Torchwood preview part one
1. Blow fish driving a sports car stopping to let an old lady cross the street = automatically awesome.
2. "Hey kids. Didja miss me?" Jack, I love you. If anybody else said that line I'd be pissed because of how it's basically the exact same thing the Doctor said in the Christmas Invasion, but I'm over it. And I love the chuckle after he said it.
Torchwood preview part two
1. HAHAHAHA!!
2. I love the conversation with the Torchwood people at the end, in the cab. They're all talking about how frustrating Jack is and how he never tells them anything... and then Ianto says, "It is more fun when he's around, though."
I think the next Torchwood season is going to be great. And a lot better than the first season. It starts January 26 on BBC America. Which means I can either watch it online right after that, or I could watch it online a week early when someone from the UK posts it after it airs there on the 16th. Either way.
Here's a couple of generic Torchwood S2 trailers for your enjoyment:
One
Two
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Doctor Who: "Boom Town"
I barely even remember what happens in this episode. Something about the Slitheen?
I think the Slitheen aliens are just ridiculous.
Jack's timeline screws with my head. When did he get involved with Torchwood? Because there he is in the TARDIS right outside the Wales Millenium Centre. His Torchwood base is right there. So why doesn't the Jack that's been looking for the Doctor for a hundred years run out there and accost them?
Why does the Doctor call Mickey "Rickey"? Is it really just to annoy him? Or does he have some kind of sixth sense about the other version of the same guy who's in the parallel universe...? I never really understood that.
So... does the Slitheen disguise also cast a Stupid Spell on all the people around them? Because when they unzip their heads, it makes a loud noise, and there's a bright flashing light. How do these people not notice something weird is going on?
I love Jack's initiative with the plan to infiltrate the mayor's house.
UGH Mickey. This is before he is even remotely tolerable.
Jack's really working the sound effects in this episode.
And here we finally get an acknowledgement of the Bad Wolf references. I love this stuff - the little tiny things that add up to something hugely important. Bad Wolf is all over the show, even after everyone finds out what it means. Which I love, because of what it means. It's like a reminder.
Mickey, let her go. Seriously, just give up. You can't hold a candle to the Doctor. And Rose, don't be stupid and say yes when Mickey the idiot asks you to a hotel.
AWW. The Doctor is watching Rose and Mickey walk off holding hands. He's totally jealous. For some reason I always forget that it was Nine that fell for Rose first.
Blah blah blah, Mickey crying because Rose left him... whine. "I just need some kind of promise that when you're coming back, you're coming back for me." Vomit. I also hate when Rose ran off and Mickey shouted after her about how she's always going to pick the Doctor and never him. Well, duh, Mickey.
I'm going to guess that the Cardiff branch of Torchwood gets set up after this earthquake, to help stabalize the rift. The version of Jack that spent 100 years waiting for the Doctor obviously knew he was there at this point in time, so he wouldn't be there when his other self was. The question is, was Jack a part of the Torchwood that was an enemy of the Doctor? Because he said he rebuilt, when he tells the Doctor about it in series three. So I might be wrong, and he only got involved in Torchwood after the whole thing at Canary Wharf. (I'm going to feel stupid if he actually explained all of this in series three and I just forgot about it. All I remember him saying was that he worked at Torchwood and that he had rebuilt it in the Doctor's honor. That doesn't mean he wasn't involved in it before that.)
Ohhh right... the Slitheen lady gets turned back into an egg. I had totally forgotten that's how this ended.
The thing is, Noel Clarke, the actor who plays Mickey, isn't annoying at all. I actually kind of like him. But I can't help totally despising his character.
Doctor: "Margaret the Slitheen gets to live her life again. A second chance."
Rose: "That'd be nice..."
Whatever Rose, like you'd do a single thing different. Unless she meant "I never would have started dating Mickey," in which case I totally understand where she's coming from. But she would always have picked the Doctor.
I think the Slitheen aliens are just ridiculous.
Jack's timeline screws with my head. When did he get involved with Torchwood? Because there he is in the TARDIS right outside the Wales Millenium Centre. His Torchwood base is right there. So why doesn't the Jack that's been looking for the Doctor for a hundred years run out there and accost them?
Why does the Doctor call Mickey "Rickey"? Is it really just to annoy him? Or does he have some kind of sixth sense about the other version of the same guy who's in the parallel universe...? I never really understood that.
