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May. 2nd, 2010 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntiemeeshLast weekend I folded laundry. It was Thursday before my arm forgave me for such an egregious attack on itself.
Yesterday I went bra shopping. Tried on probably twenty different bras. I'm hoping my arm forgives me before Thursday this time (dressing and undressing are still rather uncomfortable things for my shoulder/arm/neck area and doing them repeatedly in a short amount of time made it go from uncomfortable to painful before I was done). Today, it's busy shouting at me.
ION, I finally got to watch Doctor Who this morning. Meh. I haven't been overwhelmed with love for this two parter. Not that I hated it or anything, but it didn't thrill me much. It felt awkward to try doing an army of weeping angels. Realistically (I know, such a word shouldn't even be mentioned in conjunction with Who) no one would be able to withstand an army of angels that creep up on you when you blink. I guess that's why they had to make them so deteriorated, it explained their general uselessness.
I kind of liked Angel Bob. He reminded me a lot of the data ghosts in Silence in the Library. That's what I thought he was, at first.
The Angels in general just annoyed me, though. The idea that if you pretend you can see them, they will believe you can see them, and they'll be stone is just such a handwavey sort of thing to get Amy out of the corner she'd been written into. Bleh. I didn't find the Angels scary in this arc, and without the fear factor, they didn't have nearly as much impact.
I did like Amy being scared and less certain of herself. Her cockiness was getting to the point where it was starting to interfere with my ability to like her. She needed a bit of taking down. She needed to not be the one to understand what was happening, to not be the one to find the solution. It didn't really surprise me, then, that she tried to jump the Doctor's bones at the end. She's been fixated on this man her whole life. She made Rory dress up like him. Love and sex and protection from scary things are all mixed up together in her mind. And then he saves her again, and she's talking about her wedding, and she gets a little out of control. I don't think she's going to be pining for the Doctor in the same way Martha did, and the Doctor isn't in love with her so there isn't any danger of a Rose relationship. This is not to say that she isn't in some way in love with him, just that her feelings are more messed up and less straightforward than were Rose's and Martha's. Since the relationship she had with him as a child (however brief) didn't have any chance to grow and change naturally over time, I think she has to be dealing with a lot of confusion about what she's feeling. 1) A certain amount of childish worship of an adult who showed up out of the blue (literally, haha) and saved her just when she was most in need of a savior refreshed by the current situation, in which he once again saves her from a danger she only half understands but feels wholeheartedly, mixed with 2) her base adult response to an attractive man of roughly her age (her body would respond to the physical appearance of his body, not his mental age) that she's spending a lot of time with, combined with 3) her ambivalence about marrying Rory. At this point, all rational reasoning stops, survival instincts kick in, and she is suddenly out of control horny. The Doctor's efforts to fend her off were hilarious though. He was like a shocked little school girl trying to fend off a suddenly and unexpectedly handsy boyfriend. "You're human!" he exclaimed in much the way he might have said she was a child. I didn't get any sense from him that he actually wanted this in any way. (Side note: as I'm watching bits and pieces of these episodes over, I'm discovering that Karen Gillan does too much eye acting. Take that as you will.)
On to River Song. I don't remember what my initial reaction to her was, but in this arc, she's just a little too slick, a little too oily and coy for my taste. I suspected from last week that she might have been in prison for killing the Doctor, and they were certainly trying very hard to make us think that in this week's episode. Not that the Doctor seemed too disturbed by the thought. "Time can be rewritten," like this is a total revelation to him. He seems to make a distinction between the sort of 'overwriting' of time he's done in the past, and this rewriting of time, and maybe it's just my own dumbness, but I don't see a lot of difference in anything but the agent causing the change.
Anyway, in Amy's time, it's just ticked over to 06/26/2010. Luckily, the Doctor has a time machine and can take as much time as he needs to figure things out, as long as he doesn't stay in Amy's current time. Piece of cake, I'm sure.
And next week we get vampires that may or may not be something entirely different than vampires. Plus, we get Rory. And I like Rory, so that can only be a good thing. I had a laugh when the Doctor asked Amy if it was the good looking one or the other one. I found Rory to be more appealing and attractive than 'good looking' Jeff pretty much from the get-go. But then, I've never had much use for the classically attractive guys like that.
Oh, I also got my hair done yesterday. It's not exactly the color I was expecting. Not bad, per se. Just not what I got the last two times. My stylist must have been going off an old set of notes, because I'm pretty sure this is the first color we tried, about a year ago, that I vetoed after the first attempt. It's darker than I'm really comfortable with, and the color mix has more brown in it than I wanted. If this is the color she was thinking I had last time, that explains her amazement at how much it had faded. Oh well, ten weeks until I go back and get it done again, which is a totally liveable amount of time.
