I’ve written a Mickeyfic, now here’s a Jackiefic.
Title: So Are You
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Genre: Gen (as per usual XD)
Rating: PG
A/N: Set before Aliens of London, was inspired by that random line in WWIII about Rose’s grandmother and how she thinks Rose is in France.
I’m slightly annoyed about that, actually, although I shouldn’t be, because this means I can watch Doctor Who and then change over and catch the end of Star Wars, which is far more good TV in one night than anyone deserves…but no, I’m annoyed because I just know this is going to lead to rivalry between the two fandoms, and having seen all the various LOTR vs HP, HP vs SW, Pokemon vs Digimon, whatever vs whatever fanwanks, I know it pretty much sucks. And I like them both. (alright, alright, maybe Star Wars I like a little more, despite the fact I’m wearing my Dalek t-shirt today)
*pouts*
Anyway!
marymc told me to do this. :p
1) Total number of films I own on DVD/video:
*counts on fingers* 12. Or maybe 13. (Not counting all the ones that are in the house but aren’t actually mine.)
2) The last film I bought:
I don’t buy films. Seriously. I get them all for birthdays or Christmas. ;)
3) The last film I watched:
28 Days Later – yay horror, yay zombies, and yay Chris Eccleston.
4) Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me:
1. Spider-Man 2, which I always think about as being my movie, like people sometimes think of books as being their books. It just fits with the way I see the world, that movie.
2. Star Wars (all films), because it’s an epic battle of good vs evil and the Skywalkers (and Obi-Wan) won.
3. Holes, because it brought the book to life
4. LOTR (all of them) because they’re so incredibly pretty
5. Dragonheart, because…no-one’s ever heard of it, so it seems. :p
5) Pick on five people and have them put this in their journal:
fernwithy
charmisjess
layren
aefallen
wild_huntress
Revenge of the Sith is smack bang in the middle of my exam period. I’m not sure whether to be relieved (because I won’t be at school) or unsure (because I’m supposed to be revising).
Er, yes, I am going anyway. ;) Never mention this post to anyone, mmmkay?
p.s.- I am thoroughly determined to today prove I haven’t given up on Making.
Hmmmm.
So, the basic plot of this one (exploding aliens aside)- Adam turns out to be a bit of a nitwit, and the Doctor decides he’d rather have Rose instead. He does in fact spend most of the episode complimenting her, is decidedly crueller to Adam than he really needed to be, and at the end of the episode both of ’em actually come off as rather dislikable.
…and personally I think it’s building up to something. Father’s Day, to be exact. :D During the trailer, there’s a bit where the Doctor says ‘I did it again, picked up another stupid ape.’ and it looks like he’s talking to Rose. Adam messes about trying to change the future, and now Rose is going to mess about trying to change the past- she may not be the ideal companion either, simply because she is human, and humans are ruled by their emotions, be it self-interest (Adam) or love (Rose).
And yeah. But leaving Adam like that- not especially smart, I reckon. Is it just me, or is this definately beginning to have the feeling of one of those ‘only the strong survive’ fairytales? (And it is beginning to seem a bit like a fairytale, albeit a very modern one) ;)
I’m (still) fascinated by CE’s Doctor. You get the feeling you really, really don’t want to get on the wrong side of him. He has absolutely zero tolerance for greed or stupidity, and yet you get the feeling that he’s only just sane himself. And he appears to be grinning a lot less.
Rose…as I said, I think she’s being set up for a fall. Roll on next episode. :)
Two other random things: 1) Simon Pegg was good, as always, and 2) What happened to the thing about Suki being one of Rose’s friends from school, somehow kept alive all these years? Read that one in a magazine, I guess it was just a rumor…
Oh, all right, 3) We’ve had Simon Pegg, now I want Martin Freeman in an episode, dangnabbit.
Oh, and my ranking so far: End of the World, Dalek, Aliens of London, WW3, The Unquiet Dead, Rose, The Long Game. (This might change after I get the DVDs and can watch them again, though.)
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I don’t believe this- I was just at the website of one of my favourite movie reviewers, went to her ranking of 2005 movies, saw that Revenge of the Sith was now near the top and actually went ‘YES!’
And now I’m hungry. Tea time.
EDIT: Oh, by the way, I have my tickets now. :D
Finally, here’s my diary of the big event. :) WOuld have had it up sooner, but I had computer troubles…
Day 1: Saturday
Me, Jo and Emma arrived at about one o’clock. We would have been there sooner, but we had to wait for Jo to get dressed. ;) We walked in, and promptly ran into the TARDIS-
Took a few photos with my ancient screwy camera, including this one of some horrible monsters…
…and then we walked to the main hall, stopping several times along the way to squee at the various Daleks and costumed people walking around. During the course of the day, I think we saw Batman, Jack Sparrow, several elves, a Red Guard, and a Tusken Raider-
We looked around at the stalls a bit- I was very pleased to notice the giant Revenge of the Sith poster hanging at each end of the hall- and then we went to Costa’s, hoping someone would be there. We were in luck- loneraven, hathy_col and amchau were hanging around outside. They had Dalek Virgin badges, so I thought it was likely to be them. ;) They were extremely nice and gave us cookies.
