lynda
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Post by lynda on Oct 29, 2010 23:21:25 GMT
Ok, this was pretty much 50 minutes of crack!fic. Which isn't to say it was a bad thing; I loved every minute. *All the classic Who references and flashbacks! 507 regenerations!*
Also, one thing I noticed; Jo has a really hugely enormous mouth. I guess she always has, thinking back to her 70s episodes, but for some reason it took this for me to realize it.
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Post by jjpor on Oct 31, 2010 21:57:26 GMT
Jo has a really hugely enormous mouth. Literally and figuratively! Sorry, I was being a bit mean there...
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Post by reversethepolarity on Nov 4, 2010 22:08:46 GMT
Three things:
1) Just finished Part 2 and Oh My Rassilon. Best SJA episode ever! Okay, I've missed the last two seasons, but still, best I've seen. 'Course, I'm probably very biased because Jo Grant is my favorite companion. But it was just great. And there were some really wonderful flashbacks and some stellar Doctor-Jo scenes.
2) Did anyone else freak out at the end completely and utterly when Sarah Jane started mentioning the other companions? I nearly died when she mentioned Tegan and then went on to mention Ian and Barbara (still the same age. That was great that they actually stuck with the canon set up in the book 'Face of the Enemy' and kept that idea), Ben and Polly, Harry!, and then Dorothy! (Who we all know meant 'Ace.' I heard some people say it could reference Dodo, but I don't think so, because they said she worked for A Charitable Earth = ACE.) I flipped out. 'Course, I still stick with the whole 'Ace is a Time Vigilante' idea, but still, it was great. And they'd mentioned Liz and the Brig earlier.
3) Was I the only one upset when they killed the vultures at the end? That just really shocked me. They set them up as this group that was actually rather noble and wanted the TARDIS to save lives and stop death. Why go to the trouble of adding that twist in if you're just going to blow them up anyway? I really didn't like that at all. And then nobody cared. No one even seemed a little upset. In fact, they seemed very happy. But these vulture guys had already said they weren't mad, evil tyrants trying to destroy everything. They just wanted to save people. Argh. That just really bothered me. Messed up the whole show for me, it did. But then again, I'm a rather more sympathetic person than most and I tend to empathize with and like the villains, so I may be that rare exception. I didn't even like that they killed that UNIT chick. It just seemed very harsh in and episode that was mostly light and fun. Which only made it worse, because they weren't taking these deaths seriously. Or considering them at all. They just did it, with no second guesses.
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Post by clocketpatch on Nov 5, 2010 0:16:56 GMT
I've got to admit that the random deaths at the end didn't sit particularly well with me either. Especially that of the UNIT staffer who was clearly trying to get into the coffin at the end. If Sarah or Jo had just said "come and get into the coffin with us" or something like that (and the noble vultures could have said something about there being no room) but... nothing... and then... nothing.
The disregard for deaths is getting callous and a bit OOC. I was also kind of rubbed wrong by the bit in the first episode where a Slitheen explodes and they all laugh about being covered with guts.
and they all laugh about being covered with guts.
Just. No.
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Post by jjpor on Nov 6, 2010 22:59:19 GMT
In response to rtp and Clocket:
*1. Yeah, Jo was ace, despite the School Reunion-ish bit I churlishly moan about above. Just the same Jo as back in the UNIT days - older on the outside, but still young at heart and as flaky as ever, and she's achieved so much with her life (which made the whingey bit sit even worse with me, because it seemed to be trying to invalidate that - oh, RTD!)
2. Oh yeah, whatever else I may have said about this ep, I squeed at all of that - helped that most of Rusty's choices seemed to coincide with my own fannish inclinations. Was the Ian/Barbara not ageing bit from Face of the Enemy? I've read that book (like, about fifteen years ago now, probably!), but that bit seems to have slipped my mind. I squeed at the idea of them being happily married to this day, though, as I did at the idea of Ben/Polly and Sarah's emotional moment over poor deceased Harry (or so I interpreted that bit), and as for Ace...well, Ace clearly has many and varied interests in her post-Doctor life, is all I can say. ;D At least she isn't dead, as the DWM comic strips would have you believe!
3. Yeah, as johne said at the time, the flippant attitude to exploding Slitheen did seem a bit much, as did the total non-reaction to exploded vultures and UNIT woman here. And at the end of the day, is wanting to see the stars really so bad a motive (although granted, cooking schoolkids alive to achieve said goal is probably going a bit far)?*
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