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Post by Lola m on Jun 2, 2006 21:14:53 GMT -5
Loved that! It made me think of the stretched skin woman. The bitchy trampoline. What WAS her name? Something long and complicated . . . .
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Post by Rachael on Jun 2, 2006 23:10:14 GMT -5
"Ladies, your viewing figures just went up." ;D I'll say. Psst: I actually like the American version of What Not To Wear, and get a perverse kick out of The Weakest Link, too.
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Post by Rachael on Jun 2, 2006 23:11:50 GMT -5
Big Brother! I thought this was in the future. That's what I call progress. LOL! Transmat. I remember the Transmat. It's a nice touch. But...did it always make people woozy, or is that just a cover for something else?
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Post by Rachael on Jun 2, 2006 23:24:49 GMT -5
Whoa. Well, somebody is sure taking their games a bit too seriously. Yeah. They've got a bit more reality in their reality t.v. And also: PRESIDENT SCHWARTZENEGGER??
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Post by Rachael on Jun 2, 2006 23:33:45 GMT -5
" Where were you hiding that?" "Trust me, you don't want to know." ;D I kinda want to know, a little. I mean, I know...but I wouldn't mind discussing it a bit....
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Post by Rachael on Jun 2, 2006 23:44:30 GMT -5
Gee, The Doctor is just collecting the sweet little blondes, isn't he?
Oh, and the hunky brunettes, too.
"I never paid for my license." Now, THERE'S a bit that could be lost on your average American viewer.
My grad school classmate Karen and her partner Bill have lived in London for the past three years; they don't have a license. She says the television police are always coming to look for their television (they don't have one, but no one can believe it).
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Post by Rachael on Jun 2, 2006 23:56:12 GMT -5
I made this world. Yeah, Doctor "has a sense of time and can meddle 'cause he knows what stuff should be like". Hrmph. Look to the loss of your entire people, dude. You're a freakin' telepath whose entire race died. You might be off your game. And...Rose?
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Post by Rachael on Jun 3, 2006 0:13:16 GMT -5
Tubed up controller woman wants to die. She just wants to make sure her masters get theirs as well. She hid them in the game. Heeee!! Love the bit with handing the guy his gun. And he's all, can I set this down now? Yays! Rose not dead! Just a different transmat beam. So, where did the rest of the contestants go all these years? "There's a time and a place." ;D ;D ;D Who's been controlling and directing the human race for years. . . lurking out there, right on top of things but not seen . . . building up their strength . . . Hmmmmmmmm. Could it be . . . . . Daleks? Why yes! Yeah. The second she started talking about her "masters", I was pretty sure who she meant. My question is this: WHY? Why Earth? This Fourth Great Human Empire or whatever must have been pretty impressive for the Daleks to go to all that trouble to stop it happening. And why not just exterminate the species earlier? I guess 'cause they tried that, before, and failed? And finally - that's a mighty inefficient genocide technique you've got there, Doctor. Half a million survived? The Dalek fleet was the first time, ever, that anything having to do with Daleks managed to frighten me. And Rose ought to be dead. 'Cause, well - Daleks kill, right? She's of no use to them, unless their backup plan is "lure the Doctor to us". Or maybe they want her for whatever they wanted the other humans from the game for. Since they, inexplicably, don't seem to have been killed, either.
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Post by Rachael on Jun 3, 2006 0:16:56 GMT -5
I had a thought, watching Captain Jack (other than THAT thought). This assortment of Doctor/companions reminds me a bit of the Doctor/Tegan/Nyssa combination. With Captain Jack as the much more attractive and entertaining version of Nyssa (I loved Nyssa, I really wanted to BE her, when I was a girl, but she was a bit on the serious side, don't you think?) and Rose as a far less annoying Tegan.
Jack has the knowledge of the future and time travel and technology and can thus function as a true assistant, while Rose provides the real companionship and human touch that the Doctor needs. And both, together, provide companionship and friendship for each other when the Doctor is just a tad too alien.
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Post by Matthew on Jun 3, 2006 0:53:23 GMT -5
The bitchy trampoline. What WAS her name? Something long and complicated . . . . Mostly they just called her The Lady Cassandra.... You know, till she 'sploded.
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Post by Lola m on Jun 3, 2006 13:16:08 GMT -5
" Where were you hiding that?" "Trust me, you don't want to know." ;D I kinda want to know, a little. I mean, I know...but I wouldn't mind discussing it a bit.... #rofl1#
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Post by Lola m on Jun 3, 2006 13:22:06 GMT -5
Gee, The Doctor is just collecting the sweet little blondes, isn't he? **snortle** I thought that too. ;D Made me think of that Young Ones episode . . . ;D You mean no one is gonna move a pile of books one day and be able to say: "Whoa, they have a TV. Everybody, they have a TV! They're shallow like us."
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Post by Lola m on Jun 3, 2006 13:26:08 GMT -5
Something long and complicated . . . . Mostly they just called her The Lady Cassandra.... You know, till she 'sploded. ;D And then they just called for a mop, I guess . . .
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jun 3, 2006 20:39:22 GMT -5
Ooh, it follows up to The Long Game. I liked that episode. Why isn't Captain Jack in the opening credits? I thought he was a regular. Anne Droid. *groan* The Defrabricator. Wish I had one of those. Rose just happens to get questions that she knows the answer to. Reality TV taken to an extreme. Interesting and well done. Bad Wolf Corporation. OK. Replacing one controlling force with another. Humans are just too willing to give up individual freedoms? Does the Doctor place too much faith in humanity? Chilling depiction of earth. Jack gets to pick out a whole new wardrobe while the Doctor and Rose compete for their lives? Somehow that doesn't strike me as fair. I really like how this state of things was a result of the Doctor's "fixing" things 100 years before. Interesting conundrum for him. When to tinker, when not to. Does he always know what's for the best? I mosturize. Nice throwback ref. So...anyone who wants to come with the Doctor can? Being a Companion is sort of self selecting? Jack made a gun out of the robots. Excellent!!! and HEE!! Ooh, black lights. Borg Queen? Wow, I really thought they had killed Rose. 'Cept I knew she was still around so she couldn't be gone permanently. The Doctor confronting the producers or whoever they are, and throwing them the gun. ;D Love the Doctors snide remarks to Jack. "I was just saying hello." "To you, that is flirting." ;D And the Daleks are behind everything. Who... aren't exactly extinct. Huh. Also, a little more impressive that just one sole puny one, but still.
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Post by Rachael on Jun 3, 2006 21:05:33 GMT -5
So...anyone who wants to come with the Doctor can? Being a Companion is sort of self selecting? Yeah; it's always sorta been that way. Well, except for a few who were downright kidnapped. Like, say, Susan's teachers in the very first episode. The Doctor just sorta picks up women (mostly women) who want to come along. Sometimes it's just because they'd die if he left them, or they're (through someone else's actions) light-years from home, but often it's just that he seems more interesting than their current lives. My sister was pointing out to me, the other day, that she thinks there was almost always a "thing" between the Doctor and his female Companions. At least, when the Doctor in question wasn't white of hair. She also pointed out that there's never, at least not for more than one episode, a male companion without there also being a female companion...which she thinks is telling of the relationship, without it being explicit on a kids' show.
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