09 March 2010 @ 09:08 pm
this post is mostly about doctor who. universal order has been restored.  
1. My dad is in Sweden on business right now. His email on the matter says, "Everyone speaks english here & landscape looks a lot like Canada." DON'T MAKE IT SOUND SO EXOTIC, DAD.

Who am I kidding, I am totally jealous. I even sent hysteriagalore a stupid email that was like "HEY WE HAVE SOME OF UR MONEYZ LOLOL SO COOL LOL~" and I assume she turned away in shame.

2. I had been previously informed by bazcat89 and miss_mishi that it was pretty good, and I must say I was impressed by them actually acknowledging the plot line that they seemed to have dropped like a hot potato. I sort of liked the Robin-was-secretly-upset angle and hey, we got to see Barney be marginally human again! Hurrah1 Though to be honest I still would've liked to have seen any inclination at all that Barney was at some point even for like, five minutes, upset once before he returned to being one-dimensional, but clearly I am asking for miracles.

Having said that I am still sighing impatiently through the Robin/Don shenanigans.

3. So shinyopals mentioned that in one of the Doctor Who comics or something there's a bit where Donna leaves a video goodbye for Ten. Upon learning this my reaction was a mix of glee and outrage at HOW DARE THIS EXIST WITHOUT ANYONE TELLING ME UNTIL NOW! Anyway the scans are huge so I didn't want to look at work, but I got all excited by this tidbit and started planning a fic on the bus home and everything... only to actually look at the scans and learn they are basically the animated version of my fic. So... humph. Fine then, comic book person, be that way, I guess I won't infringe copyrights tonight.

4. Matt Smith is officially hilarious, which moves him up a lot in my estimations, though to be fair he was never particularly low. How can you resent a man who loves Mini Eggs, I ask you. I am getting more and more impatient for s5 to just start already. COME ON.

5. Most of you have probably seen this already but for the few who may not have and will appreciate it: lol 80s David Tennant lol
 
 
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Kali: dw :: ten :: what's wrong with blue?_thirty2flavors on March 10th, 2010 01:17 pm (UTC)
Yeah I don't know why it took them so long to get there either. The retroactive canon thing was actually pretty well done (in most of the scenes in the previous episodes we'd already seen Robin leave, we just didn't see her crying) but... still, wtf.

I think that is basically what happened, but it's really poor writing. If they never planned to make him anything beyond a womanizer because ~lol it's so funny omg~, they shouldn't have bothered; I probably wouldn't be as irritated by womanizer!Barney as am I now if the show hadn't been promising me something more for like a season and a half. I mean, it could be true that womanizing Barney appeals a lot to the casual viewer, but even still, if they never planned to develop him further they shouldn't have pretended like they might.

He was really obnoxious when they introduced him, and now they want me to see him as this great guy that Robin ~deserves~ and I am just kind of like... why did you bother making him so obnoxious, then? Like there's an entire multi-episode arc about how he doesn't wear pants to work because he doesn't give a shit about the job, and after several episodes when he is finally dazzled enough by Robin his big gesture to her is to...wear pants. .......Um.

Plus in this episode he did literally nothing except phone Robin once, but we had Marshall going "OMG HE'S THE BEST GUY EVER OMG" and it was really telling without showing, idk. Candice is pretty sure Robin and Don get married but I am not sure that is actually what Future Ted said.