So... does the Slitheen disguise also cast a Stupid Spell on all the people around them? Because when they unzip their heads, it makes a loud noise, and there's a bright flashing light. How do these people not notice something weird is going on?
I love Jack's initiative with the plan to infiltrate the mayor's house.
UGH Mickey. This is before he is even remotely tolerable.
Jack's really working the sound effects in this episode.
And here we finally get an acknowledgement of the Bad Wolf references. I love this stuff - the little tiny things that add up to something hugely important. Bad Wolf is all over the show, even after everyone finds out what it means. Which I love, because of what it means. It's like a reminder.
Mickey, let her go. Seriously, just give up. You can't hold a candle to the Doctor. And Rose, don't be stupid and say yes when Mickey the idiot asks you to a hotel.
AWW. The Doctor is watching Rose and Mickey walk off holding hands. He's totally jealous. For some reason I always forget that it was Nine that fell for Rose first.
Blah blah blah, Mickey crying because Rose left him... whine. "I just need some kind of promise that when you're coming back, you're coming back for me." Vomit. I also hate when Rose ran off and Mickey shouted after her about how she's always going to pick the Doctor and never him. Well, duh, Mickey.
I'm going to guess that the Cardiff branch of Torchwood gets set up after this earthquake, to help stabalize the rift. The version of Jack that spent 100 years waiting for the Doctor obviously knew he was there at this point in time, so he wouldn't be there when his other self was. The question is, was Jack a part of the Torchwood that was an enemy of the Doctor? Because he said he rebuilt, when he tells the Doctor about it in series three. So I might be wrong, and he only got involved in Torchwood after the whole thing at Canary Wharf. (I'm going to feel stupid if he actually explained all of this in series three and I just forgot about it. All I remember him saying was that he worked at Torchwood and that he had rebuilt it in the Doctor's honor. That doesn't mean he wasn't involved in it before that.)
Ohhh right... the Slitheen lady gets turned back into an egg. I had totally forgotten that's how this ended.
The thing is, Noel Clarke, the actor who plays Mickey, isn't annoying at all. I actually kind of like him. But I can't help totally despising his character.
Doctor: "Margaret the Slitheen gets to live her life again. A second chance."
Rose: "That'd be nice..."
Whatever Rose, like you'd do a single thing different. Unless she meant "I never would have started dating Mickey," in which case I totally understand where she's coming from. But she would always have picked the Doctor.
only barely sci-fi
Billie Piper got married on New Year's... eve or day, I can't remember. One of them. I was looking at this and I saw all those pictures and everything looked really normal and beautiful, which I think is nice.
One thing I don't get though is that the reception was in a bunch of huge wigwams. The guy writing this article asked someone "why wigwams?" and he said, "They couldn't get the TARDIS."
One thing I don't get though is that the reception was in a bunch of huge wigwams. The guy writing this article asked someone "why wigwams?" and he said, "They couldn't get the TARDIS."
Friday, January 4, 2008
April Fourth
This is some pretty hefty stuff right here. The latest Entertainment Weekly has an article about Battlestar Galactica. This picture, very Last Supper-y, is pretty interesting and telling (especially if you read the spoilers from RDM. Hmmm... very, very intriguing. It also says that the official air date for season four is April 4th.
I'm going to talk about the spoilers now.
Most interesting to me is the introduction of Natalie, a new version of Six. She "assumes a leadership position for a group of cylons with a separate agenda from the rest of them." I'm wondering if she's going to be heading a group of cylons that want to forget all differences and merge into the human race? I think whatever the agenda is, it's human friendly, given that she goes by a human name. Although I'm not sure how well this goes with my opinion that she's pointing at Helo and Sharon, who in turn look freaked out. RDM said he didn't want to say who these two were looking at, but whoever it was "was definitely reacting." Um, the only one reacting over there is Natalie. I'm pretty sure it has to be her. I don't know if she's pointing at them accusingly or if she's pointing at them to say "look, we should follow their example and overcome our differences." We'll see.
BOO on Lee not returning to flight status. Although if this means he's going to be a lawyer now, and if that means he'll get more monologues like he did at the end of season three, I don't know how sad I am about it. Anyway, I'm still a little upset about him not going back to being a pilot, but whatever. That doesn't necessarily mean he won't get to fly anymore... and anyway, you'd think that with the serious shortage of pilots they have in the fleet, they'd be able to get over his idealism and let him fight if it came to it. I'm just saying. And wait... wasn't he flying at the end of season three? He was the one that found Starbuck, right? I'm a little vague on the details from last season, it's been such a long time.
