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misterdaniel) wrote2008-07-06 09:39 am
misterdaniel) wrote2008-07-06 09:39 am
Sofa, so good!
I'm not going to post about Dr. Who. It'll definitely be blog-flavour of the week and I'll comment a lot there. I am curious though, if people were to rate the 4 series finales in order of preference, how would they go? (I'll do mine at the end).
Anyway, in non-TV news, Kaz and I purchased a lovely new sofa. This will replace the one that we kindly inherited from Chris & Christine back when we bought the house. Sadly, after years of good service,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fundessie killed it with his bottom. This arrival will be very exciting... in eight weeks time.
Meanwhile,sheyna and I have a large cabinet / sideboard / dresser thing that we are looking to part ways with. It is handy and spacious with 6 drawers, 4 cabinets and the like, but after making plans for our lounge, its too big. It can be free to any good home with space and the means to transport it.
Picture is :
Dimensions are 1.35m across by 0.5 deep by 2m high.
In other news, last night was a pleasant trip to the Jade Garden restaurant to celebrateigotaplan and tatty_tigermoth's joint birthdays. It was surprising to see Tim Packer and Edain down from Durham, but not unwelcome for all that. There was also an abundance of exceptionally pleasant cakes (and they defeated all comers resulting in spare cake for rehearsal this afternoon!
Dr Who Series finale ranking (payoffs not set-ups)
4. Coming in at last place, we have Last of the Time Lords. The Master acts like an idiot, whilst St. Martha preaches the Gospel of Jesus-Doctor, who uses a telepathic phone network to rise from the Gollum to forgive the Master's sins. The Master's death only barely redeems this.
3. Next comes The Parting of the Ways. This being our first taste of deus-ex-ness with Rose absorbing "the whole time/space vortex" and suffering fewer ill-effects than Donna just did. Jack is killed and brought back from the dead - but no one else is.
2. After some thought its probably Journey's End. I liked Davros, and the Companion team-ups. However, the clutter (whilst I enjoyed seeing folk) stole some nice character moments.
1. Making the best finale Doomsday. Touching scenes with the reuniting of Mr and Mrs Tyler and the departure of Rose alongside the Jets/Sharks confrontation between the Daleks and Cybermen.
Anyway, in non-TV news, Kaz and I purchased a lovely new sofa. This will replace the one that we kindly inherited from Chris & Christine back when we bought the house. Sadly, after years of good service,
fundessie killed it with his bottom. This arrival will be very exciting... in eight weeks time.Meanwhile,
sheyna and I have a large cabinet / sideboard / dresser thing that we are looking to part ways with. It is handy and spacious with 6 drawers, 4 cabinets and the like, but after making plans for our lounge, its too big. It can be free to any good home with space and the means to transport it.Picture is :
Dimensions are 1.35m across by 0.5 deep by 2m high.
In other news, last night was a pleasant trip to the Jade Garden restaurant to celebrate
igotaplan and tatty_tigermoth's joint birthdays. It was surprising to see Tim Packer and Edain down from Durham, but not unwelcome for all that. There was also an abundance of exceptionally pleasant cakes (and they defeated all comers resulting in spare cake for rehearsal this afternoon!Dr Who Series finale ranking (payoffs not set-ups)
4. Coming in at last place, we have Last of the Time Lords. The Master acts like an idiot, whilst St. Martha preaches the Gospel of Jesus-Doctor, who uses a telepathic phone network to rise from the Gollum to forgive the Master's sins. The Master's death only barely redeems this.
3. Next comes The Parting of the Ways. This being our first taste of deus-ex-ness with Rose absorbing "the whole time/space vortex" and suffering fewer ill-effects than Donna just did. Jack is killed and brought back from the dead - but no one else is.
2. After some thought its probably Journey's End. I liked Davros, and the Companion team-ups. However, the clutter (whilst I enjoyed seeing folk) stole some nice character moments.
1. Making the best finale Doomsday. Touching scenes with the reuniting of Mr and Mrs Tyler and the departure of Rose alongside the Jets/Sharks confrontation between the Daleks and Cybermen.
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Parting of the Ways and Journey's end tie in the middle. They both have an awful lot of strength, but are both very flawed, and full to the brim of deus ex machina.
Last (Place) of the Timelords comes in fourth. There's plenty of good stuff in there, but there's also a CGI house elf playing the Doctor, and John Simm being pretty awful 50% of the time. It felt like such a disappointment after the brilliant promise of Utopia. (Though it does get bonus points for being the only finale of the four not to feature the Daleks)
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Can't really comment on the Dr Who series ending though as I haven't yet seen it (or indeed, most of this series. Am working to rectify that though.
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Second – Doomsday. Given how thoroughly the plot failed to grab me, it’s embarrassing that the ending still made me cry. And I did enjoy the Doctor’s ‘No wonder you scream’ speech.
Here we take a flying leap from flawed-but-fun to ‘Why am I still watching, again?’
Third – Last of the Time Lords. Ugh on so many levels.
Worst – Journey’s End. Yes, I despise it that much. Dreadful as the Season Three ending was, it didn’t have the Doctor standing there taking it while some lunatic tried to draw a moral equivalency between blowing things up in self-defence and an eons-spanning campaign of multiversal genocide. Dammit. And that’s just part of it. From the appearance of the extra Doctor onwards, I hated almost every second.