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[Madame Butterfly]

Day 2 - Favourite Companion

While I wait for Game of Thrones to load, I'll finally get around to answering this. I'm afraid I'm far too inconsistently on here to be a good game partner.

Norna: Don't torture yourself. Nobody expects you to go back down there.
Turlough: No, of course they don't. I'm Turlough.

I just LOVE this character's attitude. Cynical, huffy, snarky, dry, slightly cowardly, easily frustrated. I love his opening where he teases the supposedly "fat" young man and his car [wow, wonder what he'd think of today's population. Turlough himself was unhealthily thin though, like, break-in-the-wind sort of thin]. I mean he was a mean, manipulative, charming, heartless sort of guy from the get-go. But a lot of his attitude is explained later [though some of it is just his personality. xD]

How do you beat rude AND ginger? [Donna, I love you, but you don't even come close to half as rude as Turlough was]. Smart, snarky, a great liar, and clever enough to work the TARDIS on occasion. Human-like alien. Great storyline from the "evil" and "cowardly" companion with ulterior motives [enough so Five actually enjoyed him as a companion because he could never quite tell what he was thinking] trapped in a tight spot... finally learning through the Doctor how to become the person he wanted to be, the cynic turning into the optimist. I liked that the actor who played him had a cruel, edgy look not quite unattractive [I, like the Doctor, am rather partial to redheads] but something sharp. He was a bit haughty and judgmental, especially when it came to humans. He got irritated and frustrated easily and one of my favorite moments with him was when he simply got fed up with the Master and drew a sword on him [had no idea what he was getting into, but again; he gets frustrated easily].

By far the best part of Turlough was that he showed the strength of Five's character... because Turlough was who he was, but for all his survival instincts he didn't want to kill the doctor. It went against his entire personality to hesitate and then finally be won over but Five was such a good person it stayed Turlough's hand. And he finally became a better person because of him, to the point where he started doing the "right" thing instead of the thing which would save his own hide, something he'd mocked before. That is why he beat out Donna for me. I mean, I love her character but the tragedy at the end [while heartbreaking] really meant she'd not changed at all [which made for a great storyline but shut her character off entirely]. He grows and is allowed to keep what he has gained as a character.

His only real problem was, really, the lameness of some of the alien trouble in his storyline but I thought the back-story with his home planet was human enough to make fun of it. That and, as the writers admitted, he was sort of written on the fly and they wound up having him captured all the time b/c they didn't know what else to do with the character. [but how is that different from any companion? xD]

<-- This.

[mallowolf]

I was rewatching A Good Man Goes To War and specifically the scene where Rory meets River in the Stormcage
Does anyone else think this is a sad scene? Rory asks River if they've met from her perspective. Just River's tone of voice when she says 'Hello Rory', the way she looks at him and everything. It's an ironic question when you look back at it but the pain for River of being there and seeing and talking to her parents but them having no idea who she is has to be painful for her. I felt so sorry for her watching that scene back. Especially when she comments that it's her birthday. I could imagine her standing there just wanting to hug Rory and saying 'wish me happy birthday dad!'

River's entire story is kind of tragic when you look at it

[klaoud]

I was rewatching A Good Man Goes To War and specifically the scene where Rory meets River in the Stormcage
Does anyone else think this is a sad scene? Rory asks River if they've met from her perspective. Just River's tone of voice when she says 'Hello Rory', the way she looks at him and everything. It's an ironic question when you look back at it but the pain for River of being there and seeing and talking to her parents but them having no idea who she is has to be painful for her. I felt so sorry for her watching that scene back. Especially when she comments that it's her birthday. I could imagine her standing there just wanting to hug Rory and saying 'wish me happy birthday dad!'

River's entire story is kind of tragic when you look at it

Agreed.

[zippyzoo77]

I was rewatching A Good Man Goes To War and specifically the scene where Rory meets River in the Stormcage
Does anyone else think this is a sad scene? Rory asks River if they've met from her perspective. Just River's tone of voice when she says 'Hello Rory', the way she looks at him and everything. It's an ironic question when you look back at it but the pain for River of being there and seeing and talking to her parents but them having no idea who she is has to be painful for her. I felt so sorry for her watching that scene back. Especially when she comments that it's her birthday. I could imagine her standing there just wanting to hug Rory and saying 'wish me happy birthday dad!'

River's entire story is kind of tragic when you look at it

So true, so true.

[kitten;]

I was rewatching A Good Man Goes To War and specifically the scene where Rory meets River in the Stormcage
Does anyone else think this is a sad scene? Rory asks River if they've met from her perspective. Just River's tone of voice when she says 'Hello Rory', the way she looks at him and everything. It's an ironic question when you look back at it but the pain for River of being there and seeing and talking to her parents but them having no idea who she is has to be painful for her. I felt so sorry for her watching that scene back. Especially when she comments that it's her birthday. I could imagine her standing there just wanting to hug Rory and saying 'wish me happy birthday dad!'

