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hamliet · 2 years ago

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Rereading A Dance With Dragons

Behold, the last ASOIAF book as of... the past eleven years. Eleven years ago I was only just beginning to escape my upbringing. Woof. But I will reread the TWOW chapters that have been released thus far after this.

In case you missed it, in light of my recent Fire & Blood reread, I decided to reread the whole ASOIAF series because, well, why not. Below are some general observations/musings on the themes, character arcs, alchemy, and foreshadowing. I’ll do this for the others as well. It’s not really a meta proper, so much as observations and thoughts.

Thoughts on A Game of Thrones here, A Clash of Kings here, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows.

Themes

Death and Rebirth and Identity

There's a major motif of fakeout deaths and real deaths this book. Aegon appears to be back from the dead. Wyman Manderly fakes Davos' death. Theon claims to have died back in Winterfell.

Tyrion himself thinks of himself:

And if truth be told, he had perished long ago, back in King’s Landing. It was only his revenant who remained, the small vengeful ghost...

Jon literally dies. And Daenerys undergoes a miscarriage and is feared dead after flying away on Drogon.

Then we have all the minor deaths in the story. I particularly want to talk about Janos Slynt, because his death seemed particularly cruel even for a terrible man. He begs for mercy. Death is something people in this series are happy to sling about, but when it comes for them, they are scared. There is nothing scarier than death.

To see what Martin is doing with this, let's look at the way Theon is portrayed. He slowly starts to reclaim his identity, his name. Because of this, he takes heroic actions he never would have previously.

To be a hero, you must confront death in an intimately personal way in ASOIAF. Why? Because the final villain is death embodied in the Others. And yet death itself is a paradox, because there's nothing so universally human as death, not even birth. Realizing that is a way of defeating death as well.

People vs Ideas

Martin continues this theme through Tyrion pointing out to Aegon that he's assuming Daenerys is an idea:

“She will. She must.” “Must?” Tyrion made a tsking sound. “That is not a word queens like to hear. You are her perfect prince, agreed, bright and bold and comely as any maid could wish. Daenerys Targaryen is no maid, however. She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats. She may not prove as willing as you wish.” “She’ll be willing.” Prince Aegon sounded shocked. It was plain that he had never before considered the possibility that his bride-to-be might refuse him. “You don’t know her.”

What is ironic about this is that Aegon is himself an idea, a concept. Varys says as much:

Aegon has been shaped for rule since before he could walk.

He's not the real Aegon (more on that below), but does it matter? It won't in King's Landing, nor to the Faith when they crown Aegon (and I do think they will). I've talked before about Aegon as an idea here and here.

Aegon isn't the only one interested in an idea, though. Dany's suitors all just want her for an idea this book.

Hizdahr marries Dany to be king, not because of her as a person.

Victarion just wants to spite Euron.

Euron just wants power.

Dany herself acknowledges Daario would leave her if she wasn't a queen.

Quentyn is a sweetheart but thinks only in terms of obedience rather than romance. He does not know Dany.

That's why I think Jon's romance with Dany is necessary: she has never had someone who loves her for her, for who she is. To quote TGCF, to be loved in a way where "what matters is you, not the state of you."

The Value of Children

Again, Martin hammers us with this question: "What good is peace if it must be purchased with the blood of little children?"

But it isn't asked with an idealistic end. Yes, a child is everything. But which child?

Martin suggests every child matters, as shown in Princess Daenerys of Dorne's story:

It was Daenerys who filled the gardens with laughing children... She could not tell the high-born from the low. Naked, they were only children. All innocent, all vulnerable, all deserving of long life, love, protection... It is an easy thing for a prince to call the spears, but in the end the children pay the price.

But in practice, it's hard, and doing the right thing doesn't mean it'll all be okay.

Jon and Dany both take child hostages. Dany insists on protecting them, but in her absence, Shavepate isn't likely to maintain that same kindness. Jon's wildling boys are more protected because Tormund is there, but Gilly's baby, the first hostage whom he didn't even need to keep, is very much not protected.

The Inner Child

Both Jon and Dany's arcs start with dead children.

Kill the boy, thought Jon.

Safe. The word made Dany’s eyes fill up with tears. “I want to keep you safe.” Missandei was only a child. With her, she felt as if she could be a child too. “No one ever kept me safe when I was little. Well, Ser Willem did, but then he died, and Viserys … I want to protect you but … it is so hard. To be strong. I don’t always know what I should do.

Jon is aware of his inner child and determined to kill it, because if he allows it to live, he won't be able to be the Lord Commander. Dany clings to her inner child (how many times this book does she say "I am only a young girl innocent in the ways of war"), but in the end it leads both Jon and Daenerys to the same place.

The message isn't nihilistic, however. It's honest. No one can live purely idealistically in a world that will not move the way you want it to. People are people. They are not ideas.

Tyrion also finds his inner child, and ends up caring for it in the person of Penny. Like, yes, Tyrion is on a downward spiral, but Penny is vital to remind him of his humanity.

Idealism, and Adventure Stinks

"Adventure stank"<--so go the first words of Quentyn Martell's POV chapters. Adventure is a ship here, but it's also like, a symbol for how the actual journey for Jon, Daenerys, and Tyrion goes. Is it worth it to save the world? Yes. Does it suck? Also yes.

When ADWD opens, Jon's already hardcore into pragmatism. He starts the book by bullying Gilly into abandoning her kid only to find out he didn't need to do that because Melisandre literally helped save Mance instead of burning him. I mean, he literally threatens to murder the kid: "You will. Else I promise you, the day that they burn Dalla’s boy, yours will die as well.”"

But that can't save him, because the reality is that being all mind and pragmatics and no heart isn't realistic at all. He can try to deny his family for the sake of his vows all he wants. There is no way to erase your identity completely, and no way to completely erase the emotions, the heart.

Daenerys's arc is parallel, which fits since she's Jon's alchemical partner, red to his white. She insists on idealism, but idealism doesn't work in this world (nor, sadly, in the real world). So she compromises, but still resists fire and blood until the end of the book. (I find it odd when people assume Dany's last chapter is somehow unique and not a parallel with Jon's.)

Jon locks Ghost up, and dies because of it, and will warg into Ghost for a bit. Dany locks her dragons up, to the detriment of ending the slave trade, and can only escape through her animals. Both Jon and Dany need to face their Jungian shadows, best represented in the animals that are literally a part of them, to accept them (probably at the end of TWOW or even in ADOS).

Come TWOW, Jon's going to ditch the duty he tried to protect this book by leaving the Wall. Dany's going to ditch peace and go into dracarysing the slave trade all the way to the ground so that there's no choice but to start from scratch in Essos.

Foreshadowing

Jon's Resurrection

Gee, the prologue is about a warg thinking about Jon Snow as another warg and planning how to survive his coming demise in the form of his wolf. Wonder what that could foreshadow.

Also, Melisandre sees Jon in her flames as "a man, now a wolf, now a man again."

Volantis is Doomed

Also, this:

He has been preaching that Volantis will surely burn if the triarchs take up arms against the silver queen.

Byebye Volantis.

Bran is Gonna Make Hodor Hodor and It's Bad

Bran thinks to himself:

No one wants to hurt you, Hodor, he said silently, to the child-man whose flesh he’d taken. I just want to be strong again for a while. I’ll give it back, the way I always do.

Clearly, we know that the show's take on how Hodor became Hodor is more or less accurate. The main difference I think is that the books will deal with the psychological and moral compunction in Bran, rather than him just becoming an emotionless wonder.

Euron x Daenerys

While with Daario, Daenerys has this dream: "that Hizdahr was kissing her … but his lips were blue and bruised, and when he thrust himself inside her, his manhood was cold as ice."

Clearly, this is Euron. However, as I've said previously, I don't think Dany will really get together with Euron in any lasting way. I think their story is likely to mirror that of the Night King and his Other bride, except Daenerys will refuse Euron and choose life (Jon). Dany also wakes from this dream disturbed.

Surviving the End

Not too likely for our heroes, because again, death is human, and an enemy all the same. We are always fighting ourselves.

The hero sets out with his friends and companions, faces dangers, comes home triumphant. Only some of his companions don’t return at all. The hero never dies, though. I must be the hero.

Tyrion as a Dragonrider

I see no need to focus on Tyrion's obsession with dragons so much unless Martin intended to do something with it.

Once, when his uncles asked him what gift he wanted for his name-day, he begged them for a dragon. “It wouldn’t need to be a big one. It could be little, like I am.” His uncle Gerion thought that was the funniest thing he had ever heard, but his uncle Tygett said, “The last dragon died a century ago, lad.” That had seemed so monstrously unfair that the boy had cried himself to sleep that night.

I do think Tyrion will ride a dragon despite not being a Targaryen. If that is indeed the case, I wonder if Bran warging the dragon might also be, like, a thing. Especially if the dragonriders don't all survive the journey to defeat the Others, it'll be helpful to have someone who knows what happened.

Dany Having a Kid

I know that the prophecy Mirri Maz Duur gives Dany is often assumed to be about kids, when it's really about when Khal Drogo will return... except it's not. When Daenerys considers Mirri's words, she never associates them with Drogo. She associates them with her not having kids. So, regardless of Mirri's intent or the semantics, that's what it means in-universe.

He shall be the stallion that mounts the world. Dany knew how it went with prophecies. They were made of words, and words were wind. There would be no son for Loraq, no heir to unite dragon and harpy. When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, when the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. Only then would her womb quicken once again

What Dany doesn't seem to be connecting is that if her prophecy about her son didn't come to pass in her understanding of it (Dany herself will be something akin to the Stallion, I believe), then this prophecy is also wind.

Plus, aspects of the prophecy have been fulfilled. Quentyn Martell, the son of the house which has a sun as its sigil, dies/set in the east. The Greyjoys (sea) are fighting on land, and the Dothraki seem poised to follow Daenerys to Westeros in TWOW. The Mountain is dead and the Meereenese pyramids are likely to crumble like dust, too.

Again, I really don't know if Dany having a kid works without the five-year gap. I just don't know if there is time by the time she meets Jon in ADOS. But... her having a miscarriage is also clearly meant to make readers wonder if she is truly barren like she believes.

Aegon is a Fake

I think this is pretty well understood by the fandom, but just in case I was paying extra attention this time. It's pretty clear that Aegon is actually the son of Illyrio and Serra. Illyrio notes how he loved Serra, who is from Lys. His love for her appears to be genuine as well, as his story mirrors Tyrion's and Tysha's but without the interference of Tywin:

Serra. I found her in a Lysene pillow house and brought her home to warm my bed, but in the end I wed her. Me, whose first wife had been a cousin of the Prince of Pentos. The palace gates were closed to me thereafter, but I did not care. The price was small enough, for Serra.

The Lysene are noted to have Valyrian features several times in this book. And when Tyrion asks Illyrio what he gets out of it and Illyrio gives a lame answer, Tyrion thinks:

Liar, thought Tyrion. There is something in this venture worth more to you than coin or castles.

It's also not a coincidence that both Tyrion and Jon Connington's chapters mention Bittersteel multiple times, since Bittersteel was one of the founders of the Blackfyres. Like, when Jon Connington meets the Golden Company, this happens:

All the skulls were grinning, even Bittersteel’s on the tall pike in the center. What does he have to grin about? He died defeated and alone, a broken man in an alien land. On his deathbed, Ser Aegor Rivers had famously commanded his men to boil the flesh from his skull, dip it in gold, and carry it before them when they crossed the sea to retake Westeros.

Well gee it's almost like Bittersteel's plan is about to be fulfilled through Aegon Blackfyre. As if we didn't get the point, the same chapter also has Jon Connington meeting people who "claimed names that had once loomed large in the histories of the Seven Kingdoms... two Strongs, three Peakes, a Mudd, a Mandrake, a Lothston, a pair of Coles," and then JonCon notes that not all of the names are real (in other words, people are impersonating them). Almost like we should wonder if Aegon is an impersonator.

Jon Connington and the Bells

The Show That Ruined Everything had Daenerys snap at the sound of bells during the surrender of King's Landing. It's not quite accurate to say bells have no significance for Dany, but they're certainly not a huge trigger (they're just associated with the Dothraki for her). Bells are, however, strongly associated with Jon Connington's trauma at the... Battle of the Bells.

