Wow.
And yet….
Posted by JennAK as Ongoing Storm at 10:23 am
June 30th, 2008
First Impressions: “Turn Left”
June 27th, 2008
First Impressions: “Midnight”
Oh, I’m such a spud. Every time I hear (or think of) the episode name, I get Michael Jackson (back when he was still an African-American male) in my head going “It’s after midnight– SQUEAK!” You’d think I’d be cooler and be repeating some obscure Babylon 5 reference. (Well, obscure only ’cause I haven’t seen the series since it went off the air, although apparently I am about to be dragged into rewatching it with my daughter, as we’ve finished going through Monty Python’s Flying Circus and she wanted something more science-fictiony as the next choice. I tried to persuade her toward Star Trek: The Next Generation, but she’s proving to be her father’s daughter as well as her mother’s.)
I feel badly– I really do– that “Thriller” keeps popping into my head every time I think of the episode, because, really, it was a much better episode than that. Allons-y!
Posted by JennAK as Ongoing Storm at 9:27 pm
June 26th, 2008
First Impressions: “Silence In the Library”/”Forest of the Dead”
Oh.
My.
Kroll.
My brane asplode.
And yet… and yet…. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by JennAK as Ongoing Storm at 10:57 am
June 9th, 2008
A Pause
The site went missing for a bit, but we’re back now. No, you haven’t missed anything. I’m going to do a joint review on the Moffatt 2-parter, as I’m going to see both parts later today. (Part 1 in the afternoon, part 2 at night.)
Posted by JennAK as Lost In the Void at 11:39 am
May 30th, 2008
My First Doctor Who Convention, 1982
Its name lives on in the murky annals of pre-Internest Doctor Who fandom:
Sweatcon.
Oh, all right, it’s official name was Comicon/Panopticon West 1982, but the con earned the Sweatcon moniker. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by JennAK as Secret History of DW Fandom at 12:22 pm
May 27th, 2008
The Eye Of the Storm
So, last Saturday was the Eurovision contest, which delayed us seeing the next Moffat two-parter by a week. Oooh, all eyes are on Steven Moffatt now that he’s been named Official Producer Officially. Personally, I couldn’t be happier, because his episodes have shown that he has a great sense of who the Doctor is and what he should be doing. Plus, he’s not at all on board with the “Rose’s So Perfect, She’s So Right As Rain, She’s Gonna Keep on Having His Tyme Babezzz Again and Again” program that RTD has spearheaded.
Speaking of Rose, there was way too much of her in the trailer for the second half of the season that aired during Eurovision (and can be found on various Youse Tubes for those poor slobs like me wot live outside the U.K. and are therefore denied most of the Doctor Who web content this season). Still, she was almost tolerable, ’cause she was all about taking out the baddies with a big gun instead of hunting the Doctor down to snog him and make the tyme babezzz. Now, if Rose is back to being 1st season Rose– you know, the plucky young lady who was able to kick butt and didn’t have a huge desire to procreate repeatedly with the Last of the Time Lords– that would be awesome. I bet she won’t be, though, ’cause that’s how RTD has been rolling. Grrrrrrr. Arrrrrrgh.
I’m really wondering, though, about “The Darkness” that kept coming up in the trailer. The Granddad’s line about the stars disappearing reminded me so much of A Wrinkle in Time that I’m wondering if all sorts of parallel universes might be coming together, and, if so, will Rose’s lips look reaaaaaaaaallllly gross in two dimensions. Also, it’s sure as shinola that the bees disappearing will be the Canary in the Cage to The Darkness’ arrival. Unfortunately, though, the M. Night Shyamalin film The Happening comes out before the series’ finale airs, so everyone is going to be “Argh, RTD stole that idea,” when he actually didn’t. (Unless he read pre-production stuff on, say, AICN or even IMDB.)
So, yeah, it was nice to have the week off, as it were, from the Ongoing Wank. I am so looking forward to being quiet in the library, it isn’t funny. I want something good to hang onto, to better stand the Wankfest that will be the End of the Season Stories.
Posted by JennAK as Ongoing Storm at 9:49 am
May 19th, 2008
First Impressions: The Unicorn and the Wasp
In short: a delightful palate cleaner, frothy yet a jolly good yarn.
In long….
Posted by JennAK as Ongoing Storm at 1:15 pm
May 14th, 2008
First Impressions: The Doctor’s Daughter
Well, this episode wasn’t as wanky as I feared it would be, but it still had a lot to go “huh?” about. Fortunately, most of the “huh?” came afters.
Posted by JennAK as Ongoing Storm at 8:46 am
May 6th, 2008
First Impressions: The Poison Sky
Well, my brain didn’t actually implode after having watched yet another Doctor Who episode last night, but I certainly got a migraine! (Although, in truth, the migraine came about while watching Confidential at 1.7 speed– fast enough to get through it relatively painlessly, slow enough to know what was said.) Still, I am pleased to report that “The Poison Sky” didn’t suck.
Posted by JennAK as Ongoing Storm at 8:45 am