"Omega!"

[raven]

ThursdaythursdaythursdayTHURSDAY.

Is tomorrow. Buggery fuck. As I have said earlier this week, there should be no Thursday this week. We are going from Wednesday to Friday regardless of the continuous passage of time and/or continued stability of the Gregorian calendar.

On that note, computer thinks it's October, which explains the barmy placement of some of my recent entries. That said, my phone usually thinks it's 2057. I have that sort of effect on technology.

Anyway, I have spent the entire day watching television. hathy_col appeared in the afternoon, and I fed her mayonnaise sandwiches while having a good old gossip, and we retired to watch Spearhead From Space. Which is amazing. It's the first Doctor Who in colour, with trippy opening titles and it's just all terribly seventies. The Doctor appears, staggers out of the TARDIS, gets picked up by UNIT, goes on the run in a wheelchair, gets shot, steals some guy's clothes, you know the rest. And spends an inordinate amount of time looking for his shoes. "They're all obsessed!" I said at that point. They are; it seems the Doctor is fixated on shoes throughout his regenerations.

We tried The Three Doctors, which is dreadful in such a good way; it has Two and Three bickering in classic fashion and bitching over recorders and interior decor and the Beatles and the Brigadier thinks they're in Norfolk while actually they're in a black hole in another universe (obviously) and then they meet Omega. Who pronounces his name "oh-muh-guh." If anyone can point me to a good cap of him, I'd be much obliged; I think an icon is probably required. While I'm on the subject, this icon was made by larakailyn and is, in my considered opinion, teh sex; she's so pretty.

Blue Peter, too! I hadn't watched it in about ten years, not since they went three times weekly anyway, but it's amazing what stays with you. Apparently one of their cats died today, which was oddly upsetting. And then they had Daleks and TARDISes (yes, more than one) and David Tennant, who is adorable. They asked him questions 'n' stuff, but the bit that will stay with me is him dancing with the Blue Peter presenters to the African choir at the end. The Doctor can't dance, bless him.

Talking of David Tennant, I've been listening to one of the Unbound radio plays - Exile (it has a female Doctor) - and he's in it! He plays "Time Lord #2", which is actually a fairly big role, and the whole thing is hysterical. The Doctor spends the whole thing pissed on vodka and talking to herself in the mirror, while two totally hopeless Time Lords try to track her down. The highlight so far is David Tennant saying, in this strange, strange part-Scottish accent: "The Doctor... oh, Theta Sigma, that wretched little anarchist."

And, finally - really, I do nothing but watch television - Lost.

Big nah on the episode title. I mean, I understand the significance, blank slate and all that, but it's an iconic Buffy episode title. Still, the episode was okay. Didn't reach the dizzy heights of the first one, but I liked the Kate flashbacks and Sawyer's growing on me a bit (killing the nameless marshal took guts, although I don't understand why he didn't shoot the guy in the head), and Charlie is rapidly becoming my favourite of the lot. It ended very cheesily, in a sort of photomontage of life-on-the-island's-lovely, which seems to me to be rather missing the point, but ah, well. I'm still watching.

I suppose I could have watched the next episode on E4, but I probably ought to go to bed. Actually, the best part of Lost isn't the show at all. It's sponsored, as we all know, by 118 118, and Hannah is convinced they put the two guys in a room and say "be funny." I have much love for the 118 118 guys.

Okay. Nothing remains except the list - amchau, balthaser, enguarde, hathy_col, jacinthsong, mettanna, pinkishmew, pr1ncess_sara, purplerainbow, quackquacka, schlagen, shipperkitten and zeta_of_s. You know what I mean. See you all afterwards.

Comments

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

Oh, I dislike Spearhead from Space. It's scary.
That's the one with the farmhouse is it not?

I went & checked & we have that on video. We also have:
Day of the Daleks
Death to the Daleks
The Web Planet part one & two

& two movies;
Dr Who & the Daleks
Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD.

I don't think I ever watched The Web Planet though because it was dreary & scary. I'm trying to remember which one involved having to go into a weird stone building in a desert & the Dr had to work his way through various puzzles including a hexagonal stone floor that fell if he stepped on the wrong stone.
Do you have any idea?

