Leverage! And also lots of Doctor Who.

[usuallyhats]

Leverage Christmas episode! ...I will try and make sure this is not entirely in capslock, but I am not making any promises.

• PARKER WANTS HARDISON TO HACK THE WEATHER. OF COURSE SHE DOES.


• ANTLERS. SHE IS WEARING ANTLERS. (And bashing Nate in the face with them, heeeeee.)


• "SANTA FAIL"


• Santa gave Nate a candy cane! WHERE IS YOUR CHRISTMAS SPIRIT, NATE?


• TREE OF THIEVERY. And Eliot's pained expressions!


• RESPECT THE SUIT.


• "You're just so... jolly." Nate, I have this feeling you are playing with fire.


• ♪ Zap the car with EMP ♪


• Sophie's chauffeur character is cracking me up so much. She's from Slough! Also she looks great in the suit.


• AHAHAHA, Cha0s's Eliot impression! "Damnit, Hardison."


• "She was a good van. ...We'll get you another." And Eliot's "you killed my friend's van." ♥


• "I left him a candy cane." Oh, Eliot and his very specific personal moral code. ♥


• "I'm sorry." / "Christmas Eve is a magical night."


• PRESENTS. "I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a samurai." And Parker gets money!


• Aw, Sophie and Nate exchanging presents!


• In conclusion: MY HEART.

And here are my (v. belated) notes from Logopolis and Castrovalva! (NB for some reason I only made notes at the end of Logopolis and for the first few episodes of Castrovalva.)

• I liked the earlier, slower episodes of this story the best - they had a great atmosphere and the dynamic between Four and Adric was lovely.


• Tegan's handbag matches her outfit! ♥


• Ahaha, Adric threw a bicycle at a policeman. The scallywag!


• "I suppose we're going to miss Romana." SADNESS.


• I love the moment when Tegan meets Nyssa and goes from D: to :D almost instantly.


• "Adric... I can't see Traken." D:


• The whole "alien intelligences, that's us." / "Won't they be pleased to see us?" bit was lovely.


• Look at Tegan go! I couldn't run that well in a skirt like that.


• The actual regeneration is a little anticlimactic, but I love Five's face as he sits up. ♥

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• "We're perfectly harmless, unfortunately."


• I love them all conspiring to nick the ambulance.


• Aw, Five being past Doctors. ♥


• "Me! I'M the trap!" SO MELODRAMATIC. :D


• I love the fact that the Master shows up solely to gloat.


• And now the TARDIS is throwing first aid at the Doctor! She just wants to help.


• Sideways TARDIS! I am always very tickled by this sort of thing.


• Poor Nyssa, stuck building the Zero box.


• I question Tegan's decision not to get changed. (I suspect Janet Fielding would concur.)


• Aw, Nyssa's face when she falls in the river.


• So celery = civilisation. Helpful fact to know!


• I love all this cod-Shakespearean dialogue. It doesn't always come off, but this time it is fab.


• DOUBLE HAT ACTION. YES.


• "I know so little about telebiogenesis." OH NYSSA. ♥

...and that is where I stopped taking notes.

Just finished watching "Earthshock". Yes, it made me cry. Oh, Adric, just when I liked you again! D: Not only did he die, fairly pointlessly, but also the Doctor grated his prized possession on a Rubbish Eighties Cyberman. THE INDIGNITY. I was only half watching for most of the story, because I've seen it before, but everytime the Cybermen appeared I got distracted by the Wrongness of them. I wonder what the story would be like if we could somehow replace them with another villain? Other than that, I don't really have much to say about this one, expect that I thought Tegan had some good stuff to do (and her face when she realises that it's too late to save Adric broke my heart a little), and I liked that there were more women than usual in the secondary cast. (Especially compared to the last EDA I read, which had ...one, possibly two. And lots of men.)

Comments

[glinda]

I cracked. I just watched the first episode of Leverage, I adore them already. (People have been telling me for months that I'd adore Parker, and I do, so much. I may actually have clapped my hands with glee at her at one point.)

[usuallyhats]

YAY! Everything about it just fills me with joy. ESPECIALLY Parker. ♥

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Parker wanting Hardison to hack the weather made me grin like a loon for most of the ep. And yes, Sophie looked WELL SEXY in the suit!

[usuallyhats]

Parker wanting Hardison to hack the weather made me grin like a loon for most of the ep.
And she'll be convinced that he can, now!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Quite right too!!

[zurcherart.livejournal.com]

Oh I love your notes on the Doctor Who episodes.

At the time I first saw it Logopolis was the best episode I'd ever seen. It's held up pretty well too for all the reasons you note. And yes the first slow episodes are stronger.

But for me the regeneration was not anticlimatic. Since I was new to Doctor Who and since I lived in the US and hadn't read anything about their being a new Doctor in the Radio Times or something -- and since I didn't even know Timelords regenerated it absolutely knocked my socks off.

Then the next week when I tuned in to find out what happened next ... our station started four's run from the beginning with Robot. And I was like Donna Noble when she appears in the TARDIS at the end of Parting of the Ways/beginning of the Runaway Bride. "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?" (But it did sort of help me figure out what regeneration was.)

[usuallyhats]

:D Thank you!

Wow - that must have been a shock! And incredibly confusing to be confronted with Robot the next week.

I felt like the story was building up to something sweeping and epic, wild catastrophe and sudden calls to man the battlestations and all that, so having Four "just" fall off that radio tower didn't quite live up to that!

[classicwhoblog.livejournal.com]

Adric and Nyssa's relationship in Logopolis is one of my favorite things ever. And the "we are the alien beings!" bit was just precious, especially since Adric keeps it up in Castrovalva (his face when he's standing there pointing while the ambulance pulls away just kills me). I spent so much of that serial just wanting to hug the poor thing.

Personally, I thought Logopolis felt epic just because they were jumping all over the place all the time. First the TARDIS, then the highway, then the docks, then Logopolis, then the Pharos Project, all while the universe was un-happening. The Doctor's actual death scene was a bit disappointing, but I'd also seen the scene by itself a million times.

[usuallyhats]

They are just adorable in that bit! I wish that dynamic had lasted a little better, though they're quite lovely in "Black Orchid", too.

The rest of the story has so much epicness, bringing it down to the radio mast at the Pharos Project almost works, but I don't think they quite pulled it off.