"so clever... but oh so vulnerable"
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First of all, happy birthday ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
livii! I hope you're having a lovely day.
At the weekend I finished re-listening to season 2 of the Gallifrey audios and havea few observations a list of things I liked it got away from me and is now a lot of happy wittering:
- I love Narvin quite a lot, possibly more than is entirely reasonable, especially in the scenes when he and Leela are investigating the bombing. The way he puts aside his personal prejudices in favour of just doing his job is fantastic - he may dislike Romana, but he'll put himself between her and a bomb if necessary, cos that's his job. He'll lie and scheme if necessary, but he's honest about it and he has no illusions about himself - "I wouldn't trust me [if I were] in her position." And the sheer irritation when he says "I'm being set up! Again!", heh. Also I seem to be shipping him with everyone else on Gallifrey (even people who don't actually appear in the series - Cardinal Liebine (which I can't spell) is quite good with his hands, eh?), don't quite know how that happened. ETA: I am listening to the CD extras and they're saying things like "Narvin is the moral centre, he's the only one not out for himself", YAY.
- OH POOR WYNTER. I really liked him in "Lies" - "soggy-boggy" - and listening to the next two knowing that he was the Broken Man got to me rather. I may also have made a smalll "meep" of distress in "Imperiatrix" at the reference to Castellan Maxil.
- One of the things I love about the friendship Romana and Leela is that the fact that they have the Doctor in common is almost incidental to the whole thing and rarely gets mentioned. It's about who they are now, not their pasts, really.
- "Insurgency": I like that Neeloc is the one talking about how the "old gang" is still together and it doesn't matter that they're all different species, and it's the others who are saying that yes, it does matter, not so much to their friendship but to their lives on Gallifrey. Neeloc is in the position of privilege, he has the luxury of deciding that it doesn't matter, whereas the others don't - the fact that it matters to other people impinges on their lives. Of course, it hurts Neeloc in the end, too. It pleases me that the one human in this play is also the only one without an RP accent. And Neeloc/Taylor OTP, yes.
- Oh K-9's death made me get a bit soppy :(
Now I just need to decide whether to buy the third season in the Big Finish summer sale or get the first four Benny seasons at a low low price. Decisions, decisions.
Also this weekend I watched a couple of episodes of Adam Adamant Lives!, including one called "The Terribly Happy Embalmers" which made me likewise terribly happy. It is a very fun program, ok, it is a bit formulaic, but I love it and am amused every time the Montage of Unconsciousness is used (every episode so far). ♥ The relationship between Georgina and Adam is lovely - they are so charmed and baffled by each other's differences! - and they are very similar in some ways, like their reactions to hearing that the other is dead is in both cases to do something about it, finding out what happened in Georgina's case and taking revenge in Adam's. I loved the way it cut from Adam talking about how fragile she was to her hopping out of her coffin, bopping the bad guy on the head and legging it. Also any time Adam comments censoriously on her outfits or her lack of etiquette-having and she is all "pfft, you are talking nonsense, silly 1880s man!" It makes me very sad that most of the second season has been wiped :(
livii! I hope you're having a lovely day.At the weekend I finished re-listening to season 2 of the Gallifrey audios and have
- I love Narvin quite a lot, possibly more than is entirely reasonable, especially in the scenes when he and Leela are investigating the bombing. The way he puts aside his personal prejudices in favour of just doing his job is fantastic - he may dislike Romana, but he'll put himself between her and a bomb if necessary, cos that's his job. He'll lie and scheme if necessary, but he's honest about it and he has no illusions about himself - "I wouldn't trust me [if I were] in her position." And the sheer irritation when he says "I'm being set up! Again!", heh. Also I seem to be shipping him with everyone else on Gallifrey (even people who don't actually appear in the series - Cardinal Liebine (which I can't spell) is quite good with his hands, eh?), don't quite know how that happened. ETA: I am listening to the CD extras and they're saying things like "Narvin is the moral centre, he's the only one not out for himself", YAY.
- OH POOR WYNTER. I really liked him in "Lies" - "soggy-boggy" - and listening to the next two knowing that he was the Broken Man got to me rather. I may also have made a smalll "meep" of distress in "Imperiatrix" at the reference to Castellan Maxil.
- One of the things I love about the friendship Romana and Leela is that the fact that they have the Doctor in common is almost incidental to the whole thing and rarely gets mentioned. It's about who they are now, not their pasts, really.
- "Insurgency": I like that Neeloc is the one talking about how the "old gang" is still together and it doesn't matter that they're all different species, and it's the others who are saying that yes, it does matter, not so much to their friendship but to their lives on Gallifrey. Neeloc is in the position of privilege, he has the luxury of deciding that it doesn't matter, whereas the others don't - the fact that it matters to other people impinges on their lives. Of course, it hurts Neeloc in the end, too. It pleases me that the one human in this play is also the only one without an RP accent. And Neeloc/Taylor OTP, yes.
- Oh K-9's death made me get a bit soppy :(
Now I just need to decide whether to buy the third season in the Big Finish summer sale or get the first four Benny seasons at a low low price. Decisions, decisions.
Also this weekend I watched a couple of episodes of Adam Adamant Lives!, including one called "The Terribly Happy Embalmers" which made me likewise terribly happy. It is a very fun program, ok, it is a bit formulaic, but I love it and am amused every time the Montage of Unconsciousness is used (every episode so far). ♥ The relationship between Georgina and Adam is lovely - they are so charmed and baffled by each other's differences! - and they are very similar in some ways, like their reactions to hearing that the other is dead is in both cases to do something about it, finding out what happened in Georgina's case and taking revenge in Adam's. I loved the way it cut from Adam talking about how fragile she was to her hopping out of her coffin, bopping the bad guy on the head and legging it. Also any time Adam comments censoriously on her outfits or her lack of etiquette-having and she is all "pfft, you are talking nonsense, silly 1880s man!" It makes me very sad that most of the second season has been wiped :(