"The only one embracing Starbuck is Anders." Hmm. I guess everyone will think she is a cylon after all. Which just goes to show that she probably isn't one. Also, the final cylon isn't at the table... or at least I'm pretty sure that's what the last comment from RDM means: Someone is missing from the table because the last cylon has not been revealed. Although I suppose they could have put in another duplicate of one of the other people - there are two Tricia Helfers, after all. Still, it's way too obvious for Starbuck to be the last cylon. I will be so pissed if that's the case. (I think maybe I could handle it if it were done well and made sense, but I have no earthly idea how they could make that make any kind of sense. But whatever.)
Is it April 4th yet?
I'm going to talk about the spoilers now.
Most interesting to me is the introduction of Natalie, a new version of Six. She "assumes a leadership position for a group of cylons with a separate agenda from the rest of them." I'm wondering if she's going to be heading a group of cylons that want to forget all differences and merge into the human race? I think whatever the agenda is, it's human friendly, given that she goes by a human name. Although I'm not sure how well this goes with my opinion that she's pointing at Helo and Sharon, who in turn look freaked out. RDM said he didn't want to say who these two were looking at, but whoever it was "was definitely reacting." Um, the only one reacting over there is Natalie. I'm pretty sure it has to be her. I don't know if she's pointing at them accusingly or if she's pointing at them to say "look, we should follow their example and overcome our differences." We'll see.
BOO on Lee not returning to flight status. Although if this means he's going to be a lawyer now, and if that means he'll get more monologues like he did at the end of season three, I don't know how sad I am about it. Anyway, I'm still a little upset about him not going back to being a pilot, but whatever. That doesn't necessarily mean he won't get to fly anymore... and anyway, you'd think that with the serious shortage of pilots they have in the fleet, they'd be able to get over his idealism and let him fight if it came to it. I'm just saying. And wait... wasn't he flying at the end of season three? He was the one that found Starbuck, right? I'm a little vague on the details from last season, it's been such a long time.
"The only one embracing Starbuck is Anders." Hmm. I guess everyone will think she is a cylon after all. Which just goes to show that she probably isn't one. Also, the final cylon isn't at the table... or at least I'm pretty sure that's what the last comment from RDM means: Someone is missing from the table because the last cylon has not been revealed. Although I suppose they could have put in another duplicate of one of the other people - there are two Tricia Helfers, after all. Still, it's way too obvious for Starbuck to be the last cylon. I will be so pissed if that's the case. (I think maybe I could handle it if it were done well and made sense, but I have no earthly idea how they could make that make any kind of sense. But whatever.)
Is it April 4th yet?
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Doctor Who: "The Doctor Dances"
All right... part two.
I love the way the episode starts. It's not what anybody would have expected. "Go to your room! ...I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words."
You know, the first time I watched this episode, it was before I was all Doctor/Rose obsessed. But now that I am, I'm reading whole new levels into the conversation they have about how the Doctor has "danced" at least once over the course of his 900 years. ...I'm just saying. In my opinion, it marks the beginning of something more than just plain old friends between the two of them.
I wonder if we're ever going to find out about those two years the Time Agents stole from Jack's memory. The way his storyline went, a detail like that got lost in the middle of a lot of other more interesting details.
Oh, if anyone needed more proof that "dancing" doesn't refer to actual dancing, see this line the Doctor says about Jack: "He's a 51st century man. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to dancing."
Here comes my favorite part... the nanogenes fixing the empty child. I just love how the Doctor reacts. "Oh come on. Give me a day like this. Give me this one."
One thing I don't really get. Was Jack sitting on the bomb when he talked to them for what he thought would be the last time? What was going on there?
I think this was the first Doctor Who episode that made me tear up. Still does. "Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once, everybody lives!"
Haha awww, it's been a little while since the Doctor danced. Rose trying to teach him how again is so adorable. "No extra points for a half nelson." And then it all comes back to him.
I love the way the episode starts. It's not what anybody would have expected. "Go to your room! ...I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words."
You know, the first time I watched this episode, it was before I was all Doctor/Rose obsessed. But now that I am, I'm reading whole new levels into the conversation they have about how the Doctor has "danced" at least once over the course of his 900 years. ...I'm just saying. In my opinion, it marks the beginning of something more than just plain old friends between the two of them.
