I'm finally up to Sarah Jane's episodes (or I will be once my exams finish and I can start watching again), which are a mixture of glee and sadness. She was such a wonderful actor. I only recently saw what Tom Baker had said about her actually...it seemed to get around less than everyone else's statements and I was sad when he wasn't in the memorial thing, but god it reduced me to mush.
Kitten. wrote:By the way, nice scarf. c:
Thanks c: I'm quite proud of it.
I actually bought myself a quite good Two!coat yesterday (mainly because I needed a nice coat for half-way dinner on Friday, but also because this way I can dress as Two for conventions :B). So I'm happy about that.
Anyway everything is rubbish so I'm going to cheer myself up because I like the questions I'm up to.
Day 12 - Scene/Moment that makes you giggle
I kind of did this
here so I might leave it at that because of the next question, which I can imagine will end up long.
Day 12 - Favorite Black & White episode story
Tomb of the Cybermen"Some things are better left undone, and I have a feeling this is one of them."
Oh Tomb of the Cybermen, how do I love thee. My first black and white story, my first story with my Doctor. I couldn't find An Unearthly Child on the internet but I could find Tomb of the Cybermen, and something in my mind recalled the fact that Steven Moffat had been traumatised by it as a kid. I'd already set out to have Two be my Token Least Favourite Doctor on appearances alone, so I had really low expectations for the story. But I'd also read about it in a magazine before Doctor Who was on, so there was a lot of curiousity to watch.
Which was well worth it. There was Two, he was scruffy and little and bumbly and from the outset he was being kind to what was obviously a new companion while making fun of the more established companion's clothes. He starts there and then continues to charminly tick every box you could possibly have for Things The Doctor Should Do In A Story. Jamie is, of course, adorable, and impossible not to fall in love with. In context Victoria is dealing with the death of her father at the...egg whisks of the Daleks, so we should forgive her for being annoying in this story (it's when she takes that trait and runs with it that it's a problem). She does have a really beautiful moment with the Doctor which is one of my favourite moments in the show in general, because I love bits where he talks about his history (or doesn't...I really hurt for Eleven every time Amy asks him about family and he gets all avoidant).
"You probably can't even remember your family."
"Oh yes, I can when I want to. And that's the point really, I have to really want to, to bring them back in front of my eyes, the rest of the time they sleep in my mind and I forget, and so will you. You'll find there's so much else to think about, to remember. Our lives are different to anybody elses. That's the exciting thing. Nobody in the universe can do what we're doing."
He's just so kindly and supportive <3 <3
In hindsight the Cybermen aren't all that scary but I can imagine that as a kid in the 60s the special effects would've been terrifying. Actually the Cybermen at this point are hilarious to me, but that's besides the point. There are also Cybermats, who are not scary but are a mixture of adorable and ridiculous and bad. I want one as a pet, so very much.
Also, there's a pun. A wonderful pun. The most wonderful of all puns. It burns in your brain with wonderfulness.
"The power cable generated an electrical field and confused their tiny metal minds...you might almost say they had a complete metal breakdown."
STUNNING PUN.
Honourable mentions:-The Mind Robber, for being the most trippy thing I've ever watched. There aren't really words for this story, it is the weirdest thing. Also Zoe (who is about 30cm high) beats up a huge superhero and Jamie loses his face.
-The War Games, for five hours of story that doesn't start slowly or lose steam in the middle (as lots of classic stories do). For the first appearance of the Time Lords as a group, and their bastardry. For some trippy set design and brilliant glasses. For showing how much Jamie had grown as a person since The Highlanders. For showing that the Doctor is the sort of person willing to lose everything for the sake of saving people. For Patrick Troughton's brilliant acting all through the story, as the Doctor becomes more and more nervous about the idea that he's going to have to call the Time Lords. For Jamie's face when the Doctor tells him to stop fighting. For that goodbye scene.
by Myst13 » Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:32 am 
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