7-10 Split
No, this post has nothing to do with bowling. Rather, it's about comparing the two Scottish Doctors to each other...
I just started watching "Ghost Light" and (checks Windows Media Player, which is still open and paused as she writes this) by five and a half minutes in--FIVE AND A HALF MINUTES, and that's including the theme song...
In a creepy Victorian mansion that's supposed to be "haunted", Ace just got called "undressed", and the Doctor just said "Excuse my young friend; she comes from a less civilised clime."
...
Holy.
Flying.
FUCK.
I have a feeling this one is gonna turn out to be more like "The Unquiet Dead", however, because, ya know, the word "ghost" in the title. Amongst other exploits and the fact that Ace and Rose remind me a bit of each other, Seven also kicked off the last phases of the Great Time War, bopped his way through the '50s, dealt with a werewolf (ish), was the first Doctor to express an Earth popular-music-type preference (in this case, jazz) and, of course, was the Doctor in the original novel version of "Human Nature". I know there are other things he did before Ten (and yes, I KNOW "Unquiet Dead" is Nine) that I could rattle off, but at the moment I can't think of them.
Seriously, RTD. Just...SERIOUSLY!
I also just, speaking of an episode with the REAL "naked savage" of Doctor Who in it, just picked up on a "Talons of Weng-Chiang" reference...oh, and the name "Gwendolyn" is awfully close to "Gwynneth". Just sayin'.
I wish I had something more interesting to say here, but other than the fact that when I went out on my walk yesterday I got a cat who had never seen me before to start following me even though I didn't so much as say anything to it, I got nothin'.
Oh, wait, I just watched a "The Real Ghostbusters" episode in which a village in Germany is sad because they DON'T have any ghosts--the castles all should be haunted, but aren't! Uberwald, or what?
SPEAKING of Discworld, did everyone know they're making a "Going Postal" TV movie? Well I didn't. Until now.
...Notorious