... his ears rang to the sound of distant bells. Deep bronze booms and silver chiming pounded through his skull, a maddening cacophony of noise that grew ever louder until it seemed as if his head would explode. Seventeen years had come and gone since the Battle of the Bells, yet the sound of bells ringing still tied a knot in his guts.... That was Griff’s task. He had failed Prince Rhaegar once. He would not fail his son, not whilst life remained in his body.

I'm not the first to make this prediction, but this seems clear as day that when. Dany shows up at King's Landing after Aegon and Arianne are crowned, Arianne will probably order a surrender because she's got brains. Jon Connington is dying anyways of greyscale, and he's likely to refuse to surrender... which means Dany will resort to dragonfire, hit Chekov's wildfyre, and up King's Landing will go.

I mean, look at this:

There is where you’re wrong,” Myles Toyne had replied. “Lord Tywin would not have bothered with a search. He would have burned that town and every living creature in it. Men and boys, babes at the breast, noble knights and holy septons, pigs and whores, rats and rebels, he would have burned them all. When the fires guttered out and only ash and cinders remained...

Bells and regrets associated with not burning them all? (An Aerys phrase?) It's hard not to see the foreshadowing.

Aegon's Ending, and Arianne

Tyrion notes that Aegon plays with "a young man’s formation, as bold as it is foolish. He risks all for the quick kill."

Aegon is also clearly set up to marry Arianne. JonCon is advised that:

Prince Aegon’s hand. A marriage alliance, to bring some great House to our banners.... I would think that many an ambitious lord might be eager to wed his daughter to such a man. Even, perhaps, the prince of Dorne.

Plus, the import of having Dorne s strongly emphasized in the same conversation as speaking of marriage:

"And Dorne.” That was the crucial step. Lesser lords might join their cause for fear of harm or hope of gain, but only the Prince of Dorne had the power to defy House Lannister and its allies. “Above all else, we must have Doran Martell.”

Now, I don't think Doran will buy that Aegon is really Aegon, but I do think he will have to if Arianne--another headstrong character who rushes into things without thinking--marries Aegon.

Alchemy

Bran and Meera

Bran clearly has feelings for Meera, but it also seems to be a plausible childhood crush. He won't be old enough by the time the series ends. Presumably. But Meera is marked as earth and water, and like I speculated before, although Bran's marked the same way, he is told that he will fly in the future. So, he's marked as air, and I wonder if he'll switch over into being more red-marked, like Daenerys did.

Daenerys as Heart

Daario calls Dany "bright heart."

Quentyn as Earth

Quentyn is said to be "mud" multiple times. Barristan Selmy even remarks that Dany needs fire, and Quentyn is just mud. However, he's wrong (and he's shown to be very uneven in his perceptions): Dany needs earth, and water. But what would be even better is if that partner has fire in him, too. Basically: Jon. It has to be Jon.

Jon as White

Melisandre tells him: "You should look behind you, Lord Snow. The moon has kissed you and etched your shadow upon the ice twenty feet tall." (The look back idea also parallels Dany's refusal to look back despite Quaithe telling her to go back to go forward.)

Arya as White

Even when blind, this is said about Arya: "Her nights were lit by distant stars and the shimmer of moonlight on snow...

She also continues to compare herself to a water dancer. And there's this: "Her face was still water, hiding all, revealing nothing."

Val as White

Martin explicitly marks Val as mind (wise), white, mind, silver, earth, and water. She can't have a lasting relationship with Jon, because they aren't complimentary.

Val’s sister, Mance Rayder’s wife. She said that sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.” “A wise woman.”

Val glanced at the sky. The moon was but half-full. “Look for me on the first day of the full moon.” The light of the half-moon turned Val’s honey-blond hair a pale silver and left her cheeks as white as snow.

Arianne as Fire, Aegon as Water

If only Arianne and Aegon weren't destined for tragedy, they'd genuinely be a good match. Arianne is marked as fire and the sun, and red. She always wears copper suns, though... and copper is the highest of base metals. She's not destined to be gold. She could be. It'll just... sigh.

Aegon, of course, is a sailor with blue hair and eyes. He's supposed to be fire as a Targaryen... but he's not.

Quaithe and Melisandre: Alchemists

Quaithe seems to be Daenerys's alchemist like Melisandre is Jon's. Well, also Stannis's. But also Jon's.

Melisandre notes: The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows. The reconciliation of opposites is, of course, a central tenet of alchemy.

Other Notes

Satin. If anything happens to Satin I'm going to take it up personally with George RR Martin. He can meet me at dawn. (I'm very, very worried about him post Jon's assassination.)

Shireen's greyscale. There's pretty much no way to read Val's warning about Shireen's greyscale as not intending to foreshadow anything, but it almost certainly can't since we know Martin's said Stannis will sacrifice Shireen. Making her actually a spreader of greyscale makes it far less of a desperate sacrifice. So... okay.

Kevan. I don't like Kevan Lannister per se, mostly because what Cersei's walk of shame is his doing and it's grotesque. But he's probably the only man in this entire series who acknowledges that men can be sexually abused. He directly calls Cersei out for what she did to Lancel.

“You think I care about a cup of wine? Lancel is my son, Cersei. Your own nephew. If I am angry with you, that is the cause. You should have looked after him, guided him, found him a likely girl of good family. Instead you—”

Loras. My suspicions about Loras's injuries remain. The fact that the mention of his fate is cut off implies that he's alive, and/or something matters about him that we've yet to hear. I'm just not certain what exactly he's up to.

“Soon,” said Septa Scolera, “but her brother—” “Hush.” Septa Unella turned to glare back over her shoulder at Scolera. “You chatter too much, you foolish old woman. It is not for us to speak of such things.”

Asha. Is she pregnant? I don't think so, and her arc is absolutely ending with her taking over the Iron Islands, but Martin did write about her worrying about making moon tea for herself after sleeping with Qarl and then they're captured by Stannis like five seconds later soooo. Of course pregnancy isn't exclusive to Asha taking over the Iron Islands, but not sure what it'd offer her arc.

Victarion. Oof. The oaf. He may use the dragonbinder horn... but a dragon is not a slave. I don't doubt it's not gonna last and he's going to go the way of Quentyn, who was a much better man.

Theon. Theon's chapters continue to be some of my favorite "redemption arc" chapters in existence. They're genuinely moving, realistic, and when he jumps off that battlement with Jeyne, I get chills. I honestly think it's better than That Show that it's Jeyne and not Sansa, because it shows Theon's decision to be a better person, not just make things up to those he's hurt. Jeyne is exactly the type of person no one cares about, like Gilly's child, and Theon even comments as much. But he saves her anyways because she's a person.

Bran. In contrast to That Show showing Bran as some emotionless prick who doesn't care about anyone or anything after becoming the Three Eyed Crow, Bran is incredibly compassionate. It's strongly implied that he's talking to Theon through the weirwoods, even though Theon doesn't realize it. He just has to say Theon's name. Identity is another important theme, and Theon's desire to be Theon again, along with Bran not remotely giving up his love for his loved ones in exchange for power, stands in contrast to Arya, who is determined to deny her humanity. Clearly, Arya needs to ditch the Faceless Men.

Septa Lemore. She may or may not be someone in disguise, but she's definitely not Ashara Dayne. Still, the only other people we know who've had kids are like... she could be Tyene's mother, which might well help cement the Arianne/Aegon match, but Arianne mentions visiting her, so I doubt it. Wylla maybe?

Ashara and Ned. They clearly had a thing at Harrenhal, and her stillborn daughter was Ned's and probably explains a bit of his reluctance to talk about Ashara with Catelyn. It wasn't cheating because Catelyn was engaged to Ned's brother at the time. They probably genuinely loved each other, but then a war split them apart, Ned had to marry someone else, and then Ashara not only had a stillborn kid, but she's almost certainly the one who sent Ned Lyanna's location at the Tower of Joy... which means that she's part of the reason why Arthur Dayne, her brother, is dead. Their story is a true tragedy.

Joanna and Aerys. As I said in my post on ASOS, I don't think Tywin's "you are no son of mine" indicates Tyrion is actually not his son. The opposite, in fact. The only piece of potential evidence for this theory in this book, with the story of Aerys taking liberties during the bedding of Joanna. Still, that's years before Tyrion's birth, and there's little to suggest he actually had sex with her. I don't quite get the point of bringing this up, though, unless there's something to be done with it, which again the most obvious thing to be done here is Tyrion Targaryen, but it doesn't work thematically, soo.

The Dragon's Mercy. Dany's final chapter in this book is one of the best chapters in the entire series, filled with symbolism that other writers have done excellent jobs dissecting. Particularly, obviously, the famed "Dragon's Mercy" meta. While I think that meta does wonderfully in its symbolism analysis and in explaining some of the foreshadowing, I think the analysis neglects key context for the chapter, and blurs "pivotal" with "final." In other words, yes, it's a pivotal chapter for Dany. It's also not a final chapter for Dany, and with two lengthy books to go, it's hardly likely to be the end of her arc.

The genre of ASOIAF--Romantic literature--is also ignored in the analysis, and the context most of all. The context is survival, which is never mentioned in the meta. The chapter returns us to the start of Dany's story, in the Dothraki sea, where she makes a decision in AGOT to survive. Here, she does likewise. Rather than assimilate this time, the Dothraki will follow her. Her end goals remain the same: home and peace and happy children. The problem is that her methods for achieving this have shifted, and it's foolish to think that she won't have to wrestle with the question of "what good is peace built on the blood of children" far more in the coming books.

Lastly, the Others are never in this meta, and most people misunderstand the idea of the Others. There's this idea that the Others are somehow either not real villains and need protecting (they accept sacrificed children I think it's pretty clear what George has framed them as), or that they can't be final villains because they aren't human citing this quote from Martin:

“You don’t just have people who wake up in the morning and say, “What evil things can I do today, because I’m Mr. Evil?” People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We’re all very tangled knots.”

Incorrect. The Others are not human, nor evil, yet they are still villains.

Why? They represent the only universal human experience: death. Not every person will be born or get to breathe, but every person will die. The struggle against them is so very, very human in meta form. The entire series--everyone's arc--is about the struggle against death against the inevitable reality that valar morghulis--all men must die. But if we are lucky, we live on in songs--like the Song of Ice and Fire.

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whoslaurapalmer · 3 years ago

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lulu’s super long doctor who notes, part one!!

from rose, to the runaway bride; also general notes and overall consideration of ten’s character arc

-yes! i watched nine and ten!! -it is very unlikely i could be persuaded to watch eleven although i do have an interest in twelve, and thirteen looks like she's having a great time but wtf is going on with the timeless child??? (cultural osmosis continues.) the thing is i also have a Long-Standing Beef with moffat and like, i don't want to deal with him????????? i just???????? don't????????????????????????????????????? -not that rtd was TOP TIER EXCELLENT SUPERB DID NOTHING WRONG, he definitely did things wrong too, but rtd is on vaguely thin but decently substantial ice for the most part. moffat is on sight, however. -on. sight. -i did my time in bbc sherlock many years ago and again, i witnessed the heyday of this fandom on here and the, sort of decline of it, and the very valid moffat criticism, and i just do not want to engage any more than i have already had to -yes!!! watching this was embarrassing to admit!!!!! why?????????? -i did see the heyday. i saw the cringe. i don't like calling it ~cringe~ but like, some of the......posts.................. (-which still very much exist on pinterest.) -it's weird bc it's like. the......"cringe" sort of obsession type of passion about a fandom. like it very much comes from a place of love?? doesn't it?? i remember feeling that way about stuff and throwing my whole self into a piece of media when i was in high school and wanting to talk about it with everything and make everything about it and on one hand i think there's something to be said for loving something so wholeheartedly and so completely and not being ashamed of it, especially when you're......in a place in your life when you need something to fill that space for you -on the other hand though??????? -not everything (every. single. thing) has to be about it.......you don't have to make it your whole personality.........do not submerge................................................ -god almighty but i have seen enough teens reacting to doctor who to last me a lifetime -i'm 27 and thinking 'i was so passionate about shit when i was a teenager!! and that's not bad!!' and also 'i just want to pleasantly enjoy this thing now because some of that shit was absolutely out there' -but a lot of times that just leads to me not talking at all about new interests. -ANYWAY

-i did try to watch doctor who in high school!! i made it up to (and including) the doctor dances. my brain just wandered away from it at the time, as it does, yknow. -oh but i did watch ahahahaha i watched the wedding of river song bc the guys on academic team my senior year of high school were super into the show and bc of the tumblr cultural osmosis i was like 'i kind of want to know what happens???' -the guys on academic team: you watched the wedding of river song without context???? me: boys i have context you can't even imagine although i did not say that because it was 2011. close enough vibe, though. -i also watched a decent amount of the first doctor in......also high school??? college???? i'm??????? somewhere in there.

