Unfeathered Notes

Fairly enjoyable. I went in not expecting much except to enjoy Fifteen, and that was about what I got. ( Cut for spoilers )

I had trouble with this one and a large part of that was probably that ( Cut for spoilers )

Anyway. Here's to a rewatch, when I have time! And at some point I'll make some notes about 73 Yards and Dot and Bubble, both of which I very much enjoyed too…

Just watched this from the comfort of our local Everyman Cinema and wow, that was amazing.

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My original review (on second viewing in 2007) here: https://unfeathered.dreamwidth.org/44258.html

OMG, Baby Tennant! Wasn't he adorable? And yet so unformed. <3

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After my son and I caught up with season 13 in time to watch the S14 specials in the right order, we decided to go right back to the beginning of New Who, because it's AGES since we did that. I don't actually know how long but at least several years, enough that we were really looking forward to it.

We've now watched the first two episodes and were not disappointed.

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Insta-reaction here: https://unfeathered.dreamwidth.org/378395.html

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Quick review because I didn't write much down and really need to rewatch to get my thoughts in order, but havn't had a chance yet!

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Forgive me, a lot of this is very stream-of consciousness, but it’s all I’ve managed to put together while my son and I have rewatched the end of Thirteen’s run in an effort to actually remember what happened before we transition into the new series on Saturday!

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Been feeling very 'meh' lately so haven't got round to posting, but here's some stuff!

1. For my Intoabar assignment, to meet Giles I was given Najia Khan (Doctor Who). My first reaction was 'Who???'. After a few moments, I realised I'd literally just rewatched Arachnids in the UK and that this was Yaz's mum. Wish I'd been paying more attention while I was watching! Will have to go back and watch it again. But an okay character. She's brave and up for an adventure, at least. At the moment, I'm picturing Giles rocking up to the hotel after the episode, having heard about the mutant spiders, or something. I did think briefly about some flashbacks to them having met in his Ripper days, but I think Najia's a bit young for that. Will see if anything comes to me!

2. She-Hulk. Jackster and I just finished watching this series and, whilst Tatiana Maslany has been very good in it, it's mostly bored me and all the fourth wall breaking annoyed me. Until the last pair of episodes, when the introduction of Matt Murdock and some actual chemistry finally had me sitting up, and then the mega-fourth-wall-breaking had me giggling like a schoolgirl (is that the right phrase?) and really loving it for going there.

3. Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs. Got this on DVD for Christmas and finally got round to watching it. Really, really enjoyed it. Strong script, good story, amazing cast of actors, and even the dinosaurs didn't look as dodgy as I'd been led to expect. It was 1973 for goodness sake! I thought they were pretty amazing for the time, and the story more than made up for any failings in the special effects anyway. I'm not a huge Sarah Jane fan but thought she really shone in this, her second story, and I've decided that Jon Pertwee is quite possibly my favourite Doctor after Peter Capaldi. So suave and cool and funny. The UNIT guys had a lot of good stuff in this one too, including the surprise of Mike Yates turning traitor. A really interesting story, which I enjoyed re-watching with the commentary and informative captions.

Well, I wasn't expecting that to come right out of nowhere with no buildup or fanfare! But, when I think about it, all the buildup and fanfare for the last two Doctors has been a bit of a miss with me anyway, considering that (as I realised over in the comments of astrogirl's post) I didn't know who Whittaker was either, and only knew Capaldi through his previous Who/Torchwood appearances! ...In fact, I'd never seen David Tennant in anything either, nor Matt Smith. I had a vauge idea who Eccleston was, but he was the only one!

Interesting thought that came out of the above: I watched Jodie Whittaker in Broadchurch when it was shown again during 2020 lockdown, and while she was amazing in that I would not have ever thought from that performance of casting her as the Doctor. I just flashed back to a comment someone (possibly elisi???) made a while back about Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart, that she is a very serious, non-comedic actress which doesn't always strike the right note with Who which tends to have its tongue in its cheek a lot of the time, and thinking about it, I think that's possibly my main problem with Jodie. As well as the script-writing, of course, but that's a given at this point.

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I don't think I have a lot else to say, but I'm including here for reference the posts of other people in my flist which I've commented on or at least read:
elisi's post
ruuger's post (where I think I got the humour thought from elisi)
trobadora's post
astrogirl's post