Doctor Who things listened to/watched
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stalkerbunnyNo uni this week so I should be working on the Benton/Yates fic but. It hasn't happened yet. Bit troubled over that I recently (after coming up with the plot) found a fic with them on teaspoon that also has bonding via wondering in wilderness. Course, other things happen in my story as well but... :/
Also feeling generally stuck on the plot, as it's supposed to be twisty and clever and I have... very little so far.
After the exam on friday, I tried to finish![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
taiyou_to_tsuki.livejournal.com / regndoft's birthday gift on saturday which... was a bit overambitious. But I succeeded! Almost!
Made crotcheted/amigurumi dolls of Third Doctor and Delgado!Master, and then didn't have time/ forgot to take proper pictures so you get those later, perhaps.
Besides that, listened to several Big Finish audios while working on said dolls. The Sandman and Arrangements for War with Six and Evelyn, The Harvest with Seven, Ace and Hex, The Scorchies and The Doll of Death with Jo Grant and Shadow of the Past with Liz Shaw (and I also listened to Blue Tooth a few days back).
Then I went over to user name=regndoft>'s place where I wasn't supposed to stay too late... and I stayed only until seven! On the next day. Anyway, we watched Reign of Terror and Colony in Space. And argued over best method to cook noodles (to be fair, more a matter of taste, I just liked them just on the good side of undercooked and hers is the opposite view)
Don't actually have much to say about The Sandman. The premise of showing the Doctor from the standpoint of aliens who he has defeated in the past and who see him as (literally) a monster they scare their children with was interesting, and the execution decent enough, but not my favorite audio ever.
Arrangements for War was also solid work but...*shrug* Might be just I'm not too keen on tragedies and never have been :'). Though I did like Evelyn's plotline. The other with the princess and soldier's romance reminded me of Romeo and Juliet which... at least it was less annoying than THAT, for what it's worth. >_> But meh. Still cried at the end of course, but more for Doctor and Evelyn's feels than the young tragic couple tbh.
The Harvest... I liked. Then again I haven't heard a Seven audio I haven't liked yet, it might be an actor thing (see also: Katy Manning). Although the thing with Seven and System creeped me out a bit because my brain made some connections there that were Not Good. :/ But Hex and Ace were cute, and he is clearly her companion rather than the Doctor's. He was more "Ok you can take him with us if you absolutely must and if he can learn not oh my god all over the place. :I"
Bbies.
Re. the companion chronicles, it's rather interesting how different the relationship between Liz and the Doctor vs. Jo and the Doctor is. Or, for that matter, the Doctor and UNIT. Which was nothing new, but the audios reminded me again. Jo has this a bit naive admiration and is more prone to trusting the Doctor to save the day (which is not to say she's not capable and willing to get herself/the two of them out of trouble herself), which she (from what I've heard) later grows out of, while Liz, while aware that the Doctor is hella smart, can also get v. frustrated with his shenanigans and in fact chose to leave because she had better things to do than be his assistant.
tldr. In Blue Tooth I almost feel like they wrote Liz a bit... too sure the Doctor would save the day? (she actually says that!) Also on one hand it's cool that she can like pretty clothes AND be a genius scientist but that's also a kind of a Jo thing. Then again the scene where it turns out the Doctor's reaction to having a row with Brig is to go clothes shopping was... good. Yes. Ah well.
And THEN again, maybe the most problematic thing? That the audio used the "companion's reason for leaving the Doctor is becauseher girlfriend was turned into a cyberman and they also killed their cat traumatizing shit!" Which is a valid reason, but a tad overused, especially in new series, and ties into this alarming trend to make the Doctor into space Jesus.
Rather than, you know, her just deciding she had better things to do. Why can't we have that sometimes?
But it was also an ok audio. And there were strong shippy vibes, even if the other half was TAKEN AWAY BEFORE WE EVER GOT TO MEET HER PROPERLY. >_>-->
Shadow of the Past, I think I liked even better. There was intrigue and plot twists and more calmer reflective bits in what I felt was a nice balance. Just this sense of suspense and mystery from the beginning that made things interesting, and a decent payoff at the end.
That said, I now wonder if potential romantic interest of Liz's often get turned into part aliens? Poor Liz.
Moving on. Scorchies. What can I even say about that audio? Singing puppets that have use a children's tv-program to hypnotize and destroy worlds? (If the Master ever met them his life would be complete.)
There are cute songs about how they killed the Doctor and/or are going to kill everyone (tbh them claiming to have blown up Bessie caused more concern. Ohno not Bessie...!).
And Katy Manning. Who plays both Jo and some of the killer puppets and is all around awesome.
Seriously, I'm not sure I CAN dislike an audio with her in it.
Whiiich brings us to Doll of Death. I thought it was somewhat entertainingly trippy (though this might be because it was past 1 am and I'd been working on the amigurumis for over eight hours by then), while M. thinks it's just mediocre with a messy timey wimey plot.
