"You are a load of laundry!"
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hafitalBack in the day when I used to work wardrobe for theatre in NYC, a very good friend of mine who is a comedienne would have this running joke with a very basic set up.
Someone would say,
"Man, I really have to do a load of laundry,"
and the response would be,
"You are a load of laundry!"
ba-rump-pa!
Maybe you had to be there. That shit was funny, yo.
~~~
I finally devoted an hour last night to watching the Easter Doctor Who special. But unfortunately I watched it after watching this week's episode of 24, and thus was pretty much completely devastated and loopy from the pain, and unable to fully sink into the DW world. But, for the most part, I liked it a lot.
Planet of the Dead:
--I really liked Lady Christina. She was fun.
--One of the things I used to do whenever I rode a bus or got in a subway car was wonder what would happen if that bus or subway car was suddenly transported to another world or dimension and I was stuck with just those people who happened to have boarded at the same time as me. I would always look around at everyone and wonder who would pair up or become friends or whatever. haha. Clearly I would need the Doctor with me or I'd get eaten by a swarm of metallic sting rays.
--Aside from the continuing use of the "mystical negro" sterotype which I did not care for, that prediction at the end scared the bejesus out of me. "He will knock four times." EEEEE. Also, it reminded me of Midnight, because that "creature" knocked four times didn't it? and Midnight is the one episode of DW that well and truly scares me down to my undies.
--At first I was annoyed with the characterization of Malcolm, but he won me over by the end. I thought they took the bumbling mad scientist thing a bit too far, though.
--I'm not sure how I feel about UNIT in this episode.
--DT looks way too skinny. I hope when he's finally done he sits still long enough to at least gain some weight back. It's a bit disturbing already.
--But, I really did like it. I loved the two guys on the bus and that the Doctor set them up at UNIT. I loved the Doctor and Christina working together. I thought it was all a bit ham-fisted, but fun never the less.
~~~~
And just a wee bit of 24 talk because HOLY JESUS FUCK DAMNIT CHRIST ON A STICK,
24:
--Well, one of my worst fears has happened. Since the start of season 7, I have been on edge waiting for the moment Tony would turn evil again and it finally happened. I knew it would. Because, I just did. And it was subtly hinted at and peppered throughout the season, mostly by Carlos Bernard's outstanding acting.
--Now, my worst fear is that Jack will have to kill Tony. God help me.
--Mostly it was the brutality of watching Tony calmly, with some remorse, kill Moss. Maybe Moss isn't dead, we'll find out soon, but jeezus.
--Some part of me knew the entire episode because as soon as Moss took the cuffs of Tony I was like, omg Tony's gonna run. And at thes start of the episode when Tony was getting ready to blow up the missiles and the handsome black dude says he's gonna check the perimeter and the other guy was all like, didn't you just do that, I was like, OH SHIT GODDAMN. And... I was right. I just didn't know how right I was. meep.
--I've written enough plotty stuff, and know all the signs and all the tricks, to know that the writers have been seeding this revelation all along. Also, clearly there's something up between Seaton (Hodges right-hand man) and Tony, and now there's this third guy, this unnamed Starkwood guy. Right now, while there are more questions being raised than answers given, it's hard to see what Tony's motivation or reasoning could be. But practically each scene with Tony, and those scenes with Hodges and Seaton, and jeezus all the scenes really, I can tell how carefully worded each line of dialogue has been written to reveal just enough, to implicate just enough, how the interactions between characters are just ambiguous enough -- it's what writers do when they're couching the plot. *g* Anyway, this is not the end of the reveals. Clearly. I do think Tony's working toward a larger play, and I'm fairly certain it won't be purely evil. He's not Nina. But whether it will be purely good, I don't know. Maybe. Probably not.
--Kim's return got over shadowed by the Tony reveal. I love Kim. I adore her, actually. I don't care what everybody else says about her, or the unfortunate day 2 events, I love that girl. I was so happy to see her and the scene between Jack and her nearly killed me. Of course there is no way he could have her witness his death, and I felt for him, so much, during the scene between him and Renee when he said that he'd accepted his inevitable death, but the one thing that would make it unbearable is Kim. That poor man. I know it's unlikely that he will actually die from this preon whatever, but I don't think Jack will survive the show, actually, and it's just killing me.
--If you want me, I'll be under the table playing with my broken Jack and Tony dolls.
Someone would say,
"Man, I really have to do a load of laundry,"
and the response would be,
"You are a load of laundry!"
ba-rump-pa!
Maybe you had to be there. That shit was funny, yo.
