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Having skipped the early eps with the Slitheen, I find myself watching all the rest of Doctor Who season 1 all in a row. Apparently I was in a DW mood, as long as I could skip the fart jokes.

Dalek is brilliant.
Adam with the door in his head wasn't being as much of a prat as all that, since he did exactly what the Doctor told him to. The problem was the sneaking around and trying to get rich from it. And other companions have got away with more.
Like Rose, for example. I still hate Fathers Day as a Doctor Who story. Also I dislike how I can see the way the writers twist it whenever there seems a way out. I mean intervention of writer is what writers do, but it should not be so visible.
Empty Child/Doctor Dances I can't really find anything to argue with. I mean, Captain Jack was a bit of a creep, but he had this whole redemption through love kind of arc.
In all of 5 episodes!
I can't believe there are so few Captain Jack episodes.
Boom Town did not have sufficient plot to put the characters in the corner, and it did not follow through on the moral choice aspect. If a moral choice is central to the story, it has to be put there real carefully, or the sensible character goes 'option C' and waltzes right out of your bind. I hate the shiny deus ex ending. Unless I see the TARDIS as another character, in which case she option Cs better than the rest.

Up to the last two already! How can that be? I feel like we know Captain Jack, and yet, 2 episodes of con man, one of a couple of good speeches and some tool use, and now we're up to the big deal ending!
He is a great character, with a great intro, but they so seriously have a lot of room to play with in making him in his own show.

Captain Jack gets his own show :-)

Doctor Who, end of season 1

I finished watching reboot season 1 of Doctor Who.

I *really* love those episodes.

Right up until shiny!Sue appears.
I'd managed to edit that bit out of memory. I'd quite forgotten how much it winds me up. This time I was just kind of *facepalm*, which meant I didn't have to look at the screen until it was shiny!Doctor instead.

The thing is, I still don't see in what sense that season leads up to that ending. I mean, if I see it as 'TARDIS gains an avatar' it doesn't give me quite so much pain. But even then... How is that the ending to the story they were telling us?

Everything that happens to the Doctor, that was his payoff. To the point where I find myself wondering how he could *not* be regenerated at the end of that season. He had such a journey, and then it was done, and then it feels just right that there's a new face on the next bit.

But Rose? Okay, so she decides not to go back to regular life. That was a bit insulting, how she did that, but whatever, she's a teenager, she be rude. But she decides to do hero stuff. Okay, good ending.

But... omnipotence?????????
You know, generally, characters have to work for their endings.
Omnipotence, extermination on a mass scale with *zero* moral fallout, convenient memory loss so there doesn't even have to be character development, and killing the Doctor but again not even having to angst about it *and* not actually losing him... There was no part of that as was earned.


In other news - How much do I love Captain Jack?
Enough that when The Bad Thing happens to him, I made unhappy meepy noises and told off the Daleks, even though I know precisely how long it will last.
Because *bad* Daleks, no do that thing!
I, er, maybe also need to get some sleep...
But they were mean to him.

And then his face when they left!
He was all "Never doubted him, never will" and what do they do? He's three seconds away and yet woosh, dematerialised!
And you can just see how much that hurt.
No fair!
There should be hugs and kisses and happily ever after!

There's the thing, really - Jack did everything right, did his duty, died to save mankind, and what does he get? Dumped.
Rose, on the other hand... gets to be shiny, omnipotent, and never called to account.


I found Rose much easier to tolerate having seen season 2 end. But I've never liked her, and I doubt I ever will. She didn't earn anything, she just went around acting superior and screwing things up.

Yeah, I know, harsh.



And Jack did kind of... He has his flaws, definitely. He started out really screwing up. But he got better. And he's just so... With that goodbye kiss, that was just perfect. I felt like I'd been waiting forever to see something like that, you know?


Jack gets his own show.
I'm just not going to get tired of saying that.
:-)


Okay, watch me be coherent.
Basically, I really love Doctor Who, and some of the best parts were in what I watched today. Happy :-)

Due South dream

Had a dream with Benton Fraser and both Rays. Living together. As a three of them. Which is not usually the kind of thought that occurs to me, because personally I can't see RayV that way, but the idea that Benton could seems perfectly reasonable. So having two Rays he then has to make a home with both of them. Which is easier said than done.