Also, like I said, Jo's one of my favourite (if not the favourite) companions so I'm prone to liking anything with her, even if it's not the best writing.
Moving on to serials, in Reign of Terror One, Susan, Barbara and Ian end up in trouble in Revolutionary France. During, obviously, the Reign of Terror. Which is apparently the Doctor's favourite time period... >_> (pretty sure it was the fancy uniforms?)
Bbies 8'3 Also One is teh best. Especially his bitch faces. *handclap*
Unfortunately two of the six episodes are missing so we suffered through rather terrible animated recons. Even M's mother felt our pain, and she wasn't even watching.
Anyway, at least we got to see a bit of the Doctor dressed up in a fancy uniform with a fabulous giant fluff on his hat (which inspired this when I talked about it with a friend.)
Also, M. and I agreed that there is some space for dark fic in that bit offscreen where Ian's escaped from prison but thinks Barbara and Susan got quillotined and the Doctor probably died in a housefire, and he's looking for some random guy on behalf of another random guy who died in his arms.
Meanwhile Colony in Space was not quite as awesome, despite having Jo and Three and Delgado!Master in it. They are always bbies, BUT.
Things that were not so great:
- The whole plot being a refence to the colonization of America, where the spear wielding "primitives" cannot speak, are... genetically degenerated or something, and in the end get conveniently all killed off because their supposedly less degenerated elder decides that the Doctor's suggestion of mass suicide sounds like a good idea. Um.
- "Now that the super weapon, the radioation of which has been killing the planet for centuries, is gone, all that bad radiation will be gone too and you can go right on with farming :D"
Doctor... I'm pretty sure no radiation ever worked that way...!
So meh at that. That said, Master, your obvious mythology geekery is showing... I bet in the depths of his Tardis there is a giant warehouse full of conscientiously cataloged idols and other mystical artifacts that turned out NOT to contain the cosmic power advertized but that he kept anyway...
Special mention to the scene where he actually just threatens to shoot The Doctor (and pretend it was a stray shot from the nearby firefight) and actually seemed slightly threatening for like a second. I guess either he was really mad about the Axon thing and/or not having time to make an elaborate plan re. the Doctor's appearance and thus it might have actually worked?
Then a bit later he sleep gasses them and is all "I could have used lethal gas but I needed you to show me to the native's place >:3" Only he... couldn't have known that when he set up the trap? Cool story bro. *headshake*
And then sometime after THAT he proposes to the Doctor. So yeah.
Now, I think instead of doing any fic writing like I should I'll just... do a bit of drawing or something else. Right after I'm done painting my toenails sparkly lime green anyway. (edit: and I did)
Also feeling generally stuck on the plot, as it's supposed to be twisty and clever and I have... very little so far.
After the exam on friday, I tried to finish
taiyou_to_tsuki.livejournal.com / regndoft's birthday gift on saturday which... was a bit overambitious. But I succeeded! Almost! Made crotcheted/amigurumi dolls of Third Doctor and Delgado!Master, and then didn't have time/ forgot to take proper pictures so you get those later, perhaps.
Besides that, listened to several Big Finish audios while working on said dolls. The Sandman and Arrangements for War with Six and Evelyn, The Harvest with Seven, Ace and Hex, The Scorchies and The Doll of Death with Jo Grant and Shadow of the Past with Liz Shaw (and I also listened to Blue Tooth a few days back).
Then I went over to user name=regndoft>'s place where I wasn't supposed to stay too late... and I stayed only until seven! On the next day. Anyway, we watched Reign of Terror and Colony in Space. And argued over best method to cook noodles (to be fair, more a matter of taste, I just liked them just on the good side of undercooked and hers is the opposite view)
Don't actually have much to say about The Sandman. The premise of showing the Doctor from the standpoint of aliens who he has defeated in the past and who see him as (literally) a monster they scare their children with was interesting, and the execution decent enough, but not my favorite audio ever.
Arrangements for War was also solid work but...*shrug* Might be just I'm not too keen on tragedies and never have been :'). Though I did like Evelyn's plotline. The other with the princess and soldier's romance reminded me of Romeo and Juliet which... at least it was less annoying than THAT, for what it's worth. >_> But meh. Still cried at the end of course, but more for Doctor and Evelyn's feels than the young tragic couple tbh.
The Harvest... I liked. Then again I haven't heard a Seven audio I haven't liked yet, it might be an actor thing (see also: Katy Manning). Although the thing with Seven and System creeped me out a bit because my brain made some connections there that were Not Good. :/ But Hex and Ace were cute, and he is clearly her companion rather than the Doctor's. He was more "Ok you can take him with us if you absolutely must and if he can learn not oh my god all over the place. :I"
Bbies.