~~~
I finally devoted an hour last night to watching the Easter Doctor Who special. But unfortunately I watched it after watching this week's episode of 24, and thus was pretty much completely devastated and loopy from the pain, and unable to fully sink into the DW world. But, for the most part, I liked it a lot.
Planet of the Dead:
--I really liked Lady Christina. She was fun.
--One of the things I used to do whenever I rode a bus or got in a subway car was wonder what would happen if that bus or subway car was suddenly transported to another world or dimension and I was stuck with just those people who happened to have boarded at the same time as me. I would always look around at everyone and wonder who would pair up or become friends or whatever. haha. Clearly I would need the Doctor with me or I'd get eaten by a swarm of metallic sting rays.
--Aside from the continuing use of the "mystical negro" sterotype which I did not care for, that prediction at the end scared the bejesus out of me. "He will knock four times." EEEEE. Also, it reminded me of Midnight, because that "creature" knocked four times didn't it? and Midnight is the one episode of DW that well and truly scares me down to my undies.
--At first I was annoyed with the characterization of Malcolm, but he won me over by the end. I thought they took the bumbling mad scientist thing a bit too far, though.
--I'm not sure how I feel about UNIT in this episode.
--DT looks way too skinny. I hope when he's finally done he sits still long enough to at least gain some weight back. It's a bit disturbing already.
--But, I really did like it. I loved the two guys on the bus and that the Doctor set them up at UNIT. I loved the Doctor and Christina working together. I thought it was all a bit ham-fisted, but fun never the less.
~~~~
And just a wee bit of 24 talk because HOLY JESUS FUCK DAMNIT CHRIST ON A STICK,
24:
--Well, one of my worst fears has happened. Since the start of season 7, I have been on edge waiting for the moment Tony would turn evil again and it finally happened. I knew it would. Because, I just did. And it was subtly hinted at and peppered throughout the season, mostly by Carlos Bernard's outstanding acting.
--Now, my worst fear is that Jack will have to kill Tony. God help me.
--Mostly it was the brutality of watching Tony calmly, with some remorse, kill Moss. Maybe Moss isn't dead, we'll find out soon, but jeezus.
--Some part of me knew the entire episode because as soon as Moss took the cuffs of Tony I was like, omg Tony's gonna run. And at thes start of the episode when Tony was getting ready to blow up the missiles and the handsome black dude says he's gonna check the perimeter and the other guy was all like, didn't you just do that, I was like, OH SHIT GODDAMN. And... I was right. I just didn't know how right I was. meep.
--I've written enough plotty stuff, and know all the signs and all the tricks, to know that the writers have been seeding this revelation all along. Also, clearly there's something up between Seaton (Hodges right-hand man) and Tony, and now there's this third guy, this unnamed Starkwood guy. Right now, while there are more questions being raised than answers given, it's hard to see what Tony's motivation or reasoning could be. But practically each scene with Tony, and those scenes with Hodges and Seaton, and jeezus all the scenes really, I can tell how carefully worded each line of dialogue has been written to reveal just enough, to implicate just enough, how the interactions between characters are just ambiguous enough -- it's what writers do when they're couching the plot. *g* Anyway, this is not the end of the reveals. Clearly. I do think Tony's working toward a larger play, and I'm fairly certain it won't be purely evil. He's not Nina. But whether it will be purely good, I don't know. Maybe. Probably not.
--Kim's return got over shadowed by the Tony reveal. I love Kim. I adore her, actually. I don't care what everybody else says about her, or the unfortunate day 2 events, I love that girl. I was so happy to see her and the scene between Jack and her nearly killed me. Of course there is no way he could have her witness his death, and I felt for him, so much, during the scene between him and Renee when he said that he'd accepted his inevitable death, but the one thing that would make it unbearable is Kim. That poor man. I know it's unlikely that he will actually die from this preon whatever, but I don't think Jack will survive the show, actually, and it's just killing me.
--If you want me, I'll be under the table playing with my broken Jack and Tony dolls.
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Date: 2009-04-15 04:48 am (UTC)yes, please. *scoots over*
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Date: 2009-04-15 04:07 am (UTC)Waaaay back in the last millennium, in an acting class, the director was using hypnosis; he told one woman that she was ironing, and that when she looked out the window, she suddenly saw an alien landscape. The woman was not in character, she responded as herself: she crumpled to the floor, softly sobbing in profound fear. He awakened her gently, but the response stayed with me - it would be profound, I think, to suddenly be 'elsewhere', totally disconnected from what you thought reality was.
The Doctor is used to it, expects it even, but the passengers in that bus would not be expecting it at all. Oh, well, a relatively slight episode (for me) - mostly enjoyable.