I've lost my ability to *not* be tl;dr. doctor who, fringe, and getting way too personal
So, Doctor Who! Was...better than last week, but that's not a remotely difficult feat. (Last week had potential, but it totally ruined it with what was probably the most terrible pacing ever. The only good!part was pirate!Amy, who I would totally be for Halloween if I actually did anything for Halloween ever.)
I didn't fall in love with Idris!Tardis though? It just seems like everyone else did. She was okay, but not awesome, and her human death didn't make me particularly sad. Most of the time I was just waiting for the River river line. And the episode was just a bit...dark? I don't just mean the whole mutilated Time Lord thing (although augh, ew), but the actual lighting.
Also the Amy and Rory wandering the evil!Tardis thing scared the everloving shit out of me. Which Doctor who has never, ever done (even with the Weeping Angels and Silence, I'm kind of like, what? They're good villains, but scary?). Obviously I knew that Rory wasn't really going to be dead (they do this to Rory a lot, don't they) but um eep. Jeepers.
And it's sad for me, because I love Rory and Amy and Eleven, but I spend most of my time anymore just waiting for River Song's episode.
I've been thinking about Fringe a lot lately. I read an interview with the producers(?) (which I would link if I could find it, it was via io9) where they talked about some of what season four would be, and I thought it sounded awesome. But...I also thought season three was going to be awesome? And mostly it just made me hate Peter to the point where I wouldn't have minded if that were the series finale? (And no, not because of Fauxliv/Peter, because I actually did ship them - or want to ship them, anyhow.) Although I hate that Seth Gabel's status has been upped, not because I dislike Lincoln - I really do like him - but because he's going to get like a billion episodes and Astrid hasn't gotten any, and fuck that.
But I love this show, sometimes on principle and sometimes not. I even loved the first half of season one, even though my Olivia love didn't take off until (naturally) Bound. I liked John Scott and everything.
Which brings me to Olivia. I identify with her to a point - obviously she is many many times more badass and awesome and insert-positive-adjective-here than I am - but the part of her that's broken, I get. In multiple ways. (Although I consider aloofness one of my strengths, lol.) I'll really try not to delete this paragraph in five minutes, but then.
In conclusion, never gonna give Olivia up, never gonna let her down, never gonna run around and hurt her.
And that just make me think about identification characters, and who mine are. Some of them are predictable, but others just seem random, even to me. Like Sansa Stark. Or Mulder. (SHUT UP. I'm a one-track crazy person, deal with it.)
And now I guess I have to go finish this B5 episode. Stop being boring, episode.
(STFU, Sheridan. Your facial hair is stupid.)
ETA: Oh my lol, I started this post completely so I could tack something non-fandom-related on at the end, and...look at me. OH WELL.
I didn't fall in love with Idris!Tardis though? It just seems like everyone else did. She was okay, but not awesome, and her human death didn't make me particularly sad. Most of the time I was just waiting for the River river line. And the episode was just a bit...dark? I don't just mean the whole mutilated Time Lord thing (although augh, ew), but the actual lighting.
Also the Amy and Rory wandering the evil!Tardis thing scared the everloving shit out of me. Which Doctor who has never, ever done (even with the Weeping Angels and Silence, I'm kind of like, what? They're good villains, but scary?). Obviously I knew that Rory wasn't really going to be dead (they do this to Rory a lot, don't they) but um eep. Jeepers.
And it's sad for me, because I love Rory and Amy and Eleven, but I spend most of my time anymore just waiting for River Song's episode.
I've been thinking about Fringe a lot lately. I read an interview with the producers(?) (which I would link if I could find it, it was via io9) where they talked about some of what season four would be, and I thought it sounded awesome. But...I also thought season three was going to be awesome? And mostly it just made me hate Peter to the point where I wouldn't have minded if that were the series finale? (And no, not because of Fauxliv/Peter, because I actually did ship them - or want to ship them, anyhow.) Although I hate that Seth Gabel's status has been upped, not because I dislike Lincoln - I really do like him - but because he's going to get like a billion episodes and Astrid hasn't gotten any, and fuck that.
But I love this show, sometimes on principle and sometimes not. I even loved the first half of season one, even though my Olivia love didn't take off until (naturally) Bound. I liked John Scott and everything.
Which brings me to Olivia. I identify with her to a point - obviously she is many many times more badass and awesome and insert-positive-adjective-here than I am - but the part of her that's broken, I get. In multiple ways. (Although I consider aloofness one of my strengths, lol.) I'll really try not to delete this paragraph in five minutes, but then.
In conclusion, never gonna give Olivia up, never gonna let her down, never gonna run around and hurt her.
And that just make me think about identification characters, and who mine are. Some of them are predictable, but others just seem random, even to me. Like Sansa Stark. Or Mulder. (SHUT UP. I'm a one-track crazy person, deal with it.)
And now I guess I have to go finish this B5 episode. Stop being boring, episode.
(STFU, Sheridan. Your facial hair is stupid.)
ETA: Oh my lol, I started this post completely so I could tack something non-fandom-related on at the end, and...look at me. OH WELL.