Re. the companion chronicles, it's rather interesting how different the relationship between Liz and the Doctor vs. Jo and the Doctor is. Or, for that matter, the Doctor and UNIT. Which was nothing new, but the audios reminded me again. Jo has this a bit naive admiration and is more prone to trusting the Doctor to save the day (which is not to say she's not capable and willing to get herself/the two of them out of trouble herself), which she (from what I've heard) later grows out of, while Liz, while aware that the Doctor is hella smart, can also get v. frustrated with his shenanigans and in fact chose to leave because she had better things to do than be his assistant.
tldr. In Blue Tooth I almost feel like they wrote Liz a bit... too sure the Doctor would save the day? (she actually says that!) Also on one hand it's cool that she can like pretty clothes AND be a genius scientist but that's also a kind of a Jo thing. Then again the scene where it turns out the Doctor's reaction to having a row with Brig is to go clothes shopping was... good. Yes. Ah well.
And THEN again, maybe the most problematic thing? That the audio used the "companion's reason for leaving the Doctor is because
Rather than, you know, her just deciding she had better things to do. Why can't we have that sometimes?
But it was also an ok audio. And there were strong shippy vibes, even if the other half was TAKEN AWAY BEFORE WE EVER GOT TO MEET HER PROPERLY. >_>-->
Shadow of the Past, I think I liked even better. There was intrigue and plot twists and more calmer reflective bits in what I felt was a nice balance. Just this sense of suspense and mystery from the beginning that made things interesting, and a decent payoff at the end.
That said, I now wonder if potential romantic interest of Liz's often get turned into part aliens? Poor Liz.
Moving on. Scorchies. What can I even say about that audio? Singing puppets that have use a children's tv-program to hypnotize and destroy worlds? (If the Master ever met them his life would be complete.)
There are cute songs about how they killed the Doctor and/or are going to kill everyone (tbh them claiming to have blown up Bessie caused more concern. Ohno not Bessie...!).
And Katy Manning. Who plays both Jo and some of the killer puppets and is all around awesome.
Seriously, I'm not sure I CAN dislike an audio with her in it.
Whiiich brings us to Doll of Death. I thought it was somewhat entertainingly trippy (though this might be because it was past 1 am and I'd been working on the amigurumis for over eight hours by then), while M. thinks it's just mediocre with a messy timey wimey plot.
Also, like I said, Jo's one of my favourite (if not the favourite) companions so I'm prone to liking anything with her, even if it's not the best writing.
Moving on to serials, in Reign of Terror One, Susan, Barbara and Ian end up in trouble in Revolutionary France. During, obviously, the Reign of Terror. Which is apparently the Doctor's favourite time period... >_> (pretty sure it was the fancy uniforms?)
Bbies 8'3 Also One is teh best. Especially his bitch faces. *handclap*
Unfortunately two of the six episodes are missing so we suffered through rather terrible animated recons. Even M's mother felt our pain, and she wasn't even watching.
Anyway, at least we got to see a bit of the Doctor dressed up in a fancy uniform with a fabulous giant fluff on his hat (which inspired this when I talked about it with a friend.)
Also, M. and I agreed that there is some space for dark fic in that bit offscreen where Ian's escaped from prison but thinks Barbara and Susan got quillotined and the Doctor probably died in a housefire, and he's looking for some random guy on behalf of another random guy who died in his arms.
Meanwhile Colony in Space was not quite as awesome, despite having Jo and Three and Delgado!Master in it. They are always bbies, BUT.
Things that were not so great:
- The whole plot being a refence to the colonization of America, where the spear wielding "primitives" cannot speak, are... genetically degenerated or something, and in the end get conveniently all killed off because their supposedly less degenerated elder decides that the Doctor's suggestion of mass suicide sounds like a good idea. Um.
- "Now that the super weapon, the radioation of which has been killing the planet for centuries, is gone, all that bad radiation will be gone too and you can go right on with farming :D"
Doctor... I'm pretty sure no radiation ever worked that way...!
So meh at that. That said, Master, your obvious mythology geekery is showing... I bet in the depths of his Tardis there is a giant warehouse full of conscientiously cataloged idols and other mystical artifacts that turned out NOT to contain the cosmic power advertized but that he kept anyway...
Special mention to the scene where he actually just threatens to shoot The Doctor (and pretend it was a stray shot from the nearby firefight) and actually seemed slightly threatening for like a second. I guess either he was really mad about the Axon thing and/or not having time to make an elaborate plan re. the Doctor's appearance and thus it might have actually worked?
Then a bit later he sleep gasses them and is all "I could have used lethal gas but I needed you to show me to the native's place >:3" Only he... couldn't have known that when he set up the trap? Cool story bro. *headshake*
And then sometime after THAT he proposes to the Doctor. So yeah.
Now, I think instead of doing any fic writing like I should I'll just... do a bit of drawing or something else. Right after I'm done painting my toenails sparkly lime green anyway. (edit: and I did)