I wonder if we're ever going to find out about those two years the Time Agents stole from Jack's memory. The way his storyline went, a detail like that got lost in the middle of a lot of other more interesting details.
Oh, if anyone needed more proof that "dancing" doesn't refer to actual dancing, see this line the Doctor says about Jack: "He's a 51st century man. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to dancing."
Here comes my favorite part... the nanogenes fixing the empty child. I just love how the Doctor reacts. "Oh come on. Give me a day like this. Give me this one."
One thing I don't really get. Was Jack sitting on the bomb when he talked to them for what he thought would be the last time? What was going on there?
I think this was the first Doctor Who episode that made me tear up. Still does. "Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once, everybody lives!"
Haha awww, it's been a little while since the Doctor danced. Rose trying to teach him how again is so adorable. "No extra points for a half nelson." And then it all comes back to him.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Doctor Who: "The Empty Child"
I don't know how everyone is going to handle all my Doctor Who rambling, but you're going to have to find a way to because there's not much else for me to talk about right now. Battlestar Galactica comes back in like, March or April, Jericho is in the middle of being filmed (or was, thanks WGA strike), Heroes ended, Journeyman ended, Torchwood is in production for their second season still, Chuck and Pushing Daisies are on hold... OH, Lost comes back soon. Lost comes back on January 31st. So that's something for you to look forward to. Until then, it's going to be mainly all Doctor Who, all the time.
Anyway. Time to watch "The Empty Child." (We are skipping "Father's Day." I know it's supposed to be a great episode or whatever, but I don't want to watch it. I'm sure no one cares. And besides I got behind on the schedule, this week it's supposed to be the two parter where Jack shows up and while I'm perfectly capable of watching all three of these episodes and subsequently writing about them on here, I'm not going to because I have a lot of other old Doctor Who episodes on my Netflix and I'd rather be watching those, since I haven't seen them, and I need to continue my science fiction education... which has significantly improved on watching these older episodes. I can now name all the actors who have played the Doctor, in order, and the only Doctors I haven't seen in action are Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy [because we're not counting Sylvester McCoy's brief appearance and regeneration into Paul McGann in the 1996 movie as the Doctor "in action."] Personally I have to say at this point David Tennant is still my all-time favorite Doctor, but of the classic Doctors I like Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker [my plan is to be Tom Baker's Doctor for Halloween, I've already got my eye on a scarf.])
Okay, now we'll get on with it. That was all just a stall while I waited for the episode to load on Movie Alien (awesome site for people without TVs, by the way, everyone).
Oh, Rose and her Union Jack t-shirt. If I were going to be Rose for Halloween (okay, I'll admit it, it'll probably happen) I'd probably go for that shirt. Or maybe a pink track jacket, because as Jessica pointed out, Rose "wears pink like every single day." (No, I know, she doesn't really do that, thank you for telling us though.)
Rose always wanders off. Always. It annoys the Doctor, but at the same time... it doesn't.
"Muuuuummmyyyy. Are you my mummy?" I think the creepiest "monsters" on this show are the ones that don't look like monsters. Like a little kid with a gas mask on.
Aww. The Doctor talks to a really cute cat. I like any scene with a cat in it. (Well. As long as they're really cats, and not cat nuns. I did like Brannigan in "Gridlock," though.)
I love the part when the phone on the TARDIS rings. "How can you be ringing? What's that about, ringing? What am I supposed to do with a ringing phone?" And then when he answers it. "This is the Doctor speaking. How may I help you?" Like it's a hotline or something.
"Excellent bottom." Jack, you are such a pervert. Checking Rose out as she hangs in mortal peril from a rope off a zeppelin in the middle of an air raid. Only you, Captain. Really. Only you.
"Can you switch off your cell phone? No seriously. It interferes with my instruments." I love that line, for no real reason. I think it's the way he says it.
Jack: "You look a little dizzy."
Rose: "What about you? You're not even in focus..."
The Doctor: "I'm not sure if it's Marxism in action or a West End musical."
The Doctor: "I need to find a blonde in a Union Jack. A specific one, I didn't just wake up this morning with a craving."
I love this two parter. I think it is brilliant. The ending of it was just fantastic. I'm nowhere near the ending, but I was just thinking about the injuries the empty child had and how they fit into the plot and I just had to sit back and admire the story.
