captainsblog | References to Cheesy 80s cartoons for 400, Rusty! (Reply)

Considering that I've never seen more than a couple of stray pre-Nine episodes and am firmly stuck back on "Impossible Planet" in the current arc, it's remarkable how much I was able to understand (with a tad of Wikipedic assistance) of That Whole Business From Last Night. Don't know who Wilf is; didn't need to. The sequences with him and the Doctor are all you need to know to get it all to play at a very nice level.

The Master, or Saxon (ironic use of national-heritage name, that, huh Mel?), or Skeletor as Ten calls him in what for me was perhaps the funniest single word in the ep (did you UKers even get He-Man back in the day?) seemed to me to be the first real worthy adversary I've seen in my roughly 24 hours of viewing to date. Finally, someone with the same skill set who can't be killed off through something obvious, stupid or deux-ex-machinish. Having the whole world save three turn into him at the end (including Obama, thus fulfilling the Christmas dreams of the Birther nutjobs who already SAID he was an alien zombie) just made the story the more evil and the cliff the more hangerish.

Not so much, the Resurrection, though, I thought. After all the shit I've accused JKR of stealing over the years, at last someone nicked her back for most of that ritual. All that was lacking was Wormtail running across the floor with the signet ring between his overbitten teeth.

Second-best line was the one

thunderemerald already led with- "She's a cactus!" Again, not knowing barely a thread of the backstory, I'd no idea who the Cactii actually were, but I had my eye on that chickie the whole way in, since the camera seemed to be paying wayyy too much attention to her during those early Don't Mind Me I'm Just A Shopgirl Operating The Controls moments.

As opposed to something the camera totally didn't focus much on, but which

erinpuff, at least, was spot-on in catching. Check the lower left panel of the leftmost rectangle of the stained glass in the opening scene:

Immense (if obscure) thanks, again, to thems wot made it possible.

One last mini-spoiler for those using VLC as the player of choice for this stuff: did you notice the little Christmas hat on top of the player logo? I so dig shite like that.

Just one non-spoilery complaint, though. Did any of you catch the wording on the side of the Fartmobile that jitneys the Doctor's contingent of aged fans early in the ep?

The OVER-50s? EXSQUEEZE ME? Hey, I resemble that remark now:P

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All of this is on BBC America tonight, supposedly, for those who have the knowledge but not the means so far. We now return you to a world where President Obama's economic plans are still in progress....