Moving right along....
Mar. 8th, 2009 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogThrough "Fathers Day," that is, ep. 8 in the continuing series of rotting my brain and all,....
Just a few simple questions.
Perhaps most obvious of all: why is he, and/or it, called "Doctor Who" when through now six full hours of watching, I've yet to hear Nine refer to himself as anything other than "the Doctor" sans the interrogatorific honorific?
Why do all'yall refer to Daleks as plural when there is, at least at one moment in time and space, only one of them?
And is there ANYTHING these people won't rip off? Two eps in, I saw and noted the parallels between "End of the World" and Douglas Adams, which turn out to be forgivable, since apparently he wrote for the original show even before writing HHGTG and such. But c'mon. The "Aliens of London" arc has every element of TNG's "Conspiracy" episode except the worm salads; "The Long Game" apes the Mos Eisley cantina; and this latest bit, "Father's Day," is crawling (or, rather, flying) with gravelings.
(Speaking of DLM, did YOU know that they just released a direct-to-DVD sequel with most of the original cast? No Rube, sadly, but most of the rest are back. Netflix still says "very long wait." Gee, maybe Showtime underestimated the popularity of the thing?)
(And speaking of speaking-of's, apparently there's a Skiffy Season One marathon of Doctor Who on March 12th, which will probably begin right around the time I've finished streaming them all. Check your local listings.)
Just a few simple questions.
Perhaps most obvious of all: why is he, and/or it, called "Doctor Who" when through now six full hours of watching, I've yet to hear Nine refer to himself as anything other than "the Doctor" sans the interrogatorific honorific?
Why do all'yall refer to Daleks as plural when there is, at least at one moment in time and space, only one of them?
And is there ANYTHING these people won't rip off? Two eps in, I saw and noted the parallels between "End of the World" and Douglas Adams, which turn out to be forgivable, since apparently he wrote for the original show even before writing HHGTG and such. But c'mon. The "Aliens of London" arc has every element of TNG's "Conspiracy" episode except the worm salads; "The Long Game" apes the Mos Eisley cantina; and this latest bit, "Father's Day," is crawling (or, rather, flying) with gravelings.
(Speaking of DLM, did YOU know that they just released a direct-to-DVD sequel with most of the original cast? No Rube, sadly, but most of the rest are back. Netflix still says "very long wait." Gee, maybe Showtime underestimated the popularity of the thing?)
(And speaking of speaking-of's, apparently there's a Skiffy Season One marathon of Doctor Who on March 12th, which will probably begin right around the time I've finished streaming them all. Check your local listings.)