Not because they don't want to get along. They really do. They're all like tiptoe around and everso polite to each other, because this really has to work. So mostly it goes great.

But then there are towels.

And tablecloths, and plates, and all those bits and pieces that say 'home', or at least 'homewares'. Because they have three people, with quite different styles, and now only one house. And while using all their old stuff might seem reasonable, it looks like their old stuff. Three sets of stuff, with very little in common. So it becomes a Thing that they get stuff that is Theirs, and not quite so obviously just joined at the edges.

So they go to shops, and go to more shops, and some more shops after that. And after a while Benton is stood there behind the others, standing very straight, and rubbing his eyebrow. The two Rays, who would usually read this, are a little distracted, because they cannot agree on even one thing. And of course this being a democracy, they kind of expect Benton to break the deadlock, but he is not quite that bad at relationships.

The problem is... well, B suggests that maybe to be going on with they could get something temporary, and both Rays practically yell "No! This is not temporary!"

And while they're stunned to silence by having actually agreed on something, Benton finds this a promising start. And maybe they'd go home then and, er, work on the understanding, but it is a long way to home, and they still have only a double duvet on a king size bed, and actually the silence doesn't last long.

Benton excuses himself and wanders off a little way.

And has a cunning plan.

He buys table napkins. 40 of them. In a red to match his uniform. And he gives them as a gift to Mama Vecchio.

So the Vecchios have a nice party, and they use the new napkins, and she is very grateful. Always so polite, so generous. And, okay, 40 is a little much for dinner, and not quite enough for, oh, say, weddings, but that's okay, it was so thoughtful. And the red does not quite match anything else they have, but its very... Canadian. And Benton, ever so apologetic, must of course correct his error immediately, and go buy her exactly what she would want. And after trying to talk him out of it, she finally agrees, and offers to come along and then they'll get it just exactly right.

And while they're out, she sees some things, and wouldn't this be perfect for Raymundo? And this, and maybe this? And this, this and this having duly been bought, and appreciated by Raymundo, and put in their proper places in the home, next time the senior Mrs Kowalski comes to visit there are a few new things around. And maybe they're not to her taste, but you know, you got to compromise when you're setting up a home. But maybe not quite so much next time? So RayV tries to not be insulted on his mother's behalf, which is not so easy. And basically the two mothers get together and start talking, and now the argument transfers up a generation. Because this might not be exactly what they had in mind for their sons, and okay, on a second marriage you'd think they'd figure these things out for themselves, but if something needs doing for their kids they're going to do it perfectly.

And Ray, and Ray, and Benton, can go out and buy some stuff that's kind of plain and maybe not quite perfect, but hey, its only temporary. The stuff. The living together? By the time their mothers go through making everything just right... well, they wouldn't want to be the ones telling them they're breaking up. Not in this century.

And Benton, privately, thinks this is kind of perfect.

And now they have a king size bedspread. And, okay, always somebody ends up somewhere sticking out the edge, but now the only remaining solution is to get closer, and this they can all live with.



Yes this *was* all from the dream. And also some stuff with RayK and dancing, that turned into a plot bunny for a conversation with RayV after I woke up. Because it starts out about partners. They've done partners before, Benton is great at partners. Especially the unspoken parts. Kind of like Dief, who can't hear what you say, just sees what you mean. So dancing with Ben, that's always good. But RayK does not so much know how to dance with three, unless they keep changing partners. And with this idea he is not so much happy. So RayV sighs and agrees, and says yeah, its kind of like leading, the old rules don't work so good this way. RayK disagrees, says its easy to both lead, you just have to both be good at... well, following.

So Benton comes home and finds they two Rays kind of clomping about the floor, trying to learn to dance together. And smiling a lot.



I haven't watched the show in a while, and I never get these bunnies, yet today? Whole story in my head.
Whole curtainfic! With a three I don't quite believe in!

Which is much, much better than the first time I woke up, which had a whole conspiracy-murder theme going on and was deeply scary.

I guess mounties make great comforters.