River's entire story is kind of tragic when you look at it

Yeah. :<
It would be hard not knowing if to tell your dad it was your birthday or not. o-o
...But I think I would anyway. Hehe. :3 Blowing up the whole world just for the sake of one birthday...yeah, that sounds like me.

[zippyzoo77]

The universe or a birthday? Good question. I'd go with the birthday, because if the universe blows up again then there would be some very good Doctor Who episodes out of it.

[Scarf]

Ahhh Madame Butterfly you make me want to meet Turlough so much :D Him and Romana are the companions I'm looking forward to getting to the most.

Day 5 - Favourite Guest Star

What counts as a guest star? I don't really know. Going by the working definition that it's someone who is in one or a few episodes as a main character secondary to the TARDIS team, I'm going to go with Ripley Holden David Morrissey because

Even if it didn't happen in the episode it happened in my head :D Ah, Blackpool reunion episode :D

I don't know, does Bernard Cribbins count as a guest star? Patrick Troughton's son (whose face I spend the whole of Midnight watching when I watch it these days)? Elisabeth Sladen in new episodes (because she's my favourite everything)? Tom Baker's voice?

Day 5 - Favourite 2 Part Adventure

This question is just as bad D:< Uh, lots. Chronological order time?

The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
"Just this once, everybody lives!"

I don't really know what more you could want from a story...it was funny and dark and seriously creepy (one of my sisters is terrified of gas masks now). It introduced Jack (who, despite my sisters' insistence that no one liked him from the beginning, I really liked from the beginning). It had a clever twist. It had Nine at his best. It had nerd!references to other shows. Also the rest of my family jumped on the show at this point, so it was the start of us being a big family of dorks together. Also, Moffat :D

Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways
"...before I go, I just want to tell you...you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? So was I."

DALEKS AND GAME SHOWS AND NICE BACKGROUND CHARACTERS AND BEAUTIFUL MUSIC (Hologrammmmm <3) AND JACK IS DEAD AND OH NO MY DOCTOR HAS TURNED INTO THAT GUY WHO WAS CASANOVA I DISAPPROVE D:<

Army of Ghosts/Doomsday
"They can shoot me dead, but the moral high-ground is mine."

MOAR DALEKS. CYBERMEN. DALEKS AND CYBERMEN SASSING ONE ANOTHER. I picked that Rose's 'death' was a metaphor!death from the beginning, but it's still really horribly sad (HDM trauma anyone?). At least it would be if she hadn't kept coming back. As it is the power of that seperation is a bit lost to me, but I still cry buckets when I watch it. Ten was hilarious with Jackie, and that bit between her and otheruniverse!Pete was adorable (I love Jackie). Also Doomsday is the song most likely to make me cry just on random hearing. It is one of the most beautiful things D:

Human Nature/Family of Blood
"Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds."

I just thought Tennant was fantastic in this story. He played Ten as not!Ten really really well. I felt terrible for John Smith (who was such a dork <3). I really cared about Joan Redfern, and felt bad for her too. The Chameleon Arch was beautiful (as anything with circular Gallifreyan on it is likely to be). The end made me cry too.

Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
"Everybody knows that everybody dies, and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it."

GUYS THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD IS LEGITIMATELY PLAYING RANDOMLY ON MY COMPUTER AS I WRITE THIS. FOR SERIOUS.

If I was to travel with the Doctor I'd love to go to the Library (preferably pre-Vashta Nerada :P). Sure, it'd freak me the hell out with all of its obvious heights, but I'd just crawl everywhere and I'd be fine. What a fantastic concept for a planet. And it was beautiful too. The Vashta Nerada are genuinely creepy (though in the suits they bring up my dad's ultimate pet peeve of "WHY DO THE MANDIBLES STAY ON, THERE IS NOTHING HOLDING THEM THERE"), it's sad every time someone dies, Donna's side-story is really sad (especially when she misses the guy at the end ;-;), and RIVER. Oh River. I was apathetic about you and still cried many tears, and now...now this story guts me even more. YOU SO SAD ;-;

The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang
"The universe is big...it's vast and complicated, and ridiculous, and sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles."

This is my favourite series final, no contest. The line up there is one of my favourite lines of anything ever. It had a painting of the TARDIS exploding, and Rory the Roman, and twists everywhere, and truckloads of bouncing back and forwards in time. Little Amelia would be the most annoying kid to take to a museum. The Pandorica itself was really pretty. River was a BAMF. Rory was a BAMF. Amy was fantastic. The Doctor was everything you would ever want him to be (in a fez). Everyone made me cry. And then there was a happy ending.

With dancing.

[wickedwolfgirl]

Reading that made me smile and laugh to myself, Scarf. LOVE IT!

[BluebirdInMyHeart]

although it didnt seem like it from the way i was talking before but i only just saw a good man goes to war and ... WOW it was totally awesome but the result was far too obvious

[creaturefeature]

dancing doctor ,is really one of the funniest things to happen on doctor who, by the day any here watches torchwood?