"Very... Spock." I'm going to have to start saying that.
Nanogenes! They're so cool looking. And yeah. I'm easily amused and satisfied by golden glowing special effects.
I love that Rose told Jack the Doctor's name was Mr. Spock. And then the gratuitous working in of the title of the show ("Don't you ever get tired of 'Doctor'? Doctor who?")
Rose: "You said it was a warship."
Jack: "They have ambulences in wars."
So the episode ends with the Doctor, Rose and Jack cornered in the hospital by a bunch of gas masked zombies and Nancy cornered in some house by the empty child. I'll watch the rest tomorrow.
Anyway. Time to watch "The Empty Child." (We are skipping "Father's Day." I know it's supposed to be a great episode or whatever, but I don't want to watch it. I'm sure no one cares. And besides I got behind on the schedule, this week it's supposed to be the two parter where Jack shows up and while I'm perfectly capable of watching all three of these episodes and subsequently writing about them on here, I'm not going to because I have a lot of other old Doctor Who episodes on my Netflix and I'd rather be watching those, since I haven't seen them, and I need to continue my science fiction education... which has significantly improved on watching these older episodes. I can now name all the actors who have played the Doctor, in order, and the only Doctors I haven't seen in action are Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy [because we're not counting Sylvester McCoy's brief appearance and regeneration into Paul McGann in the 1996 movie as the Doctor "in action."] Personally I have to say at this point David Tennant is still my all-time favorite Doctor, but of the classic Doctors I like Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker [my plan is to be Tom Baker's Doctor for Halloween, I've already got my eye on a scarf.])
Okay, now we'll get on with it. That was all just a stall while I waited for the episode to load on Movie Alien (awesome site for people without TVs, by the way, everyone).
Oh, Rose and her Union Jack t-shirt. If I were going to be Rose for Halloween (okay, I'll admit it, it'll probably happen) I'd probably go for that shirt. Or maybe a pink track jacket, because as Jessica pointed out, Rose "wears pink like every single day." (No, I know, she doesn't really do that, thank you for telling us though.)
Rose always wanders off. Always. It annoys the Doctor, but at the same time... it doesn't.
"Muuuuummmyyyy. Are you my mummy?" I think the creepiest "monsters" on this show are the ones that don't look like monsters. Like a little kid with a gas mask on.
Aww. The Doctor talks to a really cute cat. I like any scene with a cat in it. (Well. As long as they're really cats, and not cat nuns. I did like Brannigan in "Gridlock," though.)
I love the part when the phone on the TARDIS rings. "How can you be ringing? What's that about, ringing? What am I supposed to do with a ringing phone?" And then when he answers it. "This is the Doctor speaking. How may I help you?" Like it's a hotline or something.
"Excellent bottom." Jack, you are such a pervert. Checking Rose out as she hangs in mortal peril from a rope off a zeppelin in the middle of an air raid. Only you, Captain. Really. Only you.
"Can you switch off your cell phone? No seriously. It interferes with my instruments." I love that line, for no real reason. I think it's the way he says it.
Jack: "You look a little dizzy."
Rose: "What about you? You're not even in focus..."
The Doctor: "I'm not sure if it's Marxism in action or a West End musical."
The Doctor: "I need to find a blonde in a Union Jack. A specific one, I didn't just wake up this morning with a craving."
I love this two parter. I think it is brilliant. The ending of it was just fantastic. I'm nowhere near the ending, but I was just thinking about the injuries the empty child had and how they fit into the plot and I just had to sit back and admire the story.
"Very... Spock." I'm going to have to start saying that.
Nanogenes! They're so cool looking. And yeah. I'm easily amused and satisfied by golden glowing special effects.
I love that Rose told Jack the Doctor's name was Mr. Spock. And then the gratuitous working in of the title of the show ("Don't you ever get tired of 'Doctor'? Doctor who?")
Rose: "You said it was a warship."
Jack: "They have ambulences in wars."
So the episode ends with the Doctor, Rose and Jack cornered in the hospital by a bunch of gas masked zombies and Nancy cornered in some house by the empty child. I'll watch the rest tomorrow.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
At least he got a helicopter ride out of it.
This slightly terrified me, but thankfully he will be okay, and he won't have to upload his consciousness to a new body any time soon.
Also, Battlestar Galactica Christmas special.
Also, Battlestar Galactica Christmas special.
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