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 )

We’ve got David Tennant and John Barrowman. And now John Simm as well. It’s fangirl heaven, isn’t it?

As is usual, the baddie gets all the best lines, and Simm makes the most of every single one of them. He’s charming, funny and terrifying at the same time – totally unhinged and, apart from being a psychopath, rather awesome :-)

This is also the culmination of Martha’s story. I’ve come to like her more and more over the course of this rewatch and one of the things I’ve liked about her relationship with the Doctor is the incredible amount of trust he put in her, right from the word go. And that carries on right the way through the season – in 42, Human Nature/Family of Blood and especially, here. Yes, she was in love with him, which at first I found rather annoying, but fortunately, that didn’t stop her from doing all the things she needed to do, even the things which put him through sheer hell!

( It’s as if he’s mesmerized the entire world. )

Blink is another of those episodes that regularly makes everyone’s “best of” lists. It’s this season's NET (Not Enough Tennant) episode, but what we got more than made up for that. When you think about it, he’s on screen for about 90% of the time per episode (and no, I haven’t made a scientific study of that, it’s just a guess!), so his schedule must have been manic. Presumably, the NET episode was put in to give him a bit of rest so he didn’t keel over on set.

( The angels have the phone box! That's my favourite, I've got it on a tee-shirt! )

Human Nature and The Family of Blood quite deservedly make most people’s “top-ten Nu-Who stories” lists, including mine. The setting is fabulous, as is the story, the writing, the acting, the music – everything just works.

I remember being utterly blown away the first time I saw the episodes. I’ve seen them a couple of times since (although not necessarily in the same sitting or even in order!) and they never fail to impress me.

( I dream I'm this... Adventurer. This...daredevil, a madman. 'The Doctor', I'm called. )

Moving on… It’s The Lazarus Experiment. It’s a “mad-scientist” episode. But more importantly –

( Anyway, I think it suits you. In a James Bond kind of way. )

After the romp through Elizabethan England, we’ve returned to New (x15) York in the year five billion and fifty-three for Gridlock

( Janis Jopin gave me that coat )

Smith and Jones is pretty much a straight-forward alien/adventure story with new aliens and the introduction of a new companion – medical student, Martha Jones.

( Aliens. That's aliens. Real, proper aliens. )