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mllelaurelSo many things about yesterday made me happy!
The fangirls, they didst watch the last episode of Doctor Who, and lo, the fangirls did go thud, for it was good.
They didn't Doomsday it! Yay!
[Doomsday: verb. To follow up a brilliant first episode of a season finale with a thoroughly mediocre conclusion.]
The stir-fry I made for the gathering seemed to go over really well. I'll probably be making it again.
Note to self: post recipe at some point.
Afterward,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yunatwilight helped mirrored_echo and me with character creation for a game she'll be running. This may sound strange, but going through the numbers helped me solidify some things in my character's personality and backstory.
By the time we were done, it was getting late-ish, soyunatwilight and mirrored_echo went off to bed. wired_lizard, nevacaruso and I stayed up to talk shop. And by 'talk shop' I mean sniff all of wired_lizard and yunatwilight's BPAL. Reviews - mini or otherwise - forthcoming. Yatta!
Oh, and before any of this, I got to beta readwired_lizard's latest fic. Duuuude. She made me care about Gwen, and lemme tell ya, that takes mad skillz! The fic in question can be found here.
How did I cap off this wonderful day? By waking up the next morning with the cat snuggled up to me. I feel like I should be purring happily.
The fangirls, they didst watch the last episode of Doctor Who, and lo, the fangirls did go thud, for it was good.
They didn't Doomsday it! Yay!
[Doomsday: verb. To follow up a brilliant first episode of a season finale with a thoroughly mediocre conclusion.]
The stir-fry I made for the gathering seemed to go over really well. I'll probably be making it again.
Note to self: post recipe at some point.
Afterward,
yunatwilight helped mirrored_echo and me with character creation for a game she'll be running. This may sound strange, but going through the numbers helped me solidify some things in my character's personality and backstory. By the time we were done, it was getting late-ish, so
yunatwilight and mirrored_echo went off to bed. wired_lizard, nevacaruso and I stayed up to talk shop. And by 'talk shop' I mean sniff all of wired_lizard and yunatwilight's BPAL. Reviews - mini or otherwise - forthcoming. Yatta!Oh, and before any of this, I got to beta read
wired_lizard's latest fic. Duuuude. She made me care about Gwen, and lemme tell ya, that takes mad skillz! The fic in question can be found here.How did I cap off this wonderful day? By waking up the next morning with the cat snuggled up to me. I feel like I should be purring happily.
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Date: 2007-07-01 05:32 pm (UTC)The fangirls, they didst watch the last episode of Doctor Who, and lo, the fangirls did go thud, for it was good.
Which fangirls are those?? You're the first person I've read who didn't think Last of the Time Lords was absolute and total dreck.
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Date: 2007-07-01 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-01 06:03 pm (UTC)I'm truly glad someone enjoyed it!
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Date: 2007-07-01 06:43 pm (UTC)The Doctor's powers, in this case, were granted by the belief of others (and a telepathic network), rather than his own intrinsic specialness, which I liked.
'Doing something herself'? Like what? The way I see it, Martha took a working plan and made it work. which is way more heroic than something flashier that only worked as self-sacrifice might have been. (Also? Letting herself be captured and humbled, pretending to lose, then looking up at the Master with that smile o her face, going 'by the way, I tricked you'? That took guts, cleverness, acting skills and calm in the face of danger. And let's not forget that she's the one who tricked the Master then. There's no way the Doctor could have had the knowledge or the time to help her with that.)
Jack as the Face of Boe was unexpected and what-the-fucky, but that doesn't intrinsically make it bad. It's also a hell of a lot less cruel than letting him live to the end of the universe and end up among the Toclafane-humans, likely as not.
"I forgive you" I quite liked. A lot. It was both the most devastating thing the Doctor could have said, knowing the Master's stubbornness, a nice twist on this season's Man of No Second Chances pattern, and indicative of the relationship we've seen between the two before (particularly Three era).
Plot-hole wise, a few things could be tightened or better-foreshadowed in Sound of Drums, but it did all fit together.
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Date: 2007-07-01 06:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-01 06:23 pm (UTC)Most people seem to have the same complaints. A lot of things that didn't work for me as well as they could have simply needed to have been set up during "The Sound of Drums" or earlier (Jack's little nickname needed to have been set up two seasons ago to work).
Could you elaborate on the misogyny? I saw the usual "Companion can't save world, Doctor must save world" but interpret that less as sexism than as convention. None of the Doctor's male companions get to be the one to push the big red button either. The Master was/is a sexist asshole, but he always has been so that wasn't any news.
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Date: 2007-07-01 06:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-07-01 06:52 pm (UTC)"You're better than that." That struck me as the doctor acting as a Negotiator. It's what you do if someone's pointing gun at someone else and you're in a position to stop them. He knew what it would do to Francine if she fired that gun and Martha's mom breaking into tiny pieces would be a bad thing.
The pattern I'm seeing here is striking me as 'any negative portrayal of women is misogynist'. This strikes me as incredibly counterproductive. I'd rather see utterly fallible female characters, who are capable of great good, great evil and great fucking up then perfection in the name of some ideal. No one would be making patterns if all of the above were guys. Yes, I mean that all. As long as motivation is valid and the characterization follows through, characters should be characters, regardless of gender.
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Date: 2007-07-01 07:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-02 12:22 am (UTC)Doctor Who has never been an ensemble show; it's about the Doctor's adventures. Setting up the Doctor and the Master as opposites -- something that's been played up more than ever here -- would have made any resolution provided by Martha alone massively unsatisfying. Is it "ebil" that Robin never gets to collar the crooks? Or is that okay because Robin's male?
I don't see how the Doctor telling a woman not to use a gun is sexist when the Doctor tells everybody not to use guns. Was it misandristic when the Doctor ordered Jack not to shoot the cannibals in "Utopia"?
There were far more male traitors than female, since the Master's guards turned on him the moment the actual plan started to go into action, accompanying Jack to the TARDIS as backup. My problem with Lucy killing the Master was that it was just so obvious -- the traumatized wife shooting her tormentor.
Double standards, double standards, double standards.
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Date: 2007-07-02 01:10 am (UTC)*shrug* We'll agree to disagree- I would love to have seen Martha truly "save the day". (Or Robin- it's cool to see sidekicks come through sometimes!)
Was it misandristic when the Doctor ordered Jack not to shoot the cannibals in "Utopia"?
You're right- it as just his usual "I always know best"/control freak routine, and I hated that just as much- nothing double standard there. Hmm, bad guys trying to rip you to pieces? Yes, shooting them is a pretty valid response in my book! I keep forgetting this is a children's show and expect it to be something I can take seriously. Thanks for the reminder.
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Date: 2007-07-01 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-07-02 01:22 am (UTC)...Y'know, I bet we can continue with these 'movie nights' even though the season is over. There's plenty of the classic series to watch, after all.
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