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Doctor Who; conversations
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Super brief and not really spoilery thoughts on the new season of Doctor Who so far:
I really like Peter Capaldi in this role. He's doing interesting things with the character that are not all necessarily clear at this point. He is also lovely to look at.
With this Robin Hood episode, I feel the season has finally hit its stride. It had such lively writing, a great leadership role for Clara, and a nice arc with the Doctor and Robin from bickering to reluctant cooperation to grudging acknowledgement of their similarity in a way that made a point about the nature of the Doctor. Felt more organic than last episode's point-blank "Am I a good man?", although that set us up well for this.
My main complaint concerns the season premiere. It should have come after this episode. We needed to get to know Twelve a little before other characters could start complaining about him or expressing suspicion. The way it aired, we had about three seconds to get used to Peter Capaldi's face before everyone was all, "Ew, you're old," "You're not Eleven," "Who are you," "What are you doing," and the guy hadn't even had a chance to settle into his skin yet. Far less charming than Eleven meeting little Amy. And maybe nothing will ever be Eleven and Amy, but I was predisposed to like Capaldi and the whole premiere just felt prematurely defensive. They needed to show us Twelve before we could form an opinion about him.
Oh, speaking of Eleven and Amy, or Eleven/Amy(/Rory), and sexual tension with companions, "Clara, I'm not your boyfriend" was the freaking sexiest thing I've seen on TV in a while. If the show didn't suddenly seem so ageist, it'd be enough to make you suspect they're headed toward proving that statement wrong. (For the record, I'd be in favor. Although the soldier teacher dude seems cute enough.)
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Interesting conversations that have happened recently and may still be going on:
On capitalization in fic titles, over at![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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What about doing a Vidding Bingo, bythirdblindmouse
Super brief and not really spoilery thoughts on the new season of Doctor Who so far:
I really like Peter Capaldi in this role. He's doing interesting things with the character that are not all necessarily clear at this point. He is also lovely to look at.
With this Robin Hood episode, I feel the season has finally hit its stride. It had such lively writing, a great leadership role for Clara, and a nice arc with the Doctor and Robin from bickering to reluctant cooperation to grudging acknowledgement of their similarity in a way that made a point about the nature of the Doctor. Felt more organic than last episode's point-blank "Am I a good man?", although that set us up well for this.
My main complaint concerns the season premiere. It should have come after this episode. We needed to get to know Twelve a little before other characters could start complaining about him or expressing suspicion. The way it aired, we had about three seconds to get used to Peter Capaldi's face before everyone was all, "Ew, you're old," "You're not Eleven," "Who are you," "What are you doing," and the guy hadn't even had a chance to settle into his skin yet. Far less charming than Eleven meeting little Amy. And maybe nothing will ever be Eleven and Amy, but I was predisposed to like Capaldi and the whole premiere just felt prematurely defensive. They needed to show us Twelve before we could form an opinion about him.
Oh, speaking of Eleven and Amy, or Eleven/Amy(/Rory), and sexual tension with companions, "Clara, I'm not your boyfriend" was the freaking sexiest thing I've seen on TV in a while. If the show didn't suddenly seem so ageist, it'd be enough to make you suspect they're headed toward proving that statement wrong. (For the record, I'd be in favor. Although the soldier teacher dude seems cute enough.)
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Interesting conversations that have happened recently and may still be going on:
On capitalization in fic titles, over at
roga'sWhat about doing a Vidding Bingo, by
thirdblindmouse
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Oh, good. I thought it might be just me, having read other interpretations of that line that seemed to ignore the unspoken "...but hot damn I want to be" that I could swear I heard.
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title case: 40
sentence case: 13
start case (so like title case i guess except 'small words' are also capitalized): 6
can't tell which one of the above b/c the title was only one word and it was capitalized: 7
all caps: 2
lowercase: 1
other or a combination of multiple cases: 5
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oh! and also let me add: not only is he pretty to watch, but his voice, my God. He could read the phone book and I would be entranced.
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(Ignore the Moonlight Sonata clip collage on either end, as you please)
>>I don't think the show will actually go there (I've read some interviews with Capaldi where he was pretty clear that he didn't want to do that) but that certainly won't stop me from going there. *grin*
:D As a fan of ongoing sexual tension, I'm not sure what to root for. I'd be on board if they did it, but there's also something delicious just in an older man like him saying that to a younger woman like her, and in the sudden bald addressing of what had until that moment been subtext. And in the very denial that he would follow through on what he just acknowledged he recognized as a frisson between them (or at least that he recognized or thought he recognized that she might have felt a frisson between them, which in turn might just be him projecting, but anyway, that's enough parentheticals), because he's being responsible about being an adult in a position of power and that is sexy, too!
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But mostly, "Yay, numbers!"
I did a quick tally of sentence case titles from my AO3 archive when I commented on roga's post, but now I want to go back and do what you did. \quantifying/
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Even just the sudden acknowledgement of the subtext did it for me.
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Don't know if you've seen this week's yet? The tension/innuendo ratcheted up another notch. It was kind of wonderful.
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