... is apparently what Doctor Who fans call themselves.
And I think I am now a Whovian. =D
This qualifies me for nothing more than a license to discuss Doctor Who. After watching the rebooted Series 1 from 2005, with Charles Eccleston on helm, I am officially hooked. But it sure did take a while.
I think it was because it was scarier than I anticipated. I do not like to be freaked out. Bad dreams are just bad dreams and they haunt. My mind juggles up random thoughts and influences and scary shit stays with me. It will haunt me again in some inopportune future when I am alone and I have to be brave.
Never mind that.
So I watched this season and I didn't understand a lot of things. I didn't understand why Rose found the Doctor so attractive and is willing to go warping through time with him. He looks a bit scary and goofy at the same time with the enthusiasm, big black leather jacket and big ears.I don't understand her wardrobe either. (Don't they dress up there? But I guess that just show how long I've been away from England.) But the Doctor still manages to charm me with all the caring bits, the scary bits (when he gets mad mad MAD at the Daleks) and his ability to just know what's what the madness is.
And the ability to pass off the old special effects and robot ideas as futuristic is pretty top class! I don't think that robot imaginings look like the Daleks any more! But this passes off! Brilliant! It's all part of the amazing storytelling, and I have not been through such wacky storyline in a while! I like the twists! I mean, I know to a certain extent that the Doctor is going to save the day, but the kind of messes they're in are magic! That would be THE kind of situations to solve -take that consultants!
The other companions are either cute (Adam) HOT (Captain Jack). That makes a girl very very happy. =D Captain Jack especially. He started out with that uniform... Mmm... Like a futuristic renegade James Bond. I liked his gadgets and I like his moves. It was fun watching him glide on the screen. I am sure, I want to watch Torchwood.
I also like how the cast was very varied. This surprised me, the fact that American TV is VERY polarized. I haven't seen a show with such a mix of races in a while. A lot of characters in a lot of American shows are predominantly white. Now Doctor Who comes in and wham -Rose has a black boyfriend, which should not be such a shocker but it is. The cast is mostly British, and they're multicoloured. It's a given. And then, there are all these aliens all the time. They've got to keep accepting, no matter how weird it looks. Personally, I have no racist issues unless they start being dicks about it. But I got used to certain things. Now, it;s time to shake it up. =)
I've watched the NEW Doctor in action. Hello, David Tennet - Doctor number 10. And by golly, there's a trend here. The Doctor is not, in general, your stereotypical "hot". Not at first. But sue me, when he started saving the day in the Christmas Invasion, I certainly warmed up to him. Sword fights, yeah. (He is a skinny bloke though. To think that he can handle himself in a sword fight with an alien is a bit... oh really?) I find the fact that he's rediscovering himself in that form to be pretty cool. As in, each Doctor will carry an aspect of the character. He may be the Doctor, but he's not the same. This allows the actors to interpret the Doctor in their own way, giving different facets to the character. For example, the dapper suit. When he wore it, I think I literally swooned! This Doctor I could crush on! -
And the scary bit was when Harriet, the Prime Minister set the Torchwood ray towards the alien spacecraft. I didn't realize how a bad a repercussion it is on the Doctor. Like, sure, the aliens are bad but Harriet was worse to kill them like that. But Harriet has a point too. Who was going to take care of the world when the Doctor isn't around?
I'm liking this world so far!
"This world is DEFENDED!"
"Exterminate! Exterminate!"
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Tonight, illogically, is blog night.
This is a short quip of the stereotypes that are associated
with tech companies today. And as an atom moving around these ecosystems, one
gets apprehensive on where to land next. What do I become part of?
Sure, the story is inspiring, and maybe somewhat glorifies
the effort. But then again, every battle is glorified anyway. The struggles may
be somewhat mediocre in the larger scheme of things. What do the users care
about Facebook’s engineering? The vicious, selfish sludge of the masses only
care about getting their Facebook page up and running fast. And sometimes, is a
company/industry-wide recognition enough for going through all that crap?
And this is only part of the questions that are raised
within me while I try and figure out, who I want to be and where I want to be in
the whole scheme of things. Where do I want to be?
It’s not enough to just choose something at random and
sludge through – be miserable, get the money, enjoy yourself at the weekends.
It has to be something that I love, something that I can be really passionate
about! So that I can be great! So I can be of help to others. So I can be happy
every single day of my life. Some people get the calling, they hear and they
immediately seek what they do. I am still miserably confused. I don’t know what
to do. I’m still figuring myself out.
Reading this article also opened my eyes to the view of
extreme geekidom. Sometimes it is boring. People do get bored at looking at
code. And I have a short and very picky attention span. I like, I obsess, I
move on. What on earth makes me think that I could be a great coding guru? I
haven’t done any earth shattering major projects. I cannot build my own virtual
machine to convert PHP to native. If I was seriously interested wouldn’t I have
done something already?
I have some fantasies on where I might fit in. I want to be
a YouTube celebrity. I want to be a writer. I want to be a scientific explorer.
I want to be an idea-generator: manifest it through art, technology, music. I
want to know people with amazing psyche. I want to travel.
I have a feeling that being a whole “personality” thing would
help if I looked really hot. Which I do not at the moment. *sigh*
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