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Not the mind probe!

  • Feb. 27th, 2006 at 6:07 PM
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This morning, Mr Postman brought me The Five Doctors, Serenity, and THREE bars of Green & Blacks. My siblings, they are good people. All Mondays should be like this.

Have seen The Five Doctors a thousand million times and it never fails to make me flail with glee. Things which especially popped out on this viewing:



* Putting Five and One together for so much of it was a bloody masterstroke.

* I still really like the Raston Warrior Robot and its enthusiastic gay jumping.

* If anyone ever tries to suggest that the Master does not want to shag the Doctor, show them the scene where the High Council explain their 'plan'. The man is drooling, I tell you, drooling! (Though he has naff all chemistry with Three: suppose Fancy Pants only goes for Delgado!Master.)

* Special edition = teh suXXor. The extra doomy ceiling in Rassilon's chamber is quite good. The swirly cone thing is not. And I swear, according to my 8-year-old brain, that at the end, in the One True Version, the TARDIS did a repeated dematerialisation thing which was awesome. (I may be wrong about this: when I was 8 I liked Roland Rat and therefore am an unreliable witness.)

* Zoe's dress doesn't look like bubble-wrap. It is bubble-wrap. Did she wear bubble-wrap in the original series?

* The minute he gets to Gallifrey, Fivey puts on a phenomenal amount of eyeliner. He clearly ran away to escape his inner tranny.

* That bit where there are loads of Cybermen on a hill and no one notices them for ages is arse.

* I slightly hate Sarah. *ducks*

* One appears to not even slightly recognise the Master, which buggers up all thoughts that Koschei resembles the beardy velvety-gloved one. Poop.

* OMG so much hand!porn at the beginning. And how unspeakably brilliant is the bit where One orders Tegan off to make tea, and Fivey sends Turlough too?

* Green & Black's Hazelnut and Currant Dark Chocolate is rather wonderful. (Not technically part of the viewing experience, but highly recommended.)


Think Captain Tight-Pants might have to wait till tomorrow: I have an urge to iconify some high-res handporn.

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[identity profile] pontisbright.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2006 10:16 am (UTC)
Eep! It's so long since I've seen it I have erased all memory of celery-eating. I love love love that story, especially all the Escher stuff: was one of the very few moments as a kid where I remember actually 'getting' a cultural reference (my sister had posters of his stuff plastered all over the walls) without having to ask someone.

Where is my dvd of that, eh, BBC? *shakes fist*
[identity profile] wishfulaces.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 2nd, 2006 05:21 am (UTC)
Oh yeah. I think my fave PD stuff as the Doctor is his beginning & end stuff (what is not to love about "Planet of Fire" here? And "Caves" is just astonishingly good). Then again, there's good middle stuff too...dammit, he's just my favorite.
[identity profile] pontisbright.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 2nd, 2006 01:32 pm (UTC)
That is because he is WONDERFUL!

Ahem. I have nothing useful to add except nodding and saying YES! excitedly. Everytime I see a new one (as in one i've not seen in ages, not some marvellous cache of secret unscreened 80s Who, sadly), I'm a bit more stuck for making my list of Favourites, because even the rubbish ones have so much charm and energy. Best telly ever.