-there is a small story about why i decided to watch doctor who now and it boils down to 'occasionally i get Mildly Invested in david tennant's filmography, because he is unfairly handsome and also just a phenomenal actor, and i have felt that for, forever.' in 2019 after gomens i watched broadchurch and debated watching doctor who but did not. november 2021 i was back in one of my very brief but VERY INTENSE hamlet phases and finally watched the 2009 hamlet. and then decided to watch doctor who.

-anyway i'm happy i watched it now! i was able to have a really good time!! i really liked it a lot and i liked being able to approach it now instead of when i was younger -like, i'm gonna complain a lot, but i really did have a good time and i really enjoyed watching it!!!!! no regrets. (-i did initially watch some of broadchurch in 2013 but my brain wandered away from that, too. missed one episode and couldn't go back. anyway i watched peaks in the meantime (eventually) and i feel like that was the ideal experience for really appreciating broadchurch, at least for me.)

-now for actual show+episode thoughts, vaguely in order nine: /regenerating me: no my boy :((((((((((((((((((( ten: /exists me: GASP me: M Y B O Y !

-i loved nine so much :( with my whole entire soul -i 👏 am 👏 not 👏 immune 👏 to 👏 the 👏 sad 👏 boys 👏 (-thinking about sad boys as an adult, though, i would like to point out that so much more of it is just........it's not the sadness it's the hope and the feeling IN SPITE OF the sadness) (it's not the hurt!! it's the comfort!!!) (it's the moving on!!! it's the slow clawing yourself out of trauma!!! it's that it's not easy!!!! that sometimes you make mistakes and you fall back and you do things wrong and it hurts!!!! it can be terrible!!!! it's that sometimes it's just small things that make it better!! sometimes it's people!!!! it's the human connection you can make in the face of trauma that makes it possible to endure!!!!!!!!!!! there is so much else and you're allowed it!!!!!!) -I 👏 AM 👏 NOT 👏 IMMUNE 👏 TO 👏 THE 👏 GROWTH 👏 -anyway --

-the end of the world, dalek, father's day, and boom town were my top top nine favorites (even if boom town overall is...........uneven...........everyone was just out to have a good time!!) (i love nine and jack and rose as a squad!!!!! i love nine and jack and rose and mickey as a squad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) (margaret turning into an egg was weird but possibly an interesting precursor to the idea of regenerating) (i didn't like her just staring into the heart of the tardis either but i liked establishing that the tardis is a living thing and she has an opinion and of course that's a precursor to bad wolf) -dalek stood out to me in high school and i was SO excited to watch it again and boy howdy did it live up to my expectations -i love nine trying very hard to not be the person who ended the time war, trying to be someone better than that, someone who is capable of different choices (both nine and ten adamantly insisting they have to give their enemies one chance), and still being unable to ever not be the person who ended the time war -and how it's because of that that he refuses to wipe out the daleks again in parting of the ways -it's not bad, that he's still that person, and nine takes such happy satisfaction in where he's been able to get himself -god but you were fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-oh, even with moffat i DO really like the empty child/the doctor dances. i think they're fine and pretty enjoyable and the nanogene gas mask was still high-key scary -i think there's moments of real genuine love from moffat in those episodes. compared to the absolute ego in silence in the library/forest of the dead

-even when i wasn't watching it i thought a lot about that tumblr post from an age ago about how nine was born out of war and ten was born out of love because it was such a striking thought -ten has the most frenetic energy and it makes the episodes so entirely different, and he's just, so often bursting with love and excitement which makes the silence and anger all the more harsh and vicious and violent -goddddddddddddd and then he doesn't get to stay with rose -he!! was!! made!! to!! love!!! her!!!!!!!!!!!! and they can't be together!!!!!!!!!!!!

-every day of my LIFE i think about nine saying "i'd make a very bad god" and then ten's, entire existence -the tastiest negative character development. tastiest!!!!!!!!! (-i am not immune to the growth. i am also not immune to negative character development!!!!! i am not immune to already nonlinear recovery looping back on itself into absolute hell!!!!!) (a well-done negative character arc is one of my favorite things.) -this was why i was interested in watching ten, david tennant aside, the promise of this massive downward spiral because i was very curious to see how it would turn out here

-it's important, again, that the doctor is never not the person who ended the time war -- for nine, his guilt means he would not do it again, he can't, he tried but he wouldn't; for ten, his growing anger and loneliness means he swings around wildly between 'i'd die before i did it again' and 'i could do it again' or both at once!!!! -which eventually starts to manifest into 'no one can ever die now and it's my responsibility!!!!!!!!!' -he could do it again (the runaway bride). he'd never do it (the evolution of the daleks). he couldn't, but he can punish (family of blood). but he'd never (last of the time lords). and now he can't lose anyone, not anymore (voyage of the damned). but if it's a fixed point, he has to lose them, but make it his fault -- but he could save someone (the fires of pompeii). (and then he'd do it and take himself out again (the poison sky). and he'd never (the doctor's daughter).) so that, the next fixed point he gets to -- -ten is not a god and doesn't want to be and hates the suggestion that he is for the time war (the sound of drums) but he could be one and hold the whole of life and time in his hands according to his whims if no one was there to stop him trying to stop his own pain, everybody lives and it's bad (the waters of mars). -(I have points down below about character beats with rose and mickey that get repeated instead of truly resolved, but I don't think that's what happens with ten here, i feel like his are more, something else falls into place each time and twists further until he has to really, finally face himself in the waters of mars)

-some christmas invasion fics tend to take out ten saying "don't you think she looks tired?" and i hate that, that's such a pivotal line!!! not only in terms of "no second chances, i'm that sort of a man" because that's obvious, but because it heralds ten having the potential to be darker than nine was (and eventually fully realizing that potential)

-sure, nine didn't give second chances, but always in terms of something completely working against him, but ten destroys the entire political career of a woman whom he considered something like a friend, he was so happy to find out she was elected, he was so happy to see her again, harriet jones was someone who understood the world and wanted to protect it because it was the right thing to do -and harriet jones is not wrong, on one hand!! the doctor is not always going to be there!!! she has to do what she can!! it's exhausting to think of saving the world in a situation like this over and over again if the doctor isn't there!! shouldn't have included destroying the sycorax wholesale, though. and ten takes such an issue with it because that was literally the thing nine just refused to do again!!! -especially bc the sycorax were retreating!!!!!!! -he did indirectly threaten the earth though by telling the sycorax to talk about how powerful earth was, though, didn't he. and just completely stops what nine said would be "the golden age"

-despite how many gifs i had seen over the years somehow i had just blocked out that david tennant was gonna occasionally wear those glasses -fuck those glasses. i love those glasses. god fucking dammit

-i love the emphasis!! on what it means to be a companion!! on what you give up (your life!!! for better and for worse!!!!!!), on what you leave behind (your family!!!!!!), how terrible and overwhelming and dangerous it is, how there's so much you can't talk about and how your world moves on without you (or should mickey you deserved better), how it's not for everyone (adam), and then with ten and sarah jane, the discussion of what happens when your time as a companion is over, how you don't necessarily get a say in that ending, and the warning about how it has to end eventually -repercussions and consequences and aftermath shit are my absolute goddamn fucking jam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -and then love and monsters!!! I love outsider perspectives, how their lives are affected when they aren't the main character but still in a position to be affected because they're living too, everyone's story is bigger than just them, especially the doctor's (-and more emphasis on jackie being left behind, especially now that mickey's gone, and how lonely she is) -and elton doesn't even do a damn thing!!! and loses everybody!!!! and now ursula is a face in concrete......... -AND THE DOCTOR DIDN'T EVEN ACTUALLY COME TO HELP FIRST IT WAS SO ROSE COULD YELL AT ELTON -hey, how old was elton, though -i love the heavier stress in ten's first season (and there were moments of this with nine too) on 'even if it's worth it, the doctor is inadvertently and purposely the most dangerous and deadly being possible' -and knowing all of this has to lead up to rose in the parallel world....... (-some things are paced and foreshadowed so well!!! and some things (sometimes the same things) make me go 'are you fucking for real')

-nine saying to rose "everything has its time and everything dies" about cassandra and then sarah jane saying to ten "everything has its time and everything ends"- :( -THEN THE FACE OF BOE COMING IN HOT WITH "everything has its time" -these are my preferred arc words. i'm never letting go of them -oh that goes very nicely into the ood saying "i think your song must end soon. every song must end."-even with nine regenerating, so much of nine is about Beginnings; ten is about Endings but in such terrible terrible ways -oh speaking of sarah jane!!!! i'm happy that she and rose were able to respect each other and the places they have/had in the doctor's life -mickey's joke about the missus and the ex though was. i hate to say. fucking hilarious

-oh also it's like. it's like murder she wrote syndrome yknow -CABOT COVE SYNDROME (-okay digging around on tv tropes apparently this is more a, plot magnet/doom magnet situation) (-although. you could make a good case that london has cabot cove syndrome) -the 'what is a story if not something happening' with 'why are you literally always involved in a murder, jessica' -maybe subverted though in the way that he IS again also inadvertently and purposely bringing it with him. he does not MEAN to run into these things. but he does. (and it's also good that he does???? rightfully pointed out many times how he's stopped a lot of shit. whole point of turn left!) and the cost of his help is not always easy, even if the doctor wants nothing more than to help and for everyone to live, and he hopes so much it'll work out but deep down knows better (the amount of times ten apologizes in the most resigned way)

-aaaa when i find myself in times of trouble jean renault comes to me speaking words of wisdom 'maybe you brought the nightmare with you'

-and like, look, jean renault, coop was actually not the catalyst of a GREAT DEAL of twin peaks -- ben and catherine and josie were already in cahoots, harry was already working on the drug bust, leo and jacques were, also already in cahoots, hank was already up for parole, jean renault himself orchestrates a lot of nonsense!!!!! -- but coop definitely comes in as a presence to help and fails spectacularly and frequently at that goal not to mention the trail of death and destruction and bob following coop up to that point, until twin peaks becomes the culmination of all the points of coop's horrorlife -similarly, the doctor helps with things happening (mostly) independently of his presence -- but are then exacerbated by his presence and his opposition -- he succeeds a lot, but at a great life cost in most if not all episodes (i did keep a death count per episode and most of the time it was just me writing 'uhhh well that was a lot') -- and this happens over and over again, with the doctor leaving or running away afterwards, not to mention the doctor's own trail of death and destruction and what he's physically capable of following behind each time, and the doctor is conscious of it, he runs from it like coop does but he is much more knowingly conscious of what will happen when he arrives -with, yet again, the waters of mars being the culmination of all the points of ten's own horrorlife (his pride, his trauma, his very presence) -you know, is it a tumblr post by lulu whoslaurapalmer vandelay if i don't talk about peaks

-oh me watching this is just me picking out what reminds me of other shows jesus christ -"theme song is whistly like x files" "oh we're in monster of the week territory" "oh the jb fletcher paradox" "oh no is this a coop" -the amount of times early on where i tried to think of the theme song and just wound up getting the x files theme song -one cell of the tardis in rise of the cybermen: /turns on me: ahh they're passing around the one (1) brain cell

-doctor: /consistently complains about rose wandering off doctor: /regularly wanders off from rose anyway me: hey