[gwynnega]

I adore Spearhead From Space. There's something so delightful about woozy newly-regenerated Time Lords. And that shower scene was rather astonishing.

The highlight so far is David Tennant saying, in this strange, strange part-Scottish accent: "The Doctor... oh, Theta Sigma, that wretched little anarchist."

Hahahaha! Must hear this radio play (after I finish Shada!).

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is! And the plastic dummies that come alive!

Mmm... sounds almost like Pyramids of Mars, which starts off in an Egyptian pyramid, and finishes off on Mars with lots of puzzles to work through, but none with that exact description. I may be wrong. Let me think about it.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*snigger* Astonishing is the word. I do hope post-regen Ten is as loopy as his predecessors; it is a fine and upstanding tradition, dammit.

Oh, you must hear it. I've been lying on my bed in the dark listening to it and killing myself laughing. David Tennant just adds a further level of surreal to the mix.

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, I figure it must be one of the videos we have, but it's certainly not The Web Planet, & it's not the Movies, I could go down & check the back of the other two Dalek videos but that's effort...

Okay, it's Death to the Daleks. The planet Exxilon & the Dr finds humans searching for some mineral something or other & one gets captured by the things there & they have to go & discover the secrets of Exxilon City & oh noes! the Daleks appear.

That's a good one. I liked that one.

Spearhead from Space

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

It's the first Doctor Who in colour, with trippy opening titles and it's just all terribly seventies. The Doctor appears, staggers out of the TARDIS, gets picked up by UNIT, goes on the run in a wheelchair, gets shot, steals some guy's clothes, you know the rest. And spends an inordinate amount of time looking for his shoes.

I really like that episode. For some reason, it and Inferno are the two Pertwee-era episodes that seem to stick in my mind the most. I'm not sure why really.

[ashism.livejournal.com]

I always saw the end of Tabula Rasa as a sort of ironic happy ending - in the previous episode they shot a polar bear on a desert island, this episode they killed a guy, while at the same time they're trying to carry on as if everything's going to be okay when it clearly isn't. Plus the change in music at the end and the focus on Locke, the photomontage to me wasn't about showcasing the happy paradise of the island, it was about making the audience see that we and the characters have no idea what they've gotten into and that not everything is at it seems.

I think that whole paragraph is the least articulate I've ever been, but hopefully you get the gist. And good luck tomorrow, though I know you don't need it you superbrain.

[bekkypk.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha the three doctors is hilarious. I <3 it whenever Pat and Jon got together, they really rocked :D Also, Spearhead from space is why I don't like autons. Well that and the 90's PC game "destiny of the doctors" in which the third doctor's level actually let you face up to them as a little blob thingy (twas not pleasant, I ran off screaming. Then I found a radio set to radio one, which apparently autons can't stand either as it blew their heads off!)

*/ramble*
xx

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

That's an interpretation that hadn't occurred to me. I suppose that right there is one of the show strengths - it's deliberately written so you can choose how to interpret it. Also, Locke intruiges me. Why does he look so happy all the time? (No, don't tell me...)

And thank you very much. *g* I'm getting nervous.

[eternalwings.livejournal.com]

Wait, the episode title was Tabula Rasa?????
Hmmm.....I think I was watching the Buff episode on Sky one prior to it but I am addicted to this now.
*small voice* And not because I think it's slashy or that it's got Dominic in it.

[quackaquacka.livejournal.com]

My mobile phone is convinced I'm in Canberra. I don't know why.

My results aren't out until 11, so I'm just...waiting.

[enguarde.livejournal.com]

good luck/congratulations
xx

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[pinkishmew.livejournal.com]

I want some pictures or icons of David Tennant dancing. Surely someone on the internet must have recorded that... I do hope so...

I'm convinced he's part-Veela. There's no way someone dancing like that should be attractive.

[grimorie.livejournal.com]

I love you're icon, the 11th Fem!Doctor *is* Rachel!!! heeee!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*g* I love her, too. I should write some more fic about her one of these days....

[grimorie.livejournal.com]

You should! You really should! ::waiting with baited breath::