seemed to know exactly what the markings were, while Sky (Skye?) was expressing curiosity when she brought Our Intrepid Boy Explorer to them. She seemed to be pondering that the markings had something to do with Commander Taylor marking the area off limits, and the final scene between him and her made it seem like she didn't know what the markings were, but she was going to try and find out. I suspect more that she (with Boy) will be prompted some way to seek out the Sixers to figure out this mystery, or something along those lines. She'll be our narrative device getting a member of the family (which it seems our camera can never deviate too far from) to have the stereotypical "get taken/taken-in by the bad guys, find out major mythology elements that makes things less black and white" plot movement.
You know, I could hate this show for being so stereotypical, but it's like if tropes were Lego and you built a show out of them, and it was about time travel and dinosaurs. So actually I'm just enjoying the hell out of it.
You know, I could hate this show for being so stereotypical, but it's like if tropes were Lego and you built a show out of them, and it was about time travel and dinosaurs. So actually I'm just enjoying the hell out of it.
Terra Nova: It Ain't Shakespeare, But Hey, Shakespeare Didn't Have Dinosaurs
Yet another reason why we should be subsidizing vaccinations like these---oh wait that'd encourage promiscuity and socialism. Nevermind then. Sigh.
Err, don't take this the wrong way (I'm not going "haha! you are so wrong!" or anything), but that's not what happens.
-Wikipedia claims "The Doctor destroys the link and the Master attacks Rassilon in an act of revenge for a lifetime of manipulation, disappearing along with the other Time Lords in the process" in the Master article, and in The End of Time "As the Time Lords are drawn back into the Time Lock, the President—whom the Doctor names, at the last minute, as Rassilon—attempts to kill the Doctor, but the Master intervenes, sacrificing himself in an act of revenge against Rassilon. In a flash of light, the Time Lords, the Master, and Gallifrey all disappear." And that indeed is how I remember the episodes.
-[tardis.wikia.com](TV_story) states that "There is a bright flash of light, and the Time Lords, the Master, the Lord President, and (somewhat slower) Gallifrey, are gone."
Apologies, I couldn't find any truly explicit references that weren't wikis (nearly every review I dug up seemed to focus almost exclusively on the latter part of the episode, and the BBC site maddeningly refuses to have an entry for The Master beyond the classic series), but honestly, that's what happened.
-Wikipedia claims "The Doctor destroys the link and the Master attacks Rassilon in an act of revenge for a lifetime of manipulation, disappearing along with the other Time Lords in the process" in the Master article, and in The End of Time "As the Time Lords are drawn back into the Time Lock, the President—whom the Doctor names, at the last minute, as Rassilon—attempts to kill the Doctor, but the Master intervenes, sacrificing himself in an act of revenge against Rassilon. In a flash of light, the Time Lords, the Master, and Gallifrey all disappear." And that indeed is how I remember the episodes.
-[tardis.wikia.com](TV_story) states that "There is a bright flash of light, and the Time Lords, the Master, the Lord President, and (somewhat slower) Gallifrey, are gone."
Apologies, I couldn't find any truly explicit references that weren't wikis (nearly every review I dug up seemed to focus almost exclusively on the latter part of the episode, and the BBC site maddeningly refuses to have an entry for The Master beyond the classic series), but honestly, that's what happened.
Haha, more than occasionally even! I guess it's just that they're the only three one can reliably expect not to STAY dead.
Wait, Bonnie's back next episode? Dammit. I have nothing against the actor or even the character inherently, but her sections of the stories just never seem as interesting as the rest.
But The Master is sealed away with the rest of the Time Lords now too, no? That alone destroys the symmetry, because there's one Time Lord on the outside (The Doctor) and then the rest of them sealed away outside of time or whatever hand-wavy explanation was used. The Master isn't in any special or thematically meaningful position anymore.
From that perspective, I'm quite okay with River Song existing; the symmetry is now The Doctor and his Wife. Okay, so it doesn't have the same air of cosmic tragedy as The Doctor and The Master, but as stated, we've already done away with that for better or for worse.
From that perspective, I'm quite okay with River Song existing; the symmetry is now The Doctor and his Wife. Okay, so it doesn't have the same air of cosmic tragedy as The Doctor and The Master, but as stated, we've already done away with that for better or for worse.