-rose gave ten the little cupcake with the dragées.........!! 💕

-i like jack, he really grew on me (I thought he was just okay in the empty child but afterwards I liked him more), but then finding out about john barrowman was very, souring -god and then noel clarke what the absolute fuck -what's most upsetting to me about the girl in the fireplace is that the premise of the time windows is so GOOD, that has so much potential!!! windows into time!!!!! -and then it's somehow...............not good -big agree with the general criticism; mickey deserved an episode that actually focused more on him as an actual companion, the doctor just LEFT ROSE (and mickey!!) STRANDED AGAIN, reinette should not be revolving her life around a man she met like max five times -shout out to that tumblr post with the doofenshmirtz meme that was like 'if i had a nickel for every time moffat wrote about a girl meeting the doctor when she was a kid and then meeting him as an adult and kissing him i'd have two nickels, that's not a lot but it's funny it happened twice' -it is, moffat. it is. -it's not necessary. (-no it's not grooming but it's still not necessary) -the mind reading thing fucking gets me. reinette does not deserve the backstory lore -also, reinette specifically says she wanted no part of the doctor's world, and then suddenly wants to go with him??????? it would've been so much more powerful if she turned him down -WOULD'VE JUST BEEN NICE IF HE HADN'T STRANDED ROSE AND MICKEY, TOO -moffat the ice is already very thin for you boy

-oh hey i know this is for plot convenience, which immediately makes it dicey bc doing things for plot convenience alone isn't really okay, but i think rose specifically, of all companions, after season 1, should know how to pilot the tardis -i can't decide if i think she should innately know how to pilot the tardis after bad wolf, or if she feels like she should know and remembers a little but she can't, OR she and mickey sit around and figure out how to pilot it themselves since mickey's a mechanic -bc clearly ten is not gonna teach her how to do it (he won't do it out of pride/ego/being the leader/the tardis is his and his alone and at the end of the day it's all he really has (which ten says outright!!) or is ever going to have and it's the only one left/if a companion knows how to pilot the tardis, do they need the doctor?) (does the doctor even actually know how to do it, though.) -sigh. well, you know -the real problem here is that the doctor just keeps leaving people places

-the use of. the most absurd pop songs as legendary earth hits. beautiful. absolutely beautiful. i love love love jokes like that

-rose in fear her: who's gonna hold his hand now? me at the end of doomsday: WHO'S GONNA HOLD HIS HAND NOWWWWWWWWWWW (oh you know i think ten actually held rose's hand less, as a matter of fact)

-while i think some character beats are hit really well, i think some are also............repeated again and again instead of getting resolved -especially in the places where they should've been resolved!!! -and then the way they ARE resolved is like. fucking yikes -mickey has to say way too many times how much they undervalue him, (and rose gets away with undervaluing him every time) (on one hand rose gets to be very flawed and make mistakes and hurt herself and other people and i love that, on the other hand she almost never learns to do better or treat mickey better, she always falls back into the same pattern with him) and solving that means STAYING IN THE PARALLEL WORLD?????? I'M????????? that's not a resolution -and rose makes the same mistakes with her father!! she's never allowed a real resolution there!!!! -me: does every poc get this kind of treatment on the show. oh, likely me: hey, what happens to bill? me: /googles me: .....................................i shouldn't be surprised but i am. no, i don't think the oil thing makes it any better.

-i do love that rose is not perfect, and that one of the reasons she and the doctor vibe so well is that they both have such a firm and very angry sense of justice and what's right and a desperate need to help-that's most companions though, isn't it???? they're not going to be any other type but strong-willed and fierce with that completely unselfish desire to help, but the desire comes from different places -and to be something, someone, to go somewhere else

-i'm glad that mickey is so much more confident and secure in army of ghosts/doomsday, and he and rose are almost on equal footing, but i still don't think mickey's character development should've been accomplished by going to a parallel world (-WE SHOULD'VE SEEN MICKEY'S CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!!! his COMPLETE character development!!!!!) -does it work out???? well i GUESS because THEY ALL END UP THERE BUT UGGGG

-agree with rtd that the only thing that would keep rose successfully away from the doctor is her physically not being able to see him by being in a parallel world. it would have to be something that enormous and meaningful -i just don't know if i think the parallel world was the best way to do it????? idk!!!! something doesn't vibe right but idk what, really -i LIKE the way it was done bc i think it connects a lot of things, pieces fit together, there's proper payoff and consequences, but i still don't think it was perfect -it's difficult bc there's a lot going on here!!! jackie is devastated at the thought of never seeing rose again -- and even if rose picks the doctor, not being able to see jackie, who not only becomes a grounding presence for her between adventures but is also just her fucking mother, that would've eventually destroyed rose too (-especially when she did get older and her time as a companion would have ended; with everyone else in the parallel world and rose having spent all her time with the doctor, who would be left?) (everything! has! its! time! and! everything! ends!!!!!!!!) -yeah, rose wants a life that is not just being a shop girl where nothing exciting ever happens, especially after exploring all of time and space, and jackie's right when she says rose has changed, and rose has changed for the better!!! -but having that place to come back to???? that clearly means a lot. they always come back -and if rose stayed with ten she never would've been able to get that again

-oh hold on. briefly. the cybermen and the daleks were the funniest fucking things holy shit -"daleks have no concept of elegance" "this is obvious." i'm -beautiful

-ten makes SUCH a big deal about how parallel!pete is not rose's dad in rise of the cybermen/age of steel, but doesn't seem to care at all about that in army of ghosts/doomsday, since he dangles pete and jackie in front of each other!! -potentially i guess you could make the case that he knows the outcome of trying to stop the cybermen and the daleks and that it's going to come down to them being separated and he won't do that to rose, even if it means losing her, and he makes them all care earlier -but, idk -one of the other big thematic points though is the doctor not forgetting that he promised jackie he'd keep rose safe, and saying it directly to her here, and that was why nine sent her back before, that's why ten doesn't initially give her a choice (which was very... >:( ), and this time there's no way to come back -everything has its time and everything ends :( -so, i do think they found a way to make it track okay and i respect that but i'm still not entirely vibing, idk -you know i think it would've been nice if bad wolf found a way to make an appearance BUT i also have no problem with it not, because rose is normal and it's good that rose is normal, it's okay -i had seen doomsday in gif format SO MANY TIMES that actually watching it was like!! wow!!! better than the gifs -it hurt. -sometimes, gifs cannot do total justice.

-top top fav rose+ten episodes -- new earth, tooth and claw, school reunion, the impossible planet/the satan pit, fear her

-oh!! so my GRANDMOTHER was at one point a new who, not fan because i don't think my grandmother would describe herself as a fan of anything, she is a passive enjoyer of television, but it was a show she watched and enjoyed (-but not one she ever talked about as 'lulu, you should watch this' which she does with, you know, game shows) -she and my aunt and my uncle would watch it when it was airing!!! i think they tapped out somewhere around.....asylum of the daleks???? -my uncle likes classic who better. -THE POINT HERE BEING i had seen a small snippet of the runaway bride before, when i was over my grandmother's house.

-the tardis just spinning down a road!! good for her!!!!!!!! look at her fucking go

-donna shouting "AND THAT GOES DOUBLE FOR YOUR MOTHER!" i'm love

-nine refusing to eat dinner with rose and jackie, ten letting himself have christmas dinner with rose and jackie and mickey, ten refusing to eat christmas dinner with donna :(

-the doctor really does need someone :( -goddddd but the concept of the companion, especially here in the revival -it's just an endless kind of tragedy??? -sorry i'm gonna go off again

-look, like, the doctor does not start out seeking a companion, because he leaves gallifrey with susan, and then WHOLESALE KIDNAPS IAN AND BARBARA, so they just sort of happen, after, because he likes company and he likes being clever and he's learned to be kinder, and because he lets susan go, because he sends ian and barbara home, he's alone now and he's clearly not going home and it's lonely to travel by yourself and why not show someone else the world, someone who hasn't seen it before? -and in new who after the time war, he doesn't intend to find a companion, but then there is rose, just on accident, and he appreciates someone keeping his head on straight, he needs someone to do that, the doctor didn't intend to live after the time war and now he is, and that's okay, he needs rose and rose wants him -the human connection ~ -and rose was supposed to be it, that's all, no one else, AND THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN -i mean there are other people the doctor whisks along with him, mostly women because Oh We Cannot Have A Show Without Romantic Potential, like lynda with a y, i'm ignoring reinette, but i want to think of that as, the doctor just really loves people. he complains about humans a lot but he loves them. who else is he going to take with him?? he can't take another time lord, 1) it's not the same now 2) the time war, and there is the thrill of showing someone new what the world is like out there, that so much more exists than you can possibly think of, and he wants to show these people who have this bright spark that he very much admires!!! humans have courage and ambition and curiosity!!! they're beautiful and stupid and regularly impossible and living!!!!!! -(something like this is brought up in the impossible planet/the satan pit and i liked that a lot) -you can run from your problems if you have something to do, someone to talk to, someone to be clever to!! somewhere else to go, something else to see!!

-but!! -the doctor, winds up being a bit like the pied piper -again!!!! i was through this already!!!! being a companion is dangerous!! you're completely uprooted from your life and your home! you get to see the wonders of the world and it's amazing and the trade off is you almost die, many many times, you leave things behind, you fall in love with someone you cannot keep and who cannot keep you, and the heartbreak when it's over and he can move on and do it again, practically kidnap someone else and change their life for better and for worse (-however, it does not always HAVE to be a tragedy, though, @ the writers. it really doesn't.) -and the doctor's mental state is a GREAT DEAL to put on someone -but the doctor REALLY DOES NEED SOMEONE THOUGH and he has no options and isn't it so terrible to be that alone, for so long, and no one can really stay (which ten addresses in school reunion), and the doctor never really gets used to the heartbreak either, but how can he do anything else -oh, twelve has some points about this with clara, doesn't he, and even eleven too re: just in general being happy because you'll be sad later

-even trying to stop having a companion doesn't really work out!! that's how ten meets martha!! and he still technically has a companion in each of the specials!! -and with ten, especially, ten needs a companion with him so badly otherwise he's gonna go off the rails -and from the companion's angle, how could you not go?? even donna regrets not going and tracks ten down!! how can you know all of time and space and history is out there and just not go and see?? just because you can???? how could you go back to "normal" after knowing you are not alone in the universe???? after seeing all these amazing things!!! after being a part of something!!! after helping, being able to help, make a tangible difference!!! becoming someone new!!!!!!! -it's worth it, on both sides. somehow it is -anyway i don't intend to have an answer here and there isn't one, i don't want one, these are just thoughts that exist about these relationships

-oh, re: ends, though, and a lot of this, there's the baccano take, which is the peak take in like all media -"cast aside the illusion that there is a beginning and end to the story. the story has no beginning and it has no end. all there is, is a performance of people connecting, living, influencing each other, and departing." -that's it............. -anyway. martha time ~

#lulu talks about doctor who #there's gonna be 3 of these posts and all of them are like. a little over 5000 words #this section includes 'okay. but is the doctor a dale cooper'#wondering if london has cabot cove syndrome #and i quote baccano and it will not be the last time i do #i started more detailed-ish notes in martha's season so i feel like these notes are not as detailed as others but. still are important

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xxviii. Beauty and Her Beast

@the-pompous-potato oh, yay, I’m so glad you enjoyed Kiki! I was a little afraid she would come off as too stiff so that’s really nice to hear! This whole review brought a huge smile to my face, made me laugh out loud, thank you so much for reading and enjoying!

@bubblesthemonsterartist what? talking? communication? what is that XD again, so glad you enjoyed what the rest of the cast is up to and how they’re handling this ridiculous situation! I always look forward to your reviews ^_^

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A child puts his hands over his eyes to make a monster disappear.

A princess dances until the stroke of midnight to keep the magic alive.

Shirayuki counts, measures, labels, and weighs, forsaking her bed chamber for the pharmacy.

Maybe the clock will forget itself if she forgets to sleep; maybe dawn will never come.

...

She crumbles dirt between her fingers to test for moisture levels, checks leaves for spotting and blemishes, flicks stalks to judge their springiness.

Her observations form tidy rows on her clipboard, marching in neat boxes across the page.

Who knows how many hours have elapsed by the time she and Ryuu bundle the samples between them, carting the load to the store room for cataloguing and further testing?

...

Kiki has long since gone.

Garrack leaves them when they embark on filing their results. She must have, because when Shirayuki thinks to look around, there is no one there but Ryuu: asleep with his cheek on a scattered pile of index cards.

