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green_amber) wrote2007-06-16 10:43 pm
green_amber) wrote2007-06-16 10:43 pm
Skiffy Night In: Dr Who and Dr Jekyll
After the decadence of the last two days in London (I was too hungover yesterday to chronicle my epic four hour lunch with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rosamicula - that girl is a bad influence!!)tonight was recovery with my own fave meal of home-fried fish and lo-fat cauliflower cheese (mm), and a star double bill of Dr Who and the new Jekyll - both of which were really quite surprisingly good.
And suddenly we have back the sexy, dashing, daring Cpt Jack as opposed to the half assed half mad boring bisexual. Wasn't it nice? can't we cancel Torchwood and have our ensemble cast back , PLEEEASE? Will no one think of Angel and Buffy, or at least of the fact that anti heroes need heroes to play against?? Oh well - at least we finally get some back story now, a reason forthe Goodies the Torchwood lot hanging around in Cardiff, and a consistent, if not plausible reason, why the Doctor dumped, and will dump again, Jack. And "Not if you're blonde". Excellent. I don't mind endless canonisation of Rose if it's funny :-)(I still don't get the hand thing though??)
So how many stories DOES this tie up? is the oncoming storm thing in Torchwood the re arrival of the Master too? if so assuming the Doctor sees him off at the end of season 3 of New Whoo, what reason will there be to go on with Torchwood, or for Jack to go on enjoying the fleshposts of BBC Wales??
Problems remain. I didn't see the watch-hiding-the-Master-thing coming. OOOOH I went. Really good surprise. Except - hang on - the Doctor CHOSE to use that technology - and that particular form of receptacle - to escape the Family. Even if we assume the Master was chased by the same aliens, and chose the same escape route (and why didn't the Doctor choose to hide at the end of the universe, instead of in pre WW1 England then??)what are the chances he'd also choose to disguise his TimeLord-ness as a watch?? Something which was designed to be non obvoous in 1910s britain but would stabd out like a bloody sore thumb on an en d-of-universe baby? And why on EARTH would he disguise himself as a baby?? Surely that guise would be enormously vulnerable?
(And if this was the end of the universe - what was the place with the Face of Bo and all that? Wasn't IT meant to be as far as u could go?0
(And that human race - indomitable an all that - but boy they don't seem to evolve much..:)
Anyway that episode certainly seems to have more for me to say about than any one so far! Any Who bofin out there who can tell me what the Master was up to when last seen??
Meanwhile, Jekyll - interesting. One feels Moffat is self consciously trying not to be too funny or too clver. This makes it feel restrained, but still enjoyable. And naturally there are lesbians who get most the good lines :) and the gorgeous one from Copupling.(One wonders what RTD and Moffat talk about over a pint!)Entertaining and the modern update really works for me (risk management and scheduling, not agonising and moaning about it! Jekyll 2.0!), but so far not nearly as special as Blink.
Finally in Surliminal's skiffy special evening, I was fascinated (over on Beeb 3)by Ian Rankin's assessment of who Stevenson originally based Jekyll and Hyde on. I guess You Lot, clever clogs that you are, all knew tghis already but I had no idea Jekyll was based on Hunter the surgeon, nor that this was why Stevenson set the novel in London not Edinburgh. Having gone to uni next door to the Hunterian Museum, and toured the grisly relics of the Surgeon's Hall last but one time I was in Edinburgh, this was good stuff for me. As was Rankin's declaration that his own Rebus was written to be his own darkside doppelganger a la Mr Hyde, whom he had studied at uni, not just another crime novel. Edinburgh, Rankin, Hyde, the university, Jekyll, Moffat, the Doctor and the Master as his evil twin - sometimes the synchronicities just work and work.
rosamicula - that girl is a bad influence!!)tonight was recovery with my own fave meal of home-fried fish and lo-fat cauliflower cheese (mm), and a star double bill of Dr Who and the new Jekyll - both of which were really quite surprisingly good.And suddenly we have back the sexy, dashing, daring Cpt Jack as opposed to the half assed half mad boring bisexual. Wasn't it nice? can't we cancel Torchwood and have our ensemble cast back , PLEEEASE? Will no one think of Angel and Buffy, or at least of the fact that anti heroes need heroes to play against?? Oh well - at least we finally get some back story now, a reason for
So how many stories DOES this tie up? is the oncoming storm thing in Torchwood the re arrival of the Master too? if so assuming the Doctor sees him off at the end of season 3 of New Whoo, what reason will there be to go on with Torchwood, or for Jack to go on enjoying the fleshposts of BBC Wales??
Problems remain. I didn't see the watch-hiding-the-Master-thing coming. OOOOH I went. Really good surprise. Except - hang on - the Doctor CHOSE to use that technology - and that particular form of receptacle - to escape the Family. Even if we assume the Master was chased by the same aliens, and chose the same escape route (and why didn't the Doctor choose to hide at the end of the universe, instead of in pre WW1 England then??)what are the chances he'd also choose to disguise his TimeLord-ness as a watch?? Something which was designed to be non obvoous in 1910s britain but would stabd out like a bloody sore thumb on an en d-of-universe baby? And why on EARTH would he disguise himself as a baby?? Surely that guise would be enormously vulnerable?
(And if this was the end of the universe - what was the place with the Face of Bo and all that? Wasn't IT meant to be as far as u could go?0
(And that human race - indomitable an all that - but boy they don't seem to evolve much..:)
Anyway that episode certainly seems to have more for me to say about than any one so far! Any Who bofin out there who can tell me what the Master was up to when last seen??
Meanwhile, Jekyll - interesting. One feels Moffat is self consciously trying not to be too funny or too clver. This makes it feel restrained, but still enjoyable. And naturally there are lesbians who get most the good lines :) and the gorgeous one from Copupling.(One wonders what RTD and Moffat talk about over a pint!)Entertaining and the modern update really works for me (risk management and scheduling, not agonising and moaning about it! Jekyll 2.0!), but so far not nearly as special as Blink.
Finally in Surliminal's skiffy special evening, I was fascinated (over on Beeb 3)by Ian Rankin's assessment of who Stevenson originally based Jekyll and Hyde on. I guess You Lot, clever clogs that you are, all knew tghis already but I had no idea Jekyll was based on Hunter the surgeon, nor that this was why Stevenson set the novel in London not Edinburgh. Having gone to uni next door to the Hunterian Museum, and toured the grisly relics of the Surgeon's Hall last but one time I was in Edinburgh, this was good stuff for me. As was Rankin's declaration that his own Rebus was written to be his own darkside doppelganger a la Mr Hyde, whom he had studied at uni, not just another crime novel. Edinburgh, Rankin, Hyde, the university, Jekyll, Moffat, the Doctor and the Master as his evil twin - sometimes the synchronicities just work and work.