Assorted Ramblings...

Having seen and been inspired by the housekeeping posts made by some of my f-listees, I thought I should probably have a look through all the fandom-related rambling I did in 2010 and see if it warranted organising. To my surprise, there was quite a lot of it.

Here, then are the thinky-thoughts, reviews, picspams, fanfic and meta that I posted last year:

( Doctor Who )
( Other Telly )
( Fandom-related memes )
( Picspams. Mostly David Tennant centric! )
( Fanfiction )

So, the Season 2 finale. Cybermen, Daleks and Rose’s departure. Epic stuff.

I like the way both Army of Ghosts and Doomsday open with Rose’s narration – This is the story of how I died is just… chilling.

I'd planned to do a review and spam of both episodes in one post, but ... I've gone a bit overboard with the pretty pictures, so it'll have to be two.

( Who you gonna call? )

Love and Monsters doesn’t really get a lot of love, but I confess, I’ve got a bit of a soft-spot for it. Even though it’s the first NET (Not Enough Tennant!) episode, I rather like the concept of seeing the Doctor through the eyes of an “outsider.”

( Sun is shining in the sky... )

Yes, I know this is out of the running order, but we’ve got two different channels here showing repeats of the second series of Doctor Who ! I didn’t get to watch Tooth and Claw when it was on last week, but I caught it last night instead.

I haven’t got much to say – I’m tired for one thing, and for another, the amount of sheer gorgeousness on display melted my brain, so all I’m going to do is spam you with some of that.

( We are not amused. )

I’m trying to think of some pithy comments to make about the Cybermen two-parter – Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel - but I seem to be all out of pith.

It’s Ten’s first two-part story and I remember cheering when I saw the Cybermen in the trailer the previous week. I’m a sucker for the return of old enemies.

This one is more of a straightforward adventure story, with the Doctor, Mickey and Rose stuck in an alternative universe where Rose’s Dad is still alive, her parents are rich – but they’ve never had any kids.

( I'd call you a genius, except I'm in the room. )

As the lovely Mr Tennant pointed out yesterday, BBC Three ‘occasionally’ (which is probably some sort of Time Lord code for ‘all the time’!) repeats Doctor Who. They’re currently re-running all his episodes, and tonight aired what is one of my favourites - School Reunion, aka ‘The One with Sarah-Jane Smith. I’m pretty sure that by the time this episode aired, the SJA was in production, or had at least been green-lit, so this was also kind of a set-up episode for that as well as an opportunity to explore just what ‘life-after-the-Doctor’ means, and to delve a bit deeper as to how the Doctor thinks of his companions.

( words and pictures )