There is nothing left to do so Shirayuki sits idle, staring at the cards stacked in front of her.

She thinks, I should go. They will be expecting me - to dress - for breakfast - at rehearsal - but still she sits.

The words repeat in her mind like neatly printed text but there is no answering movement in her body.

Dawn has come and turned her to stone.

...

Not long after daybreak, Obi slips in.

He pauses at Ryuu’s chair, looking down at him for a long moment. He takes off his jacket and lets it settle over the boy’s shoulders.

Then he passes on, soundless as a cat.

...

Obi starts to turn in Shirayuki’s direction -- but she drops her gaze.

She doesn’t know what to say to him.

She has failed so completely to keep her promise to him that she is ashamed to look him in the eye.

In her periphery vision, she sees him drift past. She hears him lean back against the wall. She feels him waiting.

She can’t speak.

...

Obi had always wondered what he would do when the time came.

He has fought to the end of his resources, played his final gambit, and now he is going to lose her.

Facing the end of her presence in his life, he finds that nothing matters more than spending every possible moment as close to her as he dares.

He doesn’t ask anything of her, now that he has nothing to offer.

...

He can’t give her a crown or a castle, or even a quiet place in the mountains where she could practice the science and art that makes her happy.

He simply takes up his position where he can see her, but she doesn’t have to notice him.

Then he counts the time remaining before he is divided from her absolutely and irreparably: first measured in days, now hours...and soon it will be no longer than a breath and then a heartbeat before she moves beyond his reach forever.

...

He has no illusions that the first prince’s proposal could mean anything less - not after Izana had deliberately interposed himself and then dismissed any claims Obi might have made as a rival, much less a friend...or even as a retainer.

At noon Prince Izana would address the people of Clarines to present his new bride. Shirayuki will marry into blue blood, as she was always destined to.

Everything past that is a blank.

He can think no further.

...

The bells sound: nine...ten...eleven.

Shirayuki’s eyes are unfocused, her hands limp in her lap.

Obi’s arms are folded across his chest, his chin tucked in.

Neither speaks.

...

As the tolling fades, the door opens.

The chief pharmacist pokes in her head. “Hey, Ryuu -- oh, hello, Obi. And Lady Shirayuki, too? What are you all doing here at this hour?”

Obi and Shirayuki stare back blankly. Ryuu lifts his head, blinking at the sunlight.

“Aren’t you wanted at the ceremony, lady?” Garrack asks, eyebrows raised. “Everyone has gathered in the courtyard.”

...

“Already?” Shirayuki gasps. “But it’s not noon!”

A trumpet sounds in the distance.

Garrack shakes her head. “They’ve already started!”

...

So many people crowd the courtyard that their bodies blot out the flagstones below, like grains of sand scattered across tile.

The changing tides of fortune and destiny have swept them into the city in greater numbers than ever before. They expect to see their royal family in splendid array, their pillars of strength in uncertain times.

They are thirsty for good news, hungry for hope.

...

Every eye fixes on the speaker’s parapet.

There have been rumors, talk of secret engagements, even a royal wedding.

Public opinion is divided: Some decry it as too close on the heels of a funeral; others welcome the rejoicing that must attend such an auspicious occasion.

They are united in their curiosity, however - in the burning question of what questions today’s ceremony will answer.

The people hold their breath in anticipation of their young prince.

A murmur of surprise sweeps the crowd when Lord Haruka appears instead.

...

He approaches the lectern with a stiff, unnatural gait. His eyes are bloodshot, his expression stony.

It is the first time in all his years of service to the crown that he has questioned himself, doubted whether his loyalty stretched far enough to allow him to stoop to these depths.

The struggle has driven him to the brink, but at last this single principle prevailed, eclipsing all other desires and beliefs, as it always has:

--for the good of the kingdom, duty before self.

...

“People of Clarines,” Lord Haruka booms. “In the wake of tragedy, our kingdom must look to the future…”

His voice betrays no hint of the inner strain. He reads his prepared statement with perfectly correct diction, unwavering.

“...find our strength in the generations to come, in those who will follow in our footsteps and build on this great foundation…”

...

As his gaze sweeps the crowd, it catches on a flame of red: the derelict princess, rushing up the stairs with a collection of castle staff.

She was late, as might have been expected.

“No matter how untraditional a person's birth…” Haruka’s lip curled as he read, “...or how manifestly unfit their past actions have rendered them since…”

...

With no way to ford the courtyard, the intended princess and her accompaniment had climbed to a balcony opposite the parapet. They clustered behind the railing: all in white except for a dark smudge that followed at a distance.

“We call on you to trust in the judgement of your leaders, who will chart our path through recovery to resilience, to newfound peace and prosperity…”

At this distance, their faces regarded him like surf-washed pebbles, indistinguishable from the crowd except for that garishly colored hair.

...

“It is after careful deliberation and with unimpeachable resolve that I present to you…”

Haruka swallows. He had believed that he would leave this earth behind him long before he ever entertained the possibility of speaking aloud the words that were to follow.

“...my son by birth, and therefore,” Haruka choked, “rightful heir to my estate…”

...

He looked to the heavens, wishing they might strike him down sooner than allow him to continue - but no one answered.

Closing his eyes, Haruka finished: “...the former messenger to our second prince, that man commonly known as...

“Obi.”

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ennn · 6 years ago

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For the DW ask, 7, 11 and 31 please!

From here.

7. Favourite episodes

Sigh, I think I’m going to have to make a special category for Jodie and Thirteen because I’m such a fangirl and this particular series is just so special to me now. I mean of Series 11, I really have liked most the episodes so far and have enjoyed them a lot, except for Spiders and Kerblam!

Witchfinders, Rosa and Demons have been particular highlights for me. And yes I enjoyed Tsuranga more than Kerblam. I don’t care what fandom says!

Okay you know what let’s go by Doctor incarnation…

For Nine, my favourites were Dalek and The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances. I was a sobbing wreck the first time I finished watching Dalek. I did not expect this show to make me care for this ridiculous alien creature in a tin can and it ripped my heart out. And we got to see the Doctor’s darkness and damage and it was awesome.

For Ten, I’d say it was Human Nature / The Family of Blood, Blink and Turn Left. Lots of great eps here. I find Blink to be a fantastic standalone episode in the Doctor Who universe that sums up the charm and brilliance of the show. I mean the whole paradox device and Angels got a wee bit overused by Moffat later on of course but we’ll ignore that

Turn Left is just- *clutches heart from the feels*

On a separate note, I would say that Midnight is one of the best episodes of the show ever and it has my utmost appreciation and respect. It is however like an amazing pointy art piece and I can’t never touch it again because the world is depressing enough thank you so I’m not sure how this falls under the “favourite” category.

For Eleven, it’s of course Vincent and the Doctor because I too sobbed like a baby at the end. That and The Doctor’s Wife which was just magical and I only wish Suranne Jones could play the TARDIS forever. I also really enjoyed The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang. It was a fun time, had epic and tender moments and it rounded off Amy’s season arc beautifully.

For Twelve, I’m afraid I haven’t watched enough to have a proper list except for The Husbands of River Song because that’s when I finally fell in love with Doctor/River.

11. Favourite friendship

Of course it’s going to be Ten and Donna. I think The Runaway Bride may be one of my favourite eps as well!

I feel like Twelve/Bill would take second place, based on the handful of eps I’ve seen.

31. Just the companion or more people in The Tardis

Hmmm. I’m personally leaning towards just the companion, although I am open to having the reminder of Series 11 and Series 12 change that.

I’ve never particularly enjoyed having more people in the TARDIS before (and I’m referring just to NuWho here, I haven’t watched any classic Who) but I am enjoying how the current TARDIS fam is playing off each other and Thirteen.

I also did like Bill and Nardole with Twelve? So hmmm. It really boils down to the characters and their dynamic, I suppose.

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artpastmidnight · 7 years ago

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10 Fandoms, 10 Women

Tagged by @grexigone ❤︎ Thanks for tagging me, and sorry I took so long to do this! I was wanting to draw them, but then that would’ve taken even longer, so pictures it is.

Rules: List ten of your favorite female characters in ten different fandoms, and then tag ten people.

Jyn Erso from “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” Unlike too many “female leads” that are written like people who want to fight everyone, especially those with authority and therefore are too in-your-face for my liking, Jyn has an intricate balance of badassery and kindness that thaws out more and more as the movie progresses. You can tell she is the way she is because of the cards life has dealt her in life, and her seemingly impenetrable armor was to not get too attached to people in her violent upbringing. I love the relationships she forges with Cassian, K-2SO, Chirrut, Baze, and Bodhi in the short time the film takes place. She isn’t your typical rude, problem-with-authority female lead. “Your behavior, Jyn Erso, is continually unexpected.” - K-2SO 14/10 would want to assist and build trusting friendship with.

Evey Hammond from “V for Vendetta” Another badass female lead who is written spectacularly. This movie used to be my favorite before Rogue One knocked it out of the #1 spot. She starts out as a timid, scared heroine type, but becomes more and more unafraid and confident in her own skin. What I really love about her is that she doesn’t lose her politeness throughout the movie. She doesn’t have a fight sequence nor does she shoot anybody, she shows that just a confident “NO” will suffice, even at gunpoint. 13/10 would love to hear her life story from her point of view.

Eleven from “Stranger Things” What a cutie ;;;u;;;;. I especially loved her in season 1, although I am a sucker for the father-daughter relationship she has with Hopper in season 2. Part of her reminds me of Rei Ayanami from Evangelion (how they have been subjects of experiments all their lives), and that may have given her an advantage to my heart. The way she learns how the world works and being treated like a freak just because she doesn’t understand things also kind of reminds me of myself when I moved to the states as a young child and I had to learn how my new “world” worked. 14/10 want to protect at all costs even though she’s very capable herself.

Rei Ayanami from “Neon Genesis Evangelion” You know how you have some defining characters you love for life? Rei is one of them for me. Voiced flawlessly by Megumi Hayashibara, she shows minimal understanding of human emotions, but it is shown throughout the series that she is capable of emotions, she just doesn’t know how. Is anyone else noticing the trend that I have a thing for tragic characters? 15/10 still an icon.

Rin from Ghibli’s “Spirited Away” Although rough around the edges, Rin is a dependable, deeply caring soul who takes Chihiro, a human outsider, under her wing when no one else wants to. 11/10 wanted an older sister like this T_T .

Haruka Tenou from “Sailor Moon” God, I wanted to be her when I was like, 8 years old. To be honest, I don’t remember much about the character now since it’s been more than two decades since I’ve watched Sailor Moon, I just know I loved her. Another one of those defining characters, I really liked Megumi Ogata who voiced her, so I watched a lot of anime that she played leads in during my childhood. (That’s what lead me to Evangelion, btw) 12/10 came close to questioning my asexuality.

Chicha from “The Emperor’s New Groove” Confident. Smart. Balanced. Married to the sweetest husband ever voiced by John Goodman. God, I want to be like her. She is like, a portrait of what a good wife and great mother is. LOVE HER. Love the movie. 13/10 want to be adopted by her.

Kalifa from “ONE PIECE” Professional. Courteous yet Blunt. Has no time for men’s bullshit. Unintentionally hilarious. One of the lovelier female baddies ONE PIECE has produced. This is still my favorite story arc. 13/10 would love to accuse fools of sexual harassment with.

Emily from “The Corpse Bride” Another character that’s sweet and pure despite having a tragic past. Also, if you’ve followed me for a few months at least, you know I get a lot of art inspiration from this film’s character design. 12/10 want to know more about her life “upstairs”.

Rita Vrataski from “Edge of Tomorrow” I’m not sure if it’s because it’s Emily Blunt that’s playing her that you get this sweetness underneath that ice cold personality, or the fact that the movie itself is so well-written that it makes her quick decisions to kill Cage over and over while training him hilarious, but it’s a perfect balance. 13/10 could shoot me and I’d thank her for it.

