I'm Sick so I got me a Doctor (or Four)

[meddow]

springtime_gen fic has been submitted and I think I've had my fill of ficathons for a while. Something about a deadline and having to write for someone other than myself (and thus worry they won't like it) takes all the fun out of writing. Not to mention I think it had a bit of a hand in making me catch a cold.

There is though an excellent thing about being sick (other than the fact I don’t have to go to work) I can sit on my butt all day and watch tonnes of Doctor Who and call it 'recovering'.

So recently I've managed to watch The Green Death, Robots of Death and City of Death (the 'death' theme was actually unplanned).



- I've decided I adore Third Doctor since he reminds me of the kung-fu priest in Braindead in his brief moment of glory before he's impaled by a statue and turns into a zombie.
- Jo Grant is strangely endearing. Normally I would hate a character that air-brained. But I don't, which is so odd. But she's supposed to be a secret agent. Really? Gigantic maggots I can buy into, but that, no.
- That trip to Metebelis 3 was the funniest thing I've seen on Doctor Who ever. Just the brief clips of the Doctor fighting for his life against gigantic animals and vegetation while everyone else is standing around in Wales debating what to do with a mine. Classic.
- Apparently I can eat and watch gigantic maggots on TV at the same time (Thai green curry as well).
- According to BOSS, creativity is a product of inefficiency, which considering the vast majority of fanfiction I've written had been written while I was procrastinating, I'm inclined to agree.
- Love the constant 'big companies are evil' theme that runs through Doctor Who.
- Kind of scary how the moral of a 1973 TV serial about the destruction of the environment is still incredibly relevant today (over thirty years late and it's only now some people are starting to catch on about industrial pollution).
- I think Leela works much better in Robots then she has done in all the other serials I've seen her in. It's a really good contrast having her vs. the robots.
- Robots has aged really well. Probably because those clothes the characters are wearing would be ridiculous in any decade.
- It was only after watching it that I managed to notice the fandom crossover. The bad guy in Robots is Cotton in PotC.
- We didn't get to hear Tom Baker on helium. I would have loved to hear that.
- I hate gratuitous "hey look, we're on location" shots. Paris is pretty. I get it. I really do. Now get to the plot.
- John Cleese has been added to the gigantic mental list of actors that I would love to see appear in New Who (thank goodness there's a culture of reusing actors)
- I really liked City, but I wouldn't call it Best. Episode. Ever. (Genesis of the Daleks still holds that place for me).
- Bit indifferent on Romana. Probably need to see her in something else.
- Julian Glover was brilliant. Shame about the mask which I thought was a bit lame.
- Loved the shattered through time, connected and not hole idea. I've never seen that done in sci-fi before. Plus it's nice to know what happens if a character gets thrown into the time vortex of a craft during an explosion *stores information away for possible fanfic purposes*
- So it was one alien that was pretty much responsible for the entirety of human progress. And it was that same species that created life on earth (not to mention that the planet was apparently created by an alien spacecraft wandering into the wrong spot) Dude, don't humans get to do anything ourselves? We're a pretty hopeless bunch in DW canon.

Now I have The Invasion and The Visitation to watch. This is the best cold I've had in ages.