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…

Very brief thoughts tonight as I have only just seen these first two episodes due to a big Eurovision party last night and an all day rehearsal today, and I'm knackered and need my bed!

OMG I love Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson! He is just so very completely the Doctor and she is an incredible actress for her age, and their chemistry is just delightful. Both these episodes were completely bonkers, but I loved them, especially the space babies. A few niggles (such as how much blooming exposition can you stuff into the first episode – you'd get drunk really quickly if you were playing exposition bingo!) and I wasn't that keen on some of the second episode, but generally a great big sigh of relief. The Doctor Who I fell in love with in 2005 is back!

A few more notes from my respective rewatches of these two episodes.

( Wild Blue Yonder rewatch )


( The Giggle rewatch )

As for The Church on Ruby Road, I absolutely loved it and the new Doctor and companion! Review to come when I've had a chance to sit and watch it again properly.

P.S. I need some Fifteen icons!!

Well.

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I really enjoyed this. I wasn’t blown away, but I was happily satisfied, and mainly because ( Cut for length and spoilers )

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.

Just re-watched "Empty Planet" (SJA) which has to be one of my very favourite SJA stories. No annoying Luke, no annoying Sarah Jane, just Clyde and Rani, my two favourite characters, carrying an awesome story between them with absolutely no problem.

Have to admit, I thought the "Sun and air"/"son and heir" misunderstanding was a much bigger part of this, but presumably that's because I just love the idea of it. Also interesting this time that I was going, "But what about all the planes, and why aren't the streets filled with crashed cars, like in the Snap?" - right before Clyde and Rani explained it by saying all the 'moving parts', i.e. cars and planes must have been stolen too!

Ironically, chatting afterwards with my son, who is still my viewing companion on occasion, he mentioned we should watch "Flux" again and I was like: I was literally thinking about DW today and didn't even remember there was anything between the Captain Jack new year episode and last year's Sea Devils episode! I'd forgotten all about "Flux"!!! Probably for the best, really, but we decided we should probably re-watch all the Thirteenth Doctor episodes again (he's only seen them once) before next year's 60th. (Yes, I know there's one more new ep on 23 Oct. Can't say I'm holding out much hope though.) Anyway, that'll give us plenty of time then, to fight the boredom and make ourselves watch the Thirteen era episodes. After we've finished the awesomeness that is SJA.

P.S. I've been so busy lately I just realised I haven't checked in here for, like, at least a month or something. Have I missed anything important?

P.P.S I need an SJA icon. Clyde or Rani or younger Sarah Jane, preferably. Any suggestions???

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

I haven't posted anything about last week's episode yet because I felt like I need to watch it again to make sense of all the disparate threads, but this week I felt I had to post right away! I'll catch up on episode 1 later!

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