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Hello! Congratulations on your follower milestone! :D I was wondering if you could share your thoughts on the Eighth Doctor's Big Finish run, specifically which companions/stories are your favourites? I've finished Lucie Miller's series and am currently making my way through the Charley/C'rizz stories, but I know I still have lots to look forward to! :)

My main thought about the Eighth Doctor’s Big Finish run is basically incoherent squee-ing because Paul McGann is so good oh my gosh can you believe we almost only ever had one story where he played the Doctor????? Also, if you don’t listen to the Extras you really should, because he’s a giant dork who really likes the lunches.

Which companions and stories are my favourites? Well, this should really come as no surprise to anybody at this point, but Doom Coalition is flipping amazing, and Liv and Helen, who are the companions for that sprawling 16-episode feast of awesomeness are the absolute best. I mean I love Eight and Charley, and C’rizz is a terrifying cinnamon roll, but the dynamic between Eight and Liv and Helen (and sometimes River) is on a whole other level. Let me explain.

So Eight’s characterization in both the books and audios is notoriously inconsistent, right? I choose to see this as actually a feature of his Doctor and not a bug in the writing (this is also the opinion endorsed in Caerdroia, which you may or may not have listened to yet). He is both a very cuddly butterfly-chasing Tigger and a sarcastic, snark-tastic Grump, and he is both one of the most human Doctors and one of the most alien (like he relates to sentient jellyfish just as much as, and possibly more than, he relates to his fellow bipeds from planet Earth). He oscillates between these extremes. With Charley and C’rizz, he mostly gets away with it, because they are both very much portrayed as ingénues, even after Charley has been traveling with the Doctor for quite a long time, and even though C’rizz has some quite extraordinary life experience before he even meets Team TARDIS. Charley and the Doctor are one of my favorite QPP (queerplatonic pairings) in Doctor Who, but good grief, it’s not even close to being a relationship of equals, and often veers right over into twee territory.

Lucie is more willing to call the Doctor out on his crap, and there is absolutely nothing twee about their dynamic. But Lucie is still very much a novice; she’s kind of a proto-Donna. And just like I initially didn’t like how combative the Doctor’s relationship with Donna was (in Runaway Bride), in the first series of the Lucie Miller audios, I really didn’t like how snarky Lucie and the Doctor were with each other. It made for some good banter, but it’s not my cuppa. The dynamic got better in the second, third, and fourth seasons with this team, and by the end I was really sad to see her go (like Donna level sads, and Donna is tied with Clara for my favorite new series companion). Lucie comes into her own with a bang in the end, but again, it’s never anywhere close to a relationship between equals.

Molly O’Sullivan gives as good as she gets in her interactions with the Doctor, but she’s largely wasted on a story arc that doesn’t know what to do with her beyond using her as a sort of sharp-tongued plot football. Tamsin Drew gets the same treatment, unfortunately. Mary Shelley was a great idea but I feel like those stories never quite worked as well as they ought to have done.

Liv Chenka, on the other hand, has seen some things. She’s a normal human, with a normal human lifespan, but by the time she meets the Doctor for the first time she’s also a seasoned MedTech. By the time she finally joins Team TARDIS on a full-time basis, she’s already had several opportunities to get the Doctor’s measure. He can’t really fool her about who he is the way he can with most companions. Helen Sinclair is more naive in the beginning, and very much in awe of both Liv and the Doctor, but she’s also had to hold her own in a very male-dominated field of academia in the 1960s, which puts her closer to an equal footing than most of her predecessors. Best of all from my POV, neither she nor Liv have any romantic interest in the Doctor at all (I tend to read the Doctor as being more toward the ace-side of the grey-asexual spectrum). These three people love each other and have learned to rely on each other completely, but as friends and as equals–or as equal as any non-Time Lord (or Time Lord equivalent) can be with the Doctor. Their skill sets and personalities complement each other, despite each character’s deep flaws and vulnerabilities. I honestly don’t think there’s ever been a TARDIS team this well-balanced before. Add River Song to the mix and you’ve got my favourite “four doctors” ever.

Within Doom Coalition, my favorite episodes are:

The Eleven, because it introduces a really interesting villain and kicks off the whole extravaganza of awesomeness

The Red Lady, because it introduces Helen and is super creepy and weird

Absent Friends, because it’s beautiful and sad

Ship in a Bottle, because it is a perfect example of its genre

Other favorite Eighth Doctor Audios:

Invaders from Mars (Eight/Charley), because it’s delightfully silly

The Chimes of Midnight (Eight/Charley), because a) it is beautifully atmospheric and creepy and b) it was the first time I really got a sense of what the brilliant folks at Big Finish could do with audio

Neverland/Zagreus/Scherzo (Eight/Charley), because this arc is peak Eight/Charley awesomeness. Also see above re: what Big Finish can do with audio–the scale of these stories would be utterly impossible for Doctor Who to do on television, even if it had a premium cable budget

The Natural History of Fear (Eight/Charley/C’rizz), because I feel like the writers were all sitting around one night and one of them turned to Alan Barnes and Gary Russel and said, “Zagreus was the most mind-bendingly bizarre story ever written for Big Finish,” and then Jim Mortimore was like “hold my beer!”

Caerdroia (Eight/Charley/C’rizz), because one Eighth Doctor is definitely not enough

Other Lives (Eight/Charley/C’rizz), because it’s a straight-up historical and a beautiful character piece, and those are both rare

Memory Lane (Eight/Charley/C’rizz), because LEGO, ice cream lollies, and the Eighth Doctor’s laughter

The Cannibalists (Eight/Lucie), because it’s hilarious and sweet

An Earthly Child (Eight, Susan, and Alex), because I am a sucker for the Doctor’s family

Relative Dimensions (Eight/Lucie, Susan, and Alex), see above

Lucie Miller/To the Death (Eight/Lucie, Susan, and Alex), see above I HATE YOU NICK BRIGGS YOU MONSTER

You’ll notice none of my faves come from Dark Eyes. That’s because, although it had a few moments of brilliance, the arc was kind of a mess, and also chock-full of misery and Daleks, which are not my favorite things. On the other hand, Dark Eyes was how I first encountered the Macqueen!Master, who is almost the only really fun thing in this batch of stories (and is also, unfortunately, and true to character, also the source of much of the other characters’ misery). But if you want to experience the Macqueen!Master and don’t particularly mind skipping over sixteen episodes of Eighth Doctor stories, I’d tell you to listen to And You Will Obey Me/Vampire of the Mind/The Two Masters instead, because they are better stories and you get to enjoy the Beevers!Master, too!

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gokaihearts35 · 7 years ago

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My opinion of new series Doctor Who

Top Doctor

I love all the doctors in the new series, but I still prefer Peter Capald, even reviewing every episode. While I really like the ninth doctor,As he stayed only one season had no way to stay on top of the others, comparing how many different situations the other doctors suffered. The tenth and eleven were the most difficult to decide the positions, I love both, plus the tenth has several negative characteristics that I hate

1) 12

2) 11

3) 10

4) 9

Top Companion

Some characters surprised me as how much I liked. I did not remember that Rose was so fun and even with her various faults until I liked her more than I remembered, Donna I thought I would be better positioned since she has the best and More amusing relationship with the tenth doctor, but had forgotten how incredible Martha was, in several episodes she had to act alone to survive and save the day even with the tenth doctor treating her horribly and condescending several times. Rory and Amy did I did not remember how much I liked their relationship, and how beautiful it was Amy's relationship with the Doctor was, I liked her more than I expected. Clara I already knew that would be in first place, I love your relationship with the doctor, its complexity, its flaws, is the most complex and developed character of the new series (Clara, we knows that she loves stories, she sees the life of her parents as a fairy tale, loves and wants to take care of children she has an authoritarian personality and tries to take control of the situation (I'm not just talking about their several episodes of the eighth season about this, but also looks to the end of The Bells of Saint John different from the other companions that when the Doctor are invited them to Tardis instead of jumping inside the Tardis she sends him come back the next day, she takes control of the situation and it shows that it will do the thing of traveling with him on her terms, she takes control of the situation instead of the Doctor who let her travel with him is the Doctor waiting to know if she will travel with him). I hate it when they say that Clara is too perfect, when she is the companion with more defects being quoted and who are important for the stories and their development, this does not make sense. Clara is my favorite companion of the new series and the most of the people completely lose the arc point of the Impossible girl: The whole point of her season 7 arc was The doctor realizes that he was wrong and she is only a normal person who later did something incredible, like Rose and Donna. Initially she tried to balance her normal life with the life With life with the doctor, And as Danny died it was as if there was nothing else that bound her to Earth, she saw herself as a protagonist of a book, she and Doctor were the heroes who could always save the day and escape the danger, of course it ended Being so equal to the Doctor who ended up dead, plus she and the Doctor forged such a deep bond and he this season (the ninth) was already tired of letting people die (Ashildr's bow, the girl's death in the bow of the underwater base ) and did not want to lose anybody else and with desire of revenge against the Time Lords he ended up going too far and breaking the laws of time and he brought her to life, plus what could end up breaking the universe, but he with his selfish did not want Give up saving Clara, so he had to erase his memories of her, and you can notice he learned the lesson that everything has to end an hour, that nothing is forever, in the at the The Husbands of River Song. Clara of course would return to Gallifrey, her final arc was a critique of the trope of killing of female character and that any person can be the Doctor, that he is not just a being, but an ideal that anyone can try to be, Idea that has several Moffat scripts, like Extremis, The Zygon Inversion, The Witch's Familiar and several others. . Bill, while I quite liked her, she was very simple, and I sincerely liked the others more than hers.

1) Clara

2) Rory

3) Martha

4) Amy

5) Donna

6) Bill

7) River Song

8) Rose

9) Nardole

10) Captain Jack

11) Mickey

Top Season ( The best to worst)

Top Season Finale

One thing I prefer in the Moffat season finale is that it focuses on the characters' relationships with each other and their developments, how situations are dealt with, and are centered on the dialogues between the characters while those in Russell T Davies are more focused in action, how the situation affects the characters and their choices. In RT Davies are situations that are increasing, threatening the Earth or the Universe, while Moffat is the opposite, starts with a great threat, with several villains to become small situations, with only a few characters in one place, talking between they, in Davies the characters struggle with the external situation, in that of Moffat they struggle with their interior.

1-Face the Raven/Heaven Sent/Hell Bent

2- World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls

3- The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang

4- Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords

5- Dark Water / Death in Heaven

6- Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

7- Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

8- The Name of the Doctor

9- The Wedding of River Song

10- The Stolen Earth / Journey's End

There are no episodes that I did not like, for me, every episode goes from good to great. Actually it was very difficult to do the lists, because several episodes were good and great, so some positions were decided not only how much I liked, but by elements of the episodes.

