Comments on: DNF: Castleview, Gene Wolfe; and what I thought about the new kid

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:27:37 +0000

In reply to erica. *laughs* That's a very sweeping claim you're making there. I am intending to give Gene Wolfe another try. Promise. :)

By: erica

erica — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:26:51 +0000

Gene Wolfe is cooler than bow ties or fezzes or stetsons. Perservere for excellent results.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:10:56 +0000

In reply to Jenny. People better die on Saturday. It's World War II. There is no better time period for killing people, particularly if you toss Daleks into the mix.

By: Katy

Katy — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:57:38 +0000

In reply to Jenny. Yes! I'm bothered by that too. I want to write him a letter and point out that "Just this once, everybody lives" sort of loses its effectiveness if everybody always lives.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:55:28 +0000

In reply to litlove. Oo, the water zombies were well frightening. I'm mainly bothered by Moffat's reluctance to kill people. I want to write him a letter and tell him that God gave us red-shirts for a reason, and he shouldn't hesitate to use them. Monsters should do damage, dammit. :P

By: litlove

litlove — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:27:11 +0000

So happy to find you writing (and so well!) about Doctor Who, which we watched with a sharply critical, Tennant-mourning eye. But we all enjoyed it here, much as you did, and thought the new boy did a fine job overall. My main concern was the formulaic nature of the episode. Bring back the devil or the water zombies, is all I have to say. Here’s hoping the series picks up and that this was carefully designed as a taster that would not upset, offend or overly scare anybody.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:58:01 +0000

In reply to brideofthebookgod. I'm about to watch the next episode. Very excited!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:51:52 +0000

In reply to Jenny. Tom Baker, or Colin? Unpopular an opinion as this is, I rather liked Colin Baker. I don't know why everybody hates on him so much. And I have only seen two episodes with Ace and the Seventh Doctor, but I LOVED Ace. Did not care so much for Sylvester McCoy. I like Davison as well; I think he's enjoying a vogue right now because Tennant loved him and clearly took aspects of his performance from him. It'll be interesting to see whether Troughton gets popular because of Matt Smith. (That would please me.)

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:47:24 +0000

In reply to Katy.

I loooved little Amelia. She had exactly the right fascinated look on her face when the Doctor was doing all his food shenanigans, and I loved it when she put on a very skeptical face and said “If you’re a doctor why does your box say police?”

Aw, I remember how much I liked Martha in Smith and Jones. And then after that, she never seemed to enjoy the traveling as much. I wanted to tell her that if she was going to be a misery JUST STAY HOME and let me go instead. 😛

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:45:03 +0000

In reply to Claire (The Captive Reader).

I did too! I felt so guilty not missing him the whole time! It was like – have you seen Angel? At one point a major character dies, and when I was watching Angel for the first time, I was all, I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS CHARACTER EVER NEVER NEVER EVER, but the guy they got in to replace him was so funny that by the end of the episode when they mentioned the recently-dead dude, I was all, Oh yeah. Him.

(Except of course I did not forget David Tennant.)

I want Amy’s hair. In that last scene in the TARDIS, when she spins round and says “Why me?”, I wanted to crawl into the screen and rip her hair off her head and paste it onto mine.

That is a disgusting image. I apologize for that. 😛