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[icepixie]

Well, I just saw rowdycamels off home. :(

We had a good time, though. Did a bit of walking at Radnor Lake. Then we came back and watched a lot of TV. I have thoroughly introduced her to Northern Exposure, I think. We watched...ten episodes? Ish? In twenty-four hours? We took a tour through some of the more dysfunctional episodes of seasons three, four, and five. Plus there was Blackpool horror. I'm scarred for life now.

We also watched the DW Christmas special.

That was...truly bad. Someone needs to take the Who out of Rusty's hands, stat. He...recycled large parts of TCI...and made his main character angst over his Mary Sue...and had a really ridiculous scenery-chewing spider queen villain. (I suppose I shouldn't judge this spider queen, since I thought "Planet of the Spiders" was great. But somehow that spider queen was just...better.) Not to mention truly awful science everywhere you look.

I did like Donna, though. She wasn't a yes-woman. She kind of reminded me of Tegan, actually. Maybe Tegan mixed with Sarah Jane. And she was smart enough to not come with the Doctor.

Still, the whole episode...it was bad enough to make me wonder if they were intentionally self-parodying, but I'm afraid they were entirely serious. And that makes me sad. It was like it was written by an ADHD seven-year-old. On crack. With unlimited CGI.

Ugh.

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[kurayaminokoe.livejournal.com]

it looks even more recycled if your own coutry shows the christmas invasion at the same time as the runaway bride on bbc :)

I did like seeing new Who, but that can also just be because well it's been a while since I saw new Who :) Paid no attention to who wrote the episode though, hm, and I will have to wait till I'm back home before I can download and watch again. I will try to watch the Sarah Jane Smith spinoff thing tomorrow on the BBC, and omg I skip Torchwood for it *snort*

Did you see the new season preview? There's Daleks again which worries me a wee bit ugh. (don't get me wrong, I like Daleks, but it's getting a bit predictable and I don't squee as much anymore as well, when I saw the previews for season 1 and 2 dalek episodes)

[icepixie]

I'd given up on a Dalek-free season long ago. And while they are overused, it seems to be to be one of the least of Rusty's sins.

Oh, yeah, I forgot about the Sarah Jane spinoff. Might need to look into that...

[alto2.livejournal.com]

There's Daleks again

Oh gawd, yes. I was not happy about that. Did fanboy Rusty never notice that the show often went for a year or two with no Daleks? That Doctors like Five, Six, and Seven got but the one encounter with them? Can he honestly think of nothing else he'd like to bring back? I got all excited when I thought I saw a Sontaran in that little trailer, only to realize later that it was not one at all.

Sigh. Rusty needs to find something else to do with himself. In, say...Greenland.