SERIES 1

10º — The Long Game

9º — The End of the World

8º — Rose

7º — Boom Town

6º — Father's Day

5º — The Unquiet Dead

4º — Dalek

3º — Aliens of London/World War Three

2º — Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

1º — The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances

Series 2

10º — Fear Her

9º — The Idiot's Lantern

8º — Tooth and Claw

7º — Love & Monsters

6º — School Reunion

5º — New Earth

4º — Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

3º — The Girl in the Fireplace

2º — Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel

1º — The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit

Series 3

9º — The Lazarus Experiment

8º — Smith and Jones

7º — 42

6º — Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks

5º — Gridlock

4º — The Shakespeare Code

3º —Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords

2º — Blink

1º — Human Nature/The Family of Blood

Series 4

10º — The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky

9º — Partners in Crime

8º — The Unicorn and the Wasp

7º — The Doctor's Daughter

6º — The Stolen Earth/Journey's End

5º — The Fires of Pompeii

4º — Turn Left

3º — Planet of the Ood

2º — Midnight

1º — Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead

Season 5

10º — The Vampires of Venice

9º — Amy's Choice

8º — Victory of the Daleks

7º — The Beast Below

6º — The Lodger

5º — The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood

4º — The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone

3º — The Eleventh Hour

2º — Vincent and the Doctor

1º — The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang

Season 6

11º — Night Terrors

10º — The Curse of the Black Spot

9º — Closing Time

8º — Let's Kill Hitler

7º — The Wedding of River Song

6º — The God Complex

5º — The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People

4º — A Good Man Goes to War

3º — The Doctor's Wife

2º — The Girl Who Waited

1º — The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon

Season 7

13º - Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

12° - Hide

11º — Cold War

10º — Nightmare in Silver

9º — The Power of Three

8º — The Bells of Saint John

7º — The Angels Take Manhattan

6º — Asylum of the Daleks

5º — The Name of the Doctor

4º — Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

3º —The Crimson Horror

2º �� A Town Called Mercy

1º — The Rings of Akhaten

Season 8

11º — Kill the Moon

10º — In the Forest of the Night

9º — The Caretaker

8º — Into the Dalek

7º — Time Heist

6º — Deep Breath

5º — Dark Water / Death in Heaven

4º — Listen

3º — Robot of Sherwood

2º — Flatline

1º — Mummy on the Orient Express

Season 9

6º — Sleep No More

5º — The Girl Who Died / The Woman Who Lived

4º — Under the Lake / Before the Flood

3º — The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion

2º — The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar

1º — Face the Raven/Heaven Sent/Hell Bent

Seasn 10

10º — Knock Knock

9º — Smile

8º — The Pyramid at the End of the World / The Lie of the Land

7º — Empress of Mars

6º — The Pilot

5º — Thin Ice

4º — Oxygen

3º — The Eaters of Light

2º — Extremis

1º — World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls

Chistmas Specials

12º — The End of Time

11º — The Next Doctor

10º — The Christmas Invasion

9º — The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe

8º — The Return of Doctor Mysterio

7º — The Runaway Bride

6º — Voyage of the Damned

5º — The Snowmen

4º — The Time of the Doctor

3º — The Husbands of River Song

2º — Last Christmas

1º — A Christmas Carol

Regarding the list of episodes of cybermen and daleks, one can notice that the list are not only of the ones I liked the most, but also how well I found them to have used these villains in history

Top Cybermen Episodes

1- World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls

2- Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel

3- Dark Water / Death in Heaven

4- The Next Doctor

5- Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

6- Closing Time

7- Nightmare in Silver

Top Daleks Episodes

1- Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

2- The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar

3- Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

4- Dalek

5- Asylum of the Daleks

6- Into the Dalek

7- Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks

8- The Stolen Earth / Journey's End

9- Victory of the Daleks

Top Episodes of Russel T Davies

12 - Gridlock

11 - The Stolen Earth/Journey's End

10 - The Runaway Bride

9 - Partners in Crime

8 - Voyage of the Damned

7 - Aliens of London/World War Three

6 - Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

5 - Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

4 - The Waters of Mars

3 - Turn Left

2 - Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords

1 – Midnight

Top Episodes of Steven Moffat

12 - The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances

11 - The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon

10 - Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead

9 - Blink

8 - The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar

7 - Extremis

6 – Last Christmas

5 - A Christmas Carol

4 - The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang

3 - The Day of the Doctor

2 - World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls

1 – Heaven Sent/Hell Bent

Top Episodes of Mark Gatiss

1) Robot of Sherwood

2) The Crimson Horror

3) The Unquiet Dead

4) Empress of Mars

5) Cold War

6) The Idiot's Lantern

7) Victory of the Daleks

8) Night Terrors

9) Sleep No More

I love Robot of Sherwood, I think it's a really funny episode, Clara was great, I loved the Doctor's dynamics with Robin Hood and had a great message about heroism and inspiration and fiction from the heroes. The Crimson Horror, I like to focus in the Paternoster gang, mostly in Jenny, and I loved Winifred Gillyflower and Ada, they were great characters. As of Cold War, the episodes for me are just regular. Victory of the Daleks and Sleep No More are not so bad episodes, both have good ideas and scenes, in Victory I liked the story of the scientist, the fact that nobody believed in the Doctor and in the end the daleks win, already in Sleep No More sincerely not I see what's so bad about this episode, it has a good idea, a good mood and a good ending, of course there are several things I would do differently, but there's nothing bad about the villan. The only one I do not like, that I hate is Night Terrors, I hated the kid in the episode and had several things that I think did not made sense. Overall I like Mark Gatiss, he did not write my favorites of the seasons but he is not such a bad roter as people say.

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Bookshelf Briefs 11/20/18

Black Clover, Vol. 13 | By Yuki Tabata | Viz Media – As long as you’re writing a series which uses every cliche in the book, you may as well go all in and write a tournament arc, and that’s what we’re getting here. Surprisingly, Asta is not paired with Noelle, but with Mimosa, who I’ll be honest I had totally forgotten about. Given that Noelle fills the ‘tsundere’ love interest bucket, it only makes sense that Mimosa is the Hinata of Black Clover, being shy and tripping over her words in front of him. As for the battles themselves, they’re all good ways to spotlight folks who we don’t really get much chance to see in the main storyline. On the downside, so far they’re all very predictable outcomes. I’d like to see some people win who shouldn’t normally win. – Sean Gaffney

The Bride & the Exorcist Knight, Vol. 2 | By Keiko Ishihara | Seven Seas – We get more of the same here—good character development and action sequences. Shame that they’re really pushing the “I am twelve years old and suave as heck” plotline, and Anne does seem to be falling for him, though thankfully we haven’t advanced quite that far. One thing that did impress me was the fate of Anne’s parents, who would normally get killed off to jumpstart the plot in tales like this, especially given Anne’s status as a magical bride MacGuffin. There’s nothing really extraordinary here, but it’s good solid fantasy romance, and it at least makes noises occasionally about Anne being creeped out about Haru’s age. For fans of shoujo starring cute, cool boys. – Sean Gaffney

Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 6 | By Ryoko Kui| Yen Press – Remember when this was a funny series about eating monsters? Last time I said the books were getting a bit darker. Here they take a running leap into grim as we continue to see how Laios and company are seen by everyone else around them—as reckless lunatics who endanger everyone around them. What’s more, Falin’s back, but that’s not good news—the slaughter that follows is a kick in the teeth. Honestly, after that sequence, seeing the “which is the original and which is the shapeshifter” plot was a welcome light relief, and the sequence with Laios helping Marcille with her nightmares was rather heartwarming. Still, Falin’s influence on everyone around her, death, and subsequent “came back wrong” are now THE reason to read this. – Sean Gaffney

Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection | By Junji Ito | Viz Media – The first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was originally published in 1818, so Viz Media’s release of Junji Ito’s rendition of the story is aptly timed for the two-hundred-year anniversary of the groundbreaking novel. Ito has made a few changes here and there—particularly towards the end—but for the most part the manga adaptation is very faithful to Shelley’s original and Ito’s artwork is well-suited to the more grotesque and disturbing elements of the tale. In addition to Frankenstein, the volume also collects a series of six short manga featuring Oshikiri, a young man who is very self-conscious about his short stature but whose real worries are of a more horrific and supernatural kind. (It doesn’t help that his home seems to be a portal to alternate dimensions.) Also included are two unrelated short horror manga as well as two short manga about the Ito family’s pet dog Non-non. – Ash Brown

Haikyu!, Vol. 29 | By Haruichi Furudate | Viz Media – It’s all volleyball game this volume, so there’s no real plot I can talk about. We do continue to see character growth from Hinata and Tsukishima, who gets one of the cooler moments that also made me laugh when he talks about blocking the quick set. The other team is no slouch, though, particularly the twins, and our heroes are behind the eight ball most of the time. The opponent’s band is not helping either, which is why for once it’s Saeko who gets to have the Big Damn Heroes moment, arriving with Taiko Drums to drown out the band’s odd rhythms. Other than that, this volleyball manga continues to put the emphasis on volleyball. I’m about ready for it to go to every three months, to be honest, and it will be soon. – Sean Gaffney

Love at Fourteen, Vol. 8 | By Fuka Mizutani | Yen Press – Aside from Love at Fourteen‘s main couple, who are meant to be the cute and sweet default, the series makes a lot of unusual choices for its romantic pairings. Nagai and Hinohara continue to put the “ergh” in non-consensual teacher-student romance. Shiki and the school nurse bond over being tortured lesbians in love with a straight girl who isn’t going to love them back. And we get a new one here, as Kato, the really short boy in the class, ends up getting entangled with what appears to be a cute older girl… except she’s actually eleven. He’s fourteen, so we’re not anywhere Hinohara’s level of wrong, but Love at Fourteen really enjoys giving the reader heartwarming discomfort. – Sean Gaffney

Mob Psycho 100, Vol. 1 | By ONE | Published by Dark Horse – As a fan of One-Punch Man, I went into Mob Psycho 100 expecting to be amused and I’m sorry to say that never really happened. Shigeo Kageyama is an eighth grader with superpowers who works as an underpaid assistant for a fraudulent spirit medium named Arataka Reigen. Shigeo is called “Mob” because he’s an expressionless kid who blends into a crowd, and his desire to be attractive (and win the girl of his dreams) ultimately leads him into strange situations, like being recruited for a creepy cult. My interest was piqued, however, by the meter running throughout the volume that depicts some sort of percentage and the payoff when it reached was 100% was totally worth it. Plus, Reigen’s pep talk to Mob afterwards was completely unexpected and kind of heartwarming. In the end, I think I’ve been convinced to try another volume. – Michelle Smith

Waiting for Spring, Vol. 9 | By Anashin | Kodansha Comics – Both Towa and Aya have now confessed to Mitsuki and she doesn’t know what to do about it. I appreciate that Anashin shows why each boy feels the way that they do, and also that Mitsuki is completely forthcoming with Towa about everything that’s happening with Aya, so that no plot line ever hinges on “completely avoidable misunderstanding.” Instead, there’s more complicated drama, like Towa feeling frustrated that Aya keeps being in a position to heroically save Mitsuki (this time pulling a ligament saving her from being hit by a car) and wondering if perhaps they aren’t destined to be together. Instead of wallowing, however, he seemingly becomes more determined. It’s nice to see Towa start to become less reserved and I look forward to what volume ten will bring. – Michelle Smith

Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku, Vol. 3 | By Fujita | Kodansha Comics – About two-thirds of the way through this volume, Narumi and Koyanagi are relaxing at a hot sprint on a company trip. Koyanagi wonders if Narumi feels lonely because she’s barely seeing her boyfriend this trip, but she says that, given Hirotaka’s lack of social aptitude, she’s merely happy to see him getting along with other guy friends. Koyanagi points out that that’s a mature answer, but leaves her a little bored. I’m not bored with Wotakoi yet, but it does appear to me that it’s very dedicated to showing that our leads are all pretty happy, with most conflicts resolved over the course of a single chapter. Given the title, you’d expect a bit more, but while it’s still very sweet, love isn’t that hard for these otaku. – Sean Gaffney

Yotsuba&!, Vol. 14 | By Kiyohiko Azuma | Yen Press – Azuma does not believe in pumping out the chapters for this series—this is the second volume in five years. Still, it’s like we never went away, really. Last time we met Yotsuba’s grandmother, and this time it’s her aunt, who is meeting up with Koiwai in Tokyo so that he can get a car—which I assume will allow for greater scope of adventures in the future. This means that here we get Yotsuba & Tokyo, with much hilarity, including an alien invasion that needs to be stopped, and delicious food at an expensive hotel. Oh yes, and Fuuka and her friend Hiwatari do yoga with Yotsuba, which leads to much frustration as she’s as flexible as a young child and they are not. Yotsuba&! still has its magic; I just wish it was magical more often. – Sean Gaffney

By: Ash Brown

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guelphbreakingnews · 7 years ago

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Doors Open 2018 Locations Announced!

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The 2018 event will take place on Saturday, April 21, from 10 am to 4 pm. Site details are posted at guelpharts.ca/doors-open-guelph#thisyearsevent, and listed below.

2018 Site Listing

Guelph Little Theatre

176 Morris Street

In 1935, the first Little Theatre opened at Guelph City Hall. A fire in 1993 forced it from its 26-year home in the Salvation Army Hall on Dublin Street. In 1997, it moved into a former welding shop. The space holds a 288-seat raked auditorium, large raised stage, gracious lobby, rehearsal hall, workshop, dressing rooms, and storage areas. The tour will take visitors to the stage set for its current production. Family-friendly activities include a costume photo booth, prop-making demonstration, and sneak peeks at a rehearsal and performance.