Yesterday I went bra shopping. Tried on probably twenty different bras. I'm hoping my arm forgives me before Thursday this time (dressing and undressing are still rather uncomfortable things for my shoulder/arm/neck area and doing them repeatedly in a short amount of time made it go from uncomfortable to painful before I was done). Today, it's busy shouting at me.
ION, I finally got to watch Doctor Who this morning. Meh. I haven't been overwhelmed with love for this two parter. Not that I hated it or anything, but it didn't thrill me much. It felt awkward to try doing an army of weeping angels. Realistically (I know, such a word shouldn't even be mentioned in conjunction with Who) no one would be able to withstand an army of angels that creep up on you when you blink. I guess that's why they had to make them so deteriorated, it explained their general uselessness.
I kind of liked Angel Bob. He reminded me a lot of the data ghosts in Silence in the Library. That's what I thought he was, at first.
The Angels in general just annoyed me, though. The idea that if you pretend you can see them, they will believe you can see them, and they'll be stone is just such a handwavey sort of thing to get Amy out of the corner she'd been written into. Bleh. I didn't find the Angels scary in this arc, and without the fear factor, they didn't have nearly as much impact.
I did like Amy being scared and less certain of herself. Her cockiness was getting to the point where it was starting to interfere with my ability to like her. She needed a bit of taking down. She needed to not be the one to understand what was happening, to not be the one to find the solution. It didn't really surprise me, then, that she tried to jump the Doctor's bones at the end. She's been fixated on this man her whole life. She made Rory dress up like him. Love and sex and protection from scary things are all mixed up together in her mind. And then he saves her again, and she's talking about her wedding, and she gets a little out of control. I don't think she's going to be pining for the Doctor in the same way Martha did, and the Doctor isn't in love with her so there isn't any danger of a Rose relationship. This is not to say that she isn't in some way in love with him, just that her feelings are more messed up and less straightforward than were Rose's and Martha's. Since the relationship she had with him as a child (however brief) didn't have any chance to grow and change naturally over time, I think she has to be dealing with a lot of confusion about what she's feeling. 1) A certain amount of childish worship of an adult who showed up out of the blue (literally, haha) and saved her just when she was most in need of a savior refreshed by the current situation, in which he once again saves her from a danger she only half understands but feels wholeheartedly, mixed with 2) her base adult response to an attractive man of roughly her age (her body would respond to the physical appearance of his body, not his mental age) that she's spending a lot of time with, combined with 3) her ambivalence about marrying Rory. At this point, all rational reasoning stops, survival instincts kick in, and she is suddenly out of control horny. The Doctor's efforts to fend her off were hilarious though. He was like a shocked little school girl trying to fend off a suddenly and unexpectedly handsy boyfriend. "You're human!" he exclaimed in much the way he might have said she was a child. I didn't get any sense from him that he actually wanted this in any way. (Side note: as I'm watching bits and pieces of these episodes over, I'm discovering that Karen Gillan does too much eye acting. Take that as you will.)
On to River Song. I don't remember what my initial reaction to her was, but in this arc, she's just a little too slick, a little too oily and coy for my taste. I suspected from last week that she might have been in prison for killing the Doctor, and they were certainly trying very hard to make us think that in this week's episode. Not that the Doctor seemed too disturbed by the thought. "Time can be rewritten," like this is a total revelation to him. He seems to make a distinction between the sort of 'overwriting' of time he's done in the past, and this rewriting of time, and maybe it's just my own dumbness, but I don't see a lot of difference in anything but the agent causing the change.
Anyway, in Amy's time, it's just ticked over to 06/26/2010. Luckily, the Doctor has a time machine and can take as much time as he needs to figure things out, as long as he doesn't stay in Amy's current time. Piece of cake, I'm sure.
And next week we get vampires that may or may not be something entirely different than vampires. Plus, we get Rory. And I like Rory, so that can only be a good thing. I had a laugh when the Doctor asked Amy if it was the good looking one or the other one. I found Rory to be more appealing and attractive than 'good looking' Jeff pretty much from the get-go. But then, I've never had much use for the classically attractive guys like that.
Oh, I also got my hair done yesterday. It's not exactly the color I was expecting. Not bad, per se. Just not what I got the last two times. My stylist must have been going off an old set of notes, because I'm pretty sure this is the first color we tried, about a year ago, that I vetoed after the first attempt. It's darker than I'm really comfortable with, and the color mix has more brown in it than I wanted. If this is the color she was thinking I had last time, that explains her amazement at how much it had faded. Oh well, ten weeks until I go back and get it done again, which is a totally liveable amount of time.
