Geek Week
By AmyMo on Mar 28, 2006 in Geek, Television
I can sometimes go fairly lengthy periods of time without doing anything that would be considered overtly geeky. Then I’ll have entire spans of time where everything I do seems to fit that heading.
We seem to be in a geek zone at the moment. Look away if this bores you.
Sunday night I participated in Episode 19 of the Stomp Tokyo: Cult Movies Podcast I am billed as the Guest Nerd. Whatever. I’m funnier than Scott.
Also, I finally got caught up on the first three episodes of Doctor Who airing on the Sci-Fi channel at the moment. Heather outlined her reaction to the show already and I pretty much agree with everything she said. And thus, I shouldn’t have to bore you all with any more talk about that, now should I?
Wrong.
It’s too short. Sci-Fi blasts it full of commercial interruptions even worse than ABC does to Lost. Eccleston is very good but I hear he only lasts a season so I might as well not get attached. I don’t mind Rose at all. In fact, I tend to enjoy the scenes where she actually bonds with lower-class representatives of whatever race or time she’s interracting with. Although so far, in both occasions that interraction has spelled doom for the poor wretch in question. Actually, any time either of them makes a connection with another character, that character dies. Hmmm. That could get as predictable as a red shirt on Star Trek.
I love that the theme music is the same and that the TARDIS makes the same sounds it always made. I even love that the aliens still look largely ridiculous. I don’t care about the bicycle pump on the TARDIS console. And though I agree with Heather to an extent, I also really like earth-centric episodes. Pertwee was my favorite Doctor, afterall. And that crew spent a lot of time on earth. I guess I have a bend towards saving our own planet more than saving someone else’s. Hmmm.
And seriously, I think everything about the show that isn’t yet working for me is a direct result of the length of it. There just hasn’t been enough time to really get into more challenging problems so we’ve ended up with a few, “TA-DA! And now I’ll pull this lever right here!” endings that have been a bit of a letdown.
Can’t wait for a Dalek though.
I completely agree: SciFi does go insane with the commercials, and the eps are WAY too short, making the endings seem to pop up out of nowhere. But, then, to me, the proper length of a Doctor Who story is generally about two hours — with no commercials.
Still, Eccleston is cool. Rose still seems a bit dumb to me, but maybe she’s just naive. (I mean, being surprised that the 19th-c. servant girl made only 8 pounds a year? Has Rose ever heard of inflation?)
Bring on the Daleks! Woo hoo!
Heather | Mar 28, 2006 | Reply
I can give Rose a break for being a 19-year old girl from the 21st century. I doubt she’s spent very much time pondering the living conditions of girls her age more than a hundred years ago. She’s been too busy horsing around with her boyfriend and working crummy jobs. Part of the fun of the companions for me has always been watching their general eye-opening progression of awareness as a result of their time with the Doctor. They’re the characters who actually get to develop on this show. Starting them kinda low on the pole gives them lots of room to grow.
AmyMo | Mar 28, 2006 | Reply
Too short: there are a few episodes that are two-parters, I think, and the season has a progressing story arc that more than makes up for the shortness of the episodes. Once you realize that the episodes build on one another (hardly evident in the first few eps, I’ll admit), the length of the eps becomes both more and less tolerable.
Earth-centric episodes: if you like them, you’re in luck.
Daleks: see “Earth-centric episodes.”
Rose: Best. Companion. Ever.
Christopher | Mar 28, 2006 | Reply
Oh, and we covered the weirdness of the commercial breaks in a recent episode of the Cult Movies Podcast. Ep 18, I believe.
Christopher | Mar 28, 2006 | Reply
I agree about the story arcs, but I would also say the cop out ending thing kind of persists through the season, too. But it’s a good and funny show, so I try not to take it too seriously.
The earth thing bugged me from a logical point of view. But I tell myself that they’re off having all sorts of adventures, and we only see a tiny fraction of them, which happen to be more of the earth-centered ones. I can rationalize quite a bit, when I like a show.
Christina | Mar 28, 2006 | Reply
Are we really related???
J-Mo | Mar 28, 2006 | Reply
I don’t know. What’s going on with Brittany Spears?
AmyMo | Mar 28, 2006 | Reply
you ARE more geeky than me.
And i was being harrassed for wanting to go see the Titanic replica at the Science Center.
towanda | Mar 28, 2006 | Reply
All I know, Amy, is that you even dream you’re funnier than me you’d better apologize when you wake up.
Scopi | Mar 28, 2006 | Reply
She is not pregnant and her and K-Fed are doing okay.
J-Mo | Mar 29, 2006 | Reply
Yeah. We’re related.
AmyMo | Mar 29, 2006 | Reply