Church House in the Ward

44 Short Street

In 1899, Knox Presbyterian Church established a Sabbath School Mission in the Ward. In 1909, St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church was constructed as a modest Edwardian building with Gothic windows and an impressive Douglas Fir ceiling. In 2002, the church was sold and renovated over five years into a spectacular residence. It is also the home of Sage Solutions, a strategy and facilitation company.

Churches of St. Matthias and St. James the Apostle

86 Glasgow St. N.

Built in 1891-92 in Gothic style, St. James is the newest of Guelph’s stone churches, the last built with local limestone. The church was downsized from its original traditional plan resulting in an unusual orientation. The nave was eliminated leaving the north transept as the nave. The original fine wood ceiling and elaborate vaulting remained in the building’s final form.

St. Andrews Presbyterian Church

161 Norfolk St.

The original Church was built in the market grounds in 1832, but was demolished to make room for Guelph’s City Hall. The new Gothic Revival church built in 1856 was designed by William Hay of Toronto. The open timberwork ceiling and fine stained glass windows memorialize church leaders and a plaque pays tribute to John McCrae who attended the church in his youth. The south-side addition is built of stone salvaged from Guelph’s demolished Opera House.

55 Delhi Street

The Forsyth-Hepburn Home was constructed in 1910 of red brick in Georgian Revival style as a residence for nurses working at Guelph General Hospital. It served that purpose until the late 1950s. Vesterra Property Management acquired it in 2013 and renovated it retaining all original exterior wood trim, bay windows, front porch with Tuscan columns, and the interior staircase.

55 Delhi St. – Intrigue Media

Intrigue Media, a full-service digital marketing company, occupies the top floor.

55 Delhi St. – Two Rivers Health

On the main floor is Two Rivers Health, an integrative health clinic. Helping women and families to create abundant, vibrant lives, the all-female clinician team brings the original vision for this iconic building full circle. Interior design by Michele Levy-Kodarin inspires calm and retains many original elements of exposed brick, entranceway, and restored hardwood.

55 Delhi St. – First Steps

In the lower level is an after-school child care service that fills its four bright rooms with activity. The lower red brick walls have been restored to give children a lesson on our city’s heritage.

Guelph Orange Hall

385 Waterloo Ave.

The Loyal Orange Association of British America has had a continuous presence in the City of Guelph since 1837, having a total of seven different Loyal Orange Lodges and three Ladies Orange Benevolent Associations. Prince Arthur L.O.L. 1331 was first established in Guelph in 1871, but moved into its present building in the late 1940s. Displays will demonstrate various aspects of its history and community involvement.

The New Petrie

15 Wyndham Street

The New Petrie incorporates the remaining pieces of the former Western Hotel built on the site in 1847. Partly destroyed by a fire in 1854, the Petrie could be one of the oldest buildings left on Wyndham Street North. Its back wall and portions of the former stables are preserved in the offices of Hunch Manifest and The Robbie Group. Designed in 1882 by Guelph architect John Day, the building opened as a pharmacy for Alexander Bain Petrie with a unique stamped metal facade and iconic mortar and pestle. Since 2015, it has been restored for several new businesses.

The New Petrie – Hunch Manifest

Hunch Manifest is a Semantic Search Marketing company focussed on digital marketers to translate their content into the language of search engines. This pairing of innovation and heritage demonstrates Jane Jacobs’ words, “New ideas need old buildings.”

The New Petrie – The Robbie Group

The Robbie Group provides advice on pensions and also offers fee-for-service financial planning.

The New Petrie - Sway

Sway was founded in 2013 with a focus on becoming the best visual advertising agency via television commercials and online video. Sway is now an industry leader in brand management, marketing strategy, and unique content creation.

The New Petrie – The Modern Bride

Mr. Petrie wanted the tallest building on Wyndham Street, so he topped it with an empty shell that remained unused for 136 years until it was restored as an elegant showroom and stunning event space for The Modern Bride. Twenty-foot ceilings and eleven-foot windows looking on the Basilica create a beautiful backdrop for the wedding dresses. The Modern Bride is a carefully curated, appointment-only bridal boutique that offers a unique shopping experience for the contemporary bride.

Hospice Wellington

795 Scottsdale Drive

Founded in 1980, Hospice provides care and support to families facing a life-threatening illness. The former Kortright Presbyterian Church was built in 1983. In 2010, David McCauley, architect of the original church, redesigned the building with ten palliative residences in the upper level and community support programs in the lower level. The design includes a living wall, solar panels and rainwater collection system to support the pollination garden on the grounds. Visitors will experience collaborative art and family activities.

10C Shared Space

42 Carden Street

Seed Warehouse was a two-storey stone structure built in the 1860s which later became Massey-Ferguson Farm Supply. Between 1924 and 1934, Ackers Furniture moved in, added the top two floors and remained until 2016. In 1955, a fire caused a huge safe to fall through the first floor to the basement where it remains today. Together with the Chalmers Community Service Centre, the building is now a thriving collaborative workspace and community hub.

Community Living Guelph-Wellington

8 Royal Road

CLGW uses social inclusion and community engagement to support adults with developmental disabilities to live, work and connect in their community. Founded in 1955 by parents of intellectually-disabled children, it provides service to over 400 people and their families. The present building opened in 2007 with services like life skills and computer training, physiotherapy and music therapy with access to ARC industries, kitchen and gymnasium.

Trails Open – Speedvale Trail Underpass

Often in the news last year, the City's upcoming trail underpass will complete a safe and scenic link above the riverbank between the TransCanada Trail, Riverside Park, and the Evergreen Seniors Centre. 15-20 minute hikes will be run throughout the day by the Guelph Hiking Trail Club. Parking off Riverview Drive, behind the Speedvale Ave. E. firehall.

This year Guelph Arts Council is pleased to announce a collaboration with Guelph Museum’s Doors Open After Dark, the Museum’s second annual history-at-night party. After a day exploring Guelph’s hidden gems, Doors Open visitors are encouraged to save some energy to celebrate Guelph’s 191st birthday with pop-up art and history installations at and around the museum. The free fun begins at 9 pm. Artists and historians can watch for a Call to Artists to be released by March 9. For more information about Doors Open After Dark, visit guelphmuseums.ca.

Source: Guelph Arts Council

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hemlockdumpling · 8 years ago

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2016 Anime/Animation Challenge Revisited ~ August + September (and that one in July I forgot)

The Corpse Bride (August) Like many, I grew up with the stop-motion animation spectacle that was The Nightmare Before Christmas, a charming gothic-style feature with singing skeletons, plenty of catchy musical numbers and a gorgeous The Corpse Bride is something of a Spirital Sequel to the former Halloween/Christmas OTP musical and, interestingly, is based on an old Jewish-Russian folk tale about a woman murdered on the way to her wedding. A gothic romantic comedy musical, we are told the story of Victor, the son of wealthy fishmongers, who's arranged marriage with the beautiful Victoria does not go as smoothly as he hoped. Because he accidentally proposes to another girl called Emily in the woods in the dead of night. Oh, and Emily is dead. That's important. We have our Corpse Bride. Like The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride is a stop-motion film, giving it a very memorable visual appeal. The most clever example of style is the contrast between the Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead. The world of the living (set during Victorian times) is deliberately void of colour, very drab and drained, whereas the underworld is vibrant, colourful and, ironically, more full of life. If you love critical analysis like I do, you'll have plenty of food for thought at the way it symbolises social class distinctions in the Victorian Era. The character design screams Tim Burton, especially in the forms of Victor and Emily, the latter very beautiful and iconic despite the whole being dead thing. As for the music, with a soundtrack by Danny Elfman, you know what to expect, standouts including "Remains of the Day," "The Wedding Song" and "Tears to Shed." The Bittersweet Ending and beautiful message from Emily herself gave The Corpse Bridge extra brownie points for me. Give it a watch if you want a romantic comedy with a different visual style and plenty of songs. Re-Zero -Starting Life in Another World- (+ Shorts) (September) Okay. This was the biggy. Think of a Trapped In Another World show like Sword Art Online, Hack and Log Horizon, but crank that Grimdark all the way up to eleven. You get Re:Zero, the story of typical high school student Subaru, who is mysteriously whisked away from his home in Japan to a fantasy world. He even meets a cute girl, a half-elf named Satella. Seems super magic and cool, right? Well, it would be expect for one thing. They're both murdered. And then Subaru wakes up exactly where he was when he first came to the fantasy world. It becomes clear very quickly that Subaru has something of a "Groundhog Day Meets Respawn" situation going on. Every time he dies in this new world, he returns to a certain " checkpoint" in the story (like the first day.) Make no mistake, Re:Zero may be a fantasy anime, but it's also pure Psychological Horror, Nightmare Fuel that saturates everything and, thus, makes almost every episode a Wham Episode. You're hit hard as you watch Subaru struggle to survive and save the people he grows close to and loves, only to fail and die horribly, often alongside his newly formed friends, then respawn, aware of his death and the knowledge from that "playthrough" (for lack of better word.) Break the cutie, much? Subaru himself is a very interesting part of the Re:Zero experience. His behaviour is something of a base breaker for fans, but we still get to follow his journey, seeing the best and worst of him. His blind adoration of Emilia, trying to remain strong in a very bleak situation, absolutely humiliating himself and at times behaving like an entitled prix (especially in episode 13,) suffering an absolute breakdown, his friendship with Rem, the despair and just everything. Love him or hate him, Subaru is what makes the show so enthralling as we suffer and feel with him. While shows like Sword Art Online start out strong with appealing premises only to falter as the series progresses, Re:Zero felt much stronger to me, keeping me engaged with the Respawn gimmick and watching what this does to poor Subaru as his sanity begins to slip (mega props to his Japanese voice actor, Yusuke Kobayashi.) Only the third arc really slipped for me, as it shifted from the Respawn thing and went in a slightly different direction, but it was still overall a very strong show. Personal thing, Emilia, Ram and Rem are absolutely adorable. <3 Rewatch (The One I Forgot in July, Oops) Thanks to working in an environment with plenty of televisions all competing to give you THE ULTIMATE VIEWING EXPERIENCE, I was exposed to a LOT of Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Like, over and over again. That's a lot of exposure and that's not including the countless times it's been on television. That could be why I'm sort of indifferent to it, compared to the other Ice Age films. Don't get me wrong, it's still entertaining and a good way to pass the time, but it's not the strongest film in the franchise. The third movie gives us Sid being kidnapped by a T-Rex Mommy (after he finds and "attempts" to raise her babies) and his friends, Manny the Mammoth, his mate Elly, Diego the Smilodon, and twin possum troublemakers, Eddie and Crash, set out on a perilous journey to rescue him. But not without the help of a seasoned, albeit slightly eccentric, weasel survivor with an eyepatch voiced by Simon Pegg. No, really. There's also a sweet part of the story with Manny and Elly expecting their first child, which injects much needed heart into the film. The relationship between Manny and Elly is adorable and this was the stronger narrative in Dawn of the Dinosaurs compared to the driving force behind their newest adventure. Diego was also an excellent source of support as he struggles with the prospect of staying with his friends or moving on to pastures new following Manny's new family. Card on the table, time. I was not too crazy about the whole "Sid and his baby dinosaurs" storyline. Yes, it was midly heartwarming at times and it was the eventual cause of his friends coming to his rescue, but boy, did it get dry after awhile. Compared to other silly, daft characters who exist solely for comedy relief, I feel there's no real depth or substance to Sid, so he outstays his welcome in lengthier ventures. He was tolerable in the first film, not so much now. Second highlight of the movie, Buck. Just Buck. His onscreen time is guaranteed comedy gold, especially given he's supposed to be the Weasel Man in charge of this rescue mission. Voiced to superb perfection by Simon Pegg, this experienced adventurer of the dangerous wild will make you laugh, as he is a walking, talking Crowning Character of Funny. I could easily watch a film dedicated to this character if he kept the same level of humour as he does here. Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is an easy watch, much lighter and softer compared to the somber and perilous previous entries. This film has plenty of comedy (mostly from Buck or the Chasm of Death laughing gas,) very entertaining scenes of action and, generally, a movie you can just sit back and enjoy on a lazy day. Oh, and don't lose any sleep over Scrat. If you loved the shenanigans of that nut loving squirrel beast, he's still here and not alone this time.

#2016 anime challenge #anime #re:zero #ice age #the corpse bride

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