amusements

[chelseagirl]

amusement #1: "The vampire count bites a tavern waitress and a monsignor's niece, then falls on something sharp." (Actual writeup for one of those Christopher Lee Drac movies on our digital cable onscreen listings.)

amusement #2:
M's new boss: "I'm sorry I didn't get to speak with your wife when she was in the other night. She's very attractive. What does she do, again?"
M. [all braggy and proud]: "Well, she's an English professor; she's finishing her dissertation. She used to be a lawyer but she didn't like it. She's just so smart . . ."
M's new boss: "So you have a really large penis, then."
[Men. Their thought processes are alien, yet direct.]

Okay, if we're not supposed to 'ship the Doctor and Rose, could they hold hands a *little* bit less? Bad enough they did it this ep, but in the preview for the next one as well? Adam showed his true colors pretty quickly. So did the Doctor dislike him out of jealousy or because he could tell he wasn't a solid guy? (After all, he did come to grudgingly accept Mickey.) Did appreciate how Cathica, on the other hand, came through.

Deadwood: So what was Alma's decision? I bet she accepts Ellsworth's proposal just before the boy dies and Bullock's missus heads on out of town. (Deadwood, the Soap Opera.) Also, the N-word General and his friend with the stables are not going to survive the season; that seems pretty clear. How adorable is the Joanie/Jane friendship?

Unfortuately missed out on some of yesterday's amusements, though, because the end-of-semester crunch is hitting bigtime. *pout*

Comments

[ajinamoto.livejournal.com]

We're not supposed to ship Rose and the Doctor? I'm not really into shipping anyway, but sheesh, can they be any more flirtatious with each other?

Heh, I like M's new boss.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

That was an 8am attempt at being humorous. The Doctor was never supposed to be romantically involved with any of his companions (except in the bad FOX movie version), but it's getting harder and harder to believe that, eh?

So does he. And I'm not answering the question. ;-)

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

(An 8 am attempt which failed.)

[ajinamoto.livejournal.com]

Oops. Well, I'm not very good at catching some subtle humor anyway, and I plead the "no coffee" defense. Yes I do.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

ship away! the cast and crew do :-)

[mortalwombat731.livejournal.com]

I just watched that Hammer film, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, a few weeks ago!! I actually own it, and two others. I like very bad movies.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

A lot of times the on-screen movie summaries are bad or careless, but this one I thought had to be deliberate. I caught bits of it -- Christopher Lee plays Dracula very much with one expression, doesn't he?

[mortalwombat731.livejournal.com]

What's really funny is that that *is* precisely the plot. I love Lee's Dracula, but I think it's because of the single expression, sort of one of snarling ennui.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

"then falls on something sharp", though? ;-)

[mortalwombat731.livejournal.com]

Yup--he really and truly falls on something sharp at the end, a crucifix, if I remember correctly. I know it made me laugh.

Of course, in The Satanic Rites of Dracula, the last of the series, he gets caught in a fatal-to-vampires shrub of some sort at the end...

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

The Deadly Anti-Vampire Shrub.

I guess that's when they knew they'd really run out of ideas, eh?

[katwingz.livejournal.com]

He he.

Men are funny :)

[studiesinlight.livejournal.com]

Observing the alien culture that is men -- what, if anything, did M. say to his boss's deduction?

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

No idea. ;-) He probably blushed or something.

[seanmoon.livejournal.com]

I remember thinking just the same thing when I met M. Yes, he must have a large penis indeed. ;)

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

But then, you're a man -- alien and direct. ;-)

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

Deadwood: the boy died - right at the end. After that last long gasp. My guess is that Alma will accept Ellsworth though either right before or right after Mrs Bullock decides whether to say or go

Doctor Who: "ship" of fools. I don't think it's that we're not SUPPOSED to ship them - it's more that it's not been done before due to the previous state of relationships and personalities of the Doctors and Companions. RTD is quite the shipper whore - he's the one who writes these 'falling anvils of lurve' and all the "hand porn" (my new favorite term for all that hand holding). And both Billie Piper and Christopher Eccleston have stated several times that it is there opinion and intention (given the thumbs up from RTD) that Rose and the Doctor are in love, fell in love at first sight in fact.

So, the open issue is not are they a ship as much as - will anything come of it? Will they declare it or acknowledge it to each other clearly for all the world to hear (frankly the Doctor has already done so in my opinion with "I could save the world but lose you."). Possible. If they so I bet you anything it is within seconds of the regeneration - 'cause then Rose gets to start back at the beginning on many levels.

Will they get down and get funky on the TADRIS control room floor? I don't think so and I rather hope not. I've pondered on the nature of their love (for love it is) and I think it has less to do with hormones (hmmm...I wonder if the Doctor has hormones) than it does a meeting of equally inquisitive, adventure seeking souls with a talent for the flirt and a need for company along the way.

They need each other in a lot of ways (which has usually been the case with the Doctors and the companions - though not always) but this incarnation of the Doctor needs more than the previous ones - probably due to whatever he did to end that Time War. Whatever that was - it broke him in ways he hadn't been broken before and he sought out an equal as a companion as opposed to a protégé. Hence a new air to the whole dynamic

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Neither Martin nor I thought the boy died yet and we are usually very attentive viewers -- this is what comes of having him come home from work full of "oh and this happened and that happened" through the bloody show. Luckily I taped it and will look again at the end.

That was, as I said to kikala, an attempt at a joke at 8am. Apparently not with the humor that early in the morning. ;-) I am not up on the Who gossip, though, so it's interesting to hear. Supposedly in the "lost" episode, Shada, there was a little indication between Doctor #4 and Romana #2, but that was the only time those characters ever seemed flirty. (Though the actors were involved in real life, at the time.) Someone showed me a tape of the footage that was shot before the strike that shut the episode down, but it was a long time ago and all I remember is they were boating.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

BTW, do you know if the Time Wars were something that happened during the show's run, or is this backstory which took place entirely out of anything that's been filmed? I've been assuming the latter.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

there were actually a couple of Time Wars in the past (and very damaging to the universe they were) but I get the feeling This Doctor did something to end the last and biggest one most definitively