Too Much of a Good Thing
Mar. 22nd, 2008 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meddowI really want to watch Runaway Bride, but I really shouldn’t. There is such a thing as watching an episode too many times, and I’ve got a marathon planed for series four launch day of The Runaway Bride, Voyage of the Damned and Partners in Crime.
Really there is such a thing as watching an episode too many times. Even though I initially loved it, I can’t stand Blink anymore and it’s because every time somebody new wanders into my flat, my flatmate makes them watch Blink (she likes watching their reactions). And they all agree, it’s both a brilliant and terrifying episode, but when you’ve seen it sixty five million times – to the point where you practically know the script off by heart – you start to get loathe it. And don’t get me started on the “Sally Sparrow for companion” crowd (Sally Sparrow is tainted by association).
Sometimes you really need to put something away for a few month/years.
Anyway, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I really love The Runaway Bride. I think it’s vastly underrated by fandom at large and written off as a simple holiday romp when it shouldn’t be as there are some really brilliant things about it and a lot going on. For example, Donna has her little world (Lance and the wedding) coming crashing down around her in the cruellest way – and in the very next scene gets to see the creation of a world – her planet – which at the same time opens her eyes to something she had been ignoring for so long, and presents her with something else to build her life around. It just works so wonderfully.
Must resist temptation…
Oh, in one degree of Who casting, I was watching an episode of Wild West, in which Catherine Tate’s character gets involved with a handsome American from out of town, and it took me a short while to pick who it was – but it was Captain Jack Harkness. Not the Doctor’s Jack, but the original Jack from Captain Jack Harkness.
And finally, having begun watching the New Beginning, I’m really starting to ship Five/Nyssa.
Really there is such a thing as watching an episode too many times. Even though I initially loved it, I can’t stand Blink anymore and it’s because every time somebody new wanders into my flat, my flatmate makes them watch Blink (she likes watching their reactions). And they all agree, it’s both a brilliant and terrifying episode, but when you’ve seen it sixty five million times – to the point where you practically know the script off by heart – you start to get loathe it. And don’t get me started on the “Sally Sparrow for companion” crowd (Sally Sparrow is tainted by association).
Sometimes you really need to put something away for a few month/years.
Anyway, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I really love The Runaway Bride. I think it’s vastly underrated by fandom at large and written off as a simple holiday romp when it shouldn’t be as there are some really brilliant things about it and a lot going on. For example, Donna has her little world (Lance and the wedding) coming crashing down around her in the cruellest way – and in the very next scene gets to see the creation of a world – her planet – which at the same time opens her eyes to something she had been ignoring for so long, and presents her with something else to build her life around. It just works so wonderfully.
Must resist temptation…
Oh, in one degree of Who casting, I was watching an episode of Wild West, in which Catherine Tate’s character gets involved with a handsome American from out of town, and it took me a short while to pick who it was – but it was Captain Jack Harkness. Not the Doctor’s Jack, but the original Jack from Captain Jack Harkness.
And finally, having begun watching the New Beginning, I’m really starting to ship Five/Nyssa.
