did you just salute?

[thirty2flavors]

I love this show sfm for the record. I'm sure you probably didn't notice, but I do.

I said I'd recap my post-trailer poll, so here's the final tally:

Things We Predicted That Did, In Fact, Occur:
Ten licked something! -- as predicted by 18 (56.5%) of you
Somehow, all of Earth was in danger! -- as predicted by 11 (34.4%) of you
HER NAME WAS DONNA -- as predicted by 11 (34.4%) of you

Things We Predicted That Sort-Of Came True:
Ten and Gwen III Christina did kiss, though Christina was the instigator this time which wasn't implied by the poll. A whole 25 (78.1%) of us saw this coming
Gwen III Christina did offer to travel with the Doctor (78.1%), but not before her untimely death

Things That Didn't, To The Shock of the World:
Actually, most people survived, including Christina.
Dramatic Black Lady was not eaten by a stingray as predicted by a whole whopping 87.5% of us -- she lives to be dramatic and foreshadow-y another day.
No one glowed, was secretly evil, or was a particularly assholeish rich person.
There was no conclusive evidence that the Daleks did it. But probably they did. Because of the Time War.

Anyway, in more general news:

TEN SONICS HIS MOTHERFUCKING GLASSES OH MY GOD that was probably my favourite part ngl, just ask sweetcherrytree

Christina was kind of very annoying, all of her lines felt like really lame action movies. She reminded me of the movie The Avengers and I haven't even seen that since I was like 8. I'm excited for the Christmas specials when we will get a companion who doesn't want to bone the Doctor. I know he is slim and a little bit foxy, but omg. Just sayin'.

I did, however, REALLY enjoy the Fly People. Anything that requires Ten to speak alien is A+, and they entertained me. I was sad that they died because I liked them more than any of the human cast, ngl.

The entire fangirling phonecall with UNIT was awesome. Also, 'sup UNIT lady from parallel universe, how you doin'? Also also, I like how UNIT is a multi-purpose "are they good? are they bad?" organisation. BRB TORTURIN' TOSH FOR NO REASON OWAIT HELPING THE DOCTOR SAVE THE UNIVERSE OWAIT SCREW THE DOCTOR LET'S CLOSE THE WORMHOLE OWAIT SAVIN' UR ASSES FROM A GIANT SHOOTY SPIDER STAR. Whatevs UNIT, whatevs.

I liked Ten's blatant refusal to take ~Lady Christina~ with him. We've seen him refuse people before but usually his reasoning was secretly "you are not young or hot enough" (hello VOTD) instead of "I NEED TO BE ALONE WITH MY SNOW PATROL OKAY". I like the latter better. ALSO, DONNA REFERENCE FTMFW. Donnnaaaa D:

As for the Oodlike ~your song must end soon~ -- well, we knew that. And I knew the Master was coming back too, but I was still quite delighted by it. HE WILL KNOCK FOUR TIMES. HE IS RETURNING. THERE IS SOMETHING ON YOUR BACK. BADWOLFTORCHWOODHAROLDSAXON. I love this show's foreshadowing, it's fun.

I am totally disinterested in Waters of Mars, though. CHRISTMAS SPECIALS NOW PLZ OMG.

Comments

[hysteriagalore.livejournal.com]

Aw, I really liked her in TRB though. Haha! I was so pleased when she proved the haters wrong in s4.

Who could the mystery person be?! ;)
Well it's just me, and anyway I'll probably be lynched by the masses just for suggesting I'm not that fond of the character.

...so wild_sybil and I are discussing to actually create some kind of velvet-suit lulz comm, want to join as creative adviser? Still only talking about it in general though, I think the only thing we've decided is that it should not be a ontd-comm. Yay us?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

I didn't see TRB until after I saw PiC. But I adore Runaway Bride now, it' smy favourite of the Christmas specials I think. Maybe. I also adore TCI, so it's hard to say.

SO MYSTERIOUS. Hahaha now I'm so curious.

....A velvet-suit lulz comm. LIRL WHAT. I'm going to say yes just because ...how could I say no.

No, ONTD comms can diaf.

[hysteriagalore.livejournal.com]

I think I love them the same? Agh it's hard because one one hand we have nervous Ten/Rose and general happiness, on the other hand we have DONNA (who's just amazing).

Oh you have probably already seen who it is, but in xase you haven't I won't reveal the character's name... also it'd be such an anticlimax if you do know who it is.

FABULOUS. Kristen and I are on aim should you have the time to ~talk business~´
We have decided it should be a comm that promotes lulz and crack, somehow...

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I know, I can't decide because on one hand, TEN'S FIRST EPISODE. THE LION KING. JACKIE, MICKEY AND ROSE! EVIL SANTAS! but on the other hand... DONNA! BEAUTIFUL POST-DOOMSDAY ANGST (what i like it, don't judge)! EVIL SANTAS! I don't know which I prefer but I love them both.

LIRL Alrighty I will live in suspeense for 10 months.Or... not 10 months. Some number of months.

I just got on Adium, I think she has my screenname if you want to make a chat or whatevs.

[hysteriagalore.livejournal.com]

Ahaha! I don't think anyone who watches DW can NOT love angst, it's such an integral part of the new series, and I see you've posted a new angsty story huzzah!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

This is true. A tolerance for angst is pretty crucial. When people get upset over how emo Ten is I'm like "but... but... this show has always been emo." I guess s2 was a bit of a reprieve, btu Nine was emo, and s2 ended with huge amounts of emo, so I don't know why they're surprised that it's still emo.

Plus, Ten's got some pretty legit reasons to be emo.