We got thrown out of Costa’s for bringing our own food, so we went back to the stalls. At some point, me and Jo went off on our with the intention of finding Sean Austin, but got distracted by the Preview Theatre. (And in all honesty, I don’t think we had enough money for seeing any guests anyway. It’s a pity. Maybe next time…) I’m fairly sure the Preview Theatre was a new addition this year, but I could be wrong…anyway, we saw the trailers for Kingdom Of Heaven, Mr and Mrs Smith, The Fantastic Four, Revenge of the Sith, and Nightwatch, which looks completely awesome even if I have no idea what it’s about. Then I bought a 50p Doctor Who badge, featuring the Doctor and Rose, which unfortunately I have no pictures of.
Then we went up to John Lewis’s, mostly to eat. I had a Twirl, so I ate that. Emma wanted to wait for some of her friends to get here, so that was what we did. I ran off to buy her a camera at some point. I also took a picture of the hall from the top of John Lewis’s, because everyone has to do that:
And a picture of us in the John Lewis restaurant:
Emma’s friends showed up, we ate some more and then wandered around some more. I brought a couple of posters, which can now be seen on my wall:
We ended up back in the preview theatre, after meeting a couple more Daleks, one of which I had the following ‘conversation’ with:
‘Hello!’
‘WHAT-IS-YOUR-NAME?”
*runs off*
‘DON’T-YOU-RUN-AWAY-FROM-ME!’
And here is a very bad photo of me and a Dalek:
And here’s another Dalek, probably the one I shook hands (er, plungers) with:
Oh, and a mini TARDIS-
And a bloke inside a Dalek-
Then, we went home. Here is two of us hanging around outside something not a TARDIS-
And then we watched Doctor Who, my review of which can be found here. We also played Dalek monopoly:
Day 2: Sunday
I forgot to wear my new badge, which was a bit stupid. Me and Emma (Jo wasn’t coming this time) went back to Costa’s, and found loneraven, hathy_col, amchau and kowarth. We talked a lot about last night’s episode, and many badges were made. I made one for myself which said ‘Dalek/Doctor: theirloveissoBOOM’ For Emma I made one which said ‘But all the Dalek wanted was to be a morris dancer’ which is in reference to something or other my brother said when we were watching the episode. kowarth turned out to be rather a good drawer and made one which said ‘Gallifrey go BOOM, make last dalek cry’
Here’s my sticker:
I recognized kowarth from somewhere, and it took me ages to realise it was from his icon. ;)
Eventually everyone left, and me and Emma went off to see Hitchhiker’s Guide. On the way, I bought a Dalek t-shirt, which is still several sizes too big for me despite the fact it was supposed to be a small one…
Hitchhiker’s Guide was…well, I liked it, but I had the feeling all the way through it that while it was a good and interesting movie, it wasn’t Hitchhiker’s Guide. On the other hand, I liked that they did some more with Trillian’s character, and I liked the new touchy-feely Ford. I predict a sudden increase in Hitchhiker’s slash.
Oh, and I brought my towel. I had it on the back of my seat. Dunno if anyone noticed. ;)
After that we went home (my sticker still on my bag) and watched 28 Days Later, because it had come up in conversation at some point and had Christoper Eccleston in it. We watched it mostly so when Chris appeared, we could say ‘I’m the Doctor, by the way’. He turned out to be a bit of a bastard by the end, but the gorgeous soundtrack pretty much made up for that.
I wore my t-shirt the next day. ;)
Anyway, it was great…the next one’s in October, isn’t it? Maybe I’ll save up my cash and meet some stars next time. ;) And meet some people from tracy_island, as well. :)
…ah bugger.
I don’t have a new favourite, but I do now have a new second-favourite. :) Looking at last week’s episode, and then looking at this one, you practically wouldn’t have thought they were part of the same series (apart from that bloke in leather running around). This one was dark. Hardly any humour, but one heck of a lot of angst…
That being said, the hairdryer joke was funny. ;)
First off: the Bad Wolf reference (the name of the helicopter- Bad Wolf 1)…nah, nothing to say here. I’m stumped. Maybe this one’s a red herring. (Then again, someone suggested it was something that was chasing the Doctor through time and leaving clues, or something…that’s pretty good.)
And secondly, wow! at all the angsty stuff. Can barely begin to describe it all, to be honest…I mean, he left Rose behind. He trapped her outside. He just left her. And he’d had a conversation with her mother, and he was risking her life…
‘You would make a fine dalek.’
That was actually rather true, by that point. *wibble* I love CE’s Doctor. You just get the feeling he could be such a great good guy, if only it wasn’t for the war (Gallifrey going BOOM…) XD Dammit, I want to see the rest of this without having to wait. *pout*
Still can’t get over him leaving her outside, though. Oh, I hope we get the fallout from that…
Other highlights:
‘I MADE it happen!’
‘Sorry I was a bit slow…it wasn’t your fault.’
‘Not by choice.’
‘I win.’
And many, many more…oh, and ‘Fantastic’ never sounded so chilling before.